Social Skills Job Trends in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 15,587 12,719 16,758
As % of all permanent jobs in England 16.95% 29.09% 23.14%
As % of the General category 36.53% 42.16% 40.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,808 7,155 9,574
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 42,671 30,166 41,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.41% 68.99% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27,296 16,114 25,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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
London 0 4,305 £72,500 +11.54% 3,754
North of England 0 3,139 £45,000 +9.76% 1,427
South East 0 2,898 £45,000 +5.88% 1,845
Midlands 0 2,283 £43,000 +7.50% 980
South West 0 1,673 £45,000 +8.81% 714
North West +2 1,439 £45,000 - 763
Yorkshire 0 1,260 £42,500 +18.06% 468
West Midlands 0 1,233 £45,000 - 583
East of England 0 1,164 £40,000 - 546
East Midlands +2 1,045 £40,000 +14.29% 396
North East +1 440 £50,000 +58.73% 209
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 606 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 513 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 163 (1.05%) Confluence
4 149 (0.96%) CMS
5 80 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 69 (0.44%) Apache
7 68 (0.44%) WordPress
8 60 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 56 (0.36%) IIS
10 47 (0.30%) SAS
11 25 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 17 (0.11%) nginx
13 14 (0.090%) Headless CMS
14 11 (0.071%) WebLogic
15 10 (0.064%) Drupal
15 10 (0.064%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.064%) Moodle
15 10 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 10 (0.064%) WebSphere
16 9 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1,493 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 952 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 235 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 66 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 29 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 26 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 22 (0.14%) Trello
10 21 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 19 (0.12%) SPSS
12 14 (0.090%) Revit
13 12 (0.077%) Photoshop
14 10 (0.064%) Acrobat
14 10 (0.064%) Navisworks
14 10 (0.064%) Simulink
15 9 (0.058%) InDesign
15 9 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
16 8 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
17 6 (0.038%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 123 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 102 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 94 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 46 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 35 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 27 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 26 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 23 (0.15%) Shopify
9 22 (0.14%) Magento
9 22 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 21 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 21 (0.13%) SAP PM
10 21 (0.13%) Workday HCM
11 20 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
12 18 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
13 17 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 16 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 14 (0.090%) IBM Planning Analytics
15 14 (0.090%) Oracle Assets
16 13 (0.083%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 4,842 (31.06%) Azure
2 1,830 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
3 1,559 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1,442 (9.25%) AWS
5 989 (6.35%) Azure AI
6 694 (4.45%) SaaS
7 589 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 528 (3.39%) GCP
9 292 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 271 (1.74%) GitHub
11 253 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 231 (1.48%) Serverless
13 198 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 182 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 167 (1.07%) OneDrive
16 126 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 125 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
18 123 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 117 (0.75%) Amazon S3
20 111 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 677 (4.34%) Firewall
2 517 (3.32%) DNS
3 402 (2.58%) DHCP
4 401 (2.57%) VPN
5 328 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 267 (1.71%) WAN
7 240 (1.54%) LAN
8 226 (1.45%) Wireless
9 222 (1.42%) Network Security
10 210 (1.35%) VLAN
11 192 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 160 (1.03%) VoIP
13 153 (0.98%) Broadband
14 113 (0.72%) Internet
15 93 (0.60%) SD-WAN
16 89 (0.57%) BGP
17 65 (0.42%) OSPF
18 53 (0.34%) SSL
19 46 (0.30%) SAN
20 37 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,370 (8.79%) Power BI
2 862 (5.53%) Tableau
3 385 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 177 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 155 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 144 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 128 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 126 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 121 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 116 (0.74%) Metadata
11 114 (0.73%) MySQL
12 84 (0.54%) Big Data
13 74 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 72 (0.46%) MongoDB
15 71 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 66 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 65 (0.42%) DynamoDB
18 58 (0.37%) Power Query
19 54 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 44 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 432 (2.77%) Git
2 400 (2.57%) JIRA
3 175 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 138 (0.89%) GitLab
5 43 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 39 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 38 (0.24%) Selenium
8 37 (0.24%) Postman
9 29 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 27 (0.17%) CircleCI
11 25 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (0.16%) JUnit
12 23 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 21 (0.13%) Maven
14 20 (0.13%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
16 17 (0.11%) Cucumber
16 17 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
17 16 (0.10%) LabVIEW
18 14 (0.090%) Eclipse
General
1 3,182 (20.41%) Finance
2 2,337 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
3 1,249 (8.01%) Organisational Skills
4 954 (6.12%) Marketing
5 906 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 781 (5.01%) Law
7 761 (4.88%) Legal
8 691 (4.43%) Retail
9 658 (4.22%) Public Sector
10 649 (4.16%) Manufacturing
11 593 (3.80%) Banking
12 573 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
13 464 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 447 (2.87%) Telecoms
15 249 (1.60%) Electronics
16 238 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 217 (1.39%) Military
18 186 (1.19%) Aerospace
19 159 (1.02%) Games
20 151 (0.97%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,739 (17.57%) Analyst
2 1,478 (9.48%) Junior
3 1,437 (9.22%) Senior
4 1,353 (8.68%) Junior Analyst
5 897 (5.75%) Lead
6 823 (5.28%) IT Support
7 804 (5.16%) Data Analyst
8 755 (4.84%) Security Analyst
9 727 (4.66%) Developer
