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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 368 492
Rank change year-on-year -13 +124 -63
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 492 356 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.71% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.99% 1.04% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 300 246 247
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.85% -8.89%

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 49,915 34,337 47,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.47% 68.79% 57.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,540 17,966 27,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,266 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -33 431 £52,500 -1.87% 287
UK excluding London +41 382 £50,000 +5.26% 214
Work from Home +6 128 £52,500 -12.50% 117
South East +31 102 £50,000 -31.03% 61
London -71 92 £70,000 +6.06% 117
North of England -32 78 £55,000 +29.41% 50
Midlands -29 63 £55,000 +29.41% 34
South West -23 56 £42,500 +6.25% 18
North West +15 54 £55,000 +29.41% 33
West Midlands -25 39 £54,500 +9.00% 24
East of England -16 38 £52,500 -2.78% 28
East Midlands -12 24 £60,000 +54.84% 10
Yorkshire -43 21 £57,500 +35.29% 14
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 6
Scotland +8 14 £48,000 - 15
Wales - 11 £55,000 - 4
North East -58 3 £37,250 +49.00% 4

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 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.86%) Confluence
4 11 (2.24%) IIS
5 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 37 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.86%) AutoCAD
4 12 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.02%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.83%) SAP CO
1 9 (1.83%) SAP FI
2 8 (1.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.02%) Infor CloudSuite
3 5 (1.02%) Infor LN
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 M3
5 3 (0.61%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.20%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (26.63%) Azure
2 94 (19.11%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (9.96%) AWS
4 46 (9.35%) Power Platform
5 45 (9.15%) Entra ID
6 28 (5.69%) SaaS
7 17 (3.46%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.64%) GitHub
10 12 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.24%) dbt
12 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.63%) Azure Stack
13 8 (1.63%) Serverless
14 7 (1.42%) Boomi
14 7 (1.42%) Lucidchart
14 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (1.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 56 (11.38%) Firewall
2 48 (9.76%) DNS
3 41 (8.33%) VPN
4 32 (6.50%) TCP/IP
5 26 (5.28%) DHCP
6 25 (5.08%) WAN
7 19 (3.86%) Network Security
7 19 (3.86%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (3.46%) TETRA
9 16 (3.25%) VLAN
9 16 (3.25%) Wireless
10 15 (3.05%) LAN
11 10 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (2.03%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.83%) SAN
13 8 (1.63%) BGP
13 8 (1.63%) HTTP
13 8 (1.63%) OSPF
14 7 (1.42%) VoIP
15 6 (1.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.91%) Power BI
2 20 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.42%) Metadata
4 6 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.22%) Looker
5 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.61%) Metabase
6 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) EDMS
7 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.41%) Power Query
7 2 (0.41%) Redis
7 2 (0.41%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (6.50%) JIRA
2 18 (3.66%) Git
3 11 (2.24%) GitLab
4 5 (1.02%) JUnit
5 4 (0.81%) Postman
5 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.61%) JMeter
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.41%) Mockito
7 2 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.20%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.20%) Hudson
8 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 259 (52.64%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (17.07%) Finance
4 50 (10.16%) Manufacturing
5 40 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (6.30%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (5.49%) Retail
8 25 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (4.88%) Legal
10 23 (4.67%) Law
11 18 (3.66%) Public Sector
12 16 (3.25%) Electronics
12 16 (3.25%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.85%) Marketing
14 12 (2.44%) Aerospace
15 10 (2.03%) Banking
16 7 (1.42%) Front Office
16 7 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.22%) Military
18 5 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (21.14%) Analyst
2 56 (11.38%) Senior
3 48 (9.76%) Support Analyst
4 44 (8.94%) Support Engineer
5 42 (8.54%) Consultant
6 39 (7.93%) IT Support
7 28 (5.69%) Architect
7 28 (5.69%) Business Analyst
7 28 (5.69%) Lead
8 26 (5.28%) Applications Support
9 24 (4.88%) IT Engineer
10 22 (4.47%) IT Support Engineer
10 22 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Developer
12 18 (3.66%) Security Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) Applications Support Analyst
13 17 (3.46%) Design Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) IT Analyst
13 17 (3.46%) RF Design Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.25%) REST
2 9 (1.83%) Middleware
2 9 (1.83%) Node.js
3 8 (1.63%) CSS
3 8 (1.63%) HTML
4 7 (1.42%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.22%) SOAP
6 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.02%) EDI
6 5 (1.02%) JSON
7 4 (0.81%) Jinja
7 4 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.81%) React
7 4 (0.81%) RESTful
7 4 (0.81%) YAML
8 3 (0.61%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.61%) CSS3
8 3 (0.61%) HTML5
8 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.93%) Driving Licence
2 36 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.25%) CCTV
6 15 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.24%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.83%) PKI
10 8 (1.63%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.63%) CMDB
10 8 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.22%) Blog
12 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.22%) IoT
13 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (20.33%) Windows
2 49 (9.96%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.91%) Linux
4 14 (2.85%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.44%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.83%) CentOS
9 8 (1.63%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.02%) Unix
10 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.61%) AIX
11 3 (0.61%) Android
11 3 (0.61%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.41%) Rocky
13 1 (0.20%) Solaris
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (29.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (14.02%) Agile
4 60 (12.20%) ITIL
5 54 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (9.96%) DevOps
7 48 (9.76%) Change Management
8 47 (9.55%) Business Analysis
8 47 (9.55%) ERP
9 46 (9.35%) Project Delivery
10 44 (8.94%) Customer Service
10 44 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 42 (8.54%) AI
12 39 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (7.93%) Disaster Recovery
13 37 (7.52%) CI/CD
14 36 (7.32%) Validation
15 35 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
16 34 (6.91%) Analytics
16 34 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 96 (19.51%) SQL
2 46 (9.35%) PowerShell
3 45 (9.15%) Python
4 21 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.24%) Bash
5 11 (2.24%) Java
6 10 (2.03%) C++
7 8 (1.63%) C#
8 7 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.22%) C
10 5 (1.02%) PHP
10 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.41%) Groovy
13 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (12.80%) Degree
2 58 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.64%) HND
7 10 (2.03%) SAP Certification
8 8 (1.63%) CCNA
8 8 (1.63%) CCNP
8 8 (1.63%) CISSP
8 8 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.22%) HNC
10 5 (1.02%) ACCA
10 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.81%) CIMA
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.15%) QA
2 32 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.46%) GDPR
5 15 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.03%) SLA
8 7 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.22%) NIST
10 5 (1.02%) GRC
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 22301
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 9001
10 5 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.28%) Hyper-V
3 23 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.46%) Docker
5 13 (2.64%) Firmware
6 6 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.02%) vSphere
8 3 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.61%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.41%) KVM
9 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.47%) Terraform
3 18 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.24%) Ansible
5 10 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.83%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.22%) Nagios
7 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.02%) SCCM
9 4 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.81%) Grafana
9 4 (0.81%) Podman
10 3 (0.61%) Argo
10 3 (0.61%) Puppet
10 3 (0.61%) VxRail
10 3 (0.61%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 159 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.72%) Cisco
3 30 (6.10%) VMware
4 24 (4.88%) SAP
5 21 (4.27%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.44%) JD Edwards
9 11 (2.24%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.83%) Dell
10 9 (1.83%) Google
10 9 (1.83%) Oracle
10 9 (1.83%) Veeam
11 8 (1.63%) Aruba
11 8 (1.63%) Juniper
11 8 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.63%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.63%) Sophos
12 7 (1.42%) Citrix
13 6 (1.22%) Sage