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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 474 371
Rank change year-on-year +193 -103 +101
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 259 116 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.29% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.48% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 176 53 147
10th Percentile £30,370 £36,995 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £38,125 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,031 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.70% +14.55% -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 24,210 24,187 18,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 58.38% 61.44% 63.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,360 10,460 13,050
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,922 £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 £79,525 £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 15 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 15 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 +95 78 £52,000 +18.86% 97
Midlands +64 75 £45,000 - 71
North of England +57 49 £42,500 -19.05% 78
West Midlands +42 40 £52,500 -17.65% 41
East Midlands +19 34 £45,000 +2.86% 28
East of England +43 27 £31,435 -21.90% 49
North West +33 24 £37,000 -27.45% 40
Yorkshire +3 23 £47,500 -9.52% 34
South West +25 18 £55,000 +74.60% 35
Scotland +15 10 £35,000 -30.00% 12
North East +2 2 - - 6
Wales -4 2 £48,000 +1.05% 7
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 (6.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.77%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.12%) Azure
2 48 (18.53%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (9.65%) SaaS
4 22 (8.49%) AWS
5 17 (6.56%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.79%) IaaS
7 11 (4.25%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.09%) PaaS
10 7 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.70%) GCP
10 7 (2.70%) GitHub
11 6 (2.32%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.93%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
14 3 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 3 (1.16%) OCI
15 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.81%) DNS
2 25 (9.65%) DHCP
3 24 (9.27%) Firewall
4 23 (8.88%) VPN
5 22 (8.49%) TCP/IP
6 15 (5.79%) VLAN
7 9 (3.47%) SAN
8 8 (3.09%) BGP
9 7 (2.70%) WAN
9 7 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.32%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.32%) DMZ
10 6 (2.32%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.32%) VoIP
10 6 (2.32%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.93%) Network Security
11 5 (1.93%) OSPF
11 5 (1.93%) STUN
12 4 (1.54%) IPsec
12 4 (1.54%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.18%) Tableau
3 15 (5.79%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.32%) Metadata
5 4 (1.54%) Power BI
6 3 (1.16%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.39%) MySQL
8 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.39%) QlikView
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.86%) JIRA
2 5 (1.93%) Git
3 4 (1.54%) Postman
3 4 (1.54%) Subversion
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (52.12%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (11.58%) Finance
4 28 (10.81%) Legal
5 18 (6.95%) Manufacturing
5 18 (6.95%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (5.79%) Retail
7 12 (4.63%) Banking
7 12 (4.63%) Law
7 12 (4.63%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.25%) German Language
9 8 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.32%) Back Office
11 6 (2.32%) Electronics
12 5 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.54%) Avionics
14 3 (1.16%) Automotive
14 3 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.32%) Analyst
2 49 (18.92%) Senior
3 20 (7.72%) Support Engineer
4 18 (6.95%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.56%) IT Support
6 16 (6.18%) Data Quality Analyst
6 16 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.18%) Quality Analyst
6 16 (6.18%) Service Analyst
7 15 (5.79%) Architect
8 14 (5.41%) Service Desk Analyst
9 12 (4.63%) Developer
9 12 (4.63%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (4.63%) Lead
10 10 (3.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Consultant
11 9 (3.47%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.47%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.09%) .NET
1 8 (3.09%) XML
2 5 (1.93%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.54%) HTML
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.54%) OAuth
3 4 (1.54%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.54%) OpenID
3 4 (1.54%) React
3 4 (1.54%) SAML
4 3 (1.16%) CSS
4 3 (1.16%) PySpark
4 3 (1.16%) REST
5 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.77%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.77%) Laravel
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.39%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.39%) Svelte
6 1 (0.39%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.02%) Driving Licence
1 13 (5.02%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.25%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.86%) NHS
5 9 (3.47%) Life Science
5 9 (3.47%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.70%) Clustering
7 7 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.93%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.77%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) iPad
10 2 (0.77%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.01%) Windows
2 28 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.18%) Linux
4 5 (1.93%) Debian
4 5 (1.93%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.93%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.16%) Unix
6 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (18.53%) ITIL
3 37 (14.29%) Agile
4 35 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (11.97%) Validation
6 25 (9.65%) Customer Service
6 25 (9.65%) Migration
7 22 (8.49%) Mentoring
8 20 (7.72%) DevOps
9 19 (7.34%) Data Validation
9 19 (7.34%) Data Visualisation
9 19 (7.34%) Test Automation
9 19 (7.34%) Visualisation
10 18 (6.95%) ERP
11 16 (6.18%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.18%) Data Cleansing
11 16 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (6.18%) Project Delivery
12 15 (5.79%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.37%) SQL
2 25 (9.65%) Python
3 20 (7.72%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.79%) C#
5 8 (3.09%) Java
6 7 (2.70%) C
7 6 (2.32%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.93%) VBA
9 4 (1.54%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) PHP
11 2 (0.77%) Bicep
11 2 (0.77%) Perl
11 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 65 (25.10%) Degree
2 41 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.79%) Numerate Degree
6 14 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (3.47%) CISSP
10 8 (3.09%) CCNP
11 7 (2.70%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.70%) CISM
11 7 (2.70%) HNC
12 5 (1.93%) MCP
12 5 (1.93%) MCSA
12 5 (1.93%) MCSE
13 4 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (1.16%) CCNA
14 3 (1.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.74%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.41%) SLA
4 13 (5.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.25%) GDPR
5 11 (4.25%) ISO 9001
5 11 (4.25%) QA
6 7 (2.70%) NIST
7 4 (1.54%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) COBIT
9 1 (0.39%) GxP
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.56%) Hyper-V
2 17 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.32%) Firmware
4 5 (1.93%) Kamailio
5 3 (1.16%) Docker
6 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) Ceph
7 1 (0.39%) Lustre
7 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (6.18%) SCCM
2 9 (3.47%) Terraform
3 6 (2.32%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.54%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (1.54%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.16%) Ansible
5 3 (1.16%) cPanel
5 3 (1.16%) Nessus
5 3 (1.16%) Plesk
6 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) Nagios
7 1 (0.39%) Netcool
7 1 (0.39%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 96 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.72%) VMware
3 13 (5.02%) Cisco
4 8 (3.09%) Oracle
4 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.09%) Veeam
5 7 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.32%) Blue Prism
6 6 (2.32%) Citrix
6 6 (2.32%) Pega
6 6 (2.32%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.93%) Juniper
7 5 (1.93%) Meraki
8 4 (1.54%) Dell
8 4 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.16%) Aruba
9 3 (1.16%) Databricks
9 3 (1.16%) Sparx
9 3 (1.16%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.77%) Tenable