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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 445 446
Rank change year-on-year +90 +1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 428 209 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.96% 0.66% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 265 139 437
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £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 44,557 31,672 58,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.00% 72.78% 60.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,030 15,716 39,517
10th Percentile £29,372 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,973 £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 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £92,943
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 15 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 15 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 +95 380 £55,000 +2.80% 201
UK excluding London +104 301 £47,500 - 163
Work from Home +82 109 £55,000 -5.98% 84
London -9 104 £75,000 +19.05% 67
North of England +19 78 £45,000 +7.14% 24
South East +35 76 £52,500 -19.23% 57
Midlands -10 52 £56,000 +8.85% 19
North West +25 37 £45,000 -23.40% 19
East of England +6 35 £40,000 -15.79% 19
Yorkshire -32 34 £34,000 -19.05% 4
South West -38 30 £37,500 -6.25% 24
West Midlands -26 26 £60,000 +2.56% 16
East Midlands -2 25 £55,000 +25.71% 3
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 14
North East -31 7 £45,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -32 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 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (9.81%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.44%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.47%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.47%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.47%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.47%) 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 (29.91%) Azure
2 85 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 34 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 31 (7.24%) AWS
6 28 (6.54%) SaaS
7 27 (6.31%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.97%) dbt
9 14 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.04%) PaaS
10 13 (3.04%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.34%) IaaS
12 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.10%) ChatGPT
13 9 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.64%) GCP
15 7 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.58%) DNS
2 40 (9.35%) Firewall
3 32 (7.48%) DHCP
4 31 (7.24%) VPN
5 25 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.37%) VLAN
7 17 (3.97%) TETRA
8 16 (3.74%) WAN
8 16 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.27%) Network Security
10 11 (2.57%) VoIP
11 10 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.10%) LAN
13 6 (1.40%) BGP
13 6 (1.40%) DMZ
13 6 (1.40%) NAS
13 6 (1.40%) OSPF
14 5 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.17%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.64%) Power BI
2 32 (7.48%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.57%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.34%) Metabase
5 10 (2.34%) Metadata
6 9 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.40%) Looker
8 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.17%) 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 (0.70%) Big Data
11 3 (0.70%) MySQL
12 2 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
13 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.07%) Git
2 23 (5.37%) JIRA
3 13 (3.04%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.57%) GitLab
5 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.17%) Subversion
7 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.70%) Selenium
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) JUnit
8 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.47%) Mockito
8 2 (0.47%) Postman
8 2 (0.47%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.23%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 229 (53.50%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.03%) Finance
3 86 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.24%) Manufacturing
5 25 (5.84%) Law
5 25 (5.84%) Retail
6 21 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.21%) Banking
8 18 (4.21%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.74%) Electronics
10 15 (3.50%) Legal
11 13 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.34%) Marketing
13 8 (1.87%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.64%) Automotive
14 7 (1.64%) Front Office
14 7 (1.64%) German Language
15 6 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (19.86%) Analyst
2 48 (11.21%) Senior
3 44 (10.28%) IT Support
3 44 (10.28%) Support Analyst
4 28 (6.54%) Architect
5 24 (5.61%) Lead
5 24 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (5.37%) Security Engineer
7 22 (5.14%) Consultant
7 22 (5.14%) IT Analyst
8 21 (4.91%) Business Analyst
9 20 (4.67%) Systems Analyst
10 19 (4.44%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.97%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 17 (3.97%) Design Engineer
11 17 (3.97%) IT Support Analyst
11 17 (3.97%) RF Design Engineer
11 17 (3.97%) RF Engineer
11 17 (3.97%) Systems Support
11 17 (3.97%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.80%) REST
2 8 (1.87%) SOAP
3 7 (1.64%) .NET
4 6 (1.40%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.17%) Jinja
5 5 (1.17%) JSON
5 5 (1.17%) PySpark
5 5 (1.17%) YAML
6 4 (0.93%) CSS
6 4 (0.93%) HTML
6 4 (0.93%) Middleware
7 3 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.70%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.47%) Kafka
8 2 (0.47%) Node.js
8 2 (0.47%) React
8 2 (0.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.07%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.74%) CCTV
5 14 (3.27%) Low-Code
6 12 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.87%) CMDB
8 7 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.40%) Blog
9 6 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.17%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.36%) Windows
2 49 (11.45%) Windows Server
3 37 (8.64%) Linux
4 8 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.40%) CentOS
5 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.17%) Debian
6 5 (1.17%) 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 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (27.10%) Continuous Improvement
1 116 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (13.79%) Agile
3 58 (13.55%) ITIL
4 50 (11.68%) Project Delivery
5 48 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (10.28%) Change Management
7 42 (9.81%) Analytics
7 42 (9.81%) CI/CD
8 41 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (8.64%) Incident Management
11 36 (8.41%) AI
12 33 (7.71%) ERP
13 32 (7.48%) Data Modelling
14 31 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (6.54%) DevOps
16 26 (6.07%) Roadmaps
17 25 (5.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 77 (17.99%) SQL
2 48 (11.21%) Python
3 43 (10.05%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.04%) Bash
6 11 (2.57%) Java
7 9 (2.10%) C#
8 6 (1.40%) PHP
9 5 (1.17%) C++
9 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.17%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.70%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) ABAP
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) C
13 1 (0.23%) VB
13 1 (0.23%) VB6
13 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (18.46%) Degree
2 52 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.10%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.87%) CISSP
9 7 (1.64%) CEH
9 7 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.64%) IIBA
9 7 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.64%) PMP
10 6 (1.40%) CCNP
10 6 (1.40%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.64%) QA
2 35 (8.18%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.91%) SLA
4 20 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.10%) GDPR
6 7 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.64%) NIST
7 6 (1.40%) GRC
7 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.93%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.70%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.70%) GAAP
10 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (14.72%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.74%) Docker
3 14 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.57%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.40%) Firmware
5 6 (1.40%) vSphere
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.70%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.70%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 17 (3.97%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.97%) Terraform
2 14 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.10%) Ansible
4 8 (1.87%) Nagios
4 8 (1.87%) SCCM
4 8 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.64%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.17%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.17%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.93%) Control-M
8 4 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.70%) Grafana
9 3 (0.70%) Podman
10 2 (0.47%) cPanel
10 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (29.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.71%) Cisco
3 31 (7.24%) VMware
4 20 (4.67%) SAP
5 19 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.21%) Citrix
7 11 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.10%) Databricks
9 9 (2.10%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.10%) iManage
10 8 (1.87%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.87%) UiPath
11 7 (1.64%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.64%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.64%) Oracle
11 7 (1.64%) Veeam
12 6 (1.40%) Pega
12 6 (1.40%) Splunk
13 5 (1.17%) Nexthink