Social Skills Jobs with Work from Home Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 9,165 9,603 17,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.46% 24.86% 24.21%
As % of the General category 43.55% 37.74% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,128 6,600 9,111
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,503 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,738 £60,000 £57,650
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +4.08% +6.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,045 25,443 47,653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.77% 65.87% 64.23%
Number of salaries quoted 15,113 17,236 25,004
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Social Skills salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 332 (3.62%) SAS
2 243 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 225 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 88 (0.96%) WordPress
5 83 (0.91%) CMS
6 77 (0.84%) Confluence
7 47 (0.51%) WebLogic
8 45 (0.49%) Apache Spark
9 37 (0.40%) IIS
10 34 (0.37%) Apache
11 30 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
12 20 (0.22%) nginx
12 20 (0.22%) OpenEdge
12 20 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.17%) Drupal
14 14 (0.15%) Documentum
15 9 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
16 7 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
17 6 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2000
17 6 (0.065%) Moodle
Applications
1 961 (10.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 456 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 181 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 30 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 27 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 23 (0.25%) Simulink
10 22 (0.24%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.23%) Sketch
12 20 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
13 18 (0.20%) Trello
14 17 (0.19%) InDesign
15 11 (0.12%) AutoCAD
16 8 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
16 8 (0.087%) Chatbot
17 7 (0.076%) Adobe Captivate
17 7 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
18 6 (0.065%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 308 (3.36%) SAP ERP
2 81 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 67 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 47 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 37 (0.40%) Shopify
6 28 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
7 20 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 19 (0.21%) SAP HR
9 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 16 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 15 (0.16%) NEC Housing
11 14 (0.15%) Maximo
12 13 (0.14%) TrackWise
13 10 (0.11%) Magento
13 10 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
13 10 (0.11%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.098%) SAP Business One
14 9 (0.098%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,749 (19.08%) Azure
2 952 (10.39%) AWS
3 758 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 730 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
5 488 (5.32%) SaaS
6 264 (2.88%) GCP
7 226 (2.47%) Entra ID
8 196 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 173 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 161 (1.76%) Serverless
11 151 (1.65%) PowerApps
12 143 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 128 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 99 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
15 97 (1.06%) GitHub
16 88 (0.96%) Snowflake
17 84 (0.92%) PaaS
18 81 (0.88%) Amazon S3
18 81 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 69 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 872 (9.51%) Broadband
2 379 (4.14%) Firewall
3 227 (2.48%) DNS
4 224 (2.44%) WAN
5 185 (2.02%) LAN
6 169 (1.84%) Wireless
7 158 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 157 (1.71%) VPN
9 140 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 122 (1.33%) DHCP
11 115 (1.25%) SAN
12 109 (1.19%) Internet
13 92 (1.00%) VoIP
14 87 (0.95%) BGP
15 75 (0.82%) Network Security
16 63 (0.69%) VLAN
17 57 (0.62%) SSL
18 49 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
18 49 (0.53%) SD-WAN
19 44 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 636 (6.94%) Power BI
2 626 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 317 (3.46%) Tableau
4 264 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 244 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 213 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 161 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
8 146 (1.59%) MySQL
9 140 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
10 123 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 97 (1.06%) Oracle Database
12 80 (0.87%) Big Data
12 80 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 80 (0.87%) MongoDB
12 80 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 70 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 67 (0.73%) NoSQL
15 55 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
16 53 (0.58%) DynamoDB
17 45 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 506 (5.52%) Git
2 252 (2.75%) JIRA
3 94 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 73 (0.80%) GitLab
5 60 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 39 (0.43%) Selenium
7 29 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 28 (0.31%) JUnit
9 19 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
9 19 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
10 17 (0.19%) webpack
11 16 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
12 15 (0.16%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.15%) Maven
13 14 (0.15%) Postman
13 14 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
15 12 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,739 (29.89%) Finance
2 1,847 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
3 738 (8.05%) Retail
4 684 (7.46%) Marketing
5 632 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 597 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 543 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
8 520 (5.67%) Public Sector
9 423 (4.62%) Legal
10 418 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
11 302 (3.30%) Law
12 223 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 213 (2.32%) Banking
14 170 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 142 (1.55%) Games
16 134 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 106 (1.16%) Electronics
18 95 (1.04%) Advertising
19 93 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
20 76 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,539 (16.79%) Analyst
1 1,539 (16.79%) Senior
2 1,247 (13.61%) Developer
3 873 (9.53%) Architect
4 697 (7.61%) Lead
5 600 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
6 517 (5.64%) Consultant
7 478 (5.22%) Project Manager
8 433 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
9 351 (3.83%) Senior Developer
10 247 (2.70%) IT Manager
11 244 (2.66%) Software Engineer
12 239 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 237 (2.59%) Software Developer
