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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 367 453
Rank change year-on-year +53 +86 -17
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 374 192 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the General category 1.15% 0.84% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 239 139 190
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,625 £63,125 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £67,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%

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 32,401 22,763 35,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.41% 67.07% 54.39%
Number of salaries quoted 19,884 11,033 21,279
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +37 109 £50,000 -31.03% 51
North of England -14 81 £52,500 +23.53% 19
Midlands -25 60 £55,000 +25.09% 18
North West +19 53 £55,000 +18.92% 13
South West -37 46 £42,500 +6.25% 17
West Midlands -21 38 £53,250 +6.50% 9
East of England -2 37 £48,750 -8.45% 10
East Midlands -21 22 £60,000 +54.84% 9
Yorkshire -51 22 £56,250 +33.14% 6
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +26 11 £33,500 - 7
Wales - 10 £57,500 - 4
North East -48 6 £45,000 +80.00%
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 29 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.94%) Confluence
3 11 (2.94%) IIS
4 5 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 35 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (4.81%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.34%) CorelDRAW
7 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (1.07%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (0.80%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 93 (24.87%) Azure
2 63 (16.84%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (11.50%) AWS
4 28 (7.49%) Entra ID
4 28 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.61%) SaaS
6 14 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.67%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.41%) GitHub
10 8 (2.14%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.87%) GCP
11 7 (1.87%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.60%) IaaS
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.34%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.07%) ClickUp
14 4 (1.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.64%) Firewall
2 47 (12.57%) DNS
3 41 (10.96%) VPN
4 31 (8.29%) TCP/IP
5 29 (7.75%) DHCP
6 21 (5.61%) WAN
7 18 (4.81%) VLAN
8 17 (4.55%) TETRA
9 16 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (3.21%) Network Security
11 11 (2.94%) LAN
11 11 (2.94%) Wireless
12 10 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (2.67%) VoIP
13 9 (2.41%) SD-WAN
14 8 (2.14%) SAN
15 7 (1.87%) BGP
15 7 (1.87%) OSPF
16 5 (1.34%) ATM
16 5 (1.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.88%) Power BI
2 21 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.80%) DynamoDB
3 3 (0.80%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.53%) Big Data
4 2 (0.53%) Metadata
4 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.27%) Redis
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (5.88%) JIRA
2 18 (4.81%) Git
3 13 (3.48%) GitLab
4 4 (1.07%) Selenium
4 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.80%) JMeter
5 3 (0.80%) JUnit
5 3 (0.80%) Postman
6 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.27%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.27%) Hudson
7 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.03%) Manufacturing
4 44 (11.76%) Finance
5 33 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.01%) Legal
9 14 (3.74%) Electronics
10 12 (3.21%) Marketing
10 12 (3.21%) Retail
11 10 (2.67%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.41%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.14%) Law
14 5 (1.34%) Advertising
14 5 (1.34%) Military
14 5 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.07%) Banking
15 4 (1.07%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 85 (22.73%) Analyst
2 44 (11.76%) Senior
2 44 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 40 (10.70%) IT Support
4 38 (10.16%) Support Engineer
5 25 (6.68%) Consultant
6 24 (6.42%) Applications Support
6 24 (6.42%) IT Engineer
7 22 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (5.35%) Lead
9 18 (4.81%) Applications Support Analyst
10 17 (4.55%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 17 (4.55%) Business Analyst
10 17 (4.55%) Design Engineer
10 17 (4.55%) RF Design Engineer
10 17 (4.55%) RF Engineer
11 16 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (3.74%) Developer
12 14 (3.74%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.67%) REST
2 9 (2.41%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.41%) Node.js
3 8 (2.14%) CSS
3 8 (2.14%) HTML
3 8 (2.14%) Middleware
4 5 (1.34%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.34%) Jinja
4 5 (1.34%) JSON
4 5 (1.34%) YAML
5 4 (1.07%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (1.07%) React
5 4 (1.07%) SOAP
6 3 (0.80%) .NET
6 3 (0.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (0.80%) CSS3
6 3 (0.80%) HTML5
6 3 (0.80%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (0.80%) Spring
6 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.75%) Driving Licence
1 29 (7.75%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.21%) CCTV
4 12 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.41%) PKI
7 8 (2.14%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.14%) CMDB
8 7 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.60%) Replication
10 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.34%) Mobile Computing
11 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 94 (25.13%) Windows
2 56 (14.97%) Windows Server
3 39 (10.43%) Linux
4 13 (3.48%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.67%) CentOS
7 9 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.34%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.07%) Debian
11 3 (0.80%) AIX
11 3 (0.80%) Unix
11 3 (0.80%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.53%) Rocky
12 2 (0.53%) VMS
13 1 (0.27%) Android
13 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (27.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (13.37%) Agile
4 43 (11.50%) ITIL
4 43 (11.50%) Project Delivery
5 42 (11.23%) Change Management
6 39 (10.43%) DevOps
6 39 (10.43%) ERP
7 31 (8.29%) AI
7 31 (8.29%) Business Analysis
7 31 (8.29%) CI/CD
7 31 (8.29%) Customer Service
7 31 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (7.22%) System Testing
9 26 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (6.95%) Validation
10 24 (6.42%) Incident Management
10 24 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (18.98%) SQL
2 43 (11.50%) PowerShell
2 43 (11.50%) Python
3 21 (5.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.01%) Bash
5 10 (2.67%) C++
5 10 (2.67%) Java
6 8 (2.14%) C#
7 6 (1.60%) C
7 6 (1.60%) PHP
8 3 (0.80%) Ruby
8 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.53%) ABAP
9 2 (0.53%) Bicep
9 2 (0.53%) Groovy
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.53%) VBA
10 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 65 (17.38%) Degree
2 47 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.21%) HND
6 11 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.87%) CCNA
9 7 (1.87%) CCNP
9 7 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.60%) HNC
11 5 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (1.07%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.80%) ACCA
13 3 (0.80%) CIMA
13 3 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.89%) QA
2 21 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.74%) SLA
5 6 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.34%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.34%) Software Quality Assurance
7 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.07%) GDPR
7 4 (1.07%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.80%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.80%) NIST
8 3 (0.80%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) GRC
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 27 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 21 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.28%) Docker
5 9 (2.41%) Firmware
6 5 (1.34%) vSphere
7 4 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.80%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) KVM
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.35%) Terraform
2 18 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.74%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.94%) Ansible
5 8 (2.14%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.87%) Nagios
7 6 (1.60%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.34%) Grafana
8 5 (1.34%) Podman
9 4 (1.07%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.80%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.80%) SCCM
11 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.53%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.27%) Argo
12 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.43%) Cisco
3 28 (7.49%) VMware
4 18 (4.81%) Fortinet
5 14 (3.74%) SAP
6 10 (2.67%) Veeam
7 9 (2.41%) JD Edwards
8 8 (2.14%) Aruba
8 8 (2.14%) Juniper
8 8 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.14%) Sophos
9 7 (1.87%) Google
9 7 (1.87%) Oracle
9 7 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.87%) Splunk
10 6 (1.60%) Citrix
10 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.34%) NetApp