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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 468 407
Rank change year-on-year +130 -61 +95
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 404 194 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the General category 1.01% 0.63% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 264 111 445
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £27,900
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +7.42% -14.67%
75th Percentile £72,813 £69,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -9.52%

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 39,816 30,748 51,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 54.00% 70.42% 61.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21,798 15,429 37,327
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 13 March 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 March 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 +138 373 £55,000 - 230
UK excluding London +108 264 £46,250 -2.63% 203
London +61 123 £75,000 +17.19% 64
Work from Home +69 113 £55,000 +7.32% 99
South East +50 80 £47,500 +2.70% 70
Midlands -1 59 £55,000 +10.00% 40
North of England -14 50 £45,000 +2.99% 39
East of England +19 34 £30,370 -37.70% 23
West Midlands -3 31 £60,000 +20.00% 25
East Midlands -15 27 £45,000 - 15
South West -11 25 £46,500 +43.08% 20
North West -7 23 £50,500 -8.18% 24
Yorkshire -39 21 £34,000 -19.05% 10
Scotland -4 13 £35,000 - 13
North East -19 6 £45,000 +42.86% 5
Wales -13 2 £48,000 -1.54% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 24 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.49%) Confluence
5 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.99%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.50%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 49 (12.13%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) PlanetPress Connect
3 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) Postilion
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (36.14%) Azure
2 74 (18.32%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (11.88%) AWS
4 33 (8.17%) Power Platform
5 31 (7.67%) Entra ID
6 29 (7.18%) SaaS
7 23 (5.69%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.47%) PaaS
10 13 (3.22%) GCP
11 11 (2.72%) dbt
11 11 (2.72%) IaaS
11 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.48%) ChatGPT
12 10 (2.48%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.49%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.40%) DNS
2 41 (10.15%) Firewall
3 36 (8.91%) DHCP
4 29 (7.18%) TCP/IP
5 26 (6.44%) VPN
6 24 (5.94%) VLAN
7 13 (3.22%) LAN
8 12 (2.97%) Network Security
8 12 (2.97%) WAN
8 12 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (2.48%) SAN
10 6 (1.49%) DMZ
10 6 (1.49%) VoIP
11 5 (1.24%) NAS
11 5 (1.24%) NetScaler
11 5 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.24%) STUN
12 4 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.44%) Power BI
3 16 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.97%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.97%) Metadata
5 11 (2.72%) Metabase
6 10 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.99%) Big Data
10 4 (0.99%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.99%) MySQL
11 3 (0.74%) Power Query
12 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.94%) Git
2 20 (4.95%) JIRA
3 13 (3.22%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.23%) GitLab
5 6 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.24%) Subversion
7 3 (0.74%) Selenium
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (59.41%) Social Skills
2 91 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (20.54%) Finance
4 40 (9.90%) Legal
5 33 (8.17%) Retail
6 32 (7.92%) Banking
7 28 (6.93%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.95%) Law
9 19 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.47%) German Language
12 13 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.23%) Advertising
14 9 (2.23%) Electronics
15 8 (1.98%) Automotive
16 7 (1.73%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.49%) Billing
17 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (21.29%) Analyst
2 66 (16.34%) Senior
3 44 (10.89%) IT Support
4 31 (7.67%) Architect
4 31 (7.67%) Lead
5 28 (6.93%) Support Analyst
6 26 (6.44%) Business Analyst
7 23 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.20%) IT Analyst
9 18 (4.46%) Support Engineer
10 15 (3.71%) Consultant
10 15 (3.71%) IT Support Analyst
10 15 (3.71%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.47%) Applications Support
11 14 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.22%) Infrastructure Support
12 13 (3.22%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.97%) Applications Support Analyst
13 12 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.97%) REST
2 10 (2.48%) .NET
3 8 (1.98%) SOAP
4 7 (1.73%) JSON
5 6 (1.49%) PySpark
6 5 (1.24%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.24%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.24%) Jinja
6 5 (1.24%) Middleware
6 5 (1.24%) YAML
7 4 (0.99%) HTML
8 3 (0.74%) CSS
8 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.74%) OAuth
8 3 (0.74%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.74%) OpenID
8 3 (0.74%) React
8 3 (0.74%) SAML
8 3 (0.74%) XML
9 2 (0.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.71%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.47%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.97%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.72%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.23%) Life Science
11 8 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.24%) CCTV
13 5 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.24%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 71 (17.57%) Windows
2 53 (13.12%) Windows Server
3 33 (8.17%) Linux
4 8 (1.98%) Unix
5 6 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.24%) Debian
6 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.24%) VMS
6 5 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.99%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.47%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (17.57%) Agile
4 52 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (12.13%) ITIL
7 42 (10.40%) AI
7 42 (10.40%) Change Management
7 42 (10.40%) Project Delivery
8 33 (8.17%) Analytics
8 33 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (7.92%) CI/CD
10 31 (7.67%) ERP
10 31 (7.67%) Roadmaps
11 30 (7.43%) Project Management
12 29 (7.18%) Data Analysis
13 28 (6.93%) Business Analysis
13 28 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (6.93%) Process Improvement
14 27 (6.68%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.10%) SQL
2 41 (10.15%) PowerShell
2 41 (10.15%) Python
3 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.97%) Bash
5 10 (2.48%) Java
5 10 (2.48%) VBA
6 9 (2.23%) C#
7 6 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.24%) PHP
8 5 (1.24%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.99%) C++
10 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (23.27%) Degree
2 37 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (5.94%) CISSP
5 22 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.71%) CISM
7 14 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.47%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (2.48%) CEH
9 9 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.98%) IIBA
10 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.98%) PMP
11 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.73%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.49%) CCNP
12 6 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.49%) HNC
13 5 (1.24%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.20%) QA
4 19 (4.70%) SLA
5 15 (3.71%) GDPR
6 11 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.23%) NIST
8 6 (1.49%) GRC
8 6 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.24%) MiFID
9 5 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.74%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.50%) COBIT
12 2 (0.50%) GAAP
12 2 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (16.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.96%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.98%) Docker
5 6 (1.49%) vSphere
6 5 (1.24%) Firmware
6 5 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) Ceph
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) Lustre
8 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 14 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.22%) Terraform
3 12 (2.97%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.48%) SCCM
4 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.49%) Ansible
5 6 (1.49%) Nagios
5 6 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.24%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.24%) Grafana
6 5 (1.24%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.99%) Control-M
7 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.99%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.74%) Argo
8 3 (0.74%) cPanel
8 3 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 124 (30.69%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.43%) VMware
3 23 (5.69%) Cisco
4 20 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.96%) SAP
6 15 (3.71%) Citrix
7 14 (3.47%) Pega
7 14 (3.47%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.72%) Veeam
9 10 (2.48%) Blue Prism
10 9 (2.23%) Alteryx
10 9 (2.23%) iManage
10 9 (2.23%) Oracle
10 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.23%) UiPath
11 8 (1.98%) Anaplan
11 8 (1.98%) Databricks
12 7 (1.73%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.24%) Epicor