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

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	377	318	520
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+202	-92
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills	548	392	233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.45%	0.78%	0.34%
As % of the General category	0.95%	1.18%	0.59%
Number of salaries quoted	381	262	117
10^th Percentile	£32,750	£32,500	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£41,250	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£51,500	£54,000	£63,000
Median % change year-on-year	-4.63%	-14.29%	+14.55%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£76,875	£73,750
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£87,500	£86,689
UK excluding London median annual salary	£50,000	£45,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-5.26%	+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 citing general skills.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing general skills	57,410	33,104	39,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	46.96%	65.85%	58.18%
Number of salaries quoted	34,900	18,612	19,061
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,750	£31,750
25^th Percentile	£38,750	£33,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£52,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.77%	-13.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£75,000	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£95,000	£100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£50,000	£42,500	£50,309
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-15.52%	+0.62%

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 Salary Trend

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 November 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 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-70	494	£51,772	-4.57%	163
UK excluding London	-38	416	£50,000	+11.11%	140
Work from Home	-24	168	£52,500	-3.67%	74
London	-72	118	£60,000	-22.58%	46
South East	-52	95	£50,000	-5.66%	42
South West	-2	87	£45,000	-18.18%	9
North of England	-58	86	£51,636	+21.50%	31
Midlands	-68	69	£52,500	+16.67%	32
North West	-8	63	£55,000	+38.36%	23
West Midlands	-49	48	£52,500	-	17
East of England	-60	36	£55,000	+3.29%	18
East Midlands	-63	21	£52,500	+23.53%	15
Scotland	+10	20	£33,500	-	6
Wales	-58	17	£50,000	+4.17%	3
Yorkshire	-54	15	£57,500	+21.05%	7
North East	-63	8	£29,500	+18.00%	1
Northern Ireland	-	6	-	-	2

Documentation Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, job vacancies citing Documentation Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Documentation Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	35.6%	195
2	Problem-Solving	33.9%	186
3	Azure	31.6%	173
4	Continuous Improvement	24.5%	134
5	Windows	21.5%	118
6	Microsoft 365	19.2%	105
7	SQL	18.4%	101
8	Agile	17.5%	96
9	Stakeholder Management	16.6%	91
10	AI	13.3%	73
11	Business Analysis	13.1%	72
12	Power Platform	12.6%	69
13	PowerShell	12.2%	67
13	Requirements Gathering	12.2%	67
15	Degree	12.0%	66
16	Active Directory	11.7%	64
17	Firewall	11.5%	63
18	AWS	11.3%	62
19	Entra ID	11.1%	61
19	Stakeholder Engagement	11.1%	61
21	Validation	10.9%	60
22	Business Intelligence	10.8%	59
22	Process Improvement	10.8%	59
22	Security Cleared	10.8%	59
25	Windows Server	10.6%	58
26	DevOps	10.4%	57
26	DNS	10.4%	57
28	User Acceptance Testing	10.0%	55
29	Power BI	9.9%	54
29	QA	9.9%	54

Documentation Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	59.1%	324
2	Analytical Skills	22.4%	123
3	Finance	15.5%	85
4	Manufacturing	10.2%	56
5	Organisational Skills	9.1%	50
6	Legal	6.6%	36
7	Presentation Skills	6.2%	34
8	Aerospace	4.9%	27
8	Public Sector	4.9%	27
10	Law	4.7%	26
11	Inclusion and Diversity	4.0%	22
12	Banking	3.6%	20
13	Retail	3.1%	17
14	Electronics	2.7%	15
15	Marketing	2.4%	13
16	Influencing Skills	2.2%	12
17	Investment Banking	1.5%	8
18	Automotive	1.3%	7
18	Military	1.3%	7
18	Telecoms	1.3%	7