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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 521 406
Rank change year-on-year +217 -115 +111
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 412 238 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the General category 1.25% 0.60% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 266 117 282
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,383 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -4.46% -13.64%

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 33,050 39,668 33,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 61.04% 61.17% 65.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19,003 19,153 24,831
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +2.97% -3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 +238 388 £54,500 -14.84% 152
UK excluding London +185 258 £47,500 +4.66% 133
Work from Home +123 135 £55,000 -5.98% 88
London +94 135 £77,500 +6.90% 58
South East +107 77 £48,500 +21.25% 54
Midlands +80 72 £45,000 - 17
North of England +53 55 £47,500 -9.52% 23
West Midlands +71 40 £52,500 -17.65% 16
East Midlands +36 31 £42,500 +3.03% 1
North West +52 28 £42,500 -16.67% 14
East of England +47 27 £32,500 -19.25% 9
Yorkshire +23 25 £47,500 -9.52% 8
South West +28 17 £55,000 +48.65% 16
Scotland +13 8 - - 10
North East +14 2 - - 2
Wales +3 2 £48,000 -1.54% 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 27 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.16%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 61 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.64%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.21%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (1.21%) PlanetPress Connect
2 5 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 131 (31.80%) Azure
2 65 (15.78%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (9.47%) AWS
4 38 (9.22%) SaaS
5 32 (7.77%) Power Platform
6 25 (6.07%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.85%) IaaS
8 19 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (3.88%) PaaS
11 15 (3.64%) GitHub
12 12 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.91%) GCP
13 10 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.43%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (1.46%) iPaaS
15 6 (1.46%) OneDrive
16 5 (1.21%) Azure AKS
16 5 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.92%) Firewall
2 33 (8.01%) DNS
3 28 (6.80%) DHCP
4 27 (6.55%) VPN
5 25 (6.07%) TCP/IP
6 21 (5.10%) LAN
7 17 (4.13%) Network Security
8 16 (3.88%) VLAN
9 14 (3.40%) BGP
10 11 (2.67%) OSPF
10 11 (2.67%) WAN
11 9 (2.18%) SAN
12 7 (1.70%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.46%) DMZ
13 6 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (1.46%) VoIP
13 6 (1.46%) Wireshark
14 5 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.34%) Power BI
3 16 (3.88%) Tableau
4 15 (3.64%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.94%) Metadata
6 6 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.97%) Metabase
8 4 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.49%) MySQL
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (3.88%) JIRA
2 7 (1.70%) Git
3 4 (0.97%) Postman
3 4 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.49%) GitLab
5 2 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.24%) Subversion
6 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 200 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 99 (24.03%) Finance
3 76 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.65%) Legal
5 32 (7.77%) Banking
6 26 (6.31%) Law
7 24 (5.83%) Retail
8 23 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (4.85%) Manufacturing
10 19 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.88%) Back Office
12 14 (3.40%) Telecoms
13 13 (3.16%) Advertising
14 11 (2.67%) Public Sector
15 10 (2.43%) German Language
16 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.70%) Marketing
18 5 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 5 (1.21%) Publishing
19 4 (0.97%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 106 (25.73%) Analyst
2 70 (16.99%) Senior
3 31 (7.52%) Business Analyst
4 30 (7.28%) Lead
5 29 (7.04%) Architect
6 25 (6.07%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.10%) Developer
7 21 (5.10%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.85%) Data Analyst
9 19 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (4.61%) IT Support
9 19 (4.61%) Service Analyst
10 17 (4.13%) Data Quality Analyst
10 17 (4.13%) Quality Analyst
11 16 (3.88%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.64%) Applications Support
12 15 (3.64%) Consultant
13 14 (3.40%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.88%) XML
2 10 (2.43%) .NET
3 5 (1.21%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.21%) HTML
3 5 (1.21%) React
4 4 (0.97%) Kafka
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (0.97%) OAuth
4 4 (0.97%) OAuth2
4 4 (0.97%) OpenID
4 4 (0.97%) REST
4 4 (0.97%) SAML
5 3 (0.73%) CSS
5 3 (0.73%) JSON
5 3 (0.73%) PySpark
6 2 (0.49%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.49%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.49%) Laravel
6 2 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.10%) Data Centre
2 18 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.88%) NHS
4 15 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.40%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.16%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.16%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.43%) CMDB
8 10 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.18%) Life Science
9 9 (2.18%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.70%) Clustering
12 5 (1.21%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
12 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 73 (17.72%) Windows
2 37 (8.98%) Windows Server
3 25 (6.07%) Linux
4 5 (1.21%) Debian
4 5 (1.21%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.21%) Unix
5 4 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (16.99%) Agile
3 65 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (13.35%) ITIL
5 51 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (11.65%) Validation
7 41 (9.95%) DevOps
7 41 (9.95%) Migration
8 37 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (7.77%) Computer Science
10 32 (7.77%) Project Delivery
11 29 (7.04%) AI
11 29 (7.04%) Inventory Management
12 28 (6.80%) Analytics
12 28 (6.80%) Change Management
12 28 (6.80%) Incident Response
12 28 (6.80%) Mentoring
12 28 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.75%) SQL
2 34 (8.25%) PowerShell
2 34 (8.25%) Python
3 21 (5.10%) C#
4 18 (4.37%) Java
5 14 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.16%) C
6 13 (3.16%) VBA
7 6 (1.46%) Bash
7 6 (1.46%) PHP
8 3 (0.73%) Bicep
8 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.49%) C++
9 2 (0.49%) Go
9 2 (0.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.24%) R
10 1 (0.24%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (25.73%) Degree
2 51 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (7.04%) CISSP
6 28 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (5.58%) CCNP
7 23 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.37%) CISM
9 15 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.64%) Numerate Degree
10 13 (3.16%) CCIE
11 11 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.94%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.94%) CCSA
12 8 (1.94%) CCSE
13 7 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.70%) HNC
14 6 (1.46%) CCNA
14 6 (1.46%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.13%) ISO 9001
4 15 (3.64%) GDPR
4 15 (3.64%) NIST
4 15 (3.64%) QA
4 15 (3.64%) SLA
5 12 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.70%) MiFID
8 5 (1.21%) GRC
8 5 (1.21%) PMO
9 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.97%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.49%) UCITS
12 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (13.35%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.10%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.70%) Firmware
5 6 (1.46%) Docker
6 5 (1.21%) Kamailio
6 5 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) Lustre
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) vCloud
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (3.88%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.88%) SCCM
2 14 (3.40%) Terraform
3 7 (1.70%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (1.46%) Ansible
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.21%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.21%) Grafana
5 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.97%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (0.97%) CSIRT
6 4 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.73%) cPanel
7 3 (0.73%) Nessus
7 3 (0.73%) Plesk
8 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 2 (0.49%) Nagios
8 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 138 (33.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.80%) Cisco
3 25 (6.07%) VMware
4 15 (3.64%) Oracle
5 14 (3.40%) CheckPoint
5 14 (3.40%) F5
6 9 (2.18%) Blue Prism
6 9 (2.18%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.18%) iManage
6 9 (2.18%) Pega
6 9 (2.18%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.94%) Veeam
8 7 (1.70%) Intapp
8 7 (1.70%) Qualys
8 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.46%) Citrix
9 6 (1.46%) Juniper
10 5 (1.21%) Dell