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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,297 30,068 37,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.75% 28.59% 24.25%
As % of the General category 41.34% 41.60% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 16,604 15,128 18,529
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,504 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 58,777 72,286 97,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.87% 68.73% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39,592 38,758 50,916
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £102,500 £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 25 April 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 25 April 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 21,429 £49,000 -16.95% 10,894
UK excluding London 0 16,628 £44,000 -12.00% 7,591
Work from Home +2 9,121 £53,000 -13.11% 3,970
London +1 6,455 £65,000 -7.14% 3,771
South East 0 4,324 £44,000 -12.00% 1,883
North of England +1 4,069 £45,000 -10.00% 1,926
Midlands +1 2,799 £42,500 -15.00% 1,347
North West +1 2,125 £45,000 -10.00% 1,098
South West +1 1,986 £45,000 - 1,055
West Midlands +1 1,802 £45,000 -13.46% 811
East of England 0 1,543 £44,500 -7.81% 910
Yorkshire +1 1,475 £45,000 -10.00% 605
Scotland -16 1,253 £45,000 -18.18% 489
East Midlands 0 986 £39,000 -22.00% 535
Wales 0 504 £41,067 -5.93% 182
North East 0 472 £40,000 -5.88% 266
Northern Ireland +7 151 £50,000 -13.04% 120
Isle of Man -3 14 £42,500 +21.43% 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 5

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
1 950 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 851 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 448 (1.84%) SAS
4 298 (1.23%) Confluence
5 205 (0.84%) CMS
6 159 (0.65%) WordPress
7 130 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 111 (0.46%) Apache
9 82 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 69 (0.28%) IIS
11 51 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 36 (0.15%) nginx
13 30 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 26 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 25 (0.10%) OpenStack
17 23 (0.095%) Anypoint
18 22 (0.091%) WebSphere
19 21 (0.086%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2,487 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,115 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 781 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 215 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 127 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 109 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 98 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 63 (0.26%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 43 (0.18%) Sketch
14 39 (0.16%) Simulink
15 38 (0.16%) Adobe XD
15 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
16 30 (0.12%) SPSS
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
18 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.38%) SAP ERP
2 206 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 158 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 80 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.28%) Shopify
6 51 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 46 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 45 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 44 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 42 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 41 (0.17%) Primavera
12 40 (0.16%) SAP CO
12 40 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
13 35 (0.14%) Magento
14 31 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
15 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
16 26 (0.11%) SAP Business One
17 24 (0.099%) Elite 3E
18 23 (0.095%) Teamcenter
19 22 (0.091%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3,774 (15.53%) Azure
2 2,526 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
3 2,034 (8.37%) AWS
4 1,567 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1,028 (4.23%) SaaS
6 556 (2.29%) GCP
7 542 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 474 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 407 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
10 323 (1.33%) Serverless
11 291 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 281 (1.16%) PowerApps
13 255 (1.05%) Power Automate
14 243 (1.00%) GitHub
15 188 (0.77%) PaaS
16 187 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
17 181 (0.74%) IaaS
18 169 (0.70%) Amazon S3
19 162 (0.67%) OneDrive
20 143 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,080 (4.44%) Firewall
2 992 (4.08%) Broadband
3 698 (2.87%) WAN
4 637 (2.62%) DNS
5 564 (2.32%) LAN
6 537 (2.21%) Wireless
7 450 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 431 (1.77%) VPN
9 411 (1.69%) DHCP
10 339 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
11 322 (1.33%) Network Security
12 277 (1.14%) Internet
13 270 (1.11%) VoIP
14 261 (1.07%) SAN
15 239 (0.98%) SD-WAN
16 228 (0.94%) VLAN
17 162 (0.67%) Intranet
18 129 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
19 128 (0.53%) WebEx
20 127 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,265 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 1,261 (5.19%) Power BI
3 440 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
3 440 (1.81%) Tableau
4 389 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 366 (1.51%) MySQL
6 311 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 277 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 203 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 195 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 184 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 181 (0.74%) Big Data
12 175 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 175 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 149 (0.61%) MongoDB
14 126 (0.52%) Oracle Database
15 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
16 102 (0.42%) RDBMS
17 91 (0.37%) Data Mining
18 88 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 925 (3.81%) Git
2 825 (3.40%) JIRA
3 345 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 168 (0.69%) GitLab
5 156 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 107 (0.44%) Selenium
7 87 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 54 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 53 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 49 (0.20%) Postman
12 48 (0.20%) JUnit
13 42 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 41 (0.17%) Maven
14 41 (0.17%) Subversion
15 39 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
16 36 (0.15%) webpack
17 35 (0.14%) LabVIEW
18 34 (0.14%) Burp Suite
18 34 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 5,942 (24.46%) Finance
2 5,106 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
3 1,852 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,799 (7.40%) Retail
5 1,736 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1,726 (7.10%) Marketing
7 1,436 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
8 1,275 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1,271 (5.23%) Law
10 1,223 (5.03%) Legal
11 1,131 (4.65%) Public Sector
12 1,030 (4.24%) Manufacturing
13 761 (3.13%) Banking
14 646 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 344 (1.42%) Billing
16 336 (1.38%) Games
17 324 (1.33%) Electronics
18 321 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
19 285 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
20 284 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,412 (14.04%) Analyst
2 3,145 (12.94%) Senior
3 2,371 (9.76%) Developer
4 1,710 (7.04%) Lead
5 1,553 (6.39%) Architect
6 1,395 (5.74%) Project Manager
7 1,121 (4.61%) Consultant
