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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 403 416
Rank change year-on-year +92 +13 +70
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 299 115 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.94% 0.58% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 181 82 311
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,751 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £51,850
% change year-on-year +2.80% +3.18% -13.58%

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 31,814 19,973 39,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.01% 69.96% 58.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,465 9,503 26,364
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,772
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 7 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 7 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
South East +41 79 £48,000 -26.15% 56
North of England -4 70 £45,000 +7.14% 29
Midlands -6 53 £55,000 +6.33% 25
East of England +5 37 £37,500 -21.05% 16
Yorkshire -33 33 £34,000 -19.05% 6
North West +4 30 £45,000 -23.40% 21
South West -39 30 £38,750 -3.13% 19
West Midlands -22 28 £60,000 +2.56% 18
East Midlands -15 24 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 6
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 7
North East -22 7 £45,000 +42.86% 2
Wales -28 2 £53,750 +10.26% 5
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 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.00%) IIS
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.02%) AutoCAD
2 18 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.08%) Azure
2 54 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (9.70%) Entra ID
4 24 (8.03%) AWS
5 19 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.35%) SaaS
6 9 (3.01%) IaaS
7 8 (2.68%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.01%) GCP
8 6 (2.01%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.67%) PaaS
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.34%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.04%) DNS
2 33 (11.04%) Firewall
3 29 (9.70%) DHCP
3 29 (9.70%) VPN
4 23 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.35%) VLAN
6 17 (5.69%) TETRA
7 13 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.68%) VoIP
9 10 (3.34%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (3.34%) WAN
10 8 (2.68%) Network Security
11 6 (2.01%) DMZ
11 6 (2.01%) NAS
12 5 (1.67%) BGP
12 5 (1.67%) OSPF
12 5 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.67%) SAN
12 5 (1.67%) STUN
13 4 (1.34%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.35%) Power BI
3 9 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.34%) Metadata
4 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.00%) Big Data
6 3 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.00%) MySQL
6 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (6.35%) Git
1 19 (6.35%) JIRA
2 9 (3.01%) GitLab
3 6 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.67%) Subversion
5 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.33%) JMeter
7 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 158 (52.84%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.37%) Finance
4 29 (9.70%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.69%) Retail
6 16 (5.35%) Electronics
6 16 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.35%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.68%) Law
7 11 (3.68%) Legal
8 10 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.34%) Automotive
10 7 (2.34%) German Language
11 5 (1.67%) Advertising
11 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.67%) Marketing
11 5 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.34%) Front Office
12 4 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (17.73%) Analyst
2 39 (13.04%) Senior
3 34 (11.37%) IT Support
4 31 (10.37%) Support Analyst
5 24 (8.03%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) Design Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) RF Design Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) RF Engineer
6 17 (5.69%) Security Engineer
7 16 (5.35%) Support Engineer
8 15 (5.02%) Applications Support
8 15 (5.02%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (4.35%) Lead
10 12 (4.01%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) Architect
11 11 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.34%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.68%) REST
2 8 (2.68%) SOAP
3 6 (2.01%) .NET
3 6 (2.01%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.67%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.67%) Jinja
4 5 (1.67%) JSON
4 5 (1.67%) PySpark
4 5 (1.67%) YAML
5 3 (1.00%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.00%) CSS
5 3 (1.00%) HTML
6 2 (0.67%) React
6 2 (0.67%) WPF
7 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.33%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.33%) jQuery
7 1 (0.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.03%) Driving Licence
2 18 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.02%) CCTV
4 13 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.01%) Life Science
7 8 (2.68%) CMDB
7 8 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.67%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.34%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.34%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.34%) Social Network
10 4 (1.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.07%) Windows
2 46 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.04%) Linux
4 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.67%) Debian
5 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 5 (1.67%) VMS
5 5 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.34%) CentOS
6 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.76%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (25.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (15.05%) ITIL
4 44 (14.72%) Project Delivery
5 39 (13.04%) Agile
6 31 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (10.03%) Incident Management
8 28 (9.36%) CI/CD
9 27 (9.03%) Change Management
10 23 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (7.02%) ITSM
12 20 (6.69%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (6.35%) AI
13 19 (6.35%) Analytics
13 19 (6.35%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (6.35%) Logistics
13 19 (6.35%) System Testing
14 18 (6.02%) Mentoring
15 17 (5.69%) Asset Management
16 16 (5.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.71%) SQL
2 37 (12.37%) Python
3 33 (11.04%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.01%) Bash
6 9 (3.01%) C#
7 5 (1.67%) C++
7 5 (1.67%) PHP
7 5 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.34%) Java
8 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.67%) Bicep
9 2 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.33%) ABAP
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) VB
10 1 (0.33%) VB6
10 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (22.07%) Degree
2 42 (14.05%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.68%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (2.01%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.34%) CCNA
9 4 (1.34%) CCNP
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.34%) HND
9 4 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.00%) CEH
10 3 (1.00%) CISSP
10 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.37%) Data Quality
1 31 (10.37%) QA
2 16 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.02%) SLA
4 9 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.01%) GDPR
5 6 (2.01%) NIST
6 4 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.34%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.00%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.00%) GRC
7 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) COBIT
8 2 (0.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 53 (17.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.34%) Docker
2 10 (3.34%) Hyper-V
2 10 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.01%) Firmware
3 6 (2.01%) vSphere
4 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.68%) Terraform
3 7 (2.34%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.01%) Nagios
4 6 (2.01%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.67%) Ansible
5 5 (1.67%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.34%) Control-M
6 4 (1.34%) SCCM
6 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.34%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.34%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.67%) CASB
8 2 (0.67%) cPanel
8 2 (0.67%) Plesk
8 2 (0.67%) Podman
8 2 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 86 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.03%) Cisco
2 27 (9.03%) VMware
3 14 (4.68%) Citrix
4 11 (3.68%) SAP
4 11 (3.68%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.68%) Databricks
6 7 (2.34%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.34%) Veeam
7 6 (2.01%) Oracle
7 6 (2.01%) Pega
7 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.67%) Epicor
8 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.34%) Informatica
9 4 (1.34%) NetApp
9 4 (1.34%) Siemens
9 4 (1.34%) Sophos
9 4 (1.34%) Splunk