Social Skills Jobs in the Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,309 2,590 3,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.89% 23.95% 29.73%
As % of the General category 37.78% 42.00% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 814 1,942 1,141
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,750 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% +6.82%

All General Skills
Midlands

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,465 6,167 7,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.30% 57.03% 73.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,812 4,608 3,235
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £28,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £66,004
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,433 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,836 £52,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +10.16% -13.93% +1.67%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 2025. 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
West Midlands -1 879 £50,000 +11.11% 923
East Midlands -3 430 £40,101 +0.29% 556
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 46 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.68%) Confluence
4 21 (1.60%) OpenEdge
5 8 (0.61%) CMS
6 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.31%) Luigi
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.076%) Mule
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 127 (9.70%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.22%) Simulink
6 14 (1.07%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.61%) Trello
8 5 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.15%) EngageOne
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.15%) Revit
11 1 (0.076%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.076%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.076%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 40 (3.06%) NetSuite
2 22 (1.68%) Shopify
3 19 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (1.15%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.76%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.61%) Magento
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.38%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.31%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.23%) SAP SD
12 2 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
12 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
12 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 218 (16.65%) Azure
2 162 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (12.07%) AWS
4 63 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 45 (3.44%) SaaS
6 26 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 23 (1.76%) Google Workspace
8 21 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (1.45%) GCP
10 17 (1.30%) Serverless
11 16 (1.22%) GitHub
12 14 (1.07%) Boomi
13 12 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.92%) Google Analytics
13 12 (0.92%) Snowflake
13 12 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.50%) Firewall
2 63 (4.81%) WAN
3 59 (4.51%) LAN
4 39 (2.98%) VoIP
5 38 (2.90%) DNS
6 34 (2.60%) DHCP
7 27 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.99%) VLAN
9 21 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.53%) BGP
10 20 (1.53%) OSPF
11 19 (1.45%) WLAN
12 14 (1.07%) Network Security
12 14 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 14 (1.07%) VPN
13 11 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (0.61%) Internet
16 7 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
17 6 (0.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.13%) Power BI
2 48 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.99%) Tableau
5 22 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.07%) MySQL
7 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.76%) Redis
11 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.61%) Metadata
12 8 (0.61%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.46%) GIS
14 6 (0.46%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.46%) MS Access
15 5 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (4.13%) JIRA
2 41 (3.13%) Git
3 15 (1.15%) Postman
3 15 (1.15%) Selenium
4 14 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.46%) GitLab
7 5 (0.38%) Mocha
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.31%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.23%) Babel
9 3 (0.23%) JMeter
9 3 (0.23%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.23%) Subversion
9 3 (0.23%) webpack
10 2 (0.15%) ERwin
10 2 (0.15%) NUnit
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 242 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
2 226 (17.27%) Finance
3 163 (12.45%) Presentation Skills
4 114 (8.71%) Retail
5 100 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (5.73%) Law
7 74 (5.65%) Marketing
8 50 (3.82%) Electronics
8 50 (3.82%) Manufacturing
8 50 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 46 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (3.13%) Legal
11 33 (2.52%) Automotive
12 30 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.68%) Police
14 19 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.30%) Banking
16 16 (1.22%) Advertising
16 16 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (17.04%) IT Support
2 197 (15.05%) Analyst
3 146 (11.15%) Senior
4 116 (8.86%) Developer
5 78 (5.96%) Lead
6 69 (5.27%) Project Manager
7 61 (4.66%) Consultant
8 46 (3.51%) Support Engineer
9 45 (3.44%) IT Engineer
10 40 (3.06%) Architect
11 39 (2.98%) Service Analyst
11 39 (2.98%) Systems Engineer
12 36 (2.75%) 2nd Line Support
13 35 (2.67%) Support Specialist
14 33 (2.52%) IT Support Specialist
