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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 410 467
Rank change year-on-year +50 +57 +7
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 474 294 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.63% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.04% 0.88% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 300 205 405
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £26,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.42% -10.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £88,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -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 45,638 33,374 60,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 71.15% 57.58%
Number of salaries quoted 28,092 16,732 40,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +18 415 £51,772 -5.87% 199
UK excluding London +86 365 £47,500 - 165
Work from Home +35 122 £47,500 -24.00% 86
South East +45 98 £47,750 -31.79% 57
London -59 87 £71,250 +12.20% 60
North of England -16 86 £45,000 +7.14% 35
Midlands -10 56 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North West +32 52 £53,386 -2.93% 23
South West -36 43 £42,500 +6.25% 13
East of England +2 41 £50,000 - 10
West Midlands -26 33 £52,500 +3.50% 16
Yorkshire -44 26 £42,500 +1.19% 9
East Midlands -2 23 £60,000 +84.62% 13
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 2
Scotland +25 12 £33,500 - 13
Wales -36 9 £55,000 +10.00% 7
North East -47 8 £45,000 +66.67% 3

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 38 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 29 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.74%) IIS
4 10 (2.11%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 44 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.01%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.05%) CorelDRAW
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) SAP CO
1 6 (1.27%) SAP FI
2 5 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (1.05%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.42%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 140 (29.54%) Azure
2 102 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (10.97%) AWS
4 49 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 43 (9.07%) Entra ID
6 26 (5.49%) SaaS
7 24 (5.06%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.16%) dbt
8 15 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.53%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.11%) GitHub
12 9 (1.90%) IaaS
12 9 (1.90%) Serverless
13 8 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.69%) GCP
13 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.69%) PaaS
14 7 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.48%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 63 (13.29%) Firewall
2 54 (11.39%) DNS
3 50 (10.55%) VPN
4 39 (8.23%) DHCP
5 37 (7.81%) TCP/IP
6 30 (6.33%) VLAN
7 27 (5.70%) WAN
8 17 (3.59%) TETRA
8 17 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (3.38%) LAN
9 16 (3.38%) Network Security
10 15 (3.16%) Wireless
11 12 (2.53%) VoIP
12 10 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (1.90%) SD-WAN
14 8 (1.69%) SAN
15 6 (1.27%) NAS
16 5 (1.05%) DMZ
16 5 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
16 5 (1.05%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.23%) Power BI
2 35 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.69%) Metabase
5 6 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.27%) Looker
5 6 (1.27%) Metadata
5 6 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.84%) Power Query
7 4 (0.84%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.63%) Big Data
8 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.49%) JIRA
2 23 (4.85%) Git
3 13 (2.74%) GitLab
4 10 (2.11%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.84%) JUnit
7 3 (0.63%) JMeter
7 3 (0.63%) Selenium
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.42%) Mockito
8 2 (0.42%) Postman
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.21%) Hudson
9 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 258 (54.43%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.99%) Finance
3 89 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.65%) Manufacturing
5 40 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (5.49%) Retail
8 22 (4.64%) Law
9 20 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (3.59%) Telecoms
11 16 (3.38%) Legal
12 15 (3.16%) Banking
13 13 (2.74%) Electronics
14 12 (2.53%) Marketing
14 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.48%) Front Office
17 5 (1.05%) Advertising
17 5 (1.05%) Military
17 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (20.68%) Analyst
2 54 (11.39%) IT Support
3 50 (10.55%) Support Analyst
4 44 (9.28%) Senior
5 42 (8.86%) Support Engineer
6 41 (8.65%) Consultant
7 25 (5.27%) Lead
8 24 (5.06%) Architect
9 23 (4.85%) Applications Support
10 22 (4.64%) Systems Analyst
10 22 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
11 21 (4.43%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.43%) IT Engineer
11 21 (4.43%) Security Engineer
11 21 (4.43%) Systems Support
12 20 (4.22%) IT Analyst
13 19 (4.01%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (3.80%) Systems Support Analyst
15 17 (3.59%) RF Design Engineer
