Social Skills Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Channel Islands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Channel Islands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 9 17 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Channel Islands 45.00% 56.67% 13.33%
As % of the General category 90.00% 65.38% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -41.18% +30.77%
UK median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%

All General Skills
Channel Islands

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 Channel Islands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10 26 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 50.00% 86.67% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - £22,500 £44,500
25th Percentile - £45,000 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +14.29% -47.50%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £88,750
90th Percentile - £72,900 £106,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in the Channel Islands

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the Channel Islands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Guernsey 0 1 £90,000 +80.00% 1
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
1 8 (88.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Lecturer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) User Experience
1 9 (100.00%) Web Development
2 8 (88.89%) AI
2 8 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) SOLID
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Master's Degree
1 8 (88.89%) PhD
1 8 (88.89%) Postgraduate
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes