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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 350 527
Rank change year-on-year -39 +177 -95
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 502 372 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.75% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.93% 1.10% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 315 260 159
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £53,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -14.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -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 53,857 33,886 44,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.38% 68.56% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 32,840 17,689 23,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -61 438 £52,250 -2.34% 467
UK excluding London -8 391 £50,000 +11.11% 308
Work from Home -25 139 £52,250 -6.28% 188
South East -16 95 £50,000 -16.67% 95
London -94 95 £65,000 -3.70% 200
North of England -57 80 £52,500 +23.53% 65
South West -20 71 £42,500 +6.25% 32
Midlands -44 59 £55,000 +23.60% 46
North West +9 54 £55,000 +38.36% 36
West Midlands -39 40 £51,500 +0.10% 33
East of England -15 35 £55,000 +1.85% 35
Yorkshire -57 22 £57,500 +35.29% 21
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 9
East Midlands -39 19 £60,000 +41.18% 13
Scotland +19 16 £33,500 - 23
Wales - 15 £53,750 - 3
North East -68 4 £42,500 +70.00% 8

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 38 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.58%) Confluence
2 23 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.19%) IIS
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 34 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.59%) AutoCAD
4 17 (3.39%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.00%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.59%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.59%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.00%) Infor CloudSuite
3 5 (1.00%) Infor LN
3 5 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.60%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.60%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (27.09%) Azure
2 89 (17.73%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (11.16%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.36%) AWS
5 48 (9.56%) Entra ID
6 31 (6.18%) SaaS
7 23 (4.58%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.59%) GitHub
10 12 (2.39%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.99%) GCP
13 9 (1.79%) dbt
14 8 (1.59%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.59%) Serverless
15 7 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.39%) Boomi
15 7 (1.39%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.35%) Firewall
2 51 (10.16%) DNS
3 50 (9.96%) VPN
4 35 (6.97%) TCP/IP
5 28 (5.58%) DHCP
6 24 (4.78%) Network Security
6 24 (4.78%) VLAN
7 22 (4.38%) WAN
7 22 (4.38%) Wireless
8 19 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (3.39%) TETRA
10 14 (2.79%) LAN
11 11 (2.19%) BGP
12 10 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (1.99%) SAN
12 10 (1.99%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.79%) HTTP
14 8 (1.59%) OSPF
14 8 (1.59%) VoIP
15 6 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.16%) Power BI
2 19 (3.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.39%) Metadata
4 7 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.20%) Looker
6 5 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.00%) Big Data
7 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.40%) EDMS
9 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.40%) Redis
9 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.20%) Flink
10 1 (0.20%) Parquet
10 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (7.37%) JIRA
2 14 (2.79%) Git
3 5 (1.00%) GitLab
3 5 (1.00%) JUnit
3 5 (1.00%) Postman
4 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.60%) JMeter
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.40%) Mockito
6 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.20%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.20%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.20%) Hudson
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.20%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 268 (53.39%) Social Skills
2 97 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (17.53%) Finance
4 47 (9.36%) Manufacturing
5 40 (7.97%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (5.58%) Legal
8 24 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (4.58%) Law
9 23 (4.58%) Retail
10 18 (3.59%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.19%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.99%) Banking
13 14 (2.79%) Marketing
14 12 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.99%) Electronics
16 8 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.59%) Military
17 7 (1.39%) Front Office
18 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (20.32%) Analyst
2 62 (12.35%) Senior
3 56 (11.16%) Support Engineer
4 44 (8.76%) Consultant
5 39 (7.77%) IT Support
5 39 (7.77%) Support Analyst
6 35 (6.97%) Business Analyst
7 31 (6.18%) IT Engineer
8 28 (5.58%) Applications Support
9 25 (4.98%) Architect
9 25 (4.98%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (4.78%) Lead
11 23 (4.58%) Developer
