Social Skills Jobs in the South East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the South East. 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 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 2,550 4,431 4,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.47% 25.26% 29.35%
As % of the General category 38.66% 45.11% 46.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 2,923 1,912
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,756 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,875 £68,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.52% +4.55%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,596 9,822 8,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.46% 56.00% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 6,125 4,315
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the South East.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the South East 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
Thames Valley 0 1,036 £47,500 +5.56% 4,467
Berkshire +1 524 £48,750 +2.63% 2,734
Surrey 0 452 £45,000 +12.50% 1,158
Hampshire -1 446 £45,000 -4.76% 1,706
Oxfordshire 0 263 £51,500 +14.44% 624
Buckinghamshire -3 251 £47,500 +5.56% 1,126
Kent 0 159 £40,000 -1.84% 1,044
Middlesex -2 144 £62,500 +46.20% 3
West Sussex 0 123 £50,000 -6.10% 555
Isle of Wight -35 93 £65,000 +52.94% 4
East Sussex -10 86 £42,500 +9.68% 562
Sussex +9 5 £42,500 -26.72% 38
Home Counties +2 1 £50,000 -44.44%
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 62 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.57%) CMS
3 32 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.82%) IIS
5 20 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.71%) IBM Domino
7 15 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.39%) Confluence
8 10 (0.39%) WordPress
9 8 (0.31%) Apache
10 7 (0.27%) Kentico
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.078%) ColdFusion
13 2 (0.078%) Drupal
13 2 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.078%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.078%) ThingWorx
13 2 (0.078%) TPMS
Applications
1 178 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 101 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (1.65%) Simulink
4 13 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
7 9 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.35%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.27%) Acrobat
8 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 6 (0.24%) Trello
10 5 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
11 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.16%) InDesign
11 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.078%) Sketch
14 1 (0.039%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 35 (1.37%) Teamcenter
2 18 (0.71%) Oracle SCM
3 16 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 16 (0.63%) SAP FI
4 14 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.47%) Sage 200
7 11 (0.43%) Sage CRM
7 11 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.20%) PeopleSoft Financials
10 5 (0.20%) Shopify
11 4 (0.16%) SAP GRC
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
13 2 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
13 2 (0.078%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 361 (14.16%) Azure
2 182 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 168 (6.59%) AWS
4 108 (4.24%) Power Platform
5 88 (3.45%) SaaS
6 66 (2.59%) GCP
7 46 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (1.14%) PaaS
9 27 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 26 (1.02%) Serverless
11 25 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (0.86%) Amazon S3
14 21 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 20 (0.78%) PowerApps
16 18 (0.71%) OCI
17 17 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (0.67%) Power Automate
17 17 (0.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 139 (5.45%) Broadband
2 95 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 94 (3.69%) Firewall
4 83 (3.25%) VPN
5 72 (2.82%) DNS
6 59 (2.31%) WAN
7 57 (2.24%) LAN
8 50 (1.96%) VoIP
9 49 (1.92%) VLAN
10 46 (1.80%) DHCP
11 37 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (1.37%) Network Security
13 20 (0.78%) SSL
14 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.51%) Internet
15 13 (0.51%) SAN
15 13 (0.51%) Wireless
16 12 (0.47%) 5G
17 11 (0.43%) MPLS
17 11 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.29%) Power BI
3 57 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 38 (1.49%) Big Data
6 29 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (0.98%) Data Mining
9 23 (0.90%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.86%) Metadata
10 22 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 17 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (0.63%) MySQL
13 15 (0.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.51%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.43%) Redis
15 11 (0.43%) Tableau
16 10 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 83 (3.25%) Rational DOORS
2 60 (2.35%) JIRA
3 39 (1.53%) Cucumber
4 37 (1.45%) Git
5 36 (1.41%) Robot Framework
6 26 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.27%) Postman
9 7 (0.27%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.24%) JUnit
10 6 (0.24%) Subversion
11 5 (0.20%) Appium
11 5 (0.20%) GitLab
11 5 (0.20%) TestComplete
12 4 (0.16%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.12%) Mockito
13 3 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 728 (28.55%) Finance
2 389 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 323 (12.67%) Marketing
4 248 (9.73%) Law
5 175 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 156 (6.12%) Legal
7 129 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 113 (4.43%) Telecoms
9 106 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 103 (4.04%) Manufacturing
11 96 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
11 96 (3.76%) Retail
12 91 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
13 81 (3.18%) Electronics
14 52 (2.04%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.92%) Advertising
16 29 (1.14%) Military
17 28 (1.10%) Automotive
18 26 (1.02%) Banking
19 22 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 324 (12.71%) Senior
2 274 (10.75%) Analyst
3 234 (9.18%) Lead
4 196 (7.69%) Systems Manager
5 192 (7.53%) Resource Manager
