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

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	342	279	477
Rank change year-on-year	-63	+198	-101
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills	412	261	130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.45%	0.71%	0.27%
As % of the General category	1.00%	1.18%	0.49%
Number of salaries quoted	292	181	55
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£31,250	£35,798
25^th Percentile	£39,938	£35,500	£37,813
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	£45,000	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.56%	-5.26%	+1.03%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£60,000	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£73,750	£77,500	£69,750
UK median annual salary	£50,000	£54,000	£62,750
% change year-on-year	-7.41%	-13.94%	+14.09%

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 citing general skills in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing general skills	40,998	22,179	26,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	44.94%	60.71%	55.16%
Number of salaries quoted	24,854	12,395	11,323
10^th Percentile	£28,588	£26,250	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£31,000	£38,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£43,085	£50,500
Median % change year-on-year	+16.05%	-14.68%	+1.00%
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£61,625	£66,250
90^th Percentile	£82,500	£77,500	£81,250
UK median annual salary	£55,000	£51,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+6.80%	-14.17%	-

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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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 15 November 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 15 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South East	-52	95	£50,000	-3.85%	75
South West	-10	84	£45,000	-18.18%	19
North of England	-72	82	£46,500	+9.41%	54
Midlands	-70	70	£52,000	+15.56%	48
North West	-45	58	£46,500	+16.98%	37
West Midlands	-49	46	£52,000	-0.95%	34
East of England	-48	37	£55,000	+4.76%	27
East Midlands	-56	24	£52,500	+23.53%	14
Scotland	+11	20	£33,500	-	21
Wales	-65	16	£50,000	+4.17%	3
Yorkshire	-60	14	£57,500	+21.05%	15
North East	-63	10	£29,500	+18.00%	2
Northern Ireland	-	8	-	-	10
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Documentation Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, job vacancies citing Documentation Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region citing Documentation Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Problem-Solving	37.9%	156
2	Microsoft	33.5%	138
3	Azure	29.9%	123
4	Continuous Improvement	26.7%	110
5	Windows	26.0%	107
6	SQL	18.0%	74
7	Microsoft 365	17.0%	70
8	Agile	16.0%	66
9	Degree	14.6%	60
9	Stakeholder Management	14.6%	60
11	DNS	14.3%	59
12	Business Analysis	14.1%	58
13	Active Directory	13.3%	55
13	AWS	13.3%	55
15	Windows Server	12.9%	53
16	PowerShell	12.6%	52
17	AI	11.9%	49
18	Firewall	11.7%	48
19	Power Platform	11.4%	47
20	QA	11.2%	46
21	Disaster Recovery	10.9%	45
21	Requirements Gathering	10.9%	45
23	Mentoring	10.7%	44
23	Security Cleared	10.7%	44
23	Validation	10.7%	44
26	Business Intelligence	10.4%	43
26	VPN	10.4%	43
28	TCP/IP	10.2%	42
29	Entra ID	10.0%	41
30	Power BI	9.7%	40

Documentation Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	59.2%	244
2	Analytical Skills	20.6%	85
3	Manufacturing	13.1%	54
4	Organisational Skills	10.4%	43
5	Finance	9.5%	39
6	Presentation Skills	7.0%	29
7	Aerospace	6.6%	27
8	Inclusion and Diversity	5.6%	23
9	Legal	4.9%	20
10	Public Sector	4.6%	19
11	Electronics	3.6%	15
12	Automotive	1.7%	7
12	Banking	1.7%	7
12	Influencing Skills	1.7%	7
12	Military	1.7%	7
16	Law	1.5%	6
16	Marketing	1.5%	6
16	Telecoms	1.5%	6
19	Pharmaceutical	1.2%	5
20	Billing	0.7%	3