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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 398 451
Rank change year-on-year +93 +53 +16
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 354 153 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.71% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 226 114 268
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £30,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £72,950
UK median annual salary £52,136 £55,000 £51,200
% change year-on-year -5.21% +7.42% -10.96%

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 30,617 21,643 42,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.63% 70.54% 54.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,802 9,872 27,046
10th Percentile £28,276 £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 £62,374
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 27 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 27 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
South East +40 93 £47,500 -32.14% 43
North of England +11 88 £45,000 +7.14% 28
Midlands -13 55 £55,500 +11.00% 25
North West +35 51 £53,386 -2.93% 15
South West -31 41 £42,500 +6.25% 7
East of England +1 39 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -16 32 £53,250 +4.98% 15
Yorkshire -33 29 £34,000 -19.05% 9
East Midlands -6 23 £60,000 +84.62% 10
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +22 10 £33,500 - 7
North East -37 8 £45,000 +66.67% 4
Wales -42 8 £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 25 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.54%) Confluence
3 9 (2.54%) IIS
4 5 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 41 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (5.08%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.13%) CorelDRAW
6 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.56%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.27%) Azure
2 67 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (12.15%) AWS
4 30 (8.47%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 21 (5.93%) SaaS
7 13 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (3.11%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.54%) IaaS
10 8 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.98%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.98%) GitHub
11 7 (1.98%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.69%) GCP
13 5 (1.41%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.41%) PaaS
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.69%) Firewall
2 47 (13.28%) DNS
3 45 (12.71%) VPN
4 34 (9.60%) DHCP
5 33 (9.32%) TCP/IP
6 22 (6.21%) VLAN
7 21 (5.93%) WAN
8 17 (4.80%) TETRA
8 17 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.39%) Network Security
10 11 (3.11%) VoIP
11 10 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (2.82%) Wireless
12 9 (2.54%) LAN
12 9 (2.54%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.41%) ATM
13 5 (1.41%) BGP
13 5 (1.41%) DMZ
13 5 (1.41%) OSPF
13 5 (1.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.65%) Power BI
3 7 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.85%) Big Data
6 3 (0.85%) MySQL
6 3 (0.85%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (5.93%) JIRA
2 19 (5.37%) Git
3 12 (3.39%) GitLab
4 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.85%) Selenium
6 2 (0.56%) JMeter
6 2 (0.56%) JUnit
6 2 (0.56%) Postman
6 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.28%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.28%) Hudson
7 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
General
1 185 (52.26%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (12.43%) Finance
4 41 (11.58%) Manufacturing
5 35 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.52%) Retail
7 16 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.67%) Electronics
9 11 (3.11%) Legal
9 11 (3.11%) Marketing
10 10 (2.82%) Law
11 9 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.69%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.41%) Advertising
13 5 (1.41%) Banking
13 5 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.13%) Automotive
14 4 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (21.75%) Analyst
2 44 (12.43%) IT Support
3 41 (11.58%) Support Analyst
4 34 (9.60%) Senior
5 33 (9.32%) Support Engineer
6 25 (7.06%) Consultant
7 21 (5.93%) Applications Support
7 21 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) Design Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) IT Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) Lead
8 17 (4.80%) RF Design Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) RF Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.52%) Applications Support Analyst
10 15 (4.24%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.95%) Systems Analyst
12 13 (3.67%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.54%) ARM Templates
1 9 (2.54%) REST
2 7 (1.98%) CSS
2 7 (1.98%) HTML
2 7 (1.98%) Middleware
2 7 (1.98%) Node.js
3 5 (1.41%) .NET
3 5 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.41%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.41%) Jinja
3 5 (1.41%) JSON
3 5 (1.41%) SOAP
3 5 (1.41%) YAML
4 3 (0.85%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.85%) React
5 2 (0.56%) PySpark
5 2 (0.56%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (0.56%) Spring
5 2 (0.56%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.04%) Driving Licence
2 27 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.24%) CCTV
3 15 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.26%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.26%) CMDB
8 5 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.41%) Mobile Computing
8 5 (1.41%) PKI
9 4 (1.13%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.13%) Social Network
9 4 (1.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 93 (26.27%) Windows
2 57 (16.10%) Windows Server
3 39 (11.02%) Linux
4 10 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.98%) CentOS
6 7 (1.98%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.41%) Debian
8 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.85%) Unix
11 2 (0.56%) AIX
11 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (12.15%) ITIL
4 42 (11.86%) Project Delivery
5 38 (10.73%) Agile
6 37 (10.45%) ERP
7 36 (10.17%) Change Management
8 32 (9.04%) CI/CD
9 29 (8.19%) Incident Management
10 28 (7.91%) DevOps
11 27 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (7.34%) Customer Service
13 25 (7.06%) Business Analysis
13 25 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (7.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (7.06%) System Testing
14 24 (6.78%) AI
15 22 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
15 22 (6.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (19.21%) SQL
2 45 (12.71%) PowerShell
3 44 (12.43%) Python
4 22 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.24%) Bash
6 10 (2.82%) Java
7 9 (2.54%) C#
8 7 (1.98%) C++
9 6 (1.69%) PHP
10 5 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.85%) C
12 2 (0.56%) ABAP
12 2 (0.56%) Bicep
12 2 (0.56%) Groovy
12 2 (0.56%) Ruby
12 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.28%) VB
13 1 (0.28%) VB6
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (17.23%) Degree
2 42 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.11%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.82%) HND
6 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.41%) HNC
8 5 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.13%) CCNA
9 4 (1.13%) CCNP
9 4 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.73%) QA
2 24 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.67%) SLA
5 8 (2.26%) GDPR
6 7 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.13%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.85%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.85%) NIST
9 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.56%) GRC
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.56%) NCSC
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.21%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.95%) Docker
5 6 (1.69%) Firmware
5 6 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.69%) vSphere
6 3 (0.85%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.85%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.08%) Terraform
3 11 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.54%) Nagios
5 8 (2.26%) Ansible
6 6 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.41%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.41%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.41%) Podman
8 4 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.13%) Grafana
8 4 (1.13%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (1.13%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.85%) SCCM
10 2 (0.56%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.28%) Netcool
11 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 121 (34.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.73%) Cisco
3 30 (8.47%) VMware
4 14 (3.95%) Fortinet
4 14 (3.95%) SAP
5 10 (2.82%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.54%) Citrix
7 8 (2.26%) JD Edwards
7 8 (2.26%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.26%) Veeam
8 7 (1.98%) Aruba
8 7 (1.98%) Juniper
8 7 (1.98%) Oracle
8 7 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.98%) Splunk
9 6 (1.69%) Google
9 6 (1.69%) Sophos
10 5 (1.41%) Epicor
10 5 (1.41%) Pega
10 5 (1.41%) Red Hat