Documentation Skills Job Trends in the South West

Documentation Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 179 198
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +62
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 16 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.32% 0.24% 0.54%
As % of the General category 0.68% 0.42% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 22
10th Percentile £33,450 - £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £29,750 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £31,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +74.60% -29.21% -25.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £33,250 £63,271
90th Percentile £93,500 - £72,500
England median annual salary £54,750 £63,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -13.10% +7.69% -2.50%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,369 2,408 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 46.84% 57.33% 52.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,541 1,129 1,774
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,520 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the South West

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Dorset +6 5 £55,000 - 2
Bristol +13 4 £45,000 - 3
Wiltshire +8 3 £57,500 - 3
Gloucestershire - 3 £33,500 - 2
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Billing
3 2 (12.50%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Author
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) IT Support
2 2 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Author
2 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Author
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Design Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Svelte
2 1 (6.25%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) iPad
1 2 (12.50%) iPhone
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.25%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Change Control
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Document Management
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) HNC
4 2 (12.50%) HND
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) CEH
5 1 (6.25%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Ceph
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Lustre
3 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable