Social Media
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Media over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 489 296
Rank change year-on-year +246 -193 +73
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 1,174 605 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.58% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.38% 1.35% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 776 301 912
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £26,825
25th Percentile £28,948 £39,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,710 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% -13.26% +15.79%
75th Percentile £47,500 £78,750 £79,700
90th Percentile £65,000 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.81% +50.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Social Media is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Social Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Media.

Salary trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Media over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +242 1,017 £38,000 -20.35% 606
UK excluding London +206 597 £35,000 -12.50% 406
Work from Home +262 580 £39,608 -30.99% 256
London +233 499 £40,000 -24.03% 218
South East +155 213 £32,500 -27.78% 88
North of England +68 126 £39,500 -60.50% 141
Midlands +77 90 £35,000 -17.65% 76
North West +52 69 £41,250 -54.17% 89
West Midlands +64 56 £30,000 -18.92% 44
East of England +39 50 £26,000 -5.45% 37
Yorkshire +61 48 £37,500 -62.50% 43
Scotland -48 40 £55,000 +49.04% 17
Wales +43 34 £37,500 +6.38% 11
East Midlands +19 34 £39,000 - 32
South West +18 33 £31,778 -5.84% 47
Northern Ireland - 11 £42,000 - 3
North East - 9 £39,500 - 10

Social Media
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 66 (5.62%) CMS
2 59 (5.03%) WordPress
3 10 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.43%) Drupal
6 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 120 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (7.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (6.98%) Photoshop
4 71 (6.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (5.03%) Adobe Illustrator
6 55 (4.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 50 (4.26%) InDesign
8 29 (2.47%) Adobe Premiere
9 27 (2.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (1.19%) Trello
11 11 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.17%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.17%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.17%) CorelDRAW
14 2 (0.17%) Sketch
15 1 (0.085%) CINEMA 4D
15 1 (0.085%) InVision
15 1 (0.085%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.94%) Shopify
3 8 (0.68%) Magento
4 6 (0.51%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.085%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 291 (24.79%) Azure
2 213 (18.14%) Entra ID
3 65 (5.54%) Google Analytics
4 36 (3.07%) Canva
5 31 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (2.47%) dbt
7 27 (2.30%) SaaS
8 23 (1.96%) MailChimp
9 21 (1.79%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.45%) Google Ads
11 13 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 8 (0.68%) AWS
13 7 (0.60%) Asana
13 7 (0.60%) Google Docs
14 6 (0.51%) Google Data Studio
14 6 (0.51%) Google Sheets
14 6 (0.51%) Google Tag Manager
14 6 (0.51%) PowerApps
14 6 (0.51%) Serverless
15 5 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 235 (20.02%) Broadband
2 210 (17.89%) 5G
3 20 (1.70%) Internet
4 15 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.11%) Intranet
6 8 (0.68%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.60%) VoIP
8 4 (0.34%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 3 (0.26%) DNS
10 2 (0.17%) SNA
11 1 (0.085%) DKIM
11 1 (0.085%) DMARC
11 1 (0.085%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.36%) Power BI
3 7 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.34%) MySQL
5 4 (0.34%) Power Query
6 3 (0.26%) Looker
6 3 (0.26%) Metadata
6 3 (0.26%) QGIS
6 3 (0.26%) Tableau
7 2 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.17%) Big Data
8 1 (0.085%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (1.87%) JIRA
2 8 (0.68%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.51%) JMeter
3 6 (0.51%) JUnit
3 6 (0.51%) Selenium
3 6 (0.51%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.26%) WiX
5 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.085%) Dreamweaver
General
1 554 (47.19%) Marketing
2 342 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 315 (26.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 314 (26.75%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (13.88%) Finance
6 129 (10.99%) Advertising
7 100 (8.52%) Retail
8 97 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
9 66 (5.62%) German Language
10 58 (4.94%) Public Sector
11 46 (3.92%) Local Government
12 34 (2.90%) Publishing
13 31 (2.64%) Games
14 30 (2.56%) Brand Awareness
15 29 (2.47%) Digital Economy
15 29 (2.47%) Legal
