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 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 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,555 28,292 41,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.93% 29.06% 24.61%
As % of the General category 40.73% 42.77% 37.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,414 14,345 18,815
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +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 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
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 £72,426 £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 28 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 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
England +1 21,681 £48,500 -15.65% 11,412
UK excluding London 0 16,845 £44,500 -11.00% 8,137
Work from Home +2 9,154 £53,150 -11.42% 4,151
London +1 6,500 £65,000 -7.14% 3,520
South East 0 4,420 £45,000 -10.00% 1,878
North of England +1 4,112 £45,000 -9.77% 2,126
Midlands +1 2,853 £42,500 -15.00% 1,568
North West +1 2,188 £45,000 -12.62% 1,175
South West +1 2,013 £45,000 - 1,098
West Midlands +1 1,833 £45,000 -13.46% 936
East of England 0 1,544 £44,250 -11.50% 969
Yorkshire +1 1,453 £45,000 -1.10% 693
Scotland -17 1,236 £45,000 -18.18% 530
East Midlands 0 1,006 £40,000 -15.79% 634
Wales 0 502 £41,200 -4.22% 207
North East 0 473 £40,000 -5.88% 301
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
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
1 931 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 815 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 436 (1.78%) SAS
4 307 (1.25%) Confluence
5 208 (0.85%) CMS
6 152 (0.62%) WordPress
7 113 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 106 (0.43%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 40 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 25 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 21 (0.086%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,595 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,162 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
3 818 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 220 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 137 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 101 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 56 (0.23%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 49 (0.20%) Simulink
14 43 (0.18%) Sketch
15 41 (0.17%) Adobe XD
16 37 (0.15%) UserZoom
17 30 (0.12%) SPSS
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 334 (1.36%) SAP ERP
2 198 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 75 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 49 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 46 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
10 40 (0.16%) SAP FI
11 39 (0.16%) Primavera
12 34 (0.14%) Magento
12 34 (0.14%) SAP CO
12 34 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
13 28 (0.11%) SAP HR
14 23 (0.094%) SAP Business One
14 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
15 21 (0.086%) Maximo
15 21 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3,890 (15.84%) Azure
2 2,451 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
3 2,215 (9.02%) AWS
4 1,593 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 979 (3.99%) SaaS
6 576 (2.35%) GCP
7 549 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 479 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 427 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 322 (1.31%) Serverless
11 310 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
12 292 (1.19%) PowerApps
13 275 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 251 (1.02%) GitHub
15 195 (0.79%) PaaS
16 185 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.72%) IaaS
18 158 (0.64%) OneDrive
19 155 (0.63%) Amazon S3
20 147 (0.60%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,071 (4.36%) Firewall
2 968 (3.94%) Broadband
3 644 (2.62%) WAN
4 580 (2.36%) DNS
5 527 (2.15%) LAN
6 486 (1.98%) Wireless
7 424 (1.73%) VPN
8 418 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 367 (1.49%) DHCP
10 341 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
11 329 (1.34%) Network Security
12 287 (1.17%) Internet
13 262 (1.07%) VoIP
14 255 (1.04%) SAN
15 208 (0.85%) SD-WAN
16 193 (0.79%) VLAN
17 164 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 113 (0.46%) BGP
20 101 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,293 (5.27%) Power BI
2 1,252 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 514 (2.09%) Tableau
4 442 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 384 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 352 (1.43%) MySQL
7 345 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 267 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 243 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 218 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 181 (0.74%) Big Data
12 180 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 179 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 154 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 153 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 139 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 123 (0.50%) DynamoDB
18 107 (0.44%) Redis
19 106 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
20 104 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1,030 (4.19%) Git
2 844 (3.44%) JIRA
3 337 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 188 (0.77%) GitLab
5 155 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 100 (0.41%) Selenium
7 78 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 49 (0.20%) JUnit
11 47 (0.19%) Cypress.io
12 46 (0.19%) Postman
13 42 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 41 (0.17%) Subversion
15 37 (0.15%) Maven
15 37 (0.15%) NUnit
16 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
16 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
17 32 (0.13%) JMeter
17 32 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5,993 (24.41%) Finance
2 5,205 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 1,931 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,907 (7.77%) Retail
5 1,797 (7.32%) Marketing
6 1,776 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1,535 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1,297 (5.28%) Law
9 1,265 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1,247 (5.08%) Legal
11 1,126 (4.59%) Public Sector
12 1,039 (4.23%) Manufacturing
13 760 (3.10%) Banking
14 627 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 370 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 359 (1.46%) Electronics
17 353 (1.44%) Billing
18 319 (1.30%) Games
19 308 (1.25%) Local Government
20 279 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,382 (13.77%) Analyst
2 3,280 (13.36%) Senior
3 2,379 (9.69%) Developer
4 1,720 (7.00%) Lead
5 1,590 (6.48%) Architect
6 1,403 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 1,113 (4.53%) Consultant
8 1,053 (4.29%) IT Support
9 853 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
10 828 (3.37%) Support Engineer
11 737 (3.00%) Software Engineer
12 700 (2.85%) IT Engineer
13 696 (2.83%) IT Manager
14 660 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
15 636 (2.59%) Administrator
