Social Media
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Media over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 148 292
Rank change year-on-year -95 +144 +192
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 900 1,041 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 2.10% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 5.13% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 440 656 352
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,375 £10,258
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,063 £21,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £38,325 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.46% -15.29%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £53,100
90th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £38,325 £27,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +39.36% -31.25%

All Generic Skills
UK

Social Media falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,542 20,279 23,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 40.93% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19,376 10,163 11,791
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,819 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Social Media job vacancy trend in the UK

Social Media
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Social Media.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Social Media

Social Media
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Media over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 October 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
England -84 795 £36,000 -6.07% 764
UK excluding London -78 648 £35,000 -8.68% 384
Work from Home -7 334 £37,500 +7.91% 307
South East -85 203 £37,500 -2.15% 116
London -44 201 £47,000 +23.68% 455
North of England -113 111 £32,500 -13.04% 79
Midlands -38 109 £43,000 +16.45% 55
West Midlands -27 91 £43,000 +16.45% 45
East of England +7 87 £30,000 -4.76% 16
South West -60 73 £29,000 - 49
North West -73 64 £34,500 - 51
Scotland +28 37 £55,000 - 32
Yorkshire -66 34 £34,000 -19.05% 24
Wales -41 28 £32,500 -31.58% 29
East Midlands -21 18 £32,500 -25.29% 10
North East -63 13 £27,000 -40.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £27,581 - 13

Social Media
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 75 (8.33%) CMS
2 41 (4.56%) WordPress
3 14 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 6 (0.67%) Confluence
5 6 (0.67%) JBoss
6 5 (0.56%) nginx
6 5 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.33%) Drupal
7 3 (0.33%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 72 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (6.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 28 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.89%) Photoshop
5 17 (1.89%) UserZoom
6 16 (1.78%) InDesign
7 14 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 11 (1.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
11 6 (0.67%) CapCut
12 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.33%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.22%) Elementor
14 1 (0.11%) DaVinci Resolve
14 1 (0.11%) Houdini
14 1 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.44%) Shopify
2 20 (2.22%) Workfront
3 13 (1.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.78%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.22%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Odoo
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (7.00%) Google Analytics
2 57 (6.33%) Azure
3 53 (5.89%) Canva
4 43 (4.78%) AWS
5 37 (4.11%) SaaS
6 33 (3.67%) Adobe Analytics
7 31 (3.44%) Figma
8 26 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (2.56%) Google Ads
10 20 (2.22%) iPaaS
10 20 (2.22%) MailChimp
10 20 (2.22%) Power Platform
11 19 (2.11%) GCP
12 17 (1.89%) Contentsquare
13 16 (1.78%) Azure AI
13 16 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.78%) Meta Ads
14 15 (1.67%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.33%) ChatGPT
15 12 (1.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 126 (14.00%) Broadband
2 26 (2.89%) Internet
3 16 (1.78%) Network Security
4 13 (1.44%) Firewall
5 12 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.11%) Ethernet
7 9 (1.00%) WAN
8 7 (0.78%) SSL
9 6 (0.67%) DNS
10 5 (0.56%) DHCP
10 5 (0.56%) Intranet
10 5 (0.56%) LAN
10 5 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.56%) Wireless
11 4 (0.44%) SAN
11 4 (0.44%) VPN
11 4 (0.44%) VSAN
12 3 (0.33%) NAS
12 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.44%) Metadata
2 20 (2.22%) Power BI
3 19 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.44%) Tableau
6 12 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.33%) SAP BW
7 9 (1.00%) Looker
8 6 (0.67%) MySQL
9 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.11%) Big Data
11 1 (0.11%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.11%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (2.22%) Git
2 6 (0.67%) JIRA
3 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.56%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.11%) Maven
5 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.11%) Selenium
5 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 438 (48.67%) Marketing
2 419 (46.56%) Social Skills
3 138 (15.33%) Organisational Skills
4 130 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (13.00%) Finance
6 95 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (9.00%) Advertising
8 73 (8.11%) Retail
9 65 (7.22%) Legal
10 63 (7.00%) Games
11 46 (5.11%) Brand Awareness
12 31 (3.44%) Aerospace
13 26 (2.89%) Banking
14 24 (2.67%) Law
14 24 (2.67%) Manufacturing
15 23 (2.56%) Multimedia
15 23 (2.56%) Public Sector
16 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
17 19 (2.11%) Publishing
18 15 (1.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (9.00%) Lead
2 70 (7.78%) Marketing Manager
3 60 (6.67%) Marketing Executive
4 39 (4.33%) Designer
5 38 (4.22%) Development Manager
6 37 (4.11%) Business Manager
7 34 (3.78%) Business Development Manager
8 33 (3.67%) Senior
9 26 (2.89%) Coordinator
9 26 (2.89%) Developer
10 25 (2.78%) Administrator
10 25 (2.78%) Analyst
10 25 (2.78%) Architect
11 24 (2.67%) Trainee
12 21 (2.33%) Digital Executive
12 21 (2.33%) Graphic Designer
13 19 (2.11%) Customer Service Specialist
14 18 (2.00%) Account Manager
14 18 (2.00%) Product Owner
15 17 (1.89%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.78%) HTML
2 29 (3.22%) ModSecurity
3 25 (2.78%) CSS
4 24 (2.67%) React
5 18 (2.00%) RESTful
6 16 (1.78%) .NET
6 16 (1.78%) .NET Core
6 16 (1.78%) ASP.NET
6 16 (1.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 16 (1.78%) Blazor
6 16 (1.78%) ML.NET
6 16 (1.78%) OAuth
6 16 (1.78%) OpenID
7 13 (1.44%) LDAP
8 12 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.22%) SAML
10 5 (0.56%) CSS3
10 5 (0.56%) HTML5
10 5 (0.56%) Keycloak
10 5 (0.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 96 (10.67%) Self-Motivation
2 65 (7.22%) Management Information System
3 61 (6.78%) Web Conferencing
4 48 (5.33%) Marketing Technology
5 42 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 42 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 41 (4.56%) Blog
7 34 (3.78%) Over-the-Top Content
8 33 (3.67%) Podcast
9 30 (3.33%) Photography
10 28 (3.11%) Driving Licence
11 24 (2.67%) Digital Media
12 19 (2.11%) Smartphone
13 17 (1.89%) Graphic Design
14 16 (1.78%) BBC
14 16 (1.78%) Video Editing
15 15 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.67%) Cloud Native
15 15 (1.67%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.56%) Windows
2 22 (2.44%) Linux
3 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.56%) CentOS
6 4 (0.44%) CoreOS
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (23.11%) Digital Marketing
2 197 (21.89%) AI
3 170 (18.89%) Analytics
4 168 (18.67%) Customer Experience
5 156 (17.33%) SEO
6 135 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 128 (14.22%) CRM
8 123 (13.67%) B2B
9 113 (12.56%) Agile
9 113 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 103 (11.44%) Roadmaps
11 102 (11.33%) Customer Service
12 93 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (9.56%) Email Marketing
14 75 (8.33%) Storytelling
15 73 (8.11%) Business Development
16 69 (7.67%) Lead Generation
17 66 (7.33%) Project Management
18 63 (7.00%) Marketing Strategy
19 62 (6.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (3.44%) JavaScript
2 30 (3.33%) Python
3 29 (3.22%) SQL
4 17 (1.89%) C#
5 6 (0.67%) Bash
5 6 (0.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.56%) C
7 4 (0.44%) PHP
8 3 (0.33%) C++
8 3 (0.33%) Go
8 3 (0.33%) R
8 3 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.22%) Java
9 2 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (12.00%) DBS Check
2 62 (6.89%) Degree
3 60 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.11%) CISSP
6 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.78%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.67%) CISM
8 13 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.44%) CCNP
9 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.78%) HNC
10 7 (0.78%) HND
10 7 (0.78%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.44%) MBA
12 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.22%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 32 (3.56%) GDPR
3 21 (2.33%) QA
4 14 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.44%) SLA
6 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.56%) NIST
7 4 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.33%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.33%) PERC
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.11%) NCSC
9 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.11%) Docker
3 7 (0.78%) Ceph
3 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.44%) KVM
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.11%) Ansible
4 7 (0.78%) Argo
4 7 (0.78%) Check_MK
4 7 (0.78%) Istio
4 7 (0.78%) Nagios
4 7 (0.78%) Podman
4 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 133 (14.78%) Adobe
2 122 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 109 (12.11%) Google
4 77 (8.56%) Facebook
5 57 (6.33%) Instagram
6 50 (5.56%) HubSpot
7 37 (4.11%) TikTok
8 27 (3.00%) Apple
9 25 (2.78%) YouTube
10 23 (2.56%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 18 (2.00%) SAP
12 17 (1.89%) Oracle
13 16 (1.78%) Sony
13 16 (1.78%) Yahoo!
14 14 (1.56%) Pardot
14 14 (1.56%) Pinterest
15 13 (1.44%) Cisco
16 11 (1.22%) ForgeRock
16 11 (1.22%) Okta