Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 14,530 32,477 31,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.23% 25.91% 24.61%
As % of the General category 41.40% 37.74% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,138 17,753 18,473
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,688 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%

All General Skills
UK

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,097 86,059 77,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.77% 68.66% 59.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 48,938 48,014
10th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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 +1 12,369 £55,000 -4.35% 10,533
UK excluding London +1 8,991 £47,500 -5.00% 7,249
Work from Home 0 6,000 £60,000 - 4,876
London +1 4,589 £70,000 - 4,056
North of England +1 2,168 £50,000 +3.09% 1,835
South East +2 2,086 £50,000 -4.76% 1,851
Midlands +1 1,637 £45,000 -8.16% 1,192
West Midlands +1 1,109 £45,000 -7.22% 809
North West +1 1,102 £50,803 +6.95% 1,076
South West -2 1,008 £50,000 +11.11% 910
Scotland +1 998 £40,000 -27.27% 522
Yorkshire +1 932 £48,500 -3.00% 543
East of England 0 605 £50,000 +11.11% 897
East Midlands +1 527 £40,250 -19.50% 378
Wales +2 363 £40,250 -13.44% 192
Northern Ireland +7 172 £45,000 -10.00% 104
North East +1 137 £37,500 -16.67% 236
Isle of Man -5 3 £53,500 -10.83% 2
Channel Islands +3 2 £85,000 +30.77% 1

