Social Skills Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,789 18,401 17,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 30.54% 23.91%
As % of the General category 41.25% 44.47% 39.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,492 7,578 9,142
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,226 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,700 41,380 42,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.36% 68.67% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26,450 18,780 24,155
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East 0 4,387 £44,309 -11.38% 1,833
North of England +1 4,096 £45,000 -10.00% 1,982
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,468
North West +1 2,152 £45,000 -10.00% 1,074
South West +1 2,019 £45,000 - 1,083
West Midlands +1 1,813 £45,000 -13.46% 897
East of England 0 1,540 £44,500 -7.81% 960
Yorkshire +1 1,471 £45,000 -10.00% 683
Scotland -15 1,259 £45,000 -18.18% 491
East Midlands 0 1,003 £39,000 -17.89% 571
Wales 0 503 £41,067 -4.50% 210
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 264
Northern Ireland +6 155 £50,000 -13.04% 95
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 3
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 701 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 566 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 197 (1.17%) Confluence
4 166 (0.99%) SAS
5 136 (0.81%) CMS
6 107 (0.64%) WordPress
7 70 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 63 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 47 (0.28%) Apache
10 43 (0.26%) IIS
11 21 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 21 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.13%) nginx
11 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
13 19 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 17 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 16 (0.095%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,714 (10.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1,683 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 521 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 187 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 118 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 103 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 85 (0.51%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 50 (0.30%) InDesign
12 41 (0.24%) Simulink
13 38 (0.23%) UserZoom
14 36 (0.21%) Sketch
15 35 (0.21%) Trello
16 34 (0.20%) Adobe XD
17 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
18 15 (0.089%) Chatbot
19 14 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
20 10 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 126 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 99 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 71 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 59 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 58 (0.35%) Shopify
6 41 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 39 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 30 (0.18%) Magento
9 30 (0.18%) Primavera
10 24 (0.14%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
12 18 (0.11%) SAP MM
13 17 (0.10%) SAP FI
14 16 (0.095%) Sage 200
15 13 (0.077%) Maximo
15 13 (0.077%) SAP HR
15 13 (0.077%) Teamcenter
15 13 (0.077%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2,532 (15.08%) Azure
2 1,887 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
3 1,213 (7.22%) AWS
4 1,082 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 574 (3.42%) SaaS
6 398 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 288 (1.72%) GCP
8 282 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
9 246 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 181 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 161 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 149 (0.89%) Power Automate
13 148 (0.88%) GitHub
14 145 (0.86%) Serverless
15 122 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 98 (0.58%) Amazon S3
17 94 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
17 94 (0.56%) Figma
18 90 (0.54%) Datadog
19 83 (0.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 784 (4.67%) Firewall
2 500 (2.98%) Broadband
3 470 (2.80%) DNS
4 452 (2.69%) WAN
5 409 (2.44%) LAN
6 361 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 335 (2.00%) DHCP
8 318 (1.89%) Wireless
9 267 (1.59%) VPN
10 239 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 232 (1.38%) VoIP
12 218 (1.30%) Network Security
13 216 (1.29%) SAN
14 181 (1.08%) Internet
15 148 (0.88%) VLAN
16 133 (0.79%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) BGP
18 97 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
19 96 (0.57%) SD-WAN
20 95 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 911 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 898 (5.35%) Power BI
3 316 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 263 (1.57%) MySQL
5 227 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 209 (1.24%) Tableau
7 194 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 191 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 140 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 109 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 103 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 99 (0.59%) NoSQL
14 92 (0.55%) Big Data
15 80 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 73 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
17 67 (0.40%) MongoDB
18 65 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 58 (0.35%) Redis
20 48 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 605 (3.60%) Git
2 564 (3.36%) JIRA
3 197 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 118 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 79 (0.47%) Selenium
6 59 (0.35%) GitLab
7 49 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 38 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 37 (0.22%) Subversion
11 36 (0.21%) TeamCity
12 35 (0.21%) JUnit
13 33 (0.20%) Maven
14 32 (0.19%) LabVIEW
14 32 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
15 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
16 27 (0.16%) JMeter
16 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (0.14%) Ant
18 23 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 3,664 (21.82%) Finance
2 3,349 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
3 1,426 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
4 1,326 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,262 (7.52%) Retail
6 1,125 (6.70%) Marketing
7 907 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
8 906 (5.40%) Law
9 881 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 820 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
11 817 (4.87%) Legal
12 764 (4.55%) Public Sector
13 511 (3.04%) Telecoms
14 479 (2.85%) Banking
15 279 (1.66%) Electronics
16 264 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 253 (1.51%) Billing
18 233 (1.39%) Games
19 229 (1.36%) Automotive
20 198 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,294 (13.66%) Analyst
2 1,823 (10.86%) Senior
3 1,633 (9.73%) Developer
4 1,180 (7.03%) Lead
5 1,078 (6.42%) Project Manager
6 857 (5.10%) IT Support
7 819 (4.88%) Architect
8 719 (4.28%) Consultant
9 690 (4.11%) Support Engineer
10 573 (3.41%) IT Engineer
11 560 (3.34%) Software Engineer
12 556 (3.31%) IT Manager
13 505 (3.01%) Administrator