15 17 (3.59%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.32%) Middleware
2 10 (2.11%) REST
3 9 (1.90%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.69%) Node.js
5 7 (1.48%) CSS
5 7 (1.48%) HTML
6 6 (1.27%) .NET
6 6 (1.27%) JSON
7 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.05%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.05%) Jinja
7 5 (1.05%) SOAP
7 5 (1.05%) YAML
8 4 (0.84%) RESTful
9 3 (0.63%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.63%) PySpark
9 3 (0.63%) React
10 2 (0.42%) Kafka
10 2 (0.42%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.42%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.02%) Driving Licence
2 31 (6.54%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (3.16%) CCTV
5 15 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.69%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.69%) CMDB
9 8 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.48%) PKI
10 7 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.27%) Blog
11 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.05%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 114 (24.05%) Windows
2 68 (14.35%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.86%) Linux
4 13 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.90%) CentOS
7 8 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.05%) Debian
9 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.84%) VMS
11 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.63%) Unix
11 3 (0.63%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.42%) AIX
13 1 (0.21%) Android
13 1 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (28.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 131 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (13.08%) ITIL
4 57 (12.03%) Agile
5 49 (10.34%) ERP
6 48 (10.13%) Change Management
6 48 (10.13%) Project Delivery
7 45 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (9.07%) CI/CD
9 41 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (8.23%) DevOps
11 38 (8.02%) Customer Service
11 38 (8.02%) Root Cause Analysis
12 37 (7.81%) Analytics
13 36 (7.59%) AI
14 35 (7.38%) Incident Management
15 34 (7.17%) Business Analysis
16 31 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 30 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.89%) SQL
2 54 (11.39%) Python
3 51 (10.76%) PowerShell
4 23 (4.85%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.59%) Bash
6 14 (2.95%) Java
7 9 (1.90%) C#
8 7 (1.48%) C++
9 6 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.27%) PHP
10 5 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.63%) C
11 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.42%) ABAP
12 2 (0.42%) Bicep
12 2 (0.42%) Groovy
12 2 (0.42%) Ruby
12 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.21%) RPG III
13 1 (0.21%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 73 (15.40%) Degree
2 54 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.95%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.32%) HND
8 9 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.48%) CISSP
10 6 (1.27%) CCNP
10 6 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.27%) HNC
10 6 (1.27%) SAP Certification
11 5 (1.05%) CCNA
11 5 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.84%) CISM
12 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.07%) QA
2 30 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.27%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.38%) SLA
5 14 (2.95%) GDPR
6 13 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.48%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.27%) NIST
10 5 (1.05%) GRC
10 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.84%) ISO 22301
11 4 (0.84%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.63%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.63%) NCSC
13 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.91%) Hyper-V
3 25 (5.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.01%) Docker
5 6 (1.27%) Firmware
5 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.27%) vSphere
6 3 (0.63%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.63%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.21%) KVM
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (5.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.85%) Terraform
3 19 (4.01%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.32%) Ansible
5 10 (2.11%) Nagios
6 8 (1.69%) SCCM
7 7 (1.48%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.27%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.05%) Backup Exec
9 5 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.05%) Grafana
9 5 (1.05%) Podman
9 5 (1.05%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.84%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.42%) Argo
12 2 (0.42%) Control-M
12 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 168 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.07%) Cisco
3 35 (7.38%) VMware
4 21 (4.43%) SAP
5 17 (3.59%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.74%) Citrix
8 10 (2.11%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.90%) Google
9 9 (1.90%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.90%) Veeam
10 8 (1.69%) Aruba
10 8 (1.69%) JD Edwards
10 8 (1.69%) Juniper
10 8 (1.69%) Oracle
10 8 (1.69%) Sophos
11 7 (1.48%) Splunk
12 6 (1.27%) Databricks
12 6 (1.27%) iManage