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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 637 671
Rank change year-on-year +125 +34 +116
Permanent jobs citing Emotional Intelligence 142 69 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.13% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39 43 18
10th Percentile £34,500 £34,905 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,170 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.72% +42.73%
75th Percentile £118,750 £84,375 £123,749
90th Percentile £139,000 £137,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £93,889
% change year-on-year +16.67% -52.07% +73.87%

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 49,036 48,491 50,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.83% 90.77% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,943 23,557 38,431
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.74% -6.31%

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 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Emotional Intelligence in the UK

Emotional Intelligence
Top 13 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 16 January 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 +118 115 £52,500 +16.67% 27
Scotland - 82 - - 1
England +63 58 £82,500 +50.00% 42
Work from Home +75 28 £94,000 +79.05% 24
London +52 25 £102,500 -18.00% 19
South East +38 13 £52,500 - 13
Midlands +33 10 £38,250 -15.00%
West Midlands +27 6 £38,250 -15.00%
North of England +9 6 £82,500 +95.80% 6
South West +11 4 £35,000 +0.27% 5
East Midlands -5 4 - -
North West +15 3 £28,546 -32.25% 3
Yorkshire -5 3 £86,250 +41.99% 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 4 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.93%) SaaS
2 6 (4.23%) AWS
3 5 (3.52%) Azure
4 2 (1.41%) Datadog
5 1 (0.70%) GCP
5 1 (0.70%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) JUnit
1 4 (2.82%) Maven
1 4 (2.82%) Mockito
2 3 (2.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Git
General
1 115 (80.99%) Social Skills
2 53 (37.32%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (22.54%) Banking
4 16 (11.27%) Finance
4 16 (11.27%) Marketing
5 8 (5.63%) Retail
6 5 (3.52%) German Language
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.41%) Automotive
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Law
9 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (33.80%) Innovation Manager
2 36 (25.35%) Analyst
3 32 (22.54%) QA Analyst
3 32 (22.54%) Quality Analyst
4 11 (7.75%) Senior
5 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Manager
5 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 9 (6.34%) Support Manager
6 6 (4.23%) Lead
7 4 (2.82%) Account Executive
7 4 (2.82%) Business Analyst
7 4 (2.82%) Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Java Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Senior Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (2.11%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) REST
2 2 (1.41%) NumPy
2 2 (1.41%) Pandas
3 1 (0.70%) EDI
3 1 (0.70%) Flutter
3 1 (0.70%) React
3 1 (0.70%) RESTful
3 1 (0.70%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.04%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.11%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.41%) BBC
6 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.41%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.41%) FMCG
6 2 (1.41%) PMI
6 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Social Media
7 1 (0.70%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.34%) Windows
1 9 (6.34%) Windows 10
2 4 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (59.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (40.14%) Decision-Making
3 54 (38.03%) AI
4 52 (36.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (35.21%) Critical Thinking
6 49 (34.51%) Analytics
6 49 (34.51%) Customer Experience
7 48 (33.80%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 42 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (23.94%) Coaching
10 21 (14.79%) Agile
11 12 (8.45%) Software Delivery
11 12 (8.45%) Software Engineering
12 10 (7.04%) Conflict Resolution
13 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 9 (6.34%) Microservices
13 9 (6.34%) Mobile Application Development
13 9 (6.34%) Patch Management
13 9 (6.34%) Security Operations
13 9 (6.34%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.52%) Java
2 4 (2.82%) Bash
2 4 (2.82%) C
2 4 (2.82%) PL/SQL
2 4 (2.82%) R
2 4 (2.82%) SQL
3 3 (2.11%) Python
4 1 (0.70%) C#
4 1 (0.70%) Go
4 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (7.04%) Degree
2 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) CBAP
6 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (27.46%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) GRC
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.34%) SCCM
2 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (6.34%) ServiceNow
1 9 (6.34%) SolarWinds
2 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.82%) Oracle
4 3 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.70%) TippingPoint