Documentation as Code
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Docs as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 751 683 834
Rank change year-on-year -68 +151 +17
Permanent jobs citing Docs as Code 1 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% 0.024% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.001% 0.027% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,250 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +40.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £82,750 - £55,000
90th Percentile - £74,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,500 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Docs as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Docs as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docs as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Docs as Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Docs as Code
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Docs as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Docs as Code

Docs as Code
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docs as Code within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 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
England -93 1 £80,500 +15.00% 4
UK excluding London - 1 £80,500 - 4
North of England - 1 £80,500 - 3
North East - 1 £80,500 - 3

Docs as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Green IT
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Rainbow Teams
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification