Documentation Skills Job Trends in Surrey

Documentation Skills
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 68 123
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 -45
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 34 31 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.36% 2.71% 0.22%
As % of the General category 2.74% 4.16% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 1
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,650 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £64,000 £68,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +28.24% -16.62%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,243 746 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 49.76% 65.27% 62.15%
Number of salaries quoted 878 439 467
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in Surrey

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in Surrey over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in Surrey

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 30 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
Staines - 7 £40,000 -
Woking - 5 £64,000 -
Redhill - 5 £45,000 - 6
Leatherhead - 3 - -
Guildford -31 2 - - 5
Chertsey - 2 £47,500 -
Egham - 2 £75,000 - 1
Documentation Skills
South East

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Stack
4 4 (11.76%) Nutanix
4 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (8.82%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) VPN
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.76%) VSAN
4 3 (8.82%) BGP
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (8.82%) IPsec
4 3 (8.82%) MPLS
4 3 (8.82%) Multicast
4 3 (8.82%) Network Security
4 3 (8.82%) OSPF
4 3 (8.82%) VoIP
5 2 (5.88%) 4G
5 2 (5.88%) 5G
5 2 (5.88%) DNS
5 2 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (5.88%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 31 (91.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) OAT Tester
3 5 (14.71%) Tester
4 4 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 4 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Nutanix Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) IT Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) 802.1X
1 3 (8.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) OLE
2 1 (2.94%) React
2 1 (2.94%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.76%) Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Driving Licence
3 3 (8.82%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (8.82%) IoT
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (23.53%) Agile
2 8 (23.53%) DevOps
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (20.59%) Validation
3 7 (20.59%) Workshop Facilitation
4 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
4 6 (17.65%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (14.71%) Incident Management
5 5 (14.71%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Software Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.71%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) C
4 3 (8.82%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) CCNA
4 3 (8.82%) CCNP
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) HND
5 2 (5.88%) ACCA
5 2 (5.88%) CBAP
5 2 (5.88%) CIMA
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.82%) SLA
4 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.88%) NIST
4 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Firmware
2 4 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.76%) vSphere
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
1 4 (11.76%) VxRail
2 3 (8.82%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Veeam
3 4 (11.76%) Dell
3 4 (11.76%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.88%) Adaptive Insights
5 2 (5.88%) Ericsson
5 2 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (5.88%) Huawei
5 2 (5.88%) Nokia
5 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.88%) Samsung
5 2 (5.88%) Workday
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle