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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 389 452
Rank change year-on-year +73 +63 +17
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 328 146 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the General category 1.11% 0.69% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 209 109 274
10th Percentile £31,200 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,890 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £73,550
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%

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 29,679 21,109 42,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.53% 71.29% 54.93%
Number of salaries quoted 18,092 9,473 27,515
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £62,200
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% -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 13 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 13 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
North of England +3 86 £45,000 +7.14% 32
South East +45 83 £49,000 -27.41% 53
Midlands -3 51 £56,000 +1.87% 23
North West +37 47 £53,386 -2.93% 19
East of England +1 37 £47,500 -5.00% 9
South West -38 36 £37,500 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire -31 31 £34,000 -18.56% 8
West Midlands -23 28 £56,000 -4.27% 14
East Midlands -5 23 £57,500 +35.29% 9
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland - 9 £48,000 - 8
North East -35 8 £45,000 +66.67% 5
Wales -42 6 £55,000 +10.00% 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 18 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.44%) Confluence
4 7 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 39 (11.89%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (5.49%) AutoCAD
4 6 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.61%) CorelDRAW
5 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.61%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.61%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.61%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 85 (25.91%) Azure
2 60 (18.29%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (11.59%) AWS
4 28 (8.54%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.32%) SaaS
6 22 (6.71%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.74%) IaaS
8 9 (2.74%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.13%) Azure Stack
9 7 (2.13%) GitHub
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.52%) GCP
11 5 (1.52%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.52%) PaaS
11 5 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.80%) DNS
1 42 (12.80%) Firewall
2 38 (11.59%) VPN
3 31 (9.45%) DHCP
4 28 (8.54%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.10%) VLAN
6 18 (5.49%) WAN
7 17 (5.18%) TETRA
8 16 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (3.35%) Network Security
9 11 (3.35%) VoIP
10 10 (3.05%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (2.44%) SD-WAN
12 7 (2.13%) Wireless
13 6 (1.83%) LAN
14 5 (1.52%) ATM
14 5 (1.52%) BGP
14 5 (1.52%) DMZ
14 5 (1.52%) OSPF
14 5 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.49%) Power BI
3 9 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.91%) Big Data
6 3 (0.91%) MySQL
6 3 (0.91%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.40%) JIRA
2 20 (6.10%) Git
3 12 (3.66%) GitLab
4 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.61%) JMeter
5 2 (0.61%) Postman
5 2 (0.61%) Selenium
5 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 169 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (12.20%) Finance
4 37 (11.28%) Manufacturing
5 28 (8.54%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (5.18%) Retail
8 16 (4.88%) Telecoms
9 14 (4.27%) Electronics
10 11 (3.35%) Law
10 11 (3.35%) Marketing
11 9 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.74%) Legal
12 8 (2.44%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.52%) Advertising
13 5 (1.52%) Automotive
13 5 (1.52%) Banking
13 5 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.22%) Front Office
14 4 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (21.95%) Analyst
2 40 (12.20%) IT Support
3 39 (11.89%) Support Analyst
4 31 (9.45%) Senior
5 23 (7.01%) Support Engineer
6 21 (6.40%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (5.49%) Applications Support
7 18 (5.49%) Consultant
8 17 (5.18%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) Design Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) RF Design Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) RF Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Security Engineer
10 15 (4.57%) Lead
11 14 (4.27%) Applications Support Analyst
11 14 (4.27%) Systems Analyst
12 12 (3.66%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.66%) Site Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Architect
13 11 (3.35%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.35%) REST
2 9 (2.74%) ARM Templates
3 8 (2.44%) SOAP
4 6 (1.83%) CSS
4 6 (1.83%) HTML
4 6 (1.83%) Node.js
5 5 (1.52%) .NET
5 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.52%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.52%) Jinja
5 5 (1.52%) JSON
5 5 (1.52%) YAML
6 3 (0.91%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.91%) Middleware
6 3 (0.91%) PySpark
7 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.61%) React
7 2 (0.61%) WPF
8 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.30%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.23%) Driving Licence
2 23 (7.01%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.57%) CCTV
4 13 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.44%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.44%) CMDB
9 5 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.52%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.22%) Social Network
10 4 (1.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.39%) Windows
2 51 (15.55%) Windows Server
3 41 (12.50%) Linux
4 9 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.13%) CentOS
6 7 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.52%) Debian
8 5 (1.52%) Unix
8 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.22%) VMS
10 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.30%) AIX
12 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (12.80%) Project Delivery
4 39 (11.89%) ITIL
5 35 (10.67%) Agile
5 35 (10.67%) CI/CD
6 30 (9.15%) Incident Management
7 29 (8.84%) ERP
8 28 (8.54%) Change Management
9 25 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (7.32%) DevOps
11 22 (6.71%) AI
11 22 (6.71%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (6.71%) Customer Service
12 21 (6.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (6.40%) System Testing
12 21 (6.40%) Validation
13 20 (6.10%) Analytics
13 20 (6.10%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.29%) SQL
2 44 (13.41%) Python
3 40 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 21 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.27%) Bash
6 9 (2.74%) Java
7 8 (2.44%) C#
8 6 (1.83%) C++
8 6 (1.83%) PHP
9 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.61%) ABAP
11 2 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) C
11 2 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) VB
12 1 (0.30%) VB6
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (17.38%) Degree
2 43 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.05%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (2.13%) HND
7 5 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.22%) CCNA
8 4 (1.22%) CCNP
8 4 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.91%) HNC
9 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.28%) QA
2 20 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.96%) SLA
4 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.83%) GDPR
5 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.22%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.91%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.91%) GRC
7 3 (0.91%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.91%) NIST
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.96%) Docker
2 13 (3.96%) Hyper-V
2 13 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.83%) Firmware
3 6 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.83%) vSphere
4 3 (0.91%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.91%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (4.88%) Terraform
2 10 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.74%) Nagios
4 8 (2.44%) Ansible
5 5 (1.52%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (1.52%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.52%) Podman
5 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.22%) Control-M
6 4 (1.22%) Grafana
6 4 (1.22%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.22%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.91%) SCCM
8 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.30%) Netcool
8 1 (0.30%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 103 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.98%) Cisco
3 28 (8.54%) VMware
4 15 (4.57%) SAP
5 12 (3.66%) Citrix
5 12 (3.66%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.05%) SolarWinds
7 8 (2.44%) Veeam
8 7 (2.13%) Oracle
8 7 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.13%) Splunk
9 6 (1.83%) Databricks
9 6 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.83%) Pega
9 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.52%) Aruba
10 5 (1.52%) Epicor
10 5 (1.52%) Google
10 5 (1.52%) Juniper
10 5 (1.52%) Red Hat