Social Skills Jobs in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 21,660 25,375 32,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.07% 28.74% 23.98%
As % of the General category 42.39% 42.13% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,842 12,915 16,200
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,813 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 51,101 60,227 87,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.15% 68.21% 64.42%
Number of salaries quoted 35,740 32,781 45,050
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,315 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London +1 6,523 £65,000 -7.14% 3,981
South East 0 4,389 £45,000 -10.00% 2,276
North of England +1 4,118 £45,000 -10.00% 2,130
Midlands +1 2,847 £42,500 -15.00% 1,569
North West +1 2,166 £45,000 -12.62% 1,138
South West +1 1,999 £45,000 - 1,070
West Midlands +1 1,828 £45,000 -13.46% 962
East of England 0 1,537 £44,250 -11.07% 984
Yorkshire +1 1,475 £45,000 -5.26% 735
East Midlands 0 1,005 £39,984 -16.70% 606
North East 0 479 £40,000 -5.88% 298
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 881 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 785 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 433 (2.00%) SAS
4 264 (1.22%) Confluence
5 191 (0.88%) CMS
6 138 (0.64%) WordPress
7 102 (0.47%) Apache
8 87 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 59 (0.27%) IIS
10 56 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 52 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 35 (0.16%) nginx
13 28 (0.13%) Drupal
14 27 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
15 24 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 23 (0.11%) Skype for Business
16 23 (0.11%) WebSphere
17 21 (0.097%) OpenEdge
18 18 (0.083%) ArcGIS
19 17 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2,324 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,966 (9.08%) Microsoft Office
3 745 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 197 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 137 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 124 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 96 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 93 (0.43%) Photoshop
9 90 (0.42%) AutoCAD
10 63 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 53 (0.24%) InDesign
12 50 (0.23%) Trello
13 42 (0.19%) Simulink
14 31 (0.14%) Adobe XD
14 31 (0.14%) Sketch
15 28 (0.13%) SPSS
16 25 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
16 25 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
17 17 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
18 16 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 335 (1.55%) SAP ERP
2 193 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 112 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 70 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.31%) Shopify
6 41 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 36 (0.17%) Primavera
9 34 (0.16%) NEC Housing
10 33 (0.15%) Magento
11 32 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 29 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
13 27 (0.12%) SAP HR
14 25 (0.12%) SAP FI
15 23 (0.11%) Teamcenter
16 22 (0.10%) SAP Business One
17 21 (0.097%) Elite 3E
18 19 (0.088%) SAP CO
18 19 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
19 18 (0.083%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 3,396 (15.68%) Azure
2 2,305 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 1,747 (8.07%) AWS
4 1,439 (6.64%) Power Platform
5 833 (3.85%) SaaS
6 496 (2.29%) Entra ID
7 453 (2.09%) GCP
8 420 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 373 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 279 (1.29%) Serverless
11 259 (1.20%) PowerApps
12 248 (1.14%) Power Automate
13 243 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
14 231 (1.07%) GitHub
15 168 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
16 153 (0.71%) PaaS
17 141 (0.65%) IaaS
18 136 (0.63%) Snowflake
19 132 (0.61%) OneDrive
20 131 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1,006 (4.64%) Firewall
2 945 (4.36%) Broadband
3 616 (2.84%) WAN
4 527 (2.43%) DNS
5 492 (2.27%) LAN
6 421 (1.94%) Wireless
7 373 (1.72%) VPN
8 360 (1.66%) TCP/IP
9 335 (1.55%) DHCP
10 328 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
11 296 (1.37%) Network Security
12 275 (1.27%) Internet
13 248 (1.14%) VoIP
14 226 (1.04%) SAN
15 199 (0.92%) SD-WAN
16 181 (0.84%) VLAN
17 159 (0.73%) Intranet
18 106 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
19 105 (0.48%) WebEx
20 101 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,162 (5.36%) Power BI
2 1,146 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 484 (2.23%) Tableau
4 404 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 334 (1.54%) MySQL
6 303 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
