Social Skills Jobs

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 cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 15,291 25,253 27,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 22.86% 29.47%
As % of the General category 38.79% 40.06% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,793 16,371 14,013
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,089 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.07% -11.82% +5.26%

All General Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 39,419 63,039 61,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.35% 57.06% 67.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,513 40,988 34,928
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

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 15 June 2025.

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 15 June 2025. 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 13,629 £51,500 +8.42% 23,742
UK excluding London -1 9,602 £45,000 +2.07% 15,346
Work from Home -1 5,171 £55,000 +4.76% 10,659
London 0 4,373 £66,000 +1.54% 12,302
North of England -1 2,998 £50,000 +17.65% 3,167
South East -1 2,668 £45,000 - 6,360
North West -3 1,690 £50,055 +11.23% 1,735
Midlands -3 1,312 £41,000 -2.38% 1,769
Yorkshire 0 1,091 £40,000 -11.11% 1,094
East of England -1 942 £40,101 -7.81% 1,266
West Midlands -2 825 £45,000 +2.27% 1,002
South West -1 824 £40,101 -10.89% 1,357
Scotland +9 589 £51,645 +14.77% 909
East Midlands -4 485 £37,500 -6.25% 700
North East -8 215 £32,000 -17.95% 361
Wales -8 211 £53,500 +29.70% 388
Northern Ireland +1 85 £55,000 +10.00% 283
Channel Islands 0 7 £80,000 -20.00% 214
Isle of Man +7 6 £91,000 +114.12% 2

