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

6 months to
30 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 15,494 12,570 17,758
As % of all permanent jobs in England 17.06% 28.94% 23.38%
As % of the General category 36.77% 41.83% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,655 7,049 10,458
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,750
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 £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 42,132 30,052 43,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.40% 69.19% 57.32%
Number of salaries quoted 26,899 15,922 27,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
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 £95,750
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 30 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 30 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 4,237 £72,500 +11.54% 2,763
North of England 0 3,146 £45,000 +8.43% 1,202
South East 0 2,875 £45,000 +5.88% 1,536
Midlands 0 2,296 £43,000 +7.50% 829
South West 0 1,665 £45,000 +8.81% 577
North West +2 1,427 £45,000 - 635
Yorkshire 0 1,282 £42,500 +13.33% 388
West Midlands 0 1,238 £45,000 - 488
East of England 0 1,155 £40,000 - 441
East Midlands +2 1,053 £40,000 +14.29% 341
North East +1 437 £51,500 +60.94% 193
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
1 602 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 517 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 161 (1.04%) Confluence
4 146 (0.94%) CMS
5 79 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 68 (0.44%) WordPress
7 65 (0.42%) Apache
8 55 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 53 (0.34%) IIS
10 46 (0.30%) SAS
11 25 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 16 (0.10%) nginx
13 11 (0.071%) Headless CMS
13 11 (0.071%) WebLogic
14 10 (0.065%) Drupal
14 10 (0.065%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.065%) Moodle
14 10 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 10 (0.065%) WebSphere
15 9 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1,527 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 929 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 232 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 67 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 22 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 21 (0.14%) Trello
10 20 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 18 (0.12%) SPSS
12 12 (0.077%) Photoshop
13 10 (0.065%) Acrobat
13 10 (0.065%) Simulink
14 9 (0.058%) InDesign
14 9 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
15 8 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
16 6 (0.039%) Civil 3D
17 5 (0.032%) CorelDRAW
17 5 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 119 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 101 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 95 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 46 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 35 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 27 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 22 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 22 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 22 (0.14%) Shopify
8 21 (0.14%) Magento
8 21 (0.14%) SAP PM
9 20 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 19 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 19 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 18 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 16 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 14 (0.090%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 14 (0.090%) Oracle Assets
13 14 (0.090%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4,964 (32.04%) Azure
2 1,844 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1,599 (10.32%) Power Platform
4 1,399 (9.03%) AWS
5 1,038 (6.70%) Azure AI
6 685 (4.42%) SaaS
7 585 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 505 (3.26%) GCP
9 289 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 263 (1.70%) GitHub
11 247 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 228 (1.47%) Serverless
13 196 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 181 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 167 (1.08%) OneDrive
16 124 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
17 122 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
18 116 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 113 (0.73%) Amazon S3
20 112 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 669 (4.32%) Firewall
2 518 (3.34%) DNS
3 408 (2.63%) DHCP
4 403 (2.60%) VPN
5 324 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 271 (1.75%) WAN
7 240 (1.55%) LAN
8 223 (1.44%) Wireless
9 210 (1.36%) Network Security
10 208 (1.34%) VLAN
11 193 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
12 161 (1.04%) VoIP
13 151 (0.97%) Broadband
14 112 (0.72%) Internet
15 95 (0.61%) SD-WAN
16 88 (0.57%) BGP
17 64 (0.41%) OSPF
18 50 (0.32%) SSL
19 44 (0.28%) SAN
20 37 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,410 (9.10%) Power BI
2 909 (5.87%) Tableau
3 382 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 171 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 152 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (0.89%) Relational Database
7 132 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 124 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 120 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 113 (0.73%) Metadata
10 113 (0.73%) MySQL
11 80 (0.52%) Big Data
12 75 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 72 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 70 (0.45%) BigQuery
15 64 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (0.40%) DynamoDB
17 58 (0.37%) Power Query
18 57 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 44 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 418 (2.70%) Git
2 396 (2.56%) JIRA
3 172 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 133 (0.86%) GitLab
5 40 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
6 39 (0.25%) Claude Code
7 33 (0.21%) Postman
7 33 (0.21%) Selenium
8 27 (0.17%) CircleCI
9 26 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 23 (0.15%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.14%) JUnit
12 21 (0.14%) Maven
13 20 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.10%) Cucumber
15 16 (0.10%) LabVIEW
16 15 (0.097%) Oracle Forms
17 14 (0.090%) Eclipse
General
1 3,145 (20.30%) Finance
2 2,280 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
3 1,198 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
4 929 (6.00%) Marketing
5 856 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 751 (4.85%) Law
7 747 (4.82%) Legal
8 674 (4.35%) Retail
9 643 (4.15%) Public Sector
10 622 (4.01%) Manufacturing
11 586 (3.78%) Banking
12 550 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
13 459 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
14 443 (2.86%) Telecoms
15 240 (1.55%) Electronics
16 238 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
17 212 (1.37%) Military
18 166 (1.07%) Aerospace
19 160 (1.03%) Games
20 148 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,827 (18.25%) Analyst
2 1,567 (10.11%) Junior
3 1,447 (9.34%) Junior Analyst
4 1,401 (9.04%) Senior
5 877 (5.66%) Lead
6 853 (5.51%) Data Analyst
7 840 (5.42%) IT Support
8 800 (5.16%) Security Analyst