7 293 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 242 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 195 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 182 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 165 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 149 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 146 (0.67%) Big Data
14 143 (0.66%) MongoDB
14 143 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 110 (0.51%) Oracle Database
16 106 (0.49%) DynamoDB
17 87 (0.40%) Metadata
18 86 (0.40%) Data Mining
19 78 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 933 (4.31%) Git
2 735 (3.39%) JIRA
3 256 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 180 (0.83%) GitLab
5 137 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 81 (0.37%) Selenium
7 62 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 54 (0.25%) TeamCity
9 44 (0.20%) JUnit
10 42 (0.19%) Subversion
11 41 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 41 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (0.17%) Postman
13 34 (0.16%) NUnit
13 34 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
14 33 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 33 (0.15%) Metasploit
15 31 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
16 30 (0.14%) Cypress.io
17 29 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,233 (24.16%) Finance
2 4,778 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 1,760 (8.13%) Retail
4 1,626 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
5 1,435 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,429 (6.60%) Marketing
7 1,260 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1,095 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1,054 (4.87%) Legal
10 956 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 929 (4.29%) Law
12 821 (3.79%) Manufacturing
13 681 (3.14%) Banking
14 549 (2.53%) Telecoms
15 348 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 332 (1.53%) Billing
17 289 (1.33%) Electronics
18 286 (1.32%) Games
19 278 (1.28%) German Language
20 276 (1.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,138 (14.49%) Analyst
2 2,880 (13.30%) Senior
3 2,093 (9.66%) Developer
4 1,521 (7.02%) Lead
5 1,338 (6.18%) Architect
6 1,261 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 987 (4.56%) IT Support
8 979 (4.52%) Consultant
9 758 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 746 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 632 (2.92%) IT Manager
12 628 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 584 (2.70%) Administrator
14 539 (2.49%) IT Engineer
15 508 (2.35%) Senior Manager
16 501 (2.31%) Software Engineer
17 470 (2.17%) Support Analyst
18 468 (2.16%) Senior Developer
19 415 (1.92%) Graduate
20 407 (1.88%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (4.62%) .NET
2 808 (3.73%) HTML
3 725 (3.35%) CSS
4 526 (2.43%) React
5 300 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 300 (1.39%) REST
6 274 (1.27%) RESTful
7 269 (1.24%) Web Services
8 263 (1.21%) .NET Framework
9 249 (1.15%) Node.js
10 241 (1.11%) ASP.NET
11 226 (1.04%) .NET Core
12 214 (0.99%) Vue
13 210 (0.97%) JSON
14 181 (0.84%) XML
15 177 (0.82%) HTML5
16 155 (0.72%) Laravel
17 148 (0.68%) Entity Framework
17 148 (0.68%) Kafka
17 148 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1,902 (8.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1,109 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 905 (4.18%) Driving Licence
4 522 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 495 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 381 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 335 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 284 (1.31%) Social Media
9 281 (1.30%) Client/Server
10 254 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
11 249 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 248 (1.14%) IoT
13 220 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 216 (1.00%) NHS
15 207 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 199 (0.92%) Public Cloud
17 193 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
18 177 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
19 175 (0.81%) Virtual Team
20 172 (0.79%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2,702 (12.47%) Windows
2 1,095 (5.06%) Linux
3 950 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 748 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 372 (1.72%) Android
6 282 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 199 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 192 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 188 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 187 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 180 (0.83%) Unix
12 132 (0.61%) VMS
13 115 (0.53%) Windows 7
14 95 (0.44%) Ubuntu
15 63 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 45 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 44 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.20%) Windows 8
19 33 (0.15%) Kali Linux
