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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 13,744 14,995 12,038
As % of all permanent jobs in England 29.76% 24.75% 26.02%
As % of the General category 47.25% 41.22% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,451 6,637 9,003
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%

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 29,088 36,375 30,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 62.98% 60.05% 64.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,104 17,672 22,279
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,684 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,975 £102,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 4,060 £70,000 +5.26% 1,902
South East 0 3,000 £41,000 -25.45% 2,053
North of England 0 2,965 £40,000 -11.43% 986
North West 0 1,547 £42,500 -10.53% 587
Midlands 0 1,379 £40,000 -16.67% 821
Yorkshire 0 1,195 £38,000 -23.23% 287
South West 0 1,076 £42,500 -17.01% 605
East of England 0 1,044 £40,000 -20.00% 506
West Midlands 0 807 £45,000 -10.55% 536
East Midlands +1 567 £32,750 -22.94% 273
North East 0 226 £32,500 -13.33% 115
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
1 492 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 464 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 156 (1.14%) Confluence
4 108 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 88 (0.64%) CMS
6 71 (0.52%) IIS
7 55 (0.40%) WordPress
8 52 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 51 (0.37%) Apache
10 23 (0.17%) SAS
11 17 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
13 15 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
14 14 (0.10%) nginx
15 13 (0.095%) Umbraco
16 12 (0.087%) Anypoint
16 12 (0.087%) Skype for Business
17 10 (0.073%) SugarCRM
18 8 (0.058%) Appian
19 7 (0.051%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1,320 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,096 (7.97%) Microsoft Office
3 215 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 68 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 48 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 42 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 40 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 40 (0.29%) Maya
9 39 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 33 (0.24%) AutoCAD
11 27 (0.20%) Adobe XD
12 26 (0.19%) InDesign
13 24 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 23 (0.17%) Sketch
15 19 (0.14%) Trello
16 18 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
17 13 (0.095%) Simulink
18 11 (0.080%) Revit
19 9 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 314 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 168 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 69 (0.50%) SAP MDG
4 63 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 48 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
6 45 (0.33%) Shopify
7 39 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 31 (0.23%) SAP IBP
9 28 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 28 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 28 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 25 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
11 22 (0.16%) Magento
11 22 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 19 (0.14%) SAP Business One
13 17 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
13 17 (0.12%) Sage 200
14 15 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
15 14 (0.10%) Elite 3E
15 14 (0.10%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2,287 (16.64%) Azure
2 1,651 (12.01%) Cloud Computing
3 1,598 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1,170 (8.51%) AWS
5 822 (5.98%) Power Platform
6 754 (5.49%) SaaS
7 473 (3.44%) Entra ID
8 359 (2.61%) GCP
9 202 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 198 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
11 183 (1.33%) GitHub
12 170 (1.24%) Serverless
13 148 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 135 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 131 (0.95%) PowerApps
16 112 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
17 111 (0.81%) Azure AI
18 102 (0.74%) PaaS
19 91 (0.66%) IaaS
20 90 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1,711 (12.45%) Internet
2 572 (4.16%) Firewall
3 517 (3.76%) DNS
4 435 (3.17%) DHCP
5 355 (2.58%) VPN
6 314 (2.28%) TCP/IP
7 311 (2.26%) WAN
8 299 (2.18%) LAN
9 202 (1.47%) VLAN
10 190 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 165 (1.20%) Wireless
12 160 (1.16%) Network Security
12 160 (1.16%) VoIP
13 117 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
14 68 (0.49%) SAN
15 63 (0.46%) SD-WAN
16 54 (0.39%) Broadband
17 52 (0.38%) Unified Communications
18 40 (0.29%) BGP
19 38 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (5.03%) Power BI
2 505 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 277 (2.02%) Tableau
4 233 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 203 (1.48%) Relational Database
6 176 (1.28%) Data Lake
7 156 (1.14%) MySQL
8 153 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 148 (1.08%) Metadata
10 132 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 117 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
12 87 (0.63%) Big Data
13 74 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 67 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 65 (0.47%) SAP BW
16 62 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
17 60 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 50 (0.36%) Looker
19 46 (0.33%) MongoDB
20 45 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 498 (3.62%) JIRA
2 307 (2.23%) Git
3 126 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 70 (0.51%) GitLab
5 67 (0.49%) Selenium
6 42 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 40 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 34 (0.25%) MLflow
9 33 (0.24%) Postman
10 27 (0.20%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.15%) JUnit
12 19 (0.14%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.12%) Visual Studio
14 16 (0.12%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.11%) ERwin
15 15 (0.11%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.10%) Burp Suite
16 14 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
16 14 (0.10%) Robot Framework
16 14 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 3,044 (22.15%) Finance
2 2,427 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
3 2,240 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,025 (14.73%) Banking
5 1,509 (10.98%) Marketing
6 891 (6.48%) Manufacturing
7 774 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
8 746 (5.43%) Law
9 688 (5.01%) Retail
10 668 (4.86%) Electronics
11 624 (4.54%) Legal
12 537 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
13 477 (3.47%) Public Sector
14 412 (3.00%) Telecoms
15 362 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
16 204 (1.48%) French Language
17 197 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
18 193 (1.40%) Advertising
19 135 (0.98%) Financial Institution
20 130 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,883 (13.70%) Analyst
2 1,326 (9.65%) Senior
3 1,285 (9.35%) Lecturer
4 939 (6.83%) Lead
5 864 (6.29%) IT Support
6 737 (5.36%) Developer
7 717 (5.22%) Support Engineer
