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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 193 132 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 13.05% 16.69% 17.65%
As % of the General category 32.27% 24.04% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 89 59 78
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,588 £34,325
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £51,843
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -27.67% -1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,000 £77,875
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £32,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -35.35% +10.00%

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 598 549 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.43% 69.41% 52.85%
Number of salaries quoted 304 193 236
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,000 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £54,695
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -26.87% -0.56%
75th Percentile £69,063 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £90,000
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 7 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 11 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.07%) 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 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.07%) Revit
4 3 (1.55%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
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 50 (25.91%) Azure
2 22 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.29%) AWS
3 16 (8.29%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.18%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.15%) SaaS
6 7 (3.63%) GCP
7 6 (3.11%) Azure AI
7 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.55%) OCI
11 2 (1.04%) PaaS
11 2 (1.04%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.52%) Datadog
12 1 (0.52%) Google Analytics
12 1 (0.52%) Sumo Logic
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%) VPN
7 1 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.52%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.74%) Power BI
2 9 (4.66%) Tableau
3 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.04%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.04%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) Looker
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Git
2 5 (2.59%) JIRA
3 4 (2.07%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Hudson
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (22.28%) Finance
2 28 (14.51%) Marketing
3 23 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.25%) Law
6 14 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.70%) Legal
8 7 (3.63%) Banking
9 5 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.59%) Local Government
10 4 (2.07%) Electronics
10 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.07%) Retail
11 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.04%) Front Office
13 1 (0.52%) German Language
13 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (11.40%) Analyst
2 19 (9.84%) Development Manager
3 18 (9.33%) Business Development Manager
3 18 (9.33%) Business Manager
3 18 (9.33%) Lead
3 18 (9.33%) Senior
4 13 (6.74%) Technical Leader
5 12 (6.22%) Sales Executive
6 9 (4.66%) Security Engineer
7 8 (4.15%) Administrator
7 8 (4.15%) Corporate Sales Executive
7 8 (4.15%) Developer
8 7 (3.63%) Consultant
8 7 (3.63%) Junior
8 7 (3.63%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.11%) Junior Analyst
9 6 (3.11%) Risk Manager
9 6 (3.11%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.11%) Technical Manager
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 7 (3.63%) .NET
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Basis
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
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%) ODBC
4 1 (0.52%) PySpark
4 1 (0.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) XML
4 1 (0.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Cloud Native
1 12 (6.22%) Driving Licence
2 11 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.15%) Podcast
3 8 (4.15%) Web Conferencing
4 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.55%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.55%) Shadow IT
8 2 (1.04%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.04%) SCADA
8 2 (1.04%) Social Media
9 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.81%) Windows
2 8 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.59%) Linux
4 4 (2.07%) Debian
4 4 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) AIX
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (21.76%) Decision-Making
3 37 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (17.62%) AI
5 27 (13.99%) Agile
5 27 (13.99%) Customer Service
6 26 (13.47%) Business Development
6 26 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (11.40%) Mentoring
8 21 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (10.36%) CI/CD
10 19 (9.84%) Project Delivery
10 19 (9.84%) Service Delivery
11 18 (9.33%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.81%) Customer Experience
13 16 (8.29%) Analytics
13 16 (8.29%) Business Strategy
13 16 (8.29%) DevOps
13 16 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.29%) Python
2 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
2 15 (7.77%) SQL
3 13 (6.74%) Java
4 11 (5.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.11%) C#
5 6 (3.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.52%) Bash
6 1 (0.52%) Go
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 15 (7.77%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.59%) HND
5 4 (2.07%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.55%) CCNA
6 3 (1.55%) CEH
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.55%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.55%) HNC
6 3 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) CSPO
7 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.52%) AAT
8 1 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.84%) QA
2 9 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) NIST
3 4 (2.07%) SLA
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%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 11 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.63%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 60 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.22%) ForeScout
3 11 (5.70%) Cisco
3 11 (5.70%) Dell
4 5 (2.59%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.07%) BT
5 4 (2.07%) Databricks
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle
5 4 (2.07%) VMware
6 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.04%) Google
7 2 (1.04%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.04%) SAP
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) IFS
8 1 (0.52%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Siemens