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 have cited Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 491 540
Rank change year-on-year +27 +49 -74
Permanent jobs citing Documentation Skills 504 588 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.59% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.85% 0.87% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 430 420 621
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +29.41%

All General Skills
UK

Documentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Documentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Documentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Documentation Skills.

Salary trend for Documentation Skills in the UK

Documentation Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Documentation Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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 18 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 +45 476 £53,750 -10.42% 172
UK excluding London +33 332 £45,000 - 127
Work from Home +60 185 £55,000 +2.80% 71
London -5 150 £70,000 +3.70% 53
South East +28 120 £50,000 -2.44% 34
Midlands +17 77 £41,000 -6.29% 25
North of England +53 67 £36,750 -11.45% 23
West Midlands +29 61 £41,000 -3.53% 18
North West -7 40 £40,000 -11.11% 13
South West -12 32 £62,500 +47.06% 18
East of England +8 23 £32,500 -27.78% 18
Yorkshire +85 17 £31,500 +5.00% 7
East Midlands +1 16 £38,250 -49.00% 7
North East - 10 £32,500 - 3
Wales - 7 £45,000 - 3
Scotland -69 6 £65,000 +15.04% 8

Documentation Skills
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 56 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 29 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.38%) Confluence
4 8 (1.59%) IIS
5 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 101 (20.04%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.39%) Trello
5 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) CATIA
6 2 (0.40%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) InDesign
7 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.79%) SAP HR
2 5 (0.99%) SAP PP
3 4 (0.79%) MIS ActiveH
3 4 (0.79%) SAP APO
3 4 (0.79%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.79%) SAP SD
3 4 (0.79%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.40%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Postilion
5 1 (0.20%) Relativity
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.37%) Microsoft 365
2 132 (26.19%) Azure
3 45 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 35 (6.94%) OneDrive
5 34 (6.75%) AWS
6 32 (6.35%) Entra ID
7 20 (3.97%) GCP
7 20 (3.97%) SaaS
8 11 (2.18%) GitHub
8 11 (2.18%) Mimecast
8 11 (2.18%) PaaS
9 10 (1.98%) IaaS
10 9 (1.79%) Boomi
10 9 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.39%) Azure API Management
12 7 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.60%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 81 (16.07%) Firewall
2 53 (10.52%) Wi-Fi
3 39 (7.74%) LAN
4 38 (7.54%) WAN
5 30 (5.95%) DNS
6 25 (4.96%) DHCP
7 20 (3.97%) SAN
7 20 (3.97%) VPN
8 19 (3.77%) VLAN
9 14 (2.78%) SD-WAN
10 13 (2.58%) VoIP
11 12 (2.38%) Internet
11 12 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
11 12 (2.38%) Network Security
11 12 (2.38%) TCP/IP
12 11 (2.18%) Ethernet
13 8 (1.59%) Wireless
14 7 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (1.19%) FTP
16 5 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.74%) Power BI
3 23 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (1.39%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.39%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.19%) MySQL
9 6 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.19%) Power Query
10 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.20%) Big Data
12 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (6.15%) JIRA
2 18 (3.57%) Git
3 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (1.59%) GitLab
5 7 (1.39%) Katalon Studio
5 7 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.60%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.60%) ERwin
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) Subversion
7 2 (0.40%) Hudson
7 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.40%) TestNG
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) NUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 263 (52.18%) Social Skills
2 136 (26.98%) Finance
3 85 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.73%) Law
5 41 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (5.95%) Retail
8 26 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.37%) Banking
10 19 (3.77%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.57%) Legal
12 14 (2.78%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.18%) Marketing
14 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.79%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.79%) Publishing
15 7 (1.39%) Electronics
16 6 (1.19%) Automotive
16 6 (1.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (18.45%) Senior
2 84 (16.67%) Analyst
3 57 (11.31%) Support Engineer
4 51 (10.12%) Architect
5 48 (9.52%) Lead
6 35 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (6.35%) IT Engineer
8 29 (5.75%) IT Support
8 29 (5.75%) Project Manager
9 28 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 27 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (4.96%) IT Analyst
