Technical Author
UK

The median Technical Author salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 940 1114
Rank change year-on-year +111 +174 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Author 81 39 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.038% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.041% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 43 29 69
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £54,375 £53,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,500 £67,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £43,750 £44,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.57% +17.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Author
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Author in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Author in the UK

Technical Author
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Author.

Salary trend for Technical Author in the UK

Technical Author
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Author over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Author in the UK

Technical Author
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Author within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 +139 72 £42,500 -5.56% 31
UK excluding London +29 71 £42,500 -2.86% 27
South West +2 36 £42,500 -22.02% 10
Work from Home +99 31 £47,500 +13.10% 8
East of England +20 14 £33,500 -10.67% 4
London +131 9 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Scotland - 8 £50,000 - 3
Midlands +18 5 £35,000 -8.50% 1
North of England +52 4 £55,000 -13.73% 6
South East +13 4 £52,500 +7.69% 5
East Midlands -11 4 £35,000 -8.50% 1
North West +13 2 £52,500 -17.65% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - -

Technical Author Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Technical Author job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Author in the job title.

1 31 (38.27%) Publishing
2 26 (32.10%) XML
2 26 (32.10%) HNC
3 23 (28.40%) HND
3 23 (28.40%) Aerospace
3 23 (28.40%) Management Information System
3 23 (28.40%) Document Management
3 23 (28.40%) Data Vault
3 23 (28.40%) Impact Assessments
4 13 (16.05%) Military
5 11 (13.58%) SGML
6 10 (12.35%) Finance
6 10 (12.35%) Marketing
7 9 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (9.88%) GAP Analysis
8 8 (9.88%) FrameMaker
8 8 (9.88%) Adobe
8 8 (9.88%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (9.88%) Fintech
9 7 (8.64%) RoboHelp
9 7 (8.64%) Validation
10 6 (7.41%) Project Management
10 6 (7.41%) CAD
10 6 (7.41%) Graphic Design
10 6 (7.41%) Animation
10 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
10 6 (7.41%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
10 6 (7.41%) Functional Testing
10 6 (7.41%) Social Skills

Technical Author Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.47%) Confluence
1 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
2 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) FrameMaker
2 7 (8.64%) RoboHelp
3 1 (1.23%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.23%) AWS
1 1 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (1.23%) GitHub
1 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
1 1 (1.23%) SaaS
1 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.40%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 31 (38.27%) Publishing
2 23 (28.40%) Aerospace
3 13 (16.05%) Military
4 10 (12.35%) Finance
4 10 (12.35%) Marketing
5 8 (9.88%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.41%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.47%) Automotive
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) XML
2 11 (13.58%) SGML
3 2 (2.47%) HTML
4 1 (1.23%) CSS
4 1 (1.23%) JSON
4 1 (1.23%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.41%) Animation
2 6 (7.41%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Document Management
1 23 (28.40%) Impact Assessments
2 9 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (9.88%) Fintech
3 8 (9.88%) GAP Analysis
4 7 (8.64%) Validation
5 6 (7.41%) CAD
5 6 (7.41%) Functional Testing
5 6 (7.41%) Project Management
6 5 (6.17%) Agile
7 4 (4.94%) Information Architecture
7 4 (4.94%) User Experience
8 3 (3.70%) SDLC
8 3 (3.70%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (3.70%) UX Design
9 2 (2.47%) Agile Project Management
9 2 (2.47%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (2.47%) Telematics
9 2 (2.47%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.23%) Java
1 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) HNC
2 23 (28.40%) HND
3 6 (7.41%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Adobe
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.23%) Cisco