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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 354 538
Rank change year-on-year -35 +184 -118
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 516 377 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.76% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.94% 1.11% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 339 264 142
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,750 £36,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -16.08% +11.84%
75th Percentile £62,250 £75,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £87,500 £88,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -2.78%

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 54,641 34,039 42,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.23% 68.43% 57.66%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 17,632 21,316
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,178 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -54 457 £51,500 -3.74% 521
UK excluding London -3 402 £47,500 +5.56% 337
Work from Home -21 144 £48,500 -11.01% 208
London -85 99 £65,000 -10.34% 215
South East -18 97 £50,000 -7.83% 115
North of England -42 85 £52,136 +22.67% 66
South West -4 82 £43,000 +7.50% 34
Midlands -46 58 £52,500 +16.67% 49
North West +10 56 £55,000 +48.65% 43
West Midlands -37 38 £47,000 -8.64% 35
East of England -23 33 £55,000 +1.85% 38
Yorkshire -56 22 £57,500 +27.78% 14
East Midlands -49 20 £55,000 +29.41% 14
Scotland +18 19 £33,500 - 24
Wales - 14 £55,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 3
North East -57 7 £29,500 +18.00% 9

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 36 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.43%) Confluence
3 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.13%) IIS
5 5 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 33 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.49%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.33%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.97%) CorelDRAW
6 4 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.55%) SAP CO
1 8 (1.55%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.36%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (0.97%) Infor CloudSuite
3 5 (0.97%) Infor LN
3 5 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.58%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.58%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 140 (27.13%) Azure
2 88 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (12.02%) Power Platform
4 54 (10.47%) AWS
5 47 (9.11%) Entra ID
6 32 (6.20%) SaaS
7 25 (4.84%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.52%) GitHub
9 13 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (2.33%) GCP
11 11 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.13%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.94%) n8n
12 10 (1.94%) Serverless
12 10 (1.94%) Zapier
13 9 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.55%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.24%) Firewall
2 50 (9.69%) VPN
3 48 (9.30%) DNS
4 37 (7.17%) TCP/IP
5 28 (5.43%) DHCP
6 25 (4.84%) Network Security
7 24 (4.65%) VLAN
7 24 (4.65%) Wireless
8 21 (4.07%) WAN
9 16 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (2.91%) LAN
11 12 (2.33%) BGP
12 11 (2.13%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.13%) TETRA
13 10 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
13 10 (1.94%) SAN
14 9 (1.74%) HTTP
14 9 (1.74%) OSPF
15 6 (1.16%) VoIP
16 5 (0.97%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.27%) Power BI
2 19 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.94%) Metadata
4 8 (1.55%) Big Data
4 8 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.78%) Looker
7 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.39%) EDMS
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Redis
9 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.19%) Parquet
10 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (8.14%) JIRA
2 14 (2.71%) Git
3 5 (0.97%) GitLab
3 5 (0.97%) JUnit
3 5 (0.97%) Postman
4 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.58%) Selenium
6 2 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.39%) JMeter
6 2 (0.39%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.39%) Mockito
6 2 (0.39%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.19%) Hudson
7 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 285 (55.23%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (17.05%) Finance
4 47 (9.11%) Manufacturing
5 41 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (5.81%) Legal
8 21 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.88%) Law
9 20 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.49%) Banking
10 18 (3.49%) Retail
11 17 (3.29%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.52%) Marketing
12 13 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.13%) Electronics
14 9 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.55%) Military
16 6 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 108 (20.93%) Analyst
2 60 (11.63%) Senior
2 60 (11.63%) Support Engineer
3 46 (8.91%) Consultant
4 44 (8.53%) Business Analyst
5 38 (7.36%) IT Support
6 34 (6.59%) IT Engineer
6 34 (6.59%) Support Analyst