16 587 (2.39%) Senior Manager
17 568 (2.31%) Senior Developer
18 565 (2.30%) Graduate
19 501 (2.04%) Support Analyst
20 439 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,152 (4.69%) .NET
2 933 (3.80%) HTML
3 817 (3.33%) CSS
4 662 (2.70%) React
5 402 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 377 (1.54%) Node.js
7 376 (1.53%) REST
8 360 (1.47%) Web Services
9 337 (1.37%) RESTful
10 313 (1.27%) .NET Framework
11 294 (1.20%) ASP.NET
12 270 (1.10%) .NET Core
13 246 (1.00%) Vue
14 236 (0.96%) JSON
15 228 (0.93%) HTML5
16 204 (0.83%) Kafka
17 201 (0.82%) XML
18 196 (0.80%) Spring
19 189 (0.77%) GraphQL
20 179 (0.73%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2,046 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1,246 (5.07%) Management Information System
3 959 (3.91%) Driving Licence
4 638 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 598 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 470 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 412 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 350 (1.43%) Social Media
9 304 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 290 (1.18%) Cloud Native
11 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 284 (1.16%) IoT
13 268 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 251 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 251 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
15 245 (1.00%) FMCG
16 230 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 227 (0.92%) NHS
18 213 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
19 207 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,896 (11.79%) Windows
2 1,245 (5.07%) Linux
3 1,029 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 762 (3.10%) Windows 10
5 387 (1.58%) Android
6 314 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 227 (0.92%) Unix
8 218 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 200 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 193 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 186 (0.76%) Mac OS
12 148 (0.60%) VMS
13 110 (0.45%) Windows 7
14 100 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 83 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 54 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
17 48 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
19 40 (0.16%) Windows 8
20 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,738 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
2 5,311 (21.63%) Agile
3 3,395 (13.83%) Project Management
4 3,207 (13.06%) Customer Service
5 2,640 (10.75%) Mentoring
6 2,255 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,205 (8.98%) Decision-Making
8 2,106 (8.58%) Computer Science
9 1,794 (7.31%) DevOps
10 1,762 (7.18%) ITIL
11 1,719 (7.00%) Roadmaps
12 1,641 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,607 (6.54%) Analytics
14 1,586 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
15 1,551 (6.32%) Software Engineering
16 1,529 (6.23%) Actionable Insight
17 1,349 (5.49%) Project Delivery
18 1,315 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
19 1,289 (5.25%) Time Management
20 1,281 (5.22%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,054 (12.44%) SQL
2 1,947 (7.93%) Python
3 1,455 (5.93%) JavaScript
4 1,406 (5.73%) C#
5 1,061 (4.32%) Java
6 608 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 419 (1.71%) C
8 375 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 370 (1.51%) PHP
10 353 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 349 (1.42%) C++
12 259 (1.05%) Bash
13 211 (0.86%) R
14 172 (0.70%) Go
15 119 (0.48%) Scala
16 106 (0.43%) Embedded C
17 86 (0.35%) VB
18 82 (0.33%) MATLAB
19 78 (0.32%) Perl
20 77 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,121 (24.93%) Degree
2 1,682 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 1,251 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,070 (4.36%) DBS Check
5 1,057 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 722 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 657 (2.68%) ACCA
8 578 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 537 (2.19%) CIMA
10 372 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 348 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 336 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 307 (1.25%) DV Cleared
14 269 (1.10%) CISSP
15 241 (0.98%) PMP
16 226 (0.92%) CCNA
17 212 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 209 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 182 (0.74%) CISM
20 178 (0.72%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,142 (4.65%) QA
2 937 (3.82%) SLA
3 551 (2.24%) GDPR
4 494 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 464 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 378 (1.54%) PMO
7 328 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 241 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 203 (0.83%) NIST
10 168 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 159 (0.65%) IFRS
12 120 (0.49%) GMP
13 96 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 65 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 62 (0.25%) GRC
16 61 (0.25%) GAAP
16 61 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
17 50 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 49 (0.20%) IFRS 9
19 43 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,911 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 632 (2.57%) Docker
3 594 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 464 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 229 (0.93%) Firmware
6 218 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 212 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 97 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 86 (0.35%) XenApp
10 85 (0.35%) XenDesktop
11 83 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 77 (0.31%) vSphere
13 54 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 25 (0.10%) Terminal Services
16 23 (0.094%) KVM
17 20 (0.081%) VMware NSX
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
19 10 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 591 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 540 (2.20%) Terraform
3 532 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 338 (1.38%) SCCM
5 281 (1.14%) Ansible
6 122 (0.50%) Grafana
7 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 88 (0.36%) WSUS
8 80 (0.33%) AirWatch
9 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 69 (0.28%) SCOM
11 67 (0.27%) Puppet
12 61 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 55 (0.22%) Prometheus
14 53 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 47 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 38 (0.15%) Nagios
17 36 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 31 (0.13%) EnCase
Vendors
1 6,290 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 1,024 (4.17%) SAP
3 946 (3.85%) Oracle
4 897 (3.65%) VMware
5 617 (2.51%) Cisco
6 608 (2.48%) Google
7 433 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 394 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 348 (1.42%) Databricks
10 323 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
12 302 (1.23%) Dell
13 297 (1.21%) Adobe
14 295 (1.20%) Citrix
15 257 (1.05%) HP
16 213 (0.87%) Apple
16 213 (0.87%) Veeam
17 204 (0.83%) IBM
18 178 (0.72%) Splunk
19 123 (0.50%) Sage