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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 498 428
Rank change year-on-year +201 -70 +60
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 415 215 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.59% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 272 109 265
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -11.63%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,731 36,740 31,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 60.34% 65.56% 65.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19,329 17,281 23,395
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -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 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 16 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 23 December 2025. 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 +219 387 £55,000 -15.38% 451
UK excluding London +176 261 £45,000 -7.69% 410
Work from Home +101 140 £55,000 -4.35% 350
London +94 135 £77,500 +6.90% 86
South East +96 79 £52,000 +9.47% 107
Midlands +56 75 £45,000 -13.46% 77
North of England +38 47 £42,500 -19.05% 97
West Midlands +49 39 £55,750 -10.80% 44
East Midlands +13 35 £45,000 - 29
East of England +45 29 £30,370 -24.55% 66
North West +37 23 £37,000 -27.45% 42
Yorkshire +10 22 £47,500 -9.52% 47
South West +16 18 £55,000 +74.60% 40
Scotland +14 11 £35,000 -39.13% 16
North East +11 2 - - 9
Wales -8 2 £48,000 +1.05% 12

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 23 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.48%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 63 (15.18%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.37%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.20%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.72%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.24%) Postilion
7 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.33%) Azure
2 64 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (9.16%) AWS
4 33 (7.95%) SaaS
5 28 (6.75%) Power Platform
6 25 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.37%) IaaS
10 12 (2.89%) GitHub
10 12 (2.89%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.65%) GCP
11 11 (2.65%) PaaS
11 11 (2.65%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.45%) ChatGPT
15 6 (1.45%) iPaaS
15 6 (1.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.88%) Firewall
2 31 (7.47%) DNS
3 26 (6.27%) DHCP
3 26 (6.27%) VPN
4 21 (5.06%) TCP/IP
5 20 (4.82%) LAN
6 16 (3.86%) VLAN
7 15 (3.61%) Network Security
8 13 (3.13%) BGP
9 11 (2.65%) WAN
9 11 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.41%) OSPF
10 10 (2.41%) SAN
11 7 (1.69%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.45%) DMZ
12 6 (1.45%) VoIP
12 6 (1.45%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.20%) STUN
13 5 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.10%) Power BI
3 16 (3.86%) Tableau
4 15 (3.61%) BigQuery
5 10 (2.41%) Metadata
6 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.96%) Metabase
8 4 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.24%) Big Data
11 1 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (4.58%) JIRA
2 9 (2.17%) Git
3 5 (1.20%) Subversion
3 5 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.96%) Postman
5 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.48%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) GitLab
6 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 213 (51.33%) Social Skills
2 99 (23.86%) Finance
3 83 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.84%) Legal
5 33 (7.95%) Banking
6 26 (6.27%) Retail
7 23 (5.54%) Law
8 21 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (4.58%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.61%) Back Office
11 13 (3.13%) Advertising
11 13 (3.13%) German Language
11 13 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.89%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.93%) Marketing
16 7 (1.69%) Electronics
17 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (25.06%) Analyst
2 65 (15.66%) Senior
3 34 (8.19%) Architect
4 32 (7.71%) Business Analyst
5 29 (6.99%) Lead
6 23 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (5.54%) Network Engineer
7 22 (5.30%) IT Support
8 21 (5.06%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.58%) Service Analyst
10 18 (4.34%) Data Analyst
10 18 (4.34%) Developer
10 18 (4.34%) IT Analyst
10 18 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.86%) Applications Support
11 16 (3.86%) Data Quality Analyst
11 16 (3.86%) Quality Analyst
12 15 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.37%) Consultant
13 14 (3.37%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.13%) XML
2 12 (2.89%) .NET
3 7 (1.69%) REST
4 5 (1.20%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.20%) HTML
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (0.96%) OAuth
5 4 (0.96%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.96%) OpenID
5 4 (0.96%) PySpark
5 4 (0.96%) React
5 4 (0.96%) SAML
6 3 (0.72%) CSS
6 3 (0.72%) Kafka
7 2 (0.48%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.48%) Middleware
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.82%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (3.86%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.37%) NHS
5 13 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 12 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.89%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.41%) CMDB
8 9 (2.17%) Life Science
8 9 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.93%) Clustering
9 8 (1.93%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.93%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.20%) IoT
12 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.39%) Windows
2 33 (7.95%) Windows Server
3 26 (6.27%) Linux
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 5 (1.20%) Debian
5 5 (1.20%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (17.11%) Agile
4 58 (13.98%) ITIL
5 53 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (11.08%) Validation
7 41 (9.88%) Migration
8 40 (9.64%) DevOps
9 39 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (7.95%) Change Management
11 32 (7.71%) AI
12 30 (7.23%) Computer Science
12 30 (7.23%) Project Delivery
12 30 (7.23%) Test Automation
13 29 (6.99%) Analytics
13 29 (6.99%) Incident Response
14 28 (6.75%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (6.75%) Customer Service
14 28 (6.75%) Mentoring
14 28 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.66%) SQL
2 34 (8.19%) Python
3 33 (7.95%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.82%) C#
5 16 (3.86%) Java
6 14 (3.37%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.13%) VBA
8 11 (2.65%) C
9 6 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.96%) Bash
10 4 (0.96%) PHP
10 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.72%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) Go
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) R
13 1 (0.24%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 109 (26.27%) Degree
2 47 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.99%) CISSP
5 25 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (5.06%) CCNP
6 21 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.34%) CISM
8 15 (3.61%) Numerate Degree
9 14 (3.37%) DV Cleared
10 12 (2.89%) CCIE
11 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.93%) CCSA
12 8 (1.93%) CCSE
12 8 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.69%) CEH
13 7 (1.69%) HNC
14 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 36 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.34%) SLA
4 17 (4.10%) QA
5 15 (3.61%) GDPR
5 15 (3.61%) ISO 9001
6 14 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (3.13%) NIST
8 9 (2.17%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (1.69%) MiFID
11 6 (1.45%) GRC
12 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
12 5 (1.20%) PMO
13 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.72%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.48%) COBIT
15 2 (0.48%) UCITS
System Software
1 52 (12.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.86%) Hyper-V
2 16 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.69%) Firmware
4 5 (1.20%) Docker
4 5 (1.20%) Kamailio
4 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) Ceph
6 1 (0.24%) Lustre
6 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 16 (3.86%) SCCM
2 13 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.13%) Terraform
3 9 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (1.20%) Ansible
6 5 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.20%) Grafana
7 4 (0.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (0.96%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.72%) cPanel
8 3 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.72%) Nessus
8 3 (0.72%) Plesk
9 2 (0.48%) Kibana
9 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 133 (32.05%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.51%) Cisco
3 21 (5.06%) VMware
4 14 (3.37%) Oracle
5 13 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 13 (3.13%) F5
6 11 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.41%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.41%) Pega
8 9 (2.17%) Blue Prism
8 9 (2.17%) Citrix
8 9 (2.17%) Veeam
9 8 (1.93%) iManage
9 8 (1.93%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.93%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.69%) Qualys
11 6 (1.45%) Dell
11 6 (1.45%) Intapp
11 6 (1.45%) Juniper