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 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 479 403
Rank change year-on-year +164 -76 +74
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 247 126 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.26% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.11% 0.48% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 174 53 126
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,875
25th Percentile £36,438 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,500 £68,125
UK median annual salary £54,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -4.35%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,193 26,196 19,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 63.86% 54.64% 63.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,701 11,483 14,363
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,830 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,627
UK median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - -

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 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
South East +92 72 £53,750 +13.16% 93
Midlands +78 65 £45,000 - 23
North of England +36 64 £42,500 -16.67% 25
West Midlands +60 35 £50,000 -23.08% 17
Yorkshire +34 33 £47,500 -9.52% 6
East Midlands +23 30 £42,500 +6.25% 5
North West +14 27 £39,750 -17.52% 16
East of England +29 22 £54,000 +34.16% 21
South West +40 16 £56,000 +31.76% 22
Scotland -6 7 - - 7
North East +13 4 £25,000 -26.47% 3
Wales +3 2 £48,000 -1.54% 3
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 23 (9.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.62%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (14.98%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.21%) SAP EHS
3 3 (1.21%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.21%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.15%) Azure
2 48 (19.43%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.15%) SaaS
4 19 (7.69%) AWS
4 19 (7.69%) IaaS
5 16 (6.48%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.67%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.86%) PaaS
8 8 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.83%) GitHub
10 6 (2.43%) iPaaS
11 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.02%) GCP
11 5 (2.02%) OneDrive
11 5 (2.02%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.21%) OCI
13 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.34%) DNS
2 27 (10.93%) DHCP
3 25 (10.12%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.50%) Firewall
5 20 (8.10%) VPN
6 15 (6.07%) VLAN
7 8 (3.24%) BGP
8 7 (2.83%) SAN
8 7 (2.83%) WAN
9 6 (2.43%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.43%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.43%) VoIP
9 6 (2.43%) Wireshark
10 5 (2.02%) DMZ
10 5 (2.02%) OSPF
10 5 (2.02%) STUN
10 5 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.62%) IPsec
11 4 (1.62%) LAN
11 4 (1.62%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.48%) Tableau
3 15 (6.07%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.05%) Power BI
5 7 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.62%) MySQL
8 3 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.21%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.21%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.81%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) DB2
10 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.40%) QlikView
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.02%) JIRA
2 4 (1.62%) Postman
3 2 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (48.99%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.55%) Finance
4 27 (10.93%) Legal
5 24 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (8.50%) Law
6 21 (8.50%) Manufacturing
7 16 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.26%) Banking
9 12 (4.86%) Retail
10 9 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.43%) Back Office
13 5 (2.02%) German Language
13 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.62%) Avionics
15 3 (1.21%) Advertising
15 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.81%) Electronics
16 2 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (28.34%) Analyst
2 42 (17.00%) Senior
3 23 (9.31%) Data Analyst
4 20 (8.10%) Quality Analyst
5 19 (7.69%) Data Quality Analyst
6 18 (7.29%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Service Analyst
8 16 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.48%) Service Desk Analyst
9 15 (6.07%) Architect
9 15 (6.07%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (5.67%) IT Support
11 12 (4.86%) Lead
12 11 (4.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Developer
13 10 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.64%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.64%) Consultant
14 9 (3.64%) Technical Support
15 8 (3.24%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.64%) XML
2 7 (2.83%) .NET
3 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (2.02%) React
4 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.62%) OAuth
4 4 (1.62%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.62%) OpenID
4 4 (1.62%) SAML
5 3 (1.21%) Kafka
5 3 (1.21%) REST
5 3 (1.21%) Spring
5 3 (1.21%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.81%) HTML
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.40%) FHIR
7 1 (0.40%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.40%) PySpark
7 1 (0.40%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.86%) Driving Licence
2 11 (4.45%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.45%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.83%) NHS
5 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.43%) Clustering
7 4 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.21%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.70%) Windows
2 32 (12.96%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.48%) Linux
4 5 (2.02%) Debian
4 5 (2.02%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.21%) Unix
5 3 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.38%) ITIL
3 33 (13.36%) Agile
4 31 (12.55%) Validation
5 28 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (10.93%) Migration
7 25 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.91%) Customer Service
9 19 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 19 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
9 19 (7.69%) Data Validation
9 19 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 19 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 18 (7.29%) Data Visualisation
10 18 (7.29%) ERP
10 18 (7.29%) Mathematics
10 18 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (7.29%) Visualisation
11 17 (6.88%) DevOps
11 17 (6.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.86%) SQL
2 24 (9.72%) Python
3 22 (8.91%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.07%) C#
5 10 (4.05%) Java
6 8 (3.24%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.83%) C
8 5 (2.02%) VBA
9 4 (1.62%) Bash
10 3 (1.21%) Perl
11 2 (0.81%) Bicep
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (19.43%) Degree
2 47 (19.03%) Security Cleared
3 31 (12.55%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (6.88%) DV Cleared
6 16 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (6.07%) Numerate Degree
8 11 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.24%) CCNP
9 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.83%) HNC
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.02%) CISM
11 5 (2.02%) CISSP
11 5 (2.02%) MCP
11 5 (2.02%) MCSA
11 5 (2.02%) MCSE
12 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.21%) CCNA
13 2 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.26%) GDPR
4 11 (4.45%) ISO 9001
4 11 (4.45%) QA
4 11 (4.45%) SLA
5 9 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.62%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.62%) NIST
7 3 (1.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.81%) PMO
8 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) DICOM
9 1 (0.40%) GxP
9 1 (0.40%) HL7
9 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (19.43%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.10%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.43%) Firmware
5 5 (2.02%) Docker
5 5 (2.02%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) Ceph
7 1 (0.40%) Lustre
7 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (5.67%) SCCM
2 8 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.83%) Terraform
4 6 (2.43%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.62%) Ansible
5 4 (1.62%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.40%) cPanel
8 1 (0.40%) Nagios
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) Netcool
8 1 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.40%) Plesk
8 1 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (38.06%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.93%) VMware
3 13 (5.26%) Cisco
4 11 (4.45%) Oracle
5 8 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.83%) Citrix
6 7 (2.83%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.83%) Veeam
7 6 (2.43%) Blue Prism
7 6 (2.43%) Pega
8 5 (2.02%) Juniper
8 5 (2.02%) Meraki
8 5 (2.02%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.21%) Aruba
10 3 (1.21%) Dell
10 3 (1.21%) iManage
10 3 (1.21%) Intapp
10 3 (1.21%) SAP
10 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow