Social Skills Jobs in Wales

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 225 507 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 18.73% 23.17% 38.84%
As % of the General category 23.96% 43.71% 57.80%
Number of salaries quoted 131 309 244
10th Percentile £25,438 £25,047 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,489
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,200 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.43% -3.63% -5.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £57,931
90th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £75,875
UK median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -17.39% +4.55%

All General Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 939 1,160 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.18% 53.02% 67.20%
Number of salaries quoted 536 784 518
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £24,501 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,860 £44,207
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -3.05% -8.85%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,600 £66,250 £70,075
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Wales

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in Wales

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Wales

Social Skills
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
South Wales -8 144 £52,500 +27.27% 1,141
West Wales +8 32 £22,500 -54.64% 11
North Wales -18 15 £40,101 +17.94% 25
Mid Wales +2 3 - - 1
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 7 (3.11%) CMS
2 6 (2.67%) Confluence
3 3 (1.33%) ColdFusion
4 2 (0.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.11%) Simulink
3 1 (0.44%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.89%) Shopify
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (4.44%) AWS
2 10 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (3.56%) IaaS
3 8 (3.56%) PaaS
3 8 (3.56%) SaaS
4 7 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.11%) npm
5 4 (1.78%) GitHub
5 4 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.33%) Serverless
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.44%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.89%) Network Security
2 17 (7.56%) IP Telephony
3 15 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.33%) DNS
5 10 (4.44%) Modbus
5 10 (4.44%) MQTT
6 5 (2.22%) Broadband
6 5 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.22%) VoIP
7 4 (1.78%) Firewall
7 4 (1.78%) VPN
8 2 (0.89%) GSM
9 1 (0.44%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.11%) RDBMS
2 16 (7.11%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.11%) MySQL
4 4 (1.78%) Redis
5 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.89%) Big Data
6 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.89%) MS Access
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Git
1 15 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.11%) JIRA
2 7 (3.11%) webpack
3 5 (2.22%) Grunt
4 4 (1.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) JUnit
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 85 (37.78%) Finance
2 19 (8.44%) Telecoms
3 18 (8.00%) Retail
4 14 (6.22%) Marketing
5 11 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.00%) Electronics
7 9 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Welsh Language
9 7 (3.11%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.78%) Banking
11 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Aviation
13 1 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 85 (37.78%) Senior
2 73 (32.44%) Senior Manager
3 67 (29.78%) Project Manager
4 63 (28.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 27 (12.00%) Developer
6 23 (10.22%) Lead
7 12 (5.33%) Software Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (4.44%) Architect
9 10 (4.44%) Development Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.00%) Team Leader
11 8 (3.56%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (3.56%) Business Development Manager
11 8 (3.56%) Business Manager
11 8 (3.56%) Junior
11 8 (3.56%) Server Engineer
11 8 (3.56%) Software Team Leader
11 8 (3.56%) Systems Architect
11 8 (3.56%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.44%) .NET
2 11 (4.89%) Symfony
3 7 (3.11%) HTML
3 7 (3.11%) Sass
3 7 (3.11%) Vue
4 5 (2.22%) CakePHP
4 5 (2.22%) Doctrine
4 5 (2.22%) Pyjs
5 4 (1.78%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.78%) Django
6 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.33%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.33%) Flask
6 3 (1.33%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.33%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.33%) OAuth
6 3 (1.33%) pytest
6 3 (1.33%) RESTful
6 3 (1.33%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 65 (28.89%) Driving Licence
2 26 (11.56%) IoT
3 13 (5.78%) Private Cloud
4 11 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.44%) Device Driver
6 9 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.11%) Legacy Code
7 7 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.33%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.33%) Social Media
10 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.89%) Photography
11 1 (0.44%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.44%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.44%) FPGA
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.78%) Windows
2 24 (10.67%) Linux
3 23 (10.22%) Unix
4 9 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (39.11%) Project Management
2 85 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (30.22%) Risk Management
4 63 (28.00%) Balanced Scorecard
4 63 (28.00%) Scorecard
5 42 (18.67%) Mentoring
6 39 (17.33%) Agile
7 34 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 20 (8.89%) Software Engineering
11 19 (8.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (8.00%) Product Strategy
12 18 (8.00%) Systems Engineering
12 18 (8.00%) Technical Debt
12 18 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (8.00%) Web Development
13 17 (7.56%) CI/CD
13 17 (7.56%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (7.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.56%) SQL
2 20 (8.89%) C#
3 13 (5.78%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.33%) C
5 11 (4.89%) C++
5 11 (4.89%) PHP
6 8 (3.56%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.56%) Python
7 3 (1.33%) Java
8 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (14.22%) Degree
2 23 (10.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (6.22%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.78%) Chartered Engineer
5 11 (4.89%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.56%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.56%) MCSA
6 8 (3.56%) MCSE
6 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.22%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.33%) CSPO
9 2 (0.89%) PMP
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) MRICS
10 1 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) SLA
2 8 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 8 (3.56%) QA
3 6 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.89%) NCSC
4 2 (0.89%) NIST
4 2 (0.89%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) GRC
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.78%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.89%) Firmware
3 8 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.33%) Grafana
2 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.44%) Ansible
3 1 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.67%) IBM
3 5 (2.22%) HubSpot
4 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.78%) SAP
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle
6 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.44%) Ariba
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco
7 1 (0.44%) EMC
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.44%) Instagram
7 1 (0.44%) Pega
7 1 (0.44%) Twitter
7 1 (0.44%) VMware