Social Skills Jobs in the East Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 471 992 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.75% 21.89% 29.93%
As % of the General category 27.34% 40.64% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 303 664 315
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £27,445 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,734 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.73% -15.25% +4.55%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,723 2,441 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 64.92% 53.87% 68.50%
Number of salaries quoted 691 1,626 834
10th Percentile £25,267 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Nottinghamshire -2 134 £38,500 +9.30% 622
Northamptonshire -18 119 £37,500 +2.74% 542
Leicestershire -10 84 £38,750 -3.13% 535
Lincolnshire -3 72 £40,101 +0.25% 475
Derbyshire -12 58 £34,500 -13.75% 922
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 32 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.85%) Luigi
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Mendix
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) Strapi
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (11.25%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.97%) Simulink
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.06%) Trello
6 4 (0.85%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.42%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (2.97%) Magento
1 14 (2.97%) Shopify
1 14 (2.97%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.64%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (0.64%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.42%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (13.16%) Azure
3 30 (6.37%) AWS
4 25 (5.31%) SaaS
5 22 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.97%) BigCommerce
7 12 (2.55%) OneDrive
7 12 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.27%) ChatGPT
9 6 (1.27%) GCP
9 6 (1.27%) IaaS
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.85%) dbt
10 4 (0.85%) Google Ads
10 4 (0.85%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.85%) Pulumi
10 4 (0.85%) Serverless
10 4 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.67%) Firewall
2 17 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.61%) VPN
3 15 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (2.97%) VoIP
5 13 (2.76%) LAN
5 13 (2.76%) WAN
6 11 (2.34%) DNS
7 10 (2.12%) DHCP
8 9 (1.91%) Broadband
8 9 (1.91%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.91%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.70%) Network Security
9 8 (1.70%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (1.49%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.64%) Wireless
12 2 (0.42%) 5G
12 2 (0.42%) Internet
12 2 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.42%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.76%) Tableau
3 10 (2.12%) Power BI
4 9 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.91%) MySQL
5 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.64%) FileMaker
9 3 (0.64%) MS Access
9 3 (0.64%) Parquet
9 3 (0.64%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.42%) GIS
10 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (4.03%) Git
2 18 (3.82%) JIRA
3 14 (2.97%) Cucumber
3 14 (2.97%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (2.76%) Robot Framework
5 7 (1.49%) Postman
6 6 (1.27%) Selenium
7 3 (0.64%) GitLab
8 2 (0.42%) Babel
8 2 (0.42%) JMeter
8 2 (0.42%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.42%) Mocha
8 2 (0.42%) webpack
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.21%) Newman
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (12.95%) Finance
3 49 (10.40%) Retail
4 45 (9.55%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (7.01%) Marketing
7 29 (6.16%) Law
8 25 (5.31%) Electronics
8 25 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.61%) Legal
10 16 (3.40%) Telecoms
11 15 (3.18%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.34%) Banking
12 11 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.12%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.70%) Local Government
15 6 (1.27%) Automotive
15 6 (1.27%) Billing
15 6 (1.27%) Games
16 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 89 (18.90%) Analyst
2 85 (18.05%) IT Support
3 79 (16.77%) Senior
4 38 (8.07%) 2nd Line Support
5 28 (5.94%) Lead
6 27 (5.73%) Support Engineer
7 26 (5.52%) Service Desk Analyst
8 25 (5.31%) IT Analyst
9 24 (5.10%) 1st Line Support
9 24 (5.10%) Developer
9 24 (5.10%) Service Analyst
10 23 (4.88%) Junior
11 19 (4.03%) Administrator
12 18 (3.82%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.82%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.61%) Project Engineer
14 16 (3.40%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.97%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.12%) .NET
2 9 (1.91%) HTML
2 9 (1.91%) RESTful
3 6 (1.27%) Material-UI
3 6 (1.27%) PySpark
3 6 (1.27%) Spring
3 6 (1.27%) Spring Boot
3 6 (1.27%) Web Services
4 5 (1.06%) CSS
4 5 (1.06%) React
5 4 (0.85%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.85%) EDI
5 4 (0.85%) jQuery
5 4 (0.85%) REST
6 3 (0.64%) Jest
6 3 (0.64%) Node.js
6 3 (0.64%) SOAP
6 3 (0.64%) XGBoost
7 2 (0.42%) Redux
7 2 (0.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.49%) Driving Licence
2 26 (5.52%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.61%) EPoS
4 17 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.70%) Social Media
7 7 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.06%) IoT
9 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.64%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.64%) Derivative
10 3 (0.64%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.64%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.64%) SCADA
11 2 (0.42%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 111 (23.57%) Windows
2 26 (5.52%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.03%) Linux
4 16 (3.40%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.91%) Windows 7
6 5 (1.06%) Android
6 5 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.21%) AIX
8 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Unix
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (39.49%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (23.35%) Customer Service
3 75 (15.92%) Mathematics
4 57 (12.10%) Project Management
5 56 (11.89%) Mentoring
6 45 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (9.55%) Physics
7 44 (9.34%) Systems Engineering
8 40 (8.49%) ITIL
9 39 (8.28%) ERP
10 38 (8.07%) Roadmaps
11 37 (7.86%) Time Management
12 33 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (6.58%) ITSM
13 31 (6.58%) Line Management
14 30 (6.37%) Agile
14 30 (6.37%) Ergonomics
14 30 (6.37%) Human Factors
15 29 (6.16%) Computer Science
15 29 (6.16%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.77%) SQL
2 41 (8.70%) Python
3 28 (5.94%) JavaScript
3 28 (5.94%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.46%) C#
5 14 (2.97%) Bash
5 14 (2.97%) MATLAB
6 10 (2.12%) Java
6 10 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.27%) Delphi
8 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.85%) C++
9 4 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.64%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) C
11 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) R
12 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (23.99%) Degree
2 45 (9.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (4.67%) DBS Check
4 13 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.34%) CCNP
5 11 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.91%) CCIE
6 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.49%) A+ Certification
7 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.27%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.64%) ISEB
11 3 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.42%) MCDST
12 2 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.58%) QA
2 29 (6.16%) SLA
3 14 (2.97%) GDPR
4 7 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.64%) GRC
6 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.18%) Hyper-V
3 14 (2.97%) Docker
4 10 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.85%) Firmware
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.06%) Terraform
3 4 (0.85%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Autotask
5 1 (0.21%) Marathon
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 132 (28.03%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.31%) Cisco
3 21 (4.46%) Meraki
3 21 (4.46%) SAP
4 15 (3.18%) IBM
5 12 (2.55%) Databricks
5 12 (2.55%) VMware
6 11 (2.34%) Sage
6 11 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.12%) HP
8 9 (1.91%) Aruba
8 9 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.27%) Facebook
11 5 (1.06%) Veeam
12 4 (0.85%) Adobe
12 4 (0.85%) Commvault
12 4 (0.85%) Google
12 4 (0.85%) Oracle