Social Skills Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 9,492 16,936 17,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.10% 22.71% 30.78%
As % of the General category 35.59% 40.50% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,902 11,482 7,442
10th Percentile £26,212 £24,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £44,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% -11.38% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -17.39% +4.55%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
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 Skills within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -1 2,963 £50,055 +16.21% 9,818
South East -1 2,550 £45,000 - 12,784
North West -3 1,764 £50,055 +11.23% 4,666
Midlands -3 1,319 £42,500 - 8,197
Yorkshire 0 1,016 £40,101 -10.89% 3,958
East of England -1 955 £42,500 -3.41% 6,401
West Midlands -3 842 £45,000 - 4,377
South West -1 828 £40,101 -10.89% 5,130
Scotland +11 595 £51,645 +14.77% 1,999
East Midlands -4 475 £38,000 -5.00% 3,283
Wales -8 225 £52,500 +27.43% 1,183
North East -7 181 £42,685 +9.45% 1,238
Northern Ireland +1 82 £55,000 +10.00% 636
Channel Islands 0 7 £80,000 -20.00% 96
Isle of Man +8 6 £91,000 +114.12% 9
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
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
1 233 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 186 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 97 (1.02%) CMS
4 82 (0.86%) Confluence
5 75 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
6 54 (0.57%) IIS
7 42 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 30 (0.32%) Umbraco
9 27 (0.28%) IBM Domino
10 26 (0.27%) Apache
11 24 (0.25%) WordPress
12 21 (0.22%) OpenEdge
13 18 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 17 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
15 13 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 12 (0.13%) SAS
17 8 (0.084%) Headless CMS
17 8 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
18 7 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
18 7 (0.074%) Kentico
Applications
1 938 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 660 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 300 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 190 (2.00%) Simulink
5 70 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 37 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 35 (0.37%) Trello
8 32 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 26 (0.27%) AutoCAD
10 19 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 18 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 15 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 11 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
14 10 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 10 (0.11%) Adobe XD
15 8 (0.084%) Revit
15 8 (0.084%) Sketch
16 7 (0.074%) Acrobat
17 6 (0.063%) SPSS
18 5 (0.053%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 326 (3.43%) Teamcenter
2 89 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 50 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 44 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 38 (0.40%) Shopify
6 33 (0.35%) Magento
7 31 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
8 20 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 18 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
10 17 (0.18%) Sage 200
11 16 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 16 (0.17%) Sage CRM
12 12 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
12 12 (0.13%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
14 10 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
14 10 (0.11%) Infor M3
14 10 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
14 10 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,156 (12.18%) Azure
2 783 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
3 719 (7.57%) AWS
4 416 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 294 (3.10%) SaaS
6 209 (2.20%) GCP
7 171 (1.80%) Entra ID
8 120 (1.26%) Serverless
9 111 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 90 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (0.95%) GitHub
12 74 (0.78%) Power Automate
13 68 (0.72%) Amazon S3
14 66 (0.70%) OneDrive
15 61 (0.64%) PaaS
16 59 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 58 (0.61%) PowerApps
18 51 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
19 50 (0.53%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 380 (4.00%) Firewall
2 293 (3.09%) Broadband
3 251 (2.64%) WAN
4 243 (2.56%) LAN
5 230 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 217 (2.29%) DNS
7 215 (2.27%) VPN
8 147 (1.55%) VoIP
9 146 (1.54%) DHCP
10 135 (1.42%) Network Security
11 100 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
12 99 (1.04%) VLAN
13 58 (0.61%) SAN
14 52 (0.55%) Wireless
15 48 (0.51%) SSL
16 47 (0.50%) Intranet
16 47 (0.50%) SD-WAN
17 46 (0.48%) Internet
18 36 (0.38%) BGP
19 34 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (3.88%) Power BI
2 333 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 202 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 115 (1.21%) MySQL
6 109 (1.15%) Tableau
7 91 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 90 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 85 (0.90%) Relational Database
10 81 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
11 75 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 73 (0.77%) Big Data
13 70 (0.74%) MongoDB
14 69 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 50 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 41 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 41 (0.43%) Metadata
17 36 (0.38%) RDBMS
18 31 (0.33%) Data Mining
19 27 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 289 (3.04%) JIRA
2 214 (2.25%) Rational DOORS
3 207 (2.18%) Git
4 82 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 80 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 66 (0.70%) Robot Framework
7 36 (0.38%) Selenium
8 35 (0.37%) GitLab
9 27 (0.28%) Postman
10 25 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 24 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
12 23 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.19%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.19%) TeamCity
14 17 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.18%) JUnit
14 17 (0.18%) webpack
15 14 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 13 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
17 12 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 2,379 (25.06%) Finance
2 1,729 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1,106 (11.65%) Marketing
4 838 (8.83%) Presentation Skills
5 619 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 618 (6.51%) Manufacturing
7 584 (6.15%) Electronics
8 467 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 439 (4.62%) Law
10 437 (4.60%) Public Sector
11 410 (4.32%) Retail
12 402 (4.24%) Legal
13 385 (4.06%) Aerospace
14 341 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
15 316 (3.33%) Banking
16 261 (2.75%) Automotive
17 230 (2.42%) Telecoms
18 132 (1.39%) Advertising
19 124 (1.31%) Military
20 110 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,262 (13.30%) Senior
2 1,180 (12.43%) Analyst
3 664 (7.00%) Lead
4 653 (6.88%) IT Support
5 613 (6.46%) Systems Engineer
6 549 (5.78%) Support Engineer
7 517 (5.45%) Developer
8 449 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 390 (4.11%) Development Manager
