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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 448 415
Rank change year-on-year +101 -33 +81
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 410 184 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.45% 0.59%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.63% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 256 112 452
10th Percentile £31,125 £31,325 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,850
Median % change year-on-year - +6.08% -13.58%
75th Percentile £72,813 £70,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 41,151 28,985 53,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.20% 70.75% 60.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22,451 15,520 38,056
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,613 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,499 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.65% +8.42% -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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +117 372 £55,000 - 195
UK excluding London +86 268 £47,500 - 165
London +53 127 £75,000 +19.05% 49
Work from Home +39 104 £55,000 +2.33% 78
South East +41 77 £47,750 +6.11% 56
Midlands -20 55 £55,000 +7.84% 39
North of England -25 50 £45,000 +7.14% 29
East of England +9 37 £32,500 -33.33% 25
West Midlands -7 28 £60,000 -4.00% 26
South West -18 26 £46,500 +43.08% 12
East Midlands -23 26 £50,000 +11.11% 12
North West -13 24 £45,000 -18.18% 19
Yorkshire -33 20 £34,000 -19.05% 6
Scotland -14 13 £35,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
North East -21 6 £45,000 +42.86% 4
Wales -23 3 £50,250 +3.08% 2

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 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.98%) Confluence
4 4 (0.98%) IIS
4 4 (0.98%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.49%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 49 (11.95%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.95%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) Postilion
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (35.61%) Azure
2 80 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (11.22%) AWS
4 38 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.54%) Entra ID
6 29 (7.07%) SaaS
7 25 (6.10%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.41%) PaaS
10 13 (3.17%) dbt
11 12 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (2.68%) GCP
12 11 (2.68%) IaaS
12 11 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.44%) ChatGPT
13 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.46%) OpenShift
17 5 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.76%) DNS
1 40 (9.76%) Firewall
2 33 (8.05%) DHCP
3 27 (6.59%) TCP/IP
4 26 (6.34%) VPN
5 21 (5.12%) VLAN
6 14 (3.41%) LAN
7 13 (3.17%) WAN
7 13 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.93%) Network Security
9 8 (1.95%) SAN
10 7 (1.71%) VoIP
11 6 (1.46%) DMZ
11 6 (1.46%) NAS
11 6 (1.46%) TETRA
12 5 (1.22%) NetScaler
12 5 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.22%) STUN
13 4 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.32%) Power BI
3 16 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.93%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.93%) Metabase
4 12 (2.93%) Metadata
5 10 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.98%) Big Data
9 4 (0.98%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.98%) MySQL
10 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.73%) Power Query
11 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.85%) Git
2 19 (4.63%) JIRA
3 15 (3.66%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.20%) GitLab
5 6 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.22%) Subversion
7 3 (0.73%) Selenium
8 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
9 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
General
1 238 (58.05%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.73%) Finance
4 39 (9.51%) Legal
5 35 (8.54%) Retail
6 33 (8.05%) Banking
7 28 (6.83%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.88%) Law
9 19 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.41%) Electronics
11 14 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.17%) German Language
12 13 (3.17%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.95%) Automotive
13 8 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.71%) Advertising
14 7 (1.71%) Marketing
15 6 (1.46%) Billing
15 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (20.73%) Analyst
2 63 (15.37%) Senior
3 46 (11.22%) IT Support
4 33 (8.05%) Lead
4 33 (8.05%) Support Analyst
5 31 (7.56%) Architect
6 25 (6.10%) Business Analyst
7 22 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (5.37%) IT Analyst
8 17 (4.15%) Consultant
8 17 (4.15%) IT Support Analyst
8 17 (4.15%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 15 (3.66%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (3.41%) Applications Support
11 14 (3.41%) Applications Support Analyst
11 14 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
12 13 (3.17%) Systems Support
12 13 (3.17%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.17%) REST
2 11 (2.68%) .NET
3 8 (1.95%) SOAP
4 7 (1.71%) JSON
5 6 (1.46%) PySpark
6 5 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.22%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.22%) Jinja
6 5 (1.22%) Middleware
6 5 (1.22%) YAML
7 3 (0.73%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.73%) CSS
7 3 (0.73%) HTML
7 3 (0.73%) React
7 3 (0.73%) XML
8 2 (0.49%) Kafka
8 2 (0.49%) Laravel
8 2 (0.49%) WPF
9 1 (0.24%) jQuery
9 1 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.66%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.41%) Low-Code
5 13 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.20%) Life Science
9 8 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.95%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.22%) CCTV
11 5 (1.22%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.98%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.83%) Windows
2 50 (12.20%) Windows Server
3 34 (8.29%) Linux
4 8 (1.95%) Unix
5 6 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.22%) Debian
6 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.22%) VMS
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.98%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 112 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (17.07%) Agile
4 56 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (12.93%) ITIL
6 51 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (10.73%) Change Management
7 44 (10.73%) Project Delivery
8 41 (10.00%) AI
9 34 (8.29%) Analytics
10 33 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (7.80%) CI/CD
12 31 (7.56%) Roadmaps
13 30 (7.32%) ERP
13 30 (7.32%) Project Management
14 28 (6.83%) Incident Management
14 28 (6.83%) Process Improvement
15 27 (6.59%) Data Analysis
15 27 (6.59%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.39%) SQL
2 40 (9.76%) Python
3 39 (9.51%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.93%) Bash
4 12 (2.93%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.20%) C#
5 9 (2.20%) Java
6 8 (1.95%) VBA
7 6 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.46%) PHP
7 6 (1.46%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.98%) C++
10 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Bicep
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) R
11 1 (0.24%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) VB6
Qualifications
1 93 (22.68%) Degree
2 39 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (5.85%) CISSP
4 24 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.66%) CISM
6 13 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (2.68%) CEH
8 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.95%) IIBA
9 8 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.95%) PMP
10 7 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.46%) CCIE
11 6 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.46%) HNC
11 6 (1.46%) HND
12 5 (1.22%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.61%) QA
4 19 (4.63%) SLA
5 11 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.68%) GDPR
6 9 (2.20%) NIST
7 7 (1.71%) GRC
7 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.98%) MiFID
9 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.73%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.73%) GAAP
10 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.49%) COBIT
11 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (16.10%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.41%) Hyper-V
3 13 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.95%) Docker
5 6 (1.46%) vSphere
6 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.98%) Firmware
8 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.24%) Ceph
9 1 (0.24%) KVM
9 1 (0.24%) Lustre
9 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.68%) Terraform
3 10 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.20%) SCCM
5 6 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) Nagios
5 6 (1.46%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.22%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.22%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.98%) Control-M
7 4 (0.98%) Grafana
7 4 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.73%) cPanel
8 3 (0.73%) Plesk
9 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.49%) Nessus
9 2 (0.49%) Netcool
Vendors
1 124 (30.24%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) VMware
3 23 (5.61%) Cisco
4 21 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.39%) Citrix
6 16 (3.90%) SAP
7 14 (3.41%) Pega
8 13 (3.17%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.44%) Blue Prism
9 10 (2.44%) iManage
9 10 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.20%) Alteryx
10 9 (2.20%) UiPath
10 9 (2.20%) Veeam
11 8 (1.95%) Anaplan
11 8 (1.95%) Databricks
12 7 (1.71%) Oracle
13 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.46%) Red Hat