Social Skills Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 4,891 9,115 10,178
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.29% 27.04% 24.62%
As % of the General category 34.86% 43.93% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,607 6,169 6,913
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,325 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -11.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,550 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.25% -15.65% +4.55%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 14,029 20,750 27,292
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.27% 61.55% 66.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,518 15,057 18,200
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,620 £41,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,745 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,751
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Social Skills
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Social Skills.

Social Skills salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Social Skills salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 146 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 113 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 75 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
4 68 (1.39%) CMS
5 52 (1.06%) Confluence
6 44 (0.90%) OpenEdge
7 43 (0.88%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.70%) IIS
9 28 (0.57%) WordPress
10 22 (0.45%) Apache
11 18 (0.37%) SAS
12 12 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 10 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (0.18%) Kentico
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.14%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
17 6 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 270 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 253 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (0.88%) Simulink
5 29 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 27 (0.55%) Trello
7 25 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 15 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
9 14 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 10 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 9 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 9 (0.18%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.16%) InDesign
13 7 (0.14%) Sketch
14 5 (0.10%) Revit
14 5 (0.10%) Stata
15 4 (0.082%) Blender
Business Applications
1 48 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 28 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.55%) Shopify
5 20 (0.41%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 18 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 17 (0.35%) Magento
7 17 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.18%) Infor M3
12 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 5 (0.10%) Sage CRM
14 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 752 (15.38%) Azure
2 388 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
3 380 (7.77%) AWS
4 307 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 276 (5.64%) SaaS
6 175 (3.58%) GCP
7 117 (2.39%) GitHub
8 110 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
11 86 (1.76%) Serverless
12 68 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 57 (1.17%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.12%) Google Analytics
15 52 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (0.84%) PaaS
17 39 (0.80%) Amazon S3
18 36 (0.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 783 (16.01%) Broadband
2 129 (2.64%) Firewall
3 88 (1.80%) DNS
4 61 (1.25%) WAN
5 56 (1.14%) Network Security
6 54 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 51 (1.04%) LAN
8 48 (0.98%) DHCP
9 44 (0.90%) VPN
10 37 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.65%) HTTP
11 32 (0.65%) Wireless
12 30 (0.61%) Internet
13 24 (0.49%) VoIP
14 23 (0.47%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.41%) WPA
16 16 (0.33%) Intranet
16 16 (0.33%) SAN
17 15 (0.31%) VLAN
18 13 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (5.07%) Power BI
2 238 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 158 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (2.45%) Tableau
5 89 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
7 83 (1.70%) MySQL
8 75 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 65 (1.33%) Big Data
9 65 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 50 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 48 (0.98%) NoSQL
12 41 (0.84%) MongoDB
13 40 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.61%) DB2
15 28 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 27 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
18 21 (0.43%) Power Query
19 18 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 214 (4.38%) Git
2 171 (3.50%) JIRA
3 60 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 40 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 32 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 31 (0.63%) Selenium
7 29 (0.59%) GitLab
8 22 (0.45%) Postman
9 20 (0.41%) webpack
10 18 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
11 14 (0.29%) Gradle
12 13 (0.27%) JUnit
13 12 (0.25%) Grunt
14 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.18%) Maven
15 9 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.16%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.16%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.14%) Cucumber
General
1 1,317 (26.93%) Finance
2 895 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
3 697 (14.25%) Marketing
4 479 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 326 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 303 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
7 246 (5.03%) Retail
8 235 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
9 222 (4.54%) Banking
10 165 (3.37%) Legal
11 159 (3.25%) Advertising
12 142 (2.90%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.64%) Law
14 104 (2.13%) Games
15 93 (1.90%) Multimedia
16 92 (1.88%) Military
17 88 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 81 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
19 77 (1.57%) Electronics
20 56 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 598 (12.23%) Senior
2 573 (11.72%) Lead
3 538 (11.00%) Analyst
4 434 (8.87%) Developer
5 350 (7.16%) Business Manager
6 348 (7.12%) Development Manager
7 331 (6.77%) Support Engineer
8 330 (6.75%) Business Development Manager
9 210 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
10 163 (3.33%) Architect
10 163 (3.33%) Team Leader
11 153 (3.13%) Consultant
11 153 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 141 (2.88%) IT Support
13 121 (2.47%) Software Engineer
14 120 (2.45%) Data Analyst
15 113 (2.31%) Engineering Manager
15 113 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
16 112 (2.29%) Account Manager
17 107 (2.19%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (5.62%) .NET
2 147 (3.01%) HTML
3 130 (2.66%) CSS
4 94 (1.92%) React
5 82 (1.68%) REST
6 73 (1.49%) .NET Framework
6 73 (1.49%) RESTful
7 70 (1.43%) ASP.NET
8 63 (1.29%) JSON
9 61 (1.25%) Kafka
10 59 (1.21%) AngularJS
10 59 (1.21%) Node.js
11 57 (1.17%) Spring
12 55 (1.12%) XML
13 48 (0.98%) .NET Core
14 47 (0.96%) Web Services
15 42 (0.86%) OAuth
16 41 (0.84%) Django
17 40 (0.82%) SOAP
18 39 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 194 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
2 186 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 171 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 143 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 129 (2.64%) Social Media
6 106 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 91 (1.86%) Digital Media
8 87 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 82 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 70 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 59 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 58 (1.19%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 53 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (1.00%) Driving Licence
15 49 (1.00%) IoT
16 45 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (0.84%) Private Cloud
18 40 (0.82%) Mobile Games
19 37 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 606 (12.39%) Windows
2 226 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
3 189 (3.86%) Linux
4 123 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 71 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 71 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 58 (1.19%) Unix
7 50 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 46 (0.94%) Android
9 29 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 26 (0.53%) Windows Vista
11 16 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.12%) AIX
15 6 (0.12%) CentOS
16 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,908 (39.01%) Problem-Solving
2 1,047 (21.41%) Mentoring
3 916 (18.73%) Agile
4 868 (17.75%) Computer Science
5 859 (17.56%) Roadmaps
6 772 (15.78%) Broadcast Engineering
7 654 (13.37%) Product Management
8 640 (13.09%) Project Management
9 620 (12.68%) High Availability
10 580 (11.86%) Collaborative Working
11 522 (10.67%) Analytics
12 499 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 471 (9.63%) DevOps
14 459 (9.38%) Coaching
15 438 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
16 424 (8.67%) Business Development
17 366 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 346 (7.07%) Customer Service
19 344 (7.03%) ITIL
20 343 (7.01%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 644 (13.17%) SQL
2 405 (8.28%) Python
3 290 (5.93%) C#
4 262 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 234 (4.78%) Java
6 107 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 99 (2.02%) C++
8 89 (1.82%) PHP
9 85 (1.74%) TypeScript
10 49 (1.00%) C
11 45 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 42 (0.86%) R
13 41 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 40 (0.82%) VB.NET
15 34 (0.70%) Bash
16 25 (0.51%) Scala
17 23 (0.47%) Swift
18 22 (0.45%) Objective-C
18 22 (0.45%) VBA
19 20 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,492 (30.51%) Degree
2 751 (15.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 249 (5.09%) DBS Check
4 238 (4.87%) Security Cleared
5 157 (3.21%) SC Cleared
6 99 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 96 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 84 (1.72%) CISSP
9 81 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 71 (1.45%) PMP
11 65 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 65 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 52 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 41 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.70%) CISM
15 31 (0.63%) ACCA
16 30 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 28 (0.57%) CIMA
19 27 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (4.42%) QA
2 128 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 123 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 112 (2.29%) GDPR
5 81 (1.66%) SLA
6 74 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.23%) NIST
8 46 (0.94%) PMO
9 44 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.49%) GRC
13 17 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 14 (0.29%) NCSC
16 10 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.18%) IFRS
17 9 (0.18%) ITGC
17 9 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 459 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 173 (3.54%) Docker
3 65 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.53%) Firmware
6 22 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.10%) Postfix
10 5 (0.10%) vSphere
11 3 (0.061%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.041%) KVM
12 2 (0.041%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.020%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 1 (0.020%) pfSense
13 1 (0.020%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 144 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 106 (2.17%) Terraform
3 76 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 43 (0.88%) Ansible
6 37 (0.76%) Grafana
7 22 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.25%) SCCM
10 9 (0.18%) Argo
10 9 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 7 (0.14%) Nessus
11 7 (0.14%) PaperCut
12 6 (0.12%) Puppet
13 5 (0.10%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.10%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.082%) Automic
14 4 (0.082%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,129 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 236 (4.83%) Google
3 217 (4.44%) Sun
4 204 (4.17%) Oracle
5 157 (3.21%) SAP
6 127 (2.60%) Cisco
6 127 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 95 (1.94%) VMware
8 93 (1.90%) Databricks
9 89 (1.82%) Adobe
10 74 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 54 (1.10%) Apple
12 52 (1.06%) Progress
13 40 (0.82%) MathWorks
14 35 (0.72%) Dell
15 33 (0.67%) IBM
16 24 (0.49%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.45%) YouTube
18 21 (0.43%) Facebook
18 21 (0.43%) Sage