Social Skills Job Trends in Glasgow

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 208 128 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 14.55% 16.82% 16.94%
As % of the General category 34.32% 23.97% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 94 57 88
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,973 £36,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.11% -3.33%
75th Percentile £66,563 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,600 £77,875
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £32,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year +4.69% -35.99% +11.09%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 606 534 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.38% 70.17% 59.87%
Number of salaries quoted 315 179 255
10th Percentile £26,270 £28,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,125 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £33,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% -34.00% -4.76%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Glasgow

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.92%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.92%) Revit
4 3 (1.44%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.96%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.37%) Azure
2 22 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (8.17%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.69%) AWS
5 10 (4.81%) Azure AI
6 9 (4.33%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.37%) GCP
7 7 (3.37%) SaaS
8 6 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.44%) OCI
12 2 (0.96%) PaaS
12 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.48%) dbt
13 1 (0.48%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.33%) Firewall
2 8 (3.85%) DNS
2 8 (3.85%) VLAN
3 7 (3.37%) Network Security
4 4 (1.92%) Broadband
4 4 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (0.48%) Internet
5 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.48%) Modbus
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.73%) Power BI
2 11 (5.29%) Tableau
3 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.96%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Looker
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Git
2 5 (2.40%) JIRA
3 4 (1.92%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.48%) Hudson
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (20.19%) Finance
2 29 (13.94%) Marketing
3 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.73%) Law
6 14 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Legal
8 8 (3.85%) Banking
9 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.40%) Local Government
9 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.92%) Electronics
10 4 (1.92%) Retail
11 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.96%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (0.96%) Front Office
13 1 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (12.50%) Analyst
2 19 (9.13%) Development Manager
3 18 (8.65%) Business Development Manager
3 18 (8.65%) Business Manager
3 18 (8.65%) Lead
3 18 (8.65%) Senior
4 13 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 12 (5.77%) Sales Executive
6 11 (5.29%) Junior
7 10 (4.81%) Junior Analyst
8 9 (4.33%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.85%) Corporate Sales Executive
10 7 (3.37%) Administrator
10 7 (3.37%) Developer
10 7 (3.37%) Security Analyst
10 7 (3.37%) Senior Security Engineer
11 6 (2.88%) Account Manager
11 6 (2.88%) Consultant
11 6 (2.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.85%) Jakarta EE
1 8 (3.85%) JSP
1 8 (3.85%) Next.js
1 8 (3.85%) React
2 7 (3.37%) .NET
3 2 (0.96%) SAP Basis
3 2 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.48%) CSS
4 1 (0.48%) HTML
4 1 (0.48%) NestJS
4 1 (0.48%) Node.js
4 1 (0.48%) ODBC
4 1 (0.48%) PySpark
4 1 (0.48%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) XML
4 1 (0.48%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.77%) Cloud Native
1 12 (5.77%) Driving Licence
1 12 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.85%) Podcast
2 8 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
3 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.40%) Cyberattack
4 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.44%) Shadow IT
5 3 (1.44%) Social Media
6 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.96%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.96%) SCADA
7 1 (0.48%) CCTV
7 1 (0.48%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.21%) Windows
2 8 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.40%) Linux
4 4 (1.92%) Debian
4 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) AIX
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (20.67%) Decision-Making
3 39 (18.75%) AI
4 38 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (14.42%) Agile
6 29 (13.94%) Business Development
7 28 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 23 (11.06%) Mentoring
10 22 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (9.62%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.65%) Analytics
13 18 (8.65%) Project Delivery
13 18 (8.65%) Service Delivery
13 18 (8.65%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.17%) Business Strategy
14 17 (8.17%) Customer Experience
15 16 (7.69%) DevOps
16 15 (7.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.62%) Python
2 16 (7.69%) SQL
3 15 (7.21%) JavaScript
4 13 (6.25%) Java
5 11 (5.29%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.88%) C#
6 6 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.48%) Bash
7 1 (0.48%) Go
7 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.48%) R
7 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.48%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (12.02%) Azure Certification
2 20 (9.62%) Degree
3 6 (2.88%) A+ Certification
3 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.40%) CCNA
4 5 (2.40%) CEH
4 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.40%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.44%) HND
5 3 (1.44%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.96%) CSPO
6 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.48%) AAT
7 1 (0.48%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) HNC
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) QA
2 8 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.92%) NIST
4 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) SLA
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 12 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.37%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 67 (32.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.62%) ForeScout
3 13 (6.25%) Cisco
4 11 (5.29%) Dell
5 5 (2.40%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.92%) BT
6 4 (1.92%) Databricks
6 4 (1.92%) Oracle
6 4 (1.92%) VMware
7 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.96%) Google
8 2 (0.96%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.96%) SAP
9 1 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.48%) IFS
9 1 (0.48%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.48%) Siemens