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

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	391	337	517
Rank change year-on-year	-54	+180	-84
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills	554	379	234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.46%	0.77%	0.34%
As % of the General category	0.98%	1.14%	0.59%
Number of salaries quoted	377	255	119
10^th Percentile	£32,750	£32,750	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£41,250	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£51,500	£54,000	£63,000
Median % change year-on-year	-4.63%	-14.29%	+14.55%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£76,250	£73,750
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£87,500	£87,348
UK excluding London median annual salary	£50,000	£45,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-5.26%	+5.56%

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 citing general skills.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing general skills	56,560	33,197	39,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	46.56%	67.14%	58.09%
Number of salaries quoted	34,581	18,159	19,328
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,707	£31,500
25^th Percentile	£38,750	£33,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£52,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.77%	-13.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£75,000	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£95,000	£100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£50,000	£42,500	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-15.00%	-

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 Salary Trend

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 28 October 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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-30	499	£52,000	-3.70%	125
UK excluding London	-9	426	£50,000	+11.11%	111
Work from Home	-24	163	£52,500	-3.23%	49
London	-70	112	£62,250	-19.68%	32
South East	-35	100	£50,000	-6.98%	35
North of England	-45	95	£51,636	+21.50%	21
South West	-3	85	£45,000	-18.18%	16
Midlands	-67	68	£52,500	+16.67%	22
North West	-12	63	£55,000	+38.36%	17
West Midlands	-35	46	£52,000	+4.00%	15
East of England	-29	35	£55,000	+1.85%	10
Yorkshire	-44	24	£57,500	+21.05%	4
East Midlands	-47	22	£57,500	+35.29%	7
Scotland	+18	21	£33,500	-	2
Wales	-51	17	£50,000	+4.17%	5
North East	-63	8	£29,500	+18.00%
Northern Ireland	-	5	-	-	2

Documentation Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, job vacancies citing Documentation Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Documentation Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	34.5%	191
2	Problem-Solving	33.0%	183
3	Azure	30.9%	171
4	Continuous Improvement	24.2%	134
5	Windows	20.6%	114
6	SQL	18.6%	103
7	Microsoft 365	18.4%	102
8	Agile	17.3%	96
9	Stakeholder Management	16.1%	89
10	AI	12.6%	70
11	Business Analysis	12.5%	69
12	PowerShell	12.3%	68
13	Power Platform	11.9%	66
14	Degree	11.6%	64
14	Requirements Gathering	11.6%	64
14	Security Cleared	11.6%	64
17	AWS	11.2%	62
17	Firewall	11.2%	62
19	Active Directory	10.8%	60
19	DevOps	10.8%	60
21	Stakeholder Engagement	10.6%	59
22	Business Intelligence	10.5%	58
23	Entra ID	10.3%	57
23	Process Improvement	10.3%	57
25	Windows Server	10.1%	56
26	DNS	9.9%	55
26	Root Cause Analysis	9.9%	55
26	User Acceptance Testing	9.9%	55
26	Validation	9.9%	55
30	Migration	9.6%	53

Documentation Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	58.5%	324
2	Analytical Skills	21.8%	121
3	Finance	15.3%	85
4	Manufacturing	9.7%	54
5	Organisational Skills	8.7%	48
6	Legal	6.7%	37
7	Presentation Skills	6.0%	33
8	Public Sector	4.9%	27
9	Aerospace	4.3%	24
10	Law	4.2%	23
11	Inclusion and Diversity	4.0%	22
12	Banking	3.4%	19
13	Retail	3.1%	17
14	Electronics	2.5%	14
14	Marketing	2.5%	14
16	Influencing Skills	2.2%	12
17	Investment Banking	1.4%	8
17	Telecoms	1.4%	8
19	Military	1.3%	7
20	Automotive	1.1%	6