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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 449 378
Rank change year-on-year +170 -71 +83
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 262 115 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.30% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.08% 0.48% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 178 52 146
10th Percentile £30,370 £37,046 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,753 £33,584
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,875 £73,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%

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 24,180 23,809 17,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.54% 62.72% 63.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,429 10,090 12,834
10th Percentile £26,733 £30,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 22 December 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 22 December 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 +98 79 £52,000 +9.47% 100
Midlands +58 75 £45,000 -13.46% 66
North of England +51 49 £42,500 -19.05% 83
West Midlands +51 39 £55,750 -10.80% 39
East Midlands +14 35 £45,000 - 25
East of England +43 28 £30,370 -24.55% 52
Yorkshire +12 24 £47,500 -9.52% 40
North West +43 23 £37,000 -27.45% 34
South West +17 18 £55,000 +74.60% 37
Scotland +14 11 £35,000 -39.13% 15
North East +11 2 - - 10
Wales -11 2 £48,000 +1.05% 10
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 19 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.76%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 44 (16.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.15%) Azure
2 50 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (9.92%) SaaS
4 23 (8.78%) AWS
5 17 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.73%) IaaS
7 10 (3.82%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.05%) PaaS
10 7 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.67%) GCP
10 7 (2.67%) GitHub
11 6 (2.29%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.91%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.53%) OneDrive
14 3 (1.15%) Google Workspace
14 3 (1.15%) OCI
15 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.45%) DNS
2 27 (10.31%) DHCP
3 24 (9.16%) Firewall
4 23 (8.78%) TCP/IP
4 23 (8.78%) VPN
5 15 (5.73%) VLAN
6 10 (3.82%) SAN
7 8 (3.05%) BGP
8 7 (2.67%) WAN
8 7 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.29%) DMZ
9 6 (2.29%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.29%) VoIP
9 6 (2.29%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.91%) Network Security
10 5 (1.91%) OSPF
10 5 (1.91%) STUN
11 4 (1.53%) IPsec
11 4 (1.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.11%) Tableau
3 15 (5.73%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.29%) Metadata
5 3 (1.15%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (1.15%) Power BI
5 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.76%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) DB2
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) QlikView
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.20%) JIRA
2 6 (2.29%) Git
3 5 (1.91%) Subversion
4 4 (1.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (52.67%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Finance
4 27 (10.31%) Legal
5 18 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.73%) Retail
8 13 (4.96%) German Language
9 12 (4.58%) Banking
9 12 (4.58%) Law
10 10 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.67%) Electronics
13 6 (2.29%) Back Office
14 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.53%) Automotive
15 4 (1.53%) Avionics
16 3 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.05%) Analyst
2 49 (18.70%) Senior
3 20 (7.63%) Support Engineer
4 18 (6.87%) Data Analyst
4 18 (6.87%) IT Support
5 17 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.11%) Data Quality Analyst
6 16 (6.11%) Quality Analyst
6 16 (6.11%) Service Analyst
7 15 (5.73%) Architect
8 14 (5.34%) Service Desk Analyst
9 12 (4.58%) Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (4.58%) Lead
10 10 (3.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.44%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.44%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.05%) .NET
1 8 (3.05%) XML
2 5 (1.91%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.53%) HTML
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.53%) OAuth
3 4 (1.53%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.53%) OpenID
3 4 (1.53%) PySpark
3 4 (1.53%) React
3 4 (1.53%) REST
3 4 (1.53%) SAML
4 3 (1.15%) CSS
5 2 (0.76%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.76%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.76%) Laravel
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.38%) Svelte
6 1 (0.38%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.96%) Driving Licence
1 13 (4.96%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.20%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.82%) NHS
5 9 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.44%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.44%) Life Science
5 9 (3.44%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.05%) Clustering
7 7 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.76%) IoT
11 2 (0.76%) iPad
11 2 (0.76%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.52%) Windows
2 30 (11.45%) Windows Server
3 18 (6.87%) Linux
4 5 (1.91%) Debian
4 5 (1.91%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.53%) Unix
6 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (18.70%) ITIL
3 37 (14.12%) Agile
4 35 (13.36%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (11.83%) Validation
7 25 (9.54%) Customer Service
7 25 (9.54%) Migration
8 22 (8.40%) Mentoring
9 20 (7.63%) Data Visualisation
9 20 (7.63%) DevOps
9 20 (7.63%) Test Automation
9 20 (7.63%) Visualisation
10 19 (7.25%) Data Validation
11 17 (6.49%) ERP
11 17 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (6.11%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.11%) Data Cleansing
12 16 (6.11%) Project Delivery
13 15 (5.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.18%) SQL
2 26 (9.92%) Python
3 21 (8.02%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.73%) C#
5 8 (3.05%) Java
6 7 (2.67%) C
7 6 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.91%) VBA
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 3 (1.15%) PHP
11 2 (0.76%) Bicep
11 2 (0.76%) Perl
11 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.38%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 65 (24.81%) Degree
2 41 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 24 (9.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.34%) Numerate Degree
7 13 (4.96%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.44%) CISSP
11 8 (3.05%) CCNP
12 7 (2.67%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.67%) CISM
12 7 (2.67%) HNC
13 5 (1.91%) MCP
13 5 (1.91%) MCSA
13 5 (1.91%) MCSE
14 4 (1.53%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (1.15%) CCNA
15 3 (1.15%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.34%) SLA
4 13 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.20%) GDPR
5 11 (4.20%) ISO 9001
5 11 (4.20%) QA
6 7 (2.67%) NIST
7 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.15%) GRC
8 3 (1.15%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.38%) COBIT
10 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 48 (18.32%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.49%) Hyper-V
2 17 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.29%) Firmware
4 5 (1.91%) Kamailio
5 3 (1.15%) Docker
6 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Ceph
7 1 (0.38%) Lustre
7 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (6.11%) SCCM
2 9 (3.44%) Terraform
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.29%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.91%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (1.91%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.15%) Ansible
7 3 (1.15%) cPanel
7 3 (1.15%) Nessus
7 3 (1.15%) Plesk
8 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.76%) VxRail
9 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.38%) CASB
9 1 (0.38%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 98 (37.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.40%) VMware
3 13 (4.96%) Cisco
4 9 (3.44%) Oracle
4 9 (3.44%) Veeam
5 8 (3.05%) Citrix
5 8 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.29%) Blue Prism
7 6 (2.29%) Pega
7 6 (2.29%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.91%) Dell
8 5 (1.91%) Juniper
8 5 (1.91%) Meraki
9 4 (1.53%) Databricks
9 4 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.15%) Aruba
10 3 (1.15%) Sparx
10 3 (1.15%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.76%) Qualys