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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 347 536
Rank change year-on-year -25 +189 -105
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 523 369 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.74% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.09% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 343 258 137
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -16.92% +17.87%
75th Percentile £61,875 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +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 54,552 33,942 42,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.16% 68.33% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 33,414 17,538 20,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,075 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -0.99%

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 7 October 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 7 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
England -43 463 £51,500 -4.63% 523
UK excluding London +9 407 £47,500 +5.56% 340
Work from Home -29 145 £48,500 -11.01% 203
London -89 101 £63,500 -16.72% 215
South East -11 98 £50,000 -7.83% 119
North of England -38 86 £52,136 +22.67% 66
South West -6 83 £43,000 +7.50% 37
Midlands -38 59 £52,500 +16.67% 51
North West +8 57 £55,000 +48.65% 46
West Midlands -42 39 £51,500 -6.32% 38
East of England -25 33 £55,000 +0.92% 38
Yorkshire -44 22 £57,500 +21.05% 13
East Midlands -35 20 £55,000 +29.41% 13
Scotland +22 19 £33,500 - 19
Wales - 15 £52,500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 3
North East -66 7 £29,500 +18.00% 7

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 36 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.93%) Confluence
3 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.10%) IIS
5 5 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 34 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.29%) AutoCAD
5 7 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.96%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.38%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.53%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.53%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (0.96%) Infor CloudSuite
3 5 (0.96%) Infor LN
3 5 (0.96%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.57%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.57%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.19%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 142 (27.15%) Azure
2 88 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (12.05%) Power Platform
4 55 (10.52%) AWS
5 48 (9.18%) Entra ID
6 32 (6.12%) SaaS
7 25 (4.78%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.49%) GCP
9 13 (2.49%) GitHub
9 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.91%) n8n
11 10 (1.91%) Serverless
11 10 (1.91%) Zapier
12 9 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.53%) Azure Stack
13 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.28%) Firewall
2 50 (9.56%) VPN
3 49 (9.37%) DNS
4 38 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 28 (5.35%) DHCP
6 25 (4.78%) Network Security
7 24 (4.59%) VLAN
7 24 (4.59%) Wireless
8 20 (3.82%) WAN
9 16 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (2.87%) LAN
11 12 (2.29%) BGP
12 11 (2.10%) SAN
12 11 (2.10%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.10%) TETRA
13 10 (1.91%) Intrusion Detection
14 9 (1.72%) HTTP
14 9 (1.72%) OSPF
15 6 (1.15%) VoIP
16 5 (0.96%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.33%) Power BI
2 20 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.91%) Metadata
4 8 (1.53%) Big Data
4 8 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.76%) Looker
7 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.38%) EDMS
9 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.38%) Redis
9 2 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.19%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 44 (8.41%) JIRA
2 14 (2.68%) Git
3 5 (0.96%) GitLab
3 5 (0.96%) JUnit
3 5 (0.96%) Postman
4 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.57%) Selenium
6 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.38%) JMeter
6 2 (0.38%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.38%) Mockito
6 2 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.19%) Hudson
7 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 290 (55.45%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.02%) Finance
4 48 (9.18%) Manufacturing
5 42 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (5.74%) Legal
8 21 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.82%) Law
9 20 (3.82%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.63%) Banking
11 18 (3.44%) Aerospace
11 18 (3.44%) Retail
12 13 (2.49%) Marketing
12 13 (2.49%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.10%) Electronics
14 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.53%) Military
16 6 (1.15%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.96%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 108 (20.65%) Analyst
2 61 (11.66%) Support Engineer
3 60 (11.47%) Senior
4 46 (8.80%) Consultant
5 44 (8.41%) Business Analyst
6 37 (7.07%) IT Support
7 34 (6.50%) IT Engineer
8 33 (6.31%) Support Analyst
9 30 (5.74%) Applications Support
10 28 (5.35%) IT Support Engineer
11 24 (4.59%) Architect
