Social Media Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Media
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Media over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 506 293
Rank change year-on-year +203 -213 +111
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 597 261 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.43% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.06% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 440 112 441
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,525 £25,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,225 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% -23.81% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47,250 £60,044 £87,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £38,000 £47,250 £56,500
% change year-on-year -19.58% -16.37% +25.56%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Social Media is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,010 24,691 30,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.86% 41.05% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,230 11,255 15,729
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in the UK excluding London

Social Media
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Media in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Social Media in the UK excluding London

Social Media
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Media in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Media in the UK excluding London

Social Media
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +121 211 £35,000 -12.50% 79
North of England +75 129 £39,500 -60.50% 152
Midlands +58 88 £35,000 -17.65% 80
North West +55 70 £40,000 -55.56% 93
West Midlands +47 53 £30,000 -18.92% 47
Yorkshire +63 50 £37,500 -62.50% 49
East of England +45 49 £25,750 -6.36% 32
Scotland -48 42 £55,000 +49.04% 22
East Midlands +18 35 £38,750 - 33
Wales +34 34 £37,500 +6.38% 8
South West -2 33 £31,778 -5.84% 38
Northern Ireland - 11 £42,000 -
North East - 9 £39,500 - 10
Social Media
UK

Social Media
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 47 (7.87%) WordPress
2 42 (7.04%) CMS
3 7 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.67%) Drupal
5 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 63 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (10.05%) Photoshop
3 51 (8.54%) Adobe Illustrator
4 44 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 41 (6.87%) InDesign
6 37 (6.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 36 (6.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 21 (3.52%) Adobe After Effects
9 17 (2.85%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.84%) Trello
11 4 (0.67%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.34%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.34%) CorelDRAW
12 2 (0.34%) Sketch
13 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.17%) InVision
13 1 (0.17%) SketchUp
13 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Magento
2 5 (0.84%) Shopify
3 3 (0.50%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.17%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 135 (22.61%) Azure
2 68 (11.39%) Entra ID
3 32 (5.36%) Google Analytics
4 21 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (3.18%) Canva
6 12 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 11 (1.84%) Google Ads
8 10 (1.68%) MailChimp
9 5 (0.84%) ChatGPT
9 5 (0.84%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.84%) SaaS
10 2 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.34%) Figma
10 2 (0.34%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (0.34%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.34%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.34%) Miro
10 2 (0.34%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.34%) Squarespace
11 1 (0.17%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 92 (15.41%) Broadband
2 67 (11.22%) 5G
3 14 (2.35%) Internet
4 10 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.51%) Intranet
6 7 (1.17%) Unified Communications
6 7 (1.17%) VoIP
7 2 (0.34%) DNS
8 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.67%) Power BI
3 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.50%) MySQL
3 3 (0.50%) Tableau
4 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.34%) Big Data
4 2 (0.34%) Metadata
5 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (0.84%) JIRA
2 3 (0.50%) WiX
3 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
General
1 306 (51.26%) Marketing
2 175 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 124 (20.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (12.73%) Finance
6 62 (10.39%) Advertising
7 54 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (6.70%) Retail
9 19 (3.18%) Games
9 19 (3.18%) Multimedia
10 17 (2.85%) Brand Awareness
10 17 (2.85%) German Language
11 13 (2.18%) Law
12 12 (2.01%) Legal
12 12 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.84%) General Ledger
14 10 (1.68%) Publishing
15 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Local Government
17 6 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (12.73%) Senior
2 72 (12.06%) Developer
3 67 (11.22%) Linux Specialist
3 67 (11.22%) Technical Specialist
4 65 (10.89%) Designer
5 53 (8.88%) .NET Developer
6 50 (8.38%) Graphic Designer
7 44 (7.37%) Social Media Developer
8 41 (6.87%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 38 (6.37%) Senior Linux Specialist
9 38 (6.37%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 38 (6.37%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 30 (5.03%) Communications Manager
11 26 (4.36%) Analyst
12 20 (3.35%) Graduate
13 16 (2.68%) Administrator
13 16 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
14 13 (2.18%) Junior
15 12 (2.01%) Business Manager
15 12 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.38%) .NET
2 53 (8.88%) .NET Framework
2 53 (8.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 53 (8.88%) Entity Framework
3 35 (5.86%) AngularJS
4 33 (5.53%) .NET Core
5 32 (5.36%) HTML
6 30 (5.03%) ASP.NET
6 30 (5.03%) ASP.NET MVC
6 30 (5.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 25 (4.19%) CSS
8 11 (1.84%) React
9 5 (0.84%) HTML5
9 5 (0.84%) Redux
10 4 (0.67%) jQuery
10 4 (0.67%) Sass
10 4 (0.67%) Vue
11 2 (0.34%) Ajax
11 2 (0.34%) LESS
11 2 (0.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.22%) Blog
2 57 (9.55%) Graphic Design
3 47 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (6.37%) Photography
5 33 (5.53%) BBC
6 23 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.85%) Video Editing
9 16 (2.68%) Driving Licence
10 12 (2.01%) Animation
10 12 (2.01%) NHS
11 7 (1.17%) Digital Media
11 7 (1.17%) Motion Graphics
11 7 (1.17%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.84%) Podcast
14 4 (0.67%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.67%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.67%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.67%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.22%) Linux
1 67 (11.22%) Ubuntu
2 17 (2.85%) Windows
3 11 (1.84%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.68%) Android
4 10 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.68%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.01%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (17.92%) CRM
2 99 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (14.74%) Digital Marketing
4 73 (12.23%) SEO
5 72 (12.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 69 (11.56%) Analytics
7 67 (11.22%) IT Strategy
7 67 (11.22%) Technology Strategy
8 53 (8.88%) Agile
8 53 (8.88%) Full Stack Development
8 53 (8.88%) Microservices
9 51 (8.54%) E-Commerce
10 48 (8.04%) B2B
10 48 (8.04%) Customer Service
11 44 (7.37%) Project Management
12 40 (6.70%) User Experience
13 37 (6.20%) Marketing Strategy
14 36 (6.03%) Time Management
15 34 (5.70%) Social Media Management
16 33 (5.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.22%) Bash
2 60 (10.05%) JavaScript
3 47 (7.87%) C#
4 13 (2.18%) Python
5 10 (1.68%) SQL
6 5 (0.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.50%) PHP
7 3 (0.50%) R
7 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (16.25%) Degree
2 33 (5.53%) DBS Check
3 12 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (1.84%) ACCA
4 11 (1.84%) CIMA
5 10 (1.68%) CCNA
5 10 (1.68%) CCNA CyberOps
5 10 (1.68%) CCNP
5 10 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.67%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.34%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.17%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (0.34%) GDPR
3 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 68 (11.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (11.22%) Jamf Pro
1 67 (11.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.17%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 155 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.23%) Adobe
3 74 (12.40%) Google
4 69 (11.56%) Facebook
5 67 (11.22%) CyberArk
5 67 (11.22%) Tanium
6 35 (5.86%) Apple
7 33 (5.53%) Sony
7 33 (5.53%) Yahoo!
8 28 (4.69%) SAP
9 24 (4.02%) Instagram
10 18 (3.02%) YouTube
11 16 (2.68%) Twitter
12 15 (2.51%) TikTok
13 13 (2.18%) Sage
14 11 (1.84%) CA
15 10 (1.68%) Cisco
16 6 (1.01%) Ahrefs
16 6 (1.01%) HubSpot
16 6 (1.01%) Salesforce