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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 416 421
Rank change year-on-year +80 +5 +74
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 441 215 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.52% 0.57%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.73% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 270 139 467
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +4.49% -14.67%
75th Percentile £72,188 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% 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 44,539 29,507 57,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.73% 70.95% 60.56%
Number of salaries quoted 23,994 15,882 39,537
10th Percentile £28,261 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,400 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +66 392 £55,000 +2.80% 163
UK excluding London +72 292 £47,500 - 132
London +44 132 £75,000 +19.05% 50
Work from Home +41 107 £55,000 -5.98% 64
South East +31 81 £50,250 -22.69% 39
North of England -22 55 £43,750 +4.17% 23
Midlands -35 55 £55,000 +8.43% 30
East of England +1 40 £35,000 -26.32% 19
West Midlands -25 32 £60,000 +16.62% 21
North West +1 29 £45,000 -23.40% 10
South West -35 28 £45,000 +12.50% 16
East Midlands -30 22 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Yorkshire -49 20 £34,000 -19.05% 9
Northern Ireland - 18 - - 2
Scotland - 13 £35,000 - 5
North East -33 6 £45,000 +42.86% 5
Wales -30 2 £50,250 +3.08%

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 24 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 24 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.91%) IIS
3 4 (0.91%) WebSphere
3 4 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.45%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 44 (9.98%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (4.31%) AutoCAD
4 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.45%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.23%) C-CURE
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (34.01%) Azure
2 94 (21.32%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (10.88%) Power Platform
4 45 (10.20%) AWS
5 42 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 27 (6.12%) Power Automate
6 27 (6.12%) SaaS
7 16 (3.63%) dbt
8 14 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.17%) PaaS
9 12 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.49%) IaaS
11 10 (2.27%) ChatGPT
11 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.04%) GCP
13 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.36%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.66%) DNS
2 45 (10.20%) Firewall
3 35 (7.94%) DHCP
4 30 (6.80%) VPN
5 26 (5.90%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.22%) VLAN
7 18 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (3.85%) TETRA
9 16 (3.63%) WAN
10 13 (2.95%) LAN
10 13 (2.95%) Network Security
11 10 (2.27%) VoIP
12 8 (1.81%) NAS
13 7 (1.59%) SAN
14 6 (1.36%) DMZ
15 5 (1.13%) Internet
15 5 (1.13%) NetScaler
15 5 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (1.13%) STUN
16 4 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.84%) Power BI
2 38 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.17%) Metadata
5 12 (2.72%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.72%) Metabase
6 10 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.91%) Big Data
10 4 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.91%) MySQL
11 3 (0.68%) Looker
11 3 (0.68%) Power Query
11 3 (0.68%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (5.44%) Git
2 18 (4.08%) JIRA
3 15 (3.40%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.04%) GitLab
5 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.13%) Subversion
7 3 (0.68%) Selenium
8 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 243 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 94 (21.32%) Finance
3 84 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.30%) Retail
5 37 (8.39%) Legal
6 36 (8.16%) Banking
7 32 (7.26%) Manufacturing
8 23 (5.22%) Law
9 22 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.85%) Electronics
12 15 (3.40%) Telecoms
13 14 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (2.49%) German Language
15 8 (1.81%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.59%) Advertising
16 7 (1.59%) Automotive
16 7 (1.59%) Front Office
16 7 (1.59%) Marketing
17 6 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (21.54%) Analyst
2 57 (12.93%) Senior
3 51 (11.56%) IT Support
4 42 (9.52%) Support Analyst
5 37 (8.39%) Lead
6 29 (6.58%) Architect
7 26 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 25 (5.67%) IT Analyst
9 23 (5.22%) Support Engineer
10 21 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (4.54%) IT Support Analyst
12 19 (4.31%) Consultant
13 17 (3.85%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) Design Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) RF Design Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) RF Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) Security Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) Systems Analyst
13 17 (3.85%) Systems Support
13 17 (3.85%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.95%) REST
2 10 (2.27%) .NET
3 8 (1.81%) SOAP
4 7 (1.59%) JSON
5 5 (1.13%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.13%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (1.13%) Jinja
5 5 (1.13%) Middleware
5 5 (1.13%) PySpark
5 5 (1.13%) YAML
6 3 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.68%) CSS
6 3 (0.68%) HTML
6 3 (0.68%) Kafka
6 3 (0.68%) React
7 2 (0.45%) Laravel
7 2 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.45%) WPF
8 1 (0.23%) Google JAX
8 1 (0.23%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.63%) Driving Licence
4 15 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.17%) Low-Code
6 13 (2.95%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.04%) Life Science
10 8 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.59%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.36%) CCTV
12 6 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.13%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.13%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 74 (16.78%) Windows
2 51 (11.56%) Windows Server
3 33 (7.48%) Linux
4 8 (1.81%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.36%) Unix
6 5 (1.13%) Debian
6 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.13%) VMS
6 5 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.91%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 114 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (15.42%) ITIL
4 66 (14.97%) Agile
5 59 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (10.88%) Change Management
8 45 (10.20%) Project Delivery
9 43 (9.75%) Analytics
10 42 (9.52%) AI
11 41 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (7.71%) Incident Management
14 33 (7.48%) CI/CD
15 31 (7.03%) Data Analysis
15 31 (7.03%) Data Modelling
15 31 (7.03%) ERP
16 30 (6.80%) Root Cause Analysis
17 29 (6.58%) Process Improvement
17 29 (6.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.33%) SQL
2 46 (10.43%) PowerShell
3 44 (9.98%) Python
4 15 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.17%) Bash
6 9 (2.04%) C#
6 9 (2.04%) Java
6 9 (2.04%) VBA
7 6 (1.36%) C++
7 6 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.36%) PHP
7 6 (1.36%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.13%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.68%) Bicep
9 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) Groovy
10 1 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.23%) VB
10 1 (0.23%) VB6
Qualifications
1 97 (22.00%) Degree
2 46 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.44%) CISSP
5 18 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.40%) CISM
7 13 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.49%) CEH
8 11 (2.49%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.81%) IIBA
9 8 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.81%) PMP
10 7 (1.59%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.13%) CCIE
12 5 (1.13%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.43%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.48%) QA
3 25 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (5.22%) SLA
5 11 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.27%) GDPR
7 9 (2.04%) NIST
8 7 (1.59%) GRC
8 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.91%) MiFID
11 4 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.68%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.68%) GAAP
12 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (16.55%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.95%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.04%) Docker
5 6 (1.36%) vSphere
6 5 (1.13%) Firmware
6 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.68%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.68%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) Ceph
9 1 (0.23%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) Lustre
9 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.17%) Terraform
3 12 (2.72%) SCCM
4 11 (2.49%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.36%) Ansible
5 6 (1.36%) Nagios
5 6 (1.36%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.13%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.13%) Grafana
6 5 (1.13%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.91%) Control-M
7 4 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.68%) cPanel
8 3 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.68%) Plesk
9 2 (0.45%) CASB
9 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 137 (31.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.26%) VMware
3 23 (5.22%) Cisco
4 20 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.31%) Citrix
6 17 (3.85%) SAP
7 14 (3.17%) Pega
8 13 (2.95%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.49%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.27%) Blue Prism
10 10 (2.27%) iManage
11 9 (2.04%) Alteryx
11 9 (2.04%) Databricks
12 8 (1.81%) Anaplan
12 8 (1.81%) UiPath
12 8 (1.81%) Veeam
13 7 (1.59%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.59%) Oracle
14 6 (1.36%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.36%) Red Hat