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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 382 460
Rank change year-on-year +84 +78 -11
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 371 163 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the General category 1.19% 0.73% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 237 122 265
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,125 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,550 £38,918 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,850 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.28%

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 31,189 22,181 41,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.65% 68.43% 54.77%
Number of salaries quoted 19,180 10,386 26,747
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 4 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 4 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 +42 100 £48,000 -31.43% 55
North of England +2 88 £45,000 +7.14% 36
Midlands -7 58 £55,000 +10.00% 27
North West +22 54 £55,000 - 24
South West -42 43 £42,500 +6.25% 15
East of England +1 41 £50,000 - 9
West Midlands -24 34 £52,500 +3.50% 13
Yorkshire -33 26 £42,500 +1.19% 9
East Midlands -1 24 £60,000 +77.78% 14
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +24 11 £33,500 - 9
Wales -36 10 £57,500 +15.00% 7
North East -40 8 £45,000 +66.67% 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 30 (8.09%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.96%) IIS
4 10 (2.70%) Confluence
5 5 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 40 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (4.85%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.35%) CorelDRAW
6 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.54%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (26.95%) Azure
2 72 (19.41%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (12.94%) AWS
4 32 (8.63%) Entra ID
5 28 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.39%) SaaS
7 14 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.23%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.43%) IaaS
10 8 (2.16%) GCP
10 8 (2.16%) GitHub
10 8 (2.16%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.89%) Azure Stack
12 6 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.35%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.35%) PaaS
14 4 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.08%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.09%) Firewall
2 52 (14.02%) DNS
3 48 (12.94%) VPN
4 37 (9.97%) DHCP
5 36 (9.70%) TCP/IP
6 23 (6.20%) VLAN
6 23 (6.20%) WAN
7 17 (4.58%) TETRA
8 16 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.23%) Network Security
10 11 (2.96%) LAN
10 11 (2.96%) VoIP
10 11 (2.96%) Wireless
11 10 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.43%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.89%) SAN
14 5 (1.35%) ATM
14 5 (1.35%) BGP
14 5 (1.35%) DMZ
14 5 (1.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.66%) Power BI
3 6 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.81%) Big Data
5 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.81%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.54%) MySQL
6 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.27%) Metadata
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.20%) JIRA
2 20 (5.39%) Git
3 12 (3.23%) GitLab
4 6 (1.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.08%) Selenium
6 3 (0.81%) JMeter
6 3 (0.81%) JUnit
7 2 (0.54%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.54%) Postman
7 2 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.27%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.27%) Hudson
8 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 199 (53.64%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.13%) Finance
4 43 (11.59%) Manufacturing
5 35 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.58%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.77%) Retail
9 13 (3.50%) Electronics
9 13 (3.50%) Legal
10 11 (2.96%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.96%) Law
10 11 (2.96%) Marketing
11 9 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.89%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.35%) Advertising
13 5 (1.35%) Automotive
13 5 (1.35%) Banking
13 5 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (21.56%) Analyst
2 46 (12.40%) IT Support
3 42 (11.32%) Support Analyst
4 41 (11.05%) Senior
5 39 (10.51%) Support Engineer
6 25 (6.74%) Consultant
7 23 (6.20%) Applications Support
8 22 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (5.66%) IT Engineer
10 19 (5.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 19 (5.12%) Lead
11 17 (4.58%) Applications Support Analyst
11 17 (4.58%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 17 (4.58%) Design Engineer
11 17 (4.58%) RF Design Engineer
11 17 (4.58%) RF Engineer
12 16 (4.31%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (3.77%) Developer
14 14 (3.77%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.43%) ARM Templates
1 9 (2.43%) Middleware
1 9 (2.43%) Node.js
1 9 (2.43%) REST
2 8 (2.16%) CSS
2 8 (2.16%) HTML
3 5 (1.35%) .NET
3 5 (1.35%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.35%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.35%) Jinja
3 5 (1.35%) JSON
3 5 (1.35%) YAML
4 4 (1.08%) React
4 4 (1.08%) SOAP
5 3 (0.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (0.81%) CSS3
5 3 (0.81%) HTML5
5 3 (0.81%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (0.81%) Spring
5 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.89%) Driving Licence
2 29 (7.82%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.77%) CCTV
4 14 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.16%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.16%) CMDB
8 7 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.89%) PKI
9 6 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.35%) Mobile Computing
11 4 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 101 (27.22%) Windows
2 62 (16.71%) Windows Server
3 40 (10.78%) Linux
4 12 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.43%) CentOS
7 8 (2.16%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.35%) Debian
9 5 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.08%) VMS
11 3 (0.81%) AIX
11 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.81%) Unix
11 3 (0.81%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.27%) Rocky
12 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (26.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (12.40%) ITIL
3 46 (12.40%) Project Delivery
4 42 (11.32%) Change Management
5 40 (10.78%) Agile
6 38 (10.24%) ERP
7 33 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 31 (8.36%) DevOps
9 29 (7.82%) Customer Service
9 29 (7.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (7.82%) Incident Management
10 28 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (7.28%) AI
11 27 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (7.28%) System Testing
12 25 (6.74%) Business Analysis
12 25 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (6.74%) Validation
13 22 (5.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.87%) SQL
2 47 (12.67%) PowerShell
2 47 (12.67%) Python
3 23 (6.20%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.31%) Bash
5 11 (2.96%) Java
6 9 (2.43%) C#
6 9 (2.43%) C++
7 6 (1.62%) PHP
8 5 (1.35%) C
8 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.81%) Ruby
10 2 (0.54%) ABAP
10 2 (0.54%) Bicep
10 2 (0.54%) Groovy
10 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) VB
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (17.79%) Degree
2 46 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.23%) HND
6 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.62%) HNC
10 5 (1.35%) CCNA
10 5 (1.35%) CCNP
10 5 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.54%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.24%) QA
2 23 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.77%) SLA
5 7 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.89%) GDPR
6 5 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.35%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.08%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.08%) NIST
8 3 (0.81%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.81%) WCAG
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.54%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.55%) Hyper-V
3 23 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.31%) Docker
5 6 (1.62%) Firmware
5 6 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.62%) vSphere
6 3 (0.81%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.81%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.12%) Terraform
3 13 (3.50%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.70%) Ansible
5 9 (2.43%) Nagios
6 7 (1.89%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.35%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.35%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.35%) Grafana
7 5 (1.35%) Podman
8 4 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (1.08%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.81%) SCCM
10 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.27%) CASB
11 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (35.31%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.51%) Cisco
3 32 (8.63%) VMware
4 16 (4.31%) Fortinet
5 13 (3.50%) SAP
6 10 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.43%) Citrix
7 9 (2.43%) Veeam
8 8 (2.16%) Aruba
8 8 (2.16%) JD Edwards
8 8 (2.16%) Juniper
8 8 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.16%) Sophos
9 7 (1.89%) Google
9 7 (1.89%) Oracle
9 7 (1.89%) Splunk
10 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.35%) Epicor
11 5 (1.35%) Salesforce