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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 468 378
Rank change year-on-year +192 -90 +107
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 266 129 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.27% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.21% 0.49% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 182 54 150
10th Percentile £30,458 £35,599 £28,225
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,656 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,442 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -2.23% -13.64%
75th Percentile £59,813 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £67,500 £72,625
UK median annual salary £54,000 £62,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.94% +14.09% -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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,006 26,369 19,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 59.57% 55.57% 63.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,435 11,299 13,827
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £51,251 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,388 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.69% - -

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +109 77 £49,000 +22.50% 79
Midlands +89 72 £45,000 - 38
North of England +70 61 £47,500 -8.21% 48
West Midlands +66 42 £52,500 -17.65% 33
East Midlands +42 30 £42,500 +6.25% 4
North West +52 29 £42,500 -16.67% 32
Yorkshire +32 28 £47,500 -9.52% 12
East of England +44 27 £35,000 -13.04% 14
South West +38 19 £55,000 +29.41% 25
Scotland +14 8 - - 17
North East +10 4 £25,000 -26.47% 6
Wales +4 2 £48,000 -1.54% 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 23 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 39 (14.66%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.50%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Postilion
5 1 (0.38%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.70%) Azure
2 48 (18.05%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (10.90%) SaaS
4 23 (8.65%) AWS
5 20 (7.52%) Entra ID
6 19 (7.14%) IaaS
7 13 (4.89%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.51%) PaaS
9 9 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.63%) GCP
10 7 (2.63%) GitHub
11 6 (2.26%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.88%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.88%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.13%) OCI
14 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.28%) DNS
2 26 (9.77%) DHCP
3 25 (9.40%) TCP/IP
4 24 (9.02%) Firewall
5 23 (8.65%) VPN
6 15 (5.64%) VLAN
7 8 (3.01%) BGP
7 8 (3.01%) SAN
8 7 (2.63%) WAN
9 6 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.26%) DMZ
9 6 (2.26%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.26%) VoIP
9 6 (2.26%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.88%) Network Security
10 5 (1.88%) OSPF
10 5 (1.88%) STUN
10 5 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.50%) IPsec
11 4 (1.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.02%) Tableau
3 15 (5.64%) BigQuery
4 9 (3.38%) Power BI
5 6 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.26%) Metadata
5 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.50%) MySQL
7 3 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.13%) CockroachDB
7 3 (1.13%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.75%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
9 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.38%) QlikView
9 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.88%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) Postman
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (51.13%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (13.16%) Finance
4 30 (11.28%) Legal
5 24 (9.02%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 18 (6.77%) Law
8 15 (5.64%) Banking
9 14 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (5.26%) Retail
10 9 (3.38%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.01%) German Language
11 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.26%) Back Office
13 5 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.50%) Avionics
15 3 (1.13%) Automotive
15 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.13%) Marketing
16 2 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (26.69%) Analyst
2 49 (18.42%) Senior
3 22 (8.27%) Data Analyst
4 21 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 19 (7.14%) Quality Analyst
6 18 (6.77%) Data Quality Analyst
6 18 (6.77%) Service Analyst
7 17 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.02%) Service Desk Analyst
9 15 (5.64%) Infrastructure Support
9 15 (5.64%) IT Support
10 13 (4.89%) Architect
11 12 (4.51%) Developer
11 12 (4.51%) Lead
12 11 (4.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) IT Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.38%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.38%) Consultant
14 9 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.38%) XML
2 7 (2.63%) .NET
2 7 (2.63%) React
3 5 (1.88%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.50%) HTML
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.50%) OAuth
4 4 (1.50%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.50%) OpenID
4 4 (1.50%) SAML
5 3 (1.13%) CSS
5 3 (1.13%) Kafka
5 3 (1.13%) PySpark
5 3 (1.13%) REST
5 3 (1.13%) Spring
5 3 (1.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.75%) Laravel
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.38%) JSON
7 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 13 (4.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.76%) NHS
6 9 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.38%) Life Science
6 9 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.01%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.26%) Clustering
10 5 (1.88%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.13%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.93%) Windows
2 32 (12.03%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.02%) Linux
4 5 (1.88%) Debian
4 5 (1.88%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (16.54%) ITIL
3 38 (14.29%) Agile
4 33 (12.41%) Validation
5 32 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (10.15%) Migration
8 25 (9.40%) Customer Service
9 21 (7.89%) Mentoring
10 20 (7.52%) Computer Science
11 19 (7.14%) Data Validation
11 19 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
11 19 (7.14%) Visualisation
12 18 (6.77%) Data Cleansing
12 18 (6.77%) ERP
12 18 (6.77%) Mathematics
12 18 (6.77%) Project Delivery
13 17 (6.39%) DevOps
13 17 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (6.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.92%) SQL
2 25 (9.40%) Python
3 23 (8.65%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.64%) C#
5 10 (3.76%) Java
5 10 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.63%) C
7 5 (1.88%) VBA
8 4 (1.50%) Bash
9 3 (1.13%) PHP
10 2 (0.75%) Bicep
10 2 (0.75%) Perl
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) Go
11 1 (0.38%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.56%) Degree
2 45 (16.92%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.64%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.38%) CISSP
8 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.01%) CCNP
10 7 (2.63%) CISM
10 7 (2.63%) HNC
11 6 (2.26%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.88%) MCP
12 5 (1.88%) MCSA
12 5 (1.88%) MCSE
13 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.13%) CCNA
13 3 (1.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.03%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.26%) SLA
4 12 (4.51%) GDPR
5 11 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.14%) ISO 9001
5 11 (4.14%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) NIST
7 4 (1.50%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) PMO
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) DICOM
9 1 (0.38%) GxP
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.89%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.26%) Firmware
5 5 (1.88%) Docker
5 5 (1.88%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Ceph
7 1 (0.38%) Lustre
7 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (6.02%) SCCM
2 8 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.01%) Terraform
3 6 (2.26%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.50%) Ansible
4 4 (1.50%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.13%) cPanel
5 3 (1.13%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (1.13%) Nessus
5 3 (1.13%) Plesk
6 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.38%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Nagios
7 1 (0.38%) Netcool
7 1 (0.38%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.38%) SCOM
7 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 96 (36.09%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.40%) VMware
3 13 (4.89%) Cisco
4 12 (4.51%) Oracle
5 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.63%) Veeam
7 6 (2.26%) Blue Prism
7 6 (2.26%) Pega
7 6 (2.26%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.88%) Citrix
8 5 (1.88%) Juniper
8 5 (1.88%) Meraki
9 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.13%) Aruba
10 3 (1.13%) Databricks
10 3 (1.13%) Dell
10 3 (1.13%) iManage
10 3 (1.13%) Intapp
10 3 (1.13%) Zscaler