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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 482 1,018 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.83% 20.96% 30.39%
As % of the General category 27.36% 39.66% 44.66%
Number of salaries quoted 307 669 311
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,450 £25,750
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% +7.95%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £78,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,683 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.10% -17.07% +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 1,762 2,567 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 65.16% 52.84% 68.05%
Number of salaries quoted 718 1,673 814
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 £53,750 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,808 £65,000 £75,875
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -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 31 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 31 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 -2 138 £38,500 +9.30% 171
Northamptonshire -16 117 £37,500 +2.74% 99
Leicestershire -9 85 £40,000 - 122
Lincolnshire -3 73 £40,101 +0.25% 58
Derbyshire -12 65 £34,000 -15.00% 97
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 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.41%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) Luigi
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Mendix
5 1 (0.21%) Strapi
Applications
1 55 (11.41%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.90%) Simulink
4 8 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.04%) Trello
7 4 (0.83%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.41%) EngageOne
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (3.32%) Magento
1 16 (3.32%) Shopify
2 14 (2.90%) Teamcenter
3 9 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 3 (0.62%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.62%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.80%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (13.49%) Azure
3 27 (5.60%) SaaS
4 23 (4.77%) AWS
5 22 (4.56%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.32%) BigCommerce
8 11 (2.28%) OneDrive
9 10 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.24%) ChatGPT
11 6 (1.24%) IaaS
12 4 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.83%) GCP
12 4 (0.83%) Google Ads
12 4 (0.83%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.83%) Serverless
13 3 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.62%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.77%) Firewall
2 18 (3.73%) TCP/IP
2 18 (3.73%) VPN
3 15 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (2.90%) VoIP
5 13 (2.70%) LAN
5 13 (2.70%) WAN
6 12 (2.49%) DNS
7 11 (2.28%) DHCP
8 9 (1.87%) Broadband
8 9 (1.87%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.87%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.66%) Network Security
9 8 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (1.45%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.62%) Internet
11 3 (0.62%) Wireless
12 2 (0.41%) 5G
12 2 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.41%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.11%) Power BI
2 15 (3.11%) Tableau
3 10 (2.07%) MySQL
4 8 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.24%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.62%) FileMaker
8 3 (0.62%) MS Access
8 3 (0.62%) Parquet
8 3 (0.62%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (3.94%) Git
1 19 (3.94%) JIRA
2 14 (2.90%) Cucumber
2 14 (2.90%) Rational DOORS
3 13 (2.70%) Robot Framework
4 6 (1.24%) Postman
5 4 (0.83%) Selenium
6 3 (0.62%) GitLab
7 2 (0.41%) Babel
7 2 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.41%) Mocha
7 2 (0.41%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 98 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (13.07%) Finance
3 54 (11.20%) Retail
4 46 (9.54%) Organisational Skills
5 34 (7.05%) Marketing
6 31 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (5.39%) Electronics
7 26 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.39%) Law
8 18 (3.73%) Legal
9 16 (3.32%) Aerospace
9 16 (3.32%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.49%) Banking
12 11 (2.28%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.66%) Local Government
14 7 (1.45%) Automotive
14 7 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (19.50%) Analyst
2 79 (16.39%) IT Support
3 76 (15.77%) Senior
4 39 (8.09%) 2nd Line Support
5 30 (6.22%) Developer
5 30 (6.22%) Support Engineer
6 28 (5.81%) Lead
7 27 (5.60%) Service Desk Analyst
8 25 (5.19%) 1st Line Support
8 25 (5.19%) Service Analyst
9 24 (4.98%) IT Analyst
10 23 (4.77%) Junior
11 19 (3.94%) Administrator
11 19 (3.94%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.53%) Project Engineer
14 16 (3.32%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.90%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (2.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.70%) .NET
1 13 (2.70%) HTML
2 9 (1.87%) RESTful
3 7 (1.45%) CSS
4 6 (1.24%) ASP.NET
4 6 (1.24%) EDI
4 6 (1.24%) Material-UI
4 6 (1.24%) PySpark
4 6 (1.24%) Spring
4 6 (1.24%) Spring Boot
4 6 (1.24%) Web Services
5 5 (1.04%) React
6 4 (0.83%) jQuery
6 4 (0.83%) Middleware
6 4 (0.83%) REST
7 3 (0.62%) Jest
7 3 (0.62%) JSON
7 3 (0.62%) Node.js
7 3 (0.62%) SOAP
7 3 (0.62%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.51%) Driving Licence
2 26 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.94%) EPoS
5 13 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.66%) Social Media
8 7 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 6 (1.24%) IoT
10 4 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.62%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.62%) Derivative
11 3 (0.62%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.62%) SCADA
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 107 (22.20%) Windows
2 27 (5.60%) Windows Server
3 20 (4.15%) Linux
4 17 (3.53%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.87%) Windows 7
6 7 (1.45%) Android
7 6 (1.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Unix
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (40.25%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (23.24%) Customer Service
3 68 (14.11%) Mathematics
4 58 (12.03%) Project Management
5 56 (11.62%) Mentoring
6 49 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (9.34%) Physics
7 45 (9.34%) Systems Engineering
8 44 (9.13%) ERP
9 41 (8.51%) ITIL
9 41 (8.51%) Roadmaps
10 36 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
10 36 (7.47%) Time Management
11 33 (6.85%) Agile
12 32 (6.64%) Decision-Making
12 32 (6.64%) Logistics
13 31 (6.43%) Computer Science
14 30 (6.22%) Ergonomics
14 30 (6.22%) Human Factors
14 30 (6.22%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 52 (10.79%) SQL
2 41 (8.51%) Python
3 33 (6.85%) JavaScript
4 26 (5.39%) C#
5 25 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.90%) Bash
6 14 (2.90%) MATLAB
7 12 (2.49%) Java
8 9 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.66%) Delphi
10 6 (1.24%) C++
11 5 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.83%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.62%) C
13 3 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.41%) R
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 118 (24.48%) Degree
2 45 (9.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (4.56%) DBS Check
4 14 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.49%) CCNP
5 12 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.87%) A+ Certification
6 9 (1.87%) CCIE
6 9 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (1.24%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.83%) HND
9 4 (0.83%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.62%) ISEB
10 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.62%) MCDST
10 3 (0.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.22%) QA
2 29 (6.02%) SLA
3 14 (2.90%) GDPR
4 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.62%) GRC
6 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) 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 73 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 13 (2.70%) Docker
4 11 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.83%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.62%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Autotask
4 1 (0.21%) Marathon
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.39%) Cisco
3 25 (5.19%) SAP
4 21 (4.36%) Meraki
5 16 (3.32%) IBM
6 13 (2.70%) Databricks
6 13 (2.70%) VMware
7 12 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.28%) HP
8 11 (2.28%) Sage
9 9 (1.87%) Aruba
9 9 (1.87%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.87%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.24%) Facebook
10 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.04%) Veeam
12 4 (0.83%) Commvault
12 4 (0.83%) Google
12 4 (0.83%) Oracle
13 3 (0.62%) JDA