Documentation Skills Jobs 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 263 249
Rank change year-on-year +103 -14 +53
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 18 30 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.76% 0.56% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 11
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £43,750 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £66,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +55.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £42,875 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -4.17%

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 common skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,377 5,334 3,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 63.30% 50.98% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 3,544 2,327
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,525 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South West.

Salary trend for Documentation Skills in the South West

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +35 7 £40,000 -15.79% 9
Gloucestershire +63 5 £32,500 -53.57% 34
Somerset +21 3 £36,500 - 17
Bristol +68 2 £80,000 - 30
Wiltshire +41 1 - - 15
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) Fivetran
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (22.22%) FileMaker
3 4 (22.22%) Power BI
3 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (16.67%) CockroachDB
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
4 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 3 (16.67%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.11%) Aviation
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Military
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Web Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
1 3 (16.67%) React
1 3 (16.67%) Spring
1 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) FHIR
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) PACS
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 8
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) API Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Database Optimisation
5 4 (22.22%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Line Management
6 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) OO
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (22.22%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CEH
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) ISSAP
4 2 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) COBIT
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) DICOM
2 1 (5.56%) HL7
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) NetApp
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks