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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. Often the hardest kind of writer to find.
Regulated writing
Medical device and pharmaceutical documentation, where the text is part of what a regulator approves. Slow and exacting.