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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 383 419
Rank change year-on-year +74 +36 +79
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 283 107 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.41% 0.55%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.61% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 180 74 313
10th Percentile £30,937 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £34,875 £38,563 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.40%
75th Percentile £60,500 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,700
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £51,200
% change year-on-year +1.38% +5.96% -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 29,786 17,589 38,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.41% 67.89% 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,631 9,281 26,078
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,818 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% +6.99% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +29 82 £49,000 -10.91% 56
Midlands -26 58 £55,000 +6.91% 39
North of England -33 53 £45,000 +7.14% 29
East of England -5 40 £32,500 -33.33% 25
West Midlands -14 33 £60,000 +16.62% 26
South West -37 28 £45,000 +12.50% 12
North West -14 27 £45,000 -18.18% 19
East Midlands -33 24 £55,000 +13.40% 12
Yorkshire -45 20 £34,000 -19.05% 6
Scotland - 13 £35,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
North East -23 6 £45,000 +42.86% 4
Wales -32 2 £50,250 +3.08% 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 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.41%) IIS
4 4 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.71%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (13.78%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.47%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.35%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.71%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 83 (29.33%) Azure
2 54 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (10.95%) AWS
4 28 (9.89%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.07%) SaaS
6 15 (5.30%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.53%) IaaS
8 9 (3.18%) GCP
9 7 (2.47%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.12%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.77%) PaaS
12 4 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.41%) ClickUp
12 4 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.13%) DNS
2 33 (11.66%) Firewall
3 30 (10.60%) DHCP
4 25 (8.83%) VPN
5 23 (8.13%) TCP/IP
6 18 (6.36%) VLAN
7 12 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.53%) VoIP
9 7 (2.47%) NAS
9 7 (2.47%) WAN
10 6 (2.12%) DMZ
10 6 (2.12%) SAN
10 6 (2.12%) TETRA
11 5 (1.77%) NetScaler
11 5 (1.77%) Network Security
11 5 (1.77%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.77%) STUN
12 4 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.06%) Internet
14 2 (0.71%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.53%) Power BI
3 9 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.47%) Metadata
4 7 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.41%) MySQL
7 3 (1.06%) Big Data
7 3 (1.06%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.71%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.35%) DB2
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (7.07%) Git
2 17 (6.01%) JIRA
3 8 (2.83%) GitLab
4 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.77%) Subversion
6 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 156 (55.12%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.95%) Finance
4 30 (10.60%) Manufacturing
5 26 (9.19%) Retail
6 23 (8.13%) Legal
7 17 (6.01%) Electronics
8 16 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.95%) Banking
10 13 (4.59%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.89%) German Language
11 11 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (3.53%) Law
13 8 (2.83%) Automotive
14 5 (1.77%) Advertising
14 5 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (17.67%) Analyst
2 44 (15.55%) Senior
3 39 (13.78%) IT Support
4 26 (9.19%) Support Analyst
5 19 (6.71%) Support Engineer
6 18 (6.36%) Lead
7 15 (5.30%) Applications Support
7 15 (5.30%) Applications Support Analyst
7 15 (5.30%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (4.95%) Architect
9 13 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.53%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.53%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (3.18%) Developer
11 9 (3.18%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (2.83%) Administrator
12 8 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.83%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.89%) REST
2 10 (3.53%) .NET
3 8 (2.83%) SOAP
4 6 (2.12%) PySpark
5 5 (1.77%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.77%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.77%) Jinja
5 5 (1.77%) JSON
5 5 (1.77%) YAML
6 3 (1.06%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.06%) CSS
6 3 (1.06%) HTML
6 3 (1.06%) React
7 2 (0.71%) Laravel
7 2 (0.71%) WPF
8 1 (0.35%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.35%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.35%) jQuery
8 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.36%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.95%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.18%) Life Science
5 9 (3.18%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.12%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.77%) CCTV
8 5 (1.77%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.77%) Mobile Computing
9 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.41%) NHS
9 4 (1.41%) Wiki
10 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.32%) Windows
2 48 (16.96%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.66%) Linux
4 8 (2.83%) Unix
4 8 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.77%) Debian
5 5 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.77%) VMS
5 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.06%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (24.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (17.67%) ITIL
4 41 (14.49%) Agile
5 37 (13.07%) Project Delivery
6 34 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (9.19%) CI/CD
8 25 (8.83%) Change Management
8 25 (8.83%) Incident Management
9 23 (8.13%) AI
9 23 (8.13%) ITSM
9 23 (8.13%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (7.42%) Mentoring
11 19 (6.71%) Customer Service
11 19 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (6.36%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (6.36%) Validation
13 17 (6.01%) Analytical Thinking
13 17 (6.01%) ERP
14 16 (5.65%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.43%) SQL
2 34 (12.01%) Python
3 33 (11.66%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.59%) Bash
5 12 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.53%) C#
7 6 (2.12%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.12%) VBA
8 5 (1.77%) C++
8 5 (1.77%) PHP
9 4 (1.41%) Java
9 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) ABAP
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) VB
11 1 (0.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 67 (23.67%) Degree
2 37 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.24%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.53%) Numerate Degree
7 9 (3.18%) CISSP
8 7 (2.47%) CISM
8 7 (2.47%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.77%) HNC
9 5 (1.77%) HND
10 4 (1.41%) CEH
10 4 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.07%) QA
3 16 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.65%) SLA
4 10 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.12%) GDPR
5 6 (2.12%) NIST
6 4 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.06%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.06%) GRC
7 3 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.71%) COBIT
8 2 (0.71%) NCSC
8 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) GAAP
9 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (20.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.89%) Hyper-V
2 11 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.47%) Docker
4 6 (2.12%) vSphere
5 5 (1.77%) Firmware
6 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.06%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.35%) Ceph
9 1 (0.35%) Lustre
9 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.18%) Terraform
3 7 (2.47%) SCCM
4 6 (2.12%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.77%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.77%) Nagios
5 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.41%) Ansible
6 4 (1.41%) Control-M
6 4 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.06%) cPanel
7 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.06%) Plesk
8 2 (0.71%) Grafana
8 2 (0.71%) Nessus
8 2 (0.71%) Netcool
8 2 (0.71%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 89 (31.45%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.89%) VMware
3 15 (5.30%) Cisco
3 15 (5.30%) Citrix
4 12 (4.24%) Pega
4 12 (4.24%) SolarWinds
5 11 (3.89%) SAP
6 8 (2.83%) Blue Prism
6 8 (2.83%) Databricks
6 8 (2.83%) Veeam
7 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.12%) Oracle
8 6 (2.12%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.77%) Epicor
10 4 (1.41%) IBM
10 4 (1.41%) Informatica
10 4 (1.41%) NetApp
10 4 (1.41%) Siemens
10 4 (1.41%) Sophos