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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 313 506
Rank change year-on-year -20 +193 -115
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 403 236 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.68% 0.26%
As % of the General category 1.06% 1.04% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 271 173 69
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £51,636 £53,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.48% -14.40% +9.65%

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 38,103 22,700 29,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.29% 65.72% 53.95%
Number of salaries quoted 23,501 11,058 13,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -10.56% -1.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -4 98 £50,000 -8.26% 114
North of England -40 85 £52,136 +22.67% 73
South West -16 77 £42,750 +6.88% 38
Midlands -47 63 £52,500 +16.67% 46
North West +3 57 £55,000 +38.36% 48
West Midlands -33 43 £52,000 +1.07% 34
East of England -18 35 £55,000 +1.85% 38
Yorkshire -57 22 £57,500 +35.29% 17
East Midlands -33 20 £60,000 +41.18% 12
Scotland +24 17 £33,500 - 21
Wales - 14 £55,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 5
North East -60 6 £29,500 +18.00% 8
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 24 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.96%) Confluence
3 15 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.99%) IIS
5 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 31 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.72%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.73%) AutoCAD
5 7 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.24%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Infor CloudSuite
1 5 (1.24%) Infor LN
1 5 (1.24%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.99%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.74%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.74%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 99 (24.57%) Azure
2 56 (13.90%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (11.66%) AWS
4 43 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.95%) SaaS
6 27 (6.70%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.71%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.99%) Azure Stack
10 8 (1.99%) GCP
10 8 (1.99%) GitHub
10 8 (1.99%) n8n
10 8 (1.99%) Zapier
11 7 (1.74%) Boomi
11 7 (1.74%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.49%) iPaaS
12 6 (1.49%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.49%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.41%) Firewall
2 44 (10.92%) DNS
3 42 (10.42%) VPN
4 32 (7.94%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.96%) DHCP
6 21 (5.21%) WAN
7 18 (4.47%) Wireless
8 17 (4.22%) Network Security
9 16 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.72%) VLAN
11 14 (3.47%) LAN
12 11 (2.73%) TETRA
13 10 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (2.48%) SD-WAN
14 8 (1.99%) BGP
14 8 (1.99%) HTTP
14 8 (1.99%) OSPF
14 8 (1.99%) SAN
15 6 (1.49%) VoIP
16 5 (1.24%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.43%) Power BI
2 17 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.49%) Big Data
4 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.74%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.74%) Metadata
6 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.50%) EDMS
6 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.50%) Redis
7 1 (0.25%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.25%) Db2
7 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) GIS
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.20%) JIRA
2 10 (2.48%) Git
3 5 (1.24%) GitLab
3 5 (1.24%) Postman
4 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.74%) JMeter
4 3 (0.74%) JUnit
4 3 (0.74%) Selenium
5 2 (0.50%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.25%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.25%) Hudson
6 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.25%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 221 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (11.91%) Finance
3 48 (11.91%) Manufacturing
4 36 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (4.47%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.97%) Legal
8 15 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.98%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.73%) Electronics
10 11 (2.73%) Marketing
11 7 (1.74%) Military
12 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Banking
13 5 (1.24%) Retail
14 4 (0.99%) Front Office
14 4 (0.99%) Law
15 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 88 (21.84%) Analyst
2 55 (13.65%) Senior
3 53 (13.15%) Support Engineer
4 36 (8.93%) IT Support
5 32 (7.94%) Support Analyst
6 31 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 30 (7.44%) Business Analyst
8 29 (7.20%) Applications Support
9 26 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
10 25 (6.20%) Consultant
11 18 (4.47%) Systems Support
11 18 (4.47%) Test Engineer
12 16 (3.97%) Architect
12 16 (3.97%) Lead
12 16 (3.97%) Systems Analyst
12 16 (3.97%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) Developer
14 14 (3.47%) IT Analyst
14 14 (3.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.47%) Terraform
2 15 (3.72%) REST
3 9 (2.23%) CSS
3 9 (2.23%) HTML
3 9 (2.23%) Node.js
3 9 (2.23%) Playwright
4 8 (1.99%) Middleware
5 6 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.49%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.49%) SOAP
6 5 (1.24%) EDI
6 5 (1.24%) React
7 4 (0.99%) .NET
7 4 (0.99%) CSS3
7 4 (0.99%) HTML5
8 3 (0.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.74%) RESTful
8 3 (0.74%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.74%) Spring
8 3 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.41%) Driving Licence
2 33 (8.19%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.47%) CCTV
6 13 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.99%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.99%) CMDB
9 8 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.74%) IoT
10 7 (1.74%) PKI
10 7 (1.74%) Replication
11 5 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.24%) Clustering
11 5 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.24%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.60%) Windows
2 46 (11.41%) Windows Server
3 28 (6.95%) Linux
4 12 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.23%) CentOS
6 9 (2.23%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.99%) Rocky
10 4 (0.99%) Unix
11 3 (0.74%) AIX
11 3 (0.74%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.50%) Android
13 1 (0.25%) Solaris
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (32.51%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (14.14%) Agile
4 51 (12.66%) Business Analysis
5 49 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (10.92%) ERP
7 43 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (9.93%) AI
8 40 (9.93%) DevOps
8 40 (9.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 38 (9.43%) ITIL
9 38 (9.43%) Validation
10 35 (8.68%) Change Management
10 35 (8.68%) Project Delivery
10 35 (8.68%) Requirements Gathering
11 33 (8.19%) Root Cause Analysis
12 32 (7.94%) Mentoring
12 32 (7.94%) Test Automation
12 32 (7.94%) User Acceptance Testing
13 30 (7.44%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 80 (19.85%) SQL
2 45 (11.17%) PowerShell
3 35 (8.68%) Python
4 19 (4.71%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.73%) Bash
6 9 (2.23%) Java
7 7 (1.74%) C#
7 7 (1.74%) C++
8 5 (1.24%) C
8 5 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.99%) PHP
9 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.74%) Ruby
11 2 (0.50%) Bicep
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
11 2 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (13.90%) Degree
2 52 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.98%) CCNP
5 12 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.48%) CCNA
6 10 (2.48%) HND
7 9 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.49%) HNC
9 4 (0.99%) ACCA
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.99%) CBAP
9 4 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.99%) CIMA
10 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.50%) ICAEW
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.91%) QA
2 22 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.72%) GDPR
5 9 (2.23%) SLA
6 6 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.49%) NIST
6 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.24%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.24%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.74%) WCAG
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (8.68%) Active Directory
2 26 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.47%) Docker
5 11 (2.73%) Firmware
6 7 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.99%) vSphere
8 2 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.50%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.25%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.98%) Ansible
2 12 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.23%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.74%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.99%) Grafana
6 4 (0.99%) Nagios
6 4 (0.99%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.99%) Podman
6 4 (0.99%) VxRail
7 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 123 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.44%) Cisco
3 27 (6.70%) VMware
4 18 (4.47%) Fortinet
5 16 (3.97%) SAP
6 12 (2.98%) JD Edwards
6 12 (2.98%) Veeam
7 10 (2.48%) Oracle
7 10 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.23%) Aruba
8 9 (2.23%) Google
9 8 (1.99%) Juniper
9 8 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.49%) Dell
10 6 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.49%) Sophos
11 5 (1.24%) Infor
11 5 (1.24%) Sage
11 5 (1.24%) Splunk