Documentation Skills Job Trends

Documentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 383 481
Rank change year-on-year +10 +98 -24
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 491 341 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.69% 0.44%
As % of the General category 1.04% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 306 237 301
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £41,063 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,250 £87,348
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -5.56%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 47,428 34,194 51,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.91% 69.35% 57.51%
Number of salaries quoted 29,068 17,842 32,065
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,243 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the UK

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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 -6 430 £52,500 -4.55% 164
UK excluding London +51 376 £50,000 +5.26% 130
Work from Home +14 129 £52,500 -12.50% 70
South East +48 110 £50,000 -31.03% 52
London -63 92 £70,000 +7.69% 49
North of England -19 81 £52,500 +23.53% 20
Midlands -24 60 £55,000 +25.17% 20
North West +29 53 £55,000 +18.92% 14
South West -37 47 £42,500 +6.25% 17
West Midlands -18 38 £53,250 +6.50% 10
East of England -8 37 £48,750 -8.45% 10
East Midlands -23 22 £60,000 +71.43% 10
Yorkshire -50 22 £56,250 +33.14% 6
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +28 11 £33,500 - 7
Wales - 10 £57,500 - 4
North East -48 6 £45,000 +80.00%

Documentation Skills
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 40 (8.15%) SharePoint
2 30 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.26%) Confluence
4 14 (2.85%) IIS
5 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 39 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.87%) AutoCAD
4 9 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.02%) CorelDRAW
7 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.63%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.61%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.61%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.20%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 133 (27.09%) Azure
2 97 (19.76%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (10.39%) AWS
4 47 (9.57%) Power Platform
5 45 (9.16%) Entra ID
6 23 (4.68%) SaaS
7 20 (4.07%) Power Automate
8 16 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.85%) GitHub
11 13 (2.65%) dbt
12 11 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (1.63%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.63%) GCP
14 8 (1.63%) Serverless
15 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (1.22%) IaaS
15 6 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (12.42%) Firewall
2 52 (10.59%) DNS
3 45 (9.16%) VPN
4 34 (6.92%) DHCP
4 34 (6.92%) TCP/IP
5 26 (5.30%) VLAN
6 25 (5.09%) WAN
7 20 (4.07%) Network Security
8 18 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (3.46%) TETRA
10 16 (3.26%) LAN
10 16 (3.26%) Wireless
11 11 (2.24%) VoIP
12 10 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (2.04%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.83%) SAN
14 8 (1.63%) BGP
14 8 (1.63%) OSPF
15 6 (1.22%) NAS
16 5 (1.02%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.33%) Power BI
2 28 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.63%) Metadata
5 6 (1.22%) Looker
5 6 (1.22%) Metabase
6 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.81%) Power Query
6 4 (0.81%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.41%) Big Data
8 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.20%) Flink
9 1 (0.20%) Parquet
9 1 (0.20%) Redis
9 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (6.31%) JIRA
2 22 (4.48%) Git
3 14 (2.85%) GitLab
4 7 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.02%) JUnit
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
6 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.61%) JMeter
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.41%) Mockito
8 2 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 265 (53.97%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (18.53%) Finance
4 46 (9.37%) Manufacturing
5 37 (7.54%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 28 (5.70%) Retail
7 23 (4.68%) Law
8 22 (4.48%) Legal
9 20 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.67%) Telecoms
11 17 (3.46%) Public Sector
12 15 (3.05%) Marketing
13 14 (2.85%) Electronics
14 12 (2.44%) Banking
15 10 (2.04%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.43%) Front Office
17 6 (1.22%) Military
18 5 (1.02%) Advertising
18 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (21.79%) Analyst
2 52 (10.59%) Support Analyst
3 51 (10.39%) Senior
4 46 (9.37%) IT Support
5 44 (8.96%) Support Engineer
6 43 (8.76%) Consultant
7 29 (5.91%) Lead
8 26 (5.30%) Business Analyst
9 24 (4.89%) Applications Support
9 24 (4.89%) Architect
9 24 (4.89%) IT Engineer
10 22 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
