Documentation Skills Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 391 452
Rank change year-on-year +94 +61 +12
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 340 147 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the General category 1.13% 0.69% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 217 109 276
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,890 £31,247
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £73,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,185 21,366 43,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.55% 71.04% 54.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18,467 9,690 27,769
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,958 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
North of England +18 89 £45,000 +7.14% 32
South East +38 86 £47,500 -29.63% 46
Midlands -10 52 £56,000 +12.00% 24
North West +37 50 £51,772 -5.87% 18
East of England +5 39 £50,000 - 7
South West -41 39 £40,000 - 7
Yorkshire -33 31 £34,000 -19.05% 9
West Midlands -19 29 £54,000 +4.96% 16
East Midlands -15 23 £60,000 +60.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £33,500 - 8
North East -45 8 £45,000 +66.67% 5
Wales -40 6 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Documentation Skills
UK

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.35%) Confluence
4 7 (2.06%) IIS
5 6 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 40 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (5.29%) AutoCAD
4 7 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.88%) CorelDRAW
6 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.59%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.59%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 89 (26.18%) Azure
2 64 (18.82%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (12.06%) AWS
4 30 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 23 (6.76%) SaaS
7 12 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.94%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.65%) IaaS
10 7 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.06%) Azure Stack
10 7 (2.06%) GitHub
11 6 (1.76%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.47%) GCP
12 5 (1.47%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.47%) PaaS
12 5 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.18%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.12%) Firewall
2 43 (12.65%) DNS
3 42 (12.35%) VPN
4 32 (9.41%) DHCP
5 31 (9.12%) TCP/IP
6 21 (6.18%) VLAN
7 20 (5.88%) WAN
8 17 (5.00%) TETRA
8 17 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.53%) Network Security
10 11 (3.24%) VoIP
11 10 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.65%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.65%) Wireless
13 8 (2.35%) LAN
14 5 (1.47%) ATM
14 5 (1.47%) BGP
14 5 (1.47%) DMZ
14 5 (1.47%) OSPF
14 5 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.59%) Power BI
3 8 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.88%) Big Data
6 3 (0.88%) MySQL
6 3 (0.88%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (5.88%) JIRA
2 19 (5.59%) Git
3 12 (3.53%) GitLab
4 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.59%) JMeter
5 2 (0.59%) Postman
5 2 (0.59%) Selenium
5 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) JUnit
6 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 175 (51.47%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.06%) Finance
4 39 (11.47%) Manufacturing
5 31 (9.12%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (5.00%) Retail
8 16 (4.71%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.82%) Electronics
10 11 (3.24%) Law
10 11 (3.24%) Legal
10 11 (3.24%) Marketing
11 9 (2.65%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.47%) Advertising
12 5 (1.47%) Banking
12 5 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.18%) Automotive
13 4 (1.18%) Front Office
13 4 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (21.76%) Analyst
2 42 (12.35%) IT Support
3 40 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 31 (9.12%) Senior
5 28 (8.24%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.47%) Consultant
7 20 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 20 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) Design Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) RF Design Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) RF Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.71%) Lead
10 15 (4.41%) Applications Support Analyst
11 14 (4.12%) IT Engineer
11 14 (4.12%) Systems Analyst
12 12 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.94%) REST
2 9 (2.65%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.06%) SOAP
4 6 (1.76%) CSS
4 6 (1.76%) HTML
4 6 (1.76%) Node.js
5 5 (1.47%) .NET
5 5 (1.47%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.47%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.47%) Jinja
5 5 (1.47%) JSON
5 5 (1.47%) Middleware
5 5 (1.47%) YAML
6 3 (0.88%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.59%) PySpark
7 2 (0.59%) React
7 2 (0.59%) WPF
8 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.12%) Driving Licence
2 25 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.41%) CCTV
4 13 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.35%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.35%) CMDB
9 5 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.47%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.18%) Social Network
10 4 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 86 (25.29%) Windows
2 53 (15.59%) Windows Server
3 40 (11.76%) Linux
4 9 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.06%) CentOS
5 7 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.47%) Debian
7 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.18%) Unix
8 4 (1.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (27.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (12.35%) Project Delivery
4 40 (11.76%) ITIL
5 35 (10.29%) Agile
6 33 (9.71%) CI/CD
7 32 (9.41%) ERP
8 31 (9.12%) Change Management
9 29 (8.53%) Incident Management
10 26 (7.65%) DevOps
11 25 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (7.06%) AI
12 24 (7.06%) Customer Service
13 23 (6.76%) Business Analysis
13 23 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (6.76%) System Testing
14 22 (6.47%) Collaborative Working
15 21 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (6.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.12%) SQL
2 44 (12.94%) Python
3 43 (12.65%) PowerShell
4 22 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.12%) Bash
6 9 (2.65%) Java
7 8 (2.35%) C#
8 7 (2.06%) C++
9 6 (1.76%) PHP
10 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.88%) C
11 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.59%) ABAP
12 2 (0.59%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.29%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) VB6
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (17.65%) Degree
2 42 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.65%) HND
6 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.18%) CCNA
9 4 (1.18%) CCNP
9 4 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.18%) HNC
9 4 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.47%) QA
2 22 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.29%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.82%) SLA
5 7 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.76%) GDPR
7 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.18%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.88%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.88%) NIST
9 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.59%) GRC
10 2 (0.59%) NCSC
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (17.06%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 16 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.82%) Docker
5 6 (1.76%) Firmware
5 6 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.76%) vSphere
6 3 (0.88%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.88%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.71%) Terraform
3 10 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.65%) Nagios
5 8 (2.35%) Ansible
6 5 (1.47%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (1.47%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.47%) Podman
6 5 (1.47%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.18%) Grafana
7 4 (1.18%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (1.18%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.88%) Control-M
8 3 (0.88%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.29%) Netcool
9 1 (0.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 113 (33.24%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.18%) Cisco
3 29 (8.53%) VMware
4 15 (4.41%) SAP
5 13 (3.82%) Fortinet
6 10 (2.94%) Citrix
6 10 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.35%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.35%) Veeam
8 7 (2.06%) Oracle
8 7 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.06%) Splunk
9 6 (1.76%) Aruba
9 6 (1.76%) JD Edwards
9 6 (1.76%) Juniper
9 6 (1.76%) Pega
9 6 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.47%) Epicor
10 5 (1.47%) Google
10 5 (1.47%) Red Hat