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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 414 465
Rank change year-on-year +41 +51 +1
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 457 277 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.84% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 290 192 412
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,050 £26,025
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,844 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,850
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.08% -9.83%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,475 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -2.78%

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 44,905 32,869 61,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.29% 72.52% 57.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27,633 16,219 40,774
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,975 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +31 403 £52,136 -5.21% 150
UK excluding London +79 350 £47,500 - 128
Work from Home +39 115 £47,500 -24.30% 71
South East +35 91 £47,750 -31.79% 45
North of England +1 88 £45,000 +7.14% 29
London -63 87 £75,000 +18.11% 49
Midlands -3 55 £55,500 +11.00% 27
North West +31 51 £53,386 -2.93% 16
South West -35 41 £42,500 +6.25% 7
East of England +2 37 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -16 32 £53,250 +3.50% 17
Yorkshire -29 29 £34,000 -19.05% 9
East Midlands -14 23 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +17 10 £33,500 - 7
Wales -39 8 £55,000 +10.00% 6
North East -42 8 £45,000 +66.67% 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 33 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.63%) IIS
4 10 (2.19%) Confluence
5 6 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 43 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.16%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.88%) CorelDRAW
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) SAP CO
1 6 (1.31%) SAP FI
2 5 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 136 (29.76%) Azure
2 98 (21.44%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (11.16%) AWS
4 49 (10.72%) Power Platform
5 41 (8.97%) Entra ID
6 28 (6.13%) SaaS
7 25 (5.47%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.28%) dbt
8 15 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.84%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.19%) GitHub
11 10 (2.19%) Serverless
12 9 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.97%) IaaS
12 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (1.97%) PaaS
13 8 (1.75%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.53%) Azure Stack
14 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.35%) Firewall
2 51 (11.16%) DNS
3 48 (10.50%) VPN
4 38 (8.32%) DHCP
5 36 (7.88%) TCP/IP
6 28 (6.13%) VLAN
7 25 (5.47%) WAN
8 18 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (3.72%) TETRA
10 16 (3.50%) Network Security
11 14 (3.06%) LAN
12 13 (2.84%) Wireless
13 12 (2.63%) VoIP
14 10 (2.19%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (1.97%) SD-WAN
16 6 (1.31%) NAS
16 6 (1.31%) SAN
17 5 (1.09%) BGP
17 5 (1.09%) DMZ
17 5 (1.09%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.53%) Power BI
2 34 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.75%) Metabase
5 8 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.31%) Looker
7 6 (1.31%) Metadata
7 6 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.88%) Power Query
9 4 (0.88%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.66%) Big Data
10 3 (0.66%) MySQL
10 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (5.69%) JIRA
2 24 (5.25%) Git
3 13 (2.84%) GitLab
4 10 (2.19%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.88%) JUnit
7 3 (0.66%) Selenium
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) JMeter
8 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.44%) Mockito
8 2 (0.44%) Postman
8 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Hudson
9 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 244 (53.39%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (19.47%) Finance
3 41 (8.97%) Manufacturing
4 37 (8.10%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (5.91%) Retail
6 25 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.60%) Law
8 20 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.50%) Banking
10 16 (3.50%) Legal
11 13 (2.84%) Electronics
12 12 (2.63%) Marketing
13 9 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.97%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.53%) Front Office
15 5 (1.09%) Advertising
15 5 (1.09%) Military
15 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (20.57%) Analyst
2 52 (11.38%) IT Support
3 49 (10.72%) Support Analyst
4 40 (8.75%) Senior
5 38 (8.32%) Consultant
6 37 (8.10%) Support Engineer
7 24 (5.25%) Architect
8 23 (5.03%) Lead
9 22 (4.81%) Security Engineer
9 22 (4.81%) Systems Analyst
10 21 (4.60%) Applications Support
10 21 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Business Analyst
11 20 (4.38%) IT Analyst
11 20 (4.38%) Systems Support
12 18 (3.94%) Systems Support Analyst
13 17 (3.72%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) IT Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) RF Design Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.41%) REST
2 10 (2.19%) Middleware
3 9 (1.97%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.53%) CSS
4 7 (1.53%) HTML
4 7 (1.53%) Node.js
5 6 (1.31%) .NET
5 6 (1.31%) JSON
5 6 (1.31%) SOAP
6 5 (1.09%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.09%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.09%) Jinja
6 5 (1.09%) YAML
7 3 (0.66%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.66%) PySpark
7 3 (0.66%) React
7 3 (0.66%) RESTful
8 2 (0.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (0.44%) HTML5
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.88%) Driving Licence
2 27 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.50%) CCTV
5 12 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.97%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.75%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.75%) CMDB
9 7 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.31%) Blog
10 6 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.09%) Mobile Computing
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 105 (22.98%) Windows
2 63 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 43 (9.41%) Linux
4 11 (2.41%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.75%) CentOS
6 8 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.09%) Debian
8 5 (1.09%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.88%) Unix
9 4 (0.88%) VMS
10 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.44%) AIX
11 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (28.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (12.69%) ITIL
4 56 (12.25%) Agile
5 45 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (9.85%) ERP
5 45 (9.85%) Project Delivery
6 43 (9.41%) Change Management
6 43 (9.41%) CI/CD
7 38 (8.32%) Analytics
7 38 (8.32%) DevOps
7 38 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (8.10%) Incident Management
9 36 (7.88%) AI
9 36 (7.88%) Root Cause Analysis
10 35 (7.66%) Customer Service
11 34 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (7.22%) Business Analysis
13 32 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (5.91%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 96 (21.01%) SQL
2 54 (11.82%) Python
3 51 (11.16%) PowerShell
4 23 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.72%) Bash
6 14 (3.06%) Java
7 9 (1.97%) C#
8 7 (1.53%) C++
9 6 (1.31%) PHP
10 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.66%) C
13 2 (0.44%) ABAP
13 2 (0.44%) Bicep
13 2 (0.44%) Groovy
13 2 (0.44%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (15.97%) Degree
2 51 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.19%) HND
8 9 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.53%) CISSP
11 6 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.31%) SAP Certification
12 5 (1.09%) CCNP
12 5 (1.09%) HNC
12 5 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (1.09%) PMP
13 4 (0.88%) CCNA
13 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.88%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.41%) QA
2 28 (6.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.50%) SLA
5 11 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.19%) GDPR
7 8 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.31%) GRC
8 6 (1.31%) NIST
9 5 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.88%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.66%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (16.63%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.25%) Hyper-V
3 23 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.94%) Docker
5 6 (1.31%) Firmware
5 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.31%) vSphere
6 3 (0.66%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.66%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 23 (5.03%) Terraform
2 18 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.19%) Ansible
3 10 (2.19%) Nagios
4 8 (1.75%) SCCM
5 6 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.31%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.31%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.09%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (1.09%) Podman
6 5 (1.09%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.88%) Grafana
7 4 (0.88%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.66%) Control-M
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 161 (35.23%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.19%) Cisco
3 35 (7.66%) VMware
4 22 (4.81%) SAP
5 16 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.28%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.84%) Citrix
8 10 (2.19%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.97%) Oracle
9 9 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.75%) Google
10 8 (1.75%) Splunk
10 8 (1.75%) Veeam
11 7 (1.53%) Aruba
11 7 (1.53%) Juniper
12 6 (1.31%) Databricks
12 6 (1.31%) JD Edwards
12 6 (1.31%) Pega
12 6 (1.31%) Sophos