16 24 (2.04%) Multimedia
17 23 (1.96%) Law
18 20 (1.70%) French Language
19 15 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (18.23%) Senior
2 210 (17.89%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (17.89%) Technical Specialist
3 130 (11.07%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (10.82%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (10.82%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (10.82%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 79 (6.73%) Designer
6 74 (6.30%) Developer
7 58 (4.94%) Graduate
8 52 (4.43%) .NET Developer
9 51 (4.34%) Communications Manager
9 51 (4.34%) Graphic Designer
10 43 (3.66%) Social Media Developer
11 42 (3.58%) Analyst
12 32 (2.73%) Communications Officer
12 32 (2.73%) Lead
13 27 (2.30%) Development Manager
14 26 (2.21%) Coordinator
15 25 (2.13%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.28%) .NET
2 52 (4.43%) .NET Framework
2 52 (4.43%) ASP.NET Web API
2 52 (4.43%) Entity Framework
3 51 (4.34%) HTML
4 41 (3.49%) CSS
5 39 (3.32%) AngularJS
6 36 (3.07%) .NET Core
7 33 (2.81%) ASP.NET
7 33 (2.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 33 (2.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 16 (1.36%) React
9 7 (0.60%) HTML5
10 5 (0.43%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.43%) jQuery
10 5 (0.43%) Redux
10 5 (0.43%) Web Services
11 4 (0.34%) JSON
11 4 (0.34%) Sass
11 4 (0.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.14%) Blog
2 102 (8.69%) Self-Motivation
3 87 (7.41%) Photography
4 80 (6.81%) Graphic Design
5 58 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 42 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 36 (3.07%) BBC
8 35 (2.98%) Driving Licence
9 29 (2.47%) Digital Media
9 29 (2.47%) Video Editing
10 20 (1.70%) Animation
11 18 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (0.94%) NHS
14 10 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.85%) Podcast
15 9 (0.77%) Motion Graphics
16 7 (0.60%) Taxonomies
17 6 (0.51%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 211 (17.97%) Linux
2 210 (17.89%) Ubuntu
3 39 (3.32%) Windows
4 17 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.28%) Android
6 12 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.85%) Windows Vista
9 4 (0.34%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (26.15%) CRM
2 251 (21.38%) Cybersecurity
3 229 (19.51%) Artificial Intelligence
4 210 (17.89%) IT Strategy
4 210 (17.89%) Technology Strategy
5 131 (11.16%) Analytics
6 130 (11.07%) Digital Marketing
7 109 (9.28%) Project Management
7 109 (9.28%) SEO
8 97 (8.26%) Agile
9 75 (6.39%) Customer Service
10 69 (5.88%) Line Management
10 69 (5.88%) User Experience
11 66 (5.62%) E-Commerce
11 66 (5.62%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (5.45%) Strategic Planning
13 63 (5.37%) B2B
14 60 (5.11%) Business Development
14 60 (5.11%) Decision-Making
15 59 (5.03%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (17.89%) Bash
2 70 (5.96%) JavaScript
3 52 (4.43%) C#
4 33 (2.81%) SQL
5 16 (1.36%) Python
6 11 (0.94%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.77%) Java
7 9 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.43%) PHP
10 3 (0.26%) VBA
11 2 (0.17%) R
12 1 (0.085%) Go
12 1 (0.085%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.085%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.085%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.085%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 218 (18.57%) Degree
2 88 (7.50%) DBS Check
3 11 (0.94%) ACCA
3 11 (0.94%) CIMA
3 11 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (0.85%) CCNA
4 10 (0.85%) CCNA CyberOps
4 10 (0.85%) CCNP
4 10 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (0.51%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.17%) CISA
9 2 (0.17%) CRISC
9 2 (0.17%) ISACA
9 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.17%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.085%) CISM
10 1 (0.085%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.60%) GDPR
3 6 (0.51%) QA
4 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.26%) NIST
6 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 219 (18.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.085%) Docker
Systems Management
1 211 (17.97%) Jamf Pro
1 211 (17.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.51%) Terraform
3 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.085%) Core Impact
4 1 (0.085%) SCCM
4 1 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 351 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 210 (17.89%) CyberArk
2 210 (17.89%) Tanium
3 132 (11.24%) Google
4 114 (9.71%) Adobe
5 109 (9.28%) Facebook
6 66 (5.62%) Instagram
7 48 (4.09%) Apple
8 46 (3.92%) Twitter
9 41 (3.49%) YouTube
10 36 (3.07%) Sony
10 36 (3.07%) Yahoo!
11 34 (2.90%) TikTok
12 28 (2.39%) SAP
13 26 (2.21%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.28%) HubSpot
15 13 (1.11%) Sage
16 12 (1.02%) Ahrefs
17 11 (0.94%) CA
18 10 (0.85%) Cisco