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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 450 453
Rank change year-on-year +86 +3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 426 211 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.66% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 268 140 430
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,474 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -0.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,188 £71,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 44,702 32,185 58,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.73% 72.81% 60.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25,240 15,931 39,632
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £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 £77,250 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £93,250
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 18 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 18 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 +83 378 £55,000 +2.80% 192
UK excluding London +103 300 £47,500 - 159
Work from Home +95 109 £55,000 -5.98% 83
London +2 103 £75,000 +19.05% 62
North of England +14 80 £45,000 +7.14% 23
South East +39 73 £52,500 -19.23% 56
Midlands -10 51 £60,000 +16.62% 18
North West +37 39 £48,386 -17.64% 18
East of England 0 35 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Yorkshire -22 34 £34,000 -18.56% 4
South West -45 31 £37,500 -6.25% 25
East Midlands -13 26 £55,000 +25.71% 2
West Midlands -20 24 £60,000 +2.56% 16
Northern Ireland - 19 - - 3
Scotland - 9 £35,000 - 14
North East -31 7 £45,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -30 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 21 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.46%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.41%) 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%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
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
3 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (30.28%) Azure
2 86 (20.19%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (10.56%) Power Platform
4 34 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 32 (7.51%) AWS
6 29 (6.81%) SaaS
7 27 (6.34%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.99%) dbt
9 14 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.05%) PaaS
10 13 (3.05%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.35%) IaaS
12 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.11%) ChatGPT
13 9 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.64%) GitHub
15 7 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.62%) DNS
2 40 (9.39%) Firewall
3 32 (7.51%) DHCP
3 32 (7.51%) VPN
4 25 (5.87%) TCP/IP
5 23 (5.40%) VLAN
6 17 (3.99%) TETRA
6 17 (3.99%) WAN
7 16 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (3.29%) Network Security
9 11 (2.58%) VoIP
10 10 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.88%) LAN
12 6 (1.41%) BGP
12 6 (1.41%) DMZ
12 6 (1.41%) NAS
12 6 (1.41%) OSPF
13 5 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.17%) SAN
13 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.69%) Power BI
2 32 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.35%) Metabase
6 9 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.88%) Metadata
8 7 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.41%) Looker
9 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.94%) Power Query
11 4 (0.94%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.70%) Big Data
12 3 (0.70%) MySQL
13 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.10%) Git
2 23 (5.40%) JIRA
3 13 (3.05%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.58%) GitLab
5 6 (1.41%) 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 (53.76%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.13%) Finance
3 87 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.28%) Manufacturing
5 25 (5.87%) Retail
6 24 (5.63%) Law
7 22 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.99%) Banking
9 17 (3.99%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.76%) Electronics
11 14 (3.29%) Legal
12 13 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.82%) Marketing
14 8 (1.88%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.64%) Automotive
15 7 (1.64%) Front Office
15 7 (1.64%) German Language
16 6 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (19.95%) Analyst
2 45 (10.56%) IT Support
2 45 (10.56%) Senior
2 45 (10.56%) Support Analyst
3 29 (6.81%) Architect
4 25 (5.87%) Lead
5 24 (5.63%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (5.40%) IT Analyst
6 23 (5.40%) Security Engineer
7 22 (5.16%) Consultant
8 21 (4.93%) Business Analyst
9 20 (4.69%) Systems Analyst
10 19 (4.46%) Support Engineer
11 18 (4.23%) IT Support Analyst
12 17 (3.99%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 17 (3.99%) Design Engineer
12 17 (3.99%) RF Design Engineer
12 17 (3.99%) RF Engineer
12 17 (3.99%) Systems Support
12 17 (3.99%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.82%) REST
2 8 (1.88%) SOAP
3 7 (1.64%) .NET
4 6 (1.41%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.17%) CSS
5 5 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.17%) HTML
5 5 (1.17%) Jinja
5 5 (1.17%) JSON
5 5 (1.17%) PySpark
5 5 (1.17%) YAML
6 4 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.94%) Middleware
7 3 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.70%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.70%) Node.js
7 3 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.47%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.47%) Kafka
8 2 (0.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.10%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.76%) CCTV
6 14 (3.29%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.88%) CMDB
8 8 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Blog
10 6 (1.41%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 71 (16.67%) Windows
2 49 (11.50%) Windows Server
3 37 (8.69%) Linux
4 8 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.41%) CentOS
5 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.17%) Debian
6 5 (1.17%) Unix
7 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.94%) VMS
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (27.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (13.38%) Agile
4 56 (13.15%) ITIL
5 50 (11.74%) Project Delivery
6 49 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (10.09%) CI/CD
8 42 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (9.62%) Analytics
10 40 (9.39%) Change Management
11 38 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (8.45%) AI
12 36 (8.45%) Incident Management
13 34 (7.98%) ERP
14 32 (7.51%) Data Modelling
15 30 (7.04%) Root Cause Analysis
15 30 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (6.57%) DevOps
17 27 (6.34%) Roadmaps
18 25 (5.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.31%) SQL
2 49 (11.50%) Python
3 43 (10.09%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.05%) Bash
6 12 (2.82%) Java
7 9 (2.11%) C#
8 6 (1.41%) 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 (0.94%) 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 74 (17.37%) Degree
2 52 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.11%) CISSP
8 8 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
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 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.17%) CCNP
12 4 (0.94%) CCNA
12 4 (0.94%) HND
12 4 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.69%) QA
2 33 (7.75%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.69%) SLA
5 9 (2.11%) GDPR
6 8 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.88%) NIST
7 7 (1.64%) GRC
8 6 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.94%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.70%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.70%) GAAP
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (14.79%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.76%) Docker
3 14 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.41%) Firmware
5 6 (1.41%) vSphere
6 4 (0.94%) 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 (3.99%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.99%) Terraform
2 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.11%) Ansible
4 8 (1.88%) Nagios
4 8 (1.88%) SCCM
4 8 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.64%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.17%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.17%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.94%) Control-M
8 4 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.94%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.70%) Grafana
9 3 (0.70%) Podman
10 2 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 129 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.51%) Cisco
3 31 (7.28%) VMware
4 20 (4.69%) SAP
5 18 (4.23%) Citrix
5 18 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.35%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.11%) Databricks
8 9 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.11%) iManage
9 8 (1.88%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.88%) UiPath
10 7 (1.64%) Anaplan
10 7 (1.64%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.64%) Veeam
11 6 (1.41%) Google
11 6 (1.41%) Oracle
11 6 (1.41%) Pega
11 6 (1.41%) Splunk