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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 12 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -30
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 237 124 344
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 19.19% 17.10% 14.19%
As % of the General category 43.57% 24.46% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 99 54 140
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £31,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -22.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,125 £74,125
Scotland median annual salary £33,212 £37,250 £49,500
% change year-on-year -10.84% -24.75% -1.00%

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 544 507 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.05% 69.93% 75.25%
Number of salaries quoted 281 165 329
10th Percentile £27,581 £25,203 £36,200
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -13.73% -7.27%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £33,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% -34.00% -9.09%

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 25 August 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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.69%) IIS
4 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.27%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.84%) Revit
6 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.18%) Azure
2 23 (9.70%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (8.44%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.59%) AWS
5 16 (6.75%) Azure AI
6 9 (3.80%) SaaS
7 7 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.95%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.95%) GCP
8 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.27%) OCI
10 2 (0.84%) PaaS
10 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.42%) Datadog
11 1 (0.42%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.38%) Firewall
1 8 (3.38%) Network Security
2 7 (2.95%) DNS
2 7 (2.95%) VLAN
3 4 (1.69%) Broadband
4 3 (1.27%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.17%) Power BI
2 16 (6.75%) Tableau
3 6 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.84%) MySQL
5 2 (0.84%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.84%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.42%) Looker
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Git
1 6 (2.53%) JIRA
2 3 (1.27%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (20.25%) Finance
2 39 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.97%) Marketing
4 18 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.49%) Law
5 13 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.64%) Legal
8 10 (4.22%) Banking
9 7 (2.95%) Electronics
9 7 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.11%) Local Government
10 5 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.69%) Retail
12 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.84%) Front Office
14 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 32 (13.50%) Analyst
2 22 (9.28%) Senior
3 21 (8.86%) Junior
4 20 (8.44%) Junior Analyst
5 18 (7.59%) Development Manager
5 18 (7.59%) Lead
6 17 (7.17%) Business Development Manager
6 17 (7.17%) Business Manager
7 13 (5.49%) Technical Leader
8 12 (5.06%) Security Analyst
9 11 (4.64%) Data Analyst
9 11 (4.64%) Ethical Hacker
9 11 (4.64%) Sales Executive
10 10 (4.22%) Account Manager
10 10 (4.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Junior Data Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Junior Security Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Sales Account Manager
10 10 (4.22%) Sales Manager
10 10 (4.22%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
1 8 (3.38%) JSP
1 8 (3.38%) Next.js
1 8 (3.38%) React
2 6 (2.53%) .NET
3 3 (1.27%) Terraform
4 2 (0.84%) ODBC
4 2 (0.84%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.42%) CSS
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) NestJS
5 1 (0.42%) Node.js
5 1 (0.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.49%) Driving Licence
1 13 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.64%) Cyberattack
4 8 (3.38%) Podcast
4 8 (3.38%) Web Conferencing
5 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Shadow IT
9 3 (1.27%) Social Media
10 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) IoT
10 2 (0.84%) PMI
10 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Windows
2 7 (2.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.69%) Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Debian
4 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (19.41%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (18.57%) AI
3 44 (18.57%) Decision-Making
4 39 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (15.61%) Agile
6 33 (13.92%) Business Development
7 27 (11.39%) Analytics
7 27 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (10.13%) Customer Service
8 24 (10.13%) Mentoring
9 21 (8.86%) Business Strategy
9 21 (8.86%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (8.44%) Service Delivery
11 19 (8.02%) Change Management
11 19 (8.02%) DevOps
11 19 (8.02%) ITIL
12 18 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (7.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.97%) Python
2 18 (7.59%) SQL
3 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.49%) Java
5 11 (4.64%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.53%) C#
7 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.42%) Bash
8 1 (0.42%) Go
8 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (18.14%) Azure Certification
2 27 (11.39%) Degree
3 11 (4.64%) CEH
4 10 (4.22%) CompTIA CySA+
4 10 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (2.53%) A+ Certification
5 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.53%) CCNA
5 6 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (1.69%) CISM
6 4 (1.69%) CISSP
6 4 (1.69%) CRISC
6 4 (1.69%) IRCA
7 3 (1.27%) CSPO
8 2 (0.84%) HND
8 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) HNC
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.70%) QA
2 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
2 8 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.95%) NIST
4 4 (1.69%) COBIT
4 4 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.27%) GRC
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 84 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.92%) ForeScout
3 11 (4.64%) Cisco
3 11 (4.64%) Dell
4 5 (2.11%) Alteryx
4 5 (2.11%) Databricks
5 4 (1.69%) BT
5 4 (1.69%) Oracle
6 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.27%) VMware
7 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.84%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) Sophos
8 1 (0.42%) Zscaler