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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 457 400
Rank change year-on-year +177 -57 +50
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 250 112 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.05% 0.48% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 169 50 147
10th Percentile £30,370 £36,796 £29,650
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,825 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £60,125 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £54,750 £64,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year -14.45% +16.05% -8.09%

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 23,810 23,227 19,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.24% 63.51% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,264 9,619 13,919
10th Percentile £26,875 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%

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 January 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 January 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 +89 77 £49,000 -12.89% 43
Midlands +49 70 £50,250 -3.37% 22
North of England +34 44 £42,500 -19.05% 31
West Midlands +33 35 £59,500 -4.80% 17
East Midlands +21 34 £45,000 - 5
East of England +42 29 £30,370 -24.55% 11
Yorkshire +7 22 £42,500 -19.05% 15
North West +26 21 £42,500 -25.11% 13
South West +18 17 £55,000 +74.60% 10
Scotland +7 11 £35,000 -39.13% 3
Wales -3 2 £48,000 +1.05% 3
North East +6 1 - - 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 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.80%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (18.00%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.60%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.80%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Postilion
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.20%) Azure
2 48 (19.20%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (9.60%) AWS
4 21 (8.40%) SaaS
5 17 (6.80%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.40%) IaaS
7 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.60%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.40%) GCP
8 6 (2.40%) iPaaS
9 5 (2.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.60%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.60%) PaaS
10 4 (1.60%) Serverless
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.60%) DNS
2 26 (10.40%) DHCP
3 24 (9.60%) Firewall
4 22 (8.80%) TCP/IP
4 22 (8.80%) VPN
5 16 (6.40%) VLAN
6 10 (4.00%) SAN
7 7 (2.80%) BGP
7 7 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.40%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.40%) DMZ
8 6 (2.40%) Network Security
8 6 (2.40%) VoIP
8 6 (2.40%) WAN
8 6 (2.40%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.00%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.00%) STUN
10 4 (1.60%) LAN
10 4 (1.60%) MPLS
10 4 (1.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.80%) Tableau
3 11 (4.40%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.40%) Metadata
5 4 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.20%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.80%) Power BI
8 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.40%) QlikView
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.40%) JIRA
2 8 (3.20%) Git
3 5 (2.00%) Subversion
4 4 (1.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (53.20%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.00%) Finance
4 24 (9.60%) Legal
5 20 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (7.20%) Retail
7 17 (6.80%) Manufacturing
8 13 (5.20%) German Language
9 12 (4.80%) Banking
10 11 (4.40%) Law
11 8 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.80%) Electronics
12 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.40%) Public Sector
14 5 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.00%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.60%) Automotive
15 4 (1.60%) Avionics
16 3 (1.20%) Marketing
17 2 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (22.40%) Analyst
2 47 (18.80%) Senior
3 21 (8.40%) IT Support
4 20 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 19 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.40%) Architect
6 16 (6.40%) Service Analyst
7 14 (5.60%) Service Desk Analyst
8 13 (5.20%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.80%) Lead
10 11 (4.40%) Data Quality Analyst
10 11 (4.40%) Quality Analyst
11 10 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) IT Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.60%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.20%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.20%) .NET
2 7 (2.80%) REST
3 5 (2.00%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.60%) HTML
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.60%) OAuth
4 4 (1.60%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.60%) OpenID
4 4 (1.60%) PySpark
4 4 (1.60%) React
4 4 (1.60%) SAML
4 4 (1.60%) SOAP
4 4 (1.60%) XML
5 3 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (0.80%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.80%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.80%) Laravel
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.40%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.40%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) Driving Licence
1 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.60%) Life Science
3 9 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.20%) Clustering
4 8 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.40%) NHS
7 5 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) IoT
9 2 (0.80%) iPad
9 2 (0.80%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.80%) Windows
2 29 (11.60%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.00%) Linux
4 6 (2.40%) Unix
5 5 (2.00%) Debian
5 5 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.60%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (19.20%) ITIL
3 35 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (13.60%) Agile
5 31 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (10.40%) Validation
7 25 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 19 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (7.20%) Mentoring
9 18 (7.20%) Migration
10 16 (6.40%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (6.40%) DevOps
10 16 (6.40%) Project Delivery
10 16 (6.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (6.40%) Test Automation
10 16 (6.40%) Visualisation
11 15 (6.00%) AI
11 15 (6.00%) Data Validation
11 15 (6.00%) ERP
12 14 (5.60%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.60%) SQL
2 23 (9.20%) Python
3 20 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.40%) C#
5 7 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.00%) VBA
7 4 (1.60%) Bash
7 4 (1.60%) Java
8 3 (1.20%) C
8 3 (1.20%) PHP
8 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.80%) Bicep
9 2 (0.80%) Perl
9 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 57 (22.80%) Degree
2 37 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.20%) Numerate Degree
5 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.60%) CISSP
7 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.80%) CCNP
8 7 (2.80%) CISM
8 7 (2.80%) HNC
9 4 (1.60%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.60%) MCP
9 4 (1.60%) MCSA
9 4 (1.60%) MCSE
10 3 (1.20%) CEH
10 3 (1.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.20%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.60%) SLA
4 13 (5.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (5.20%) QA
5 12 (4.80%) GDPR
6 7 (2.80%) ISO 9001
6 7 (2.80%) NIST
7 5 (2.00%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.20%) GRC
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.40%) COBIT
10 1 (0.40%) GxP
10 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 49 (19.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.60%) Hyper-V
3 13 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.00%) Firmware
4 5 (2.00%) Kamailio
5 3 (1.20%) Docker
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) Ceph
7 1 (0.40%) Lustre
7 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (6.40%) SCCM
2 9 (3.60%) Terraform
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.40%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (1.60%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) Control-M
7 3 (1.20%) cPanel
7 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.20%) Nessus
7 3 (1.20%) Plesk
8 2 (0.80%) Ansible
8 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.80%) VxRail
9 1 (0.40%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 89 (35.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.80%) VMware
3 12 (4.80%) Cisco
4 11 (4.40%) Oracle
5 10 (4.00%) Citrix
6 9 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.60%) Veeam
7 7 (2.80%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.80%) Pega
8 6 (2.40%) Blue Prism
8 6 (2.40%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.00%) Dell
9 5 (2.00%) Juniper
9 5 (2.00%) Meraki
10 4 (1.60%) Databricks
10 4 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.20%) Informatica
11 3 (1.20%) SAP
11 3 (1.20%) Sparx
11 3 (1.20%) Zscaler