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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 13 4
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 193 131 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 12.93% 16.60% 17.46%
As % of the General category 31.95% 23.82% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 88 59 74
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,588 £32,575
25th Percentile £29,169 £30,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £37,500 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -24.62% -5.24%
75th Percentile £68,125 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,000 £78,375
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £32,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +4.69% -34.69% +8.89%

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 604 550 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.46% 69.71% 53.56%
Number of salaries quoted 306 195 227
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £34,600
25th Percentile £30,813 £31,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £46,500 £33,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +40.91% -35.92% -1.90%

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 13 October 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 12 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) IIS
4 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.07%) Revit
4 3 (1.55%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.52%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.04%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.28%) Azure
2 22 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (8.81%) AWS
4 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.18%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.15%) SaaS
7 7 (3.63%) GCP
8 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.07%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.04%) OCI
12 2 (1.04%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.52%) Dagster
13 1 (0.52%) Miro
13 1 (0.52%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) Firewall
2 9 (4.66%) VLAN
3 8 (4.15%) DNS
4 7 (3.63%) Network Security
5 4 (2.07%) Broadband
5 4 (2.07%) DHCP
6 2 (1.04%) Internet
6 2 (1.04%) VPN
7 1 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.52%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (4.15%) Tableau
3 4 (2.07%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.04%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.52%) Looker
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Git
2 4 (2.07%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.55%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) Hudson
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (22.80%) Finance
2 28 (14.51%) Marketing
3 23 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.25%) Law
7 14 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.70%) Legal
9 6 (3.11%) Banking
9 6 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.59%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.59%) Local Government
11 4 (2.07%) Electronics
11 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.55%) Retail
13 2 (1.04%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (1.04%) Front Office
13 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (10.36%) Analyst
2 19 (9.84%) Development Manager
2 19 (9.84%) Lead
2 19 (9.84%) Senior
3 18 (9.33%) Business Development Manager
3 18 (9.33%) Business Manager
4 13 (6.74%) Technical Leader
5 12 (6.22%) Sales Executive
6 10 (5.18%) Administrator
7 9 (4.66%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Consultant
8 8 (4.15%) Corporate Sales Executive
8 8 (4.15%) Developer
9 7 (3.63%) Senior Security Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Risk Manager
10 6 (3.11%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.59%) Account Manager
11 5 (2.59%) Engineering Manager
11 5 (2.59%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) Jakarta EE
1 8 (4.15%) JSP
1 8 (4.15%) Next.js
1 8 (4.15%) React
2 6 (3.11%) .NET
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Basis
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.04%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) CSS
4 1 (0.52%) HTML
4 1 (0.52%) NestJS
4 1 (0.52%) Node.js
4 1 (0.52%) PySpark
4 1 (0.52%) XML
4 1 (0.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.15%) Podcast
4 8 (4.15%) Web Conferencing
5 7 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Shadow IT
10 2 (1.04%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.04%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.04%) IoT
10 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.04%) PMI
10 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.04%) SCADA
10 2 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.29%) Windows
2 7 (3.63%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Linux
4 4 (2.07%) Debian
4 4 (2.07%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.07%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (22.80%) Decision-Making
3 38 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (17.10%) AI
5 28 (14.51%) Customer Service
6 27 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (13.47%) Business Development
8 25 (12.95%) Agile
9 21 (10.88%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.88%) Mentoring
10 19 (9.84%) Service Delivery
11 18 (9.33%) Customer Experience
11 18 (9.33%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.81%) Business Strategy
12 17 (8.81%) Coaching
12 17 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (8.81%) Project Delivery
13 16 (8.29%) DevOps
13 16 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (7.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
2 14 (7.25%) Java
2 14 (7.25%) Python
3 12 (6.22%) SQL
4 11 (5.70%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.59%) C#
5 5 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.52%) Go
6 1 (0.52%) Perl
6 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.52%) R
6 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (10.36%) Degree
2 10 (5.18%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.59%) HND
4 5 (2.59%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.55%) A+ Certification
5 3 (1.55%) HNC
6 2 (1.04%) AAT
6 2 (1.04%) CCNA
6 2 (1.04%) CEH
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.04%) CSPO
6 2 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.84%) QA
2 10 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) NIST
3 4 (2.07%) SLA
4 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.04%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 12 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.63%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (29.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.70%) Dell
3 10 (5.18%) Cisco
4 8 (4.15%) ForeScout
5 5 (2.59%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.07%) BT
6 4 (2.07%) Databricks
6 4 (2.07%) VMware
7 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle
8 2 (1.04%) Google
8 2 (1.04%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.04%) IFS
8 2 (1.04%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.52%) NEC
9 1 (0.52%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.52%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.52%) Siemens
9 1 (0.52%) YouTube