20 30 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,895 (31.83%) Problem-Solving
2 4,583 (21.16%) Agile
3 3,038 (14.03%) Project Management
4 2,879 (13.29%) Customer Service
5 2,333 (10.77%) Mentoring
6 1,989 (9.18%) Decision-Making
7 1,829 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,785 (8.24%) Computer Science
9 1,621 (7.48%) ITIL
10 1,538 (7.10%) Roadmaps
11 1,480 (6.83%) DevOps
12 1,391 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
13 1,384 (6.39%) Analytics
14 1,363 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 1,282 (5.92%) Actionable Insight
16 1,221 (5.64%) Project Delivery
17 1,157 (5.34%) Time Management
18 1,144 (5.28%) Software Engineering
19 1,118 (5.16%) Coaching
20 1,103 (5.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2,716 (12.54%) SQL
2 1,714 (7.91%) Python
3 1,278 (5.90%) JavaScript
4 1,226 (5.66%) C#
5 796 (3.67%) Java
6 580 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 342 (1.58%) PHP
8 327 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 324 (1.50%) C
10 315 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 313 (1.45%) C++
12 231 (1.07%) Bash
13 200 (0.92%) R
14 110 (0.51%) Go
15 80 (0.37%) Scala
16 79 (0.36%) MATLAB
16 79 (0.36%) VB
17 71 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 70 (0.32%) Perl
19 66 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 5,331 (24.61%) Degree
2 1,406 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 1,123 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 996 (4.60%) DBS Check
5 810 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 643 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 623 (2.88%) ACCA
8 542 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 518 (2.39%) CIMA
10 330 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 313 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 287 (1.33%) DV Cleared
13 274 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 216 (1.00%) CISSP
15 212 (0.98%) PMP
16 201 (0.93%) CCNA
17 163 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
18 161 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
19 159 (0.73%) HNC
20 146 (0.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 951 (4.39%) QA
2 887 (4.10%) SLA
3 526 (2.43%) GDPR
4 450 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 430 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 350 (1.62%) PMO
7 251 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 228 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
9 179 (0.83%) NIST
10 155 (0.72%) ISO 9001
11 148 (0.68%) IFRS
12 116 (0.54%) GMP
13 83 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 62 (0.29%) GAAP
15 60 (0.28%) GRC
16 54 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 48 (0.22%) IFRS 9
18 41 (0.19%) NEBOSH
19 39 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
20 38 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,820 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 544 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 536 (2.47%) Docker
4 443 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 228 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 179 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 134 (0.62%) Firmware
8 101 (0.47%) XenApp
9 100 (0.46%) XenDesktop
10 94 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 86 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 74 (0.34%) vSphere
13 31 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 25 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
15 24 (0.11%) KVM
16 20 (0.092%) Terminal Services
17 11 (0.051%) NFS
17 11 (0.051%) vCloud
17 11 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
18 7 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 498 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 470 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 399 (1.84%) Terraform
4 325 (1.50%) SCCM
5 197 (0.91%) Ansible
6 94 (0.43%) AirWatch
7 83 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 80 (0.37%) WSUS
9 71 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 64 (0.30%) SCOM
11 61 (0.28%) Puppet
12 47 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 44 (0.20%) Grafana
14 42 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 41 (0.19%) Nagios
16 40 (0.18%) FortiGate
17 35 (0.16%) EnCase
17 35 (0.16%) Functional Safety
18 34 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
19 32 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5,769 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 909 (4.20%) SAP
3 838 (3.87%) VMware
4 835 (3.86%) Oracle
5 567 (2.62%) Cisco
6 510 (2.35%) Google
7 390 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 359 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 338 (1.56%) Databricks
10 314 (1.45%) Hyperion
11 304 (1.40%) Anaplan
12 303 (1.40%) Citrix
13 277 (1.28%) Adobe
14 255 (1.18%) HP
15 251 (1.16%) Dell
16 203 (0.94%) Veeam
17 193 (0.89%) Apple
18 180 (0.83%) IBM
19 114 (0.53%) Meraki
20 105 (0.48%) Splunk