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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 330 483
Rank change year-on-year -3 +153 -80
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 402 232 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.67% 0.25%
As % of the General category 1.05% 1.01% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 272 170 62
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,525
25th Percentile £39,688 £37,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,350
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -6.54% -16.08% +11.84%

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 38,259 22,897 28,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.17% 65.88% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 23,620 11,114 12,828
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -18 97 £50,000 -7.83% 120
North of England -42 85 £52,136 +22.67% 63
South West -4 82 £43,000 +7.50% 34
Midlands -46 58 £52,500 +16.67% 50
North West +10 56 £55,000 +48.65% 40
West Midlands -37 38 £47,000 -8.64% 33
East of England -23 33 £55,000 +1.85% 39
Yorkshire -56 22 £57,500 +27.78% 15
East Midlands -49 20 £55,000 +29.41% 17
Scotland +18 19 £33,500 - 25
Wales - 14 £55,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 3
North East -57 7 £29,500 +18.00% 9
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 (5.72%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.47%) Confluence
3 14 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.99%) IIS
5 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 31 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (3.98%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.74%) AutoCAD
5 7 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.24%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (1.00%) 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 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.75%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.75%) 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 97 (24.13%) Azure
2 54 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (11.69%) AWS
4 44 (10.95%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.21%) SaaS
6 25 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.98%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.49%) n8n
10 10 (2.49%) Zapier
11 8 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.99%) Azure Stack
11 8 (1.99%) GCP
11 8 (1.99%) GitHub
12 7 (1.74%) Boomi
12 7 (1.74%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.49%) iPaaS
13 6 (1.49%) Lucidchart
13 6 (1.49%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.70%) Firewall
2 42 (10.45%) DNS
2 42 (10.45%) VPN
3 33 (8.21%) TCP/IP
4 25 (6.22%) DHCP
5 21 (5.22%) WAN
6 20 (4.98%) Wireless
7 18 (4.48%) Network Security
8 16 (3.98%) VLAN
9 15 (3.73%) LAN
9 15 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.74%) SD-WAN
10 11 (2.74%) TETRA
11 10 (2.49%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.24%) BGP
12 9 (2.24%) OSPF
13 8 (1.99%) HTTP
13 8 (1.99%) SAN
14 5 (1.24%) ATM
14 5 (1.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.70%) Power BI
2 17 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.99%) Big Data
4 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.75%) 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 31 (7.71%) JIRA
2 10 (2.49%) Git
3 5 (1.24%) GitLab
3 5 (1.24%) Postman
4 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.75%) JUnit
4 3 (0.75%) Selenium
5 2 (0.50%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.50%) JMeter
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%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 226 (56.22%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (11.69%) Finance
4 46 (11.44%) Manufacturing
5 36 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.23%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.73%) Legal
9 13 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.74%) Electronics
11 11 (2.74%) Marketing
12 7 (1.74%) Military
13 6 (1.49%) Banking
13 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Automotive
14 3 (0.75%) Front Office
14 3 (0.75%) Law
14 3 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (21.39%) Analyst
2 54 (13.43%) Senior
2 54 (13.43%) Support Engineer
3 36 (8.96%) IT Support
4 33 (8.21%) IT Engineer
5 32 (7.96%) Business Analyst
6 29 (7.21%) Applications Support
6 29 (7.21%) Support Analyst
7 28 (6.97%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (6.22%) Consultant
9 19 (4.73%) Systems Support
9 19 (4.73%) Test Engineer
10 16 (3.98%) Architect
11 15 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.73%) IT Analyst
11 15 (3.73%) Lead
11 15 (3.73%) Systems Analyst
12 14 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
12 14 (3.48%) Applications Support Engineer
12 14 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.98%) Terraform
2 15 (3.73%) REST
3 10 (2.49%) Playwright
4 9 (2.24%) CSS
4 9 (2.24%) HTML
4 9 (2.24%) Node.js
5 8 (1.99%) Middleware
6 6 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.49%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.49%) SOAP
7 5 (1.24%) .NET
7 5 (1.24%) EDI
7 5 (1.24%) React
8 4 (1.00%) CSS3
8 4 (1.00%) HTML5
9 3 (0.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.75%) RESTful
9 3 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.75%) Spring
9 3 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.19%) Driving Licence
2 32 (7.96%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.48%) CCTV
5 13 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.74%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.74%) CMDB
9 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.74%) IoT
9 7 (1.74%) PKI
9 7 (1.74%) Replication
10 5 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.24%) Clustering
10 5 (1.24%) Online Gambling
10 5 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.90%) Windows
2 45 (11.19%) Windows Server
3 28 (6.97%) Linux
4 12 (2.99%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.24%) CentOS
7 8 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.00%) Rocky
10 4 (1.00%) Unix
11 3 (0.75%) AIX
11 3 (0.75%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.50%) Android
13 1 (0.25%) Solaris
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (34.08%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (14.68%) Agile
4 52 (12.94%) Business Analysis
5 49 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (10.45%) ERP
8 41 (10.20%) AI
9 40 (9.95%) DevOps
9 40 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (9.95%) Validation
10 36 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
11 35 (8.71%) ITIL
12 33 (8.21%) Change Management
12 33 (8.21%) Project Delivery
12 33 (8.21%) User Acceptance Testing
13 32 (7.96%) Mentoring
13 32 (7.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 32 (7.96%) Test Automation
13 32 (7.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.65%) SQL
2 42 (10.45%) PowerShell
3 33 (8.21%) Python
4 18 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.24%) Bash
5 9 (2.24%) Java
6 7 (1.74%) C#
7 6 (1.49%) C++
8 5 (1.24%) C
8 5 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.00%) PHP
9 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.75%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (0.75%) Ruby
10 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) RPG III
12 1 (0.25%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 52 (12.94%) Degree
2 49 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.23%) CCNP
5 13 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.74%) CCNA
7 10 (2.49%) HND
8 8 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.49%) HNC
10 4 (1.00%) ACCA
10 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.00%) CBAP
10 4 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.00%) CIMA
11 3 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.50%) AAT
12 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.69%) QA
2 23 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.23%) GDPR
5 8 (1.99%) 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 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.75%) WCAG
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.25%) GxP
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (8.71%) Active Directory
2 26 (6.47%) Hyper-V
3 22 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.48%) Docker
5 10 (2.49%) Firmware
6 7 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.00%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.99%) Ansible
2 12 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.49%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.74%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.00%) Nagios
6 4 (1.00%) NetBackup
6 4 (1.00%) Podman
6 4 (1.00%) VxRail
7 3 (0.75%) Grafana
8 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 121 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.71%) Cisco
3 26 (6.47%) VMware
4 19 (4.73%) Fortinet
5 16 (3.98%) SAP
6 12 (2.99%) JD Edwards
6 12 (2.99%) Veeam
7 10 (2.49%) Google
7 10 (2.49%) Oracle
7 10 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.24%) Aruba
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
11 5 (1.24%) Adobe
11 5 (1.24%) NetApp
11 5 (1.24%) Sage
11 5 (1.24%) Sophos