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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 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 4,901 9,120 10,068
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.19% 27.08% 24.58%
As % of the General category 34.67% 43.93% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 6,169 6,826
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,325 £45,512
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 14,138 20,762 27,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.43% 61.65% 66.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,526 15,064 18,006
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,960 £75,000 £82,949
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 15 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 (2.98%) 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 42 (0.86%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.69%) IIS
9 28 (0.57%) WordPress
10 22 (0.45%) Apache
11 18 (0.37%) SAS
12 11 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (0.18%) Kentico
14 9 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
17 6 (0.12%) ColdFusion
17 6 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 274 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 257 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (1.63%) 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%) Adobe Illustrator
8 15 (0.31%) Chatbot
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%) Blender
14 5 (0.10%) Revit
14 5 (0.10%) Stata
Business Applications
1 49 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 29 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.55%) Shopify
5 20 (0.41%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 18 (0.37%) Magento
6 18 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 17 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.22%) Sage 200
10 9 (0.18%) Infor M3
11 8 (0.16%) Sage 50
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.12%) Sage CRM
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 750 (15.30%) Azure
2 392 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 382 (7.79%) AWS
4 302 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 275 (5.61%) SaaS
6 174 (3.55%) GCP
7 116 (2.37%) GitHub
8 110 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 87 (1.78%) Serverless
12 69 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 57 (1.16%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.12%) Google Analytics
15 53 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
17 41 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 41 (0.84%) PaaS
18 40 (0.82%) Amazon S3
19 36 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 783 (15.98%) Broadband
2 129 (2.63%) Firewall
3 88 (1.80%) DNS
4 63 (1.29%) WAN
5 54 (1.10%) Network Security
6 53 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 51 (1.04%) LAN
8 48 (0.98%) DHCP
9 45 (0.92%) VPN
10 37 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (0.69%) Wireless
12 31 (0.63%) HTTP
13 30 (0.61%) Internet
14 25 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.49%) VoIP
16 20 (0.41%) WPA
17 16 (0.33%) Intranet
17 16 (0.33%) SAN
18 15 (0.31%) VLAN
19 13 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (4.96%) Power BI
2 236 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 158 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 118 (2.41%) Tableau
5 89 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
7 83 (1.69%) 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 39 (0.80%) 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 19 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 214 (4.37%) Git
2 170 (3.47%) JIRA
3 61 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 38 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 32 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 31 (0.63%) Selenium
7 29 (0.59%) GitLab
8 22 (0.45%) Postman
9 19 (0.39%) webpack
10 18 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
11 14 (0.29%) Gradle
12 13 (0.27%) JUnit
13 12 (0.24%) Grunt
14 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.18%) Maven
15 9 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.16%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.16%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.14%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.14%) Cucumber
General
1 1,312 (26.77%) Finance
2 898 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
3 700 (14.28%) Marketing
4 480 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 327 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 305 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
7 245 (5.00%) Retail
8 235 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
9 218 (4.45%) Banking
10 164 (3.35%) Legal
11 158 (3.22%) Advertising
12 144 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 127 (2.59%) Law
14 103 (2.10%) Games
15 93 (1.90%) Military
15 93 (1.90%) Multimedia
16 88 (1.80%) Telecoms
17 81 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
18 77 (1.57%) Electronics
19 56 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 593 (12.10%) Senior
2 574 (11.71%) Lead
3 535 (10.92%) Analyst
4 435 (8.88%) Developer
5 351 (7.16%) Business Manager
6 349 (7.12%) Development Manager
7 331 (6.75%) Business Development Manager
8 330 (6.73%) Support Engineer
9 210 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
10 164 (3.35%) Team Leader
11 163 (3.33%) Architect
12 154 (3.14%) Project Manager
13 152 (3.10%) Consultant
14 144 (2.94%) IT Support
15 121 (2.47%) Software Engineer
16 117 (2.39%) Data Analyst
17 113 (2.31%) Engineering Manager
17 113 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
18 112 (2.29%) Account Manager
19 107 (2.18%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (5.59%) .NET
2 147 (3.00%) HTML
3 129 (2.63%) CSS
4 93 (1.90%) React
5 84 (1.71%) REST
6 73 (1.49%) RESTful
7 72 (1.47%) .NET Framework
8 69 (1.41%) ASP.NET
