Social Skills Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 18,260 20,628 37,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.30% 29.02% 25.56%
As % of the General category 40.76% 43.99% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,777 11,931 17,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44,799 46,891 99,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.17% 65.97% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,228 29,742 48,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in England.

Salary trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +1 5,681 £65,000 -7.14% 1,385
South East 0 3,581 £47,500 -6.86% 1,335
North of England 0 3,522 £45,000 -10.00% 1,295
Midlands 0 2,486 £42,000 -16.00% 951
North West -1 1,796 £47,500 -9.52% 715
West Midlands 0 1,596 £45,000 -14.29% 586
South West +1 1,595 £45,000 -3.74% 714
Yorkshire +1 1,311 £45,000 - 420
East of England 0 1,196 £45,000 -10.00% 558
East Midlands 0 880 £40,000 -15.79% 362
North East 0 415 £37,500 -8.54% 195
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 659 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 556 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 399 (2.19%) SAS
4 216 (1.18%) Confluence
5 152 (0.83%) CMS
6 98 (0.54%) WordPress
7 89 (0.49%) Apache
8 78 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 57 (0.31%) IIS
10 47 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 41 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 33 (0.18%) nginx
13 29 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 25 (0.14%) Skype for Business
15 23 (0.13%) Umbraco
15 23 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 18 (0.099%) Drupal
17 17 (0.093%) Tomcat
18 16 (0.088%) JBoss
18 16 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2,156 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,926 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
3 670 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 174 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 74 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 68 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 65 (0.36%) Photoshop
10 60 (0.33%) Simulink
11 42 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
12 35 (0.19%) InDesign
13 30 (0.16%) Trello
14 22 (0.12%) Adobe XD
15 18 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
16 15 (0.082%) Sketch
16 15 (0.082%) SPSS
17 13 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
17 13 (0.071%) Chatbot
18 9 (0.049%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 332 (1.82%) SAP ERP
2 169 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 79 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 73 (0.40%) NEC Housing
5 48 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 45 (0.25%) Shopify
7 39 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 38 (0.21%) iTrent
9 36 (0.20%) Magento
10 34 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 31 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
12 28 (0.15%) Maximo
13 27 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
13 27 (0.15%) Primavera
14 22 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
15 21 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
15 21 (0.12%) SAP SD
16 19 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
17 18 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
17 18 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,739 (15.00%) Azure
2 1,633 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
3 1,606 (8.80%) AWS
4 1,071 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 581 (3.18%) SaaS
6 408 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 393 (2.15%) GCP
8 359 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 342 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 260 (1.42%) Serverless
11 225 (1.23%) GitHub
12 219 (1.20%) Power Automate
13 218 (1.19%) PowerApps
14 203 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
15 146 (0.80%) PaaS
16 138 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 124 (0.68%) IaaS
18 112 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
18 112 (0.61%) OneDrive
19 103 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 884 (4.84%) Broadband
2 764 (4.18%) Firewall
3 441 (2.42%) WAN
4 428 (2.34%) DNS
5 416 (2.28%) LAN
6 329 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 327 (1.79%) VPN
8 273 (1.50%) Wireless
9 268 (1.47%) DHCP
10 246 (1.35%) Internet
11 226 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
12 209 (1.14%) Network Security
13 169 (0.93%) VLAN
14 165 (0.90%) VoIP
15 152 (0.83%) SAN
16 99 (0.54%) 5G
17 97 (0.53%) SD-WAN
18 93 (0.51%) BGP
19 89 (0.49%) HTTP
20 80 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 850 (4.65%) Power BI
2 799 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 413 (2.26%) Tableau
4 284 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 274 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 239 (1.31%) MySQL
7 234 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 231 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 165 (0.90%) Big Data
10 162 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 134 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 134 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 131 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 131 (0.72%) MongoDB
13 106 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 105 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 101 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 84 (0.46%) Redis
17 74 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
18 65 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 847 (4.64%) Git
2 657 (3.60%) JIRA
3 196 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 150 (0.82%) GitLab
5 110 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 82 (0.45%) Selenium
7 54 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 45 (0.25%) NUnit
9 43 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 33 (0.18%) Gatling
10 33 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
11 32 (0.18%) CircleCI
11 32 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 32 (0.18%) Subversion
12 31 (0.17%) JUnit
13 30 (0.16%) Maven
14 29 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
14 29 (0.16%) Postman
15 27 (0.15%) JMeter
16 26 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4,525 (24.78%) Finance
2 4,196 (22.98%) Analytical Skills
3 1,773 (9.71%) Retail
4 1,350 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1,349 (7.39%) Marketing
6 1,312 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1,240 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1,068 (5.85%) Legal
9 982 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
10 781 (4.28%) Law
11 747 (4.09%) Public Sector
12 623 (3.41%) Manufacturing
13 592 (3.24%) Banking
14 469 (2.57%) Telecoms
15 341 (1.87%) Billing
16 309 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 302 (1.65%) German Language
18 292 (1.60%) Electronics
19 265 (1.45%) Local Government
20 206 (1.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,799 (15.33%) Analyst
2 2,466 (13.50%) Senior
3 1,652 (9.05%) Developer
4 1,203 (6.59%) Lead
5 1,170 (6.41%) Project Manager
6 1,088 (5.96%) Architect
7 803 (4.40%) Consultant
8 625 (3.42%) IT Support