14 33 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
15 32 (2.44%) IT Analyst
15 32 (2.44%) Junior
15 32 (2.44%) Service Desk Analyst
16 31 (2.37%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.97%) .NET
2 45 (3.44%) HTML
3 24 (1.83%) RESTful
4 22 (1.68%) ASP.NET
5 21 (1.60%) CSS
5 21 (1.60%) React
6 17 (1.30%) SOAP
7 15 (1.15%) XML
8 14 (1.07%) Blazor
8 14 (1.07%) OAuth
8 14 (1.07%) REST
9 13 (0.99%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (0.99%) GraphQL
9 13 (0.99%) Middleware
10 12 (0.92%) FastAPI
10 12 (0.92%) jQuery
10 12 (0.92%) Node.js
11 11 (0.84%) Django
11 11 (0.84%) JSON
12 10 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.48%) Enterprise Software
2 67 (5.12%) Onboarding
3 61 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 55 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 52 (3.97%) Driving Licence
6 49 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.52%) CCTV
8 30 (2.29%) IoT
9 25 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 24 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.76%) SCADA
12 20 (1.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 19 (1.45%) Smartphone
14 16 (1.22%) EPoS
14 16 (1.22%) Smart Energy
15 15 (1.15%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.99%) Social Media
18 10 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
18 10 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 283 (21.62%) Windows
2 87 (6.65%) Windows 10
3 64 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.67%) Linux
5 22 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.45%) Mac OS X
7 19 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 16 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.15%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.99%) Android
11 9 (0.69%) Unix
12 7 (0.53%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.31%) VMS
14 2 (0.15%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.076%) CentOS
15 1 (0.076%) Debian
15 1 (0.076%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (42.02%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (16.35%) Project Management
3 171 (13.06%) Mathematics
4 148 (11.31%) Agile
5 131 (10.01%) Customer Service
6 128 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (9.63%) Line Management
8 115 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 114 (8.71%) Project Delivery
10 112 (8.56%) Decision-Making
11 109 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 100 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
13 95 (7.26%) Analytics
14 82 (6.26%) Roadmaps
15 79 (6.04%) Computer Science
16 78 (5.96%) ITIL
17 77 (5.88%) ERP
17 77 (5.88%) Mentoring
18 76 (5.81%) CRM
19 74 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 169 (12.91%) SQL
2 81 (6.19%) Python
3 65 (4.97%) C#
4 50 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.98%) PowerShell
6 27 (2.06%) Java
7 18 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (1.22%) MATLAB
9 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.92%) C++
11 11 (0.84%) PHP
12 9 (0.69%) C
12 9 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.61%) R
14 6 (0.46%) ABAP
14 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.38%) SAPscript
16 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.31%) VB
16 4 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 263 (20.09%) Degree
2 77 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 57 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (2.52%) DBS Check
7 26 (1.99%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.91%) MCSE
9 24 (1.83%) HND
10 22 (1.68%) HNC
11 19 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.45%) CISSP
11 19 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.22%) CISM
12 16 (1.22%) PMP
13 15 (1.15%) CCNP
14 13 (0.99%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.76%) CCNA
17 9 (0.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.28%) QA
2 40 (3.06%) SLA
3 32 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.06%) GDPR
6 23 (1.76%) PMO
7 10 (0.76%) NIST
8 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 6 (0.46%) P3O
10 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.31%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 2 (0.15%) COBIT
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 140 (10.70%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.83%) Docker
3 34 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.46%) Firmware
7 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.31%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.15%) Terraform
3 13 (0.99%) Grafana
3 13 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.46%) Ansible
6 5 (0.38%) Nessus
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
7 4 (0.31%) VxRail
8 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.23%) QRadar
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.15%) Nmap
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 2 (0.15%) SCOM
9 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.076%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.076%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 332 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.74%) SAP
3 55 (4.20%) Cisco
4 51 (3.90%) Google
5 47 (3.59%) Dell
6 44 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.21%) VMware
8 30 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.91%) Apple
9 25 (1.91%) Oracle
10 23 (1.76%) Progress
11 20 (1.53%) Databricks
11 20 (1.53%) Rockwell
11 20 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 20 (1.53%) Siemens
12 19 (1.45%) IBM
12 19 (1.45%) Ubiquiti
13 16 (1.22%) Meraki
14 10 (0.76%) Juniper
14 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto