Social Skills Jobs in the South East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 4,446 4,064 4,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.09% 29.38% 23.76%
As % of the General category 45.00% 46.38% 39.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,927 1,894 2,473
10th Percentile £24,500 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,756 £36,250 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £59,998 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £47,991 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.54% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,879 8,762 12,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.76% 63.34% 60.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,146 4,309 6,495
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley 0 1,641 £45,000 -10.00% 707
Surrey 0 993 £40,000 -33.33% 243
Hampshire +3 824 £47,000 -1.05% 350
Berkshire -1 725 £47,500 -5.00% 312
Buckinghamshire -1 529 £45,000 -3.82% 207
Oxfordshire 0 387 £44,435 -11.09% 190
Kent +1 367 £41,500 -2.35% 163
West Sussex 0 231 £54,835 +7.00% 91
East Sussex +2 221 £40,000 -15.79% 67
Middlesex +9 115 £42,750 -28.60% 14
Sussex -13 16 £58,000 - 5
Isle of Wight +2 7 £42,500 -2.30% 1
Home Counties -2 1 £90,000 +20.00%
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 144 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.84%) SAS
4 57 (1.28%) CMS
5 32 (0.72%) Confluence
6 26 (0.58%) WebLogic
7 21 (0.47%) WordPress
8 16 (0.36%) Documentum
9 12 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) Drupal
11 8 (0.18%) Joomla!
12 7 (0.16%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.11%) Apache
15 3 (0.067%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
15 3 (0.067%) nginx
15 3 (0.067%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 702 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 496 (11.16%) Microsoft Office
3 167 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 34 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.74%) Simulink
8 18 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 15 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 15 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 11 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.25%) InDesign
11 7 (0.16%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 5 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 4 (0.090%) Maya
13 4 (0.090%) Sketch
13 4 (0.090%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 77 (1.73%) SAP ERP
2 42 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.29%) TrackWise
6 10 (0.22%) Primavera
7 9 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
7 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.11%) Magento
9 5 (0.11%) Odoo
10 4 (0.090%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.090%) SAP IS-U
10 4 (0.090%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.090%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 684 (15.38%) Azure
2 526 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
3 255 (5.74%) Power Platform
4 253 (5.69%) AWS
5 151 (3.40%) SaaS
6 122 (2.74%) Entra ID
7 77 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (1.26%) GitHub
9 53 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
11 35 (0.79%) PowerApps
11 35 (0.79%) Serverless
12 30 (0.67%) Power Automate
13 27 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 25 (0.56%) GCP
16 24 (0.54%) Azure Storage
16 24 (0.54%) OneDrive
17 23 (0.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 320 (7.20%) Broadband
2 288 (6.48%) Firewall
3 138 (3.10%) DNS
4 112 (2.52%) Wireless
5 107 (2.41%) DHCP
6 103 (2.32%) LAN
7 97 (2.18%) VPN
7 97 (2.18%) WAN
8 82 (1.84%) TCP/IP
9 71 (1.60%) VoIP
10 60 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (1.17%) Intranet
12 51 (1.15%) VLAN
13 46 (1.03%) Network Security
14 32 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 31 (0.70%) SAN
16 29 (0.65%) BGP
16 29 (0.65%) HTTP
17 26 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
18 24 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (4.27%) Power BI
2 182 (4.09%) SQL Server
3 72 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (1.37%) MySQL
6 56 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 53 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 36 (0.81%) Tableau
9 33 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 30 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (0.58%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.47%) Redis
15 17 (0.38%) Big Data
16 16 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
18 13 (0.29%) DynamoDB
19 12 (0.27%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 136 (3.06%) Git
2 129 (2.90%) JIRA
3 58 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 40 (0.90%) GitLab
6 22 (0.49%) Ant
7 18 (0.40%) JUnit
7 18 (0.40%) Subversion
7 18 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 16 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 12 (0.27%) NUnit
10 10 (0.22%) Gradle
10 10 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.20%) MSI
12 8 (0.18%) Hudson
12 8 (0.18%) Selenium
13 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.16%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.13%) InstallShield
14 6 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 982 (22.09%) Finance
2 953 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 344 (7.74%) Retail
4 321 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
5 274 (6.16%) Influencing Skills
6 268 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 262 (5.89%) Marketing
8 224 (5.04%) Manufacturing
9 186 (4.18%) Legal
10 173 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
11 172 (3.87%) Telecoms
12 157 (3.53%) Public Sector
13 151 (3.40%) Billing
14 120 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 91 (2.05%) Law
16 84 (1.89%) Electronics
17 68 (1.53%) German Language
18 64 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
19 54 (1.21%) Aerospace
20 45 (1.01%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 603 (13.56%) Analyst
2 504 (11.34%) Senior
3 375 (8.43%) Developer
4 295 (6.64%) Lead
5 274 (6.16%) Architect
6 211 (4.75%) Project Manager
7 205 (4.61%) IT Support
8 202 (4.54%) Support Engineer
9 192 (4.32%) Consultant
10 169 (3.80%) Administrator
11 166 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
12 163 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
13 134 (3.01%) IT Engineer
