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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 461 452
Rank change year-on-year +78 -9 +21
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 421 215 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.94% 0.67% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 264 144 430
10th Percentile £31,775 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,474 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -0.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,188 £71,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,625 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 44,959 32,126 58,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.73% 72.85% 60.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25,392 15,904 39,644
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £93,158
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +74 373 £55,000 +2.80% 196
UK excluding London +93 298 £47,500 - 163
Work from Home +69 106 £55,000 -8.33% 83
London +4 101 £75,000 +19.05% 57
North of England +12 79 £45,000 +7.14% 26
South East +36 74 £50,250 -33.00% 56
Midlands -12 50 £55,500 +7.88% 19
North West +28 37 £45,000 -28.00% 21
Yorkshire -27 35 £34,000 -18.07% 3
East of England -1 34 £40,000 -17.95% 16
South West -47 31 £37,500 -6.25% 26
East Midlands -10 27 £55,000 +25.71% 3
West Midlands -34 22 £60,000 +2.56% 16
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 4
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 13
North East -34 7 £45,000 +42.86% 2
Wales -28 2 £53,750 +10.26% 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 21 (4.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.19%) Confluence
4 5 (1.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 41 (9.74%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.51%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.48%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.48%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (29.69%) Azure
2 85 (20.19%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 35 (8.31%) Entra ID
5 32 (7.60%) AWS
6 28 (6.65%) SaaS
7 27 (6.41%) Power Automate
8 17 (4.04%) dbt
9 13 (3.09%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.61%) PaaS
12 9 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.14%) IaaS
12 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.90%) ChatGPT
14 7 (1.66%) GitHub
14 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.74%) DNS
2 40 (9.50%) Firewall
3 32 (7.60%) DHCP
4 31 (7.36%) VPN
5 25 (5.94%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.46%) VLAN
7 17 (4.04%) TETRA
7 17 (4.04%) WAN
8 16 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.09%) Network Security
10 11 (2.61%) VoIP
11 10 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (1.90%) LAN
13 6 (1.43%) BGP
13 6 (1.43%) NAS
13 6 (1.43%) OSPF
14 5 (1.19%) DMZ
14 5 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.19%) SAN
14 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.55%) Power BI
2 29 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 10 (2.38%) Metabase
5 9 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.90%) Metadata
7 7 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.43%) Looker
8 6 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.95%) Power Query
9 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.71%) Big Data
10 3 (0.71%) MySQL
11 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.70%) Git
2 23 (5.46%) JIRA
3 13 (3.09%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.61%) GitLab
5 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.19%) Subversion
7 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.71%) Selenium
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) JUnit
8 2 (0.48%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.48%) Mockito
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 226 (53.68%) Social Skills
2 88 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
2 88 (20.90%) Finance
3 31 (7.36%) Manufacturing
4 25 (5.94%) Retail
5 24 (5.70%) Law
5 24 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.04%) Banking
7 17 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.80%) Electronics
9 14 (3.33%) Legal
10 13 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.38%) Marketing
12 8 (1.90%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.66%) Front Office
14 6 (1.43%) Billing
14 6 (1.43%) German Language
15 5 (1.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 87 (20.67%) Analyst
2 46 (10.93%) Support Analyst
3 45 (10.69%) IT Support
4 40 (9.50%) Senior
5 29 (6.89%) Architect
6 25 (5.94%) Lead
7 24 (5.70%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (5.23%) Consultant
8 22 (5.23%) IT Analyst
8 22 (5.23%) Security Engineer
9 21 (4.99%) Systems Analyst
10 20 (4.75%) Business Analyst
11 18 (4.28%) IT Support Analyst
11 18 (4.28%) Support Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) Design Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) RF Design Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) RF Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) Systems Support
12 17 (4.04%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.85%) REST
2 8 (1.90%) SOAP
3 7 (1.66%) .NET
3 7 (1.66%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.19%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.19%) Jinja
4 5 (1.19%) JSON
4 5 (1.19%) YAML
5 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.95%) Middleware
6 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.71%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.71%) CSS
6 3 (0.71%) HTML
6 3 (0.71%) Node.js
6 3 (0.71%) PySpark
6 3 (0.71%) RESTful
7 2 (0.48%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.48%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.94%) Driving Licence
2 21 (4.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.80%) CCTV
5 14 (3.33%) Low-Code
6 12 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.90%) CMDB
7 8 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.43%) Blog
9 6 (1.43%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.10%) Windows
2 49 (11.64%) Windows Server
3 37 (8.79%) Linux
4 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.43%) CentOS
5 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.19%) Debian
6 5 (1.19%) Unix
7 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
7 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 116 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (13.30%) Agile
4 55 (13.06%) ITIL
5 50 (11.88%) Project Delivery
6 48 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (9.98%) CI/CD
8 41 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (9.50%) Analytics
10 39 (9.26%) Change Management
11 37 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (8.55%) AI
12 36 (8.55%) Incident Management
13 34 (8.08%) ERP
14 32 (7.60%) Data Modelling
15 29 (6.89%) Root Cause Analysis
15 29 (6.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (6.65%) DevOps
17 26 (6.18%) Roadmaps
18 23 (5.46%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.53%) SQL
2 46 (10.93%) Python
3 43 (10.21%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.28%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.09%) Bash
6 12 (2.85%) Java
7 9 (2.14%) C#
8 5 (1.19%) C++
8 5 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.19%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.48%) ABAP
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) VB6
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (17.10%) Degree
2 51 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.14%) CISSP
8 8 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.66%) CEH
9 7 (1.66%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (1.43%) IIBA
10 6 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.43%) PMP
11 5 (1.19%) CCNP
11 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.95%) CCNA
12 4 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.79%) QA
2 32 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 22 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.75%) SLA
5 9 (2.14%) GDPR
6 8 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.66%) GRC
7 7 (1.66%) NIST
8 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.95%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.71%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.71%) GAAP
11 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (15.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.80%) Docker
3 13 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.43%) Firmware
5 6 (1.43%) vSphere
6 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (4.04%) Terraform
2 16 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.90%) Ansible
4 8 (1.90%) Nagios
4 8 (1.90%) SCCM
5 7 (1.66%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.19%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.19%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.95%) Control-M
8 4 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.71%) Grafana
9 3 (0.71%) Podman
10 2 (0.48%) CASB
10 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (30.64%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.84%) Cisco
3 30 (7.13%) VMware
4 20 (4.75%) SAP
5 18 (4.28%) Citrix
5 18 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.14%) iManage
9 8 (1.90%) UiPath
10 7 (1.66%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.66%) Databricks
10 7 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.66%) Veeam
11 6 (1.43%) Anaplan
11 6 (1.43%) Google
11 6 (1.43%) Oracle
11 6 (1.43%) Pega
11 6 (1.43%) Splunk