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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 523 405
Rank change year-on-year +208 -118 +97
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 413 237 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.35% 0.64%
As % of the General category 1.21% 0.60% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 273 118 277
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £62,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% +14.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,579 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £46,534
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.08% -15.39%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,214 39,733 34,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 64.59% 58.46% 65.53%
Number of salaries quoted 19,296 19,194 25,655
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.84% +1.00% -4.76%

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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Top 16 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 14 November 2025. 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 +223 389 £54,250 -16.54% 332
UK excluding London +194 262 £45,000 -5.26% 214
London +93 131 £77,500 +6.90% 149
Work from Home +99 129 £54,500 -8.02% 182
South East +86 76 £52,000 +30.00% 81
Midlands +84 71 £45,000 - 30
North of England +68 62 £42,500 -17.87% 42
West Midlands +55 40 £52,500 -19.23% 26
East Midlands +35 31 £42,500 +6.25% 3
Yorkshire +30 31 £47,500 -9.52% 10
North West +54 27 £39,750 -22.06% 31
East of England +40 25 £52,500 +30.43% 18
South West +44 19 £55,000 +29.41% 25
Scotland +1 8 - - 14
North East +9 4 £25,000 -26.47% 1
Wales -1 2 £48,000 -1.54% 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 33 (7.99%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.15%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (14.53%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.63%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 7 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.21%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.73%) SAP EHS
6 3 (0.73%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.73%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (31.23%) Azure
2 64 (15.50%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (10.65%) AWS
4 36 (8.72%) SaaS
5 34 (8.23%) Power Platform
6 29 (7.02%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (4.60%) IaaS
9 18 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.63%) GitHub
11 13 (3.15%) GCP
11 13 (3.15%) PaaS
12 12 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.66%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.18%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (1.69%) OCI
16 7 (1.69%) OneDrive
17 6 (1.45%) iPaaS
18 5 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.86%) Firewall
2 35 (8.47%) DNS
3 30 (7.26%) DHCP
4 29 (7.02%) VPN
5 26 (6.30%) TCP/IP
6 21 (5.08%) LAN
7 18 (4.36%) BGP
8 16 (3.87%) VLAN
9 14 (3.39%) Network Security
9 14 (3.39%) OSPF
10 12 (2.91%) WAN
11 9 (2.18%) MPLS
12 8 (1.94%) SAN
12 8 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.69%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (1.45%) VoIP
14 6 (1.45%) Wireshark
15 5 (1.21%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.51%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.08%) Power BI
3 16 (3.87%) Tableau
4 15 (3.63%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.21%) Metadata
7 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.97%) MySQL
9 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.73%) CockroachDB
9 3 (0.73%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.48%) Metabase
10 2 (0.48%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (4.12%) JIRA
2 4 (0.97%) Postman
3 3 (0.73%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) GitLab
4 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 204 (49.39%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.21%) Finance
3 71 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.86%) Legal
5 36 (8.72%) Banking
6 29 (7.02%) Law
7 28 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (5.81%) Retail
9 23 (5.57%) Manufacturing
9 23 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.87%) Back Office
11 15 (3.63%) Advertising
12 14 (3.39%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.91%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.69%) German Language
16 5 (1.21%) Marketing
16 5 (1.21%) Publishing
17 4 (0.97%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 110 (26.63%) Analyst
2 65 (15.74%) Senior
3 31 (7.51%) Business Analyst
4 29 (7.02%) Lead
5 28 (6.78%) Architect
5 28 (6.78%) Network Engineer
6 23 (5.57%) Data Analyst
7 21 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (4.84%) Developer
8 20 (4.84%) Quality Analyst
8 20 (4.84%) Service Analyst
8 20 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.60%) Data Quality Analyst
9 19 (4.60%) IT Support
10 18 (4.36%) Consultant
11 17 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.87%) Service Desk Analyst
13 15 (3.63%) Applications Support
13 15 (3.63%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.87%) XML
2 11 (2.66%) .NET
3 5 (1.21%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.21%) Kafka
3 5 (1.21%) React
3 5 (1.21%) REST
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (0.97%) OAuth
4 4 (0.97%) OAuth2
4 4 (0.97%) OpenID
4 4 (0.97%) SAML
5 3 (0.73%) HTML
5 3 (0.73%) JSON
5 3 (0.73%) Spring
5 3 (0.73%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 17 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.15%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.15%) NHS
6 12 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.42%) CMDB
8 10 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.45%) Clustering
11 6 (1.45%) Life Science
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
12 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.89%) Windows
2 39 (9.44%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.57%) Linux
4 5 (1.21%) Debian
4 5 (1.21%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.21%) Unix
4 5 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (16.71%) Agile
3 62 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (13.56%) ITIL
5 51 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (11.86%) Validation
7 45 (10.90%) Migration
8 41 (9.93%) DevOps
9 35 (8.47%) Project Delivery
10 33 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (7.51%) Computer Science
13 30 (7.26%) Project Management
14 29 (7.02%) Customer Service
15 28 (6.78%) ERP
15 28 (6.78%) Inventory Management
15 28 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (6.30%) Incident Management
16 26 (6.30%) Mentoring
16 26 (6.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (17.43%) SQL
2 35 (8.47%) Python
3 33 (7.99%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.33%) C#
5 18 (4.36%) Java
6 14 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.15%) C
7 13 (3.15%) VBA
8 11 (2.66%) Bash
9 6 (1.45%) PHP
10 3 (0.73%) Perl
10 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.48%) C++
11 2 (0.48%) Go
11 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.24%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (23.73%) Degree
2 53 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (6.05%) CCNP
6 25 (6.05%) CISSP
7 23 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.36%) CISM
9 16 (3.87%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.87%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (2.91%) CCIE
11 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.18%) CCNA
13 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.69%) CCSA
13 7 (1.69%) CCSE
13 7 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.69%) HNC
14 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.12%) GDPR
3 17 (4.12%) ISO 9001
4 15 (3.63%) NIST
4 15 (3.63%) QA
5 13 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (3.15%) SLA
6 8 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.69%) MiFID
7 7 (1.69%) PMO
8 5 (1.21%) GRC
9 4 (0.97%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.48%) UCITS
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
11 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 59 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.94%) Firmware
5 6 (1.45%) Docker
6 5 (1.21%) Kamailio
6 5 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) Lustre
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (4.12%) SCCM
2 15 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.39%) Terraform
4 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.45%) Ansible
7 5 (1.21%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.21%) Nagios
8 4 (0.97%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.97%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.97%) Grafana
9 3 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.73%) Nessus
9 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.24%) Argo
11 1 (0.24%) cPanel
11 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 140 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.02%) Cisco
3 28 (6.78%) VMware
4 18 (4.36%) Oracle
5 13 (3.15%) CheckPoint
5 13 (3.15%) F5
6 12 (2.91%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.18%) Blue Prism
7 9 (2.18%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.18%) Pega
8 8 (1.94%) Juniper
8 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.69%) Citrix
9 7 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.69%) Qualys
9 7 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.69%) Veeam
10 6 (1.45%) Intapp
11 5 (1.21%) Arista
11 5 (1.21%) Darktrace