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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,506 29,148 38,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.73% 28.76% 24.22%
As % of the General category 41.38% 42.17% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 16,557 14,722 18,404
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,453 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +5.26% +5.56%

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 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +1 21,632 £48,825 -15.09% 10,481
UK excluding London 0 16,774 £44,309 -11.38% 7,605
Work from Home +2 9,136 £52,738 -12.10% 3,865
London +1 6,510 £65,000 -7.14% 3,260
South East 0 4,394 £44,468 -11.07% 1,775
North of England +1 4,093 £45,000 -10.00% 1,962
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,459
North West +1 2,153 £45,000 -10.00% 1,060
South West +1 2,016 £45,000 - 1,038
West Midlands +1 1,816 £45,000 -13.46% 878
East of England 0 1,537 £44,500 -7.81% 932
Yorkshire +1 1,467 £45,000 -8.25% 672
Scotland -16 1,253 £45,000 -18.18% 466
East Midlands 0 1,000 £39,734 -16.35% 581
Wales 0 499 £41,067 -4.53% 203
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 271
Northern Ireland +6 154 £50,000 -13.04% 84
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 4

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
1 947 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 842 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 450 (1.84%) SAS
4 308 (1.26%) Confluence
5 203 (0.83%) CMS
6 156 (0.64%) WordPress
7 127 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 112 (0.46%) Apache
9 79 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 71 (0.29%) IIS
11 54 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 38 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 28 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 21 (0.086%) Skype for Business
19 19 (0.078%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,568 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,160 (8.81%) Microsoft Office
3 806 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 214 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 131 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 105 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 58 (0.24%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 44 (0.18%) Simulink
14 42 (0.17%) Sketch
15 39 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
17 32 (0.13%) SPSS
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 336 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 204 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 161 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 78 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 51 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 46 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 45 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 41 (0.17%) Primavera
9 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 39 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 39 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
12 36 (0.15%) NEC Housing
13 34 (0.14%) Magento
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 29 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
16 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
17 23 (0.094%) Oracle General Ledger
17 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,797 (15.49%) Azure
2 2,488 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
3 2,108 (8.60%) AWS
4 1,578 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 1,016 (4.15%) SaaS
6 570 (2.33%) GCP
7 543 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 463 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 421 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 307 (1.25%) Serverless
11 289 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
12 286 (1.17%) PowerApps
13 268 (1.09%) Power Automate
14 249 (1.02%) GitHub
15 190 (0.78%) PaaS
16 179 (0.73%) IaaS
17 176 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
18 162 (0.66%) OneDrive
19 159 (0.65%) Amazon S3
20 145 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,067 (4.35%) Firewall
2 976 (3.98%) Broadband
3 671 (2.74%) WAN
4 627 (2.56%) DNS
5 540 (2.20%) LAN
6 510 (2.08%) Wireless
7 447 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 423 (1.73%) VPN
9 400 (1.63%) DHCP
10 336 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 331 (1.35%) Network Security
12 278 (1.13%) Internet
13 270 (1.10%) VoIP
14 259 (1.06%) SAN
15 224 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 203 (0.83%) VLAN
17 164 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 119 (0.49%) BGP
20 118 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,274 (5.20%) Power BI
2 1,262 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 501 (2.04%) Tableau
4 436 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 384 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 356 (1.45%) MySQL
7 328 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
8 269 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 201 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 199 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 188 (0.77%) Big Data
12 182 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 179 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 160 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 150 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 135 (0.55%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 100 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 92 (0.38%) Data Mining
20 91 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 979 (3.99%) Git
2 821 (3.35%) JIRA
3 332 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 170 (0.69%) GitLab
5 158 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 103 (0.42%) Selenium
7 83 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 53 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 53 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 48 (0.20%) JUnit
11 47 (0.19%) Postman
12 43 (0.18%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 36 (0.15%) Maven
14 36 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
15 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
15 33 (0.13%) webpack
16 32 (0.13%) LabVIEW
16 32 (0.13%) NUnit
General
1 6,008 (24.52%) Finance
2 5,174 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1,952 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,856 (7.57%) Retail
5 1,772 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1,766 (7.21%) Marketing
7 1,500 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1,310 (5.35%) Law
9 1,288 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 1,239 (5.06%) Legal
11 1,141 (4.66%) Public Sector
12 1,039 (4.24%) Manufacturing
13 775 (3.16%) Banking
14 636 (2.60%) Telecoms
15 343 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 337 (1.38%) Billing
17 332 (1.35%) Games
18 331 (1.35%) Electronics
19 300 (1.22%) Local Government
20 282 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,443 (14.05%) Analyst
2 3,219 (13.14%) Senior
3 2,355 (9.61%) Developer
4 1,720 (7.02%) Lead
5 1,590 (6.49%) Architect
6 1,408 (5.75%) Project Manager
7 1,114 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1,076 (4.39%) IT Support
9 876 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 822 (3.35%) Support Engineer