12 23 (4.40%) Developer
12 23 (4.40%) Lead
13 20 (3.82%) Test Engineer
14 19 (3.63%) Security Engineer
14 19 (3.63%) Systems Support
15 17 (3.25%) IT Analyst
16 16 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
17 15 (2.87%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.59%) REST
2 22 (4.21%) Terraform
3 11 (2.10%) Playwright
4 10 (1.91%) CSS
4 10 (1.91%) HTML
5 9 (1.72%) JSON
5 9 (1.72%) Middleware
5 9 (1.72%) Node.js
5 9 (1.72%) XML
6 7 (1.34%) .NET
7 6 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.15%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.15%) RESTful
7 6 (1.15%) SOAP
8 5 (0.96%) EDI
8 5 (0.96%) HTML5
8 5 (0.96%) React
9 4 (0.76%) CSS3
10 3 (0.57%) Matplotlib
10 3 (0.57%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.52%) Driving Licence
2 36 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.87%) CCTV
6 15 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.72%) Replication
10 8 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.53%) PKI
11 7 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.34%) CMDB
11 7 (1.34%) IoT
12 6 (1.15%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 100 (19.12%) Windows
2 49 (9.37%) Windows Server
3 35 (6.69%) Linux
4 16 (3.06%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.29%) Windows 10
7 11 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.72%) CentOS
9 8 (1.53%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.76%) Rocky
11 4 (0.76%) Unix
12 3 (0.57%) AIX
12 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.38%) Android
13 2 (0.38%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.19%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.19%) Solaris
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (24.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 84 (16.06%) Agile
4 76 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (11.85%) Business Analysis
6 59 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (10.90%) DevOps
8 56 (10.71%) AI
9 53 (10.13%) Requirements Gathering
10 52 (9.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 51 (9.75%) ITIL
12 50 (9.56%) Validation
13 49 (9.37%) Migration
14 48 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
15 47 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 46 (8.80%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (8.60%) ERP
17 45 (8.60%) Workflow
18 43 (8.22%) Process Improvement
18 43 (8.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.65%) SQL
2 58 (11.09%) PowerShell
3 45 (8.60%) Python
4 18 (3.44%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.29%) Bash
6 11 (2.10%) Java
7 10 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (1.53%) C#
8 8 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.15%) C
9 6 (1.15%) C++
10 4 (0.76%) PHP
10 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.57%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (0.57%) Ruby
12 2 (0.38%) Bicep
12 2 (0.38%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.38%) Go
12 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.71%) Degree
3 40 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.49%) CCNP
5 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.10%) CCNA
7 10 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.91%) HND
7 10 (1.91%) SAP Certification
8 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.15%) CISSP
10 6 (1.15%) HNC
11 5 (0.96%) ACCA
11 5 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.76%) CBAP
12 4 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.47%) QA
2 33 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (6.12%) GDPR
4 27 (5.16%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.29%) NIST
7 9 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.72%) SLA
8 7 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.34%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.96%) ISO 22301
9 5 (0.96%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.76%) GRC
11 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.57%) WCAG
12 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 50 (9.56%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.35%) Hyper-V
3 24 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (3.63%) Docker
5 12 (2.29%) Firmware
6 8 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.96%) vSphere
8 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (5.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.06%) Ansible
4 15 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.91%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.34%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.76%) Grafana
8 4 (0.76%) Nagios
8 4 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.76%) Podman
8 4 (0.76%) VxRail
9 2 (0.38%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.19%) QRadar
10 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 169 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.27%) Cisco
3 31 (5.93%) VMware
4 27 (5.16%) SAP
5 21 (4.02%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.87%) Google
7 15 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.87%) Veeam
8 13 (2.49%) Dell
9 12 (2.29%) JD Edwards
9 12 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 11 (2.10%) Oracle
11 9 (1.72%) Aruba
12 8 (1.53%) Juniper
13 6 (1.15%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.15%) Splunk
14 5 (0.96%) Infor
14 5 (0.96%) NetApp
14 5 (0.96%) Sage