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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 466 376
Rank change year-on-year +188 -90 +99
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 260 127 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.49% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 178 54 151
10th Percentile £30,986 £35,599 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,688 £37,656 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,192 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -4.86% -13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,508 25,764 18,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.87% 58.93% 63.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12,367 11,194 13,348
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +101 77 £50,500 +26.25% 111
Midlands +76 73 £45,000 - 64
North of England +68 55 £47,500 -9.52% 74
West Midlands +48 40 £52,500 -17.65% 40
East Midlands +22 32 £42,500 +3.03% 22
North West +50 27 £42,500 -16.67% 37
East of England +48 27 £32,500 -19.25% 41
Yorkshire +17 26 £47,500 -9.52% 32
South West +26 18 £55,000 +48.65% 38
Scotland +19 8 - - 23
North East +10 2 - - 6
Wales +1 2 £48,000 +1.05% 10
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 22 (8.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 39 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.38%) Postilion
6 1 (0.38%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.77%) Azure
2 49 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.15%) SaaS
4 22 (8.46%) AWS
5 19 (7.31%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.31%) IaaS
6 13 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.62%) PaaS
8 8 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.69%) GCP
9 7 (2.69%) GitHub
10 6 (2.31%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.15%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.15%) DNS
2 26 (10.00%) DHCP
3 24 (9.23%) Firewall
3 24 (9.23%) TCP/IP
4 23 (8.85%) VPN
5 15 (5.77%) VLAN
6 9 (3.46%) SAN
7 8 (3.08%) BGP
8 7 (2.69%) WAN
9 6 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.31%) DMZ
9 6 (2.31%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.31%) VoIP
9 6 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.31%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.92%) Network Security
10 5 (1.92%) OSPF
10 5 (1.92%) STUN
11 4 (1.54%) LAN
11 4 (1.54%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.15%) Tableau
3 15 (5.77%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.69%) Power BI
5 6 (2.31%) Metadata
6 4 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.15%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
9 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.38%) MySQL
9 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.38%) QlikView
9 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) Postman
3 2 (0.77%) Subversion
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (11.54%) Finance
4 29 (11.15%) Legal
5 21 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.31%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.38%) Law
7 14 (5.38%) Retail
8 12 (4.62%) Banking
8 12 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.85%) German Language
11 7 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.31%) Back Office
13 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.54%) Avionics
14 4 (1.54%) Electronics
14 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Automotive
15 3 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (24.62%) Analyst
2 51 (19.62%) Senior
3 20 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 19 (7.31%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.54%) Data Quality Analyst
5 17 (6.54%) Quality Analyst
6 16 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.15%) Service Analyst
7 14 (5.38%) Architect
7 14 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (5.38%) IT Support
7 14 (5.38%) Service Desk Analyst
8 12 (4.62%) Developer
9 11 (4.23%) Lead
10 10 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 10 (3.85%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.46%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.46%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.46%) XML
2 7 (2.69%) .NET
3 5 (1.92%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.54%) HTML
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.54%) OAuth
4 4 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.54%) OpenID
4 4 (1.54%) React
4 4 (1.54%) SAML
5 3 (1.15%) CSS
5 3 (1.15%) PySpark
5 3 (1.15%) REST
6 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.77%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.77%) Laravel
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.38%) FHIR
7 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.38%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 12 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.85%) NHS
5 9 (3.46%) Life Science
5 9 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.08%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.69%) Clustering
8 6 (2.31%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.92%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.08%) Windows
2 31 (11.92%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.54%) Linux
4 5 (1.92%) Debian
4 5 (1.92%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (17.31%) ITIL
3 37 (14.23%) Agile
4 34 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (12.31%) Validation
6 28 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (10.00%) Migration
8 24 (9.23%) Customer Service
9 21 (8.08%) Mentoring
10 19 (7.31%) Data Validation
10 19 (7.31%) Data Visualisation
10 19 (7.31%) DevOps
10 19 (7.31%) Visualisation
11 18 (6.92%) ERP
11 18 (6.92%) Project Delivery
12 17 (6.54%) Computer Science
12 17 (6.54%) Data Cleansing
12 17 (6.54%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (5.77%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.85%) SQL
2 25 (9.62%) Python
3 24 (9.23%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.77%) C#
5 7 (2.69%) C
5 7 (2.69%) Java
5 7 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.92%) VBA
7 4 (1.54%) Bash
8 3 (1.15%) PHP
9 2 (0.77%) Bicep
9 2 (0.77%) Perl
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (25.00%) Degree
2 43 (16.54%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.77%) Numerate Degree
7 14 (5.38%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.46%) CISSP
11 8 (3.08%) CCNP
12 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.69%) CISM
12 7 (2.69%) HNC
13 5 (1.92%) MCP
13 5 (1.92%) MCSA
13 5 (1.92%) MCSE
14 4 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
15 3 (1.15%) CCNA
15 3 (1.15%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.38%) SLA
4 12 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.23%) GDPR
5 11 (4.23%) ISO 9001
6 10 (3.85%) QA
7 7 (2.69%) NIST
8 4 (1.54%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.77%) GRC
9 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.38%) COBIT
10 1 (0.38%) DICOM
10 1 (0.38%) GxP
10 1 (0.38%) HL7
10 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.31%) Firmware
5 5 (1.92%) Kamailio
6 3 (1.15%) Docker
7 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) Ceph
8 1 (0.38%) Lustre
8 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (6.15%) SCCM
2 9 (3.46%) Terraform
3 6 (2.31%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.54%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.15%) Ansible
5 3 (1.15%) cPanel
5 3 (1.15%) Nessus
5 3 (1.15%) Plesk
5 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Nagios
6 1 (0.38%) Netcool
6 1 (0.38%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.38%) SCOM
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 99 (38.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.46%) VMware
3 13 (5.00%) Cisco
4 9 (3.46%) Oracle
5 8 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.08%) Veeam
6 7 (2.69%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.31%) Blue Prism
7 6 (2.31%) Pega
7 6 (2.31%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.92%) Juniper
8 5 (1.92%) Meraki
9 4 (1.54%) Citrix
9 4 (1.54%) Dell
9 4 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.15%) Aruba
10 3 (1.15%) Databricks
10 3 (1.15%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.77%) Google
11 2 (0.77%) Qualys