Social Skills Jobs in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 21,390 26,635 31,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.22% 28.57% 23.90%
As % of the General category 42.56% 41.56% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,860 13,482 16,235
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,559 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £100,000 £92,800
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,259 64,087 82,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.26% 68.74% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,481 34,591 45,074
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in England.

Salary trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +1 6,441 £65,000 -7.14% 3,281
South East 0 4,310 £44,309 -11.38% 1,785
North of England +1 4,069 £45,000 -10.00% 1,891
Midlands +1 2,799 £42,500 -15.00% 1,335
North West +1 2,129 £45,000 -10.00% 1,051
South West +1 1,988 £45,000 - 1,041
West Midlands +1 1,802 £45,000 -13.46% 818
East of England 0 1,538 £44,500 -9.88% 857
Yorkshire +1 1,473 £45,000 -10.00% 617
East Midlands 0 986 £39,000 -22.00% 515
North East 0 470 £40,000 -5.88% 267
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 877 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 800 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 433 (2.02%) SAS
4 255 (1.19%) Confluence
5 191 (0.89%) CMS
6 143 (0.67%) WordPress
7 102 (0.48%) Apache
8 91 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 57 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 56 (0.26%) IIS
11 51 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 33 (0.15%) nginx
13 29 (0.14%) Drupal
14 26 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.12%) Umbraco
16 22 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 22 (0.10%) WebSphere
17 21 (0.098%) OpenEdge
18 19 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
19 18 (0.084%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2,246 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,929 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
3 718 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 195 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 138 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 121 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 100 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 96 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 88 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 63 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 60 (0.28%) InDesign
12 50 (0.23%) Trello
13 34 (0.16%) Simulink
14 33 (0.15%) Sketch
15 30 (0.14%) Adobe XD
16 27 (0.13%) SPSS
17 26 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
17 26 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
18 16 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
19 14 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 334 (1.56%) SAP ERP
2 198 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 110 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 72 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.31%) Shopify
6 42 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 39 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 36 (0.17%) Primavera
9 34 (0.16%) Magento
10 33 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 29 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
12 28 (0.13%) SAP HR
13 27 (0.13%) SAP FI
14 24 (0.11%) Elite 3E
14 24 (0.11%) SAP Business One
15 23 (0.11%) NEC Housing
15 23 (0.11%) Teamcenter
16 22 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
17 21 (0.098%) SAP CO
17 21 (0.098%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3,342 (15.62%) Azure
2 2,324 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1,653 (7.73%) AWS
4 1,425 (6.66%) Power Platform
5 844 (3.95%) SaaS
6 485 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 437 (2.04%) GCP
8 428 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 359 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
10 281 (1.31%) Serverless
11 252 (1.18%) PowerApps
12 243 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
13 236 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 217 (1.01%) GitHub
15 165 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
16 147 (0.69%) PaaS
17 141 (0.66%) IaaS
18 136 (0.64%) Snowflake
19 133 (0.62%) OneDrive
20 132 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1,013 (4.74%) Firewall
2 965 (4.51%) Broadband
3 645 (3.02%) WAN
4 568 (2.66%) DNS
5 514 (2.40%) LAN
6 451 (2.11%) Wireless
7 393 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 382 (1.79%) VPN
9 371 (1.73%) DHCP
10 328 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
11 291 (1.36%) Network Security
12 265 (1.24%) Internet
13 252 (1.18%) VoIP
14 232 (1.08%) SAN
15 213 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 206 (0.96%) VLAN
17 155 (0.72%) Intranet
18 125 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
19 124 (0.58%) WebEx
20 105 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,151 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 1,143 (5.34%) Power BI
3 421 (1.97%) Tableau
4 400 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 342 (1.60%) MySQL
6 297 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 281 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 250 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 174 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 166 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
11 165 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 161 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 151 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 140 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 137 (0.64%) Big Data
16 100 (0.47%) Oracle Database
17 86 (0.40%) Data Mining
18 83 (0.39%) DynamoDB
19 82 (0.38%) Metadata
20 77 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 850 (3.97%) Git
2 735 (3.44%) JIRA
3 261 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 161 (0.75%) GitLab
5 135 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 88 (0.41%) Selenium
7 67 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 44 (0.21%) JUnit
10 43 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 42 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
12 41 (0.19%) Subversion
13 39 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
14 34 (0.16%) Postman
15 33 (0.15%) Burp Suite
16 32 (0.15%) Metasploit
16 32 (0.15%) NUnit
17 31 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
18 30 (0.14%) Cypress.io
19 29 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,198 (24.30%) Finance
2 4,692 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1,685 (7.88%) Retail
4 1,585 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1,389 (6.49%) Marketing
6 1,373 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1,173 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 1,093 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1,046 (4.89%) Legal
10 943 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 907 (4.24%) Law
12 811 (3.79%) Manufacturing
13 651 (3.04%) Banking
14 563 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 331 (1.55%) Billing
16 315 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 292 (1.37%) Games
18 276 (1.29%) German Language
19 271 (1.27%) Automotive
19 271 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,124 (14.60%) Analyst
2 2,784 (13.02%) Senior
3 2,085 (9.75%) Developer
4 1,508 (7.05%) Lead
5 1,306 (6.11%) Architect
6 1,262 (5.90%) Project Manager
7 1,018 (4.76%) IT Support
8 992 (4.64%) Consultant
9 763 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 748 (3.50%) Support Engineer
