Social Skills Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,845 17,922 18,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.76% 30.85% 24.45%
As % of the General category 40.51% 45.24% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,456 7,473 9,314
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 41,581 39,612 44,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.19% 68.19% 60.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 18,240 24,559
10th Percentile £26,043 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East 0 4,420 £45,000 -10.00% 1,878
North of England +1 4,112 £45,000 -9.77% 2,112
Midlands +1 2,853 £42,500 -15.00% 1,565
North West +1 2,188 £45,000 -12.62% 1,167
South West +1 2,013 £45,000 - 1,090
West Midlands +1 1,833 £45,000 -13.46% 936
East of England 0 1,544 £44,250 -11.50% 971
Yorkshire +1 1,453 £45,000 -1.10% 691
Scotland -17 1,236 £45,000 -18.18% 530
East Midlands 0 1,006 £40,000 -15.79% 631
Wales 0 502 £41,200 -4.22% 205
North East 0 473 £40,000 -5.88% 297
Northern Ireland +7 163 £50,000 -13.04% 92
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 3
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 1
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 696 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 561 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 200 (1.19%) Confluence
4 154 (0.91%) SAS
5 139 (0.83%) CMS
6 109 (0.65%) WordPress
7 67 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 44 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 43 (0.26%) IIS
10 36 (0.21%) Apache
11 22 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 22 (0.13%) nginx
12 21 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 21 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 21 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
14 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.10%) Drupal
15 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 14 (0.083%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,711 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1,693 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 529 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 196 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 116 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 111 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 82 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 58 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 49 (0.29%) Simulink
12 46 (0.27%) InDesign
13 37 (0.22%) Sketch
13 37 (0.22%) UserZoom
14 35 (0.21%) Adobe XD
14 35 (0.21%) Trello
15 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
16 15 (0.089%) Chatbot
17 14 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
18 10 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 123 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 97 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 64 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 58 (0.34%) Shopify
5 56 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 42 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 32 (0.19%) Magento
9 32 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 28 (0.17%) Primavera
11 20 (0.12%) Maximo
12 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
13 16 (0.095%) SAP MM
14 15 (0.089%) Sage 200
15 14 (0.083%) SAP FI
16 13 (0.077%) Teamcenter
16 13 (0.077%) TrackWise
17 12 (0.071%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 2,626 (15.59%) Azure
2 1,884 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1,295 (7.69%) AWS
4 1,093 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 558 (3.31%) SaaS
6 406 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 302 (1.79%) GCP
8 292 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
9 253 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 195 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 165 (0.98%) PowerApps
12 156 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 154 (0.91%) GitHub
14 150 (0.89%) Serverless
15 124 (0.74%) OneDrive
16 96 (0.57%) Figma
17 94 (0.56%) Amazon S3
17 94 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
18 93 (0.55%) Datadog
19 90 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 790 (4.69%) Firewall
2 490 (2.91%) Broadband
3 444 (2.64%) WAN
4 433 (2.57%) DNS
5 397 (2.36%) LAN
6 331 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 315 (1.87%) Wireless
8 302 (1.79%) DHCP
9 270 (1.60%) VPN
10 241 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 223 (1.32%) VoIP
12 216 (1.28%) SAN
13 214 (1.27%) Network Security
14 184 (1.09%) Internet
15 142 (0.84%) VLAN
16 132 (0.78%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) SD-WAN
18 98 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
19 92 (0.55%) BGP
20 86 (0.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 912 (5.41%) Power BI
2 899 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 322 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 266 (1.58%) MySQL
5 227 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 219 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 195 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 193 (1.15%) Tableau
9 147 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 135 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 122 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 111 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 101 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 85 (0.50%) Big Data
15 80 (0.47%) Oracle Database
16 76 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 76 (0.45%) Redis
17 69 (0.41%) MongoDB
18 68 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
19 65 (0.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 620 (3.68%) Git
2 579 (3.44%) JIRA
3 200 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 114 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 74 (0.44%) Selenium
6 63 (0.37%) GitLab
7 50 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 36 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.21%) Subversion
10 33 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 33 (0.20%) JUnit
11 31 (0.18%) Maven
12 30 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
13 28 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 26 (0.15%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.15%) JMeter
16 23 (0.14%) Ant
General
1 3,656 (21.70%) Finance
2 3,349 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1,425 (8.46%) Organisational Skills
4 1,285 (7.63%) Retail
5 1,276 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,144 (6.79%) Marketing
7 920 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
8 893 (5.30%) Law
9 879 (5.22%) Manufacturing
10 834 (4.95%) Legal
11 807 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
12 739 (4.39%) Public Sector
13 506 (3.00%) Telecoms
14 439 (2.61%) Banking
15 311 (1.85%) Electronics
16 283 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 274 (1.63%) Billing
18 232 (1.38%) Automotive
19 225 (1.34%) Games
20 202 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,229 (13.23%) Analyst
2 1,828 (10.85%) Senior
3 1,656 (9.83%) Developer
4 1,169 (6.94%) Lead
5 1,086 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 853 (5.06%) IT Support
7 805 (4.78%) Architect
8 729 (4.33%) Consultant
9 693 (4.11%) Support Engineer
