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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,915 4,324 4,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.09% 25.99% 29.30%
As % of the General category 36.13% 45.96% 45.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,101 2,973 2,074
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £29,000 £36,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -16.95% +7.27%

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 5,300 9,409 9,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 63.91% 56.55% 64.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,531 6,050 4,678
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% -10.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,315
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.96% +0.53%

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 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
Thames Valley 0 749 £50,967 +13.26% 790
Hampshire -2 379 £50,000 +11.11% 413
Berkshire +1 369 £51,250 +13.89% 462
Surrey 0 273 £52,500 +31.25% 237
Buckinghamshire 0 212 £50,967 +13.26% 184
Oxfordshire 0 168 £55,000 +23.78% 234
Kent -4 125 £40,050 +6.80% 133
West Sussex 0 114 £50,000 -4.76% 139
Middlesex -5 97 £62,500 +47.06% 31
East Sussex 0 89 £45,000 +16.13% 124
Isle of Wight -32 74 £65,000 +52.94% 6
Sussex +6 2 £37,250 -35.78% 99
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 62 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.78%) CMS
3 20 (1.04%) IIS
4 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
6 14 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.63%) IBM Domino
7 12 (0.63%) Kentico
8 8 (0.42%) Apache
9 7 (0.37%) WordPress
10 6 (0.31%) Confluence
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.10%) TPMS
13 1 (0.052%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 171 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 87 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (2.14%) Simulink
4 19 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.47%) Acrobat
7 8 (0.42%) Trello
8 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.16%) InDesign
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.10%) Zemax
13 1 (0.052%) Mingle
13 1 (0.052%) Revit
Business Applications
1 35 (1.83%) Teamcenter
2 20 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.84%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (0.84%) SAP FI
5 9 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.26%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.16%) Maximo
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.16%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.10%) PeopleSoft Financials
9 2 (0.10%) Shopify
10 1 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.052%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 323 (16.87%) Azure
2 186 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
3 150 (7.83%) AWS
4 118 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 83 (4.33%) SaaS
6 49 (2.56%) GCP
7 39 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (1.46%) GitHub
11 27 (1.41%) PaaS
11 27 (1.41%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (1.10%) Entra ID
13 21 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 20 (1.04%) Power Automate
15 17 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 17 (0.89%) Vertex AI
16 15 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.91%) TCP/IP
2 76 (3.97%) VPN
3 74 (3.86%) Firewall
4 60 (3.13%) DNS
5 45 (2.35%) VLAN
5 45 (2.35%) WAN
6 43 (2.25%) LAN
7 40 (2.09%) VoIP
8 38 (1.98%) DHCP
9 35 (1.83%) Network Security
10 31 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.84%) Wireless
13 12 (0.63%) 5G
13 12 (0.63%) BGP
13 12 (0.63%) LTE
13 12 (0.63%) MPLS
13 12 (0.63%) OSPF
14 10 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.65%) Power BI
2 74 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 42 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.78%) Big Data
5 32 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 25 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.25%) Data Mining
10 17 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 16 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.73%) Metadata
13 14 (0.73%) Tableau
14 13 (0.68%) Redis
15 12 (0.63%) MySQL
16 10 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
17 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 85 (4.44%) Rational DOORS
2 70 (3.66%) JIRA
3 51 (2.66%) Cucumber
4 40 (2.09%) Git
5 37 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 34 (1.78%) Robot Framework
7 14 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.47%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.47%) Gradle
9 9 (0.47%) JUnit
10 8 (0.42%) git-flow
11 7 (0.37%) Appium
11 7 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.31%) Postman
13 5 (0.26%) GitLab
13 5 (0.26%) Selenium
13 5 (0.26%) Subversion
13 5 (0.26%) TestComplete
13 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 382 (19.95%) Finance
2 347 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (9.03%) Law
4 155 (8.09%) Marketing
5 128 (6.68%) Manufacturing
6 117 (6.11%) Organisational Skills
7 114 (5.95%) Telecoms
8 110 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 106 (5.54%) Legal
10 95 (4.96%) Retail
11 84 (4.39%) Electronics
12 82 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (2.87%) Public Sector
15 52 (2.72%) Aerospace
16 42 (2.19%) Advertising
17 34 (1.78%) Banking
18 26 (1.36%) Military
19 21 (1.10%) Local Government
20 19 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 264 (13.79%) Senior
2 243 (12.69%) Analyst
3 181 (9.45%) Lead
4 129 (6.74%) Developer
5 126 (6.58%) Architect
6 114 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 102 (5.33%) IT Support
8 98 (5.12%) Support Engineer
9 72 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
10 57 (2.98%) IT Analyst
10 57 (2.98%) Junior
11 55 (2.87%) Senior Manager
12 54 (2.82%) Support Analyst
13 52 (2.72%) IT Engineer
14 51 (2.66%) Technical Manager
15 50 (2.61%) Sales Executive
16 49 (2.56%) IT Manager
17 48 (2.51%) Systems Architect
18 40 (2.09%) Financial Analyst
18 40 (2.09%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (6.58%) .NET
2 56 (2.92%) HTML
3 52 (2.72%) REST
4 39 (2.04%) CSS
5 31 (1.62%) .NET Framework
6 30 (1.57%) SOAP
7 28 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
8 27 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
8 27 (1.41%) Middleware
9 26 (1.36%) React
10 25 (1.31%) Kafka
11 21 (1.10%) HTML5
11 21 (1.10%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 19 (0.99%) Blazor
14 17 (0.89%) Spring
15 14 (0.73%) JSON
16 13 (0.68%) XML
17 12 (0.63%) Bootstrap
17 12 (0.63%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 162 (8.46%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.60%) Driving Licence
3 86 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (3.71%) Data Centre
5 59 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 53 (2.77%) Algorithms
7 52 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 46 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
10 29 (1.51%) Digital Media
11 28 (1.46%) Client/Server
12 27 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.36%) IoT
13 26 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
15 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (1.15%) Social Media
17 18 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 16 (0.84%) Robotics
19 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 205 (10.70%) Windows
2 101 (5.27%) Linux
3 49 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 36 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 28 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.15%) Unix
8 13 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.52%) Android
10 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (38.38%) Problem-Solving
2 368 (19.22%) Agile
3 360 (18.80%) Project Management
4 310 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (13.47%) Mentoring
6 215 (11.23%) Computer Science
7 197 (10.29%) Coaching
8 196 (10.23%) DevOps
9 192 (10.03%) Customer Service
10 164 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 162 (8.46%) Analytics
12 156 (8.15%) Project Delivery
13 150 (7.83%) ITIL
13 150 (7.83%) Process Improvement
13 150 (7.83%) Strategic Thinking
14 138 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
15 133 (6.95%) Service Delivery
16 131 (6.84%) Information Security
17 130 (6.79%) Change Management
18 126 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 221 (11.54%) SQL
2 172 (8.98%) Python
3 121 (6.32%) JavaScript
4 117 (6.11%) C#
5 109 (5.69%) Java
6 94 (4.91%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.92%) Bash
8 48 (2.51%) MATLAB
9 28 (1.46%) C++
10 25 (1.31%) Apex Code
11 21 (1.10%) C
11 21 (1.10%) Rust
12 18 (0.94%) PHP
13 14 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.63%) R
15 10 (0.52%) Scala
16 8 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.37%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 486 (25.38%) Degree
2 136 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 84 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 64 (3.34%) Chartered Engineer
6 61 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 57 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 53 (2.77%) CISSP
9 47 (2.45%) DBS Check
9 47 (2.45%) PMI Certification
9 47 (2.45%) SC Cleared
10 43 (2.25%) NVQ Level 3
10 43 (2.25%) NVQ Level 4
11 40 (2.09%) PMP
12 38 (1.98%) CISM
13 31 (1.62%) Azure Certification
14 28 (1.46%) CBAP
14 28 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (1.41%) DV Cleared
16 23 (1.20%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.12%) QA
2 79 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.98%) SLA
4 50 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 48 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 39 (2.04%) GDPR
7 37 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 30 (1.57%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.10%) NIST
11 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (0.84%) GRC
12 16 (0.84%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.68%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.47%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.47%) PERC
14 9 (0.47%) PMO
15 8 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 96 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.14%) Docker
4 23 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.52%) vSphere
7 7 (0.37%) Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.052%) NFS
11 1 (0.052%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.88%) Terraform
3 28 (1.46%) Ansible
4 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.73%) Puppet
6 6 (0.31%) SCCM
7 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.26%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.21%) QRadar
8 4 (0.21%) WSUS
9 3 (0.16%) Grafana
9 3 (0.16%) PaperCut
9 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.10%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.052%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 483 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 95 (4.96%) IBM
3 91 (4.75%) SAP
4 82 (4.28%) Google
5 65 (3.39%) Oracle
6 63 (3.29%) Cisco
7 61 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 52 (2.72%) VMware
9 28 (1.46%) Databricks
10 23 (1.20%) Adobe
10 23 (1.20%) Workday
11 22 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 21 (1.10%) Concur
13 19 (0.99%) Dell
14 16 (0.84%) Citrix
15 15 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.73%) Apple
16 14 (0.73%) Meraki
17 11 (0.57%) EMC