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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 15,128 12,587 19,141
As % of all permanent jobs in England 17.01% 29.09% 23.69%
As % of the General category 36.62% 42.05% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,451 6,984 11,771
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,487
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
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 41,310 29,932 46,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.44% 69.17% 57.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26,437 15,774 30,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% -8.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,697
% change year-on-year - +4.37% -12.17%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 4,108 £73,964 +13.79% 2,839
North of England 0 3,105 £45,000 +5.88% 1,104
South East 0 2,809 £45,000 +5.88% 1,381
Midlands 0 2,230 £43,000 +7.50% 692
South West 0 1,622 £45,000 +7.05% 511
North West +2 1,394 £44,000 -2.22% 605
Yorkshire 0 1,283 £42,500 +13.33% 350
West Midlands 0 1,204 £45,000 - 402
East of England +1 1,127 £40,000 - 423
East Midlands +2 1,021 £40,000 +14.29% 287
North East +1 428 £51,750 +61.72% 159
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
1 581 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 505 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 161 (1.06%) Confluence
4 145 (0.96%) CMS
5 82 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 63 (0.42%) WordPress
7 55 (0.36%) Apache
8 51 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 49 (0.32%) IIS
10 46 (0.30%) SAS
11 26 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.073%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.066%) Drupal
13 10 (0.066%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.066%) Moodle
13 10 (0.066%) nginx
13 10 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.059%) Headless CMS
14 9 (0.059%) WebLogic
15 8 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1,513 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 906 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 239 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 93 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 26 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 20 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 20 (0.13%) Trello
9 18 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 16 (0.11%) SPSS
11 11 (0.073%) Photoshop
12 10 (0.066%) Acrobat
13 9 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
14 8 (0.053%) InDesign
15 7 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
15 7 (0.046%) Simulink
16 6 (0.040%) Civil 3D
17 5 (0.033%) CorelDRAW
17 5 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 110 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 96 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 92 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 47 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
5 36 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 26 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 22 (0.15%) Shopify
8 21 (0.14%) Magento
8 21 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 21 (0.14%) SAP PM
9 20 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 20 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 19 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 18 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
11 18 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 16 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (0.099%) SAP HR
14 14 (0.093%) FLEXCUBE
14 14 (0.093%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 4,868 (32.18%) Azure
2 1,801 (11.91%) Microsoft 365
3 1,569 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 1,313 (8.68%) AWS
5 1,039 (6.87%) Azure AI
6 678 (4.48%) SaaS
7 573 (3.79%) Entra ID
8 470 (3.11%) GCP
9 271 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 243 (1.61%) GitHub
11 242 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 226 (1.49%) Serverless
13 189 (1.25%) Power Automate
14 176 (1.16%) PowerApps
15 162 (1.07%) OneDrive
16 117 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
17 116 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
18 111 (0.73%) Amazon S3
19 110 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
20 107 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 666 (4.40%) Firewall
2 502 (3.32%) DNS
3 400 (2.64%) DHCP
4 398 (2.63%) VPN
5 312 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 264 (1.75%) WAN
7 233 (1.54%) LAN
8 213 (1.41%) Wireless
9 212 (1.40%) VLAN
10 201 (1.33%) Network Security
11 189 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
12 161 (1.06%) VoIP
13 160 (1.06%) Broadband
14 112 (0.74%) Internet
15 90 (0.59%) SD-WAN
16 89 (0.59%) BGP
17 63 (0.42%) OSPF
18 43 (0.28%) SSL
19 39 (0.26%) SAN
20 36 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,387 (9.17%) Power BI
2 902 (5.96%) Tableau
3 357 (2.36%) SQL Server
4 159 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 139 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 134 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 122 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 122 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 116 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 112 (0.74%) Metadata
10 111 (0.73%) MySQL
11 81 (0.54%) Big Data
12 73 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 68 (0.45%) MongoDB
14 61 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 59 (0.39%) BigQuery
15 59 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 58 (0.38%) Power Query
17 51 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 42 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 388 (2.56%) JIRA
2 375 (2.48%) Git
3 163 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 131 (0.87%) GitLab
5 38 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
6 33 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 31 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 31 (0.20%) Selenium
8 29 (0.19%) Postman
9 24 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 23 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 22 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (0.13%) JUnit
12 19 (0.13%) Maven
13 18 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
14 17 (0.11%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.093%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.093%) Crashlytics
15 14 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.093%) XCTest
General
1 3,030 (20.03%) Finance
2 2,192 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
3 1,150 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
4 913 (6.04%) Marketing
5 785 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 723 (4.78%) Legal
7 703 (4.65%) Law
8 666 (4.40%) Retail
9 624 (4.12%) Public Sector
10 577 (3.81%) Manufacturing
11 561 (3.71%) Banking
12 523 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
13 452 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
14 425 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 233 (1.54%) Electronics
16 232 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 201 (1.33%) Military
18 155 (1.02%) Games
19 148 (0.98%) Back Office
20 136 (0.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,800 (18.51%) Analyst
2 1,560 (10.31%) Junior
3 1,448 (9.57%) Junior Analyst
4 1,357 (8.97%) Senior
