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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 377 490
Rank change year-on-year -6 +113 -39
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 495 359 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.72% 0.41%
As % of the General category 1.00% 1.04% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 305 248 255
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,500
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 49,582 34,450 47,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.67% 68.98% 57.36%
Number of salaries quoted 30,326 18,013 28,361
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -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 13 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 13 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 -40 434 £52,500 -3.67% 244
UK excluding London +37 383 £50,000 +5.26% 169
Work from Home +9 131 £52,250 -12.92% 97
South East +46 103 £50,000 -33.33% 52
London -87 94 £70,000 +6.06% 98
North of England -37 79 £55,000 +29.41% 39
Midlands -28 62 £55,000 +29.41% 26
South West -17 56 £42,500 +6.25% 18
North West +25 53 £55,000 +29.41% 24
West Midlands -24 39 £54,500 +11.22% 15
East of England -14 38 £52,500 -1.41% 19
East Midlands -21 23 £60,000 +54.84% 11
Yorkshire -42 21 £57,500 +35.29% 10
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 4
Scotland +26 14 £48,000 - 9
Wales - 11 £55,000 - 4
North East -56 5 £45,000 +80.00% 5

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 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.64%) Confluence
4 12 (2.42%) IIS
5 5 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 36 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.84%) AutoCAD
4 11 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.01%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.82%) SAP CO
1 9 (1.82%) SAP FI
2 8 (1.62%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.01%) Infor CloudSuite
3 5 (1.01%) Infor LN
3 5 (1.01%) 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 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.40%) 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
1 133 (26.87%) Azure
2 94 (18.99%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (9.90%) AWS
4 47 (9.49%) Power Platform
5 44 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 29 (5.86%) SaaS
7 19 (3.84%) Power Automate
8 16 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.63%) GitHub
11 12 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.22%) dbt
13 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (1.62%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.62%) Serverless
15 7 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (1.41%) Boomi
15 7 (1.41%) Lucidchart
15 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (1.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.72%) Firewall
2 48 (9.70%) DNS
3 43 (8.69%) VPN
4 32 (6.46%) TCP/IP
5 26 (5.25%) DHCP
6 25 (5.05%) WAN
7 19 (3.84%) Network Security
7 19 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (3.64%) VLAN
9 17 (3.43%) TETRA
10 16 (3.23%) Wireless
11 15 (3.03%) LAN
12 10 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (2.02%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.82%) SAN
13 9 (1.82%) VoIP
14 8 (1.62%) BGP
14 8 (1.62%) OSPF
15 6 (1.21%) HTTP
15 6 (1.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.07%) Power BI
2 23 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.62%) Metadata
4 7 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.21%) Looker
6 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.81%) Metabase
7 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.40%) EDMS
8 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.40%) Power Query
8 2 (0.40%) Redis
8 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (6.46%) JIRA
2 19 (3.84%) Git
3 12 (2.42%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) JUnit
4 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.81%) Postman
5 4 (0.81%) Selenium
6 3 (0.61%) JMeter
7 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.40%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.40%) Mockito
7 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.20%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.20%) Hudson
8 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 262 (52.93%) Social Skills
2 95 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (16.97%) Finance
4 50 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 39 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (5.45%) Retail
8 24 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.85%) Law
9 23 (4.65%) Legal
10 18 (3.64%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.23%) Electronics
11 16 (3.23%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.83%) Marketing
13 11 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 10 (2.02%) Banking
15 7 (1.41%) Front Office
15 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.21%) Military
17 5 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (21.62%) Analyst
2 54 (10.91%) Senior
3 51 (10.30%) Support Analyst
4 46 (9.29%) Support Engineer
5 41 (8.28%) Consultant
6 40 (8.08%) IT Support
7 28 (5.66%) Architect
7 28 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 28 (5.66%) Lead
8 27 (5.45%) Applications Support
9 24 (4.85%) IT Engineer
10 22 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
10 22 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.04%) Developer
12 19 (3.84%) Security Engineer
13 18 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
13 18 (3.64%) IT Analyst
13 18 (3.64%) Systems Analyst
14 17 (3.43%) Audio Visual Engineer
14 17 (3.43%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.23%) REST
2 9 (1.82%) Middleware
2 9 (1.82%) Node.js
3 8 (1.62%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.62%) CSS
3 8 (1.62%) HTML
4 7 (1.41%) SOAP
5 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.01%) EDI
5 5 (1.01%) JSON
6 4 (0.81%) Jinja
6 4 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (0.81%) React
6 4 (0.81%) RESTful
6 4 (0.81%) YAML
7 3 (0.61%) .NET
7 3 (0.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.61%) Playwright
7 3 (0.61%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.88%) Driving Licence
2 35 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.03%) CCTV
6 15 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.82%) PKI
10 8 (1.62%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.62%) CMDB
10 8 (1.62%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.21%) Blog
12 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.01%) IoT
13 5 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 102 (20.61%) Windows
2 51 (10.30%) Windows Server
3 37 (7.47%) Linux
4 14 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.02%) CentOS
8 8 (1.62%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.01%) Unix
9 5 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.61%) AIX
10 3 (0.61%) Android
10 3 (0.61%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.40%) Debian
11 2 (0.40%) Rocky
12 1 (0.20%) Solaris
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (29.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (14.14%) Agile
4 58 (11.72%) ITIL
5 53 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (10.30%) DevOps
7 49 (9.90%) Change Management
8 48 (9.70%) ERP
9 46 (9.29%) Business Analysis
9 46 (9.29%) Project Delivery
10 44 (8.89%) AI
10 44 (8.89%) Customer Service
10 44 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
11 40 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (7.88%) CI/CD
13 38 (7.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (7.07%) Validation
15 34 (6.87%) Analytics
15 34 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.80%) SQL
2 49 (9.90%) Python
3 48 (9.70%) PowerShell
4 22 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.83%) Bash
6 11 (2.22%) Java
7 10 (2.02%) C++
8 8 (1.62%) C#
9 6 (1.21%) C
9 6 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.01%) PHP
10 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) Go
13 2 (0.40%) Groovy
13 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (13.13%) Degree
2 58 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.63%) HND
6 10 (2.02%) SAP Certification
7 8 (1.62%) CCNA
7 8 (1.62%) CCNP
7 8 (1.62%) CISSP
7 8 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.21%) HNC
10 5 (1.01%) ACCA
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 44 (8.89%) QA
2 33 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.43%) GDPR
5 15 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (2.22%) SLA
7 10 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.21%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.21%) NIST
8 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.01%) GRC
9 5 (1.01%) ISO 22301
9 5 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
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 58 (11.72%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.25%) Hyper-V
3 22 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.64%) Docker
5 11 (2.22%) Firmware
6 5 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.81%) vSphere
8 3 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.61%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.40%) KVM
9 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.65%) Terraform
3 19 (3.84%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.42%) Ansible
5 9 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 9 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.41%) Nagios
7 6 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.01%) SCCM
8 5 (1.01%) vCenter Server
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%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.40%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.40%) VxRail
12 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 161 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.08%) Cisco
3 29 (5.86%) VMware
4 25 (5.05%) SAP
5 21 (4.24%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.22%) JD Edwards
7 11 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.82%) Google
8 9 (1.82%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.82%) Oracle
9 8 (1.62%) Aruba
9 8 (1.62%) Dell
9 8 (1.62%) Juniper
9 8 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.62%) Sophos
9 8 (1.62%) Veeam
10 7 (1.41%) Citrix
11 6 (1.21%) Sage