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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 439 407
Rank change year-on-year +145 -32 +63
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 257 103 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.32% 0.54%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.49% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 177 48 245
10th Percentile £30,370 £29,750 £27,050
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,192 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -9.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,500 £54,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,625 £73,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,211 21,222 29,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.75% 64.93% 59.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,033 8,778 21,480
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +74 78 £48,000 +3.78% 53
Midlands +42 62 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England +15 46 £45,000 +4.19% 36
West Midlands +26 34 £60,000 +6.67% 20
East of England +37 31 £30,370 -23.25% 11
East Midlands +2 27 £45,000 - 9
South West +3 25 £51,500 +63.49% 21
North West +27 22 £45,000 -0.84% 17
Yorkshire -9 20 £34,000 -19.05% 14
Scotland +3 13 £35,000 - 7
North East -4 4 £45,000 +55.17% 5
Wales -3 2 £48,000 -1.54% 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 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) Confluence
5 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (16.73%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.78%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Postilion
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.85%) Azure
2 52 (20.23%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.06%) AWS
4 26 (10.12%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.39%) SaaS
6 9 (3.50%) GCP
6 9 (3.50%) IaaS
7 8 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.33%) iPaaS
9 5 (1.95%) PaaS
9 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.95%) Serverless
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (15.95%) DNS
2 38 (14.79%) DHCP
3 36 (14.01%) Firewall
4 30 (11.67%) TCP/IP
5 26 (10.12%) VPN
6 24 (9.34%) VLAN
7 10 (3.89%) SAN
7 10 (3.89%) WAN
7 10 (3.89%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (3.11%) Network Security
9 7 (2.72%) BGP
9 7 (2.72%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.33%) LAN
10 6 (2.33%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.95%) Wireless
12 4 (1.56%) DMZ
12 4 (1.56%) MPLS
12 4 (1.56%) OSPF
12 4 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.12%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.33%) Metadata
4 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.56%) MySQL
5 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.17%) Big Data
6 3 (1.17%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.78%) Power BI
7 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.23%) JIRA
2 12 (4.67%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) Subversion
4 4 (1.56%) Postman
4 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (55.25%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.12%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.28%) Finance
4 24 (9.34%) Legal
5 21 (8.17%) Manufacturing
5 21 (8.17%) Retail
6 15 (5.84%) Banking
6 15 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (5.06%) German Language
8 12 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.67%) Law
9 8 (3.11%) Automotive
10 7 (2.72%) Electronics
10 7 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.56%) Avionics
13 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 51 (19.84%) Senior
2 47 (18.29%) Analyst
3 33 (12.84%) IT Support
4 18 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (6.61%) Support Engineer
6 16 (6.23%) Architect
7 13 (5.06%) Lead
8 12 (4.67%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (4.28%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.89%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.89%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.50%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Service Desk Analyst
13 7 (2.72%) Applications Support
13 7 (2.72%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (2.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.28%) .NET
1 11 (4.28%) REST
2 7 (2.72%) SOAP
3 6 (2.33%) PySpark
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.56%) OAuth
4 4 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.56%) OpenID
4 4 (1.56%) React
4 4 (1.56%) SAML
5 3 (1.17%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.17%) CSS
5 3 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (1.17%) HTML
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.78%) Laravel
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.78%) XML
7 1 (0.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.61%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.67%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.28%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.50%) Life Science
6 8 (3.11%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.11%) Clustering
6 8 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.56%) CCTV
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.56%) NHS
10 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) iPad
10 3 (1.17%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.35%) Windows
2 41 (15.95%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.78%) Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) VMS
5 5 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.17%) Debian
7 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.96%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (20.62%) ITIL
3 48 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (15.18%) Agile
5 31 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (8.95%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (8.56%) Project Delivery
8 19 (7.39%) AI
9 18 (7.00%) ERP
9 18 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (6.61%) CI/CD
10 17 (6.61%) Customer Service
11 16 (6.23%) Analytical Thinking
11 16 (6.23%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (6.23%) ITSM
11 16 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (5.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (5.84%) Mentoring
12 15 (5.84%) Test Automation
13 14 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.62%) SQL
2 27 (10.51%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.17%) Python
4 10 (3.89%) C#
5 9 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.72%) Bash
7 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.95%) VBA
8 4 (1.56%) Java
8 4 (1.56%) PHP
8 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) ABAP
9 1 (0.39%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) C
9 1 (0.39%) C++
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 58 (22.57%) Degree
2 32 (12.45%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.45%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.06%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.50%) CISSP
8 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.72%) CCNP
10 7 (2.72%) CISM
10 7 (2.72%) HNC
11 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.56%) CEH
12 4 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.17%) HND
14 2 (0.78%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.56%) QA
3 14 (5.45%) GDPR
4 13 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.67%) SLA
6 8 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.72%) NIST
8 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.17%) GRC
9 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.78%) COBIT
10 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 60 (23.35%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.23%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.95%) Docker
4 5 (1.95%) Firmware
5 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.56%) vSphere
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.39%) Ceph
7 1 (0.39%) Lustre
7 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (3.89%) SCCM
1 10 (3.89%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (2.33%) vCenter Server
3 5 (1.95%) Dell DRAC
3 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.56%) Backup Exec
4 4 (1.56%) Control-M
4 4 (1.56%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.56%) Nagios
4 4 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (1.17%) Ansible
5 3 (1.17%) cPanel
5 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.17%) Nessus
5 3 (1.17%) Plesk
6 2 (0.78%) Netcool
Vendors
1 91 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.73%) VMware
3 17 (6.61%) Cisco
4 14 (5.45%) Citrix
5 13 (5.06%) SolarWinds
5 13 (5.06%) Veeam
6 10 (3.89%) Oracle
6 10 (3.89%) Pega
6 10 (3.89%) SAP
7 7 (2.72%) Blue Prism
7 7 (2.72%) Databricks
7 7 (2.72%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.95%) Dell
8 5 (1.95%) Juniper
8 5 (1.95%) Meraki
9 4 (1.56%) Epicor
9 4 (1.56%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) Palo Alto