7 29 (5.62%) Applications Support
8 28 (5.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 24 (4.65%) Architect
10 23 (4.46%) Developer
10 23 (4.46%) Lead
11 19 (3.68%) Systems Support
11 19 (3.68%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.49%) IT Analyst
13 17 (3.29%) Security Engineer
14 15 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (2.91%) Systems Analyst
15 14 (2.71%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.65%) REST
2 21 (4.07%) Terraform
3 10 (1.94%) CSS
3 10 (1.94%) HTML
3 10 (1.94%) Playwright
4 9 (1.74%) JSON
4 9 (1.74%) Middleware
4 9 (1.74%) Node.js
4 9 (1.74%) XML
5 7 (1.36%) .NET
6 6 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.16%) RESTful
6 6 (1.16%) SOAP
7 5 (0.97%) EDI
7 5 (0.97%) HTML5
7 5 (0.97%) React
8 4 (0.78%) CSS3
9 3 (0.58%) Matplotlib
9 3 (0.58%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.27%) Driving Licence
2 36 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.71%) CCTV
6 14 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.74%) Replication
10 8 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.55%) PKI
11 7 (1.36%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.36%) CMDB
11 7 (1.36%) IoT
12 6 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 101 (19.57%) Windows
2 49 (9.50%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.59%) Linux
4 16 (3.10%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.52%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.33%) Windows 10
7 11 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.74%) CentOS
9 8 (1.55%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.78%) Rocky
11 4 (0.78%) Unix
12 3 (0.58%) AIX
12 3 (0.58%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.39%) Android
13 2 (0.39%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.19%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.19%) Solaris
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 83 (16.09%) Agile
4 73 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (11.82%) Business Analysis
6 58 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (11.05%) DevOps
8 56 (10.85%) AI
9 52 (10.08%) Requirements Gathering
9 52 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
10 51 (9.88%) ITIL
11 49 (9.50%) Validation
12 48 (9.30%) Migration
13 47 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 47 (9.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 46 (8.91%) ERP
15 45 (8.72%) Disaster Recovery
16 43 (8.33%) Process Improvement
16 43 (8.33%) Workflow
17 41 (7.95%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.93%) SQL
2 58 (11.24%) PowerShell
3 45 (8.72%) Python
4 19 (3.68%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.13%) Bash
5 11 (2.13%) Java
6 10 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.74%) C#
8 8 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.16%) C++
10 5 (0.97%) C
11 4 (0.78%) PHP
11 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.78%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.58%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.58%) Ruby
13 2 (0.39%) ABAP
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.85%) Degree
3 39 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.52%) CCNP
5 13 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.13%) CCNA
7 10 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.94%) HND
7 10 (1.94%) SAP Certification
8 9 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.16%) CISSP
10 6 (1.16%) HNC
11 5 (0.97%) ACCA
11 5 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.78%) CBAP
12 4 (0.78%) CIMA
12 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.43%) QA
2 32 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (6.01%) GDPR
4 26 (5.04%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.13%) NIST
7 9 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.74%) SLA
8 7 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.16%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.97%) ISO 22301
10 5 (0.97%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.78%) GRC
12 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.58%) WCAG
13 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (9.50%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.23%) Hyper-V
3 23 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.49%) Docker
5 11 (2.13%) Firmware
6 7 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) KVM
8 1 (0.19%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.91%) Ansible
4 13 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.94%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.78%) Grafana
8 4 (0.78%) Nagios
8 4 (0.78%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.78%) Podman
8 4 (0.78%) VxRail
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 168 (32.56%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.36%) Cisco
3 30 (5.81%) VMware
4 27 (5.23%) SAP
5 21 (4.07%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.71%) Veeam
9 13 (2.52%) Google
10 12 (2.33%) Dell
10 12 (2.33%) JD Edwards
10 12 (2.33%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.13%) Oracle
12 9 (1.74%) Aruba
13 8 (1.55%) Juniper
14 6 (1.16%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.16%) Splunk
15 5 (0.97%) Adobe
15 5 (0.97%) Databricks
15 5 (0.97%) NetApp