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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 436 442
Rank change year-on-year +62 +6 +25
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 423 226 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.93% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 268 153 430
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £69,063 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,500 £82,625
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 45,363 31,183 58,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.88% 73.27% 59.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,805 14,908 39,806
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £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 £77,500 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,500
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 26 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 26 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 +50 373 £55,000 +1.38% 178
UK excluding London +93 306 £47,500 - 136
Work from Home +47 105 £55,000 -8.33% 74
London -13 95 £75,000 +19.05% 65
North of England +15 83 £45,000 +7.78% 22
South East +41 74 £52,500 -25.00% 48
Midlands -23 51 £56,000 -4.27% 14
North West +21 40 £51,772 -17.16% 16
Yorkshire -32 35 £34,000 -18.07% 5
East of England -9 33 £40,000 -17.95% 17
South West -47 33 £37,500 -6.25% 19
East Midlands -11 28 £55,000 +25.71% 2
West Midlands -48 23 £60,000 +1.69% 12
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 10
North East -35 8 £45,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -32 4 £52,500 +7.69% 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 20 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.42%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) IIS
5 5 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 41 (9.69%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.49%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.71%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.47%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.47%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.24%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 123 (29.08%) Azure
2 84 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 37 (8.75%) AWS
5 34 (8.04%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.86%) SaaS
7 26 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 16 (3.78%) dbt
9 13 (3.07%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.60%) PaaS
11 10 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.13%) GitHub
12 9 (2.13%) IaaS
13 8 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.65%) ChatGPT
14 7 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.17%) Firewall
2 40 (9.46%) DNS
3 33 (7.80%) VPN
4 31 (7.33%) DHCP
5 25 (5.91%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.44%) VLAN
7 19 (4.49%) WAN
8 17 (4.02%) TETRA
8 17 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.07%) Network Security
10 11 (2.60%) VoIP
11 10 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.13%) LAN
13 6 (1.42%) BGP
13 6 (1.42%) NAS
13 6 (1.42%) OSPF
13 6 (1.42%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.18%) DMZ
14 5 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.75%) Power BI
2 28 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.13%) Metabase
5 9 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.89%) Metadata
7 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.42%) Looker
8 6 (1.42%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.95%) Power Query
9 4 (0.95%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.71%) Big Data
10 3 (0.71%) MySQL
11 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (5.91%) JIRA
2 24 (5.67%) Git
3 12 (2.84%) GitLab
3 12 (2.84%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.18%) Subversion
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.47%) Mockito
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 229 (54.14%) Social Skills
2 91 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (20.57%) Finance
4 33 (7.80%) Manufacturing
5 27 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (6.15%) Retail
7 21 (4.96%) Law
8 18 (4.26%) Electronics
8 18 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.02%) Banking
9 17 (4.02%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.31%) Legal
10 14 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.07%) Marketing
12 8 (1.89%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.65%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.65%) Front Office
14 6 (1.42%) Billing
15 5 (1.18%) Advertising
15 5 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 88 (20.80%) Analyst
2 46 (10.87%) Support Analyst
3 44 (10.40%) IT Support
4 36 (8.51%) Senior
5 29 (6.86%) Architect
6 25 (5.91%) Lead
7 24 (5.67%) Consultant
7 24 (5.67%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (5.44%) IT Analyst
9 21 (4.96%) Security Engineer
9 21 (4.96%) Systems Analyst
10 20 (4.73%) Business Analyst
11 17 (4.02%) Applications Support
11 17 (4.02%) Design Engineer
11 17 (4.02%) IT Support Analyst
11 17 (4.02%) RF Design Engineer
11 17 (4.02%) RF Engineer
11 17 (4.02%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.02%) Systems Support
11 17 (4.02%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.84%) REST
2 8 (1.89%) SOAP
3 7 (1.65%) .NET
3 7 (1.65%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.42%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.18%) CSS
5 5 (1.18%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.18%) HTML
5 5 (1.18%) Jinja
5 5 (1.18%) JSON
5 5 (1.18%) Node.js
5 5 (1.18%) YAML
6 4 (0.95%) Middleware
7 3 (0.71%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.71%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.71%) PySpark
7 3 (0.71%) RESTful
8 2 (0.47%) Kafka
8 2 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.91%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.78%) CCTV
3 16 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.07%) Low-Code
5 12 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.89%) CMDB
7 7 (1.65%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.42%) Blog
8 6 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.73%) Windows
2 49 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 39 (9.22%) Linux
4 9 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.65%) CentOS
5 7 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.18%) Debian
6 5 (1.18%) Unix
6 5 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (27.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (13.48%) Agile
4 54 (12.77%) ITIL
5 46 (10.87%) Project Delivery
6 44 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 42 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (9.22%) Analytics
10 37 (8.75%) Change Management
10 37 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (8.51%) ERP
11 36 (8.51%) Incident Management
12 34 (8.04%) AI
13 31 (7.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 31 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (7.09%) Data Modelling
15 29 (6.86%) DevOps
16 25 (5.91%) Roadmaps
17 24 (5.67%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.15%) SQL
2 50 (11.82%) Python
3 42 (9.93%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.31%) Bash
6 13 (3.07%) Java
7 9 (2.13%) C#
8 5 (1.18%) C++
8 5 (1.18%) PHP
8 5 (1.18%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.47%) ABAP
10 2 (0.47%) Bicep
10 2 (0.47%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) VB6
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (16.55%) Degree
2 51 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.89%) CISSP
7 8 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.42%) CEH
9 6 (1.42%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.42%) IIBA
9 6 (1.42%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.42%) PMP
10 5 (1.18%) CCNP
11 4 (0.95%) CCNA
11 4 (0.95%) CISM
11 4 (0.95%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.22%) QA
2 29 (6.86%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.73%) SLA
5 9 (2.13%) GDPR
6 8 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.65%) GRC
7 7 (1.65%) NIST
8 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.95%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.71%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.71%) GAAP
10 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.78%) Docker
3 13 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.36%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.42%) Firmware
5 6 (1.42%) vSphere
6 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.71%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.24%) KVM
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (4.02%) Terraform
2 16 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.13%) Ansible
4 9 (2.13%) Nagios
5 8 (1.89%) SCCM
6 7 (1.65%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.18%) Backup Exec
8 5 (1.18%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.18%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.95%) Control-M
9 4 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.95%) Podman
9 4 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.71%) Grafana
11 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (30.97%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.51%) Cisco
3 29 (6.86%) VMware
4 20 (4.73%) SAP
5 19 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.02%) Citrix
7 11 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.36%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.89%) iManage
9 8 (1.89%) UiPath
10 7 (1.65%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.65%) Databricks
10 7 (1.65%) Google
10 7 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.65%) Splunk
11 6 (1.42%) Anaplan
11 6 (1.42%) Oracle
11 6 (1.42%) Pega
11 6 (1.42%) Veeam