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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 379 408
Rank change year-on-year +69 +29 +82
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 284 115 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.42% 0.54%
As % of the General category 0.90% 0.61% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 176 81 315
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,125 £73,750 £74,600
UK median annual salary £54,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.93% +1.90% -12.50%

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 31,527 18,786 39,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.41% 68.83% 58.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,229 9,435 26,319
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +31 76 £48,000 -26.15% 35
North of England -34 57 £45,000 +7.14% 21
Midlands -17 54 £55,000 +6.33% 19
East of England -3 38 £37,500 -21.05% 11
South West -36 30 £37,500 -6.25% 15
West Midlands -23 29 £60,000 +2.56% 15
North West -16 27 £45,000 -23.40% 13
East Midlands -30 24 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Yorkshire -51 23 £34,000 -19.05% 5
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 2
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 2
North East -27 7 £45,000 +42.86% 4
Wales -32 1 £52,500 +7.69% 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 16 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.06%) IIS
4 3 (1.06%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (13.03%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.34%) AutoCAD
3 17 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 75 (26.41%) Azure
2 55 (19.37%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (10.56%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.80%) AWS
5 18 (6.34%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.34%) SaaS
6 9 (3.17%) IaaS
7 7 (2.46%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.11%) GCP
8 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.76%) PaaS
10 4 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.41%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.08%) DNS
2 33 (11.62%) Firewall
3 29 (10.21%) DHCP
4 28 (9.86%) VPN
5 24 (8.45%) TCP/IP
6 19 (6.69%) VLAN
7 17 (5.99%) TETRA
8 13 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.52%) VoIP
9 10 (3.52%) WAN
10 6 (2.11%) DMZ
10 6 (2.11%) NAS
10 6 (2.11%) Network Security
11 5 (1.76%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.76%) SAN
11 5 (1.76%) STUN
12 4 (1.41%) BGP
12 4 (1.41%) Internet
12 4 (1.41%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.58%) Power BI
3 9 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.46%) Metadata
4 7 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.06%) Big Data
6 3 (1.06%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.06%) MySQL
6 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (6.34%) Git
1 18 (6.34%) JIRA
2 8 (2.82%) GitLab
3 6 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.76%) Subversion
5 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 154 (54.23%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.56%) Finance
3 30 (10.56%) Manufacturing
4 19 (6.69%) Retail
5 16 (5.63%) Electronics
5 16 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (4.93%) Legal
6 14 (4.93%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.87%) Law
8 10 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.82%) German Language
10 7 (2.46%) Automotive
11 6 (2.11%) Banking
12 5 (1.76%) Advertising
12 5 (1.76%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.41%) Front Office
13 4 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (17.61%) Analyst
2 36 (12.68%) IT Support
3 30 (10.56%) Senior
4 29 (10.21%) Support Analyst
5 17 (5.99%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 17 (5.99%) Design Engineer
5 17 (5.99%) RF Design Engineer
5 17 (5.99%) RF Engineer
5 17 (5.99%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.28%) Applications Support
6 15 (5.28%) Applications Support Analyst
7 14 (4.93%) Lead
7 14 (4.93%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (3.87%) Architect
8 11 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.17%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.87%) REST
2 8 (2.82%) SOAP
3 6 (2.11%) .NET
4 5 (1.76%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.76%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.76%) Jinja
4 5 (1.76%) JSON
4 5 (1.76%) PySpark
4 5 (1.76%) YAML
5 3 (1.06%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.70%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.70%) CSS
6 2 (0.70%) HTML
6 2 (0.70%) React
6 2 (0.70%) WPF
7 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.35%) Blazor
7 1 (0.35%) jQuery
7 1 (0.35%) JWT
7 1 (0.35%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.34%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.28%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.17%) Life Science
6 7 (2.46%) CMDB
6 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.76%) CCTV
8 5 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.76%) Mobile Computing
9 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.41%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.41%) Social Network
9 4 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.48%) Windows
2 46 (16.20%) Windows Server
3 31 (10.92%) Linux
4 6 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.76%) Debian
5 5 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.76%) Unix
5 5 (1.76%) VMS
5 5 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.06%) CentOS
6 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (26.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (16.20%) ITIL
4 42 (14.79%) Project Delivery
5 37 (13.03%) Agile
6 33 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (10.21%) Incident Management
8 27 (9.51%) Change Management
9 26 (9.15%) CI/CD
10 24 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (7.39%) ITSM
12 20 (7.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (6.69%) AI
13 19 (6.69%) Logistics
13 19 (6.69%) System Testing
14 18 (6.34%) Analytics
14 18 (6.34%) Asset Management
14 18 (6.34%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (6.34%) Mentoring
15 16 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.08%) SQL
2 34 (11.97%) Python
3 32 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.87%) Bash
6 8 (2.82%) C#
7 5 (1.76%) C++
7 5 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.41%) PHP
8 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.06%) Java
10 2 (0.70%) Bicep
10 2 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) ABAP
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) VB
11 1 (0.35%) VB6
11 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (23.59%) Degree
2 40 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.11%) CISSP
10 5 (1.76%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.76%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.41%) CEH
11 4 (1.41%) CISM
11 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.41%) HND
11 4 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.92%) QA
3 17 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.28%) SLA
5 10 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.46%) NIST
7 6 (2.11%) GDPR
8 4 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.06%) Def Stans
9 3 (1.06%) GRC
9 3 (1.06%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (1.06%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.70%) COBIT
10 2 (0.70%) NCSC
10 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (19.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.52%) Hyper-V
2 10 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.82%) Docker
4 6 (2.11%) Firmware
4 6 (2.11%) vSphere
5 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.06%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.17%) Terraform
3 6 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.11%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.76%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.76%) Nagios
4 5 (1.76%) SCCM
4 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.41%) Control-M
5 4 (1.41%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.06%) Ansible
6 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.70%) cPanel
7 2 (0.70%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.70%) Grafana
7 2 (0.70%) Nessus
7 2 (0.70%) Plesk
Vendors
1 87 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.51%) VMware
3 15 (5.28%) Cisco
4 14 (4.93%) Citrix
5 11 (3.87%) SAP
5 11 (3.87%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.82%) Databricks
7 7 (2.46%) Veeam
8 6 (2.11%) Oracle
8 6 (2.11%) Pega
8 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.76%) Epicor
9 5 (1.76%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.41%) Barracuda Networks
10 4 (1.41%) Informatica
10 4 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.41%) NetApp
10 4 (1.41%) Siemens