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Skills that raise your pay

• Documentation as code

  Writing docs in plain text, storing them in Git and GitHub alongside the software, and publishing them automatically. This is the standard on software teams now.

• Structured authoring

  Writing in XML (a markup language for structured documents) so the same content can be reused across manuals, help sites and print.

• Help publishing tools

  MadCap Flare and Adobe FrameMaker are the two names that appear most in job ads.

• API (application programming interface) documentation

  Documenting how one piece of software talks to another. The best paid corner of the field, and the hardest to staff.

• Regulated writing

  Medical device and pharmaceutical documentation, where the text is part of what a regulator approves. Slow, exacting and well paid.