Hybrid/Remote Documentation Skills Job Trends

Documentation Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Documentation Skills in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 337 382
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 +24
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 127 92 144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.77% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 85 64 109
10th Percentile £30,950 £33,500 £35,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,036 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 13,001 11,973 16,582
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.51% 72.53% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,356 6,713 11,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,746 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,084
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -9.86%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Documentation Skills and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Documentation Skills job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Documentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Documentation Skills

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Documentation Skills salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Documentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 14 (11.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.30%) IIS
3 2 (1.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (3.94%) CorelDRAW
5 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.51%) SAP CO
1 7 (5.51%) SAP FI
1 7 (5.51%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.57%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.79%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.13%) Azure
2 29 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (14.96%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.02%) AWS
5 11 (8.66%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.51%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.72%) dbt
8 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.94%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.15%) IaaS
9 4 (3.15%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.36%) SaaS
11 2 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.57%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.47%) Firewall
2 18 (14.17%) DNS
3 16 (12.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (11.02%) DHCP
4 14 (11.02%) VPN
5 7 (5.51%) VLAN
5 7 (5.51%) VoIP
6 6 (4.72%) Network Security
7 5 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.15%) DMZ
8 4 (3.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (3.15%) STUN
9 3 (2.36%) NAS
9 3 (2.36%) Wireless
10 2 (1.57%) SSL
11 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.79%) HTTP
11 1 (0.79%) LAN
11 1 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.81%) Power BI
2 13 (10.24%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.72%) Looker
4 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.57%) Metadata
5 2 (1.57%) Power Query
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Parquet
6 1 (0.79%) Redis
6 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) JIRA
2 6 (4.72%) Git
3 5 (3.94%) GitLab
4 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.57%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.79%) JMeter
6 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (59.84%) Social Skills
2 34 (26.77%) Finance
3 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.60%) Retail
5 12 (9.45%) Law
5 12 (9.45%) Manufacturing
6 11 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Banking
7 7 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.51%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.15%) Electronics
9 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (20.47%) Support Engineer
2 15 (11.81%) Consultant
3 14 (11.02%) Senior
4 13 (10.24%) Analyst
5 12 (9.45%) IT Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) IT Support
5 12 (9.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (8.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.72%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.72%) Lead
8 6 (4.72%) SAP CO Specialist
8 6 (4.72%) SAP FI/CO Specialist
8 6 (4.72%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (4.72%) Support Specialist
9 5 (3.94%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Middleware
2 6 (4.72%) JSON
3 5 (3.94%) Jinja
3 5 (3.94%) YAML
4 4 (3.15%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (2.36%) REST
6 2 (1.57%) .NET
6 2 (1.57%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.79%) Blazor
7 1 (0.79%) JWT
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.79%) PySpark
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) WebAssembly
7 1 (0.79%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.66%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.72%) Blog
4 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.79%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.20%) Windows
2 18 (14.17%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.30%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.51%) Linux
5 4 (3.15%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.15%) Debian
5 4 (3.15%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.57%) Unix
7 1 (0.79%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (14.96%) High Availability
4 17 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (13.39%) Roadmaps
4 17 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (11.81%) Business Continuity
5 15 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (11.02%) Project Delivery
6 14 (11.02%) Risk Management
7 13 (10.24%) Agile
7 13 (10.24%) Change Management
7 13 (10.24%) Data Protection
8 12 (9.45%) Analytics
8 12 (9.45%) Cloud Security
8 12 (9.45%) Customer Service
8 12 (9.45%) DevOps
8 12 (9.45%) Information Security
8 12 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (8.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.98%) SQL
2 19 (14.96%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.60%) Python
4 6 (4.72%) Bash
5 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.57%) C
6 2 (1.57%) C++
6 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) ABAP
7 1 (0.79%) Ada
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.79%) Go
7 1 (0.79%) Groovy
7 1 (0.79%) Java
7 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.60%) Degree
2 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) SAP Certification
5 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.94%) CISSP
5 5 (3.94%) HNC
5 5 (3.94%) HND
5 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.15%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.36%) CEH
7 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.57%) ACCA
8 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.57%) CCSP
8 2 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.79%) CIMA
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) GDPR
2 11 (8.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (5.51%) QA
4 6 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.94%) ISO 22301
5 5 (3.94%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.94%) SLA
6 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.57%) GAAP
8 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.79%) GRC
9 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.36%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.36%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
3 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.79%) Puppet
3 1 (0.79%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (40.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.24%) VMware
3 11 (8.66%) SAP
4 10 (7.87%) Cisco
5 7 (5.51%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.72%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.36%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (2.36%) Google
7 3 (2.36%) IBM
7 3 (2.36%) iManage
7 3 (2.36%) Sophos
8 2 (1.57%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.57%) Pega
8 2 (1.57%) Sage
8 2 (1.57%) Workday
9 1 (0.79%) Apple
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) EMC
9 1 (0.79%) NetApp
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle