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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 22,204 24,278 35,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.65% 29.28% 24.41%
As % of the General category 41.31% 43.31% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 14,710 12,590 16,831
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,738 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £94,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +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 53,752 56,057 93,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.26% 67.61% 65.15%
Number of salaries quoted 36,457 31,637 46,357
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £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 8 June 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 8 June 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 6,598 £65,000 -7.14% 3,182
South East 0 4,520 £45,000 -10.00% 1,768
North of England 0 4,239 £42,500 -12.82% 1,997
Midlands 0 2,986 £42,350 -15.30% 1,472
North West +1 2,263 £45,000 -14.29% 1,108
South West +1 2,057 £45,000 - 1,051
West Midlands 0 1,902 £45,000 -14.29% 877
East of England 0 1,564 £43,750 -12.50% 909
Yorkshire +1 1,466 £45,000 - 661
East Midlands 0 1,070 £40,000 -15.79% 598
North East 0 511 £39,000 -8.24% 259
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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
1 861 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 765 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 420 (1.89%) SAS
4 266 (1.20%) Confluence
5 194 (0.87%) CMS
6 142 (0.64%) WordPress
7 103 (0.46%) Apache
8 85 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 61 (0.27%) IIS
10 56 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 53 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 38 (0.17%) nginx
13 29 (0.13%) Drupal
14 27 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
14 27 (0.12%) Skype for Business
15 24 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 23 (0.10%) WebSphere
17 22 (0.099%) ArcGIS
18 21 (0.095%) OpenEdge
19 17 (0.077%) Documentum
Applications
1 2,456 (11.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,085 (9.39%) Microsoft Office
3 805 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 203 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 135 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 122 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 97 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 95 (0.43%) AutoCAD
9 93 (0.42%) Photoshop
10 65 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 54 (0.24%) InDesign
12 50 (0.23%) Trello
13 43 (0.19%) Simulink
14 36 (0.16%) Adobe XD
15 34 (0.15%) Sketch
16 27 (0.12%) SPSS
17 25 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
17 25 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
18 19 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
19 17 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 333 (1.50%) SAP ERP
2 195 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 98 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 67 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 66 (0.30%) Shopify
6 42 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 41 (0.18%) NEC Housing
8 40 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 36 (0.16%) Primavera
10 35 (0.16%) Magento
11 33 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 25 (0.11%) SAP HR
13 23 (0.10%) Teamcenter
14 22 (0.099%) Maximo
15 21 (0.095%) SAP Business One
15 21 (0.095%) Unit4 Business World
16 19 (0.086%) SAP FI
17 18 (0.081%) Elite 3E
18 17 (0.077%) SDL Web 8
19 16 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3,492 (15.73%) Azure
2 2,296 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 1,832 (8.25%) AWS
4 1,459 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 840 (3.78%) SaaS
6 512 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 454 (2.04%) GCP
8 433 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 389 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 285 (1.28%) Serverless
11 266 (1.20%) PowerApps
12 259 (1.17%) Power Automate
13 252 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
14 226 (1.02%) GitHub
15 166 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
16 159 (0.72%) PaaS
17 140 (0.63%) IaaS
18 137 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
19 133 (0.60%) OneDrive
19 133 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,022 (4.60%) Firewall
2 944 (4.25%) Broadband
3 588 (2.65%) WAN
4 526 (2.37%) DNS
5 495 (2.23%) LAN
6 402 (1.81%) Wireless
7 389 (1.75%) VPN
8 375 (1.69%) TCP/IP
9 339 (1.53%) DHCP
10 338 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
11 296 (1.33%) Network Security
12 292 (1.32%) Internet
13 251 (1.13%) VoIP
14 224 (1.01%) SAN
15 183 (0.82%) VLAN
16 170 (0.77%) SD-WAN
17 147 (0.66%) Intranet
18 109 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
19 101 (0.45%) 5G
20 94 (0.42%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,190 (5.36%) Power BI
2 1,153 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 467 (2.10%) Tableau
4 407 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 335 (1.51%) MySQL
6 318 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 300 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 247 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 225 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 186 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 169 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 153 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 152 (0.68%) Big Data
14 147 (0.66%) MongoDB
15 142 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 132 (0.59%) DynamoDB
17 110 (0.50%) Oracle Database
18 92 (0.41%) Redis
19 85 (0.38%) Data Mining
20 81 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 971 (4.37%) Git
2 764 (3.44%) JIRA
3 254 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 186 (0.84%) GitLab
5 138 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 79 (0.36%) Selenium
7 59 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 57 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 48 (0.22%) JUnit
10 43 (0.19%) Subversion
10 43 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
11 40 (0.18%) Cucumber
11 40 (0.18%) NUnit
12 34 (0.15%) Burp Suite
12 34 (0.15%) Metasploit
13 33 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
14 32 (0.14%) Postman
14 32 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
15 29 (0.13%) CircleCI
15 29 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,307 (23.90%) Finance
2 4,868 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 1,940 (8.74%) Retail
4 1,692 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
5 1,505 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,475 (6.64%) Marketing
7 1,323 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1,136 (5.12%) Legal
9 1,110 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
10 975 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 942 (4.24%) Law
12 837 (3.77%) Manufacturing
13 633 (2.85%) Banking
14 556 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 376 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 346 (1.56%) Billing
17 317 (1.43%) Electronics
18 286 (1.29%) Games
19 285 (1.28%) Local Government
20 277 (1.25%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,173 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2,942 (13.25%) Senior
3 2,118 (9.54%) Developer
4 1,513 (6.81%) Lead
5 1,361 (6.13%) Architect
6 1,304 (5.87%) Project Manager
7 987 (4.45%) Consultant
8 982 (4.42%) IT Support
9 755 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
10 747 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 646 (2.91%) IT Manager
12 635 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 595 (2.68%) Administrator
14 547 (2.46%) Software Engineer
15 540 (2.43%) IT Engineer
16 524 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 480 (2.16%) Senior Developer
18 468 (2.11%) Support Analyst
19 456 (2.05%) Coordinator
20 420 (1.89%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,030 (4.64%) .NET
2 847 (3.81%) HTML
3 759 (3.42%) CSS
4 549 (2.47%) React
5 329 (1.48%) REST
6 310 (1.40%) Web Services
7 308 (1.39%) AngularJS
8 283 (1.27%) RESTful
9 272 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 269 (1.21%) Node.js
11 256 (1.15%) ASP.NET
12 236 (1.06%) .NET Core
13 230 (1.04%) Vue
14 212 (0.95%) JSON
15 186 (0.84%) XML
16 185 (0.83%) HTML5
17 172 (0.77%) Laravel
18 171 (0.77%) GraphQL
19 161 (0.73%) Kafka
20 155 (0.70%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1,972 (8.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1,105 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 900 (4.05%) Driving Licence
4 570 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 520 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 390 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 346 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 291 (1.31%) Social Media
9 286 (1.29%) Client/Server
10 261 (1.18%) IoT
11 258 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 234 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
13 226 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 220 (0.99%) NHS
15 202 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 201 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 186 (0.84%) Life Science
18 182 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
19 175 (0.79%) Virtual Team
20 174 (0.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2,690 (12.11%) Windows
2 1,106 (4.98%) Linux
3 953 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 739 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 355 (1.60%) Android
6 289 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 208 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 197 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 189 (0.85%) Mac OS
10 188 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
11 173 (0.78%) Unix
12 139 (0.63%) VMS
13 107 (0.48%) Windows 7
14 102 (0.46%) Ubuntu
15 67 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 52 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
17 42 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 38 (0.17%) Windows 8
