Emotional Intelligence Job Trends

Emotional Intelligence (Emotional Quotient)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Emotional Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 629 767
Rank change year-on-year -19 +138 -39
Permanent jobs citing Emotional Intelligence 136 66 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 83 28 30
10th Percentile - £47,800 £33,125
25th Percentile £27,000 £70,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £125,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% +194.12% -29.17%
75th Percentile £85,461 £137,500 £51,188
90th Percentile £113,720 £140,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -35.83% +41.18% -28.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Emotional Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Emotional Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Emotional Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Emotional Intelligence job vacancy trend in the UK

Emotional Intelligence
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Emotional Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Emotional Intelligence over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Emotional Intelligence in the UK

Emotional Intelligence
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Emotional Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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
UK excluding London +3 112 £38,500 -35.83% 38
England -17 98 £60,850 -51.32% 76
Work from Home +10 46 £83,210 -21.69% 39
Scotland - 35 £27,000 - 5
Midlands -10 27 £38,500 -26.67% 5
South East +5 25 £52,500 -30.00% 11
London -52 21 £90,000 -28.00% 45
North of England -23 19 £83,210 -7.55% 7
East Midlands - 18 £38,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 14 £83,210 - 7
West Midlands -31 9 £125,000 +138.10% 3
East of England - 5 £35,000 - 6
North West -2 3 - -
North East - 2 £125,000 -
South West -70 1 £125,000 +153.34% 3

Emotional Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (4.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.21%) WordPress
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.35%) Azure
2 9 (6.62%) AWS
3 7 (5.15%) SaaS
4 2 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (0.74%) GitHub
5 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.74%) MySQL
1 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) JUnit
1 6 (4.41%) Maven
1 6 (4.41%) Mockito
2 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 84 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.53%) Banking
3 24 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.65%) Finance
4 16 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (9.56%) Legal
6 11 (8.09%) Marketing
7 9 (6.62%) Law
8 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.21%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (2.21%) Local Government
10 3 (2.21%) Police
11 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.47%) Publishing
11 2 (1.47%) Retail
12 1 (0.74%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Games
12 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (10.29%) Senior
2 13 (9.56%) Change Manager
2 13 (9.56%) Delivery Manager
3 11 (8.09%) Lead
4 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Manager
4 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Support Manager
4 9 (6.62%) Support Manager
5 7 (5.15%) Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Java Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Senior Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (3.68%) CIO
7 5 (3.68%) Project Manager
8 4 (2.94%) Account Executive
9 3 (2.21%) Business Development Executive
9 3 (2.21%) ICT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) React
2 7 (5.15%) REST
3 6 (4.41%) Spring
4 2 (1.47%) Flutter
5 1 (0.74%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.74%) Playwright
5 1 (0.74%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.21%) CCTV
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.47%) Life Science
4 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.74%) Shadow IT
5 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.56%) Windows
1 13 (9.56%) Windows 10
2 6 (4.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 63 (46.32%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (41.91%) Coaching
4 40 (29.41%) Agile
5 24 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 22 (16.18%) AI
7 18 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
7 18 (13.24%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 16 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
10 15 (11.03%) Scrum
11 14 (10.29%) Business Strategy
11 14 (10.29%) Conflict Resolution
11 14 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (9.56%) Contingency Planning
12 13 (9.56%) Planning and Forecasting
12 13 (9.56%) Stress Testing
13 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 12 (8.82%) Patch Management
13 12 (8.82%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.88%) Java
2 7 (5.15%) JavaScript
2 7 (5.15%) SQL
3 6 (4.41%) Bash
3 6 (4.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.47%) C#
4 2 (1.47%) Go
4 2 (1.47%) Python
5 1 (0.74%) Ruby
5 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (7.35%) Degree
1 10 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) CRISC
4 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.47%) PMP
5 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.74%) CISM
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.94%) PMO
4 2 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.47%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.47%) GxP
4 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (9.56%) SCCM
2 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (8.82%) ServiceNow
1 12 (8.82%) SolarWinds
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.41%) Oracle
4 4 (2.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Ariba
6 1 (0.74%) New Relic
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Workday