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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 18,451 16,239 36,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.27% 27.66% 26.16%
As % of the General category 41.15% 41.80% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,135 11,135 18,387
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,038
Median % change year-on-year - -1.85% +1.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

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 44,834 38,845 96,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.98% 66.16% 68.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19,835 26,844 50,848
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% +10.53%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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 0 16,300 £55,000 - 6,467
UK excluding London 0 12,244 £50,000 +5.26% 4,474
Work from Home +1 6,942 £57,500 -4.17% 3,782
London 0 5,593 £67,500 -3.57% 2,356
North of England +1 3,697 £50,000 +5.26% 1,168
South East 0 2,602 £55,000 +10.00% 1,069
Midlands 0 1,928 £50,000 +11.11% 887
North West +1 1,925 £50,055 +0.11% 680
Yorkshire +1 1,436 £49,500 +10.00% 351
Scotland -2 1,302 £50,154 +25.39% 259
West Midlands 0 1,226 £50,000 +11.11% 545
South West +1 1,219 £50,000 - 495
East of England 0 1,072 £50,000 - 514
East Midlands -1 698 £44,000 +3.53% 336
North East +1 336 £37,500 -2.60% 151
Wales 0 291 £45,000 +13.83% 123
Northern Ireland +1 127 £47,500 +1.60% 94
Channel Islands +4 17 £50,000 -
Isle of Man +5 13 £25,000 -53.27%

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
1 568 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 401 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 233 (1.26%) Confluence
4 181 (0.98%) CMS
5 132 (0.72%) SAS
6 90 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 88 (0.48%) Apache
8 85 (0.46%) Apache Spark
9 75 (0.41%) WordPress
10 74 (0.40%) IIS
11 48 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
12 42 (0.23%) nginx
13 38 (0.21%) Umbraco
14 28 (0.15%) OpenEdge
15 24 (0.13%) ArcGIS
16 21 (0.11%) Mule
17 18 (0.098%) Apache Solr
17 18 (0.098%) OpenStack
18 17 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
19 14 (0.076%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 2,100 (11.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1,246 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 550 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 140 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 103 (0.56%) Simulink
6 82 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 76 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 51 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 43 (0.23%) Sketch
10 41 (0.22%) AutoCAD
11 40 (0.22%) Photoshop
12 35 (0.19%) Adobe XD
13 31 (0.17%) Trello
14 29 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 17 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
16 15 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
17 13 (0.070%) InDesign
18 12 (0.065%) Revit
19 11 (0.060%) MadCap Flare
20 10 (0.054%) InVision
Business Applications
1 174 (0.94%) Teamcenter
2 132 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 130 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 114 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 80 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 69 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 55 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 45 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 38 (0.21%) iTrent
9 38 (0.21%) Magento
10 33 (0.18%) Maximo
11 29 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 28 (0.15%) Shopify
13 25 (0.14%) SAP SD
14 24 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
15 21 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
16 20 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
17 17 (0.092%) SAP Business One
18 16 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
19 14 (0.076%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (14.25%) Azure
2 1,696 (9.19%) AWS
3 1,440 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
4 1,081 (5.86%) GCP
5 853 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 605 (3.28%) SaaS
7 360 (1.95%) Entra ID
8 343 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
9 274 (1.49%) Serverless
10 258 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 222 (1.20%) GitHub
12 182 (0.99%) PowerApps
13 174 (0.94%) PaaS
14 166 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 155 (0.84%) Collibra
16 154 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
17 153 (0.83%) IaaS
18 149 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
19 135 (0.73%) Figma
20 113 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1,867 (10.12%) Broadband
2 693 (3.76%) Firewall
3 479 (2.60%) DNS
4 393 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 352 (1.91%) DHCP
6 314 (1.70%) VPN
7 296 (1.60%) WAN
8 275 (1.49%) LAN
9 263 (1.43%) Network Security
10 238 (1.29%) Wireless
11 228 (1.24%) Internet
12 201 (1.09%) VLAN
13 189 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
14 187 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
15 135 (0.73%) VoIP
16 134 (0.73%) BGP
17 124 (0.67%) HTTP
18 113 (0.61%) OSPF
19 100 (0.54%) Ethernet
20 91 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 835 (4.53%) Data Hub
2 706 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 653 (3.54%) Power BI
4 392 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 342 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 328 (1.78%) Tableau
7 305 (1.65%) MySQL
8 248 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 244 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 220 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 180 (0.98%) Big Data
12 174 (0.94%) Metadata
13 115 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 114 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
14 114 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 113 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 100 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 99 (0.54%) MongoDB
18 98 (0.53%) RDBMS
19 96 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 684 (3.71%) Git
2 601 (3.26%) JIRA
3 248 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
4 207 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 145 (0.79%) GitLab
6 104 (0.56%) Selenium
7 85 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 79 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 50 (0.27%) Postman
10 47 (0.25%) CircleCI
11 42 (0.23%) Gatling
12 40 (0.22%) webpack
13 39 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 39 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 34 (0.18%) Fiddler
15 31 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 29 (0.16%) Burp Suite
16 29 (0.16%) JUnit
16 29 (0.16%) Maven
16 29 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 3,757 (20.36%) Finance
2 3,685 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
3 1,570 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,434 (7.77%) Marketing
5 1,324 (7.18%) Retail
6 1,107 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1,074 (5.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1,037 (5.62%) Telecoms
9 1,010 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
10 984 (5.33%) Legal
11 729 (3.95%) Games
12 670 (3.63%) Public Sector
13 657 (3.56%) Law
14 600 (3.25%) Manufacturing
15 531 (2.88%) Banking
16 385 (2.09%) French Language
17 328 (1.78%) German Language
18 281 (1.52%) Automotive
19 232 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
20 230 (1.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,101 (16.81%) Senior
2 3,005 (16.29%) Analyst
3 1,527 (8.28%) Developer
4 1,443 (7.82%) Architect
5 1,310 (7.10%) Lead
6 1,196 (6.48%) Consultant
7 1,075 (5.83%) Senior Analyst
8 997 (5.40%) Project Manager
9 697 (3.78%) IT Analyst
10 622 (3.37%) Technical Consultant
11 534 (2.89%) Solutions Consultant
12 515 (2.79%) Data Analyst
13 489 (2.65%) IT Support
14 485 (2.63%) Support Engineer
15 483 (2.62%) Software Engineer
16 480 (2.60%) Development Manager
17 472 (2.56%) Senior Manager
18 454 (2.46%) IT Manager
19 449 (2.43%) Business Manager
20 402 (2.18%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,010 (5.47%) HTML
2 859 (4.66%) .NET
3 742 (4.02%) CSS
4 417 (2.26%) React
5 357 (1.93%) Web Services
6 331 (1.79%) REST
7 321 (1.74%) RESTful
8 280 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 250 (1.35%) Node.js
10 221 (1.20%) .NET Framework
11 220 (1.19%) ASP.NET
12 219 (1.19%) XML
13 184 (1.00%) JSON
14 178 (0.96%) HTML5
15 161 (0.87%) GraphQL
16 159 (0.86%) .NET Core
17 158 (0.86%) SOAP
18 155 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
19 149 (0.81%) Vue
20 142 (0.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,112 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
2 859 (4.66%) Management Information System
3 649 (3.52%) Onboarding
4 466 (2.53%) Driving Licence
5 346 (1.88%) Life Science
6 340 (1.84%) Social Media
7 335 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 288 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 249 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 229 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 208 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 204 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 183 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 170 (0.92%) Cloud Native
15 158 (0.86%) Private Cloud
16 155 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
17 147 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
18 144 (0.78%) IoT
19 135 (0.73%) Public Cloud
20 133 (0.72%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,828 (9.91%) Windows
2 979 (5.31%) Linux
3 593 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 433 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 187 (1.01%) Unix
6 162 (0.88%) Android
7 120 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 118 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 111 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 109 (0.59%) Mac OS
11 78 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 66 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 58 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
