Documentation Skills Jobs

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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 417 491
Rank change year-on-year -13 +74 +13
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 251 526 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.94% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 141 456 466
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,850 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -13.58% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,383 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% -5.00% -

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 34,161 55,731 76,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.59% 60.15% 69.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,617 38,619 40,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% +5.00%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills.

Salary trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 2 April 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 2 April 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 -40 235 £50,000 -9.09% 329
UK excluding London +25 162 £45,383 -4.46% 158
Work from Home +65 90 £45,383 -17.49% 161
London +9 76 £63,000 -10.00% 195
North of England +100 75 £45,383 +23.49% 35
North West +62 64 £45,383 +13.46% 20
Midlands +28 45 £52,000 +15.56% 30
West Midlands +2 35 £62,500 +38.89% 24
South West +78 14 £36,250 -40.94% 10
East of England +38 12 £48,750 +15.38% 21
South East -16 11 £55,000 +10.00% 53
East Midlands +45 10 £48,500 +26.80% 6
Yorkshire +65 9 £42,000 +33.33% 10
Wales +40 4 £48,750 +8.33% 2
North East +35 2 £31,500 +16.67% 6
Scotland +114 1 - - 12

Documentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (17.53%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.98%) Confluence
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.99%) Apache
5 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.20%) CMS
6 3 (1.20%) EPiServer
6 3 (1.20%) Liferay
6 3 (1.20%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (12.35%) Adobe Illustrator
1 31 (12.35%) Photoshop
2 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.20%) UserZoom
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.19%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.80%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.80%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 55 (21.91%) Azure
2 38 (15.14%) AWS
3 30 (11.95%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.78%) Boomi
5 12 (4.78%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.59%) GCP
7 8 (3.19%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.99%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.99%) SaaS
11 4 (1.59%) Fivetran
11 4 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.20%) Figma
12 3 (1.20%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) Firewall
2 15 (5.98%) Network Security
3 14 (5.58%) VPN
4 10 (3.98%) BGP
4 10 (3.98%) LAN
5 8 (3.19%) OSPF
6 7 (2.79%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.99%) MPLS
8 4 (1.59%) WAN
9 3 (1.20%) DHCP
9 3 (1.20%) DNS
9 3 (1.20%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.20%) VoIP
10 2 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.80%) HTTP
10 2 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.80%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
11 1 (0.40%) Broadband
11 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.96%) Power BI
2 14 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (3.19%) Metadata
5 8 (3.19%) Metadata Repository
6 7 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.59%) MySQL
9 4 (1.59%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.20%) Looker
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.40%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (12.35%) Dreamweaver
2 22 (8.76%) JIRA
3 8 (3.19%) Git
3 8 (3.19%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.20%) Postman
5 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Appium
6 1 (0.40%) Hudson
6 1 (0.40%) LSMW
6 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 114 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (21.91%) Finance
4 18 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.18%) Banking
7 12 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.38%) Legal
8 11 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.59%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.39%) Marketing
12 5 (1.99%) Retail
13 3 (1.20%) Games
13 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Police
14 2 (0.80%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Automotive
14 2 (0.80%) Law
15 1 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (21.51%) Senior
2 52 (20.72%) Analyst
3 31 (12.35%) Information Specialist
3 31 (12.35%) MIS Specialist
4 24 (9.56%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 24 (9.56%) Senior Electrical Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) Developer
6 20 (7.97%) Business Analyst
7 19 (7.57%) Consultant
8 18 (7.17%) Architect
8 18 (7.17%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.38%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (3.98%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.59%) Lead
11 9 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
12 7 (2.79%) Managed Services Consultant
12 7 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.39%) Coordinator
13 6 (2.39%) Finance Systems Analyst
13 6 (2.39%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.34%) HTML
2 12 (4.78%) .NET
3 11 (4.38%) REST
4 8 (3.19%) React
5 6 (2.39%) JSON
5 6 (2.39%) SOAP
5 6 (2.39%) XML
6 5 (1.99%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.99%) OAuth
6 5 (1.99%) RESTful
7 4 (1.59%) CSS
7 4 (1.59%) Symfony
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.20%) EDI
8 3 (1.20%) JWT
8 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.20%) Swagger
9 2 (0.80%) Flask
9 2 (0.80%) IDoc
9 2 (0.80%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.73%) Management Information System
2 24 (9.56%) SCADA
3 18 (7.17%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.78%) CMDB
4 12 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.59%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.39%) Housing Association
7 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.99%) Derivative
8 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.99%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.20%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.76%) Windows
2 10 (3.98%) Linux
3 6 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.99%) Android
4 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (41.83%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (19.92%) Collaborative Working
3 40 (15.94%) Customer Requirements
4 39 (15.54%) Agile
5 37 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (10.36%) Acceptance Criteria
8 25 (9.96%) Project Management
9 24 (9.56%) Mathematics
10 22 (8.76%) Project Delivery
11 21 (8.37%) ITIL
11 21 (8.37%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (7.17%) Time Management
14 16 (6.37%) Computer Science
14 16 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.37%) Process Improvement
15 15 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence
16 14 (5.58%) Change Management
16 14 (5.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.31%) SQL
2 42 (16.73%) JavaScript
3 31 (12.35%) VB
4 19 (7.57%) Python
5 8 (3.19%) Java
6 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.79%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.39%) Bash
7 6 (2.39%) C#
8 4 (1.59%) PHP
9 3 (1.20%) OpenEdge ABL
9 3 (1.20%) Progress 4GL
10 2 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (41.43%) Degree
2 37 (14.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (9.56%) Numerate Degree
4 17 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.58%) CCNP
7 12 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.59%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.39%) CCAB
10 6 (2.39%) CCNA
10 6 (2.39%) MCSA
10 6 (2.39%) MCSE
11 5 (1.99%) CCIE
11 5 (1.99%) CCSA
11 5 (1.99%) CCSE
11 5 (1.99%) CISSP
12 4 (1.59%) CEH
13 3 (1.20%) CISM
14 2 (0.80%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) QA
2 17 (6.77%) GDPR
3 12 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.59%) PMO
5 8 (3.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.99%) NIST
8 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.80%) COBIT
9 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.40%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.99%) Docker
4 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.99%) Nagios
3 3 (1.20%) Ansible
3 3 (1.20%) SCCM
3 3 (1.20%) Terraform
4 2 (0.80%) Nessus
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.55%) Citrix
3 14 (5.58%) Cisco
3 14 (5.58%) SAP
4 11 (4.38%) Dell
5 8 (3.19%) VMware
6 7 (2.79%) CheckPoint
6 7 (2.79%) F5
7 6 (2.39%) BT
7 6 (2.39%) Google
7 6 (2.39%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.99%) Arista
8 5 (1.99%) Oracle
9 4 (1.59%) Databricks
9 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.20%) PayPal
10 3 (1.20%) Progress
10 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.20%) Snow