Social Skills Jobs in Scotland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,257 1,475 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.72% 31.15% 24.04%
As % of the General category 25.95% 41.36% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 617 637 690
10th Percentile £24,875 £33,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
Scotland

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,843 3,566 3,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.12% 75.31% 61.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 1,715 1,910
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £87,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -34 531 £50,000 -9.09% 125
Edinburgh 0 312 £52,500 -12.50% 152
Aberdeen 0 90 £35,000 -17.65% 61
West Lothian +6 42 £27,500 -38.89% 11
Highlands 0 29 £41,000 +51.85% 16
Dundee -2 28 £49,990 +5.00% 5
Lanarkshire +2 25 £44,250 -15.71% 46
Stirling +4 24 £26,637 -18.04% 7
North Lanarkshire 0 24 £35,000 +40.00% 5
Fife -1 24 £41,659 +4.15% 10
Dumfries and Galloway 0 16 £39,000 +33.33% 6
Aberdeenshire +5 15 £35,000 -39.13% 35
Renfrewshire +2 15 £40,000 - 6
South Lanarkshire 0 9 £32,000 - 4
East Ayrshire - 9 £26,500 - 1
Midlothian 0 6 £35,000 - 50
Moray +1 5 - - 1
Perthshire +4 4 £30,000 - 3
Perth and Kinross 0 4 - -
Ross-shire - 4 - - 1
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 - 1
Dunbartonshire - 4 - - 2
East Lothian - 3 - -
South Ayrshire +1 2 £57,500 - 13
West Dunbartonshire +1 2 £17,000 - 1
Argyll and Bute - 2 £23,802 - 4
Inverclyde -3 1 £23,000 - 2
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 30 (2.39%) Confluence
2 28 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.80%) SAS
6 8 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.32%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.080%) IIS
9 1 (0.080%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 135 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (8.67%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.55%) UserZoom
4 18 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.40%) Simulink
7 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.24%) InDesign
8 3 (0.24%) InVision
8 3 (0.24%) Sketch
9 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.080%) EViews
10 1 (0.080%) Revit
10 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.24%) Primavera
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.080%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 183 (14.56%) AWS
2 137 (10.90%) Azure
3 85 (6.76%) SaaS
4 82 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 72 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (5.65%) Datadog
7 57 (4.53%) GCP
8 54 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (2.86%) Figma
10 32 (2.55%) SurveyMonkey
11 31 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 31 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (1.83%) Google Docs
13 23 (1.83%) Lucidchart
13 23 (1.83%) Miro
13 23 (1.83%) Slack
14 17 (1.35%) IaaS
15 13 (1.03%) PaaS
16 12 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.93%) Wireless
2 26 (2.07%) Firewall
3 25 (1.99%) WAN
4 22 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.67%) VPN
6 20 (1.59%) Network Security
7 19 (1.51%) Broadband
8 18 (1.43%) DNS
9 13 (1.03%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.95%) DHCP
11 11 (0.88%) VoIP
12 10 (0.80%) LAN
13 8 (0.64%) BGP
13 8 (0.64%) HTTP
13 8 (0.64%) MQTT
13 8 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (0.64%) SSL
14 7 (0.56%) NAS
14 7 (0.56%) SAN
15 5 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.05%) Power BI
2 44 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.39%) Big Data
4 26 (2.07%) Hadoop
5 24 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (1.83%) Redis
6 23 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.83%) Scylla
7 18 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.27%) RDBMS
10 13 (1.03%) DB2
10 13 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.88%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.80%) Tableau
14 5 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 62 (4.93%) Jenkins
2 55 (4.38%) JIRA
3 44 (3.50%) Git
4 21 (1.67%) Maven
5 20 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.19%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.80%) Gradle
10 9 (0.72%) JMeter
10 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.56%) Selenium
12 6 (0.48%) MSTest
13 3 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.24%) Postman
14 2 (0.16%) GitLab
14 2 (0.16%) JUnit
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 400 (31.82%) Finance
2 375 (29.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 213 (16.95%) Law
4 199 (15.83%) Marketing
5 186 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (7.96%) Legal
7 98 (7.80%) Public Sector
8 87 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
9 70 (5.57%) Banking
10 66 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.90%) Manufacturing
12 39 (3.10%) Retail
13 34 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 29 (2.31%) Electronics
16 14 (1.11%) Military
17 11 (0.88%) Publishing
18 10 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.80%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (15.67%) Software Engineer
2 149 (11.85%) Analyst
3 108 (8.59%) Lead
4 98 (7.80%) Senior
5 95 (7.56%) Developer
6 73 (5.81%) Business Manager
7 72 (5.73%) Business Development Manager
7 72 (5.73%) Development Manager
8 66 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 60 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
10 58 (4.61%) Java Engineer
11 53 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