12 22 (4.37%) Consultant
13 21 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 21 (4.17%) Developer
14 20 (3.97%) 3rd Line Support
14 20 (3.97%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 20 (3.97%) IT Support Engineer
15 19 (3.77%) 2nd Line Support
15 19 (3.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.34%) .NET
2 29 (5.75%) React
3 12 (2.38%) CSS
4 9 (1.79%) HTML
5 8 (1.59%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.59%) RESTful
5 8 (1.59%) SailPoint
6 7 (1.39%) YAML
7 6 (1.19%) OpenAPI
7 6 (1.19%) Swagger
7 6 (1.19%) Vue
8 5 (0.99%) EDI
8 5 (0.99%) Middleware
9 4 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.79%) React Native
10 3 (0.60%) COM
10 3 (0.60%) D3.js
10 3 (0.60%) Google Chart
10 3 (0.60%) WinForms
11 2 (0.40%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 37 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 22 (4.37%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.58%) Clustering
6 12 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (1.79%) Robotics
9 7 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (1.39%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.99%) CMDB
11 5 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.99%) Replication
12 4 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 138 (27.38%) Windows
2 81 (16.07%) Windows Server
3 29 (5.75%) Linux
4 18 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (3.17%) Windows 10
6 14 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.18%) Mac OS
8 9 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.99%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.40%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.40%) Unix
11 1 (0.20%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Fedora
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (18.25%) Customer Service
3 75 (14.88%) Agile
4 66 (13.10%) Mentoring
5 64 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
6 63 (12.50%) Project Management
7 52 (10.32%) ITIL
8 42 (8.33%) Change Control
9 40 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (7.14%) Project Delivery
12 34 (6.75%) Migration
12 34 (6.75%) Presales
13 32 (6.35%) Analytics
14 30 (5.95%) Business Analysis
14 30 (5.95%) DevOps
14 30 (5.95%) Information Security
15 29 (5.75%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (5.75%) Data Privacy
15 29 (5.75%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 102 (20.24%) SQL
2 50 (9.92%) PowerShell
3 36 (7.14%) Python
4 33 (6.55%) Java
5 28 (5.56%) C#
6 18 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.17%) Bash
8 11 (2.18%) C
8 11 (2.18%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.39%) VB
11 4 (0.79%) ActionScript
11 4 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.60%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.60%) R
12 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.40%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (18.06%) Degree
2 35 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.17%) CISSP
4 19 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 14 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.38%) GIAC
6 12 (2.38%) GSEC
6 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.38%) SSCP
7 10 (1.98%) CCNA
8 9 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.79%) CEH
8 9 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.59%) PMP
10 7 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.19%) CCNP
11 6 (1.19%) MCSE
11 6 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.95%) SLA
2 21 (4.17%) QA
3 16 (3.17%) GDPR
4 15 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.99%) SEPA
7 5 (0.99%) TARGET2
8 3 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) MISRA
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) P3O
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) TickIT
System Software
1 103 (20.44%) Active Directory
2 52 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (6.55%) Hyper-V
4 13 (2.58%) vSphere
5 11 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.39%) Firmware
6 7 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.99%) NFS
8 5 (0.99%) XenApp
9 4 (0.79%) Docker
9 4 (0.79%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.20%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.20%) Varnish
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (8.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (5.36%) SCCM
3 16 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.58%) Terraform
5 9 (1.79%) Autotask
5 9 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.19%) WSUS
7 5 (0.99%) AirWatch
7 5 (0.99%) Graphite
8 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.79%) IBM BigFix
8 4 (0.79%) PowerCLI
8 4 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Ansible
9 3 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.60%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 218 (43.25%) Microsoft
2 70 (13.89%) VMware
3 30 (5.95%) Citrix
4 26 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 24 (4.76%) Cisco
6 22 (4.37%) SAP
6 22 (4.37%) Veeam
7 19 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 17 (3.37%) CyberArk
9 14 (2.78%) CheckPoint
9 14 (2.78%) Dell
9 14 (2.78%) HP
10 13 (2.58%) Acronis
10 13 (2.58%) Apple
10 13 (2.58%) Meraki
11 12 (2.38%) Datto
11 12 (2.38%) Sophos
12 11 (2.18%) Oracle
13 10 (1.98%) IBM
14 9 (1.79%) Ubiquiti