9 63 (1.29%) JSON
10 60 (1.22%) Kafka
11 59 (1.20%) AngularJS
11 59 (1.20%) Node.js
12 57 (1.16%) Spring
13 55 (1.12%) XML
14 49 (1.00%) .NET Core
15 46 (0.94%) Web Services
16 43 (0.88%) OAuth
17 41 (0.84%) Django
17 41 (0.84%) SOAP
18 38 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 198 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
2 186 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 171 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 146 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 132 (2.69%) Social Media
6 106 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 91 (1.86%) Digital Media
8 87 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 82 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 71 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 59 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 58 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 56 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.04%) Driving Licence
15 50 (1.02%) IoT
16 44 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (0.84%) Private Cloud
18 40 (0.82%) Mobile Games
19 38 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 609 (12.43%) Windows
2 226 (4.61%) Windows Server 2012
3 187 (3.82%) Linux
4 122 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 72 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 71 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 58 (1.18%) Unix
8 50 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 46 (0.94%) Android
10 29 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (0.53%) Windows Vista
12 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
17 6 (0.12%) AIX
17 6 (0.12%) CentOS
18 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,914 (39.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,047 (21.36%) Mentoring
3 917 (18.71%) Agile
4 867 (17.69%) Computer Science
5 857 (17.49%) Roadmaps
6 772 (15.75%) Broadcast Engineering
7 653 (13.32%) Product Management
8 641 (13.08%) Project Management
9 620 (12.65%) High Availability
10 578 (11.79%) Collaborative Working
11 522 (10.65%) Analytics
12 502 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 469 (9.57%) DevOps
14 458 (9.35%) Coaching
15 440 (8.98%) Collaborative Culture
16 428 (8.73%) Business Development
17 367 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
18 350 (7.14%) Customer Service
19 344 (7.02%) ITIL
20 343 (7.00%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 636 (12.98%) SQL
2 401 (8.18%) Python
3 288 (5.88%) C#
4 262 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 234 (4.77%) Java
6 106 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 100 (2.04%) C++
8 89 (1.82%) PHP
9 84 (1.71%) 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 35 (0.71%) Bash
16 24 (0.49%) Scala
17 23 (0.47%) Swift
17 23 (0.47%) VBA
18 22 (0.45%) Objective-C
19 20 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,489 (30.38%) Degree
2 749 (15.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 250 (5.10%) DBS Check
4 239 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 157 (3.20%) SC Cleared
6 99 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 96 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 83 (1.69%) CISSP
9 81 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 71 (1.45%) PMP
11 65 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 65 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 42 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.69%) CISM
15 31 (0.63%) ACCA
16 30 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 28 (0.57%) CIMA
17 28 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (4.37%) QA
2 129 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 123 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 112 (2.29%) GDPR
5 81 (1.65%) SLA
6 74 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 61 (1.24%) NIST
8 48 (0.98%) PMO
9 44 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 39 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.49%) GRC
13 17 (0.35%) ISO 9001
13 17 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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
1 458 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 173 (3.53%) Docker
3 64 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.51%) Firmware
6 22 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.10%) Postfix
11 4 (0.082%) vSphere
12 3 (0.061%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.061%) KVM
12 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.041%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.020%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 1 (0.020%) pfSense
14 1 (0.020%) Varnish
14 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 144 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 107 (2.18%) Terraform
3 77 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (0.92%) Ansible
5 44 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 37 (0.75%) Grafana
7 21 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.22%) SCCM
10 9 (0.18%) Argo
10 9 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 7 (0.14%) Nessus
11 7 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 7 (0.14%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) AirWatch
12 5 (0.10%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.10%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.082%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,133 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 235 (4.79%) Google
3 217 (4.43%) Sun
4 204 (4.16%) Oracle
5 158 (3.22%) SAP
6 129 (2.63%) Cisco
6 129 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 94 (1.92%) VMware
8 93 (1.90%) Databricks
9 92 (1.88%) Adobe
10 76 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 53 (1.08%) Apple
12 52 (1.06%) Progress
13 40 (0.82%) MathWorks
14 35 (0.71%) Dell
15 34 (0.69%) IBM
16 24 (0.49%) Fortinet
17 22 (0.45%) Sage
17 22 (0.45%) YouTube
18 21 (0.43%) Facebook