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 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 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,773 3,964 4,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.40% 25.30% 29.92%
As % of the General category 35.30% 44.49% 46.30%
Number of salaries quoted 996 2,887 2,140
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £35,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,784 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.74% -13.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% +6.82%

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 5,022 8,910 10,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 63.44% 56.86% 64.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 5,888 4,773
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,500 £28,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £85,000
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 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 3 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 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
Thames Valley 0 702 £52,609 +16.91% 899
Berkshire +1 367 £50,000 +17.65% 489
Hampshire -2 341 £47,500 +5.56% 421
Surrey 0 279 £54,500 +36.25% 278
Buckinghamshire +1 181 £52,500 +16.67% 235
Oxfordshire 0 154 £57,500 +27.78% 252
Kent -3 114 £40,101 +6.93% 210
East Sussex 0 95 £50,000 +25.00% 130
West Sussex 0 84 £47,500 +6.74% 145
Middlesex -10 80 £62,500 +47.06% 66
Isle of Wight -28 63 £65,000 +52.94% 4
Sussex +10 4 £30,500 -32.22% 63
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 60 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.80%) CMS
3 21 (1.18%) IIS
4 15 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
5 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.73%) Kentico
7 12 (0.68%) IBM Domino
8 8 (0.45%) Apache
9 6 (0.34%) Confluence
9 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.34%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.056%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.056%) Mule
11 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.056%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.056%) TPMS
Applications
1 173 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.03%) Simulink
4 26 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.51%) Acrobat
7 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.39%) Trello
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Zemax
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.056%) Mingle
12 1 (0.056%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 35 (1.97%) Teamcenter
2 20 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.90%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (0.90%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.17%) Maximo
8 3 (0.17%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.056%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.056%) SAP Business ByDesign
10 1 (0.056%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.056%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 309 (17.43%) Azure
2 188 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
3 138 (7.78%) AWS
4 109 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.13%) SaaS
6 43 (2.43%) GCP
7 40 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.64%) PaaS
9 29 (1.64%) PowerApps
10 28 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (1.58%) GitHub
11 25 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 21 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 20 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (0.96%) Vertex AI
15 16 (0.90%) Google Workspace
15 16 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.95%) Firewall
2 63 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 61 (3.44%) DNS
4 44 (2.48%) VPN
5 42 (2.37%) VLAN
6 41 (2.31%) WAN
7 40 (2.26%) LAN
8 39 (2.20%) DHCP
9 35 (1.97%) Network Security
10 25 (1.41%) VoIP
10 25 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
12 18 (1.02%) Wireless
13 16 (0.90%) BGP
13 16 (0.90%) OSPF
13 16 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (0.79%) IPsec
14 14 (0.79%) LTE
14 14 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.57%) Power BI
2 77 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 41 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 28 (1.58%) Big Data
6 25 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 24 (1.35%) Data Mining
8 23 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.02%) MySQL
11 17 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.79%) Tableau
14 13 (0.73%) Redis
15 8 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (0.39%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.39%) Metadata
17 6 (0.34%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 87 (4.91%) Rational DOORS
2 73 (4.12%) JIRA
3 46 (2.59%) Git
4 34 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 18 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.51%) Gradle
10 8 (0.45%) git-flow
10 8 (0.45%) Postman
10 8 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.39%) Appium
11 7 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.39%) JUnit
11 7 (0.39%) Selenium
12 5 (0.28%) TestComplete
13 4 (0.23%) Subversion
13 4 (0.23%) TestRail
14 3 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 405 (22.84%) Finance
2 346 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (9.48%) Law
4 135 (7.61%) Marketing
5 124 (6.99%) Manufacturing
6 109 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 96 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 91 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 89 (5.02%) Legal
10 79 (4.46%) Electronics
11 78 (4.40%) Retail
12 70 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
14 53 (2.99%) Aerospace
14 53 (2.99%) Public Sector
15 38 (2.14%) Advertising
16 31 (1.75%) Banking
17 26 (1.47%) Local Government
18 19 (1.07%) Automotive
19 18 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 242 (13.65%) Senior
