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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,460 28,931 38,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.70% 28.83% 24.26%
As % of the General category 41.27% 42.26% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16,490 14,587 18,606
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,020 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,239 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,107 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,305 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,435 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.13% +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 59,267 68,463 102,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.23% 64.28%
Number of salaries quoted 39,596 36,975 51,269
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,000 £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 14 May 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 14 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
England +1 21,596 £48,750 -15.22% 11,207
UK excluding London 0 16,743 £44,435 -11.13% 8,146
Work from Home +2 9,120 £53,000 -11.67% 4,148
London +1 6,498 £65,000 -7.14% 3,443
South East 0 4,386 £44,500 -11.00% 1,911
North of England +1 4,095 £45,000 -10.00% 2,118
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,577
North West +1 2,151 £45,000 -10.25% 1,163
South West +1 2,002 £45,000 - 1,080
West Midlands +1 1,820 £45,000 -14.29% 956
East of England 0 1,536 £44,500 -7.81% 975
Yorkshire +1 1,472 £45,000 -6.25% 708
Scotland -16 1,246 £45,000 -18.18% 499
East Midlands 0 996 £39,969 -15.86% 619
Wales 0 497 £41,225 -6.31% 241
North East 0 475 £40,000 -5.88% 288
Northern Ireland +6 152 £50,000 -13.04% 82
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 2

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
1 940 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 830 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 450 (1.84%) SAS
4 308 (1.26%) Confluence
5 203 (0.83%) CMS
6 154 (0.63%) WordPress
7 127 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 112 (0.46%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 38 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 28 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 22 (0.090%) Skype for Business
19 19 (0.078%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,578 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,157 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 806 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 215 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 132 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 105 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 58 (0.24%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 44 (0.18%) Simulink
14 40 (0.16%) Sketch
15 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
16 37 (0.15%) Adobe XD
17 32 (0.13%) SPSS
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 203 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 162 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 78 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 47 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 45 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 41 (0.17%) Primavera
9 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 39 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 39 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
12 38 (0.16%) NEC Housing
13 34 (0.14%) Magento
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 26 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
16 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
17 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
18 22 (0.090%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3,803 (15.55%) Azure
2 2,478 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2,117 (8.65%) AWS
4 1,578 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1,007 (4.12%) SaaS
6 574 (2.35%) GCP
7 546 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 468 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 424 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 309 (1.26%) Serverless
11 292 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 289 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 269 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 252 (1.03%) GitHub
15 191 (0.78%) PaaS
16 177 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
16 177 (0.72%) IaaS
17 161 (0.66%) Amazon S3
18 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
19 143 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,061 (4.34%) Firewall
2 974 (3.98%) Broadband
3 669 (2.74%) WAN
4 609 (2.49%) DNS
5 539 (2.20%) LAN
6 500 (2.04%) Wireless
7 434 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 423 (1.73%) VPN
9 385 (1.57%) DHCP
10 335 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 329 (1.35%) Network Security
12 281 (1.15%) Internet
13 267 (1.09%) VoIP
14 254 (1.04%) SAN
15 223 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 199 (0.81%) VLAN
17 165 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
19 119 (0.49%) BGP
20 107 (0.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,274 (5.21%) Power BI
2 1,257 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 508 (2.08%) Tableau
4 439 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 382 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 357 (1.46%) MySQL
7 332 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 269 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 205 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 204 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 190 (0.78%) Big Data
12 181 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 177 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 159 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 151 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 137 (0.56%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 98 (0.40%) RDBMS
19 94 (0.38%) Redis
20 93 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 990 (4.05%) Git
2 823 (3.36%) JIRA
3 331 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 172 (0.70%) GitLab
5 159 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 82 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 53 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 48 (0.20%) JUnit
11 46 (0.19%) Postman
12 42 (0.17%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 37 (0.15%) Maven
15 36 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
16 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
16 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
17 32 (0.13%) JMeter
17 32 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 5,997 (24.52%) Finance
2 5,180 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1,936 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,868 (7.64%) Retail
5 1,788 (7.31%) Marketing
6 1,771 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
7 1,520 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
8 1,300 (5.31%) Law
9 1,287 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 1,234 (5.04%) Legal
11 1,135 (4.64%) Public Sector
12 1,043 (4.26%) Manufacturing
13 781 (3.19%) Banking
14 632 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 350 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 342 (1.40%) Billing
17 338 (1.38%) Electronics
18 332 (1.36%) Games
19 303 (1.24%) Local Government
20 281 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,429 (14.02%) Analyst
2 3,244 (13.26%) Senior
3 2,359 (9.64%) Developer
4 1,705 (6.97%) Lead