14 227 (2.48%) Support Engineer
15 210 (2.29%) IT Support
16 206 (2.25%) Administrator
17 202 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 178 (1.94%) Financial Analyst
19 174 (1.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (5.25%) .NET
2 383 (4.18%) HTML
3 347 (3.79%) CSS
4 243 (2.65%) React
5 180 (1.96%) Node.js
6 179 (1.95%) RESTful
7 168 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 161 (1.76%) REST
9 140 (1.53%) Web Services
10 124 (1.35%) Kafka
11 119 (1.30%) GraphQL
12 116 (1.27%) .NET Core
13 113 (1.23%) ASP.NET
13 113 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
13 113 (1.23%) Vue
14 107 (1.17%) JSON
15 98 (1.07%) .NET Framework
15 98 (1.07%) Laravel
15 98 (1.07%) Spring Boot
16 82 (0.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 479 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
2 333 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 245 (2.67%) Client/Server
4 239 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 221 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 212 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 205 (2.24%) Algorithms
8 187 (2.04%) Driving Licence
9 135 (1.47%) Social Media
10 133 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 129 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 124 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 113 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 112 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 100 (1.09%) Cloud Native
16 91 (0.99%) IoT
17 90 (0.98%) Life Science
18 85 (0.93%) NHS
19 78 (0.85%) Virtual Team
20 76 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 795 (8.67%) Windows
2 550 (6.00%) Linux
3 329 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 148 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 147 (1.60%) Android
6 139 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 118 (1.29%) VMS
8 110 (1.20%) Unix
9 73 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 60 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 56 (0.61%) Ubuntu
12 55 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
13 42 (0.46%) Mac OS
13 42 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
14 33 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
15 27 (0.29%) zOS
16 20 (0.22%) Mac OS X
16 20 (0.22%) Windows 7
17 16 (0.17%) Solaris
18 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,675 (29.19%) Agile
2 2,603 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
3 1,270 (13.86%) Mentoring
4 1,102 (12.02%) Project Management
5 1,066 (11.63%) Decision-Making
6 1,014 (11.06%) Actionable Insight
7 962 (10.50%) Roadmaps
8 784 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
9 756 (8.25%) Analytics
10 713 (7.78%) Computer Science
10 713 (7.78%) DevOps
11 708 (7.73%) Customer Service
12 693 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 672 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 669 (7.30%) Software Engineering
15 656 (7.16%) Business Case
16 643 (7.02%) ITIL
17 571 (6.23%) Change Management
18 565 (6.16%) ERP
19 528 (5.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,507 (16.44%) SQL
2 922 (10.06%) Python
3 614 (6.70%) C#
4 591 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 413 (4.51%) Java
6 235 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 204 (2.23%) PowerShell
8 202 (2.20%) PHP
9 190 (2.07%) C
10 165 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 108 (1.18%) Go
12 103 (1.12%) C++
13 85 (0.93%) Bash
14 72 (0.79%) R
15 66 (0.72%) Embedded C
16 48 (0.52%) Scala
17 41 (0.45%) VB
18 35 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 33 (0.36%) Kotlin
20 32 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2,059 (22.47%) Degree
2 807 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 541 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 522 (5.70%) ACCA
5 470 (5.13%) CIMA
6 440 (4.80%) DBS Check
7 403 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 216 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 209 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 163 (1.78%) PMI Certification
11 146 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 136 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 119 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
14 109 (1.19%) PMP
15 108 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
16 105 (1.15%) CISSP
17 97 (1.06%) AWS Certification
18 78 (0.85%) CCNA
19 75 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 70 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (4.66%) QA
2 176 (1.92%) SLA
3 175 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 142 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 110 (1.20%) GDPR
6 108 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 95 (1.04%) PMO
8 89 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 63 (0.69%) NIST
10 51 (0.56%) IFRS
11 49 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 42 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 24 (0.26%) GRC
14 22 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
15 21 (0.23%) GMP
16 20 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 19 (0.21%) NCSC
18 17 (0.19%) GxP
19 16 (0.17%) ITGC
20 15 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 545 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 285 (3.11%) Docker
3 187 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 158 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 147 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 113 (1.23%) Firmware
7 73 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
10 22 (0.24%) vSphere
11 10 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.087%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.076%) NFS
14 6 (0.065%) KVM
15 4 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.044%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.033%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 262 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 226 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 198 (2.16%) Terraform
4 144 (1.57%) Ansible
5 78 (0.85%) SCCM
6 48 (0.52%) SCOM
7 44 (0.48%) WSUS
8 41 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 38 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 32 (0.35%) Puppet
12 27 (0.29%) Grafana
13 19 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
13 19 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 17 (0.19%) FortiGate
15 16 (0.17%) Prometheus
16 15 (0.16%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
17 14 (0.15%) Nagios
18 13 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 2,379 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 596 (6.50%) SAP
3 552 (6.02%) Oracle
4 303 (3.31%) Hyperion
5 301 (3.28%) VMware
6 299 (3.26%) Anaplan
7 278 (3.03%) Databricks
8 249 (2.72%) Google
9 202 (2.20%) Cisco
10 133 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 116 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 98 (1.07%) Adobe
12 98 (1.07%) IBM
13 92 (1.00%) Dell
14 80 (0.87%) HP
15 75 (0.82%) Fortinet
16 64 (0.70%) Citrix
17 52 (0.57%) Aruba
17 52 (0.57%) Facebook
17 52 (0.57%) Meraki