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

6 months to
15 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 24,519 28,774 38,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.72% 28.86% 24.29%
As % of the General category 41.31% 42.29% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,505 14,483 18,491
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,839
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,063 £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 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,328 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,345 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.31% +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 59,357 68,044 102,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.24% 64.38%
Number of salaries quoted 39,610 36,681 50,943
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 £81,750 £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 15 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 15 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 21,649 £48,559 -15.55% 10,827
UK excluding London 0 16,766 £44,345 -11.31% 7,899
Work from Home +2 9,150 £52,750 -12.08% 4,118
London +1 6,531 £65,000 -7.14% 3,322
South East 0 4,382 £44,500 -11.00% 1,852
North of England +1 4,111 £45,000 -10.00% 2,051
Midlands +1 2,839 £42,500 -15.00% 1,545
North West +1 2,158 £45,000 -11.00% 1,133
South West +1 1,995 £45,000 - 1,073
West Midlands +1 1,822 £45,000 -14.29% 931
East of England 0 1,540 £43,750 -10.26% 922
Yorkshire +1 1,477 £45,000 -6.25% 679
Scotland -16 1,245 £45,000 -18.18% 482
East Midlands 0 1,003 £39,984 -15.82% 613
Wales 0 498 £41,200 -5.32% 228
North East 0 478 £40,000 -5.88% 277
Northern Ireland +7 155 £50,000 -13.04% 82
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 5
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
1 938 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 832 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 447 (1.82%) SAS
4 306 (1.25%) Confluence
5 204 (0.83%) CMS
6 154 (0.63%) WordPress
7 124 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 110 (0.45%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 39 (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 (0.077%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,585 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,163 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 814 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 215 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 153 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 132 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 104 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 57 (0.23%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 44 (0.18%) Simulink
14 39 (0.16%) Sketch
15 38 (0.15%) 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 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 204 (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%) NEC Housing
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 34 (0.14%) Magento
13 29 (0.12%) SAP HR
14 26 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
15 23 (0.094%) SAP Business One
15 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
16 22 (0.090%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3,827 (15.61%) Azure
2 2,472 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2,145 (8.75%) AWS
4 1,579 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 1,005 (4.10%) SaaS
6 571 (2.33%) GCP
7 546 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 470 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 427 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 320 (1.31%) Serverless
11 291 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 290 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 270 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 254 (1.04%) GitHub
15 191 (0.78%) PaaS
16 187 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.72%) IaaS
18 161 (0.66%) Amazon S3
19 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
20 144 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,061 (4.33%) Firewall
2 974 (3.97%) Broadband
3 667 (2.72%) WAN
4 591 (2.41%) DNS
5 538 (2.19%) LAN
6 500 (2.04%) Wireless
7 421 (1.72%) VPN
8 417 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 367 (1.50%) DHCP
10 335 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 332 (1.35%) Network Security
12 283 (1.15%) Internet
13 266 (1.08%) VoIP
14 254 (1.04%) SAN
15 223 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 197 (0.80%) VLAN
17 165 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 118 (0.48%) BGP
20 107 (0.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,273 (5.19%) Power BI
2 1,264 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 521 (2.12%) Tableau
4 440 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 383 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 358 (1.46%) MySQL
7 337 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 270 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 214 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 211 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 190 (0.77%) Big Data
12 182 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 178 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 157 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 152 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 140 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 105 (0.43%) DynamoDB
19 98 (0.40%) RDBMS
20 96 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,018 (4.15%) Git
2 826 (3.37%) JIRA
3 333 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 184 (0.75%) GitLab
5 159 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 82 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 55 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 48 (0.20%) JUnit
10 48 (0.20%) Postman
11 42 (0.17%) Subversion
12 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 38 (0.15%) Maven
14 36 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
15 34 (0.14%) NUnit
16 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
16 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
17 32 (0.13%) JMeter
General
1 5,999 (24.47%) Finance
2 5,200 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 1,920 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,887 (7.70%) Retail
5 1,788 (7.29%) Marketing
6 1,774 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
7 1,526 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1,300 (5.30%) Law
9 1,286 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
10 1,235 (5.04%) Legal
11 1,140 (4.65%) Public Sector
12 1,042 (4.25%) Manufacturing
13 781 (3.19%) Banking
14 631 (2.57%) Telecoms
15 356 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 341 (1.39%) Billing
17 340 (1.39%) Electronics
18 331 (1.35%) Games
19 306 (1.25%) Local Government
20 281 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,439 (14.03%) Analyst
2 3,251 (13.26%) Senior
3 2,369 (9.66%) Developer
4 1,708 (6.97%) Lead
5 1,577 (6.43%) Architect
6 1,396 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 1,116 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1,065 (4.34%) IT Support
9 855 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 824 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 726 (2.96%) Software Engineer
12 701 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 696 (2.84%) IT Engineer
14 656 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
15 633 (2.58%) Administrator
16 582 (2.37%) Senior Manager
17 574 (2.34%) Graduate
18 570 (2.32%) Senior Developer
19 512 (2.09%) Support Analyst
20 438 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,134 (4.62%) .NET
2 927 (3.78%) HTML
3 801 (3.27%) CSS
4 657 (2.68%) React
5 396 (1.62%) AngularJS
6 356 (1.45%) REST
7 355 (1.45%) Node.js
8 334 (1.36%) RESTful
9 330 (1.35%) Web Services
10 305 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 278 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 264 (1.08%) .NET Core
13 237 (0.97%) JSON
14 236 (0.96%) Vue
15 227 (0.93%) HTML5
16 207 (0.84%) Kafka
17 200 (0.82%) Spring
18 198 (0.81%) XML
19 176 (0.72%) GraphQL
20 172 (0.70%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2,052 (8.37%) Self-Motivation
2 1,265 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 969 (3.95%) Driving Licence
4 644 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 596 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 473 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 411 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 348 (1.42%) Social Media
9 298 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 277 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 276 (1.13%) IoT
13 264 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 261 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
15 247 (1.01%) FMCG
16 246 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
17 241 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 222 (0.91%) NHS
19 215 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
20 213 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,908 (11.86%) Windows
2 1,234 (5.03%) Linux
3 1,031 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 779 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 403 (1.64%) Android
6 313 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 226 (0.92%) Unix
8 209 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 195 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 194 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 192 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 142 (0.58%) VMS
13 118 (0.48%) Windows 7
14 96 (0.39%) Ubuntu
15 82 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 50 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 49 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 43 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 42 (0.17%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,715 (31.47%) Problem-Solving
2 5,270 (21.49%) Agile
3 3,396 (13.85%) Project Management
4 3,194 (13.03%) Customer Service
5 2,596 (10.59%) Mentoring
6 2,219 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,189 (8.93%) Decision-Making
8 2,066 (8.43%) Computer Science
9 1,769 (7.21%) ITIL
10 1,732 (7.06%) DevOps
11 1,731 (7.06%) Roadmaps
12 1,642 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,609 (6.56%) Analytics
14 1,586 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
15 1,538 (6.27%) Actionable Insight
16 1,519 (6.20%) Software Engineering
17 1,357 (5.53%) Cybersecurity
18 1,337 (5.45%) Project Delivery
19 1,289 (5.26%) Time Management
20 1,276 (5.20%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,026 (12.34%) SQL
2 1,941 (7.92%) Python
3 1,422 (5.80%) JavaScript
4 1,387 (5.66%) C#
5 1,069 (4.36%) Java
6 607 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 417 (1.70%) C
8 373 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 371 (1.51%) PHP
10 362 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 349 (1.42%) C++
12 269 (1.10%) Bash
13 223 (0.91%) R
14 177 (0.72%) Go
15 106 (0.43%) Scala
16 104 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 84 (0.34%) MATLAB
18 82 (0.33%) Perl
18 82 (0.33%) VB
19 71 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,105 (24.90%) Degree
2 1,657 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 1,231 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,055 (4.30%) DBS Check
5 1,030 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 744 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 654 (2.67%) ACCA
8 581 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 537 (2.19%) CIMA
10 361 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 356 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 328 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 288 (1.17%) DV Cleared
14 269 (1.10%) CISSP
15 236 (0.96%) PMP
16 232 (0.95%) CCNA
17 211 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 193 (0.79%) AWS Certification
19 184 (0.75%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,119 (4.56%) QA
2 949 (3.87%) SLA
3 555 (2.26%) GDPR
4 489 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 478 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 379 (1.55%) PMO
7 316 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 251 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 200 (0.82%) NIST
10 174 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 167 (0.68%) IFRS
12 117 (0.48%) GMP
13 94 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 73 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 67 (0.27%) GRC
16 62 (0.25%) GAAP
17 58 (0.24%) IFRS 9
18 56 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 43 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 42 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,930 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 605 (2.47%) Docker
3 595 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 467 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 234 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 221 (0.90%) Firmware
7 219 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 104 (0.42%) XenApp
9 102 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 96 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 90 (0.37%) 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 18 (0.073%) VMware NSX
17 11 (0.045%) NFS
17 11 (0.045%) vCloud
17 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 564 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 532 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 508 (2.07%) Terraform
4 347 (1.42%) SCCM
5 257 (1.05%) Ansible
6 120 (0.49%) Grafana
7 96 (0.39%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 80 (0.33%) WSUS
10 72 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 60 (0.24%) Puppet
13 55 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 54 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 42 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 42 (0.17%) Nagios
16 37 (0.15%) EnCase
17 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
18 34 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,272 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 1,061 (4.33%) SAP
3 957 (3.90%) Oracle
4 904 (3.69%) VMware
5 630 (2.57%) Cisco
6 604 (2.46%) Google
7 422 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 381 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 339 (1.38%) Databricks
10 324 (1.32%) Dell
10 324 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 312 (1.27%) Citrix
12 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
13 296 (1.21%) Adobe
14 261 (1.06%) HP
15 215 (0.88%) Apple
16 213 (0.87%) Veeam
17 207 (0.84%) IBM
18 181 (0.74%) Splunk
19 123 (0.50%) Sage