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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 410 390
Rank change year-on-year +116 -20 +117
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 271 101 347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.37% 0.58%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.55% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 172 63 310
10th Percentile £30,370 £30,050 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,752 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,219 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,875 £71,250 £73,775
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,200
% change year-on-year - +7.42% -14.67%

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 27,379 18,432 35,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.69% 68.18% 59.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,386 9,146 24,840
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,398 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +10.31% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +46 76 £47,500 +2.70% 53
Midlands -7 58 £55,000 +10.00% 36
North of England -15 50 £45,000 +7.14% 32
East of England +17 38 £31,435 -37.13% 22
West Midlands +6 30 £60,000 -4.00% 22
South West -17 27 £45,000 +38.46% 13
East Midlands -33 27 £45,000 - 14
North West -7 24 £45,000 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -32 20 £34,000 -19.05% 9
Scotland -7 13 £35,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 7 - -
North East -21 6 £45,000 +42.86% 2
Wales -22 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 16 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) IIS
3 4 (1.48%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (15.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.58%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.37%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Postilion
3 1 (0.37%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 85 (31.37%) Azure
2 49 (18.08%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (11.81%) AWS
4 27 (9.96%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.75%) SaaS
6 10 (3.69%) GCP
6 10 (3.69%) IaaS
7 8 (2.95%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.85%) PaaS
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.48%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.48%) ClickUp
10 4 (1.48%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.02%) DNS
2 32 (11.81%) DHCP
3 28 (10.33%) Firewall
4 25 (9.23%) TCP/IP
5 22 (8.12%) VPN
6 20 (7.38%) VLAN
7 8 (2.95%) SAN
8 7 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.21%) DMZ
9 6 (2.21%) TETRA
9 6 (2.21%) VoIP
10 5 (1.85%) NetScaler
10 5 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.85%) STUN
10 5 (1.85%) WAN
11 4 (1.48%) NAS
11 4 (1.48%) Network Security
11 4 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.58%) Metadata
3 7 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.48%) MySQL
6 3 (1.11%) Big Data
6 3 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.11%) Power BI
6 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.74%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.74%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.38%) Git
2 19 (7.01%) JIRA
3 8 (2.95%) GitLab
4 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.85%) Subversion
6 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 154 (56.83%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.70%) Manufacturing
4 26 (9.59%) Finance
5 25 (9.23%) Legal
6 23 (8.49%) Retail
7 14 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.80%) Banking
8 13 (4.80%) Electronics
8 13 (4.80%) German Language
9 11 (4.06%) Law
9 11 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.69%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.95%) Automotive
12 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.85%) Advertising
14 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.48%) Avionics
14 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (17.34%) Senior
2 45 (16.61%) Analyst
3 34 (12.55%) IT Support
4 20 (7.38%) Support Analyst
5 16 (5.90%) Lead
5 16 (5.90%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.54%) Architect
6 15 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.80%) Applications Support
7 13 (4.80%) Applications Support Analyst
8 12 (4.43%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (3.69%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.95%) Administrator
11 8 (2.95%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.95%) Developer
11 8 (2.95%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.95%) Support Technician
12 7 (2.58%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.06%) .NET
1 11 (4.06%) REST
2 8 (2.95%) SOAP
3 6 (2.21%) PySpark
4 5 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.85%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.85%) Jinja
4 5 (1.85%) JSON
4 5 (1.85%) YAML
5 3 (1.11%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.11%) CSS
5 3 (1.11%) HTML
5 3 (1.11%) React
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.74%) OAuth
6 2 (0.74%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.74%) OpenID
6 2 (0.74%) SAML
6 2 (0.74%) WPF
6 2 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.90%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.17%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.32%) Life Science
6 8 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.95%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.85%) CCTV
9 5 (1.85%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.48%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.48%) Clustering
10 4 (1.48%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.48%) NHS
10 4 (1.48%) Wiki
11 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (23.25%) Windows
2 47 (17.34%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.81%) Linux
4 8 (2.95%) Unix
5 5 (1.85%) Debian
5 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.85%) VMS
5 5 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (16.24%) Agile
4 42 (15.50%) ITIL
5 33 (12.18%) Project Delivery
6 32 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (9.23%) CI/CD
8 23 (8.49%) AI
9 21 (7.75%) ITSM
9 21 (7.75%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (7.38%) Change Management
10 20 (7.38%) Incident Management
10 20 (7.38%) Mentoring
11 19 (7.01%) Analytical Thinking
12 17 (6.27%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (5.90%) Validation
14 15 (5.54%) ERP
14 15 (5.54%) Mathematics
14 15 (5.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.28%) SQL
2 31 (11.44%) PowerShell
2 31 (11.44%) Python
3 11 (4.06%) Bash
3 11 (4.06%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.32%) C#
5 6 (2.21%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.85%) PHP
6 5 (1.85%) VBA
7 4 (1.48%) C++
7 4 (1.48%) Java
7 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.37%) ABAP
9 1 (0.37%) VB
9 1 (0.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 67 (24.72%) Degree
2 31 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (7.38%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.80%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (4.43%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.32%) CISSP
8 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.58%) CISM
10 6 (2.21%) HNC
10 6 (2.21%) HND
11 5 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.48%) CEH
12 4 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.44%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.75%) QA
3 16 (5.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.06%) SLA
5 10 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.58%) GDPR
7 6 (2.21%) NIST
8 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.11%) Def Stans
9 3 (1.11%) GRC
9 3 (1.11%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.74%) COBIT
10 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.37%) NCSC
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (21.77%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.80%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.21%) Docker
4 6 (2.21%) vSphere
5 4 (1.48%) Firmware
5 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) Lustre
7 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.58%) SCCM
2 7 (2.58%) Terraform
3 6 (2.21%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.85%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.85%) Nagios
4 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.48%) Ansible
5 4 (1.48%) Control-M
5 4 (1.48%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.11%) cPanel
6 3 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.11%) Plesk
7 2 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.74%) Nessus
7 2 (0.74%) Netcool
7 2 (0.74%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 85 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.23%) VMware
3 15 (5.54%) Citrix
4 14 (5.17%) Cisco
5 12 (4.43%) SolarWinds
6 11 (4.06%) Pega
6 11 (4.06%) SAP
7 10 (3.69%) Veeam
8 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.58%) Blue Prism
9 7 (2.58%) Databricks
9 7 (2.58%) Oracle
10 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.85%) Epicor
12 4 (1.48%) IBM
12 4 (1.48%) Informatica
12 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.48%) NetApp
12 4 (1.48%) Siemens