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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 14,052 22,149 23,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.49% 23.53% 29.40%
As % of the General category 40.00% 41.10% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,218 14,407 12,418
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,513 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% -17.37% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,490 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -17.39% +4.55%

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 35,126 53,893 52,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 68.71% 57.24% 66.76%
Number of salaries quoted 16,951 36,124 31,054
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
London 0 4,379 £65,500 +0.77% 23,873
North of England -1 3,231 £48,507 +11.51% 6,418
South East 0 2,770 £43,773 -2.73% 6,885
North West -3 1,662 £50,055 +11.23% 3,750
Yorkshire 0 1,368 £40,000 -11.11% 2,117
Midlands -2 1,335 £40,367 -2.73% 4,031
East of England -1 996 £40,101 -9.89% 3,148
South West -1 842 £40,101 -10.89% 3,042
West Midlands -2 834 £45,000 +5.88% 2,501
East Midlands -3 499 £37,500 -6.25% 1,512
North East -8 199 £32,000 -17.95% 576
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
1 416 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 338 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 160 (1.14%) Confluence
4 142 (1.01%) CMS
5 101 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 60 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 57 (0.41%) IIS
8 51 (0.36%) Apache
9 46 (0.33%) WordPress
10 43 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
11 34 (0.24%) OpenEdge
12 30 (0.21%) IBM Domino
13 24 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 22 (0.16%) nginx
15 18 (0.13%) Headless CMS
16 17 (0.12%) SAS
17 14 (0.100%) Exchange Server 2013
18 13 (0.093%) Drupal
18 13 (0.093%) OpenStack
18 13 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,323 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,165 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
3 620 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 158 (1.12%) Simulink
5 93 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 84 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 47 (0.33%) Trello
8 45 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 36 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 35 (0.25%) Photoshop
11 33 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 28 (0.20%) AutoCAD
13 26 (0.19%) Adobe XD
14 23 (0.16%) Maya
15 21 (0.15%) Sketch
16 20 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
17 17 (0.12%) InDesign
18 14 (0.100%) Adobe Premiere
19 7 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
20 6 (0.043%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 232 (1.65%) Teamcenter
2 121 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 100 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 89 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 52 (0.37%) Shopify
6 48 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
7 45 (0.32%) Magento
8 30 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 28 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 25 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
11 24 (0.17%) Sage 200
12 18 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
13 17 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
14 16 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
14 16 (0.11%) Sage CRM
15 15 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
15 15 (0.11%) SAP IBP
16 14 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
17 13 (0.093%) SAP CO
18 12 (0.085%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 1,910 (13.59%) Azure
2 1,176 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
3 1,105 (7.86%) AWS
4 665 (4.73%) Power Platform
5 520 (3.70%) SaaS
6 369 (2.63%) GCP
7 318 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 258 (1.84%) Serverless
9 202 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 198 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 191 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (1.27%) GitHub
13 131 (0.93%) Google Analytics
14 129 (0.92%) Amazon S3
15 126 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
16 123 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
16 123 (0.88%) OneDrive
17 118 (0.84%) Power Automate
18 117 (0.83%) PaaS
19 110 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 948 (6.75%) Broadband
2 562 (4.00%) Firewall
3 338 (2.41%) WAN
4 335 (2.38%) VPN
5 324 (2.31%) LAN
6 320 (2.28%) DNS
7 310 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 214 (1.52%) DHCP
9 163 (1.16%) Network Security
10 156 (1.11%) VLAN
11 155 (1.10%) VoIP
12 122 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 114 (0.81%) SSL
14 97 (0.69%) SSH
15 91 (0.65%) Wireless
16 78 (0.56%) SAN
17 72 (0.51%) Internet
18 70 (0.50%) SD-WAN
19 55 (0.39%) BGP
20 53 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (3.95%) Power BI
2 479 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 290 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 202 (1.44%) Tableau
5 160 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 157 (1.12%) MySQL
7 155 (1.10%) Relational Database
8 147 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 145 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 119 (0.85%) Big Data
11 109 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 91 (0.65%) Metadata
13 83 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
14 81 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 78 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 72 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 59 (0.42%) Data Mining
18 59 (0.42%) DynamoDB
19 46 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 444 (3.16%) JIRA
2 363 (2.58%) Git
3 156 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 140 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
5 86 (0.61%) GitLab
6 79 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 68 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 45 (0.32%) Selenium
9 41 (0.29%) Postman
10 36 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 31 (0.22%) JUnit
12 29 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 29 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 28 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 28 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (0.16%) Bitbucket
16 21 (0.15%) Maven
16 21 (0.15%) MLflow
17 15 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 3,964 (28.21%) Finance
2 2,756 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 2,035 (14.48%) Marketing
4 1,022 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 983 (7.00%) Manufacturing
6 913 (6.50%) Electronics
7 847 (6.03%) Banking
8 826 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 821 (5.84%) Law
10 795 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
11 729 (5.19%) Legal
12 642 (4.57%) Public Sector
13 636 (4.53%) Retail
14 412 (2.93%) Financial Institution
15 396 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
16 348 (2.48%) Aerospace
17 344 (2.45%) Telecoms
18 309 (2.20%) German Language
19 306 (2.18%) French Language
20 259 (1.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,864 (13.27%) Analyst
2 1,597 (11.36%) Senior
3 1,160 (8.26%) Lead
4 793 (5.64%) Developer
5 782 (5.57%) Support Engineer
