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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 459 399
Rank change year-on-year +165 -60 +83
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 258 103 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.01% 0.49% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 178 49 250
10th Percentile £30,370 £29,750 £27,425
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,383 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% -9.23% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,500 £54,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £53,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.21% +9.09% -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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,604 21,234 29,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.47% 65.40% 59.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13,303 8,722 21,795
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,459 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.90% +9.09% -10.57%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +75 79 £47,500 +2.70% 59
Midlands +34 62 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North of England +6 46 £45,000 -0.84% 39
West Midlands +28 33 £60,000 +20.00% 19
East of England +43 31 £30,370 -23.25% 9
East Midlands +4 28 £45,000 - 9
South West +8 25 £51,500 +63.49% 22
North West +14 21 £45,000 -6.62% 19
Yorkshire -15 20 £34,000 -19.05% 17
Scotland +1 13 £35,000 - 11
North East +1 5 £45,000 +55.17% 4
Wales -9 2 £48,000 -1.54% 1
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 19 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.55%) Confluence
4 4 (1.55%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.78%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Postilion
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 90 (34.88%) Azure
2 53 (20.54%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.02%) AWS
4 27 (10.47%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.75%) SaaS
6 10 (3.88%) IaaS
7 9 (3.49%) GCP
8 8 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.10%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.33%) iPaaS
10 5 (1.94%) PaaS
10 5 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.94%) Serverless
11 4 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (16.28%) DNS
2 39 (15.12%) DHCP
3 37 (14.34%) Firewall
4 30 (11.63%) TCP/IP
5 28 (10.85%) VPN
6 26 (10.08%) VLAN
7 10 (3.88%) SAN
7 10 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.49%) WAN
9 8 (3.10%) Network Security
10 7 (2.71%) BGP
11 6 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.33%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.33%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.94%) DMZ
12 5 (1.94%) LAN
12 5 (1.94%) VoIP
12 5 (1.94%) Wireless
13 4 (1.55%) OSPF
13 4 (1.55%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.33%) Metadata
4 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.55%) MySQL
5 4 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.16%) Big Data
6 3 (1.16%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.78%) Power BI
7 2 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.81%) JIRA
2 13 (5.04%) Git
3 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.94%) Subversion
4 4 (1.55%) Postman
5 3 (1.16%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 147 (56.98%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.24%) Finance
4 23 (8.91%) Legal
5 21 (8.14%) Retail
6 20 (7.75%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.81%) Banking
8 14 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (5.04%) German Language
10 12 (4.65%) Law
11 11 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (3.10%) Automotive
13 7 (2.71%) Electronics
13 7 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.55%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.55%) Avionics
16 4 (1.55%) Public Sector
17 3 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (18.99%) Senior
2 43 (16.67%) Analyst
3 35 (13.57%) IT Support
4 19 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 16 (6.20%) Architect
7 15 (5.81%) Lead
8 14 (5.43%) Infrastructure Support
9 12 (4.65%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.10%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (3.10%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.10%) Service Analyst
13 7 (2.71%) Consultant
13 7 (2.71%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.26%) .NET
1 11 (4.26%) REST
2 7 (2.71%) SOAP
3 6 (2.33%) PySpark
4 4 (1.55%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.55%) OAuth
4 4 (1.55%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.55%) OpenID
4 4 (1.55%) React
4 4 (1.55%) SAML
5 3 (1.16%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.16%) CSS
5 3 (1.16%) HTML
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.78%) Laravel
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.78%) XML
7 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.65%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.49%) Life Science
5 9 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.10%) Clustering
6 8 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.55%) CCTV
10 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.55%) NHS
11 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.16%) iPad
11 3 (1.16%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 62 (24.03%) Windows
2 45 (17.44%) Windows Server
3 22 (8.53%) Linux
4 7 (2.71%) Unix
5 5 (1.94%) VMS
5 5 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.55%) Debian
7 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (19.38%) ITIL
3 49 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (15.50%) Agile
5 31 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (9.30%) Project Delivery
7 23 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
8 19 (7.36%) AI
8 19 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (6.98%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.98%) ERP
10 17 (6.59%) Analytical Thinking
10 17 (6.59%) ITSM
10 17 (6.59%) Mentoring
11 16 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (5.81%) Change Management
12 15 (5.81%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (5.81%) Incident Management
12 15 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.95%) SQL
2 28 (10.85%) PowerShell
3 23 (8.91%) Python
4 10 (3.88%) C#
5 9 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.10%) Bash
7 5 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.94%) VBA
8 4 (1.55%) Java
8 4 (1.55%) PHP
8 4 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) ABAP
9 1 (0.39%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) C
9 1 (0.39%) C++
9 1 (0.39%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 58 (22.48%) Degree
2 32 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.81%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.65%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.49%) CISSP
9 8 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.71%) CCNP
10 7 (2.71%) CISM
10 7 (2.71%) HNC
11 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.55%) CEH
12 4 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.16%) HND
14 2 (0.78%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.53%) QA
3 14 (5.43%) GDPR
4 13 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (4.26%) SLA
6 8 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.71%) NIST
8 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.16%) GRC
9 3 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.78%) COBIT
10 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 62 (24.03%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.59%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.94%) Docker
4 5 (1.94%) Firmware
5 4 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.55%) vSphere
6 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.39%) Ceph
7 1 (0.39%) Lustre
7 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.88%) Terraform
3 9 (3.49%) SCCM
4 6 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (2.33%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.94%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.94%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.55%) Control-M
6 4 (1.55%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.55%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.16%) Ansible
7 3 (1.16%) cPanel
7 3 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.16%) Nagios
7 3 (1.16%) Nessus
7 3 (1.16%) Plesk
8 2 (0.78%) Netcool
Vendors
1 92 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.08%) VMware
3 18 (6.98%) Cisco
4 14 (5.43%) Citrix
4 14 (5.43%) Veeam
5 13 (5.04%) SolarWinds
6 10 (3.88%) Oracle
6 10 (3.88%) Pega
6 10 (3.88%) SAP
7 7 (2.71%) Blue Prism
7 7 (2.71%) Databricks
7 7 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.94%) Dell
9 5 (1.94%) Juniper
10 4 (1.55%) Epicor
10 4 (1.55%) Informatica
10 4 (1.55%) Meraki
10 4 (1.55%) Siemens