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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 508 1,000 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.12% 22.74% 29.59%
As % of the General category 30.66% 41.95% 43.38%
Number of salaries quoted 340 664 317
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,875 £27,445 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £39,734 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -16.35% +10.47%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £61,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £48,825 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -15.09% +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 1,657 2,384 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 62.36% 54.22% 68.20%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,615 854
10th Percentile £25,267 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £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 £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,218 £65,000 £74,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 10 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 10 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 0 154 £40,000 +7.10% 159
Northamptonshire -19 127 £37,500 +2.74% 97
Leicestershire -9 88 £37,500 -6.18% 121
Lincolnshire -3 72 £40,101 +0.25% 98
Derbyshire -4 63 £37,500 -6.25% 125
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 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.79%) Luigi
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Mendix
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Strapi
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (10.24%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.76%) Simulink
4 7 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.98%) Trello
6 2 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.39%) EngageOne
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (2.76%) Magento
1 14 (2.76%) Shopify
1 14 (2.76%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 79 (15.55%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (13.58%) Azure
3 33 (6.50%) AWS
4 31 (6.10%) SaaS
5 22 (4.33%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (2.76%) BigCommerce
6 14 (2.76%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.36%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.18%) ChatGPT
8 6 (1.18%) GCP
8 6 (1.18%) IaaS
9 5 (0.98%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.79%) dbt
10 4 (0.79%) Google Ads
10 4 (0.79%) Pulumi
10 4 (0.79%) Serverless
10 4 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.33%) Firewall
2 17 (3.35%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.35%) VPN
3 16 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (2.76%) VoIP
5 13 (2.56%) DNS
6 12 (2.36%) LAN
6 12 (2.36%) WAN
7 10 (1.97%) DHCP
8 9 (1.77%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.77%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.57%) Network Security
9 8 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (1.38%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.18%) Broadband
12 3 (0.59%) 5G
12 3 (0.59%) Internet
12 3 (0.59%) Wireless
13 2 (0.39%) Intranet
13 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.76%) Tableau
3 11 (2.17%) MySQL
3 11 (2.17%) Power BI
4 9 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.79%) MS Access
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.59%) FileMaker
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.59%) Parquet
9 3 (0.59%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 22 (4.33%) Git
2 18 (3.54%) JIRA
3 14 (2.76%) Cucumber
3 14 (2.76%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (2.56%) Postman
4 13 (2.56%) Robot Framework
5 12 (2.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.59%) GitLab
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.39%) Babel
7 2 (0.39%) JMeter
7 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.39%) Mocha
7 2 (0.39%) webpack
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.20%) Newman
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (12.60%) Finance
3 50 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
4 48 (9.45%) Retail
5 42 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (6.50%) Marketing
7 32 (6.30%) Law
8 25 (4.92%) Electronics
8 25 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 17 (3.35%) Legal
11 15 (2.95%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.36%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.17%) Banking
14 8 (1.57%) Billing
14 8 (1.57%) Local Government
15 6 (1.18%) Games
16 5 (0.98%) Automotive
16 5 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (19.09%) Analyst
2 85 (16.73%) IT Support
2 85 (16.73%) Senior
3 39 (7.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 32 (6.30%) Lead
5 31 (6.10%) Developer
6 30 (5.91%) Service Desk Analyst
7 28 (5.51%) IT Analyst
7 28 (5.51%) Service Analyst
8 26 (5.12%) Support Engineer
9 25 (4.92%) Junior
10 24 (4.72%) 1st Line Support
11 20 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.54%) Administrator
12 18 (3.54%) Project Engineer
12 18 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (3.35%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.15%) Support Analyst
15 15 (2.95%) Test Engineer
16 14 (2.76%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.95%) .NET
2 12 (2.36%) HTML
3 11 (2.17%) RESTful
4 7 (1.38%) CSS
4 7 (1.38%) jQuery
5 6 (1.18%) Material-UI
5 6 (1.18%) PySpark
5 6 (1.18%) Spring
5 6 (1.18%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.18%) Web Services
6 5 (0.98%) React
6 5 (0.98%) SOAP
7 4 (0.79%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.79%) Node.js
7 4 (0.79%) REST
8 3 (0.59%) Jest
8 3 (0.59%) JSON
8 3 (0.59%) XGBoost
9 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.46%) Driving Licence
2 33 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.35%) EPoS
6 14 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.57%) Social Media
9 7 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (0.98%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.98%) IoT
11 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.79%) SCADA
12 3 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.59%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.59%) Derivative
12 3 (0.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 112 (22.05%) Windows
2 27 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 19 (3.74%) Linux
4 14 (2.76%) Mac OS
5 12 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.77%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.98%) Android
7 5 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.39%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (22.64%) Customer Service
3 76 (14.96%) Mathematics
4 64 (12.60%) Mentoring
4 64 (12.60%) Project Management
5 47 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (9.25%) Physics
6 45 (8.86%) ITIL
7 44 (8.66%) Systems Engineering
8 42 (8.27%) Time Management
9 41 (8.07%) ERP
10 38 (7.48%) Roadmaps
11 34 (6.69%) ITSM
12 33 (6.50%) Agile
12 33 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (6.50%) Test Automation
13 31 (6.10%) Decision-Making
13 31 (6.10%) Line Management
14 30 (5.91%) Ergonomics
14 30 (5.91%) Human Factors
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.43%) SQL
2 44 (8.66%) Python
3 31 (6.10%) C#
3 31 (6.10%) JavaScript
4 29 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.76%) Bash
5 14 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (2.76%) MATLAB
6 9 (1.77%) Java
7 6 (1.18%) Delphi
7 6 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.98%) PHP
9 4 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.59%) C++
10 3 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.39%) XAML
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (22.83%) Degree
2 46 (9.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (4.33%) DBS Check
4 11 (2.17%) CCNP
4 11 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.77%) CCIE
5 9 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.57%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.38%) A+ Certification
7 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (0.98%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.59%) ISEB
10 2 (0.39%) CISM
10 2 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) MCSA
10 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.48%) QA
2 29 (5.71%) SLA
3 14 (2.76%) GDPR
4 7 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.59%) GRC
7 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.74%) Docker
3 16 (3.15%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.79%) Firmware
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.98%) Terraform
3 4 (0.79%) Grafana
3 4 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) Marathon
4 1 (0.20%) Puppet
4 1 (0.20%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 138 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.72%) Cisco
3 21 (4.13%) Meraki
4 19 (3.74%) SAP
5 15 (2.95%) IBM
6 12 (2.36%) Databricks
6 12 (2.36%) VMware
7 11 (2.17%) Sage
8 10 (1.97%) HP
8 10 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.77%) Aruba
9 9 (1.77%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.18%) Facebook
10 6 (1.18%) Oracle
10 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.98%) Veeam
12 4 (0.79%) Adobe
12 4 (0.79%) Commvault
12 4 (0.79%) Google