2 222 (12.52%) Analyst
3 164 (9.25%) Lead
4 141 (7.95%) Architect
5 138 (7.78%) Developer
6 132 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 103 (5.81%) Support Engineer
8 86 (4.85%) IT Support
9 55 (3.10%) IT Engineer
9 55 (3.10%) Junior
9 55 (3.10%) Technical Manager
10 53 (2.99%) Senior Manager
11 51 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
12 50 (2.82%) IT Analyst
13 48 (2.71%) Systems Architect
14 46 (2.59%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.31%) IT Support Engineer
16 38 (2.14%) Applications Support
16 38 (2.14%) Support Analyst
17 36 (2.03%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (8.63%) .NET
2 81 (4.57%) HTML
3 59 (3.33%) REST
4 48 (2.71%) CSS
5 35 (1.97%) .NET Framework
5 35 (1.97%) SOAP
6 29 (1.64%) Middleware
7 26 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (1.41%) HTML5
8 25 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
9 24 (1.35%) Kafka
10 22 (1.24%) Blazor
10 22 (1.24%) React
11 19 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 16 (0.90%) RESTful
12 16 (0.90%) Spring Boot
13 14 (0.79%) Bootstrap
14 13 (0.73%) .NET Core
14 13 (0.73%) JSON
14 13 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 175 (9.87%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.57%) Driving Licence
3 72 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 46 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.64%) Digital Media
9 29 (1.64%) IoT
10 27 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
11 25 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.30%) Client/Server
12 23 (1.30%) Social Media
13 22 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.02%) Cyberattack
16 15 (0.85%) Robotics
17 14 (0.79%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 181 (10.21%) Windows
2 70 (3.95%) Linux
3 44 (2.48%) Mac OS
4 41 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.02%) Unix
8 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.62%) Android
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.17%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 368 (20.76%) Project Management
3 324 (18.27%) Agile
4 297 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 222 (12.52%) Computer Science
6 213 (12.01%) Mentoring
7 178 (10.04%) Customer Service
8 163 (9.19%) DevOps
9 155 (8.74%) ITIL
10 152 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 146 (8.23%) Strategic Thinking
12 142 (8.01%) Analytics
13 140 (7.90%) Process Improvement
13 140 (7.90%) Project Delivery
14 139 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
15 138 (7.78%) Information Security
16 137 (7.73%) Coaching
16 137 (7.73%) Risk Management
17 134 (7.56%) Service Delivery
18 131 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 221 (12.46%) SQL
2 146 (8.23%) Python
3 122 (6.88%) C#
4 94 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.62%) Java
6 61 (3.44%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.31%) MATLAB
8 29 (1.64%) C++
9 25 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 24 (1.35%) C
11 22 (1.24%) Bash
12 19 (1.07%) PHP
13 13 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.68%) R
15 10 (0.56%) Scala
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 436 (24.59%) Degree
2 97 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 92 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 83 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.88%) CISSP
6 51 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (2.76%) DBS Check
8 48 (2.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 46 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 45 (2.54%) NVQ Level 3
10 45 (2.54%) NVQ Level 4
11 44 (2.48%) PMI Certification
12 43 (2.43%) SC Cleared
13 38 (2.14%) PMP
14 36 (2.03%) Azure Certification
15 34 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
16 33 (1.86%) CISM
17 28 (1.58%) CBAP
17 28 (1.58%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (3.67%) QA
3 62 (3.50%) SLA
4 48 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 42 (2.37%) Data Quality
6 37 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 35 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.75%) GDPR
9 25 (1.41%) PCI DSS
10 19 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 16 (0.90%) GRC
11 16 (0.90%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.85%) NIST
13 10 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.51%) PERC
14 9 (0.51%) PMO
15 8 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 100 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 49 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.48%) Docker
4 23 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.62%) vSphere
7 10 (0.56%) Firmware
8 7 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.056%) NFS
12 1 (0.056%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 51 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.86%) Terraform
3 26 (1.47%) Ansible
4 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.62%) Puppet
6 8 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.39%) WSUS
8 5 (0.28%) SCCM
8 5 (0.28%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.17%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.17%) QRadar
10 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.056%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.056%) Nessus
11 1 (0.056%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 442 (24.93%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.25%) IBM
3 92 (5.19%) SAP
4 84 (4.74%) Google
5 65 (3.67%) Oracle
6 60 (3.38%) Cisco
7 58 (3.27%) VMware
8 54 (3.05%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.64%) Databricks
10 21 (1.18%) Adobe
10 21 (1.18%) Concur
10 21 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 21 (1.18%) Workday
11 16 (0.90%) Apple
11 16 (0.90%) Citrix
11 16 (0.90%) Meraki
11 16 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.73%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.68%) EMC
14 11 (0.62%) Dell