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 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 426 481
Rank change year-on-year +51 +55 -10
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 449 271 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the General category 1.01% 0.83% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 285 188 415
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,775 £26,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,844 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,600 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -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 44,666 32,738 62,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 72.54% 56.89%
Number of salaries quoted 27,446 16,119 41,212
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,919 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +53 399 £52,136 -5.21% 137
UK excluding London +81 344 £47,500 - 125
Work from Home +46 110 £47,500 -24.60% 65
South East +39 89 £47,500 -32.14% 43
North of England +8 88 £45,000 +7.14% 27
London -44 86 £76,750 +20.87% 41
Midlands -11 54 £56,000 +12.00% 22
North West +36 50 £51,772 -5.87% 13
South West -42 40 £41,250 +3.13% 8
East of England +1 38 £50,000 - 9
West Midlands -17 31 £54,000 +4.96% 14
Yorkshire -25 30 £34,000 -19.05% 9
East Midlands -5 23 £60,000 +60.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland - 9 £33,500 - 9
North East -46 8 £45,000 +66.67% 5
Wales -39 6 £55,000 +10.00% 7

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 31 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.23%) IIS
4 9 (2.00%) Confluence
5 6 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 42 (9.35%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.23%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.67%) CorelDRAW
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) SAP CO
1 5 (1.11%) SAP FI
1 5 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 131 (29.18%) Azure
2 95 (21.16%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (10.69%) AWS
4 47 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 40 (8.91%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.46%) SaaS
7 24 (5.35%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.34%) dbt
9 14 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.23%) GitHub
13 9 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.00%) IaaS
13 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (2.00%) PaaS
14 8 (1.78%) Serverless
15 7 (1.56%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.56%) Azure Stack
16 6 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (12.69%) Firewall
2 47 (10.47%) DNS
3 46 (10.24%) VPN
4 35 (7.80%) DHCP
5 33 (7.35%) TCP/IP
6 27 (6.01%) VLAN
7 25 (5.57%) WAN
8 18 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (3.79%) TETRA
10 16 (3.56%) Network Security
11 14 (3.12%) LAN
12 12 (2.67%) VoIP
12 12 (2.67%) Wireless
13 10 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
14 9 (2.00%) SD-WAN
15 6 (1.34%) NAS
15 6 (1.34%) SAN
16 5 (1.11%) DMZ
16 5 (1.11%) OSPF
16 5 (1.11%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.69%) Power BI
2 31 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.78%) Metabase
5 8 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.56%) Metadata
7 6 (1.34%) Looker
7 6 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.89%) Power Query
9 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.89%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.67%) Big Data
10 3 (0.67%) MySQL
11 1 (0.22%) Flink
11 1 (0.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (5.57%) JIRA
2 23 (5.12%) Git
3 13 (2.90%) GitLab
4 10 (2.23%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.67%) JUnit
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.45%) Mockito
7 2 (0.45%) Postman
7 2 (0.45%) Selenium
7 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 238 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (18.93%) Finance
4 39 (8.69%) Manufacturing
5 37 (8.24%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (6.01%) Retail
7 25 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (4.90%) Law
9 20 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (3.79%) Banking
10 17 (3.79%) Telecoms
11 16 (3.56%) Legal
12 13 (2.90%) Electronics
13 12 (2.67%) Marketing
14 9 (2.00%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.78%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.56%) Front Office
17 5 (1.11%) Advertising
17 5 (1.11%) Military
17 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 93 (20.71%) Analyst
2 50 (11.14%) IT Support
3 49 (10.91%) Support Analyst
4 38 (8.46%) Senior
5 37 (8.24%) Consultant
6 33 (7.35%) Support Engineer
7 25 (5.57%) Architect
8 23 (5.12%) Lead
9 22 (4.90%) Security Engineer
9 22 (4.90%) Systems Analyst
10 21 (4.68%) Applications Support
11 20 (4.45%) IT Analyst
11 20 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
12 19 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.23%) Systems Support
13 18 (4.01%) Systems Support Analyst
14 17 (3.79%) Audio Visual Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) Design Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) RF Design Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.45%) REST
2 9 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.56%) Middleware
3 7 (1.56%) SOAP
4 6 (1.34%) .NET
4 6 (1.34%) CSS
4 6 (1.34%) HTML
4 6 (1.34%) JSON
4 6 (1.34%) Node.js
5 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.11%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.11%) Jinja
5 5 (1.11%) YAML
6 3 (0.67%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.67%) PySpark
6 3 (0.67%) RESTful
7 2 (0.45%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.45%) React
7 2 (0.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.57%) Driving Licence
2 27 (6.01%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.56%) CCTV
5 12 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.78%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.78%) CMDB
9 7 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.34%) Blog
10 6 (1.34%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.11%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.89%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 99 (22.05%) Windows
2 59 (13.14%) Windows Server
3 43 (9.58%) Linux
4 11 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.78%) CentOS
6 8 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.11%) Debian
8 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.89%) Unix
9 4 (0.89%) VMS
10 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.22%) AIX
12 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (28.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (12.69%) ITIL
4 53 (11.80%) Agile
5 46 (10.24%) Project Delivery
6 45 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (9.80%) ERP
8 43 (9.58%) CI/CD
9 40 (8.91%) Change Management
10 38 (8.46%) Analytics
11 37 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (8.02%) DevOps
12 36 (8.02%) Incident Management
13 34 (7.57%) AI
13 34 (7.57%) Customer Service
13 34 (7.57%) Root Cause Analysis
14 33 (7.35%) Business Analysis
14 33 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (6.24%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 94 (20.94%) SQL
2 54 (12.03%) Python
3 49 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 23 (5.12%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.56%) Bash
6 13 (2.90%) Java
7 8 (1.78%) C#
8 7 (1.56%) C++
9 6 (1.34%) PHP
10 5 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.11%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.67%) C
13 2 (0.45%) ABAP
13 2 (0.45%) Bicep
13 2 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.22%) VB
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (16.26%) Degree
2 50 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (2.00%) HND
7 8 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.56%) CISSP
9 6 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.11%) CCNP
10 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.11%) PMP
11 4 (0.89%) CCNA
11 4 (0.89%) HNC
11 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.89%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.80%) QA
2 28 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.56%) SLA
5 10 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.00%) GDPR
7 7 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.34%) GRC
8 6 (1.34%) NIST
9 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.89%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.67%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.45%) NCSC
12 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 75 (16.70%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.68%) Hyper-V
2 21 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.79%) Docker
4 6 (1.34%) Firmware
4 6 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.34%) vSphere
5 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) KVM
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (4.68%) Terraform
3 17 (3.79%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.23%) Ansible
4 10 (2.23%) Nagios
5 8 (1.78%) SCCM
6 6 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.34%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.34%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.11%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.11%) Podman
7 5 (1.11%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.89%) Grafana
8 4 (0.89%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.67%) Control-M
10 2 (0.45%) Argo
10 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.45%) Puppet
10 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (34.08%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.35%) Cisco
3 34 (7.57%) VMware
4 22 (4.90%) SAP
5 17 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.34%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.90%) Citrix
8 11 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.23%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.78%) Oracle
11 8 (1.78%) Splunk
11 8 (1.78%) Veeam
12 7 (1.56%) Aruba
12 7 (1.56%) Google
12 7 (1.56%) Juniper
12 7 (1.56%) Pega
13 6 (1.34%) Databricks
13 6 (1.34%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.34%) Sophos