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
1 438 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 327 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 162 (1.06%) Confluence
4 159 (1.04%) CMS
5 78 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 75 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 60 (0.39%) IIS
7 60 (0.39%) WordPress
8 51 (0.33%) Apache
9 45 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 37 (0.24%) OpenEdge
11 31 (0.20%) nginx
12 30 (0.20%) IBM Domino
13 28 (0.18%) SAS
13 28 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 21 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 18 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 16 (0.10%) Drupal
17 12 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
17 12 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1,341 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1,156 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 674 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 200 (1.31%) Simulink
5 115 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 92 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 58 (0.38%) Trello
8 49 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 49 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 45 (0.29%) Chatbot
10 42 (0.27%) AutoCAD
11 35 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 28 (0.18%) Adobe XD
13 27 (0.18%) Maya
14 23 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
14 23 (0.15%) Sketch
15 21 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
16 18 (0.12%) InDesign
17 12 (0.078%) Revit
18 11 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 290 (1.90%) Teamcenter
2 128 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 117 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 100 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 51 (0.33%) Shopify
6 49 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 40 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 39 (0.26%) Magento
9 29 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 28 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
11 19 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 19 (0.12%) Sage 200
12 18 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
13 17 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
14 16 (0.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
14 16 (0.10%) Sage CRM
15 15 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
16 13 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
16 13 (0.085%) SAP IBP
17 12 (0.078%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 2,051 (13.41%) Azure
2 1,212 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
3 1,191 (7.79%) AWS
4 730 (4.77%) Power Platform
5 562 (3.68%) SaaS
6 422 (2.76%) GCP
7 322 (2.11%) Entra ID
8 262 (1.71%) Serverless
9 237 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 228 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 199 (1.30%) GitHub
12 196 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
13 159 (1.04%) Google Analytics
14 138 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
15 137 (0.90%) Power Automate
16 129 (0.84%) PaaS
17 127 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
18 125 (0.82%) OneDrive
19 122 (0.80%) PowerApps
20 120 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 962 (6.29%) Broadband
2 561 (3.67%) Firewall
3 351 (2.30%) WAN
4 329 (2.15%) DNS
4 329 (2.15%) LAN
5 328 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 325 (2.13%) VPN
7 218 (1.43%) DHCP
8 197 (1.29%) Network Security
9 181 (1.18%) VoIP
10 153 (1.00%) VLAN
11 145 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 118 (0.77%) SSL
13 93 (0.61%) SSH
14 89 (0.58%) Wireless
15 78 (0.51%) Internet
16 76 (0.50%) SD-WAN
17 75 (0.49%) SAN
18 63 (0.41%) BGP
19 57 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 604 (3.95%) Power BI
2 519 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 325 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (1.46%) Tableau
5 183 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 178 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 170 (1.11%) MySQL
8 168 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 153 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 121 (0.79%) Big Data
11 109 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 94 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
13 93 (0.61%) MongoDB
14 83 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 78 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 77 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
17 74 (0.48%) Metadata
18 50 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
19 49 (0.32%) Data Mining
19 49 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 474 (3.10%) JIRA
2 413 (2.70%) Git
3 215 (1.41%) Rational DOORS
4 179 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 89 (0.58%) GitLab
6 87 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 68 (0.44%) Robot Framework
8 53 (0.35%) Selenium
9 50 (0.33%) Postman
10 49 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 45 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 42 (0.27%) JUnit
13 40 (0.26%) Maven
14 33 (0.22%) TeamCity
15 32 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
16 30 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 28 (0.18%) Cypress.io
18 25 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
19 22 (0.14%) webpack
20 21 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 4,369 (28.57%) Finance
2 3,157 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1,982 (12.96%) Marketing
4 1,194 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,014 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
6 937 (6.13%) Banking
7 899 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 858 (5.61%) Law
9 818 (5.35%) Manufacturing
10 817 (5.34%) Electronics
11 763 (4.99%) Legal
12 716 (4.68%) Public Sector
13 707 (4.62%) Retail
14 445 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
15 441 (2.88%) Financial Institution
16 397 (2.60%) Aerospace
17 383 (2.50%) Telecoms
18 329 (2.15%) French Language
19 328 (2.15%) German Language
20 294 (1.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,005 (13.11%) Analyst
2 1,924 (12.58%) Senior
3 1,252 (8.19%) Lead
4 922 (6.03%) Developer
5 812 (5.31%) Support Engineer
6 744 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
7 713 (4.66%) IT Support
8 627 (4.10%) Development Manager
9 579 (3.79%) Architect
10 555 (3.63%) Business Manager
11 507 (3.32%) Business Development Manager
12 447 (2.92%) Support Analyst
13 432 (2.83%) Project Manager
14 428 (2.80%) Consultant
15 427 (2.79%) Senior Manager
16 349 (2.28%) Junior
17 326 (2.13%) Software Engineer
18 305 (1.99%) Technical Support
19 289 (1.89%) Product Manager
20 280 (1.83%) Credit Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (3.24%) .NET
2 395 (2.58%) HTML
3 346 (2.26%) CSS
4 301 (1.97%) React
