Social Skills Jobs

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,747 27,844 41,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.51% 29.37% 24.73%
As % of the General category 40.47% 43.40% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,417 14,244 18,860
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,164 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +5.26% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

Social 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 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £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%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 0 21,881 £48,000 -16.52% 11,295
UK excluding London 0 16,996 £44,164 -11.67% 7,808
Work from Home +2 9,173 £52,750 -12.08% 4,134
London +1 6,540 £65,000 -7.14% 3,808
South East 0 4,460 £45,000 -10.00% 1,867
North of England +1 4,181 £43,000 -11.29% 1,988
Midlands 0 2,883 £42,500 -15.00% 1,489
North West +1 2,212 £45,000 -14.29% 1,110
South West +1 2,026 £45,000 - 1,065
West Midlands 0 1,844 £45,000 -14.29% 902
East of England 0 1,551 £43,500 -13.00% 897
Yorkshire +1 1,464 £45,000 - 635
Scotland -17 1,218 £45,000 -18.18% 516
East Midlands 0 1,025 £40,000 -15.79% 589
Wales 0 510 £41,225 -3.00% 193
North East 0 507 £39,000 -8.24% 279
Northern Ireland +7 165 £50,000 -13.04% 107
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 6 £100,000 - 1

Social 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
1 924 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 803 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 434 (1.75%) SAS
4 313 (1.26%) Confluence
5 210 (0.85%) CMS
6 155 (0.63%) WordPress
7 111 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 106 (0.43%) Apache
9 79 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 71 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 41 (0.17%) nginx
13 30 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 25 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 24 (0.097%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.093%) OpenStack
17 23 (0.093%) WebSphere
18 21 (0.085%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,645 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,192 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
3 833 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 213 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 129 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 102 (0.41%) AutoCAD
7 102 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 98 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 70 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.23%) InDesign
11 51 (0.21%) Trello
12 50 (0.20%) Simulink
13 44 (0.18%) Sketch
14 42 (0.17%) Adobe XD
15 36 (0.15%) UserZoom
16 30 (0.12%) SPSS
17 25 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
17 25 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
18 20 (0.081%) Revit
Business Applications
1 333 (1.35%) SAP ERP
2 200 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 75 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 49 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 47 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 38 (0.15%) Primavera
10 38 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.14%) Magento
12 32 (0.13%) SAP CO
12 32 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 32 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
13 28 (0.11%) SAP HR
14 23 (0.093%) SAP Business One
14 23 (0.093%) Teamcenter
15 21 (0.085%) Maximo
15 21 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3,910 (15.80%) Azure
2 2,443 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
3 2,236 (9.04%) AWS
4 1,595 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 985 (3.98%) SaaS
6 564 (2.28%) GCP
7 556 (2.25%) Entra ID
8 481 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 431 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 321 (1.30%) Serverless
11 308 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
12 291 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 273 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 251 (1.01%) GitHub
15 196 (0.79%) PaaS
16 184 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
17 175 (0.71%) IaaS
18 161 (0.65%) OneDrive
19 151 (0.61%) Amazon S3
20 148 (0.60%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,071 (4.33%) Firewall
2 968 (3.91%) Broadband
3 637 (2.57%) WAN
4 584 (2.36%) DNS
5 534 (2.16%) LAN
6 477 (1.93%) Wireless
7 425 (1.72%) VPN
8 423 (1.71%) TCP/IP
9 370 (1.50%) DHCP
10 344 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
11 328 (1.33%) Network Security
12 294 (1.19%) Internet
13 265 (1.07%) VoIP
14 256 (1.03%) SAN
15 197 (0.80%) SD-WAN
16 194 (0.78%) VLAN
17 163 (0.66%) Intranet
18 127 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 114 (0.46%) BGP
20 100 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,301 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1,262 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 510 (2.06%) Tableau
4 447 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 387 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 356 (1.44%) MySQL
7 350 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 271 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 248 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 217 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 185 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 181 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 178 (0.72%) Big Data
14 154 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 153 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 141 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 128 (0.52%) DynamoDB
18 121 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
19 106 (0.43%) Redis
20 104 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,040 (4.20%) Git
2 850 (3.43%) JIRA
3 334 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 188 (0.76%) GitLab
5 158 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 100 (0.40%) Selenium
7 79 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 60 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 54 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 53 (0.21%) JUnit
11 46 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 46 (0.19%) Postman
12 42 (0.17%) Subversion
12 42 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 37 (0.15%) Maven
13 37 (0.15%) NUnit
14 32 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 32 (0.13%) Metasploit
14 32 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
14 32 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 5,998 (24.24%) Finance
2 5,242 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1,971 (7.96%) Retail
4 1,939 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,813 (7.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1,802 (7.28%) Marketing
7 1,512 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1,294 (5.23%) Law
9 1,269 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
9 1,269 (5.13%) Legal
10 1,118 (4.52%) Public Sector
11 1,047 (4.23%) Manufacturing
12 748 (3.02%) Banking
13 628 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 378 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 361 (1.46%) Electronics
16 353 (1.43%) Billing
17 325 (1.31%) Games
18 313 (1.26%) Local Government
19 279 (1.13%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,393 (13.71%) Analyst
2 3,305 (13.36%) Senior
3 2,397 (9.69%) Developer
4 1,707 (6.90%) Lead
5 1,603 (6.48%) Architect
6 1,416 (5.72%) Project Manager
7 1,120 (4.53%) Consultant
8 1,047 (4.23%) IT Support
9 848 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