14 443 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 372 (2.22%) Support Analyst
16 370 (2.20%) Senior Developer
17 366 (2.18%) Graduate
18 355 (2.11%) IT Support Engineer
19 349 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 335 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 767 (4.57%) .NET
2 677 (4.03%) HTML
3 530 (3.16%) CSS
4 453 (2.70%) React
5 290 (1.73%) AngularJS
6 236 (1.41%) .NET Framework
7 233 (1.39%) Node.js
8 204 (1.22%) REST
9 200 (1.19%) RESTful
10 193 (1.15%) Vue
11 190 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 178 (1.06%) .NET Core
13 177 (1.05%) Web Services
14 166 (0.99%) HTML5
15 145 (0.86%) Spring
16 138 (0.82%) Laravel
17 136 (0.81%) Entity Framework
17 136 (0.81%) JSON
18 124 (0.74%) XML
19 122 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,509 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
2 901 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 804 (4.79%) Driving Licence
4 384 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 379 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 320 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 240 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 222 (1.32%) Cloud Native
9 212 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 198 (1.18%) IoT
11 192 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 179 (1.07%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) Social Media
14 177 (1.05%) FMCG
15 171 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 159 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 145 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 135 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 128 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,190 (13.04%) Windows
2 865 (5.15%) Linux
3 849 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 559 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 225 (1.34%) Android
6 222 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 185 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 169 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 153 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 146 (0.87%) Unix
11 139 (0.83%) Mac OS
12 110 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 103 (0.61%) VMS
14 69 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 45 (0.27%) Windows 8
16 42 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
17 39 (0.23%) Ubuntu
18 37 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,454 (32.49%) Problem-Solving
2 3,327 (19.82%) Agile
3 2,689 (16.02%) Customer Service
4 2,456 (14.63%) Project Management
5 1,693 (10.08%) Mentoring
6 1,642 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,352 (8.05%) ITIL
8 1,334 (7.95%) Decision-Making
9 1,164 (6.93%) Computer Science
10 1,088 (6.48%) DevOps
11 1,080 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
12 1,045 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,028 (6.12%) Software Engineering
14 998 (5.94%) Roadmaps
15 980 (5.84%) Actionable Insight
16 960 (5.72%) Time Management
17 953 (5.68%) Project Delivery
18 951 (5.66%) Analytics
19 938 (5.59%) Collaborative Working
20 926 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,812 (10.79%) SQL
2 962 (5.73%) JavaScript
3 950 (5.66%) Python
4 924 (5.50%) C#
5 700 (4.17%) Java
6 368 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 348 (2.07%) C
8 317 (1.89%) PHP
9 285 (1.70%) C++
10 245 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 202 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 144 (0.86%) Bash
13 112 (0.67%) R
14 103 (0.61%) Go
15 100 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 70 (0.42%) VB
17 69 (0.41%) MATLAB
17 69 (0.41%) Scala
18 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
19 58 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,899 (23.22%) Degree
2 1,310 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 786 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 660 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 570 (3.40%) DBS Check
6 447 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 352 (2.10%) ACCA
8 312 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.65%) CIMA
10 258 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 256 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 246 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 211 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 193 (1.15%) CCNA
15 158 (0.94%) HND
16 154 (0.92%) PMP
17 148 (0.88%) HNC
18 142 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 137 (0.82%) AWS Certification
20 117 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 784 (4.67%) QA
2 733 (4.37%) SLA
3 416 (2.48%) GDPR
4 331 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 303 (1.80%) PMO
6 289 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 219 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 213 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 169 (1.01%) ISO 9001
10 108 (0.64%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 104 (0.62%) IFRS
13 61 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 60 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 55 (0.33%) IFRS 9
16 50 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 34 (0.20%) GAAP
19 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
20 31 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 1,412 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 470 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 425 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 354 (2.11%) Docker
5 208 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 204 (1.22%) Firmware
7 76 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 65 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 53 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 48 (0.29%) vSphere
11 21 (0.13%) KVM
11 21 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.083%) VMware NSX
14 13 (0.077%) XenApp
15 11 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.066%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.048%) NFS
17 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 423 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 305 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 279 (1.66%) Terraform
4 212 (1.26%) SCCM
5 141 (0.84%) Ansible
6 89 (0.53%) Grafana
7 65 (0.39%) SCOM
8 58 (0.35%) WSUS
9 51 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 45 (0.27%) EnCase
10 45 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 33 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 32 (0.19%) Puppet
14 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 29 (0.17%) OpenSSO
16 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
17 27 (0.16%) Autotask
18 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
19 23 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4,432 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 707 (4.21%) VMware
3 564 (3.36%) SAP
4 487 (2.90%) Oracle
5 407 (2.42%) Cisco
6 350 (2.08%) Google
7 260 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 232 (1.38%) HP
9 200 (1.19%) Adobe
10 194 (1.16%) Veeam
11 192 (1.14%) Dell
12 187 (1.11%) Citrix
13 181 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 156 (0.93%) Apple
15 148 (0.88%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 95 (0.57%) Hyperion
17 95 (0.57%) Sage
18 94 (0.56%) Meraki
19 93 (0.55%) Dynatrace