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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 406 479
Rank change year-on-year +46 +73 -21
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 492 312 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.64% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.06% 0.91% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 311 215 386
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +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 46,551 34,224 58,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.33% 69.81% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,597 17,440 38,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,327 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -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 11 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 11 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 +29 433 £52,500 -4.55% 150
UK excluding London +92 376 £47,500 - 129
Work from Home +28 129 £47,500 -20.83% 62
South East +42 102 £50,000 -28.57% 54
London -53 93 £71,250 +9.62% 43
North of England -6 86 £48,000 +14.29% 21
Midlands -14 60 £55,000 +10.00% 21
North West +26 54 £55,000 +4.76% 15
South West -33 47 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +6 41 £50,000 - 8
West Midlands -16 36 £52,500 +5.00% 11
East Midlands -13 24 £60,000 +71.43% 10
Yorkshire -33 24 £53,000 +26.19% 5
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 3
Scotland +14 10 £33,500 - 6
Wales -37 10 £57,500 +15.00% 4
North East -47 8 £45,000 +66.67% 1

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 42 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 31 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.85%) IIS
4 11 (2.24%) Confluence
5 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 42 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.86%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.02%) CorelDRAW
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.42%) SAP CO
1 7 (1.42%) SAP FI
2 6 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.02%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 143 (29.07%) Azure
2 103 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (10.57%) AWS
4 50 (10.16%) Power Platform
5 49 (9.96%) Entra ID
6 24 (4.88%) Power Automate
7 23 (4.67%) SaaS
8 16 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (3.05%) dbt
10 13 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.44%) GitHub
11 12 (2.44%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (1.83%) GCP
13 9 (1.83%) IaaS
14 8 (1.63%) Serverless
15 7 (1.42%) Azure Stack
16 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 6 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (13.41%) Firewall
2 57 (11.59%) DNS
3 50 (10.16%) VPN
4 41 (8.33%) DHCP
5 39 (7.93%) TCP/IP
6 30 (6.10%) VLAN
7 27 (5.49%) WAN
8 18 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (3.46%) TETRA
10 16 (3.25%) LAN
10 16 (3.25%) Network Security
10 16 (3.25%) Wireless
11 12 (2.44%) VoIP
12 10 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (2.03%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.83%) SAN
14 6 (1.22%) BGP
14 6 (1.22%) NAS
14 6 (1.22%) OSPF
15 5 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.93%) Power BI
2 35 (7.11%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.63%) Metabase
5 7 (1.42%) Metadata
6 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.22%) Looker
7 5 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.81%) Power Query
8 4 (0.81%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.61%) Big Data
9 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (5.49%) JIRA
2 23 (4.67%) Git
3 13 (2.64%) GitLab
4 10 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.02%) JUnit
7 4 (0.81%) Selenium
8 3 (0.61%) JMeter
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.41%) Mockito
9 2 (0.41%) Postman
9 2 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.20%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.20%) Hudson
10 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 269 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 93 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
2 93 (18.90%) Finance
3 42 (8.54%) Manufacturing
4 39 (7.93%) Organisational Skills
5 28 (5.69%) Retail
6 27 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (4.88%) Law
8 20 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.07%) Legal
9 18 (3.66%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.05%) Banking
10 15 (3.05%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.64%) Electronics
11 13 (2.64%) Marketing
12 10 (2.03%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.42%) Front Office
14 6 (1.22%) Military
15 5 (1.02%) Advertising
15 5 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 103 (20.93%) Analyst
2 53 (10.77%) IT Support
3 52 (10.57%) Support Analyst
4 49 (9.96%) Senior
5 44 (8.94%) Support Engineer
6 42 (8.54%) Consultant
7 26 (5.28%) Architect
7 26 (5.28%) Lead
8 24 (4.88%) Applications Support
9 23 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 23 (4.67%) IT Engineer
10 22 (4.47%) Security Engineer
10 22 (4.47%) Systems Analyst