5 252 (1.65%) RESTful
6 233 (1.52%) REST
7 166 (1.09%) Kafka
7 166 (1.09%) Web Services
8 158 (1.03%) Node.js
9 144 (0.94%) Spring
10 143 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 125 (0.82%) ASP.NET
12 124 (0.81%) Middleware
13 122 (0.80%) JSON
14 116 (0.76%) .NET Framework
15 111 (0.73%) XML
16 103 (0.67%) SOAP
17 99 (0.65%) HTML5
17 99 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 86 (0.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 845 (5.53%) Management Information System
2 716 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
3 485 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 461 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 455 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 363 (2.37%) Credit Risk
7 357 (2.33%) Social Media
8 307 (2.01%) Fixed Income
9 261 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 237 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 229 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 179 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 171 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 145 (0.95%) FMCG
15 138 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
16 137 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 136 (0.89%) Mobile App
18 134 (0.88%) Digital Media
19 117 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
20 115 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,694 (11.08%) Windows
2 563 (3.68%) Linux
3 432 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 276 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 251 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 185 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 149 (0.97%) Android
8 146 (0.95%) Unix
9 134 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 62 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 48 (0.31%) Windows Vista
12 44 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 42 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 30 (0.20%) Windows 7
15 25 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 18 (0.12%) Mac OS X
17 17 (0.11%) VMS
18 15 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
19 13 (0.085%) CentOS
20 10 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,128 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
2 2,459 (16.08%) Agile
3 2,099 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,996 (13.05%) Project Management
5 1,855 (12.13%) Mentoring
6 1,733 (11.33%) Computer Science
7 1,639 (10.72%) Roadmaps
8 1,632 (10.67%) Analytics
9 1,497 (9.79%) Decision-Making
10 1,385 (9.06%) Customer Service
11 1,269 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 1,267 (8.29%) Risk Management
13 1,185 (7.75%) DevOps
14 1,135 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
15 1,093 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
16 1,077 (7.04%) Business Development
17 1,022 (6.68%) Coaching
18 983 (6.43%) ITIL
19 892 (5.83%) CRM
20 872 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,590 (10.40%) SQL
2 1,091 (7.13%) Python
3 687 (4.49%) JavaScript
4 633 (4.14%) Java
5 569 (3.72%) C#
6 421 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 321 (2.10%) MATLAB
8 200 (1.31%) TypeScript
9 190 (1.24%) Bash
10 188 (1.23%) C++
11 158 (1.03%) PHP
12 112 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 107 (0.70%) R
14 106 (0.69%) C
15 64 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 60 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 54 (0.35%) Go
18 49 (0.32%) VBA
19 48 (0.31%) Apex Code
20 46 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5,140 (33.61%) Degree
2 1,187 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1,002 (6.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 724 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 601 (3.93%) Security Cleared
6 458 (3.00%) DBS Check
7 374 (2.45%) SC Cleared
8 345 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 328 (2.15%) HND
10 303 (1.98%) HNC
11 290 (1.90%) CFA
12 250 (1.63%) CISSP
13 242 (1.58%) PMI Certification
14 201 (1.31%) PMP
15 196 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
16 191 (1.25%) Azure Certification
17 149 (0.97%) CISM
18 140 (0.92%) MBA
19 134 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
20 129 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 662 (4.33%) QA
2 420 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 398 (2.60%) GDPR
4 318 (2.08%) SLA
5 295 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 254 (1.66%) NIST
7 226 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 126 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 98 (0.64%) PMO
10 93 (0.61%) Def Stans
11 87 (0.57%) IEC 61508
12 67 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 66 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 65 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 62 (0.41%) GRC
16 56 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 54 (0.35%) HIPAA
18 48 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 41 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
20 37 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,158 (7.57%) Active Directory
2 393 (2.57%) Docker
3 281 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 181 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 89 (0.58%) Firmware
6 66 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 38 (0.25%) vSphere
9 33 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 20 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (0.046%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.039%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.039%) Postfix
14 6 (0.039%) XenApp
15 4 (0.026%) NFS
16 3 (0.020%) HDFS
16 3 (0.020%) Squid
Systems Management
1 421 (2.75%) Terraform
2 412 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 273 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 176 (1.15%) Ansible
5 116 (0.76%) Grafana
6 110 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 73 (0.48%) SCCM
8 55 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 25 (0.16%) Puppet
11 24 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 22 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (0.12%) QRadar
14 16 (0.10%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.085%) PaperCut
16 11 (0.072%) Argo
16 11 (0.072%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.072%) Proxmox
17 10 (0.065%) Nessus
17 10 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,263 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 576 (3.77%) Google
3 575 (3.76%) SAP
4 506 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 476 (3.11%) Cisco
6 382 (2.50%) Oracle
7 360 (2.35%) VMware
8 313 (2.05%) Bloomberg
9 309 (2.02%) ServiceNow
10 274 (1.79%) IBM
11 230 (1.50%) Sun
12 209 (1.37%) Adobe
13 175 (1.14%) Databricks
14 162 (1.06%) Dell
15 141 (0.92%) Apple
16 140 (0.92%) ANSYS
17 125 (0.82%) YouTube
18 118 (0.77%) Citrix
19 99 (0.65%) Fortinet
20 90 (0.59%) Meraki