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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 128 186 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 15.53% 19.52% 23.55%
As % of the General category 25.65% 37.35% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 57 69 109
10th Percentile £23,852 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £90,000 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -33.00% +25.00% -27.27%

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 common skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 499 498 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 60.56% 52.26% 61.54%
Number of salaries quoted 213 216 313
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £94,375 £77,900
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -7.08%

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 24 November 2025.

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 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.41%) AWS
2 17 (13.28%) Azure
3 9 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.47%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.47%) SaaS
5 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.91%) Serverless
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (2.34%) GitHub
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) DHCP
1 5 (3.91%) DNS
1 5 (3.91%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (3.13%) WAN
3 3 (2.34%) LAN
3 3 (2.34%) Network Security
4 2 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.78%) BGP
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.78%) Internet
5 1 (0.78%) OSPF
5 1 (0.78%) VLAN
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) Power BI
2 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.13%) Tableau
4 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.34%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Metadata
6 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Git
1 8 (6.25%) JIRA
2 7 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.47%) Maven
3 3 (2.34%) Subversion
4 2 (1.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) Ant
5 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.78%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.78%) JUnit
5 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.78%) Protractor
5 1 (0.78%) Snyk
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) TestNG
5 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 48 (37.50%) Finance
2 31 (24.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.75%) Law
5 18 (14.06%) Banking
6 12 (9.38%) Marketing
6 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.47%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (3.91%) Electronics
8 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.13%) Legal
9 4 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Police
10 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.34%) Local Government
10 3 (2.34%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.34%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.56%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (15.63%) Software Engineer
2 14 (10.94%) Java Engineer
3 13 (10.16%) Java Software Engineer
3 13 (10.16%) Support Engineer
4 12 (9.38%) Lead
5 11 (8.59%) Analyst
6 10 (7.81%) Senior
7 8 (6.25%) Consultant
8 7 (5.47%) Developer
8 7 (5.47%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Electrical Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Innovation Manager
9 6 (4.69%) IT Support
9 6 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.69%) Sales Executive
9 6 (4.69%) Sales Manager
9 6 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.50%) Spring
2 12 (9.38%) React
3 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.47%) Hibernate
5 6 (4.69%) Kafka
6 5 (3.91%) HTML
7 4 (3.13%) jQuery
7 4 (3.13%) RESTful
8 3 (2.34%) Django
8 3 (2.34%) Pandas
8 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.56%) .NET
9 2 (1.56%) CSS
9 2 (1.56%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.56%) Node.js
9 2 (1.56%) REST
10 1 (0.78%) J2EE
10 1 (0.78%) JMS
10 1 (0.78%) LangChain
10 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.34%) Derivative
5 3 (2.34%) Equities
5 3 (2.34%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.34%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.03%) Windows
2 4 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.59%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.22%) Agile
3 23 (17.97%) Software Engineering
4 21 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (14.06%) AI
6 17 (13.28%) Customer Experience
7 15 (11.72%) Project Management
8 14 (10.94%) Decision-Making
8 14 (10.94%) SDLC
9 13 (10.16%) Analytics
9 13 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.38%) CI/CD
11 11 (8.59%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (7.03%) DevOps
12 9 (7.03%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.03%) Scrum
12 9 (7.03%) Visualisation
13 8 (6.25%) Customer Service
13 8 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.06%) Java
2 17 (13.28%) SQL
3 10 (7.81%) Python
4 9 (7.03%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.34%) Bash
6 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) R
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Degree
2 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.69%) HNC
2 6 (4.69%) HND
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.13%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (3.13%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (2.34%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.34%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) CCIE
5 2 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.78%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CCNA
6 1 (0.78%) CCNP
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) SLA
3 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) SCCM
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) Oracle
3 5 (3.91%) VMware
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco
5 3 (2.34%) Dell
6 2 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.56%) ForeScout
6 2 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) Aruba
7 1 (0.78%) Citrix
7 1 (0.78%) Datto
7 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.78%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.78%) Intel
7 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.78%) Pega
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) Veeam