Social Skills Jobs in Hertfordshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 357 465 657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 43.01% 22.49% 37.95%
As % of the General category 56.13% 45.37% 52.90%
Number of salaries quoted 172 332 252
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £44,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% -12.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 636 1,025 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 76.63% 49.56% 71.75%
Number of salaries quoted 314 787 437
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £25,800
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £64,875 £64,674 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -14.29% +10.53%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford 0 86 £43,500 -8.42% 555
Stevenage +5 36 £51,234 -6.85% 487
St Albans +1 23 £51,234 +34.83% 14
Borehamwood +1 20 £32,500 -18.75% 5
Hemel Hempstead +3 19 £35,000 -35.19% 479
Hatfield +11 15 £37,500 +7.14% 13
Royston +2 8 £55,000 +43.79% 3
Broxbourne - 8 £35,000 - 1
Rickmansworth -2 7 £50,967 +96.03% 3
Potters Bar +5 6 £50,967 +7.30%
Letchworth 0 6 £50,967 +85.33% 3
Hoddesdon +3 4 £50,967 +85.33%
Bishop's Stortford +1 4 £50,967 -15.06%
Abbots Langley 0 4 £50,967 -24.49% 1
Waltham Cross 0 4 - -
Welwyn Garden City -1 4 £44,234 +19.55% 10
Hertford -1 3 £72,984 +151.67% 6
Radlett - 3 - -
Cheshunt - 3 - -
Hitchin +4 2 £50,967 +34.12% 6
Berkhamsted +1 2 £50,967 +75.75% 1
Harpenden 0 2 £50,967 +88.77% 1
Buntingford - 2 £50,967 - 1
Tring - 2 £50,967 -
Sawbridgeworth 0 1 £50,967 -7.33%
Baldock - 1 £50,967 -
Ware - 1 £50,967 -
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.24%) IIS
2 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.84%) WordPress
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (10.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.84%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.56%) Simulink
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.84%) Magento
3 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (9.24%) Azure
3 20 (5.60%) AWS
4 18 (5.04%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.24%) Serverless
7 6 (1.68%) Rubrik
8 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.40%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.40%) PaaS
9 4 (1.12%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.12%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.12%) SaaS
10 3 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.84%) Cloudflare
10 3 (0.84%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.84%) IaaS
10 3 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.04%) Broadband
2 7 (1.96%) Firewall
2 7 (1.96%) FTP
3 6 (1.68%) DHCP
3 6 (1.68%) DNS
3 6 (1.68%) SSH
3 6 (1.68%) SSL
4 5 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.12%) VPN
6 3 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) WAN
7 2 (0.56%) Internet
7 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) Intranet
8 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.28%) IPv4
8 1 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.20%) Power BI
2 11 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.96%) Big Data
4 4 (1.12%) MySQL
5 3 (0.84%) Tableau
6 2 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.56%) GIS
6 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.80%) JIRA
2 7 (1.96%) Git
2 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.12%) Robot Framework
4 3 (0.84%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.56%) Snyk
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.28%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 124 (34.73%) Analytical Skills
2 96 (26.89%) Finance
3 69 (19.33%) Marketing
4 54 (15.13%) Influencing Skills
5 50 (14.01%) Public Sector
6 46 (12.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (10.08%) Banking
8 33 (9.24%) French Language
9 29 (8.12%) Financial Institution
9 29 (8.12%) German Language
10 16 (4.48%) Retail
11 14 (3.92%) Aerospace
12 12 (3.36%) Advertising
12 12 (3.36%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.80%) Aviation
13 10 (2.80%) Legal
14 9 (2.52%) Local Government
14 9 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (2.24%) Automotive
16 7 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (27.73%) Analyst
2 47 (13.17%) Business Change Analyst
2 47 (13.17%) Change Analyst
3 43 (12.04%) Business Manager
