Social Skills Job Trends in Solihull

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Solihull. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 43 35 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 33.59% 23.33% 25.19%
As % of the General category 51.81% 36.84% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 26
10th Percentile £24,250 £43,950 £21,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £51,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +27.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £55,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £61,165
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £51,251 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -10.00%

All General Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 83 95 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 64.84% 63.33% 73.33%
Number of salaries quoted 46 37 85
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,900 £25,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £85,500 £66,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Solihull

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Solihull

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Solihull over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Solihull

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (16.28%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 4 (9.30%) AWS KMS
4 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) Route 53
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) Internet
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) FTP
2 4 (9.30%) HTTP
2 4 (9.30%) SMTP
2 4 (9.30%) SSH
3 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) IMAP
3 2 (4.65%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.30%) Vagrant
2 2 (4.65%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Subversion
3 1 (2.33%) Browser DevTools
General
1 21 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Public Sector
3 11 (25.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (20.93%) Banking
5 7 (16.28%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Marketing
7 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Lecturer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Head of Compliance
5 3 (6.98%) Head of IT
5 3 (6.98%) Head of IT Security
5 3 (6.98%) Head of Security
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Head of Delivery
6 2 (4.65%) Junior Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) .NET
2 2 (4.65%) HTML
2 2 (4.65%) LDAP
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) Ajax
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) CSS
3 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.33%) jQuery
3 1 (2.33%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (2.33%) LAMP
3 1 (2.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) WCF
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) IoT
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) VMS
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (32.56%) Roadmaps
3 13 (30.23%) AI
4 12 (27.91%) Analytical Thinking
5 11 (25.58%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (25.58%) IT Strategy
6 10 (23.26%) User Experience
7 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
7 9 (20.93%) Web Development
8 8 (18.60%) Systems Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) Agile
9 7 (16.28%) CRM
9 7 (16.28%) DevOps
9 7 (16.28%) Information Management
9 7 (16.28%) Technology Roadmap
9 7 (16.28%) Technology Strategy
10 5 (11.63%) Case Management
10 5 (11.63%) Performance Management
10 5 (11.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) C#
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) Groovy
3 4 (9.30%) Python
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Degree
2 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
2 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
3 9 (20.93%) Master's Degree
3 9 (20.93%) PhD
3 9 (20.93%) Postgraduate
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.65%) CIPD
7 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.98%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) DFS Replication
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
1 2 (4.65%) Dovecot
1 2 (4.65%) Postfix
1 2 (4.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Nagios
2 2 (4.65%) Nessus
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.65%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Adobe
3 1 (2.33%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce