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

6 months to
29 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 24,654 28,215 41,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.87% 29.04% 24.62%
As % of the General category 40.72% 42.72% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,436 14,296 18,733
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +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 60,543 66,044 108,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.62% 67.97% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40,070 35,832 51,526
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £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 29 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 29 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 21,778 £48,000 -16.52% 11,313
UK excluding London 0 16,936 £44,309 -11.38% 8,044
Work from Home +3 9,166 £52,750 -12.08% 4,112
London +1 6,509 £65,000 -7.14% 3,491
South East 0 4,431 £45,000 -10.00% 1,850
North of England +1 4,158 £43,072 -12.18% 2,109
Midlands 0 2,870 £42,500 -15.00% 1,553
North West +1 2,195 £45,000 -12.62% 1,169
South West +1 2,020 £45,000 - 1,072
West Midlands +1 1,840 £45,000 -13.46% 926
East of England 0 1,554 £44,000 -12.00% 967
Yorkshire +1 1,458 £45,000 - 688
Scotland -17 1,231 £45,000 -18.18% 531
East Midlands 0 1,016 £40,000 -15.79% 629
Wales 0 507 £41,200 -3.63% 203
North East 0 507 £39,000 -8.24% 295
Northern Ireland +7 164 £50,000 -13.04% 94
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 3
Channel Islands +1 6 £100,000 - 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
1 930 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 813 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 434 (1.76%) SAS
4 310 (1.26%) Confluence
5 211 (0.86%) CMS
6 153 (0.62%) WordPress
7 112 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 106 (0.43%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 40 (0.16%) nginx
13 30 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 25 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 24 (0.097%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.097%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.093%) WebSphere
18 21 (0.085%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,602 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,160 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
3 820 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 222 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 138 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 102 (0.41%) AutoCAD
7 102 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 98 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 70 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.23%) InDesign
11 51 (0.21%) Trello
12 48 (0.19%) Simulink
13 44 (0.18%) Sketch
14 42 (0.17%) Adobe XD
15 37 (0.15%) UserZoom
16 30 (0.12%) SPSS
17 25 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
17 25 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
18 20 (0.081%) Revit
Business Applications
1 334 (1.35%) SAP ERP
2 200 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 75 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 49 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 47 (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 35 (0.14%) Magento
13 34 (0.14%) SAP CO
13 34 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.11%) SAP HR
15 23 (0.093%) SAP Business One
15 23 (0.093%) Teamcenter
16 21 (0.085%) Maximo
16 21 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 3,893 (15.79%) Azure
2 2,456 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
3 2,233 (9.06%) AWS
4 1,591 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 982 (3.98%) SaaS
6 570 (2.31%) GCP
7 549 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 480 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 427 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 323 (1.31%) Serverless
11 309 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
12 292 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 275 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 251 (1.02%) GitHub
15 195 (0.79%) PaaS
16 185 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 176 (0.71%) IaaS
18 158 (0.64%) OneDrive
19 154 (0.62%) Amazon S3
20 148 (0.60%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,071 (4.34%) Firewall
2 968 (3.93%) Broadband
3 643 (2.61%) WAN
4 582 (2.36%) DNS
5 530 (2.15%) LAN
6 485 (1.97%) Wireless
7 424 (1.72%) VPN
8 420 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 368 (1.49%) DHCP
10 341 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 330 (1.34%) Network Security
12 290 (1.18%) Internet
13 263 (1.07%) VoIP
14 255 (1.03%) SAN
15 205 (0.83%) SD-WAN
16 193 (0.78%) VLAN
17 163 (0.66%) Intranet
18 127 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
19 113 (0.46%) BGP
20 100 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,291 (5.24%) Power BI
2 1,256 (5.09%) SQL Server
3 514 (2.08%) Tableau
4 443 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 386 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 358 (1.45%) MySQL
7 348 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 268 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 244 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 216 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 182 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 182 (0.74%) Big Data
11 182 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 155 (0.63%) MongoDB
12 155 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 140 (0.57%) Oracle Database
14 125 (0.51%) DynamoDB
15 110 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 106 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
16 106 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,038 (4.21%) Git
2 847 (3.44%) JIRA
3 334 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 188 (0.76%) GitLab
5 156 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 100 (0.41%) Selenium
7 79 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 51 (0.21%) JUnit
11 47 (0.19%) Cypress.io
12 45 (0.18%) Postman
13 42 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 41 (0.17%) Subversion
15 37 (0.15%) NUnit
16 36 (0.15%) Maven
17 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
17 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
18 32 (0.13%) JMeter
18 32 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5,983 (24.27%) Finance
2 5,223 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
3 1,944 (7.89%) Retail
4 1,935 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,800 (7.30%) Marketing
6 1,782 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1,533 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1,291 (5.24%) Law
9 1,268 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1,252 (5.08%) Legal
11 1,132 (4.59%) Public Sector
12 1,040 (4.22%) Manufacturing
13 745 (3.02%) Banking
14 628 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 372 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 360 (1.46%) Electronics
17 353 (1.43%) Billing
18 320 (1.30%) Games
19 314 (1.27%) Local Government
20 279 (1.13%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,394 (13.77%) Analyst
2 3,290 (13.34%) Senior
3 2,386 (9.68%) Developer
4 1,720 (6.98%) Lead
5 1,596 (6.47%) Architect
6 1,414 (5.74%) Project Manager
7 1,118 (4.53%) Consultant
8 1,055 (4.28%) IT Support
9 853 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 823 (3.34%) Support Engineer
11 742 (3.01%) Software Engineer
12 699 (2.84%) IT Engineer
13 696 (2.82%) IT Manager
14 659 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
15 650 (2.64%) Administrator
16 587 (2.38%) Senior Manager
17 572 (2.32%) Senior Developer
18 565 (2.29%) Graduate
19 499 (2.02%) Support Analyst
20 447 (1.81%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,156 (4.69%) .NET
2 945 (3.83%) HTML
3 827 (3.35%) CSS
4 669 (2.71%) React
5 403 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 381 (1.55%) Node.js
7 375 (1.52%) REST
8 363 (1.47%) Web Services
9 340 (1.38%) RESTful
10 315 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 296 (1.20%) ASP.NET
12 270 (1.10%) .NET Core
13 248 (1.01%) Vue
14 236 (0.96%) JSON
15 231 (0.94%) HTML5
16 203 (0.82%) Kafka
17 201 (0.82%) XML
18 197 (0.80%) Spring
19 190 (0.77%) GraphQL
20 180 (0.73%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2,052 (8.32%) Self-Motivation
2 1,252 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 960 (3.89%) Driving Licence
4 644 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 600 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 472 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 412 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 352 (1.43%) Social Media
9 302 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 288 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 287 (1.16%) Cloud Native
12 285 (1.16%) IoT
13 273 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 252 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 250 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
16 248 (1.01%) FMCG
17 230 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 229 (0.93%) NHS
19 215 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
20 205 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,887 (11.71%) Windows
2 1,245 (5.05%) Linux
3 1,031 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 760 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 391 (1.59%) Android
6 318 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 224 (0.91%) Unix
8 217 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 199 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 193 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 187 (0.76%) Mac OS
12 148 (0.60%) VMS
13 111 (0.45%) Windows 7
14 100 (0.41%) Ubuntu
15 84 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 55 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
17 48 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.17%) Mac OS X
19 40 (0.16%) Windows 8
20 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,799 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
2 5,315 (21.56%) Agile
3 3,416 (13.86%) Project Management
4 3,210 (13.02%) Customer Service
5 2,649 (10.74%) Mentoring
6 2,257 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,213 (8.98%) Decision-Making
8 2,113 (8.57%) Computer Science
9 1,793 (7.27%) DevOps
10 1,756 (7.12%) ITIL
11 1,722 (6.98%) Roadmaps
12 1,647 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,616 (6.55%) Analytics
14 1,582 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
15 1,561 (6.33%) Software Engineering
16 1,530 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
17 1,359 (5.51%) Project Delivery
18 1,320 (5.35%) Cybersecurity
19 1,292 (5.24%) Time Management
20 1,289 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,064 (12.43%) SQL
2 1,955 (7.93%) Python
3 1,469 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 1,411 (5.72%) C#
5 1,060 (4.30%) Java
6 608 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 419 (1.70%) C
8 379 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 376 (1.53%) PHP
10 356 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 349 (1.42%) C++
12 260 (1.05%) Bash
13 210 (0.85%) R
14 172 (0.70%) Go
15 118 (0.48%) Scala
16 106 (0.43%) Embedded C
17 87 (0.35%) VB
18 80 (0.32%) MATLAB
19 78 (0.32%) Perl
20 77 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,146 (24.93%) Degree
2 1,692 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 1,257 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,074 (4.36%) DBS Check
5 1,060 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 725 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 657 (2.66%) ACCA
8 578 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 537 (2.18%) CIMA
10 375 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 349 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 336 (1.36%) Azure Certification
13 308 (1.25%) DV Cleared
14 272 (1.10%) CISSP
15 245 (0.99%) PMP
16 225 (0.91%) CCNA
17 214 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
18 210 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 185 (0.75%) CISM
20 180 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,148 (4.66%) QA
2 976 (3.96%) SLA
3 555 (2.25%) GDPR
4 505 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 465 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 380 (1.54%) PMO
7 331 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 242 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 205 (0.83%) NIST
10 167 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 159 (0.64%) IFRS
12 121 (0.49%) GMP
13 96 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 65 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 64 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
16 62 (0.25%) GRC
17 61 (0.25%) GAAP
18 49 (0.20%) IFRS 9
18 49 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 43 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,910 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 634 (2.57%) Docker
3 594 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 463 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 230 (0.93%) Firmware
6 218 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 210 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 97 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 84 (0.34%) XenApp
10 83 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 79 (0.32%) 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 (0.093%) 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 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 538 (2.18%) Terraform
3 532 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 337 (1.37%) SCCM
5 276 (1.12%) Ansible
6 122 (0.49%) Grafana
7 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 88 (0.36%) WSUS
8 77 (0.31%) AirWatch
9 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 70 (0.28%) SCOM
11 67 (0.27%) Puppet
12 56 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 55 (0.22%) Prometheus
14 53 (0.21%) 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 30 (0.12%) EnCase
Vendors
1 6,305 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 1,022 (4.15%) SAP
3 946 (3.84%) Oracle
4 898 (3.64%) VMware
5 617 (2.50%) Cisco
6 599 (2.43%) Google
7 437 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 396 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 351 (1.42%) Databricks
10 323 (1.31%) Hyperion
11 304 (1.23%) Anaplan
12 302 (1.22%) Dell
13 300 (1.22%) Adobe
14 291 (1.18%) Citrix
15 258 (1.05%) HP
16 214 (0.87%) Apple
16 214 (0.87%) Veeam
17 200 (0.81%) IBM
18 178 (0.72%) Splunk
19 123 (0.50%) Sage