4 41 (11.48%) Business Development Manager
4 41 (11.48%) Development Manager
5 29 (8.12%) Credit Analyst
5 29 (8.12%) Research Analyst
6 25 (7.00%) Lead
6 25 (7.00%) Support Engineer
7 22 (6.16%) Senior
8 16 (4.48%) Applications Support
9 13 (3.64%) Coordinator
10 11 (3.08%) Developer
10 11 (3.08%) Senior Manager
11 10 (2.80%) Account Manager
11 10 (2.80%) ERP Support
11 10 (2.80%) IT Support
12 8 (2.24%) Bid Writer
12 8 (2.24%) Customer Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.52%) Web Services
2 7 (1.96%) RESTful
3 6 (1.68%) CSS
3 6 (1.68%) HTML
4 3 (0.84%) .NET
4 3 (0.84%) React
5 2 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.56%) Bootstrap
5 2 (0.56%) Kafka
6 1 (0.28%) Akka
6 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.28%) Jest
6 1 (0.28%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.28%) Memcached
6 1 (0.28%) NestJS
6 1 (0.28%) Next.js
6 1 (0.28%) Playwright
6 1 (0.28%) Redux
6 1 (0.28%) Sass
6 1 (0.28%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.12%) Credit Risk
1 29 (8.12%) Fixed Income
2 20 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.36%) Marketing Technology
4 10 (2.80%) Digital Media
4 10 (2.80%) PKI
5 9 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.96%) FMCG
8 6 (1.68%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.68%) iSeries
8 6 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.12%) AS400
9 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Licensing
9 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.48%) Windows
2 17 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (2.80%) Linux
3 10 (2.80%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.68%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.56%) Android
8 2 (0.56%) Debian
8 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (37.54%) Problem-Solving
2 123 (34.45%) Collaborative Working
3 67 (18.77%) Strategic Thinking
4 63 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (17.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 56 (15.69%) Business Case
6 56 (15.69%) Change Management
7 55 (15.41%) Use Case
8 50 (14.01%) Business Development
9 48 (13.45%) Business Analysis
9 48 (13.45%) Marketing Strategy
9 48 (13.45%) Workshop Facilitation
10 47 (13.17%) MoSCoW
10 47 (13.17%) Project Management
11 45 (12.61%) Collaborative Culture
12 43 (12.04%) Roadmaps
13 41 (11.48%) Decision-Making
13 41 (11.48%) Facilities Management
14 40 (11.20%) Risk Management
15 38 (10.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.84%) SQL
2 21 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.64%) Python
4 10 (2.80%) C
4 10 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.24%) C++
6 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.68%) Ada
8 5 (1.40%) PHP
9 4 (1.12%) RPG
9 4 (1.12%) RPG IV
10 2 (0.56%) Bash
10 2 (0.56%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) Java
11 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (31.37%) Degree
2 47 (13.17%) CBAP
3 29 (8.12%) CFA
3 29 (8.12%) Master's Degree
4 28 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.64%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.52%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.40%) HNC
9 4 (1.12%) HND
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) ACCA
11 1 (0.28%) CIMA
11 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.28%) GCIA
11 1 (0.28%) IIBA
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.60%) QA
2 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.68%) NIST
3 4 (1.12%) SLA
4 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.68%) Firmware
5 3 (0.84%) vSphere
6 2 (0.56%) Docker
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.24%) Terraform
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.68%) NetBackup
3 3 (0.84%) SCCM
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 63 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.12%) Bloomberg
3 12 (3.36%) Sun
3 12 (3.36%) VMware
4 10 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.68%) Commvault
6 6 (1.68%) Thales
6 6 (1.68%) Zerto
7 5 (1.40%) BroadSoft
7 5 (1.40%) Google
7 5 (1.40%) Polycom
7 5 (1.40%) Yealink
8 3 (0.84%) Adobe
8 3 (0.84%) Apple
8 3 (0.84%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.84%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.56%) IBM
9 2 (0.56%) Intel
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle