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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 576 739
Rank change year-on-year -74 +163 -27
Permanent jobs citing Emotional Intelligence 132 98 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.22% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 80 29 25
10th Percentile - £39,536 £33,125
25th Percentile £27,000 £63,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £105,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +154.55% -38.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £137,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,540 £57,500 £34,905
% change year-on-year -48.63% +64.73% -41.36%

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 80,399 44,438 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 88.74% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55,793 25,365 40,468
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%

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 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Emotional Intelligence in the UK

Emotional Intelligence
Top 16 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 30 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 -49 106 £29,540 -48.63% 37
England -49 93 £52,500 -50.00% 70
Work from Home -9 49 £43,000 -59.53% 34
Scotland +5 35 £27,000 - 3
Midlands -17 28 £38,500 -18.09% 1
London -55 23 £90,000 -28.00% 45
South East -28 19 £52,500 -30.00% 16
East Midlands - 18 £38,500 -
North of England -42 17 £70,000 -22.22% 2
Yorkshire - 11 £76,605 -
West Midlands -27 10 £125,000 +165.96% 1
North West -13 4 £27,581 -69.35% 2
East of England - 4 £35,000 - 2
South West -73 2 £76,290 +54.62% 11
North East - 2 £76,290 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £27,581 -

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 7 (5.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.33%) Azure
2 10 (7.58%) AWS
3 6 (4.55%) SaaS
4 2 (1.52%) GCP
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.76%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.30%) JUnit
1 7 (5.30%) Maven
1 7 (5.30%) Mockito
2 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 77 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (28.79%) Banking
3 30 (22.73%) Finance
4 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.12%) Legal
6 15 (11.36%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (6.82%) Law
7 9 (6.82%) Marketing
7 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Back Office
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Police
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (10.61%) Senior
2 13 (9.85%) Change Manager
2 13 (9.85%) Delivery Manager
3 12 (9.09%) Lead
4 8 (6.06%) Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Manager
5 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 7 (5.30%) Java Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (5.30%) Support Manager
6 6 (4.55%) Customer Service Specialist
6 6 (4.55%) Fraud Specialist
7 5 (3.79%) CIO
7 5 (3.79%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) React
2 8 (6.06%) REST
3 7 (5.30%) Spring
4 2 (1.52%) Flutter
5 1 (0.76%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.76%) Playwright
5 1 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.30%) Social Media
3 6 (4.55%) Podcast
3 6 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.52%) Life Science
6 1 (0.76%) CCTV
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.76%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.58%) Windows
1 10 (7.58%) Windows 10
2 7 (5.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 65 (49.24%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (43.94%) Coaching
4 39 (29.55%) Agile
5 25 (18.94%) AI
6 24 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 20 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
7 20 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 18 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 17 (12.88%) Scrum
10 16 (12.12%) Analytical Thinking
11 13 (9.85%) Business Strategy
11 13 (9.85%) Conflict Resolution
11 13 (9.85%) Contingency Planning
11 13 (9.85%) Planning and Forecasting
11 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (9.85%) Stress Testing
12 11 (8.33%) Customer Service
12 11 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.82%) Java
2 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.06%) SQL
3 7 (5.30%) Bash
3 7 (5.30%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.52%) C#
4 2 (1.52%) Go
4 2 (1.52%) Python
5 1 (0.76%) Ruby
5 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) Degree
4 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.27%) CRISC
4 3 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CISM
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
2 4 (3.03%) ISO 9001
2 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.27%) PMO
4 2 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.52%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.52%) GxP
4 2 (1.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.58%) SCCM
2 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (7.58%) ServiceNow
1 10 (7.58%) SolarWinds
2 7 (5.30%) Oracle
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (0.76%) Ariba
5 1 (0.76%) New Relic
5 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) Workday