10 718 (4.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 672 (4.31%) Support Engineer
12 668 (4.29%) Junior Data Analyst
13 659 (4.23%) Junior Security Analyst
14 658 (4.22%) Ethical Hacker
15 651 (4.18%) Consultant
16 647 (4.15%) Architect
17 508 (3.26%) IT Technician
18 434 (2.78%) IT Engineer
19 431 (2.77%) Network Engineer
20 401 (2.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (2.57%) .NET
2 322 (2.07%) React
3 301 (1.93%) HTML
4 280 (1.80%) CSS
5 252 (1.62%) REST
6 226 (1.45%) Node.js
7 194 (1.24%) RESTful
8 146 (0.94%) JSON
9 127 (0.81%) Kafka
10 92 (0.59%) Spring
11 91 (0.58%) Middleware
12 90 (0.58%) XML
13 87 (0.56%) SOAP
14 79 (0.51%) ASP.NET
15 76 (0.49%) GraphQL
16 75 (0.48%) AngularJS
16 75 (0.48%) Spring Boot
17 73 (0.47%) .NET Core
18 69 (0.44%) jQuery
19 68 (0.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 872 (5.59%) Onboarding
2 759 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
3 713 (4.57%) Driving Licence
4 702 (4.50%) Cyberattack
5 535 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 488 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 407 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 334 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 282 (1.81%) Social Media
10 244 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 216 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 214 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
13 176 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 174 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 169 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 158 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 146 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
18 143 (0.92%) AI Agents
19 100 (0.64%) Podcast
20 89 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,645 (10.55%) Windows
2 672 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 608 (3.90%) Linux
4 213 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 157 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 147 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 124 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 121 (0.78%) Android
9 71 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 61 (0.39%) Unix
11 48 (0.31%) CentOS
11 48 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 28 (0.18%) VMS
13 19 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 16 (0.10%) AIX
15 13 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.077%) Mac OS X
17 11 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
18 10 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,772 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
2 2,758 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 2,511 (16.11%) AI
4 2,402 (15.41%) Cybersecurity
5 2,062 (13.23%) Agile
6 2,044 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2,013 (12.91%) Mentoring
8 1,654 (10.61%) Customer Service
9 1,510 (9.69%) Decision-Making
10 1,485 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
11 1,188 (7.62%) Analytics
12 1,154 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 1,152 (7.39%) Roadmaps
14 1,060 (6.80%) ITIL
15 1,045 (6.70%) CI/CD
16 1,010 (6.48%) CRM
17 991 (6.36%) DevOps
18 961 (6.17%) Project Delivery
19 941 (6.04%) Project Management
20 837 (5.37%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,218 (14.23%) Python
2 2,101 (13.48%) SQL
3 590 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 441 (2.83%) C#
5 399 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 394 (2.53%) Java
7 337 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 160 (1.03%) C++
9 142 (0.91%) Bash
10 134 (0.86%) PHP
11 94 (0.60%) Go
12 93 (0.60%) C
13 70 (0.45%) Bicep
13 70 (0.45%) VBA
14 63 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 62 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 55 (0.35%) Ruby
17 53 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 52 (0.33%) PL/SQL
19 47 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,744 (17.60%) Azure Certification
2 2,224 (14.27%) Degree
3 1,127 (7.23%) Security Cleared
4 789 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 724 (4.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 683 (4.38%) CEH
7 671 (4.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 531 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
9 400 (2.57%) CCNA
10 361 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 355 (2.28%) A+ Certification
12 351 (2.25%) DBS Check
13 347 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 318 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
15 278 (1.78%) DV Cleared
16 267 (1.71%) CISSP
17 231 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 189 (1.21%) Master's Degree
19 178 (1.14%) CISM
20 170 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 782 (5.02%) QA
2 509 (3.27%) GDPR
3 505 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 480 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 443 (2.84%) Accessibility
6 330 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 310 (1.99%) NIST
7 310 (1.99%) SLA
8 201 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 172 (1.10%) GRC
10 167 (1.07%) PMO
11 137 (0.88%) ISO 9001
12 109 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 81 (0.52%) WCAG
14 54 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 49 (0.31%) IFRS
16 47 (0.30%) COBIT
16 47 (0.30%) NCSC
17 45 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 43 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 1,040 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 417 (2.68%) Docker
3 298 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 250 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 79 (0.51%) Terminal Server
6 64 (0.41%) Firmware
7 54 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (0.22%) vSphere
9 34 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 29 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 23 (0.15%) IAG
12 19 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (0.090%) VMware Server
14 12 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
15 9 (0.058%) VMware NSX
16 8 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 7 (0.045%) Ceph
18 6 (0.038%) KVM
19 5 (0.032%) ClearTrust
19 5 (0.032%) Squid
Systems Management
1 427 (2.74%) Terraform
2 391 (2.51%) Kubernetes
3 385 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 191 (1.23%) Ansible
5 84 (0.54%) SCCM
6 69 (0.44%) Grafana
7 64 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 55 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
9 41 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 37 (0.24%) Nagios
11 34 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 22 (0.14%) Argo
13 18 (0.12%) Autotask
13 18 (0.12%) Kibana
13 18 (0.12%) Podman
14 17 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.10%) EnCase
15 16 (0.10%) FTK
16 15 (0.096%) Check_MK
17 14 (0.090%) Istio
Vendors
1 5,668 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1,881 (12.07%) ForeScout
3 649 (4.16%) Cisco
4 414 (2.66%) VMware
5 387 (2.48%) SAP
6 384 (2.46%) Oracle
7 364 (2.34%) Google
8 357 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 324 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 209 (1.34%) Dell
11 170 (1.09%) Databricks
12 154 (0.99%) Adobe
13 147 (0.94%) Splunk
14 136 (0.87%) Veeam
15 131 (0.84%) SolarWinds
16 118 (0.76%) Apple
17 116 (0.74%) Palo Alto
18 105 (0.67%) HubSpot
19 98 (0.63%) IBM
20 94 (0.60%) Sage