10 22 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Systems Analyst
12 19 (3.87%) Developer
12 19 (3.87%) Security Engineer
12 19 (3.87%) Systems Support
13 18 (3.67%) Applications Support Analyst
13 18 (3.67%) IT Analyst
14 17 (3.46%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.24%) REST
2 9 (1.83%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.83%) Middleware
2 9 (1.83%) Node.js
3 8 (1.63%) CSS
3 8 (1.63%) HTML
4 6 (1.22%) JSON
5 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.02%) Jinja
5 5 (1.02%) YAML
6 4 (0.81%) .NET
6 4 (0.81%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (0.81%) React
6 4 (0.81%) RESTful
6 4 (0.81%) SOAP
7 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.61%) HTML5
7 3 (0.61%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.13%) Driving Licence
2 32 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.65%) CCTV
7 13 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.83%) PKI
10 8 (1.63%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.63%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.63%) CMDB
10 8 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.22%) Blog
12 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.22%) Replication
13 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.20%) Windows
2 61 (12.42%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.55%) Linux
4 14 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.24%) CentOS
7 10 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.63%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.81%) Debian
11 3 (0.61%) AIX
11 3 (0.61%) Unix
11 3 (0.61%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.41%) Android
12 2 (0.41%) Rocky
12 2 (0.41%) VMS
13 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (28.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (14.05%) Agile
4 63 (12.83%) ITIL
5 51 (10.39%) DevOps
5 51 (10.39%) Project Delivery
6 49 (9.98%) Change Management
7 48 (9.78%) ERP
8 44 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
9 43 (8.76%) Customer Service
9 43 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (8.35%) AI
10 41 (8.35%) CI/CD
11 40 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (7.74%) Analytics
13 37 (7.54%) Business Analysis
14 35 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (6.92%) Incident Management
15 34 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.96%) SQL
2 53 (10.79%) Python
3 51 (10.39%) PowerShell
4 22 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.46%) Bash
6 14 (2.85%) Java
7 10 (2.04%) C++
8 8 (1.63%) C#
9 6 (1.22%) C
9 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.22%) PHP
10 5 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.61%) Ruby
11 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.41%) ABAP
12 2 (0.41%) Bicep
12 2 (0.41%) Groovy
12 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (14.46%) Degree
2 59 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.44%) HND
7 11 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.83%) CCNP
8 9 (1.83%) SAP Certification
9 8 (1.63%) CCNA
9 8 (1.63%) CISSP
9 8 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.22%) HNC
11 5 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.81%) ACCA
12 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.96%) QA
2 33 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.09%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.05%) GDPR
5 14 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.85%) SLA
6 11 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.63%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.22%) NIST
9 5 (1.02%) GRC
9 5 (1.02%) ISO 22301
9 5 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.61%) NCSC
11 3 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (14.46%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.91%) Hyper-V
3 24 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.07%) Docker
5 9 (1.83%) Firmware
6 5 (1.02%) vSphere
7 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.61%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.41%) KVM
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (5.09%) Terraform
3 21 (4.28%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.65%) Ansible
5 10 (2.04%) FortiGate
6 8 (1.63%) Nagios
7 7 (1.43%) SCCM
7 7 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.02%) Grafana
9 5 (1.02%) Podman
9 5 (1.02%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.61%) Argo
10 3 (0.61%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.61%) Puppet
11 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 166 (33.81%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.96%) Cisco
3 32 (6.52%) VMware
4 23 (4.68%) SAP
5 20 (4.07%) Fortinet
6 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.24%) Google
9 10 (2.04%) Citrix
9 10 (2.04%) Veeam
10 9 (1.83%) JD Edwards
11 8 (1.63%) Aruba
11 8 (1.63%) Juniper
11 8 (1.63%) Oracle
11 8 (1.63%) Sophos
12 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.43%) Splunk
13 6 (1.22%) Dell
13 6 (1.22%) MuleSoft