11 642 (3.00%) IT Manager
12 586 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 573 (2.68%) Administrator
14 540 (2.52%) IT Engineer
15 502 (2.35%) Senior Manager
16 480 (2.24%) Support Analyst
17 473 (2.21%) Software Engineer
18 465 (2.17%) Senior Developer
19 426 (1.99%) Graduate
20 386 (1.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 988 (4.62%) .NET
2 826 (3.86%) HTML
3 714 (3.34%) CSS
4 523 (2.45%) React
5 306 (1.43%) AngularJS
6 289 (1.35%) REST
7 265 (1.24%) RESTful
8 251 (1.17%) .NET Framework
9 248 (1.16%) Node.js
9 248 (1.16%) Web Services
10 233 (1.09%) ASP.NET
11 219 (1.02%) .NET Core
12 215 (1.01%) Vue
13 207 (0.97%) JSON
14 179 (0.84%) XML
15 174 (0.81%) HTML5
16 149 (0.70%) Laravel
17 142 (0.66%) Spring
18 141 (0.66%) Entity Framework
18 141 (0.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,846 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
2 1,106 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 913 (4.27%) Driving Licence
4 518 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 498 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 381 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 297 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 281 (1.31%) Social Media
9 276 (1.29%) Client/Server
10 274 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
11 249 (1.16%) IoT
12 242 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 214 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 210 (0.98%) NHS
15 200 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 197 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 192 (0.90%) Public Cloud
18 187 (0.87%) Cloud Native
19 175 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
20 165 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2,729 (12.76%) Windows
2 1,076 (5.03%) Linux
3 962 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 770 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 388 (1.81%) Android
6 278 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 196 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 195 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 195 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 185 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 169 (0.79%) Unix
11 132 (0.62%) VMS
12 121 (0.57%) Windows 7
13 92 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 64 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 50 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 47 (0.22%) Windows 8
17 35 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
18 33 (0.15%) Kali Linux
19 32 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,709 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 4,591 (21.46%) Agile
3 3,051 (14.26%) Project Management
4 2,866 (13.40%) Customer Service
5 2,237 (10.46%) Mentoring
6 1,944 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 1,829 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,736 (8.12%) Computer Science
9 1,595 (7.46%) ITIL
10 1,556 (7.27%) Roadmaps
11 1,412 (6.60%) DevOps
12 1,374 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
13 1,352 (6.32%) Analytics
13 1,352 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 1,262 (5.90%) Actionable Insight
15 1,241 (5.80%) Project Delivery
16 1,124 (5.25%) Time Management
17 1,120 (5.24%) Cybersecurity
18 1,105 (5.17%) Software Engineering
19 1,083 (5.06%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2,635 (12.32%) SQL
2 1,624 (7.59%) Python
3 1,258 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1,220 (5.70%) C#
5 776 (3.63%) Java
6 589 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 345 (1.61%) PHP
8 330 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 314 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 302 (1.41%) C
11 294 (1.37%) C++
12 228 (1.07%) Bash
13 193 (0.90%) R
14 110 (0.51%) Go
15 77 (0.36%) MATLAB
16 76 (0.36%) Scala
16 76 (0.36%) VB
17 74 (0.35%) Perl
18 66 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
19 64 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5,127 (23.97%) Degree
2 1,458 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 1,118 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 919 (4.30%) DBS Check
5 836 (3.91%) SC Cleared
6 635 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 618 (2.89%) ACCA
8 552 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 514 (2.40%) CIMA
10 321 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 317 (1.48%) DV Cleared
11 317 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 275 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 224 (1.05%) CISSP
14 214 (1.00%) CCNA
15 200 (0.94%) PMP
16 169 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 167 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
18 163 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 151 (0.71%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 933 (4.36%) QA
2 884 (4.13%) SLA
3 526 (2.46%) GDPR
4 440 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 425 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 346 (1.62%) PMO
7 255 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 239 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 178 (0.83%) NIST
10 163 (0.76%) ISO 9001
11 149 (0.70%) IFRS
12 105 (0.49%) GMP
13 83 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 63 (0.29%) GAAP
14 63 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 60 (0.28%) GRC
16 50 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 49 (0.23%) IFRS 9
18 41 (0.19%) NEBOSH
19 33 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,850 (8.65%) Active Directory
2 557 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 523 (2.45%) Docker
4 452 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 248 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 186 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 127 (0.59%) Firmware
8 121 (0.57%) XenApp
9 118 (0.55%) XenDesktop
10 113 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 80 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 74 (0.35%) vSphere
13 30 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 25 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
15 23 (0.11%) KVM
16 20 (0.094%) Terminal Services
17 14 (0.065%) vCloud
18 12 (0.056%) NFS
19 11 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
20 6 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 506 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 446 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 423 (1.98%) Terraform
4 349 (1.63%) SCCM
5 192 (0.90%) Ansible
6 113 (0.53%) AirWatch
7 81 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 81 (0.38%) WSUS
8 71 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 61 (0.29%) SCOM
10 51 (0.24%) Puppet
11 45 (0.21%) EnCase
12 42 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 41 (0.19%) Grafana
14 40 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 40 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 38 (0.18%) Nagios
16 35 (0.16%) Functional Safety
17 29 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
18 27 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5,666 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 919 (4.30%) SAP
3 852 (3.98%) VMware
4 835 (3.90%) Oracle
5 597 (2.79%) Cisco
6 510 (2.38%) Google
7 388 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 360 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 321 (1.50%) Citrix
10 315 (1.47%) Hyperion
11 303 (1.42%) Anaplan
12 290 (1.36%) Adobe
13 279 (1.30%) Databricks
14 272 (1.27%) HP
15 268 (1.25%) Dell
16 204 (0.95%) Veeam
17 192 (0.90%) Apple
18 180 (0.84%) IBM
19 116 (0.54%) Meraki
20 98 (0.46%) Splunk