Social Skills Job Trends in Loughton

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Essex > Loughton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Loughton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Loughton 2.04% - 57.14%
As % of the General category 10.00% - 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90,000 - £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £29,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.09%
75th Percentile £110,000 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% -8.15%

All General Skills
Loughton

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 Loughton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Loughton 20.41% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £26,000
25th Percentile £90,000 - £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +223.08% -6.47%
75th Percentile £110,000 - £40,750
90th Percentile - - £47,900
Essex median annual salary £40,000 £48,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.95% +8.33% -5.26%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Loughton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Loughton.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Loughton

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Loughton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Loughton citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Loughton citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Loughton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL