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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 426 416
Rank change year-on-year +111 -10 +68
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 297 115 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.57% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 182 83 297
10th Percentile £31,025 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,125 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £74,900
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -12.50%

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 30,651 20,342 39,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.83% 70.77% 57.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,612 9,532 26,387
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +15 75 £45,000 +7.14% 27
South East +46 74 £48,000 -26.15% 56
Midlands -12 52 £56,000 +8.85% 19
East of England +4 36 £38,750 -18.42% 11
North West +19 35 £45,000 -23.40% 20
Yorkshire -33 33 £34,000 -19.05% 6
South West -32 30 £37,500 -6.25% 19
West Midlands -26 26 £60,000 +2.56% 16
East Midlands -12 25 £55,000 +25.71% 3
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 9
North East -31 7 £45,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -28 2 £53,750 +10.26% 4
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 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
4 3 (1.01%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (11.78%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (6.06%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.34%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.67%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.58%) Azure
2 54 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (8.42%) AWS
3 25 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 20 (6.73%) SaaS
5 19 (6.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.03%) IaaS
7 8 (2.69%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.02%) GCP
9 5 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.68%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.68%) PaaS
10 4 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.35%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.35%) ClickUp
10 4 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.12%) DNS
2 31 (10.44%) Firewall
3 28 (9.43%) DHCP
3 28 (9.43%) VPN
4 22 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.40%) VLAN
6 17 (5.72%) TETRA
7 13 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.70%) VoIP
8 11 (3.70%) WAN
9 10 (3.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (2.69%) Network Security
11 6 (2.02%) DMZ
12 5 (1.68%) BGP
12 5 (1.68%) NAS
12 5 (1.68%) OSPF
12 5 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.68%) STUN
13 4 (1.35%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.38%) Power BI
3 9 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.01%) Big Data
6 3 (1.01%) Metadata
6 3 (1.01%) MySQL
6 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (6.40%) Git
1 19 (6.40%) JIRA
2 9 (3.03%) GitLab
3 6 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.68%) Subversion
5 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 155 (52.19%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (11.45%) Finance
4 30 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.72%) Retail
6 16 (5.39%) Electronics
6 16 (5.39%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.70%) Law
8 10 (3.37%) Legal
9 9 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.36%) Automotive
11 7 (2.36%) Marketing
12 6 (2.02%) German Language
13 5 (1.68%) Advertising
13 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.35%) Front Office
14 4 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (18.18%) Analyst
2 38 (12.79%) Senior
3 34 (11.45%) IT Support
4 33 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 24 (8.08%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) Design Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) RF Design Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) RF Engineer
7 16 (5.39%) Security Engineer
8 15 (5.05%) Applications Support
8 15 (5.05%) Applications Support Analyst
8 15 (5.05%) Support Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) Lead
10 12 (4.04%) Architect
10 12 (4.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.37%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.70%) REST
2 8 (2.69%) SOAP
3 6 (2.02%) .NET
4 5 (1.68%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.68%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.68%) Jinja
4 5 (1.68%) JSON
4 5 (1.68%) PySpark
4 5 (1.68%) YAML
5 4 (1.35%) CSS
5 4 (1.35%) HTML
6 3 (1.01%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.67%) Node.js
7 2 (0.67%) React
7 2 (0.67%) WPF
8 1 (0.34%) Blazor
8 1 (0.34%) jQuery
8 1 (0.34%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.08%) Driving Licence
2 16 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.05%) CCTV
4 12 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.69%) CMDB
5 8 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.68%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.68%) Mobile Computing
9 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.35%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.35%) Life Science
9 4 (1.35%) Social Network
9 4 (1.35%) Wiki
10 3 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 59 (19.87%) Windows
2 45 (15.15%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.11%) Linux
4 6 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.68%) Debian
5 5 (1.68%) Unix
6 4 (1.35%) CentOS
6 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.35%) VMS
6 4 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (25.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (14.48%) Project Delivery
4 42 (14.14%) ITIL
5 35 (11.78%) Agile
6 30 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (10.10%) Incident Management
7 29 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 25 (8.42%) Change Management
9 20 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (6.73%) Performance Optimisation
9 20 (6.73%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (6.40%) AI
10 19 (6.40%) ERP
10 19 (6.40%) ITSM
10 19 (6.40%) Logistics
10 19 (6.40%) System Testing
11 18 (6.06%) Analytics
11 18 (6.06%) Mentoring
12 17 (5.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.81%) SQL
2 38 (12.79%) Python
3 31 (10.44%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.70%) Bash
6 9 (3.03%) C#
7 5 (1.68%) C++
7 5 (1.68%) Java
7 5 (1.68%) PHP
7 5 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.67%) Bicep
9 2 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) ABAP
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) VB
10 1 (0.34%) VB6
10 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (20.20%) Degree
2 42 (14.14%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.69%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (2.02%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.68%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.35%) CCNA
10 4 (1.35%) CCNP
10 4 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.35%) HND
10 4 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.77%) QA
2 26 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.71%) SLA
4 7 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.02%) GDPR
6 5 (1.68%) NIST
7 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.35%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.01%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.01%) GRC
8 3 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.67%) COBIT
9 2 (0.67%) NCSC
9 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 50 (16.84%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.37%) Docker
2 10 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.02%) Firmware
4 6 (2.02%) vSphere
5 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.37%) Terraform
3 7 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.02%) Nagios
4 6 (2.02%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.68%) Ansible
5 5 (1.68%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.68%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.35%) Control-M
6 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.35%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.01%) SCCM
7 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.67%) CASB
8 2 (0.67%) cPanel
8 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.67%) Grafana
8 2 (0.67%) Plesk
Vendors
1 85 (28.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.09%) Cisco
2 27 (9.09%) VMware
3 14 (4.71%) Citrix
4 13 (4.38%) SAP
5 10 (3.37%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.69%) Databricks
7 7 (2.36%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.36%) Veeam
8 6 (2.02%) Oracle
8 6 (2.02%) Pega
8 6 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.68%) Epicor
9 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.35%) Barracuda Networks
10 4 (1.35%) Informatica
10 4 (1.35%) NetApp
10 4 (1.35%) Siemens
10 4 (1.35%) Splunk