10 323 (3.40%) Architect
11 310 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 305 (3.21%) Business Manager
13 287 (3.02%) Support Analyst
14 281 (2.96%) Business Development Manager
15 276 (2.91%) Junior
16 234 (2.47%) Systems Manager
17 229 (2.41%) Product Manager
18 216 (2.28%) Technical Support
19 214 (2.25%) Resource Manager
20 183 (1.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (3.23%) .NET
2 239 (2.52%) HTML
3 194 (2.04%) CSS
4 137 (1.44%) REST
5 134 (1.41%) React
6 92 (0.97%) RESTful
7 87 (0.92%) Node.js
8 82 (0.86%) ASP.NET
9 78 (0.82%) Spring
10 77 (0.81%) AngularJS
11 69 (0.73%) Web Services
12 67 (0.71%) .NET Framework
12 67 (0.71%) Middleware
13 65 (0.68%) SOAP
14 64 (0.67%) XML
15 63 (0.66%) jQuery
16 57 (0.60%) JSON
16 57 (0.60%) Kafka
17 55 (0.58%) Spring Boot
18 51 (0.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 544 (5.73%) Management Information System
2 435 (4.58%) Driving Licence
3 401 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
4 249 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 242 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 215 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 170 (1.79%) Social Media
8 162 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 120 (1.26%) FMCG
10 105 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 99 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 95 (1.00%) IoT
13 85 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
14 80 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 76 (0.80%) Cloud Native
16 75 (0.79%) Credit Risk
17 71 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
18 68 (0.72%) CCTV
19 67 (0.71%) EPoS
20 63 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1,199 (12.63%) Windows
2 385 (4.06%) Linux
3 277 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 190 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 125 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 92 (0.97%) Unix
7 87 (0.92%) Android
8 82 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 75 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 50 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 32 (0.34%) Windows Vista
12 29 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 25 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 21 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 19 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 15 (0.16%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.13%) VMS
18 9 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
19 6 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
20 4 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,311 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 1,539 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,402 (14.77%) Agile
4 1,396 (14.71%) Project Management
5 1,010 (10.64%) Analytics
6 957 (10.08%) Mentoring
7 949 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 852 (8.98%) Computer Science
9 827 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
10 737 (7.76%) Mathematics
11 731 (7.70%) Systems Engineering
12 717 (7.55%) Roadmaps
13 714 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 709 (7.47%) Risk Management
15 682 (7.18%) Decision-Making
16 654 (6.89%) DevOps
17 650 (6.85%) ERP
18 620 (6.53%) Coaching
19 578 (6.09%) ITIL
20 577 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 875 (9.22%) SQL
2 546 (5.75%) Python
3 403 (4.25%) JavaScript
4 330 (3.48%) C#
5 325 (3.42%) Java
6 318 (3.35%) MATLAB
7 265 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 132 (1.39%) C++
9 118 (1.24%) PHP
10 116 (1.22%) Bash
11 93 (0.98%) C
11 93 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 61 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 45 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 45 (0.47%) R
14 28 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 28 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 25 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (0.26%) VBA
16 23 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,114 (32.81%) Degree
2 1,061 (11.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 486 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 340 (3.58%) Security Cleared
5 338 (3.56%) HND
6 325 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 299 (3.15%) HNC
8 291 (3.07%) DBS Check
9 224 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 207 (2.18%) SC Cleared
11 130 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
12 124 (1.31%) MBA
13 114 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 109 (1.15%) CBAP
14 109 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
15 107 (1.13%) PMP
16 103 (1.09%) CISSP
17 95 (1.00%) Azure Certification
18 90 (0.95%) A+ Certification
19 77 (0.81%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (3.99%) QA
2 224 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 223 (2.35%) GDPR
4 219 (2.31%) SLA
5 188 (1.98%) Data Quality
6 120 (1.26%) Def Stans
7 114 (1.20%) IEC 61508
8 105 (1.11%) NIST
9 88 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 57 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 56 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 42 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 41 (0.43%) PMO
14 39 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 34 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 29 (0.31%) GRC
16 29 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 26 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 25 (0.26%) HIPAA
19 22 (0.23%) DO-254
System Software
1 660 (6.95%) Active Directory
2 217 (2.29%) Docker
3 195 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 128 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 75 (0.79%) Firmware
6 48 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 45 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.27%) vSphere
9 22 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 19 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 17 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.053%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.053%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.053%) Postfix
15 3 (0.032%) HDFS
15 3 (0.032%) NFS
15 3 (0.032%) XenApp
16 2 (0.021%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 190 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 186 (1.96%) Terraform
3 132 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 95 (1.00%) Ansible
5 47 (0.50%) Grafana
6 44 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 27 (0.28%) SCCM
8 21 (0.22%) Puppet
9 19 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.14%) QRadar
12 11 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.12%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.095%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.084%) PaperCut
15 7 (0.074%) SmoothWall
16 6 (0.063%) AirWatch
16 6 (0.063%) Packer
16 6 (0.063%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,016 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 321 (3.38%) Cisco
3 278 (2.93%) SAP
4 253 (2.67%) Google
4 253 (2.67%) IBM
5 249 (2.62%) Oracle
6 246 (2.59%) VMware
7 241 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 159 (1.68%) ANSYS
9 148 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 105 (1.11%) Dell
11 84 (0.88%) Adobe
12 74 (0.78%) YouTube
13 70 (0.74%) Apple
13 70 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 68 (0.72%) Citrix
14 68 (0.72%) Sun
15 55 (0.58%) Alteryx
15 55 (0.58%) Meraki
16 53 (0.56%) Databricks