9 764 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 716 (4.62%) Junior Data Analyst
11 712 (4.60%) Developer
12 706 (4.56%) Junior Security Analyst
13 705 (4.55%) Ethical Hacker
14 682 (4.40%) Support Engineer
15 635 (4.10%) Architect
16 634 (4.09%) Consultant
17 510 (3.29%) IT Technician
18 442 (2.85%) IT Engineer
19 427 (2.76%) Network Engineer
20 396 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (2.54%) .NET
2 316 (2.04%) React
3 292 (1.88%) HTML
4 274 (1.77%) CSS
5 251 (1.62%) REST
6 219 (1.41%) Node.js
7 194 (1.25%) RESTful
8 146 (0.94%) JSON
9 121 (0.78%) Kafka
10 92 (0.59%) Middleware
10 92 (0.59%) XML
11 91 (0.59%) Spring
12 87 (0.56%) SOAP
13 75 (0.48%) ASP.NET
13 75 (0.48%) Spring Boot
14 74 (0.48%) GraphQL
15 72 (0.46%) AngularJS
16 69 (0.45%) .NET Core
17 67 (0.43%) jQuery
18 65 (0.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 851 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 749 (4.83%) Cyberattack
3 729 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 698 (4.50%) Driving Licence
5 516 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 478 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 395 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 320 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 271 (1.75%) Social Media
10 242 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 212 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
12 208 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 179 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
14 169 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 169 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 155 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 141 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
17 132 (0.85%) AI Agents
18 100 (0.65%) Podcast
19 89 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,659 (10.71%) Windows
2 678 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 606 (3.91%) Linux
4 220 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 156 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 147 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 132 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 121 (0.78%) Android
9 73 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 58 (0.37%) Unix
11 48 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 46 (0.30%) CentOS
13 28 (0.18%) VMS
14 19 (0.12%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.11%) AIX
16 13 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
17 12 (0.077%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
18 10 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
18 10 (0.065%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,700 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
2 2,670 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 2,505 (16.17%) AI
4 2,453 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
5 2,014 (13.00%) Agile
6 2,010 (12.97%) Mentoring
7 1,981 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 1,639 (10.58%) Customer Service
9 1,520 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
10 1,466 (9.46%) Decision-Making
11 1,154 (7.45%) Analytics
12 1,124 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 1,120 (7.23%) Roadmaps
14 1,057 (6.82%) ITIL
15 1,014 (6.54%) CI/CD
16 976 (6.30%) CRM
17 971 (6.27%) DevOps
18 929 (6.00%) Project Delivery
19 916 (5.91%) Project Management
20 820 (5.29%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 2,238 (14.44%) Python
2 2,139 (13.81%) SQL
3 570 (3.68%) JavaScript
4 440 (2.84%) C#
5 397 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 381 (2.46%) Java
7 324 (2.09%) TypeScript
8 154 (0.99%) C++
9 139 (0.90%) Bash
10 132 (0.85%) PHP
11 91 (0.59%) C
12 85 (0.55%) Go
13 69 (0.45%) Bicep
13 69 (0.45%) VBA
14 64 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 63 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 54 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 54 (0.35%) Ruby
17 51 (0.33%) Kotlin
18 46 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,883 (18.61%) Azure Certification
2 2,177 (14.05%) Degree
3 1,093 (7.05%) Security Cleared
4 768 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 767 (4.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 730 (4.71%) CEH
7 718 (4.63%) CompTIA CySA+
8 526 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
9 400 (2.58%) CCNA
10 359 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 354 (2.28%) A+ Certification
12 344 (2.22%) DBS Check
13 332 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 317 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
15 260 (1.68%) DV Cleared
16 259 (1.67%) CISSP
17 224 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
18 186 (1.20%) Master's Degree
19 172 (1.11%) CISM
20 167 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 758 (4.89%) QA
2 496 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 496 (3.20%) GDPR
3 479 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 430 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 337 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 302 (1.95%) NIST
7 301 (1.94%) SLA
8 209 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 169 (1.09%) GRC
10 164 (1.06%) PMO
11 135 (0.87%) ISO 9001
12 107 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 77 (0.50%) WCAG
14 52 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 49 (0.32%) IFRS
16 48 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 44 (0.28%) COBIT
18 43 (0.28%) GMP
19 42 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,050 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 409 (2.64%) Docker
3 300 (1.94%) Hyper-V
4 246 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 86 (0.56%) Terminal Server
6 63 (0.41%) Firmware
7 54 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (0.23%) vSphere
9 29 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (0.15%) IAG
11 18 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 13 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
12 13 (0.084%) VMware Server
13 9 (0.058%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 7 (0.045%) Ceph
16 5 (0.032%) ClearTrust
16 5 (0.032%) Squid
17 4 (0.026%) Samba
Systems Management
1 411 (2.65%) Terraform
2 385 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 384 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 185 (1.19%) Ansible
5 87 (0.56%) SCCM
6 63 (0.41%) Grafana
6 63 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 54 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 39 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (0.24%) Nagios
10 33 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 22 (0.14%) Argo
12 18 (0.12%) Autotask
12 18 (0.12%) Kibana
12 18 (0.12%) Podman
13 17 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.097%) Check_MK
14 15 (0.097%) Data Guard
14 15 (0.097%) EnCase
14 15 (0.097%) FTK
Vendors
1 5,760 (37.18%) Microsoft
2 1,975 (12.75%) ForeScout
3 644 (4.16%) Cisco
4 416 (2.68%) VMware
5 372 (2.40%) SAP
6 371 (2.39%) Oracle
7 359 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 352 (2.27%) Google
9 324 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 209 (1.35%) Dell
11 166 (1.07%) Databricks
12 150 (0.97%) Splunk
13 149 (0.96%) Adobe
14 139 (0.90%) Veeam
15 137 (0.88%) SolarWinds
16 116 (0.75%) Apple
17 114 (0.74%) Palo Alto
18 103 (0.66%) HubSpot
19 100 (0.65%) IBM
20 93 (0.60%) Sage