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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 119 191 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 15.06% 21.08% 22.71%
As % of the General category 26.80% 38.74% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51 73 107
10th Percentile £22,129 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £53,086 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +1.12% +2.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £88,500 £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 444 493 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 56.20% 54.42% 64.75%
Number of salaries quoted 204 208 311
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,675 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,125 £65,125
90th Percentile £74,625 £95,750 £78,000
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.96% +0.95% -8.54%

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 1 December 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 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.84%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (12.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.29%) AWS
1 17 (14.29%) Azure
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.88%) SaaS
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.36%) Serverless
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.52%) Azure AI
5 3 (2.52%) GitHub
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) DHCP
1 4 (3.36%) DNS
1 4 (3.36%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.36%) WAN
2 3 (2.52%) LAN
2 3 (2.52%) Network Security
3 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.84%) BGP
4 1 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.84%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.84%) Firewall
4 1 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.84%) OSPF
4 1 (0.84%) VLAN
4 1 (0.84%) VPN
4 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) Power BI
2 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.20%) Tableau
3 3 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.84%) Metadata
5 1 (0.84%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) JIRA
2 6 (5.04%) Git
3 5 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.20%) Maven
4 2 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.84%) Ant
5 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.84%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.84%) JUnit
5 1 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.84%) Protractor
5 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.84%) TestNG
5 1 (0.84%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 42 (35.29%) Finance
2 24 (20.17%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.13%) Law
4 13 (10.92%) Banking
5 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.40%) Marketing
7 7 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (4.20%) Electronics
8 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.36%) Legal
9 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.36%) Police
10 3 (2.52%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.52%) Local Government
10 3 (2.52%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (11.76%) Software Engineer
2 12 (10.08%) Analyst
3 11 (9.24%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) Java Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) Lead
5 9 (7.56%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Consultant
6 8 (6.72%) Senior
7 6 (5.04%) Innovation Manager
7 6 (5.04%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Junior
7 6 (5.04%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (5.04%) Sales Executive
7 6 (5.04%) Sales Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Electrical Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) ERP Consultant
8 5 (4.20%) IT Support
8 5 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) Spring
2 9 (7.56%) React
3 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.04%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.36%) Kafka
5 3 (2.52%) HTML
5 3 (2.52%) jQuery
5 3 (2.52%) RESTful
6 2 (1.68%) Django
6 2 (1.68%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.68%) Node.js
6 2 (1.68%) Pandas
6 2 (1.68%) REST
6 2 (1.68%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.84%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.84%) LangChain
7 1 (0.84%) Next.js
7 1 (0.84%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Driving Licence
2 12 (10.08%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.52%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.68%) Derivative
5 2 (1.68%) Equities
5 2 (1.68%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Life Science
6 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Windows
2 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.45%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (20.17%) Agile
3 21 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (15.97%) AI
5 18 (15.13%) Customer Experience
6 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 14 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 13 (10.92%) Analytics
8 13 (10.92%) Project Management
8 13 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.24%) SDLC
10 10 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (8.40%) CI/CD
11 9 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (6.72%) Visualisation
13 7 (5.88%) ITIL
13 7 (5.88%) Mentoring
13 7 (5.88%) Scrum
13 7 (5.88%) Sprint Planning
14 6 (5.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.45%) SQL
2 14 (11.76%) Java
3 10 (8.40%) Python
4 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.52%) Bash
6 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.84%) R
8 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) Degree
2 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.20%) HNC
3 5 (4.20%) HND
4 4 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.36%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (3.36%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.52%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) CCIE
6 2 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) CCNA
7 1 (0.84%) CCNP
7 1 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) SLA
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (7.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.84%) Ansible
3 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle
3 4 (3.36%) Cisco
3 4 (3.36%) VMware
4 3 (2.52%) Dell
4 3 (2.52%) ForeScout
5 2 (1.68%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) Aruba
6 1 (0.84%) Citrix
6 1 (0.84%) Datto
6 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.84%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.84%) Intel
6 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.84%) Pega
6 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.84%) Veeam