12 52 (4.14%) Architect
12 52 (4.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 47 (3.74%) Business Analyst
13 47 (3.74%) User Experience Researcher
14 45 (3.58%) Project Manager
15 44 (3.50%) Graduate
15 44 (3.50%) Test Technician
16 43 (3.42%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.88%) React
2 71 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
3 56 (4.46%) HTML
4 54 (4.30%) AngularJS
5 47 (3.74%) Node.js
6 39 (3.10%) Spring Boot
7 38 (3.02%) Kafka
8 34 (2.70%) HTML5
8 34 (2.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 32 (2.55%) .NET
9 32 (2.55%) Spring
10 31 (2.47%) Drools
10 31 (2.47%) jBPM
10 31 (2.47%) Middleware
11 27 (2.15%) GraphQL
11 27 (2.15%) REST
12 23 (1.83%) CSS
13 17 (1.35%) JSON
13 17 (1.35%) RESTful
14 13 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.68%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.36%) Public Cloud
3 74 (5.89%) Algorithms
4 70 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 59 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 41 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 28 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.15%) Market Risk
10 26 (2.07%) Driving Licence
11 24 (1.91%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (1.27%) IoT
14 15 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.03%) Replication
16 11 (0.88%) Credit Risk
17 10 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
19 8 (0.64%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 103 (8.19%) Windows
2 84 (6.68%) Linux
3 47 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.39%) Unix
5 14 (1.11%) Mac OS X
6 11 (0.88%) Android
7 10 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.80%) VMS
8 8 (0.64%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.080%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.080%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (30.47%) Agile
2 288 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 278 (22.12%) Software Engineering
4 206 (16.39%) SDLC
5 164 (13.05%) Customer Service
6 163 (12.97%) Computer Science
7 156 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 152 (12.09%) CI/CD
9 151 (12.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 148 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 147 (11.69%) Project Management
12 143 (11.38%) Machine Learning
13 138 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
14 135 (10.74%) User Experience
15 133 (10.58%) Community of Practice
16 127 (10.10%) Analytics
17 125 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
18 119 (9.47%) DevOps
19 114 (9.07%) Mentoring
19 114 (9.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 190 (15.12%) Java
2 142 (11.30%) SQL
3 118 (9.39%) Python
4 80 (6.36%) C
5 60 (4.77%) JavaScript
6 55 (4.38%) Embedded C
7 53 (4.22%) C#
8 38 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 34 (2.70%) C++
10 32 (2.55%) Go
11 27 (2.15%) Bash
12 25 (1.99%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.91%) Scala
14 8 (0.64%) R
15 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.56%) PHP
15 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.48%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 354 (28.16%) Degree
2 68 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 27 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.75%) CISSP
9 20 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.59%) CISM
9 20 (1.59%) PhD
10 16 (1.27%) CCNA
11 15 (1.19%) CISA
11 15 (1.19%) GCIA
11 15 (1.19%) GCIH
12 14 (1.11%) GREM
13 13 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.95%) PMP
15 11 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.41%) QA
2 37 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 21 (1.67%) SLA
4 17 (1.35%) PMO
5 16 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.19%) ISO 9001
7 13 (1.03%) ITGC
8 12 (0.95%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.80%) NIST
11 8 (0.64%) GDPR
11 8 (0.64%) IFRS
11 8 (0.64%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.40%) WCAG
13 4 (0.32%) DICOM
13 4 (0.32%) HL7
13 4 (0.32%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 14000
14 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (4.93%) Firmware
2 33 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 27 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.67%) Docker
6 13 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) pfSense
10 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (6.36%) Terraform
2 73 (5.81%) Grafana
3 60 (4.77%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.99%) Ansible
5 20 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.03%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.64%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.48%) SCCM
9 3 (0.24%) Autotask
9 3 (0.24%) CASB
9 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 1 (0.080%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.080%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.080%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.080%) Nessus
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.080%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.080%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 217 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.73%) Splunk
3 71 (5.65%) Dynatrace
4 46 (3.66%) Dell
5 45 (3.58%) Google
6 42 (3.34%) Oracle
6 42 (3.34%) SAP
7 32 (2.55%) Qualtrics
8 28 (2.23%) Cisco
8 28 (2.23%) VMware
9 19 (1.51%) Sage
10 13 (1.03%) NetApp
11 11 (0.88%) Apple
12 9 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.72%) TOWER Software
13 8 (0.64%) Mitel
13 8 (0.64%) NVIDIA
13 8 (0.64%) Sparx
14 7 (0.56%) IBM
14 7 (0.56%) Xero