8 576 (4.19%) Architect
9 553 (4.02%) Support Analyst
10 535 (3.89%) Consultant
11 463 (3.37%) Technical Support
12 385 (2.80%) Technical Engineer
13 382 (2.78%) Junior
14 299 (2.18%) Project Manager
15 297 (2.16%) 2nd Line Support
16 296 (2.15%) Business Analyst
17 284 (2.07%) Technical Support Engineer
18 282 (2.05%) IT Analyst
19 262 (1.91%) Data Analyst
20 254 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (2.76%) .NET
2 344 (2.50%) React
3 313 (2.28%) HTML
4 279 (2.03%) CSS
5 244 (1.78%) REST
6 185 (1.35%) RESTful
7 170 (1.24%) Node.js
8 126 (0.92%) Kafka
9 113 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 103 (0.75%) Spring
11 102 (0.74%) JSON
12 101 (0.73%) Middleware
13 90 (0.65%) SOAP
14 88 (0.64%) ASP.NET
15 78 (0.57%) XML
16 69 (0.50%) GraphQL
17 68 (0.49%) Spring Boot
18 67 (0.49%) PyTorch
19 65 (0.47%) TensorFlow
19 65 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,657 (12.06%) IoT
2 776 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 749 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 653 (4.75%) Driving Licence
5 487 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 330 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 315 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 277 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 234 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 222 (1.62%) Social Media
11 210 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 199 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 142 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
14 124 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 116 (0.84%) FMCG
16 115 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 109 (0.79%) Security Posture
18 108 (0.79%) Data Structures
19 102 (0.74%) Mobile App
20 96 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1,601 (11.65%) Windows
2 606 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 494 (3.59%) Linux
4 341 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 156 (1.14%) Mac OS
6 130 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 115 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 111 (0.81%) Android
9 88 (0.64%) Unix
10 87 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 39 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 30 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 28 (0.20%) VMS
14 19 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.10%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
18 8 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
19 7 (0.051%) Windows 8
20 6 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,881 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 2,726 (19.83%) AI
3 2,707 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
4 2,093 (15.23%) User Experience
5 2,028 (14.76%) Agile
6 2,027 (14.75%) Machine Learning
7 1,796 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,672 (12.17%) Customer Service
9 1,667 (12.13%) Web Development
10 1,235 (8.99%) Mentoring
11 1,193 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 1,157 (8.42%) CRM
13 1,132 (8.24%) Project Management
14 1,110 (8.08%) Analytics
15 1,046 (7.61%) Decision-Making
16 1,004 (7.31%) ITIL
17 981 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
18 831 (6.05%) DevOps
19 824 (6.00%) Roadmaps
20 800 (5.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,568 (11.41%) SQL
2 1,055 (7.68%) Python
3 539 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 495 (3.60%) C#
5 471 (3.43%) Java
6 419 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 203 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 168 (1.22%) Bash
9 113 (0.82%) PHP
10 108 (0.79%) C++
11 81 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 64 (0.47%) C
14 63 (0.46%) VBA
15 55 (0.40%) Go
16 54 (0.39%) R
17 48 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.31%) PL/SQL
19 40 (0.29%) Bicep
20 36 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4,531 (32.97%) Degree
2 1,913 (13.92%) Master's Degree
3 1,653 (12.03%) PhD
4 1,591 (11.58%) Postgraduate
5 824 (6.00%) Security Cleared
6 583 (4.24%) SC Cleared
7 408 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 401 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 341 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 278 (2.02%) CISSP
11 251 (1.83%) DBS Check
12 211 (1.54%) AWS Certification
13 207 (1.51%) ACCA
14 185 (1.35%) CISM
15 169 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
16 164 (1.19%) MCSE
16 164 (1.19%) PMI Certification
17 158 (1.15%) DV Cleared
18 153 (1.11%) CIMA
19 147 (1.07%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 641 (4.66%) QA
2 395 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 388 (2.82%) GDPR
4 349 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 266 (1.94%) SLA
6 258 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 249 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 211 (1.54%) NIST
9 145 (1.06%) PMO
10 124 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 113 (0.82%) GRC
12 83 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 66 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 48 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 40 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 33 (0.24%) Def Stans
17 28 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
18 25 (0.18%) GAAP
18 25 (0.18%) WCAG
19 20 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 1,105 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 333 (2.42%) Hyper-V
3 314 (2.28%) Docker
4 278 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (0.58%) Terminal Server
6 56 (0.41%) Firmware
7 51 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (0.18%) vSphere
10 21 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 11 (0.080%) DFS Replication
13 10 (0.073%) Postfix
14 8 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.058%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.058%) vCloud
15 7 (0.051%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.044%) Squid
17 5 (0.036%) Kamailio
17 5 (0.036%) KVM
Systems Management
1 441 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 298 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 295 (2.15%) Terraform
4 114 (0.83%) Ansible
4 114 (0.83%) SCCM
5 88 (0.64%) Grafana
6 63 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 47 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 33 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 29 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.19%) Kubeflow
11 24 (0.17%) WSUS
12 19 (0.14%) Autotask
13 18 (0.13%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.11%) Nagios
14 15 (0.11%) SCOM
15 14 (0.10%) PaperCut
16 12 (0.087%) Nessus
17 11 (0.080%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,315 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 1,074 (7.81%) SAP
3 442 (3.22%) VMware
4 416 (3.03%) Cisco
5 382 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 350 (2.55%) Oracle
7 337 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 298 (2.17%) Google
9 191 (1.39%) Dell
10 180 (1.31%) Databricks
11 174 (1.27%) Adobe
12 145 (1.06%) Veeam
13 133 (0.97%) SolarWinds
14 132 (0.96%) Splunk
15 130 (0.95%) Apple
16 108 (0.79%) HubSpot
17 95 (0.69%) Sage
18 94 (0.68%) ForeScout
19 83 (0.60%) Workday
20 79 (0.57%) Nimble Storage