Social Skills Job Trends in East Lothian

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Scotland > East Lothian

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in East Lothian. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1 0 25
As % of all permanent jobs in East Lothian 5.26% - 100.00%
As % of the General category 5.26% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £25,000
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £28,000
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £52,186 £38,750
% change year-on-year -35.81% +34.67% -29.55%

All General Skills
East Lothian

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 East Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19 1 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Lothian 100.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 24
10th Percentile £26,979 - -
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 -
90th Percentile £55,000 - £28,000
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -36.36% +4.76% -8.70%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in East Lothian

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in East Lothian

Social Skills
Salary Trend in East Lothian

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Lothian citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Lothian citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Lothian 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory