Document Management Job Trends

Document Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Document Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 519 504
Rank change year-on-year +34 -15 +230
Permanent jobs citing Document Management 171 230 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.43% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 121 139 172
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £45,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Document Management 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

Document Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Document Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Document Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Document Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Document Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Document Management

Document Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Document Management over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Document Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 2025. 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 +40 154 £52,500 +5.00% 100
UK excluding London +99 98 £48,000 +6.67% 95
London +12 70 £63,750 +27.50% 21
Work from Home +84 46 £48,122 -19.80% 56
North of England +46 39 £50,000 +11.11% 20
Yorkshire +6 22 £70,932 +38.40% 5
Midlands +43 20 £45,000 +20.00% 19
North West +47 17 £42,500 +41.67% 11
West Midlands +47 15 £45,000 +5.88% 14
South East +41 11 £35,000 -36.36% 26
South West +32 11 £34,858 -22.54% 13
Wales +12 10 £48,122 +55.23% 2
East Midlands +9 5 £45,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland +6 5 £40,500 - 3
East of England +3 4 £53,754 -28.33% 13

Document Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.17%) CMS
2 2 (1.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.58%) FileNet
Applications
1 53 (30.99%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (21.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (13.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.58%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.58%) Revit
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.17%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.58%) Actimize
3 1 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.58%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.70%) Datadog
1 20 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
1 20 (11.70%) Power Platform
2 15 (8.77%) Azure
3 10 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.68%) IaaS
6 7 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.09%) PaaS
6 7 (4.09%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.51%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.51%) Serverless
8 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.17%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.17%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.17%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.17%) GitHub
9 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.26%) WebEx
2 4 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (1.75%) Intranet
3 3 (1.75%) VPN
4 2 (1.17%) WAN
5 1 (0.58%) DHCP
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) NAS
5 1 (0.58%) SAN
5 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.58%) VLAN
5 1 (0.58%) VSAN
5 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.70%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.19%) Power BI
3 10 (5.85%) Geospatial Data
3 10 (5.85%) GIS
3 10 (5.85%) Metadata
4 3 (1.75%) EDMS
5 2 (1.17%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.58%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.51%) JIRA
2 3 (1.75%) Selenium
3 2 (1.17%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.17%) NUnit
3 2 (1.17%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 60 (35.09%) Legal
2 52 (30.41%) Social Skills
3 47 (27.49%) Finance
4 37 (21.64%) Law
5 36 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (16.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (11.70%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.51%) Marketing
10 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.75%) Publishing
11 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (23.98%) Senior
2 28 (16.37%) Analyst
2 28 (16.37%) Developer
3 23 (13.45%) IT Support
4 21 (12.28%) IT Analyst
4 21 (12.28%) Support Analyst
5 19 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
6 18 (10.53%) Project Officer
6 18 (10.53%) Project Support Officer
6 18 (10.53%) Senior Project Officer
6 18 (10.53%) Senior Project Support Officer
6 18 (10.53%) Support Officer
7 16 (9.36%) Lead
8 12 (7.02%) IT Support Specialist
8 12 (7.02%) Support Specialist
9 11 (6.43%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.85%) IT Director
10 10 (5.85%) IT Manager
11 9 (5.26%) Architect
11 9 (5.26%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.92%) HTML
1 5 (2.92%) XML
2 4 (2.34%) Middleware
3 3 (1.75%) CSS
3 3 (1.75%) Spring
4 2 (1.17%) .NET
4 2 (1.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.17%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.17%) Kafka
4 2 (1.17%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (1.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.58%) JWT
5 1 (0.58%) React
5 1 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.45%) Management Information System
1 23 (13.45%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (7.02%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (5.26%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.68%) iPhone
5 7 (4.09%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.34%) NHS
8 3 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.75%) Social Media
9 2 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.17%) LIMS
10 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.88%) Windows
2 8 (4.68%) Android
2 8 (4.68%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.34%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (17.54%) DevOps
3 28 (16.37%) CI/CD
4 25 (14.62%) Scrum
5 24 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (14.04%) Test Automation
6 23 (13.45%) Agile
7 22 (12.87%) ITIL
7 22 (12.87%) Migration
8 21 (12.28%) Requirements Gathering
8 21 (12.28%) Workflow
9 20 (11.70%) Case Management
9 20 (11.70%) Error Analysis
9 20 (11.70%) Project Delivery
10 19 (11.11%) Budget Management
10 19 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.11%) Cost Control
10 19 (11.11%) Order Management
11 16 (9.36%) Line Management
11 16 (9.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.13%) SQL
2 24 (14.04%) C#
3 22 (12.87%) Java
3 22 (12.87%) Python
4 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (22.22%) Degree
2 12 (7.02%) A+ Certification
2 12 (7.02%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.34%) MCP
4 4 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.75%) CISM
5 3 (1.75%) CISSP
5 3 (1.75%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.17%) HNC
6 2 (1.17%) HND
6 2 (1.17%) ISEB
7 1 (0.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.02%) PMO
2 6 (3.51%) QA
3 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (1.17%) ISO 19650
5 2 (1.17%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.17%) WCAG
6 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.58%) P3O
6 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.75%) PaperCut
2 2 (1.17%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.58%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.58%) Ansible
3 1 (0.58%) SCCM
3 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (51.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.87%) Guidewire
3 18 (10.53%) iManage
4 8 (4.68%) Cisco
5 5 (2.92%) HP
5 5 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.34%) Citrix
6 4 (2.34%) Intapp
7 3 (1.75%) Canon
7 3 (1.75%) Openreach
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.17%) Google
8 2 (1.17%) NEC
8 2 (1.17%) Northgate
8 2 (1.17%) Siebel
9 1 (0.58%) Aderant
9 1 (0.58%) Dell
9 1 (0.58%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.58%) OpenText
9 1 (0.58%) Workday