Social Skills Jobs in the South East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 2,574 2,249 4,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.93% 27.40% 26.96%
As % of the General category 38.73% 44.02% 41.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 1,402 2,565
10th Percentile £30,100 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,646 5,109 11,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 54.05% 62.25% 64.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,756 3,084 6,004
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,468
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,360 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.69%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Thames Valley -1 869 £55,000 +4.76% 322
Hampshire -1 726 £55,000 +6.65% 168
Surrey 0 433 £55,000 +15.79% 109
Berkshire 0 429 £53,263 +1.45% 153
Buckinghamshire -1 252 £58,750 +17.50% 98
Kent -1 211 £55,000 +37.50% 76
Oxfordshire -2 188 £53,818 +2.51% 71
East Sussex +2 160 £50,000 +4.17% 53
West Sussex +1 104 £47,500 -9.52% 51
Isle of Wight -18 28 - - 1
Sussex +2 27 £27,500 - 19
Middlesex -2 13 £57,500 -28.13% 2
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 103 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 84 (3.26%) Oracle Application Server
3 79 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.32%) CMS
5 21 (0.82%) Confluence
6 12 (0.47%) Apache
6 12 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.47%) WordPress
7 11 (0.43%) Kentico
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 10 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Sitefinity
10 7 (0.27%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.19%) ColdFusion
11 5 (0.19%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.12%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 227 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 181 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (2.02%) Simulink
5 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.54%) Sketch
7 11 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.16%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.16%) Revit
11 4 (0.16%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.16%) SketchUp
12 2 (0.078%) InDesign
12 2 (0.078%) SPSS
12 2 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 87 (3.38%) Oracle EBS
2 32 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.39%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
6 6 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.19%) Primavera
8 4 (0.16%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.12%) Maximo
9 3 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.12%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle Manufacturing
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle SCM
10 2 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 408 (15.85%) Azure
2 303 (11.77%) Microsoft 365
3 227 (8.82%) AWS
4 139 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 134 (5.21%) SaaS
6 74 (2.87%) GCP
7 58 (2.25%) Entra ID
8 54 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (1.79%) PaaS
10 44 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.59%) IaaS
12 36 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 30 (1.17%) GitHub
14 25 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (0.89%) IBM Cloud
16 21 (0.82%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.78%) OneDrive
18 19 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 18 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 156 (6.06%) Firewall
2 110 (4.27%) TCP/IP
3 87 (3.38%) DNS
4 84 (3.26%) VLAN
5 82 (3.19%) VPN
6 80 (3.11%) DHCP
7 74 (2.87%) WAN
8 71 (2.76%) LAN
9 68 (2.64%) Wireless
10 58 (2.25%) Network Security
11 57 (2.21%) Internet
12 45 (1.75%) Broadband
13 44 (1.71%) BGP
13 44 (1.71%) OSPF
14 38 (1.48%) VoIP
15 37 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
16 34 (1.32%) SSL
17 31 (1.20%) Ethernet
18 29 (1.13%) IPsec
19 28 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 131 (5.09%) Relational Database
3 127 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (4.27%) Power BI
5 89 (3.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 84 (3.26%) RDBMS
7 73 (2.84%) MySQL
8 43 (1.67%) Data Hub
9 37 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 30 (1.17%) Big Data
12 22 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 21 (0.82%) MongoDB
14 19 (0.74%) Tableau
15 15 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.58%) Power Query
15 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.39%) Data Mining
16 10 (0.39%) Hadoop
16 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (4.20%) JIRA
2 106 (4.12%) Git
3 54 (2.10%) Rational DOORS
4 34 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.28%) Selenium
6 18 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 13 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 13 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.47%) Subversion
9 11 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.39%) MSI
10 10 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.39%) Postman
10 10 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.35%) AdminStudio
11 9 (0.35%) InstallShield
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) CocoaPods
13 7 (0.27%) gulp
13 7 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 518 (20.12%) Finance
2 475 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 287 (11.15%) Organisational Skills
4 222 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
6 139 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
7 134 (5.21%) Military
8 129 (5.01%) Marketing
9 126 (4.90%) Telecoms
10 116 (4.51%) Public Sector
11 101 (3.92%) Manufacturing
12 85 (3.30%) Law
13 82 (3.19%) Legal
14 69 (2.68%) Retail
15 60 (2.33%) Electronics
16 49 (1.90%) Local Government
17 40 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.17%) Billing
19 29 (1.13%) Aerospace
20 28 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 391 (15.19%) Senior
2 275 (10.68%) Developer
3 265 (10.30%) Analyst
4 169 (6.57%) Architect
5 147 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 138 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 133 (5.17%) Lead
8 102 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 97 (3.77%) Consultant
10 92 (3.57%) Coordinator
11 86 (3.34%) IT Support