19 34 (0.15%) Kali Linux
20 30 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,155 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4,621 (20.81%) Agile
3 3,100 (13.96%) Project Management
4 2,971 (13.38%) Customer Service
5 2,435 (10.97%) Mentoring
6 2,062 (9.29%) Decision-Making
7 1,902 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,856 (8.36%) Computer Science
9 1,634 (7.36%) ITIL
10 1,537 (6.92%) DevOps
11 1,531 (6.90%) Roadmaps
12 1,422 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,421 (6.40%) Analytics
14 1,415 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
15 1,273 (5.73%) Actionable Insight
16 1,266 (5.70%) Project Delivery
17 1,207 (5.44%) Software Engineering
18 1,183 (5.33%) Time Management
19 1,154 (5.20%) Coaching
20 1,118 (5.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2,772 (12.48%) SQL
2 1,762 (7.94%) Python
3 1,352 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 1,273 (5.73%) C#
5 795 (3.58%) Java
6 582 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 357 (1.61%) PHP
8 338 (1.52%) C
9 329 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 326 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 325 (1.46%) C++
12 230 (1.04%) Bash
13 192 (0.86%) R
14 109 (0.49%) Go
15 101 (0.45%) Scala
16 89 (0.40%) VB
17 74 (0.33%) MATLAB
18 73 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 69 (0.31%) VBA
20 67 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5,531 (24.91%) Degree
2 1,465 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 1,153 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,018 (4.58%) DBS Check
5 843 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 632 (2.85%) ACCA
7 629 (2.83%) Master's Degree
8 554 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 520 (2.34%) CIMA
10 342 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 314 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 313 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 291 (1.31%) Azure Certification
14 227 (1.02%) PMP
15 226 (1.02%) CISSP
16 219 (0.99%) HNC
17 197 (0.89%) CCNA
18 173 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 156 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
20 152 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,012 (4.56%) QA
2 931 (4.19%) SLA
3 535 (2.41%) GDPR
4 457 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 428 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 364 (1.64%) PMO
7 266 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 226 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 183 (0.82%) NIST
10 151 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 144 (0.65%) IFRS
12 124 (0.56%) GMP
13 87 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 70 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
15 61 (0.27%) GAAP
16 55 (0.25%) GRC
17 47 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 42 (0.19%) NEBOSH
19 40 (0.18%) IFRS 9
20 38 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,812 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 566 (2.55%) Docker
3 543 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 441 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 190 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 183 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 142 (0.64%) Firmware
8 95 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 73 (0.33%) vSphere
10 72 (0.32%) XenApp
11 71 (0.32%) XenDesktop
12 68 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 33 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 25 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 22 (0.099%) KVM
16 21 (0.095%) Terminal Services
17 12 (0.054%) NFS
18 10 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
19 9 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 9 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 506 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 499 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 426 (1.92%) Terraform
4 306 (1.38%) SCCM
5 207 (0.93%) Ansible
6 91 (0.41%) WSUS
7 82 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 70 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 69 (0.31%) Puppet
10 68 (0.31%) SCOM
11 65 (0.29%) AirWatch
12 48 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 45 (0.20%) Grafana
14 44 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 40 (0.18%) FortiGate
16 38 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
17 37 (0.17%) Nagios
18 35 (0.16%) Functional Safety
19 34 (0.15%) Prometheus
20 30 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5,969 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 877 (3.95%) SAP
3 828 (3.73%) VMware
4 821 (3.70%) Oracle
5 540 (2.43%) Cisco
6 499 (2.25%) Google
7 394 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 378 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 349 (1.57%) Databricks
10 314 (1.41%) Hyperion
11 304 (1.37%) Anaplan
12 285 (1.28%) Adobe
13 270 (1.22%) Citrix
14 244 (1.10%) HP
15 243 (1.09%) Dell
16 204 (0.92%) Veeam
17 196 (0.88%) Apple
18 174 (0.78%) IBM
19 114 (0.51%) Meraki
20 103 (0.46%) CA