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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 180 162
Rank change year-on-year +42 -18 +77
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 36 26 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.12% 0.94% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,050 £31,552
25th Percentile £44,000 £39,036 £42,761
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £51,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £56,324
% change year-on-year -14.06% +13.63% -6.13%

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 3,203 2,755 2,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 60.75% 64.13% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 1,204 1,804
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -0.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,050 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +32 23 £56,250 -11.76% 6
Warwickshire +30 7 £38,000 - 2
Coventry - 1 - -
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 (2.78%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (13.89%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.89%) VPN
3 5 (13.89%) WAN
4 4 (11.11%) BGP
4 4 (11.11%) DHCP
4 4 (11.11%) Network Security
4 4 (11.11%) OSPF
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (8.33%) IPsec
5 3 (8.33%) LAN
5 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.33%) VLAN
5 3 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (8.33%) Wireshark
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (5.56%) HTTP
6 2 (5.56%) SSH
7 1 (2.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.56%) Tableau
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Legal
3 10 (27.78%) Manufacturing
4 8 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Automotive
5 4 (11.11%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Senior
2 9 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Quality Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Designer
5 2 (5.56%) Information Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead Designer
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Quality Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Acoustics
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 7 (19.44%) Data Visualisation
2 7 (19.44%) Visualisation
3 6 (16.67%) SIEM
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.89%) ITIL
4 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (11.11%) Data Validation
5 4 (11.11%) ETL
5 4 (11.11%) Validation
5 4 (11.11%) Zero Trust
6 3 (8.33%) Change Control
6 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) VBA
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
1 8 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
2 6 (16.67%) CCNP
2 6 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.56%) CEH
5 2 (5.56%) CISM
5 2 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.56%) GSEC
5 2 (5.56%) OSCP
5 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
6 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Firmware
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (5.56%) Nessus
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.78%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco
2 5 (13.89%) Meraki
3 4 (11.11%) Databricks
3 4 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) Zscaler
5 2 (5.56%) Blue Prism
5 2 (5.56%) Pega
5 2 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.78%) Splunk