9 597 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
10 585 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
11 545 (2.98%) Support Engineer
12 538 (2.95%) IT Manager
13 398 (2.18%) Software Engineer
14 378 (2.07%) Senior Manager
15 365 (2.00%) IT Engineer
16 358 (1.96%) Coordinator
17 353 (1.93%) Support Analyst
18 345 (1.89%) Data Analyst
19 339 (1.86%) Senior Developer
20 335 (1.83%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 833 (4.56%) .NET
2 784 (4.29%) HTML
3 648 (3.55%) CSS
4 432 (2.37%) React
5 311 (1.70%) REST
6 298 (1.63%) Web Services
7 256 (1.40%) .NET Framework
8 248 (1.36%) RESTful
9 222 (1.22%) AngularJS
10 211 (1.16%) ASP.NET
11 206 (1.13%) Node.js
12 197 (1.08%) JSON
13 195 (1.07%) XML
14 192 (1.05%) .NET Core
15 168 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 168 (0.92%) HTML5
16 153 (0.84%) Kafka
17 152 (0.83%) Vue
18 135 (0.74%) Laravel
19 130 (0.71%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1,603 (8.78%) Self-Motivation
2 816 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 699 (3.83%) Driving Licence
4 637 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 410 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 306 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 302 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 221 (1.21%) Mobile App
9 219 (1.20%) Social Media
10 194 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 190 (1.04%) Life Science
12 176 (0.96%) IoT
12 176 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 174 (0.95%) NHS
14 171 (0.94%) Cloud Native
15 163 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
16 146 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
17 142 (0.78%) Virtual Team
18 140 (0.77%) Client/Server
18 140 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2,112 (11.57%) Windows
2 883 (4.84%) Linux
3 683 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 567 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 240 (1.31%) Android
6 218 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 180 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 171 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 161 (0.88%) Unix
10 145 (0.79%) Mac OS
11 134 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 101 (0.55%) VMS
13 87 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 77 (0.42%) Windows 7
15 66 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 61 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
17 34 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 31 (0.17%) zOS
19 28 (0.15%) Mac OS X
20 26 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,054 (33.15%) Problem-Solving
2 3,927 (21.51%) Agile
3 2,563 (14.04%) Project Management
4 2,447 (13.40%) Customer Service
5 2,178 (11.93%) Mentoring
6 1,826 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 1,713 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,607 (8.80%) Computer Science
9 1,326 (7.26%) Analytics
10 1,320 (7.23%) ITIL
11 1,290 (7.06%) DevOps
12 1,244 (6.81%) Roadmaps
13 1,225 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 1,152 (6.31%) Actionable Insight
15 1,083 (5.93%) Data Analysis
16 1,051 (5.76%) Coaching
17 1,022 (5.60%) Mathematics
18 1,003 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
19 1,002 (5.49%) Change Management
20 961 (5.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,236 (12.25%) SQL
2 1,534 (8.40%) Python
3 1,147 (6.28%) JavaScript
4 1,024 (5.61%) C#
5 673 (3.69%) Java
6 466 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 346 (1.89%) C++
8 280 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 276 (1.51%) C
10 269 (1.47%) PHP
11 224 (1.23%) Bash
12 223 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 132 (0.72%) R
14 103 (0.56%) Scala
15 93 (0.51%) Go
16 89 (0.49%) VBA
17 82 (0.45%) VB
18 75 (0.41%) MATLAB
19 62 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 58 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5,123 (28.06%) Degree
2 1,160 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 967 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 842 (4.61%) DBS Check
5 709 (3.88%) ACCA
6 647 (3.54%) SC Cleared
7 545 (2.98%) Master's Degree
8 532 (2.91%) CIMA
9 455 (2.49%) HNC
10 444 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 271 (1.48%) DV Cleared
12 262 (1.43%) PMI Certification
13 248 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
14 243 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 202 (1.11%) CISSP
16 183 (1.00%) PMP
17 150 (0.82%) CCNA
18 138 (0.76%) CISM
18 138 (0.76%) PhD
19 130 (0.71%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 948 (5.19%) QA
2 669 (3.66%) SLA
3 436 (2.39%) GDPR
4 396 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 366 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 315 (1.73%) PMO
7 264 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 194 (1.06%) IFRS
9 156 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 151 (0.83%) NIST
11 116 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 88 (0.48%) GAAP
13 81 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 74 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
15 71 (0.39%) GMP
16 55 (0.30%) GRC
17 48 (0.26%) IFRS 9
18 43 (0.24%) NEBOSH
19 40 (0.22%) HIPAA
20 36 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,344 (7.36%) Active Directory
2 456 (2.50%) Docker
3 423 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 298 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 137 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 125 (0.68%) Firmware
7 90 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 75 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 60 (0.33%) vSphere
10 22 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 17 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
13 13 (0.071%) VMware NSX
14 12 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 11 (0.060%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.055%) KVM
16 10 (0.055%) NFS
16 10 (0.055%) Terminal Services
17 8 (0.044%) Lustre
17 8 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 433 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 379 (2.08%) Terraform
3 374 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 220 (1.20%) SCCM
5 179 (0.98%) Ansible
6 92 (0.50%) WSUS
7 68 (0.37%) Puppet
8 63 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 43 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 42 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 42 (0.23%) SCOM
12 41 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 40 (0.22%) Grafana
14 32 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
15 26 (0.14%) Autotask
15 26 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 25 (0.14%) Nagios
17 23 (0.13%) NetBackup
18 18 (0.099%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4,725 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 792 (4.34%) Oracle
3 783 (4.29%) SAP
4 622 (3.41%) VMware
5 411 (2.25%) Google
6 400 (2.19%) Cisco
7 346 (1.89%) Databricks
8 325 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 305 (1.67%) Hyperion
10 301 (1.65%) Anaplan
11 238 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 232 (1.27%) NEC
13 213 (1.17%) Adobe
14 157 (0.86%) CA
15 150 (0.82%) Veeam
16 149 (0.82%) HP
17 148 (0.81%) Apple
18 146 (0.80%) Citrix
19 144 (0.79%) IBM
20 112 (0.61%) Dell