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 461 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 211 (1.45%) MS Exchange
3 192 (1.32%) Confluence
4 87 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 83 (0.57%) Apache
6 79 (0.54%) CMS
7 59 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 57 (0.39%) IIS
9 54 (0.37%) SAS
10 32 (0.22%) WordPress
11 27 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
12 21 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 14 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
13 14 (0.096%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 13 (0.089%) Drupal
15 12 (0.083%) nginx
16 11 (0.076%) Umbraco
17 10 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
18 9 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 997 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 774 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 348 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 109 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 93 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 41 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 35 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 31 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 31 (0.21%) Sketch
9 25 (0.17%) Simulink
10 20 (0.14%) InDesign
10 20 (0.14%) Trello
11 15 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
13 11 (0.076%) Windchill
14 10 (0.069%) AutoCAD
14 10 (0.069%) InVision
14 10 (0.069%) SPSS
15 9 (0.062%) Adobe XD
15 9 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 132 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 117 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 94 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 50 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 45 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 45 (0.31%) SAP FI
5 45 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 39 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 38 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 34 (0.23%) SAP MM
9 32 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 30 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 27 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
12 26 (0.18%) Primavera
12 26 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
13 23 (0.16%) Elite 3E
14 22 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
15 18 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
15 18 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
15 18 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,541 (17.49%) Azure
2 1,482 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
3 1,414 (9.73%) AWS
4 915 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 651 (4.48%) SaaS
6 435 (2.99%) GCP
7 343 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 317 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 250 (1.72%) PaaS
10 237 (1.63%) Serverless
11 226 (1.56%) IaaS
12 215 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
13 189 (1.30%) GitHub
14 175 (1.20%) PowerApps
15 168 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
16 146 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 137 (0.94%) Power Automate
18 105 (0.72%) OneDrive
19 104 (0.72%) WhatsApp
20 98 (0.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 672 (4.62%) Firewall
2 514 (3.54%) WAN
3 426 (2.93%) Broadband
4 406 (2.79%) DNS
5 390 (2.68%) LAN
6 372 (2.56%) VPN
7 366 (2.52%) Wireless
8 331 (2.28%) DHCP
9 288 (1.98%) TCP/IP
10 222 (1.53%) SAN
11 202 (1.39%) SD-WAN
12 195 (1.34%) Network Security
13 176 (1.21%) Internet
14 153 (1.05%) VLAN
15 145 (1.00%) VoIP
16 142 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
17 119 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
18 115 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
19 113 (0.78%) WebEx
20 106 (0.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 777 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 762 (5.24%) Power BI
3 286 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 276 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 248 (1.71%) Tableau
6 233 (1.60%) MySQL
7 174 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 155 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 143 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 139 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 127 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 121 (0.83%) Big Data
12 121 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 108 (0.74%) Data Lake
14 107 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 94 (0.65%) MongoDB
16 81 (0.56%) Metadata
17 78 (0.54%) RDBMS
18 76 (0.52%) Looker
19 69 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 515 (3.54%) JIRA
2 512 (3.52%) Git
3 290 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 89 (0.61%) Selenium
5 83 (0.57%) Maven
6 78 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 69 (0.47%) GitLab
8 49 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 36 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 35 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 34 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 33 (0.23%) Subversion
14 31 (0.21%) IntelliJ
15 28 (0.19%) Postman
15 28 (0.19%) TeamCity
16 26 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
16 26 (0.18%) Spinnaker
17 23 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 3,681 (25.33%) Finance
2 2,311 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 1,251 (8.61%) Retail
4 1,065 (7.33%) Presentation Skills
5 978 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 945 (6.50%) Banking
7 779 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 727 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 713 (4.91%) Games
10 679 (4.67%) Marketing
11 595 (4.09%) Public Sector
12 579 (3.98%) Legal
13 517 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
14 486 (3.34%) Local Government
15 473 (3.26%) Manufacturing
16 465 (3.20%) Law
17 180 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
18 156 (1.07%) Electronics
19 152 (1.05%) Automotive
20 138 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2,333 (16.06%) Analyst
2 1,778 (12.24%) Senior
3 1,490 (10.25%) Developer
4 1,469 (10.11%) Architect
5 1,099 (7.56%) Lead
6 867 (5.97%) Consultant
7 645 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
8 597 (4.11%) Business Manager
9 587 (4.04%) Support Engineer
10 586 (4.03%) Project Manager
11 558 (3.84%) IT Support
12 524 (3.61%) Development Manager
13 462 (3.18%) Business Analyst
14 458 (3.15%) Business Development Manager
15 417 (2.87%) Support Analyst
16 411 (2.83%) IT Manager
17 372 (2.56%) Senior Developer
18 317 (2.18%) Software Engineer
19 311 (2.14%) IT Engineer
20 282 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 718 (4.94%) .NET
2 576 (3.96%) HTML
3 463 (3.19%) CSS
4 436 (3.00%) React
5 310 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 283 (1.95%) Node.js
7 249 (1.71%) RESTful
8 242 (1.67%) REST
9 204 (1.40%) Web Services
10 181 (1.25%) Spring
11 170 (1.17%) ASP.NET
12 161 (1.11%) JSON
13 147 (1.01%) XML
14 145 (1.00%) .NET Framework
15 134 (0.92%) Vue
16 131 (0.90%) .NET Core
17 130 (0.89%) Kafka
18 128 (0.88%) SOAP
19 116 (0.80%) Middleware
20 108 (0.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 846 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
2 642 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 419 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 385 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 329 (2.26%) Driving Licence
6 308 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 291 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 208 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 192 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 185 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 166 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 165 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 135 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
14 132 (0.91%) Cyberattack
15 131 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 129 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
17 125 (0.86%) Data Structures
18 124 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
19 120 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
20 113 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2,017 (13.88%) Windows
2 879 (6.05%) Linux
3 631 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 526 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 327 (2.25%) Android
6 296 (2.04%) Unix
7 176 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 145 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 145 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 143 (0.98%) Apple iOS
10 133 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 98 (0.67%) Windows 7
12 73 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 72 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 43 (0.30%) Windows 8
15 42 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
17 31 (0.21%) VMS
18 30 (0.21%) CentOS
19 25 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,253 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3,305 (22.75%) Agile
3 1,616 (11.12%) Project Management
4 1,406 (9.68%) Analytics
5 1,366 (9.40%) Actionable Insight
6 1,357 (9.34%) Customer Service
7 1,320 (9.08%) DevOps
8 1,280 (8.81%) Decision-Making
9 1,237 (8.51%) ITIL
10 1,181 (8.13%) Computer Science
11 1,176 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 1,165 (8.02%) Mentoring
13 1,068 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 996 (6.85%) Roadmaps
15 979 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
16 965 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
17 947 (6.52%) Project Delivery
18 926 (6.37%) Software Engineering
19 891 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
20 843 (5.80%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,740 (11.98%) SQL
2 1,338 (9.21%) Python
3 934 (6.43%) JavaScript
4 876 (6.03%) Java
5 868 (5.97%) C#
6 475 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 300 (2.06%) C++
8 274 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 267 (1.84%) Bash
10 195 (1.34%) PHP
11 146 (1.00%) C
12 142 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 138 (0.95%) R
14 115 (0.79%) Go
15 105 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 94 (0.65%) Ruby
17 77 (0.53%) Perl
18 75 (0.52%) Scala
19 64 (0.44%) VB
20 62 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3,089 (21.26%) Degree
2 1,899 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 1,114 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 800 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 429 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 324 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 296 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 269 (1.85%) CISSP
9 243 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 213 (1.47%) DBS Check
11 191 (1.31%) CISM
12 187 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 181 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 174 (1.20%) AWS Certification
15 158 (1.09%) CCNA
16 145 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
17 115 (0.79%) MCSE
18 110 (0.76%) PMI Certification
19 99 (0.68%) CCNP
20 94 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 557 (3.83%) QA
2 466 (3.21%) SLA
3 381 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 274 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 261 (1.80%) GDPR
6 197 (1.36%) PMO
7 186 (1.28%) NIST
8 133 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 123 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.62%) GRC
11 65 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 56 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 52 (0.36%) NCSC
14 47 (0.32%) ISO 9001
15 43 (0.30%) COBIT
16 40 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 39 (0.27%) IFRS
18 35 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 28 (0.19%) NIST 800
20 25 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,252 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 510 (3.51%) Docker
3 437 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 348 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 257 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 180 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 122 (0.84%) Firmware
8 115 (0.79%) XenApp
9 111 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
10 101 (0.70%) XenDesktop
11 71 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 71 (0.49%) vSphere
12 24 (0.17%) vCloud
13 21 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 18 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
14 18 (0.12%) KVM
15 14 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
16 13 (0.089%) BitLocker
17 10 (0.069%) Terminal Server
17 10 (0.069%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 556 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 517 (3.56%) Terraform
3 380 (2.62%) SCCM
4 306 (2.11%) Ansible
5 303 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 108 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 95 (0.65%) SCOM
8 85 (0.58%) AirWatch
9 75 (0.52%) FortiGate
10 59 (0.41%) WSUS
11 57 (0.39%) Grafana
11 57 (0.39%) OpenSSO
12 55 (0.38%) Puppet
13 42 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 40 (0.28%) Prometheus
15 39 (0.27%) Progress Chef
16 34 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
16 34 (0.23%) Nagios
17 32 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
18 26 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,803 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 589 (4.05%) VMware
3 559 (3.85%) Oracle
4 518 (3.57%) SAP
5 507 (3.49%) Cisco
6 392 (2.70%) Google
7 364 (2.51%) BT
8 349 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 291 (2.00%) Citrix
10 269 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 210 (1.45%) HP
12 178 (1.23%) Dell
13 173 (1.19%) Remedy
14 170 (1.17%) Apple
15 134 (0.92%) Adobe
16 132 (0.91%) Databricks
17 126 (0.87%) IBM
18 125 (0.86%) Veeam
19 113 (0.78%) Splunk
20 110 (0.76%) Juniper