Documentation Skills Job Trends in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 149 198
Rank change year-on-year -26 +49 +22
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 26 27 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.85% 0.83%
As % of the General category 0.63% 1.37% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 61
10th Percentile £35,900 £41,265 £23,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £44,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +42.68% -3.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -12.50%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 4,144 1,971 4,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 49.29% 61.71% 57.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 1,094 3,030
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,365 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +10.24% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Documentation Skills in the West Midlands

Documentation Skills
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Documentation Skills within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -14 9 £60,000 -0.83% 2
Warwickshire -11 6 £38,000 -60.00% 1
Staffordshire -18 2 £73,750 +63.52% 4
Coventry - 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £32,500 -
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £35,000 - 3
Documentation Skills
England

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Abaqus
1 1 (3.85%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) NGFW
3 1 (3.85%) SMS
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Bugzilla
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) JMeter
1 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Legal
2 6 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 5 (19.23%) Automotive
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Governance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Installations Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Finance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Acoustics
1 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.85%) CCTV
1 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
1 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (3.85%) EPoS
1 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.85%) NHS
1 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
1 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (19.23%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (19.23%) ETL
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Agile
4 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
5 2 (7.69%) Change Management
5 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) VB
4 1 (3.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (23.08%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) CCNP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISM
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.85%) GRC
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.85%) Dell
3 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.85%) New Relic
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.85%) SAP