12 82 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 78 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 72 (2.80%) Network Engineer
15 69 (2.68%) Applications Support
16 67 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
16 67 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 67 (2.60%) Software Developer
17 65 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
18 62 (2.41%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (7.93%) .NET
2 200 (7.77%) HTML
3 176 (6.84%) CSS
4 93 (3.61%) REST
5 72 (2.80%) React
6 59 (2.29%) SOAP
7 50 (1.94%) RESTful
8 47 (1.83%) Middleware
9 41 (1.59%) Web Services
10 37 (1.44%) .NET Framework
11 34 (1.32%) JSON
12 30 (1.17%) 802.1X
13 29 (1.13%) Kafka
14 27 (1.05%) XML
15 26 (1.01%) jQuery
16 23 (0.89%) Node.js
17 21 (0.82%) HTML5
17 21 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (0.78%) AngularJS
18 20 (0.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 354 (13.75%) Self-Motivation
2 170 (6.60%) Management Information System
3 84 (3.26%) Driving Licence
4 59 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 57 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 52 (2.02%) Life Science
7 45 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 42 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (1.55%) NHS
10 39 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.24%) IoT
14 29 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.05%) Blockchain
15 27 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
17 25 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 22 (0.85%) Mobile App
19 20 (0.78%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 320 (12.43%) Windows
2 197 (7.65%) Linux
3 98 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 69 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
6 35 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (0.97%) Android
9 20 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.51%) Unix
11 13 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.47%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.35%) Windows NT
14 8 (0.31%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.19%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.16%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (41.34%) Problem-Solving
2 552 (21.45%) Agile
3 362 (14.06%) Project Management
4 347 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 315 (12.24%) Customer Service
6 307 (11.93%) Mentoring
7 296 (11.50%) ITIL
8 294 (11.42%) Computer Science
9 291 (11.31%) DevOps
10 261 (10.14%) Software Engineering
11 248 (9.63%) Analytics
12 229 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
13 197 (7.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 191 (7.42%) Customer Experience
15 174 (6.76%) Risk Management
16 173 (6.72%) Decision-Making
17 170 (6.60%) Collaborative Working
17 170 (6.60%) ERP
18 169 (6.57%) Service Management
19 165 (6.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 357 (13.87%) SQL
2 248 (9.63%) C#
3 234 (9.09%) Python
4 218 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 191 (7.42%) Java
6 110 (4.27%) C++
7 99 (3.85%) C
8 92 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 58 (2.25%) PHP
10 47 (1.83%) TypeScript
11 37 (1.44%) Bash
12 22 (0.85%) MATLAB
12 22 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 22 (0.85%) R
13 21 (0.82%) VB
14 18 (0.70%) Ruby
15 15 (0.58%) Bicep
15 15 (0.58%) VBA
16 11 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 714 (27.74%) Degree
2 369 (14.34%) Security Cleared
3 191 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 162 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 142 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 134 (5.21%) DBS Check
7 75 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 62 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 58 (2.25%) Azure Certification
10 52 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.83%) HNC
12 46 (1.79%) CCNA
13 42 (1.63%) CISA
14 36 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
14 36 (1.40%) PMP
15 35 (1.36%) PMI Certification
16 34 (1.32%) CISSP
17 32 (1.24%) Chartered Engineer
18 28 (1.09%) APMP
19 25 (0.97%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (4.23%) SLA
2 94 (3.65%) QA
3 63 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.10%) GDPR
5 50 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 49 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.75%) PMO
8 34 (1.32%) NIST
9 31 (1.20%) Good Clinical Practice
10 24 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.51%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.43%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.43%) GMP
13 10 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.35%) NCSC
14 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 173 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (2.64%) Docker
4 43 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.17%) Firmware
6 26 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.23%) vSphere
12 4 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.12%) Ceph
13 3 (0.12%) GPFS
13 3 (0.12%) Lustre
13 3 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.039%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 62 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.63%) Terraform
4 40 (1.55%) WSUS
5 39 (1.52%) SCCM
6 23 (0.89%) Ansible
7 15 (0.58%) SCOM
8 12 (0.47%) Puppet
9 11 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.39%) Nagios
11 9 (0.35%) Sysprep
12 8 (0.31%) Autotask
13 7 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.19%) CASB
14 5 (0.19%) CSIRT
14 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
15 4 (0.16%) Grafana
16 3 (0.12%) Podman
17 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
17 2 (0.078%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 659 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.91%) Oracle
3 98 (3.81%) Google
4 96 (3.73%) Cisco
5 95 (3.69%) VMware
6 68 (2.64%) SAP
7 50 (1.94%) Xilinx
8 39 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 37 (1.44%) Juniper
10 34 (1.32%) IBM
11 31 (1.20%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 30 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.05%) HP
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
15 23 (0.89%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.70%) NEC
16 18 (0.70%) Sage
17 16 (0.62%) Databricks
18 15 (0.58%) Meraki