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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 461 407
Rank change year-on-year +119 -54 +97
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 410 191 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.63% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 265 112 452
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,375 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year - +7.42% -14.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -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 40,157 30,378 51,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.81% 70.45% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 21,991 15,661 37,500
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,488
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 16 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 16 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 +132 379 £55,000 - 227
UK excluding London +104 266 £45,000 -5.26% 200
London +57 127 £75,875 +18.55% 62
Work from Home +70 114 £55,000 +4.76% 106
South East +62 80 £47,500 +2.70% 69
Midlands +5 61 £55,000 +10.00% 39
North of England -18 49 £45,000 +7.14% 38
East of England +19 35 £30,370 -37.70% 24
West Midlands -1 32 £60,000 +6.67% 24
East Midlands -18 28 £45,000 - 15
South West -24 25 £46,500 +43.08% 20
North West -6 23 £50,500 -8.18% 24
Yorkshire -33 20 £34,000 -19.05% 10
Scotland -3 13 £35,000 - 12
North East -20 6 £45,000 +42.86% 4
Wales -20 2 £48,000 -1.54% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 23 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.46%) Confluence
5 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.98%) IIS
5 4 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.49%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 52 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.49%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
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%) PlanetPress Connect
3 1 (0.24%) Postilion
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (36.59%) Azure
2 76 (18.54%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (11.71%) AWS
4 33 (8.05%) Power Platform
5 32 (7.80%) Entra ID
6 29 (7.07%) SaaS
7 22 (5.37%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.41%) PaaS
10 13 (3.17%) GCP
11 11 (2.68%) dbt
11 11 (2.68%) IaaS
11 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.44%) ChatGPT
12 10 (2.44%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.46%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.24%) DNS
2 41 (10.00%) Firewall
3 36 (8.78%) DHCP
4 29 (7.07%) TCP/IP
5 26 (6.34%) VPN
6 24 (5.85%) VLAN
7 14 (3.41%) LAN
8 13 (3.17%) Network Security
8 13 (3.17%) WAN
9 12 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.44%) SAN
11 6 (1.46%) DMZ
11 6 (1.46%) VoIP
12 5 (1.22%) NAS
12 5 (1.22%) NetScaler
12 5 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.22%) STUN
13 4 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.98%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.10%) Power BI
3 15 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.93%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.93%) Metadata
5 11 (2.68%) Metabase
6 10 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.98%) Big Data
10 4 (0.98%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.98%) MySQL
11 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.73%) Power Query
12 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (6.10%) Git
2 20 (4.88%) JIRA
3 14 (3.41%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.20%) GitLab
5 6 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.22%) Subversion
7 3 (0.73%) Selenium
8 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.49%) Postman
8 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 241 (58.78%) Social Skills
2 92 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.73%) Finance
4 40 (9.76%) Legal
5 33 (8.05%) Retail
6 32 (7.80%) Banking
7 29 (7.07%) Manufacturing
8 22 (5.37%) Law
9 19 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.41%) German Language
12 13 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (3.17%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.68%) Electronics
14 9 (2.20%) Advertising
15 8 (1.95%) Automotive
15 8 (1.95%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.46%) Billing
16 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (20.98%) Analyst
2 66 (16.10%) Senior
3 44 (10.73%) IT Support
4 33 (8.05%) Lead
5 32 (7.80%) Architect
6 28 (6.83%) Support Analyst
7 27 (6.59%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.12%) IT Analyst
10 18 (4.39%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.15%) Consultant
12 16 (3.90%) Security Engineer
13 15 (3.66%) IT Support Analyst
14 14 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.17%) Applications Support
15 13 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
15 13 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support
15 13 (3.17%) Network Engineer
15 13 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.17%) REST
2 11 (2.68%) .NET
3 8 (1.95%) SOAP
4 7 (1.71%) JSON
5 6 (1.46%) PySpark
6 5 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.22%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.22%) Jinja
6 5 (1.22%) Middleware
6 5 (1.22%) YAML
7 4 (0.98%) HTML
8 3 (0.73%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.73%) CSS
8 3 (0.73%) React
8 3 (0.73%) XML
9 2 (0.49%) Kafka
9 2 (0.49%) Laravel
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.49%) OpenID
9 2 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.66%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.41%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.93%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.20%) Life Science
10 8 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.22%) CCTV
12 5 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.22%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.07%) Windows
2 52 (12.68%) Windows Server
3 33 (8.05%) Linux
4 8 (1.95%) Unix
5 6 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.22%) Debian
6 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.22%) VMS
6 5 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.98%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (17.56%) Agile
4 54 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (12.68%) ITIL
6 51 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (10.49%) Project Delivery
8 42 (10.24%) AI
9 41 (10.00%) Change Management
10 33 (8.05%) Analytics
10 33 (8.05%) CI/CD
10 33 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (7.56%) Roadmaps
12 30 (7.32%) ERP
12 30 (7.32%) Project Management
13 29 (7.07%) Process Improvement
14 28 (6.83%) Business Analysis
14 28 (6.83%) Data Analysis
15 27 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (6.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 60 (14.63%) SQL
2 41 (10.00%) Python
3 39 (9.51%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.93%) Bash
6 10 (2.44%) C#
6 10 (2.44%) Java
7 9 (2.20%) VBA
8 6 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.46%) PHP
8 6 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.98%) C++
11 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.24%) ABAP
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.24%) R
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (23.17%) Degree
2 37 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (6.10%) CISSP
5 22 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.66%) CISM
7 14 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.41%) Numerate Degree
8 11 (2.68%) CEH
9 10 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.95%) IIBA
10 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.95%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.95%) PMP
11 7 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.46%) CCIE
12 6 (1.46%) CCNP
12 6 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.46%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.12%) QA
4 19 (4.63%) SLA
5 15 (3.66%) GDPR
6 11 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.20%) NIST
8 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.46%) GRC
9 6 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (1.22%) MiFID
10 5 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.73%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (16.10%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.90%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.95%) Docker
5 6 (1.46%) vSphere
6 5 (1.22%) Firmware
6 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.24%) Lustre
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (3.17%) Terraform
2 12 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.44%) SCCM
3 10 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (1.46%) Ansible
4 6 (1.46%) Nagios
4 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.22%) Backup Exec
5 5 (1.22%) Grafana
5 5 (1.22%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.98%) Control-M
6 4 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.73%) Argo
7 3 (0.73%) cPanel
7 3 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) VMware
3 24 (5.85%) Cisco
4 20 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.15%) Citrix
6 16 (3.90%) SAP
7 14 (3.41%) Pega
7 14 (3.41%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.68%) Veeam
9 10 (2.44%) Blue Prism
9 10 (2.44%) iManage
9 10 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.20%) Alteryx
10 9 (2.20%) Oracle
10 9 (2.20%) UiPath
11 8 (1.95%) Anaplan
11 8 (1.95%) Databricks
12 7 (1.71%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.46%) Red Hat