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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 218 122 294
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 16.14% 16.42% 15.21%
As % of the General category 37.20% 23.37% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 94 54 99
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,203 £36,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £38,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -22.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,375 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,050 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £33,000 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.54% -35.00% +11.11%

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 586 522 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.38% 70.26% 70.36%
Number of salaries quoted 306 173 266
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,050 £35,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -17.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,688
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £87,500
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 16 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 9 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.83%) IIS
4 2 (0.92%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.46%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.38%) Revit
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.46%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 67 (30.73%) Azure
2 22 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.34%) AWS
5 13 (5.96%) Azure AI
6 8 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.67%) SaaS
7 6 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.75%) GCP
8 5 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.38%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.38%) OCI
11 2 (0.92%) PaaS
11 2 (0.92%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.46%) IaaS
12 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.46%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.67%) DNS
1 8 (3.67%) Firewall
2 7 (3.21%) Network Security
2 7 (3.21%) VLAN
3 4 (1.83%) Broadband
3 4 (1.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.42%) Power BI
2 13 (5.96%) Tableau
3 6 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.92%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.92%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) Looker
6 1 (0.46%) MySQL
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Git
1 6 (2.75%) JIRA
2 3 (1.38%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (19.27%) Finance
2 33 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.39%) Marketing
4 20 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Law
6 13 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.50%) Legal
8 9 (4.13%) Banking
9 5 (2.29%) Electronics
9 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.29%) Local Government
9 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.83%) Retail
11 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.92%) Front Office
13 1 (0.46%) Billing
13 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (12.84%) Analyst
2 20 (9.17%) Senior
3 18 (8.26%) Development Manager
3 18 (8.26%) Lead
4 17 (7.80%) Business Development Manager
4 17 (7.80%) Business Manager
5 15 (6.88%) Junior
6 14 (6.42%) Junior Analyst
7 13 (5.96%) Technical Leader
8 12 (5.50%) Sales Executive
9 9 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Security Analyst
9 9 (4.13%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.21%) Account Manager
11 7 (3.21%) Corporate Sales Executive
11 7 (3.21%) Ethical Hacker
11 7 (3.21%) Junior Data Analyst
11 7 (3.21%) Sales Manager
11 7 (3.21%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.67%) Jakarta EE
1 8 (3.67%) JSP
1 8 (3.67%) Next.js
1 8 (3.67%) React
2 7 (3.21%) .NET
3 2 (0.92%) SAP Basis
3 2 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.46%) CSS
4 1 (0.46%) HTML
4 1 (0.46%) NestJS
4 1 (0.46%) Node.js
4 1 (0.46%) ODBC
4 1 (0.46%) PySpark
4 1 (0.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) XML
4 1 (0.46%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.05%) Driving Licence
2 11 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.67%) Podcast
3 8 (3.67%) Web Conferencing
4 7 (3.21%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.38%) Shadow IT
7 3 (1.38%) Social Media
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.92%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.92%) PMI
8 2 (0.92%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.92%) SCADA
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.96%) Windows
2 8 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.29%) Linux
4 4 (1.83%) Debian
4 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.46%) AIX
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (19.72%) Decision-Making
3 40 (18.35%) AI
4 38 (17.43%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (16.06%) Agile
7 31 (14.22%) Business Development
8 27 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (11.01%) Customer Service
10 22 (10.09%) Mentoring
11 21 (9.63%) Analytics
12 20 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.72%) CI/CD
14 18 (8.26%) Business Strategy
14 18 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (8.26%) ITIL
15 17 (7.80%) DevOps
15 17 (7.80%) Project Delivery
15 17 (7.80%) Service Delivery
15 17 (7.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.09%) Python
2 16 (7.34%) SQL
3 15 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.96%) Java
5 11 (5.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.75%) C#
6 6 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.46%) Bash
7 1 (0.46%) Go
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.46%) R
7 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.46%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (15.14%) Azure Certification
2 24 (11.01%) Degree
3 7 (3.21%) CEH
3 7 (3.21%) CompTIA CySA+
3 7 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (2.75%) A+ Certification
4 6 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.75%) CCNA
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (0.92%) CISM
5 2 (0.92%) CISSP
5 2 (0.92%) CRISC
5 2 (0.92%) CSPO
5 2 (0.92%) HND
5 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.75%) NIST
4 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.83%) GDPR
6 3 (1.38%) SLA
7 2 (0.92%) COBIT
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.92%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 72 (33.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.93%) ForeScout
3 13 (5.96%) Cisco
4 11 (5.05%) Dell
5 5 (2.29%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.83%) BT
6 4 (1.83%) Databricks
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle
7 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.38%) VMware
8 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.92%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.46%) DIgSILENT
9 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.46%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.46%) Siemens