10 825 (3.33%) Support Engineer
11 747 (3.02%) Software Engineer
12 702 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 701 (2.83%) IT Engineer
14 658 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
15 657 (2.65%) Administrator
16 590 (2.38%) Senior Manager
17 580 (2.34%) Senior Developer
18 565 (2.28%) Graduate
19 497 (2.01%) Support Analyst
20 466 (1.88%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,166 (4.71%) .NET
2 951 (3.84%) HTML
3 827 (3.34%) CSS
4 669 (2.70%) React
5 404 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 383 (1.55%) Node.js
7 381 (1.54%) REST
8 371 (1.50%) Web Services
9 345 (1.39%) RESTful
10 317 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 298 (1.20%) ASP.NET
12 273 (1.10%) .NET Core
13 250 (1.01%) Vue
14 239 (0.97%) JSON
15 233 (0.94%) HTML5
16 203 (0.82%) Kafka
17 202 (0.82%) XML
18 199 (0.80%) Spring
19 192 (0.78%) GraphQL
20 179 (0.72%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2,075 (8.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1,259 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 960 (3.88%) Driving Licence
4 654 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 598 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 474 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 412 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 353 (1.43%) Social Media
9 301 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 289 (1.17%) Client/Server
10 289 (1.17%) IoT
11 287 (1.16%) Cloud Native
12 275 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 253 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 246 (0.99%) FMCG
15 242 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
16 230 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 228 (0.92%) NHS
18 211 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
19 205 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,877 (11.63%) Windows
2 1,243 (5.02%) Linux
3 1,028 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 753 (3.04%) Windows 10
5 386 (1.56%) Android
6 321 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 221 (0.89%) Unix
8 216 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 198 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 189 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 188 (0.76%) Mac OS
12 147 (0.59%) VMS
13 110 (0.44%) Windows 7
14 101 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 84 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 57 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
17 48 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.17%) Mac OS X
19 39 (0.16%) Windows 8
20 32 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,851 (31.73%) Problem-Solving
2 5,331 (21.54%) Agile
3 3,421 (13.82%) Project Management
4 3,222 (13.02%) Customer Service
5 2,652 (10.72%) Mentoring
6 2,277 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,224 (8.99%) Decision-Making
8 2,122 (8.57%) Computer Science
9 1,807 (7.30%) DevOps
10 1,765 (7.13%) ITIL
11 1,726 (6.97%) Roadmaps
12 1,642 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,627 (6.57%) Analytics
14 1,591 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
15 1,569 (6.34%) Software Engineering
16 1,528 (6.17%) Actionable Insight
17 1,358 (5.49%) Project Delivery
18 1,316 (5.32%) Cybersecurity
19 1,304 (5.27%) Time Management
20 1,293 (5.22%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,079 (12.44%) SQL
2 1,961 (7.92%) Python
3 1,475 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 1,417 (5.73%) C#
5 1,061 (4.29%) Java
6 607 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 424 (1.71%) C
8 379 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 378 (1.53%) PHP
10 359 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 356 (1.44%) C++
12 257 (1.04%) Bash
13 210 (0.85%) R
14 169 (0.68%) Go
15 119 (0.48%) Scala
16 107 (0.43%) Embedded C
17 87 (0.35%) VB
18 79 (0.32%) MATLAB
19 78 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 78 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6,168 (24.92%) Degree
2 1,701 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 1,256 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,074 (4.34%) DBS Check
5 1,063 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 720 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 658 (2.66%) ACCA
8 580 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 536 (2.17%) CIMA
10 379 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 355 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 340 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 313 (1.26%) DV Cleared
14 271 (1.10%) CISSP
15 249 (1.01%) PMP
16 229 (0.93%) CCNA
17 217 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 210 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 184 (0.74%) CISM
20 182 (0.74%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,167 (4.72%) QA
2 979 (3.96%) SLA
3 563 (2.28%) GDPR
4 501 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 468 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 383 (1.55%) PMO
7 332 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 245 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 204 (0.82%) NIST
10 171 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 160 (0.65%) IFRS
12 124 (0.50%) GMP
13 97 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 68 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
15 64 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 62 (0.25%) GRC
17 61 (0.25%) GAAP
18 49 (0.20%) IFRS 9
18 49 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 44 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,906 (7.70%) Active Directory
2 633 (2.56%) Docker
3 592 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 462 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 227 (0.92%) Firmware
6 218 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 200 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 99 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 76 (0.31%) XenApp
10 75 (0.30%) vSphere
10 75 (0.30%) XenDesktop
11 71 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
12 54 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 32 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
14 25 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 23 (0.093%) KVM
16 20 (0.081%) VMware NSX
17 11 (0.044%) NFS
17 11 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
18 9 (0.036%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 588 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 541 (2.19%) Terraform
3 534 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 326 (1.32%) SCCM
5 277 (1.12%) Ansible
6 119 (0.48%) Grafana
7 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 87 (0.35%) WSUS
9 69 (0.28%) AirWatch
9 69 (0.28%) vCenter Server
10 68 (0.27%) SCOM
11 67 (0.27%) Puppet
12 56 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
14 52 (0.21%) FortiGate
15 47 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 36 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 36 (0.15%) Nagios
17 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
18 30 (0.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6,356 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 1,020 (4.12%) SAP
3 950 (3.84%) Oracle
4 897 (3.62%) VMware
5 608 (2.46%) Cisco
6 591 (2.39%) Google
7 427 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 398 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 350 (1.41%) Databricks
10 323 (1.31%) Hyperion
11 304 (1.23%) Anaplan
12 302 (1.22%) Adobe
13 295 (1.19%) Dell
14 284 (1.15%) Citrix
15 254 (1.03%) HP
16 214 (0.86%) Apple
17 213 (0.86%) Veeam
18 200 (0.81%) IBM
19 176 (0.71%) Splunk
20 124 (0.50%) Sage