10 580 (3.44%) Software Engineer
11 568 (3.37%) IT Engineer
12 563 (3.34%) IT Manager
13 502 (2.98%) Administrator
14 402 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
15 374 (2.22%) Senior Developer
16 355 (2.11%) Support Analyst
17 354 (2.10%) Graduate
18 352 (2.09%) IT Support Engineer
19 342 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 330 (1.96%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 794 (4.71%) .NET
2 660 (3.92%) HTML
3 549 (3.26%) CSS
4 454 (2.70%) React
5 299 (1.78%) AngularJS
6 252 (1.50%) Node.js
7 242 (1.44%) .NET Framework
8 233 (1.38%) REST
9 213 (1.26%) Web Services
10 205 (1.22%) Vue
11 202 (1.20%) RESTful
12 199 (1.18%) ASP.NET
13 189 (1.12%) .NET Core
14 172 (1.02%) HTML5
15 147 (0.87%) Laravel
16 145 (0.86%) JSON
17 142 (0.84%) Spring
18 141 (0.84%) Entity Framework
19 131 (0.78%) XML
20 125 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,525 (9.05%) Self-Motivation
2 884 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 779 (4.62%) Driving Licence
4 383 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 382 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 318 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 242 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 224 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 206 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 204 (1.21%) IoT
11 200 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 185 (1.10%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) FMCG
14 176 (1.04%) Social Media
15 174 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 158 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
17 144 (0.85%) Client/Server
18 137 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.78%) Digital Signage
20 125 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,194 (13.02%) Windows
2 891 (5.29%) Linux
3 846 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 559 (3.32%) Windows 10
5 231 (1.37%) Android
6 230 (1.37%) Apple iOS
7 192 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 172 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 156 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 143 (0.85%) Unix
11 136 (0.81%) Mac OS
12 105 (0.62%) VMS
13 101 (0.60%) Windows 7
14 70 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 50 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
16 40 (0.24%) Windows 8
17 39 (0.23%) Ubuntu
18 36 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,464 (32.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3,348 (19.88%) Agile
3 2,716 (16.12%) Customer Service
4 2,475 (14.69%) Project Management
5 1,758 (10.44%) Mentoring
6 1,664 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,362 (8.09%) ITIL
8 1,350 (8.01%) Decision-Making
9 1,241 (7.37%) Computer Science
10 1,191 (7.07%) DevOps
11 1,075 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
12 1,056 (6.27%) Software Engineering
13 1,055 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 975 (5.79%) Roadmaps
15 970 (5.76%) Time Management
16 962 (5.71%) Project Delivery
17 940 (5.58%) Collaborative Working
18 933 (5.54%) Analytics
19 928 (5.51%) Coaching
20 901 (5.35%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,843 (10.94%) SQL
2 995 (5.91%) JavaScript
3 962 (5.71%) Python
4 954 (5.66%) C#
5 713 (4.23%) Java
6 375 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 355 (2.11%) C
8 323 (1.92%) PHP
9 295 (1.75%) C++
10 234 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 203 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 143 (0.85%) Bash
13 103 (0.61%) Embedded C
14 101 (0.60%) R
15 96 (0.57%) Go
16 85 (0.50%) Scala
17 75 (0.45%) VB
18 68 (0.40%) MATLAB
19 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
20 62 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,981 (23.63%) Degree
2 1,262 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 789 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 717 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 582 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 442 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 363 (2.15%) ACCA
8 323 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 279 (1.66%) CIMA
10 255 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 250 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 231 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 220 (1.31%) Azure Certification
14 187 (1.11%) CCNA
15 157 (0.93%) HND
15 157 (0.93%) PMP
16 155 (0.92%) HNC
17 149 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 118 (0.70%) A+ Certification
18 118 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 811 (4.81%) QA
2 727 (4.32%) SLA
3 414 (2.46%) GDPR
4 313 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 303 (1.80%) PMO
6 291 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 210 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 195 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 156 (0.93%) ISO 9001
10 109 (0.65%) GMP
11 108 (0.64%) NIST
12 95 (0.56%) IFRS
13 54 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 54 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 51 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
15 47 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 43 (0.26%) IFRS 9
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 35 (0.21%) ISO 14001
19 33 (0.20%) GAAP
System Software
1 1,416 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 470 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 426 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 377 (2.24%) Docker
5 213 (1.26%) Firmware
6 199 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 83 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 66 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.31%) vSphere
10 50 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 18 (0.11%) KVM
14 17 (0.10%) VMware NSX
15 11 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.065%) XenApp
16 10 (0.059%) XenDesktop
17 8 (0.047%) NFS
18 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 427 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 329 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 270 (1.60%) Terraform
4 211 (1.25%) SCCM
5 156 (0.93%) Ansible
6 88 (0.52%) Grafana
7 69 (0.41%) WSUS
8 68 (0.40%) SCOM
9 48 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 43 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 41 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 39 (0.23%) Puppet
13 38 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 31 (0.18%) EnCase
15 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
16 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
17 26 (0.15%) Autotask
17 26 (0.15%) OpenSSO
18 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
19 23 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4,500 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 703 (4.17%) VMware
3 543 (3.22%) SAP
4 474 (2.81%) Oracle
5 406 (2.41%) Cisco
6 353 (2.10%) Google
7 244 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 224 (1.33%) HP
9 195 (1.16%) Veeam
10 193 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 190 (1.13%) Adobe
12 184 (1.09%) Citrix
13 171 (1.02%) Dell
14 155 (0.92%) Apple
15 143 (0.85%) IBM
16 121 (0.72%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Hyperion
18 93 (0.55%) Dynatrace
19 92 (0.55%) Meraki
19 92 (0.55%) Sage