Social Skills Job Trends in Bristol

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 310 314 403
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 14.93% 22.67% 22.69%
As % of the General category 36.30% 39.45% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 239 128 310
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,938 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,709 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -5.98% +7.75%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,250 £82,500 £86,250
South West median annual salary £43,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.10% +10.53% +3.83%

All General Skills
Bristol

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 general skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 854 796 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 41.14% 57.47% 60.42%
Number of salaries quoted 662 431 841
10th Percentile £28,025 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -7.60% +8.46%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,225 £90,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,702
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.55% +1.40%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Bristol

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Bristol

Social Skills
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Avonmouth +1 1 £29,500 -34.81%
Social Skills
South West

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.52%) Confluence
3 12 (3.87%) IIS
4 5 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Apache
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.65%) Revit
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.39%) Azure
2 39 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (9.03%) AWS
4 16 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.19%) SaaS
6 8 (2.58%) GCP
6 8 (2.58%) OCI
7 5 (1.61%) Azure AI
7 5 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.61%) GitHub
8 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.65%) IaaS
9 2 (0.65%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.65%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.65%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.65%) Serverless
9 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.61%) DNS
2 33 (10.65%) DHCP
3 22 (7.10%) Firewall
4 13 (4.19%) VPN
5 8 (2.58%) Internet
5 8 (2.58%) Kerberos
5 8 (2.58%) LAN
5 8 (2.58%) WAN
6 6 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.61%) Wireless
8 4 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.29%) IPsec
8 4 (1.29%) VLAN
8 4 (1.29%) VoIP
9 3 (0.97%) Network Security
9 3 (0.97%) RS-232
9 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.32%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.52%) Power BI
3 11 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.23%) MySQL
5 8 (2.58%) Tableau
6 7 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.65%) Looker
9 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.32%) Metadata
10 1 (0.32%) OLAP Cube
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (4.19%) JIRA
2 6 (1.94%) Git
3 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.65%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.32%) Appium
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.32%) Xcode
6 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (19.68%) Finance
2 59 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (10.65%) Manufacturing
3 33 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.71%) Marketing
5 24 (7.74%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.45%) Electronics
7 19 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.55%) Legal
9 9 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.90%) Law
10 8 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.26%) Retail
12 5 (1.61%) Advertising
13 4 (1.29%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.97%) Back Office
14 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (25.81%) Consultant
2 50 (16.13%) Senior
3 49 (15.81%) Analyst
4 32 (10.32%) Senior Consultant
5 23 (7.42%) Recruitment Consultant
6 22 (7.10%) Junior
6 22 (7.10%) Support Analyst
7 21 (6.77%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (6.45%) IT Support
9 16 (5.16%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (4.52%) Lead
11 13 (4.19%) Security Consultant
11 13 (4.19%) Trainee
12 11 (3.55%) Trainee Consultant
12 11 (3.55%) Trainee Recruitment Consultant
13 10 (3.23%) Developer
14 9 (2.90%) Sales Manager
14 9 (2.90%) Support Engineer
15 8 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.55%) SAP CAF
2 8 (2.58%) .NET
2 8 (2.58%) LDAP
3 4 (1.29%) Software Packaging
4 3 (0.97%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.97%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.97%) REST
5 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.65%) Avalonia
5 2 (0.65%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.65%) Kafka
5 2 (0.65%) Node.js
5 2 (0.65%) React
5 2 (0.65%) RESTful
5 2 (0.65%) WPF
6 1 (0.32%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.32%) Spring
6 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.32%) Acoustics
2 16 (5.16%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.58%) PKI
8 6 (1.94%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.61%) Blog
9 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.29%) Clustering
10 4 (1.29%) IoT
10 4 (1.29%) Life Science
11 3 (0.97%) EPoS
11 3 (0.97%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.97%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.71%) Windows
2 43 (13.87%) Windows Server
3 28 (9.03%) Linux
4 20 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (5.81%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.58%) Apple iOS
8 7 (2.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.65%) Android
10 1 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (19.03%) Mentoring
3 47 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (13.55%) Customer Service
6 37 (11.94%) Commercial Awareness
7 36 (11.61%) Agile
8 33 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (10.32%) AI
10 31 (10.00%) Analytics
11 28 (9.03%) Customer Experience
12 24 (7.74%) Decision-Making
13 23 (7.42%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (6.77%) Migration
14 21 (6.77%) Project Management
14 21 (6.77%) Risk Management
15 19 (6.13%) Business Development
15 19 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (5.81%) Programme Management
16 18 (5.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.68%) SQL
2 25 (8.06%) Python
3 17 (5.48%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.58%) VB
5 7 (2.26%) Bash
5 7 (2.26%) C#
6 6 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.61%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.97%) PHP
9 2 (0.65%) Bicep
9 2 (0.65%) C
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) Java
9 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.65%) XAML
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (17.42%) Degree
2 44 (14.19%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.97%) SC Cleared
4 32 (10.32%) RIBA
5 16 (5.16%) CISSP
6 15 (4.84%) CISM
7 13 (4.19%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (1.29%) ACMT
12 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.97%) CCNA
13 3 (0.97%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.74%) Cyber Essentials
1 24 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.45%) SLA
3 16 (5.16%) NIST
4 15 (4.84%) GRC
5 13 (4.19%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.58%) NEBOSH
7 5 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.61%) ARP4761
8 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.29%) ISO 13485
8 4 (1.29%) QA
9 3 (0.97%) GDPR
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.65%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 12 (3.87%) Docker
3 12 (3.87%) Terminal Server
4 9 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.58%) WSUS
3 6 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (1.94%) Terraform
4 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.29%) Autotask
5 4 (1.29%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.65%) Ansible
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 2 (0.65%) Nmap
6 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.10%) VMware
3 19 (6.13%) Oracle
4 17 (5.48%) SAP
5 16 (5.16%) Veeam
6 14 (4.52%) Splunk
7 13 (4.19%) Apple
8 12 (3.87%) Brocade
8 12 (3.87%) Cisco
8 12 (3.87%) Nimble Storage
8 12 (3.87%) SolarWinds
8 12 (3.87%) Tanium
9 10 (3.23%) Autodesk
10 5 (1.61%) ForeScout
11 4 (1.29%) Datto
11 4 (1.29%) Sophos
12 3 (0.97%) Logitech
12 3 (0.97%) Polycom
12 3 (0.97%) Yealink
13 2 (0.65%) Databricks