12 18 (3.59%) Design Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) RF Design Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) RF Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Security Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.39%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.38%) REST
2 21 (4.18%) Terraform
3 10 (1.99%) CSS
3 10 (1.99%) HTML
4 9 (1.79%) Middleware
4 9 (1.79%) Node.js
5 7 (1.39%) JSON
5 7 (1.39%) Playwright
5 7 (1.39%) XML
6 6 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.20%) RESTful
6 6 (1.20%) SOAP
7 5 (1.00%) .NET
7 5 (1.00%) EDI
7 5 (1.00%) HTML5
7 5 (1.00%) React
8 4 (0.80%) CSS3
9 3 (0.60%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.16%) Driving Licence
2 37 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.99%) CCTV
6 13 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.79%) Client/Server
8 9 (1.79%) Replication
9 8 (1.59%) CMDB
9 8 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.59%) PKI
10 7 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.39%) IoT
11 6 (1.20%) Blog
11 6 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (19.92%) Windows
2 51 (10.16%) Windows Server
3 33 (6.57%) Linux
4 14 (2.79%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.59%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.19%) Mac OS
6 11 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.79%) CentOS
8 8 (1.59%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.80%) Rocky
10 4 (0.80%) Unix
11 3 (0.60%) AIX
11 3 (0.60%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.40%) Android
12 2 (0.40%) VMS
13 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.20%) Solaris
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (26.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 75 (14.94%) Agile
4 66 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (11.35%) DevOps
5 57 (11.35%) ITIL
6 56 (11.16%) Business Analysis
7 53 (10.56%) AI
7 53 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 51 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (9.56%) ERP
10 44 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 44 (8.76%) Validation
11 43 (8.57%) Change Management
11 43 (8.57%) Migration
11 43 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
11 43 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (8.37%) Customer Service
13 41 (8.17%) Project Delivery
14 40 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.12%) SQL
2 57 (11.35%) PowerShell
3 42 (8.37%) Python
4 21 (4.18%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.39%) Bash
6 11 (2.19%) Java
7 9 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (1.39%) C#
8 7 (1.39%) C++
8 7 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.00%) C
10 4 (0.80%) PHP
10 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.60%) Ruby
11 3 (0.60%) VBA
12 2 (0.40%) ABAP
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) Go
12 2 (0.40%) Groovy
12 2 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (11.75%) Degree
1 59 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.39%) CCNP
6 10 (1.99%) CCNA
6 10 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.99%) HND
6 10 (1.99%) SAP Certification
7 7 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.20%) HNC
9 5 (1.00%) ACCA
9 5 (1.00%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) CBAP
10 4 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.80%) CIMA
10 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.55%) QA
2 28 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 26 (5.18%) GDPR
4 12 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.19%) SLA
6 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.79%) NIST
6 9 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.00%) ISO 22301
8 5 (1.00%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.80%) GRC
9 4 (0.80%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.60%) WCAG
11 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (9.56%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.38%) Hyper-V
3 25 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.39%) Docker
5 12 (2.39%) Firmware
6 7 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.80%) vSphere
8 3 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.60%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (6.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.79%) Ansible
4 12 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.79%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.39%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.00%) Grafana
9 4 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.80%) Nagios
9 4 (0.80%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.80%) Podman
9 4 (0.80%) VxRail
10 3 (0.60%) SCCM
11 2 (0.40%) Puppet
12 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.20%) Kibana
12 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.20%) QRadar
12 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 165 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.37%) Cisco
3 32 (6.37%) VMware
4 27 (5.38%) SAP
5 20 (3.98%) Fortinet
6 17 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.79%) Veeam
9 12 (2.39%) Dell
9 12 (2.39%) JD Edwards
9 12 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.99%) Oracle
11 9 (1.79%) Aruba
11 9 (1.79%) Google
12 8 (1.59%) Juniper
13 7 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.39%) Sophos
14 6 (1.20%) Sage
14 6 (1.20%) Splunk
15 5 (1.00%) NetApp