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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 452 446
Rank change year-on-year +97 -6 +26
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 432 209 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.66% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 269 139 434
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,950 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £51,850
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +3.18% -13.58%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £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 44,716 31,817 58,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.96% 72.71% 60.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,154 15,757 39,531
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,177 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £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 £105,000 £93,250
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 16 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 16 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 +89 384 £55,000 +2.80% 193
UK excluding London +100 304 £47,500 - 156
Work from Home +70 109 £55,000 -5.98% 143
London +8 105 £75,000 +19.05% 65
North of England +25 79 £45,000 +7.14% 23
South East +37 76 £52,500 -19.23% 58
Midlands 0 53 £58,000 +12.74% 17
North West +31 38 £48,386 -17.64% 18
East of England +6 35 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Yorkshire -32 34 £34,000 -19.05% 4
South West -34 31 £37,500 -6.25% 22
East Midlands -8 26 £55,000 +25.71% 2
West Midlands -35 26 £60,000 +2.56% 15
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 13
North East -34 7 £45,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -29 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 22 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.16%) Confluence
4 5 (1.16%) IIS
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.40%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.46%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.46%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 128 (29.63%) Azure
2 86 (19.91%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 34 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 32 (7.41%) AWS
6 29 (6.71%) SaaS
7 27 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.94%) dbt
9 14 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.01%) PaaS
10 13 (3.01%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.31%) IaaS
12 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.08%) ChatGPT
13 9 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.62%) GCP
15 7 (1.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.49%) DNS
2 40 (9.26%) Firewall
3 32 (7.41%) DHCP
3 32 (7.41%) VPN
4 25 (5.79%) TCP/IP
5 23 (5.32%) VLAN
6 17 (3.94%) TETRA
6 17 (3.94%) WAN
7 16 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (3.24%) Network Security
9 11 (2.55%) VoIP
10 10 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (2.08%) LAN
12 6 (1.39%) BGP
12 6 (1.39%) DMZ
12 6 (1.39%) NAS
12 6 (1.39%) OSPF
13 5 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.16%) SAN
13 5 (1.16%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.56%) Power BI
2 32 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.31%) Metabase
5 10 (2.31%) Metadata
6 9 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.39%) Looker
8 6 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.93%) Power Query
10 4 (0.93%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.69%) MySQL
12 2 (0.46%) Metadata Repository
13 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.02%) Git
2 23 (5.32%) JIRA
3 13 (3.01%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.55%) GitLab
5 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.16%) Subversion
7 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.69%) Selenium
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) JUnit
8 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.46%) Mockito
8 2 (0.46%) Postman
8 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.23%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 232 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 92 (21.30%) Finance
3 89 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 25 (5.79%) Law
5 25 (5.79%) Retail
6 22 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.17%) Banking
8 18 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.70%) Electronics
9 16 (3.70%) Legal
10 13 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.78%) Marketing
12 8 (1.85%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.62%) Automotive
13 7 (1.62%) Front Office
13 7 (1.62%) German Language
14 6 (1.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 86 (19.91%) Analyst
2 48 (11.11%) Senior
3 45 (10.42%) IT Support
3 45 (10.42%) Support Analyst
4 28 (6.48%) Architect
5 25 (5.79%) Lead
6 24 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (5.32%) IT Analyst
7 23 (5.32%) Security Engineer
8 22 (5.09%) Consultant
9 21 (4.86%) Business Analyst
10 20 (4.63%) Systems Analyst
11 19 (4.40%) Support Engineer
12 18 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
13 17 (3.94%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 17 (3.94%) Design Engineer
13 17 (3.94%) RF Design Engineer
13 17 (3.94%) RF Engineer
13 17 (3.94%) Systems Support
13 17 (3.94%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.78%) REST
2 8 (1.85%) SOAP
3 7 (1.62%) .NET
4 6 (1.39%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.16%) CSS
5 5 (1.16%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.16%) HTML
5 5 (1.16%) Jinja
5 5 (1.16%) JSON
5 5 (1.16%) PySpark
5 5 (1.16%) YAML
6 4 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.93%) Middleware
7 3 (0.69%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.69%) Node.js
7 3 (0.69%) RESTful
8 2 (0.46%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.46%) React
8 2 (0.46%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.02%) Driving Licence
2 21 (4.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.70%) CCTV
6 14 (3.24%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.85%) CMDB
8 8 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.62%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.39%) Blog
10 6 (1.39%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 71 (16.44%) Windows
2 49 (11.34%) Windows Server
3 37 (8.56%) Linux
4 8 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.39%) CentOS
5 6 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.16%) Debian
6 5 (1.16%) Unix
7 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.93%) VMS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
1 117 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (13.89%) Agile
3 58 (13.43%) ITIL
4 50 (11.57%) Project Delivery
5 49 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (10.19%) Change Management
7 43 (9.95%) Analytics
7 43 (9.95%) CI/CD
8 42 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (8.56%) Incident Management
11 36 (8.33%) AI
12 34 (7.87%) ERP
13 32 (7.41%) Data Modelling
14 31 (7.18%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (6.48%) DevOps
16 27 (6.25%) Roadmaps
17 25 (5.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.29%) SQL
2 49 (11.34%) Python
3 43 (9.95%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.01%) Bash
6 12 (2.78%) Java
7 9 (2.08%) C#
8 6 (1.39%) PHP
9 5 (1.16%) C++
9 5 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.69%) Bicep
12 2 (0.46%) ABAP
12 2 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) C
13 1 (0.23%) VB
13 1 (0.23%) VB6
13 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (18.29%) Degree
2 52 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.08%) CISSP
7 9 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.62%) CEH
8 7 (1.62%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.62%) IIBA
8 7 (1.62%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.62%) PMP
9 6 (1.39%) CCNP
9 6 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.56%) QA
2 35 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.86%) SLA
4 9 (2.08%) GDPR
5 8 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.85%) NIST
6 7 (1.62%) GRC
7 6 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.93%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.69%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.69%) GAAP
10 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 63 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.70%) Docker
3 14 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.39%) Firmware
5 6 (1.39%) vSphere
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 17 (3.94%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.94%) Terraform
2 14 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.08%) Ansible
4 8 (1.85%) Nagios
4 8 (1.85%) SCCM
4 8 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.62%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.16%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.16%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.93%) Control-M
8 4 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.69%) Grafana
9 3 (0.69%) Podman
10 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 129 (29.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.64%) Cisco
3 31 (7.18%) VMware
4 20 (4.63%) SAP
5 19 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.17%) Citrix
7 11 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.31%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.08%) Databricks
9 9 (2.08%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.08%) iManage
10 8 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.85%) UiPath
11 7 (1.62%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.62%) Oracle
11 7 (1.62%) Veeam
12 6 (1.39%) Google
12 6 (1.39%) Pega
12 6 (1.39%) Splunk