5 1,562 (6.39%) Architect
6 1,403 (5.74%) Project Manager
7 1,114 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1,067 (4.36%) IT Support
9 856 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 821 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 720 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 706 (2.89%) IT Manager
13 695 (2.84%) IT Engineer
14 651 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
15 631 (2.58%) Administrator
16 584 (2.39%) Senior Manager
17 575 (2.35%) Graduate
18 569 (2.33%) Senior Developer
19 514 (2.10%) Support Analyst
20 437 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,126 (4.60%) .NET
2 935 (3.82%) HTML
3 794 (3.25%) CSS
4 656 (2.68%) React
5 395 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 353 (1.44%) Node.js
6 353 (1.44%) REST
7 325 (1.33%) Web Services
8 322 (1.32%) RESTful
9 301 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 275 (1.12%) ASP.NET
11 262 (1.07%) .NET Core
12 236 (0.96%) JSON
12 236 (0.96%) Vue
13 225 (0.92%) HTML5
14 206 (0.84%) Kafka
15 198 (0.81%) Spring
16 196 (0.80%) XML
17 169 (0.69%) Entity Framework
18 166 (0.68%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2,045 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
2 1,264 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 962 (3.93%) Driving Licence
4 650 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 597 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 475 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 405 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 348 (1.42%) Social Media
9 297 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 293 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 275 (1.12%) IoT
13 263 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 261 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
15 247 (1.01%) FMCG
16 244 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
17 239 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 221 (0.90%) NHS
19 215 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
20 214 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,893 (11.83%) Windows
2 1,230 (5.03%) Linux
3 1,030 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 772 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 403 (1.65%) Android
6 314 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 224 (0.92%) Unix
8 208 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 195 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 194 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 191 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 142 (0.58%) VMS
13 117 (0.48%) Windows 7
14 97 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 81 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 49 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
16 49 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 44 (0.18%) Windows 8
18 42 (0.17%) Mac OS X
19 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,693 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5,251 (21.47%) Agile
3 3,405 (13.92%) Project Management
4 3,188 (13.03%) Customer Service
5 2,589 (10.58%) Mentoring
6 2,217 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,173 (8.88%) Decision-Making
8 2,053 (8.39%) Computer Science
9 1,754 (7.17%) Roadmaps
10 1,752 (7.16%) ITIL
11 1,705 (6.97%) DevOps
12 1,633 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,595 (6.52%) Analytics
14 1,583 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
15 1,525 (6.23%) Actionable Insight
16 1,504 (6.15%) Software Engineering
17 1,356 (5.54%) Cybersecurity
18 1,339 (5.47%) Project Delivery
19 1,279 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
19 1,279 (5.23%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,999 (12.26%) SQL
2 1,916 (7.83%) Python
3 1,415 (5.78%) JavaScript
4 1,381 (5.65%) C#
5 1,064 (4.35%) Java
6 605 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 416 (1.70%) C
8 373 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 371 (1.52%) PHP
10 359 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 349 (1.43%) C++
12 269 (1.10%) Bash
13 226 (0.92%) R
14 177 (0.72%) Go
15 104 (0.43%) Embedded C
15 104 (0.43%) Scala
16 85 (0.35%) MATLAB
17 82 (0.34%) Perl
17 82 (0.34%) VB
18 71 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,088 (24.89%) Degree
2 1,666 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 1,224 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,032 (4.22%) DBS Check
5 1,026 (4.19%) SC Cleared
6 737 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 651 (2.66%) ACCA
8 579 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 536 (2.19%) CIMA
10 359 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 353 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 328 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 303 (1.24%) DV Cleared
14 269 (1.10%) CISSP
15 235 (0.96%) PMP
16 231 (0.94%) CCNA
17 209 (0.85%) AWS Certification
18 208 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 185 (0.76%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,110 (4.54%) QA
2 947 (3.87%) SLA
3 558 (2.28%) GDPR
4 487 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 478 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 378 (1.55%) PMO
7 314 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 253 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 201 (0.82%) NIST
10 173 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 169 (0.69%) IFRS
12 116 (0.47%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 72 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 62 (0.25%) GAAP
17 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
18 56 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 42 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,929 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 601 (2.46%) Docker
3 597 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 469 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 234 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 219 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 216 (0.88%) Firmware
8 105 (0.43%) XenApp
9 102 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 96 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 89 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 75 (0.31%) vSphere
13 54 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 17 (0.070%) VMware NSX
17 12 (0.049%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 561 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 534 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 522 (2.13%) Terraform
4 346 (1.41%) SCCM
5 256 (1.05%) Ansible
6 121 (0.49%) Grafana
7 96 (0.39%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 78 (0.32%) WSUS
10 72 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 59 (0.24%) Puppet
13 55 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 41 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 40 (0.16%) Nagios
17 38 (0.16%) EnCase
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 34 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,256 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 1,065 (4.35%) SAP
3 953 (3.90%) Oracle
4 905 (3.70%) VMware
5 627 (2.56%) Cisco
6 604 (2.47%) Google
7 420 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 381 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 327 (1.34%) Databricks
10 324 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 321 (1.31%) Dell
12 313 (1.28%) Citrix
13 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 299 (1.22%) Adobe
15 260 (1.06%) HP
16 216 (0.88%) Apple
17 214 (0.87%) Veeam
18 204 (0.83%) IBM
19 180 (0.74%) Splunk
20 123 (0.50%) Sage