8 1,104 (4.54%) IT Support
9 877 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
10 837 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 725 (2.98%) IT Manager
12 711 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 702 (2.89%) IT Engineer
14 617 (2.54%) Administrator
15 603 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
16 585 (2.41%) Graduate
17 576 (2.37%) Senior Manager
18 567 (2.33%) Senior Developer
19 527 (2.17%) Support Analyst
20 428 (1.76%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,118 (4.60%) .NET
2 954 (3.93%) HTML
3 799 (3.29%) CSS
4 657 (2.70%) React
5 403 (1.66%) AngularJS
6 350 (1.44%) Node.js
7 349 (1.44%) REST
8 322 (1.33%) RESTful
9 307 (1.26%) Web Services
10 294 (1.21%) .NET Framework
11 273 (1.12%) ASP.NET
12 255 (1.05%) .NET Core
13 240 (0.99%) Vue
14 237 (0.98%) JSON
15 222 (0.91%) HTML5
16 199 (0.82%) Kafka
17 197 (0.81%) XML
18 194 (0.80%) Spring
19 166 (0.68%) Entity Framework
20 163 (0.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1,982 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
2 1,254 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 981 (4.04%) Driving Licence
4 653 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 596 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 478 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 375 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 340 (1.40%) Social Media
9 291 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 290 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 283 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
12 281 (1.16%) Client/Server
13 271 (1.12%) IoT
14 256 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 246 (1.01%) FMCG
16 239 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 229 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 225 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
19 221 (0.91%) NHS
20 213 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,973 (12.24%) Windows
2 1,228 (5.05%) Linux
3 1,059 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 809 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 422 (1.74%) Android
6 312 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 219 (0.90%) Unix
8 207 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 203 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 198 (0.81%) Mac OS
11 194 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 142 (0.58%) VMS
13 125 (0.51%) Windows 7
14 93 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 83 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 56 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
17 49 (0.20%) Windows 8
18 47 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 41 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
20 33 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,533 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5,288 (21.76%) Agile
3 3,413 (14.05%) Project Management
4 3,203 (13.18%) Customer Service
5 2,511 (10.33%) Mentoring
6 2,218 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,148 (8.84%) Decision-Making
8 2,035 (8.38%) Computer Science
9 1,756 (7.23%) ITIL
10 1,754 (7.22%) Roadmaps
11 1,661 (6.84%) DevOps
12 1,632 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,574 (6.48%) Analytics
14 1,560 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
15 1,540 (6.34%) Actionable Insight
16 1,510 (6.21%) Software Engineering
17 1,376 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
18 1,364 (5.61%) Project Delivery
19 1,266 (5.21%) Collaborative Working
20 1,261 (5.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,933 (12.07%) SQL
2 1,835 (7.55%) Python
3 1,413 (5.82%) JavaScript
4 1,382 (5.69%) C#
5 1,045 (4.30%) Java
6 614 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 403 (1.66%) C
8 378 (1.56%) PHP
9 373 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 368 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 338 (1.39%) C++
12 268 (1.10%) Bash
13 218 (0.90%) R
14 174 (0.72%) Go
15 103 (0.42%) Scala
16 102 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 86 (0.35%) Perl
18 83 (0.34%) MATLAB
19 81 (0.33%) VB
20 72 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5,911 (24.33%) Degree
2 1,733 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 1,238 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,088 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 954 (3.93%) DBS Check
6 737 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 649 (2.67%) ACCA
8 594 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 532 (2.19%) CIMA
10 362 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 352 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 327 (1.35%) Azure Certification
13 322 (1.33%) DV Cleared
14 279 (1.15%) CISSP
15 246 (1.01%) CCNA
16 229 (0.94%) PMP
17 223 (0.92%) AWS Certification
18 212 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
19 192 (0.79%) CISM
20 182 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,074 (4.42%) QA
2 953 (3.92%) SLA
3 559 (2.30%) GDPR
4 494 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 457 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 377 (1.55%) PMO
7 310 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 270 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 204 (0.84%) NIST
10 182 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 167 (0.69%) IFRS
12 102 (0.42%) GMP
13 95 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 87 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 65 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 63 (0.26%) GAAP
18 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
19 45 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
20 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,983 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 612 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 599 (2.47%) Docker
4 479 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 257 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 225 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 216 (0.89%) Firmware
8 126 (0.52%) XenApp
9 122 (0.50%) XenDesktop
10 117 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
11 85 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 76 (0.31%) vSphere
13 55 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.099%) Terminal Services
16 23 (0.095%) KVM
17 16 (0.066%) VMware NSX
18 14 (0.058%) vCloud
19 12 (0.049%) NFS
20 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 545 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 543 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 538 (2.21%) Terraform
4 379 (1.56%) SCCM
5 255 (1.05%) Ansible
6 117 (0.48%) AirWatch
7 116 (0.48%) Grafana
8 89 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 81 (0.33%) WSUS
10 72 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 61 (0.25%) SCOM
12 56 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 52 (0.21%) Puppet
14 49 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 47 (0.19%) EnCase
16 46 (0.19%) Prometheus
17 40 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 39 (0.16%) Nagios
19 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
20 30 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,188 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 1,069 (4.40%) SAP
3 956 (3.93%) Oracle
4 923 (3.80%) VMware
5 665 (2.74%) Cisco
6 606 (2.49%) Google
7 427 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 384 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 348 (1.43%) Dell
10 333 (1.37%) Citrix
11 321 (1.32%) Hyperion
12 311 (1.28%) Adobe
13 303 (1.25%) Anaplan
14 277 (1.14%) HP
15 268 (1.10%) Databricks
16 217 (0.89%) Apple
16 217 (0.89%) Veeam
17 207 (0.85%) IBM
18 172 (0.71%) Splunk
19 131 (0.54%) Sage