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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 13 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -28
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 226 122 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 17.53% 16.78% 14.27%
As % of the General category 40.21% 23.97% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 97 57 110
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £36,225
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,800 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,600 £72,625
Scotland median annual salary £33,212 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -30.00% +2.04%

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 562 509 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.60% 70.01% 72.09%
Number of salaries quoted 300 173 286
10th Percentile £27,548 £28,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -14.01% -5.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,800 £84,125
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £32,951 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.57% -34.10% -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 6 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 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.88%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.33%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.33%) Revit
5 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.44%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 76 (33.63%) Azure
2 23 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.52%) AWS
5 15 (6.64%) Azure AI
6 8 (3.54%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.54%) SaaS
7 7 (3.10%) GCP
8 6 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.33%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.33%) OCI
11 2 (0.88%) PaaS
11 2 (0.88%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.44%) Datadog
12 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.44%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) DNS
2 7 (3.10%) Firewall
2 7 (3.10%) Network Security
2 7 (3.10%) VLAN
3 4 (1.77%) Broadband
3 4 (1.77%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.08%) Power BI
2 15 (6.64%) Tableau
3 6 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.88%) MySQL
5 2 (0.88%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.88%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.44%) Looker
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Git
1 6 (2.65%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 45 (19.91%) Finance
2 36 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.50%) Marketing
4 18 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.52%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.75%) Law
6 13 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.87%) Legal
9 10 (4.42%) Banking
10 6 (2.65%) Electronics
11 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.21%) Local Government
11 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.77%) Retail
13 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.88%) Front Office
15 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 30 (13.27%) Analyst
2 21 (9.29%) Senior
3 19 (8.41%) Junior
4 18 (7.96%) Development Manager
4 18 (7.96%) Junior Analyst
4 18 (7.96%) Lead
5 17 (7.52%) Business Development Manager
5 17 (7.52%) Business Manager
6 13 (5.75%) Technical Leader
7 11 (4.87%) Security Analyst
8 10 (4.42%) Data Analyst
8 10 (4.42%) Sales Executive
9 9 (3.98%) Account Manager
9 9 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 9 (3.98%) Ethical Hacker
9 9 (3.98%) Junior Data Analyst
9 9 (3.98%) Junior Security Analyst
9 9 (3.98%) Sales Account Manager
9 9 (3.98%) Sales Manager
9 9 (3.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.54%) Jakarta EE
1 8 (3.54%) JSP
1 8 (3.54%) Next.js
1 8 (3.54%) React
2 6 (2.65%) .NET
3 2 (0.88%) ODBC
3 2 (0.88%) SAP Basis
3 2 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.44%) CSS
4 1 (0.44%) HTML
4 1 (0.44%) NestJS
4 1 (0.44%) Node.js
4 1 (0.44%) PySpark
4 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.31%) Driving Licence
1 12 (5.31%) Management Information System
1 12 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.98%) Cyberattack
4 8 (3.54%) Podcast
4 8 (3.54%) Web Conferencing
5 7 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Shadow IT
8 3 (1.33%) Social Media
9 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.88%) IoT
9 2 (0.88%) PMI
9 2 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.44%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.19%) Windows
2 8 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.21%) Linux
4 4 (1.77%) Debian
4 4 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) AIX
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (19.03%) Decision-Making
3 42 (18.58%) AI
3 42 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (15.93%) Agile
6 32 (14.16%) Business Development
7 28 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (11.06%) Analytics
9 24 (10.62%) Customer Service
10 23 (10.18%) Mentoring
11 20 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.41%) Business Strategy
12 19 (8.41%) CI/CD
12 19 (8.41%) ITIL
12 19 (8.41%) Project Delivery
12 19 (8.41%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (7.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.62%) Python
2 17 (7.52%) SQL
3 15 (6.64%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.75%) Java
5 11 (4.87%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.65%) C#
6 6 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.44%) Bash
7 1 (0.44%) Go
7 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (17.26%) Azure Certification
2 25 (11.06%) Degree
3 9 (3.98%) CEH
3 9 (3.98%) CompTIA CySA+
3 9 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (2.65%) A+ Certification
4 6 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.65%) CCNA
4 6 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.33%) CISM
5 3 (1.33%) CISSP
5 3 (1.33%) CRISC
5 3 (1.33%) CSPO
5 3 (1.33%) IRCA
6 2 (0.88%) HND
6 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) HNC
7 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.73%) QA
2 8 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.65%) GDPR
3 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.65%) NIST
4 3 (1.33%) COBIT
4 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 13 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 77 (34.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.27%) ForeScout
3 11 (4.87%) Cisco
4 10 (4.42%) Dell
5 5 (2.21%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.21%) Databricks
6 4 (1.77%) BT
6 4 (1.77%) Oracle
7 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.33%) VMware
8 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) SAP
9 1 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow