Documentation Skills Job Trends in the South East

Documentation Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 243 293
Rank change year-on-year -6 +50 -62
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 89 57 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.49% 0.63% 0.30%
As % of the General category 1.09% 0.93% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 61 38 20
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,875 £28,200
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £63,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +50.00% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £93,750 £79,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -13.60% +4.17%

All General Skills
South East

Documentation Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 8,197 6,127 6,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.82% 67.74% 53.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,369 2,772 3,333
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,825
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.46% -3.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the South East

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the South East

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey -19 32 £47,500 -26.92% 10
Thames Valley +39 31 £47,500 -34.48% 40
Hampshire -50 19 £50,000 -8.26% 11
Berkshire +30 14 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Buckinghamshire +9 13 £45,000 -47.06% 9
Kent -16 7 £52,500 +75.00% 2
Oxfordshire -25 4 £52,500 - 10
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.70%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (13.48%) AWS
4 9 (10.11%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.99%) Azure Stack
5 8 (8.99%) SaaS
6 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.74%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.49%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.37%) Mimecast
9 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.12%) GCP
11 1 (1.12%) GitHub
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.35%) Firewall
2 16 (17.98%) VPN
3 11 (12.36%) DNS
3 11 (12.36%) LAN
3 11 (12.36%) Network Security
3 11 (12.36%) WAN
3 11 (12.36%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (12.36%) Wireless
4 8 (8.99%) SD-WAN
4 8 (8.99%) VLAN
5 6 (6.74%) BGP
5 6 (6.74%) OSPF
5 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.74%) VoIP
6 4 (4.49%) DHCP
6 4 (4.49%) VSAN
7 3 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (3.37%) MPLS
7 3 (3.37%) Multicast
7 3 (3.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.74%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.12%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Git
3 4 (4.49%) GitLab
4 3 (3.37%) Postman
5 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 61 (68.54%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Finance
5 7 (7.87%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.49%) Electronics
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Military
8 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 16 (17.98%) Analyst
2 14 (15.73%) IT Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Support Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) IT Support
4 12 (13.48%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Senior
5 10 (11.24%) Lead
5 10 (11.24%) Support Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Consultant
7 7 (7.87%) Senior IT Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior IT Support
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Support Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Applications Support
8 6 (6.74%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (6.74%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Network Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Network Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.37%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (3.37%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.12%) Kafka
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) OLE
4 1 (1.12%) React
4 1 (1.12%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.87%) PKI
3 6 (6.74%) IoT
4 5 (5.62%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.49%) Clustering
5 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.37%) CCTV
6 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Acoustics
8 1 (1.12%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.83%) Windows
2 23 (25.84%) Windows Server
3 9 (10.11%) Linux
4 6 (6.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.49%) CentOS
5 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.37%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (21.35%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (19.10%) Change Management
4 17 (19.10%) ITIL
5 14 (15.73%) Agile
5 14 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (14.61%) DevOps
7 12 (13.48%) Validation
8 11 (12.36%) Process Improvement
8 11 (12.36%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (11.24%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.24%) ITSM
9 10 (11.24%) Presales
10 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (8.99%) Business Continuity
11 8 (8.99%) Customer Requirements
11 8 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (8.99%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (7.87%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.48%) Python
3 7 (7.87%) SQL
4 5 (5.62%) Bash
4 5 (5.62%) C
4 5 (5.62%) C++
5 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.49%) PHP
6 3 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.12%) Ada
8 1 (1.12%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.24%) Degree
3 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.74%) CCNA
4 6 (6.74%) CCNP
4 6 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) HND
6 2 (2.25%) ACCA
6 2 (2.25%) CIMA
7 1 (1.12%) CBAP
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (7.87%) SLA
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 5 (5.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.25%) GDPR
5 2 (2.25%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.25%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.25%) NIST
5 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (19.10%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.48%) Hyper-V
3 10 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.11%) Firmware
5 8 (8.99%) Docker
6 7 (7.87%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.49%) vSphere
8 3 (3.37%) BitLocker
8 3 (3.37%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (7.87%) vCenter Server
2 6 (6.74%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.49%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (4.49%) Nagios
4 4 (4.49%) Podman
4 4 (4.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) Fortinet
3 11 (12.36%) Cisco
4 10 (11.24%) VMware
5 8 (8.99%) Aruba
5 8 (8.99%) Juniper
6 7 (7.87%) Palo Alto
7 6 (6.74%) Sophos
7 6 (6.74%) Veeam
8 4 (4.49%) Dell
8 4 (4.49%) Splunk
9 3 (3.37%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.37%) Symantec
9 3 (3.37%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (2.25%) Adaptive Insights
10 2 (2.25%) Databricks
10 2 (2.25%) Ericsson
10 2 (2.25%) Nokia
10 2 (2.25%) Workday