14 54 (0.29%) Windows 7
15 44 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 42 (0.23%) CentOS
16 42 (0.23%) Mac OS X
17 30 (0.16%) VMS
18 29 (0.16%) Windows Vista
19 28 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,883 (37.30%) Problem-Solving
2 3,757 (20.36%) Agile
3 2,479 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 2,253 (12.21%) Project Management
5 2,223 (12.05%) Analytics
6 1,932 (10.47%) Customer Service
7 1,931 (10.47%) Mentoring
8 1,728 (9.37%) Computer Science
9 1,659 (8.99%) Roadmaps
10 1,548 (8.39%) DevOps
11 1,466 (7.95%) Customer Experience
12 1,361 (7.38%) Data Management
13 1,334 (7.23%) Data Analysis
14 1,282 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 1,273 (6.90%) ITIL
16 1,170 (6.34%) Decision-Making
17 1,163 (6.30%) Software Engineering
18 1,148 (6.22%) Risk Management
19 1,044 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
20 1,032 (5.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 2,241 (12.15%) SQL
2 1,609 (8.72%) Python
3 1,180 (6.40%) JavaScript
4 973 (5.27%) C#
5 732 (3.97%) Java
6 484 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 403 (2.18%) C++
8 344 (1.86%) Bash
9 334 (1.81%) TypeScript
10 275 (1.49%) C
11 273 (1.48%) PHP
12 195 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 193 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 183 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 134 (0.73%) R
16 92 (0.50%) VBA
17 84 (0.46%) Scala
18 76 (0.41%) Go
19 66 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 52 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5,269 (28.56%) Degree
2 1,257 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 1,011 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 725 (3.93%) CISA
5 719 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 697 (3.78%) HNC
7 691 (3.75%) Master's Degree
8 473 (2.56%) DBS Check
9 426 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 393 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 293 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 282 (1.53%) Azure Certification
13 275 (1.49%) CISSP
14 229 (1.24%) PMI Certification
15 228 (1.24%) CISM
16 224 (1.21%) PMP
17 223 (1.21%) ACCA
18 202 (1.09%) HND
19 170 (0.92%) CCNA
20 142 (0.77%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 899 (4.87%) QA
2 638 (3.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 466 (2.53%) SLA
4 463 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 347 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 332 (1.80%) NIST
7 331 (1.79%) Accessibility
8 308 (1.67%) GDPR
9 192 (1.04%) PMO
10 148 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 146 (0.79%) SOC 2
12 129 (0.70%) GRC
13 125 (0.68%) IFRS
14 90 (0.49%) Def Stans
15 88 (0.48%) ISO 9001
16 85 (0.46%) IEC 61508
17 75 (0.41%) GAAP
18 69 (0.37%) PCI DSS
19 63 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
20 62 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,091 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 587 (3.18%) Docker
3 343 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 227 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 94 (0.51%) Firmware
5 94 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 87 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 66 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.32%) vSphere
9 32 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 19 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 13 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
13 11 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
13 11 (0.060%) NFS
14 8 (0.043%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.038%) KVM
15 7 (0.038%) Lustre
15 7 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 6 (0.033%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 440 (2.38%) Terraform
2 429 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 342 (1.85%) Ansible
4 310 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 197 (1.07%) Grafana
6 185 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 175 (0.95%) SCCM
8 81 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 70 (0.38%) Puppet
10 60 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 59 (0.32%) WSUS
12 57 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 39 (0.21%) Nagios
14 35 (0.19%) vCenter Server
15 31 (0.17%) Packer
16 30 (0.16%) SCOM
17 28 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
18 24 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 22 (0.12%) Nessus
20 21 (0.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,919 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 1,004 (5.44%) Google
3 712 (3.86%) Oracle
4 570 (3.09%) SAP
5 471 (2.55%) VMware
6 468 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 408 (2.21%) Cisco
8 302 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 298 (1.62%) NEC
10 222 (1.20%) Databricks
11 167 (0.91%) Informatica
12 153 (0.83%) Adobe
12 153 (0.83%) Apple
13 149 (0.81%) Cloudera
14 144 (0.78%) IBM
15 135 (0.73%) Fortinet
16 127 (0.69%) Citrix
17 123 (0.67%) ANSYS
18 105 (0.57%) HP
19 104 (0.56%) Palo Alto