11 716 (2.92%) Software Engineer
12 714 (2.91%) IT Manager
13 697 (2.84%) IT Engineer
14 641 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
15 632 (2.58%) Administrator
16 579 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 578 (2.36%) Graduate
18 564 (2.30%) Senior Developer
19 518 (2.11%) Support Analyst
20 432 (1.76%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,122 (4.58%) .NET
2 948 (3.87%) HTML
3 794 (3.24%) CSS
4 659 (2.69%) React
5 397 (1.62%) AngularJS
6 351 (1.43%) Node.js
6 351 (1.43%) REST
7 320 (1.31%) Web Services
8 319 (1.30%) RESTful
9 302 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 276 (1.13%) ASP.NET
11 262 (1.07%) .NET Core
12 238 (0.97%) JSON
13 234 (0.95%) Vue
14 226 (0.92%) HTML5
15 205 (0.84%) Kafka
16 197 (0.80%) Spring
17 196 (0.80%) XML
18 169 (0.69%) Entity Framework
19 163 (0.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2,039 (8.32%) Self-Motivation
2 1,266 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 982 (4.01%) Driving Licence
4 648 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 599 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 477 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 396 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 349 (1.42%) Social Media
9 305 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 296 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 274 (1.12%) IoT
13 266 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
14 261 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 248 (1.01%) FMCG
16 242 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 232 (0.95%) Data Structures
18 219 (0.89%) NHS
19 216 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
20 214 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,914 (11.89%) Windows
2 1,227 (5.01%) Linux
3 1,037 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 778 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 405 (1.65%) Android
6 312 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 224 (0.91%) Unix
8 207 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 198 (0.81%) Mac OS
10 194 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 193 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 142 (0.58%) VMS
13 118 (0.48%) Windows 7
14 98 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 85 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 50 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 48 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 45 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,689 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
2 5,262 (21.47%) Agile
3 3,411 (13.92%) Project Management
4 3,189 (13.01%) Customer Service
5 2,582 (10.54%) Mentoring
6 2,220 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,174 (8.87%) Decision-Making
8 2,030 (8.28%) Computer Science
9 1,768 (7.21%) Roadmaps
10 1,750 (7.14%) ITIL
11 1,692 (6.90%) DevOps
12 1,626 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,595 (6.51%) Analytics
14 1,577 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
15 1,548 (6.32%) Actionable Insight
16 1,500 (6.12%) Software Engineering
17 1,365 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 1,344 (5.48%) Project Delivery
19 1,287 (5.25%) Collaborative Working
20 1,277 (5.21%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,985 (12.18%) SQL
2 1,896 (7.74%) Python
3 1,411 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 1,379 (5.63%) C#
5 1,061 (4.33%) Java
6 604 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 415 (1.69%) C
8 373 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 372 (1.52%) PHP
10 358 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 347 (1.42%) C++
12 267 (1.09%) Bash
13 223 (0.91%) R
14 175 (0.71%) Go
15 104 (0.42%) Embedded C
16 100 (0.41%) Scala
17 84 (0.34%) MATLAB
17 84 (0.34%) Perl
18 82 (0.33%) VB
19 70 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,047 (24.68%) Degree
2 1,714 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 1,217 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,048 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 1,020 (4.16%) DBS Check
6 735 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 648 (2.64%) ACCA
8 580 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 535 (2.18%) CIMA
10 357 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 355 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 327 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 324 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 271 (1.11%) CISSP
15 234 (0.95%) PMP
16 233 (0.95%) CCNA
17 223 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 207 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
19 187 (0.76%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,098 (4.48%) QA
2 951 (3.88%) SLA
3 558 (2.28%) GDPR
4 488 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 484 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 380 (1.55%) PMO
7 327 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 262 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 200 (0.82%) NIST
10 180 (0.73%) ISO 9001
11 168 (0.69%) IFRS
12 115 (0.47%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 72 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 63 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 62 (0.25%) GAAP
18 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
19 43 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
20 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,939 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 604 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 601 (2.45%) Docker
4 469 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 236 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 220 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 218 (0.89%) Firmware
8 108 (0.44%) XenApp
9 105 (0.43%) XenDesktop
10 99 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
11 89 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 74 (0.30%) vSphere
13 56 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 17 (0.069%) VMware NSX
17 12 (0.049%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 559 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 535 (2.18%) Terraform
3 534 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 357 (1.46%) SCCM
5 253 (1.03%) Ansible
6 121 (0.49%) Grafana
7 99 (0.40%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 78 (0.32%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 58 (0.24%) Puppet
13 56 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 53 (0.22%) Progress Chef
16 45 (0.18%) EnCase
17 41 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 41 (0.17%) Nagios
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 33 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,243 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 1,067 (4.35%) SAP
3 959 (3.91%) Oracle
4 912 (3.72%) VMware
5 632 (2.58%) Cisco
6 601 (2.45%) Google
7 418 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 382 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 330 (1.35%) Dell
10 323 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 316 (1.29%) Citrix
11 316 (1.29%) Databricks
12 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
13 302 (1.23%) Adobe
14 272 (1.11%) HP
15 215 (0.88%) Apple
15 215 (0.88%) Veeam
16 209 (0.85%) IBM
17 180 (0.73%) Splunk
18 127 (0.52%) Sage