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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 401 389
Rank change year-on-year +105 -12 +113
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 272 100 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.54% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 172 62 313
10th Percentile £30,370 £29,900 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,751 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,219 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,875 £71,250 £73,950
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £51,200
% change year-on-year -0.91% +7.42% -14.67%

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 27,831 18,420 36,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.57% 68.00% 59.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,593 9,220 25,207
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £26,056
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,732 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +8.91% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +39 76 £47,500 +2.70% 52
Midlands -20 58 £55,000 +7.84% 42
North of England -17 50 £45,000 +7.14% 30
East of England +24 38 £31,435 -37.13% 26
West Midlands +3 30 £60,000 -4.00% 26
South West -10 27 £45,000 +38.46% 12
East Midlands -21 27 £45,000 - 15
North West -4 24 £45,000 -18.18% 20
Yorkshire -33 20 £34,000 -19.05% 7
Scotland -2 13 £35,000 - 10
Northern Ireland - 7 - -
North East -20 6 £45,000 +42.86% 3
Wales -20 3 £50,250 +3.08% 2
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 16 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.47%) Confluence
4 4 (1.47%) IIS
4 4 (1.47%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (15.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.57%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.37%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Postilion
3 1 (0.37%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 84 (30.88%) Azure
2 49 (18.01%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (11.76%) AWS
4 26 (9.56%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.72%) SaaS
6 10 (3.68%) GCP
6 10 (3.68%) IaaS
7 9 (3.31%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.84%) PaaS
9 5 (1.84%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.47%) ClickUp
10 4 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.97%) DNS
2 32 (11.76%) DHCP
3 29 (10.66%) Firewall
4 25 (9.19%) TCP/IP
5 22 (8.09%) VPN
6 20 (7.35%) VLAN
7 8 (2.94%) SAN
7 8 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.57%) VoIP
9 6 (2.21%) DMZ
9 6 (2.21%) TETRA
10 5 (1.84%) NAS
10 5 (1.84%) NetScaler
10 5 (1.84%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.84%) STUN
10 5 (1.84%) WAN
11 4 (1.47%) Network Security
11 4 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.74%) SSH
12 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.57%) Metadata
3 7 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.47%) MySQL
5 4 (1.47%) Power BI
6 3 (1.10%) Big Data
6 3 (1.10%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.74%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.74%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Git
2 19 (6.99%) JIRA
3 8 (2.94%) GitLab
4 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.84%) Subversion
6 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 154 (56.62%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.66%) Manufacturing
4 27 (9.93%) Finance
5 25 (9.19%) Legal
6 23 (8.46%) Retail
7 14 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.78%) Banking
8 13 (4.78%) Electronics
8 13 (4.78%) German Language
9 11 (4.04%) Law
9 11 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.68%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.94%) Automotive
12 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.84%) Advertising
14 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.47%) Avionics
14 4 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (17.65%) Senior
2 45 (16.54%) Analyst
3 35 (12.87%) IT Support
4 20 (7.35%) Support Analyst
5 17 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 16 (5.88%) Lead
7 15 (5.51%) Architect
7 15 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.78%) Applications Support
8 13 (4.78%) Applications Support Analyst
9 12 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.68%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Administrator
12 8 (2.94%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Developer
12 8 (2.94%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Support Technician
13 7 (2.57%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.04%) .NET
1 11 (4.04%) REST
2 8 (2.94%) SOAP
3 6 (2.21%) PySpark
4 5 (1.84%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.84%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.84%) Jinja
4 5 (1.84%) JSON
4 5 (1.84%) YAML
5 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.10%) CSS
5 3 (1.10%) HTML
5 3 (1.10%) React
6 2 (0.74%) Laravel
6 2 (0.74%) WPF
6 2 (0.74%) XML
7 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.37%) jQuery
7 1 (0.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.15%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.31%) Life Science
6 8 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.57%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.84%) CCTV
9 5 (1.84%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.47%) Clustering
10 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.47%) NHS
10 4 (1.47%) Wiki
11 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (23.53%) Windows
2 48 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.76%) Linux
4 8 (2.94%) Unix
5 6 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.84%) Debian
6 5 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.84%) VMS
6 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (16.18%) Agile
4 43 (15.81%) ITIL
5 34 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 32 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (9.19%) CI/CD
8 23 (8.46%) AI
9 21 (7.72%) Change Management
9 21 (7.72%) ITSM
9 21 (7.72%) Mentoring
9 21 (7.72%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (7.35%) Incident Management
11 19 (6.99%) Analytical Thinking
12 18 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (5.88%) ERP
14 16 (5.88%) Validation
15 15 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (5.51%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.24%) SQL
2 31 (11.40%) Python
3 30 (11.03%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.04%) Bash
4 11 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.31%) C#
6 6 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.84%) PHP
7 5 (1.84%) VBA
8 4 (1.47%) C++
8 4 (1.47%) Java
8 4 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.37%) ABAP
10 1 (0.37%) VB
10 1 (0.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 67 (24.63%) Degree
2 31 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.78%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.31%) CISSP
8 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.57%) CISM
10 6 (2.21%) HNC
10 6 (2.21%) HND
11 5 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.47%) CEH
12 4 (1.47%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.72%) QA
3 16 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.41%) SLA
5 10 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.94%) GDPR
7 6 (2.21%) NIST
8 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.10%) Def Stans
9 3 (1.10%) GRC
9 3 (1.10%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.74%) COBIT
10 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.37%) GAAP
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.37%) NCSC
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (21.32%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.78%) Hyper-V
3 9 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.21%) Docker
4 6 (2.21%) vSphere
5 4 (1.47%) Firmware
5 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) Lustre
7 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.57%) SCCM
2 7 (2.57%) Terraform
3 6 (2.21%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.84%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.84%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.84%) Nagios
4 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.47%) Ansible
5 4 (1.47%) Control-M
5 4 (1.47%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.47%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.10%) cPanel
6 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.10%) Plesk
7 2 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.74%) Netcool
7 2 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.56%) VMware
3 15 (5.51%) Citrix
4 14 (5.15%) Cisco
5 12 (4.41%) SolarWinds
6 11 (4.04%) Pega
6 11 (4.04%) SAP
7 10 (3.68%) Veeam
8 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.57%) Blue Prism
9 7 (2.57%) Databricks
9 7 (2.57%) Oracle
10 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.84%) Epicor
12 4 (1.47%) IBM
12 4 (1.47%) Informatica
12 4 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.47%) NetApp
12 4 (1.47%) Siemens