5 853 (5.64%) Data Analyst
6 844 (5.58%) Lead
7 842 (5.57%) IT Support
8 802 (5.30%) Security Analyst
9 764 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 716 (4.73%) Junior Data Analyst
11 706 (4.67%) Junior Security Analyst
12 705 (4.66%) Ethical Hacker
13 687 (4.54%) Developer
14 680 (4.49%) Support Engineer
15 619 (4.09%) Architect
16 615 (4.07%) Consultant
17 506 (3.34%) IT Technician
18 441 (2.92%) IT Engineer
19 424 (2.80%) Network Engineer
20 382 (2.53%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (2.43%) .NET
2 295 (1.95%) React
3 277 (1.83%) HTML
4 262 (1.73%) CSS
5 243 (1.61%) REST
6 215 (1.42%) Node.js
7 185 (1.22%) RESTful
8 147 (0.97%) JSON
9 115 (0.76%) Kafka
10 94 (0.62%) XML
11 92 (0.61%) Middleware
12 85 (0.56%) SOAP
13 81 (0.54%) Spring
14 71 (0.47%) Spring Boot
15 70 (0.46%) GraphQL
16 68 (0.45%) AngularJS
17 66 (0.44%) jQuery
18 65 (0.43%) ASP.NET
19 63 (0.42%) Vue
20 62 (0.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 807 (5.33%) Onboarding
2 754 (4.98%) Cyberattack
3 688 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 671 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 485 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 445 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 386 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 305 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 244 (1.61%) Social Media
10 241 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 215 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
12 198 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 170 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
14 164 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 157 (1.04%) Data Structures
16 148 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 126 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
18 111 (0.73%) AI Agents
19 99 (0.65%) Podcast
20 90 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,607 (10.62%) Windows
2 657 (4.34%) Windows Server
3 572 (3.78%) Linux
4 222 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 149 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 141 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 133 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 116 (0.77%) Android
9 69 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 56 (0.37%) Unix
11 49 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 42 (0.28%) CentOS
13 29 (0.19%) VMS
14 18 (0.12%) AIX
14 18 (0.12%) Ubuntu
15 13 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
15 13 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.079%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.066%) Debian
17 10 (0.066%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,557 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
2 2,535 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2,439 (16.12%) Cybersecurity
4 2,395 (15.83%) AI
5 1,960 (12.96%) Mentoring
6 1,915 (12.66%) Agile
7 1,849 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 1,599 (10.57%) Customer Service
9 1,489 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
10 1,406 (9.29%) Decision-Making
11 1,121 (7.41%) Analytics
12 1,092 (7.22%) Roadmaps
13 1,087 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 1,016 (6.72%) ITIL
15 962 (6.36%) CI/CD
16 933 (6.17%) CRM
17 924 (6.11%) DevOps
18 890 (5.88%) Project Management
19 888 (5.87%) Project Delivery
20 798 (5.27%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 2,179 (14.40%) Python
2 2,087 (13.80%) SQL
3 539 (3.56%) JavaScript
4 412 (2.72%) C#
5 391 (2.58%) PowerShell
6 359 (2.37%) Java
7 305 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 142 (0.94%) C++
9 140 (0.93%) Bash
10 131 (0.87%) PHP
11 86 (0.57%) C
12 78 (0.52%) Go
13 69 (0.46%) Bicep
14 66 (0.44%) VBA
15 64 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 56 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 55 (0.36%) PL/SQL
18 51 (0.34%) Ruby
19 44 (0.29%) Kotlin
20 43 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,874 (19.00%) Azure Certification
2 2,115 (13.98%) Degree
3 1,028 (6.80%) Security Cleared
4 765 (5.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 730 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 729 (4.82%) CEH
7 720 (4.76%) CompTIA CySA+
8 516 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
9 396 (2.62%) CCNA
10 354 (2.34%) A+ Certification
11 352 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 340 (2.25%) DBS Check
13 320 (2.12%) Network+ Certification
14 317 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
15 251 (1.66%) CISSP
16 229 (1.51%) DV Cleared
17 207 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
18 174 (1.15%) Master's Degree
19 166 (1.10%) CISM
19 166 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 746 (4.93%) QA
2 493 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 489 (3.23%) GDPR
4 469 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 396 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 343 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 305 (2.02%) NIST
8 282 (1.86%) SLA
9 215 (1.42%) PCI DSS
10 164 (1.08%) GRC
11 158 (1.04%) PMO
12 136 (0.90%) ISO 9001
13 106 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 70 (0.46%) WCAG
15 55 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 50 (0.33%) IFRS
17 49 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 41 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 41 (0.27%) COBIT
19 39 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,023 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 378 (2.50%) Docker
3 289 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 232 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 86 (0.57%) Terminal Server
6 59 (0.39%) Firmware
7 52 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (0.22%) vSphere
10 28 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 23 (0.15%) IAG
12 16 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
14 12 (0.079%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 8 (0.053%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.033%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.026%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 4 (0.026%) Samba
17 4 (0.026%) Squid
Systems Management
1 389 (2.57%) Terraform
2 372 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 355 (2.35%) Kubernetes
4 174 (1.15%) Ansible
5 82 (0.54%) SCCM
6 63 (0.42%) Grafana
7 59 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 55 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 33 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 33 (0.22%) Nagios
10 31 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.12%) Autotask
12 17 (0.11%) Kibana
13 16 (0.11%) Argo
14 15 (0.099%) Data Guard
14 15 (0.099%) Oracle RMAN
15 14 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.093%) EnCase
15 14 (0.093%) FTK
16 12 (0.079%) Podman
Vendors
1 5,671 (37.49%) Microsoft
2 1,975 (13.06%) ForeScout
3 627 (4.14%) Cisco
4 400 (2.64%) VMware
5 362 (2.39%) Oracle
6 352 (2.33%) SAP
6 352 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 325 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 324 (2.14%) Google
9 199 (1.32%) Dell
10 159 (1.05%) Databricks
11 153 (1.01%) Adobe
12 146 (0.97%) Splunk
13 138 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 136 (0.90%) Veeam
15 114 (0.75%) Apple
16 106 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 102 (0.67%) HubSpot
18 101 (0.67%) IBM
19 92 (0.61%) Nimble Storage