UK demand for Technical Writers and Technical Authors has softened slightly in October 2026, according to our latest monthly jobs survey. Our October survey suggests a 3.4% decline in advertised vacancies across comparable LinkedIn and Reed searches, compared with September. While this points towards a modest slowdown in recruitment, the contract market remains relatively stable,… Read more »
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Why UK software companies hire technical writing specialists
Software companies hire technical writing specialists to solve a business need. They do it when the product has outgrown the knowledge held in developers’ heads, support tickets, Slack threads, and half-finished pages in a help centre. At that point, poor documentation starts to affect sales, onboarding, support workload, security assurance, and customer confidence. It becomes… Read more »
What UK software employers want from Technical Writers and Technical Authors
We recently reviewed recent UK permanent, contract, and freelance vacancies for software-focused Technical Writers and Technical Authors. Our analysis excluded aerospace, defence, manufacturing, bid-writing, and similar roles. We were able to identify some common patterns: Software companies are looking to hire people who can work inside the product development process, investigate how a product works,… Read more »
Using AI to create bilingual onboarding videos
We are currently creating onboarding videos from policies and procedures for a client. The videos are in both English and Arabic. We’ve found AI is helping us produce the videos faster, but it hasn’t removed the need for instructional design, visual design, translation review, or stakeholder approval. The people involved still make the important decisions…. Read more »
New e-learning course: Managing documentation projects with AI
Whilst AI is changing documentation work, organisations are seeing very different results. The most successful results come when you know what you ultimately want AI to achieve, and what “good” looks like. In an organisational context, you also need to know where AI belongs in the process, and how to keep control of quality. That… Read more »