6 712 (5.07%) IT Support
7 655 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
8 544 (3.87%) Development Manager
9 519 (3.69%) Architect
10 513 (3.65%) Business Manager
11 460 (3.27%) Business Development Manager
12 457 (3.25%) Support Analyst
13 366 (2.60%) Consultant
14 315 (2.24%) Project Manager
15 308 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 302 (2.15%) Technical Support
17 301 (2.14%) Junior
18 266 (1.89%) Software Engineer
19 263 (1.87%) IT Analyst
20 260 (1.85%) Credit Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (3.08%) .NET
2 336 (2.39%) HTML
3 308 (2.19%) CSS
4 278 (1.98%) React
5 242 (1.72%) RESTful
6 215 (1.53%) REST
7 162 (1.15%) Web Services
8 144 (1.02%) Kafka
9 140 (1.00%) Node.js
10 121 (0.86%) AngularJS
11 112 (0.80%) ASP.NET
12 110 (0.78%) XML
13 108 (0.77%) Middleware
14 102 (0.73%) Spring
15 100 (0.71%) JSON
16 97 (0.69%) SOAP
17 96 (0.68%) .NET Framework
18 78 (0.56%) .NET Core
19 77 (0.55%) Spring Boot
20 74 (0.53%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 648 (4.61%) Management Information System
2 639 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 435 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 430 (3.06%) Driving Licence
5 412 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 330 (2.35%) Credit Risk
7 283 (2.01%) Fixed Income
7 283 (2.01%) Social Media
8 236 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 227 (1.62%) Cloud Native
10 215 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 148 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 144 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 139 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
14 136 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 129 (0.92%) Digital Media
16 124 (0.88%) PKI
17 123 (0.88%) Cyberattack
17 123 (0.88%) FMCG
18 122 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1,637 (11.65%) Windows
2 520 (3.70%) Linux
3 440 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 265 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 250 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 181 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 148 (1.05%) Android
8 129 (0.92%) Unix
9 124 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 69 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 46 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 45 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 44 (0.31%) Windows Vista
14 31 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 22 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 17 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
17 16 (0.11%) Mac OS X
18 15 (0.11%) VMS
19 13 (0.093%) CentOS
20 11 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,662 (33.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2,203 (15.68%) Agile
3 1,898 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,748 (12.44%) Mentoring
5 1,629 (11.59%) Project Management
6 1,604 (11.41%) Computer Science
7 1,565 (11.14%) Roadmaps
8 1,450 (10.32%) Analytics
9 1,316 (9.37%) Customer Service
10 1,234 (8.78%) Decision-Making
11 1,117 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 1,102 (7.84%) DevOps
13 1,008 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
14 1,000 (7.12%) Business Development
14 1,000 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
15 996 (7.09%) CRM
16 973 (6.92%) Risk Management
17 960 (6.83%) Coaching
18 911 (6.48%) ITIL
19 827 (5.89%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,526 (10.86%) SQL
2 1,040 (7.40%) Python
3 621 (4.42%) JavaScript
4 563 (4.01%) Java
5 508 (3.62%) C#
6 419 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 258 (1.84%) MATLAB
8 192 (1.37%) Bash
9 188 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 144 (1.02%) PHP
11 138 (0.98%) C++
12 106 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 94 (0.67%) R
14 83 (0.59%) C
15 66 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 60 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 49 (0.35%) Go
18 46 (0.33%) Apex Code
19 44 (0.31%) VBA
20 42 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4,821 (34.31%) Degree
2 1,115 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 772 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 663 (4.72%) Master's Degree
5 539 (3.84%) Security Cleared
6 391 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 344 (2.45%) SC Cleared
8 313 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 309 (2.20%) HND
10 272 (1.94%) CFA
11 256 (1.82%) HNC
12 237 (1.69%) CISSP
13 222 (1.58%) PMI Certification
14 196 (1.39%) PMP
15 175 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
16 173 (1.23%) Azure Certification
17 146 (1.04%) CISM
18 129 (0.92%) MBA
19 119 (0.85%) ACCA
20 118 (0.84%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (3.92%) QA
2 397 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 359 (2.55%) GDPR
4 298 (2.12%) SLA
5 256 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 243 (1.73%) NIST
7 189 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 122 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 96 (0.68%) PMO
10 83 (0.59%) Def Stans
11 77 (0.55%) IEC 61508
12 69 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 65 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 64 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 59 (0.42%) GRC
16 53 (0.38%) HIPAA
17 38 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 35 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 34 (0.24%) WCAG
20 31 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,166 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 383 (2.73%) Docker
3 271 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 184 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 73 (0.52%) Firmware
6 63 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 30 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.18%) vSphere
10 20 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 18 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 14 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 11 (0.078%) DFS Replication
14 8 (0.057%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.057%) Postfix
15 6 (0.043%) XenApp
16 4 (0.028%) NFS
16 4 (0.028%) Squid
17 3 (0.021%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 417 (2.97%) Terraform
2 402 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 279 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 160 (1.14%) Ansible
5 114 (0.81%) Grafana
6 110 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 77 (0.55%) SCCM
8 57 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 22 (0.16%) QRadar
12 21 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 17 (0.12%) FortiGate
15 14 (0.100%) PaperCut
15 14 (0.100%) Puppet
16 11 (0.078%) Nessus
16 11 (0.078%) Proxmox
17 10 (0.071%) NetBackup
18 8 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3,052 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 758 (5.39%) SAP
3 483 (3.44%) Google
4 476 (3.39%) Cisco
5 449 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 345 (2.46%) Oracle
7 342 (2.43%) VMware
8 313 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 292 (2.08%) Bloomberg
10 230 (1.64%) Sun
11 201 (1.43%) IBM
12 199 (1.42%) Databricks
13 185 (1.32%) Adobe
14 165 (1.17%) Dell
15 142 (1.01%) Apple
16 129 (0.92%) ANSYS
17 109 (0.78%) Citrix
18 104 (0.74%) YouTube
19 94 (0.67%) Fortinet
20 89 (0.63%) Meraki