6 164 (6.43%) Development Manager
7 158 (6.20%) Business Manager
8 151 (5.92%) Business Development Manager
9 134 (5.25%) Developer
10 129 (5.06%) Support Engineer
11 126 (4.94%) Architect
12 124 (4.86%) IT Support
13 86 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
14 85 (3.33%) Project Manager
15 82 (3.22%) Support Analyst
16 78 (3.06%) Senior Manager
17 64 (2.51%) Sales Executive
18 61 (2.39%) Engineering Manager
18 61 (2.39%) Junior
19 54 (2.12%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (4.12%) .NET
2 59 (2.31%) HTML
3 46 (1.80%) REST
4 41 (1.61%) CSS
5 29 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 28 (1.10%) React
6 28 (1.10%) SOAP
7 27 (1.06%) Middleware
8 25 (0.98%) .NET Framework
8 25 (0.98%) Kafka
8 25 (0.98%) RESTful
9 19 (0.75%) Web Services
10 17 (0.67%) HTML5
11 16 (0.63%) Spring
12 15 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 15 (0.59%) Blazor
13 14 (0.55%) JSON
13 14 (0.55%) Node.js
13 14 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 184 (7.22%) Management Information System
2 115 (4.51%) Driving Licence
3 113 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 73 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 54 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 51 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 42 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 41 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
11 33 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 30 (1.18%) Client/Server
12 30 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (1.18%) Social Media
13 27 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
14 26 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 25 (0.98%) Cloud Native
16 24 (0.94%) IoT
17 23 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
18 21 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 254 (9.96%) Windows
2 110 (4.31%) Linux
3 54 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.88%) Mac OS
5 39 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 33 (1.29%) Unix
7 27 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.35%) Android
11 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.039%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
2 498 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 431 (16.90%) Agile
4 420 (16.47%) Analytics
5 399 (15.65%) Mentoring
6 348 (13.65%) Project Management
7 337 (13.22%) Computer Science
8 304 (11.92%) ERP
9 288 (11.29%) Data Management
10 271 (10.63%) Roadmaps
11 251 (9.84%) Collaborative Working
12 238 (9.33%) Customer Service
13 219 (8.59%) DevOps
14 209 (8.20%) Coaching
15 203 (7.96%) Business Development
16 185 (7.25%) Strategic Thinking
17 184 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 179 (7.02%) Collaborative Culture
19 175 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
20 166 (6.51%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 258 (10.12%) SQL
2 181 (7.10%) Python
3 127 (4.98%) JavaScript
4 109 (4.27%) C#
5 105 (4.12%) Java
6 104 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 63 (2.47%) Bash
8 46 (1.80%) MATLAB
9 27 (1.06%) Apex Code
10 21 (0.82%) C++
10 21 (0.82%) Rust
10 21 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 19 (0.75%) PHP
12 14 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.47%) C
14 11 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.43%) R
14 11 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.35%) Scala
15 9 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 674 (26.43%) Degree
2 205 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 155 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 84 (3.29%) Security Cleared
5 82 (3.22%) Chartered Engineer
6 77 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 66 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (2.16%) CISSP
9 51 (2.00%) SC Cleared
10 47 (1.84%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.73%) CISM
12 41 (1.61%) PMI Certification
13 37 (1.45%) PMP
14 35 (1.37%) DV Cleared
15 29 (1.14%) CBAP
16 27 (1.06%) Azure Certification
17 26 (1.02%) A+ Certification
18 25 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
19 24 (0.94%) CRISC
20 21 (0.82%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (3.33%) QA
3 59 (2.31%) GDPR
3 59 (2.31%) SLA
4 54 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 35 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 35 (1.37%) NIST
7 29 (1.14%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 20 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.51%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.35%) GRC
13 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) PERC
14 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 142 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 50 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.33%) Docker
4 31 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.51%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.20%) Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 3 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.078%) GPFS
11 2 (0.078%) Lustre
12 1 (0.039%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.039%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 47 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.76%) Terraform
3 27 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.86%) Ansible
5 19 (0.75%) Grafana
5 19 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.51%) SCCM
7 12 (0.47%) Puppet
8 5 (0.20%) QRadar
8 5 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.16%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.12%) WSUS
11 2 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.078%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.078%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.078%) SCOM
11 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.078%) WMI
Vendors
1 577 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 108 (4.24%) IBM
3 90 (3.53%) SAP
4 85 (3.33%) Google
5 79 (3.10%) Cisco
6 78 (3.06%) Oracle
7 67 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 64 (2.51%) VMware
9 43 (1.69%) Dell
10 31 (1.22%) Adobe
10 31 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 25 (0.98%) Sun
12 25 (0.98%) Workday
13 23 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 22 (0.86%) Concur
14 22 (0.86%) Databricks
15 16 (0.63%) Citrix
16 15 (0.59%) Apple
16 15 (0.59%) Sage