10 22 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
11 21 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
11 21 (4.27%) Systems Support
12 20 (4.07%) IT Analyst
13 19 (3.86%) Developer
14 18 (3.66%) Applications Support Analyst
14 18 (3.66%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.44%) Middleware
2 10 (2.03%) REST
3 9 (1.83%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.83%) Node.js
4 8 (1.63%) CSS
4 8 (1.63%) HTML
5 6 (1.22%) .NET
5 6 (1.22%) JSON
6 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.02%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.02%) Jinja
6 5 (1.02%) YAML
7 4 (0.81%) React
7 4 (0.81%) RESTful
7 4 (0.81%) SOAP
8 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.61%) CSS3
8 3 (0.61%) HTML5
8 3 (0.61%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.52%) Driving Licence
2 32 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.85%) CCTV
6 14 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.63%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.63%) CMDB
9 8 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.63%) PKI
10 7 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.42%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.22%) Blog
11 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 117 (23.78%) Windows
2 68 (13.82%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.54%) Linux
4 14 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.24%) CentOS
7 9 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.02%) Debian
9 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.81%) VMS
11 3 (0.61%) AIX
11 3 (0.61%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.41%) Rocky
12 2 (0.41%) Unix
13 1 (0.20%) Android
13 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 128 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (13.01%) ITIL
4 62 (12.60%) Agile
5 51 (10.37%) Change Management
5 51 (10.37%) Project Delivery
6 49 (9.96%) ERP
7 44 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (8.94%) DevOps
8 42 (8.54%) CI/CD
9 41 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (8.13%) Customer Service
10 40 (8.13%) Root Cause Analysis
11 38 (7.72%) AI
12 36 (7.32%) Analytics
12 36 (7.32%) Incident Management
13 33 (6.71%) Business Analysis
14 32 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 32 (6.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.53%) SQL
2 57 (11.59%) Python
3 55 (11.18%) PowerShell
4 24 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.66%) Bash
6 15 (3.05%) Java
7 9 (1.83%) C#
7 9 (1.83%) C++
8 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.22%) PHP
9 5 (1.02%) C
9 5 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.61%) Ruby
11 2 (0.41%) ABAP
11 2 (0.41%) Bicep
11 2 (0.41%) Groovy
11 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (15.24%) Degree
2 58 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.85%) Azure Certification
4 14 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.44%) HND
6 10 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.42%) CCNP
8 7 (1.42%) CISSP
8 7 (1.42%) SAP Certification
9 6 (1.22%) CCNA
9 6 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.22%) HNC
10 5 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.81%) CISM
11 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.15%) QA
2 32 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.25%) GDPR
5 15 (3.05%) SLA
6 14 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (1.63%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.63%) NIST
9 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.22%) GRC
9 6 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.61%) NCSC
12 3 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (16.26%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.10%) Hyper-V
3 26 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.07%) Docker
5 6 (1.22%) Firmware
5 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.61%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.61%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.41%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (4.88%) Terraform
3 20 (4.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.64%) Ansible
5 10 (2.03%) Nagios
6 8 (1.63%) SCCM
7 7 (1.42%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.42%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.02%) Backup Exec
9 5 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.02%) Grafana
9 5 (1.02%) Podman
9 5 (1.02%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.81%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.61%) Puppet
12 2 (0.41%) Argo
12 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 176 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.94%) Cisco
3 35 (7.11%) VMware
4 23 (4.67%) SAP
5 18 (3.66%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.44%) Citrix
8 11 (2.24%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.03%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.03%) Veeam
10 9 (1.83%) Google
11 8 (1.63%) Aruba
11 8 (1.63%) JD Edwards
11 8 (1.63%) Juniper
11 8 (1.63%) Sophos
12 7 (1.42%) Oracle
12 7 (1.42%) Splunk
13 6 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.22%) Red Hat