14 131 (2.95%) Coordinator
15 125 (2.81%) IT Manager
16 122 (2.74%) Software Engineer
17 117 (2.63%) Support Analyst
18 116 (2.61%) Graduate
19 98 (2.20%) IT Support Engineer
20 93 (2.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (4.45%) .NET
2 127 (2.86%) HTML
3 113 (2.54%) React
4 111 (2.50%) CSS
5 84 (1.89%) REST
6 75 (1.69%) Web Services
7 71 (1.60%) Spring
8 66 (1.48%) AngularJS
9 52 (1.17%) Hibernate
10 51 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
11 48 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 48 (1.08%) Kafka
12 40 (0.90%) RESTful
12 40 (0.90%) Vue
13 38 (0.85%) jQuery
14 37 (0.83%) ASP.NET
14 37 (0.83%) gRPC
15 35 (0.79%) JSON
15 35 (0.79%) XML
16 33 (0.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 613 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
2 302 (6.79%) Management Information System
3 250 (5.62%) Driving Licence
4 114 (2.56%) Digital Signage
5 98 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 94 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
7 91 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 89 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
9 80 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 70 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 62 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 58 (1.30%) IoT
13 54 (1.21%) Social Media
14 51 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (1.12%) PMI
16 47 (1.06%) Life Science
17 43 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
18 40 (0.90%) Mobile App
19 38 (0.85%) CCTV
19 38 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 632 (14.22%) Windows
2 248 (5.58%) Linux
3 212 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 154 (3.46%) Windows 10
5 71 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 62 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 61 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 47 (1.06%) Android
9 39 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 37 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 33 (0.74%) Unix
12 32 (0.72%) Windows 7
13 28 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
14 22 (0.49%) VMS
15 18 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 17 (0.38%) Windows XP
17 14 (0.31%) Windows 8
18 13 (0.29%) Ubuntu
19 6 (0.13%) Mac OS X
20 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,513 (34.03%) Problem-Solving
2 948 (21.32%) Agile
3 718 (16.15%) Customer Service
4 655 (14.73%) Project Management
5 577 (12.98%) Mentoring
6 531 (11.94%) Decision-Making
7 363 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
8 324 (7.29%) ITIL
9 314 (7.06%) DevOps
10 305 (6.86%) Computer Science
11 297 (6.68%) Roadmaps
12 283 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 265 (5.96%) Business Case
14 250 (5.62%) Coaching
15 246 (5.53%) Collaborative Working
16 244 (5.49%) Software Engineering
17 236 (5.31%) ERP
18 222 (4.99%) Business Intelligence
18 222 (4.99%) Project Delivery
19 215 (4.84%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 404 (9.09%) SQL
2 273 (6.14%) Python
3 241 (5.42%) JavaScript
4 233 (5.24%) Java
5 231 (5.20%) C#
6 118 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 110 (2.47%) C++
8 108 (2.43%) C
9 51 (1.15%) Go
10 49 (1.10%) PHP
11 43 (0.97%) Bash
12 39 (0.88%) VB
13 38 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 30 (0.67%) R
15 28 (0.63%) VBScript
16 23 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.49%) TypeScript
18 20 (0.45%) Scala
19 19 (0.43%) Bicep
20 18 (0.40%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1,119 (25.17%) Degree
2 376 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 268 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.26%) DBS Check
5 228 (5.13%) ACCA
6 214 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 199 (4.48%) CIMA
8 138 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 133 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 88 (1.98%) PMI Certification
11 78 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 68 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (1.21%) CCNA
14 50 (1.12%) Azure Certification
15 47 (1.06%) HNC
16 45 (1.01%) PhD
17 44 (0.99%) PMP
18 40 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 37 (0.83%) HND
20 32 (0.72%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (6.57%) SLA
2 281 (6.32%) QA
3 138 (3.10%) GDPR
4 103 (2.32%) PMO
5 64 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 53 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 53 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 45 (1.01%) GMP
8 45 (1.01%) Good Clinical Practice
9 44 (0.99%) ISO 9001
10 19 (0.43%) GxP
11 16 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.36%) ISO 13485
12 15 (0.34%) ISO 14001
13 13 (0.29%) IFRS
13 13 (0.29%) NIST
14 12 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 347 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 139 (3.13%) Docker
3 114 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 113 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 49 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.97%) Firmware
8 19 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.27%) KVM
9 12 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.20%) vSphere
11 7 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.045%) HDFS
14 2 (0.045%) XenApp
15 1 (0.022%) NFS
Systems Management
1 111 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 101 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 95 (2.14%) SCCM
4 58 (1.30%) SCOM
5 53 (1.19%) WSUS
6 39 (0.88%) Terraform
7 37 (0.83%) Ansible
8 27 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.49%) OpenSSO
11 21 (0.47%) Puppet
12 20 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 16 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
15 13 (0.29%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
17 7 (0.16%) Autotask
17 7 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,383 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 199 (4.48%) SAP
3 182 (4.09%) Oracle
4 165 (3.71%) VMware
5 115 (2.59%) Cisco
6 81 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 80 (1.80%) HP
8 76 (1.71%) Hyperion
9 75 (1.69%) Anaplan
10 69 (1.55%) Google
11 52 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 45 (1.01%) Adobe
13 44 (0.99%) Veeam
14 42 (0.94%) Aruba
14 42 (0.94%) Dell
15 41 (0.92%) Fortinet
16 37 (0.83%) Palo Alto
17 36 (0.81%) Citrix
17 36 (0.81%) Juniper
18 35 (0.79%) Meraki