Social Skills Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,743 18,283 17,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.63% 30.66% 24.09%
As % of the General category 41.16% 44.66% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,464 7,516 9,200
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,435 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,676 40,941 43,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.40% 68.66% 60.27%
Number of salaries quoted 26,401 18,607 24,279
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,440 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East 0 4,386 £44,500 -11.00% 1,857
North of England +1 4,095 £45,000 -10.00% 2,051
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,540
North West +1 2,151 £45,000 -10.25% 1,130
South West +1 2,002 £45,000 - 1,056
West Midlands +1 1,820 £45,000 -14.29% 941
East of England 0 1,536 £44,500 -7.81% 953
Yorkshire +1 1,472 £45,000 -6.25% 681
Scotland -16 1,246 £45,000 -18.18% 494
East Midlands 0 996 £39,969 -15.86% 599
Wales 0 497 £41,225 -6.31% 233
North East 0 475 £40,000 -5.88% 278
Northern Ireland +6 152 £50,000 -13.04% 75
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 4
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 700 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 560 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 200 (1.19%) Confluence
4 166 (0.99%) SAS
5 137 (0.82%) CMS
6 108 (0.65%) WordPress
7 67 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 62 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 46 (0.27%) Apache
10 43 (0.26%) IIS
11 21 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
12 20 (0.12%) nginx
13 19 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.11%) Skype for Business
14 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 16 (0.096%) Drupal
17 14 (0.084%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,704 (10.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1,686 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 520 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 189 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 115 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 105 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 84 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 48 (0.29%) InDesign
12 44 (0.26%) Simulink
13 38 (0.23%) UserZoom
14 35 (0.21%) Sketch
14 35 (0.21%) Trello
15 33 (0.20%) Adobe XD
16 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
17 15 (0.090%) Chatbot
18 14 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
19 10 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 124 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 98 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 70 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 59 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 58 (0.35%) Shopify
6 40 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 40 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 30 (0.18%) Magento
8 30 (0.18%) Primavera
9 26 (0.16%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
11 18 (0.11%) SAP MM
12 16 (0.096%) SAP FI
13 15 (0.090%) Maximo
13 15 (0.090%) Sage 200
14 14 (0.084%) SAP SD
15 13 (0.078%) SAP HR
15 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,547 (15.21%) Azure
2 1,884 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1,219 (7.28%) AWS
4 1,080 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 572 (3.42%) SaaS
6 401 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 294 (1.76%) GCP
8 285 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
9 249 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 183 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 163 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 151 (0.90%) GitHub
12 151 (0.90%) Power Automate
13 144 (0.86%) Serverless
14 122 (0.73%) OneDrive
15 99 (0.59%) Amazon S3
16 94 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
17 93 (0.56%) Figma
18 90 (0.54%) Datadog
19 84 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 781 (4.66%) Firewall
2 495 (2.96%) Broadband
3 456 (2.72%) DNS
4 450 (2.69%) WAN
5 406 (2.42%) LAN
6 347 (2.07%) TCP/IP
7 320 (1.91%) DHCP
8 312 (1.86%) Wireless
9 267 (1.59%) VPN
10 238 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 228 (1.36%) VoIP
12 217 (1.30%) Network Security
13 212 (1.27%) SAN
14 182 (1.09%) Internet
15 144 (0.86%) VLAN
16 133 (0.79%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) BGP
18 97 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
18 97 (0.58%) SD-WAN
19 87 (0.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 900 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 898 (5.36%) Power BI
3 318 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 263 (1.57%) MySQL
5 226 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 206 (1.23%) Tableau
7 198 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 191 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 143 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 110 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 105 (0.63%) NoSQL
13 100 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 92 (0.55%) Big Data
15 80 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 71 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
17 66 (0.39%) MongoDB
18 65 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 63 (0.38%) Redis
20 48 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 604 (3.61%) Git
2 567 (3.39%) JIRA
3 195 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 118 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 79 (0.47%) Selenium
6 61 (0.36%) GitLab
7 48 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 37 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 36 (0.22%) Subversion
10 36 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.20%) JUnit
12 33 (0.20%) Maven
13 32 (0.19%) LabVIEW
14 31 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
15 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
16 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 26 (0.16%) JMeter
18 24 (0.14%) Ant
19 23 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 3,654 (21.82%) Finance
2 3,345 (19.98%) Analytical Skills
3 1,421 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
4 1,296 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,267 (7.57%) Retail
6 1,141 (6.81%) Marketing
7 918 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 892 (5.33%) Law
9 880 (5.26%) Manufacturing
10 816 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
11 813 (4.86%) Legal
12 750 (4.48%) Public Sector
13 507 (3.03%) Telecoms
14 476 (2.84%) Banking
15 288 (1.72%) Electronics
16 271 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 258 (1.54%) Billing
18 232 (1.39%) Games
19 231 (1.38%) Automotive
20 197 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,282 (13.63%) Analyst
2 1,826 (10.91%) Senior
3 1,634 (9.76%) Developer
4 1,163 (6.95%) Lead
5 1,076 (6.43%) Project Manager
6 850 (5.08%) IT Support
7 771 (4.60%) Architect
8 729 (4.35%) Consultant
9 687 (4.10%) Support Engineer
10 568 (3.39%) IT Engineer
10 568 (3.39%) Software Engineer
11 554 (3.31%) IT Manager
12 502 (3.00%) Administrator
13 401 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
14 371 (2.22%) Senior Developer
15 367 (2.19%) Support Analyst
16 364 (2.17%) Graduate
17 353 (2.11%) IT Support Engineer
18 345 (2.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 333 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (4.59%) .NET
2 662 (3.95%) HTML
3 530 (3.17%) CSS
4 450 (2.69%) React
5 290 (1.73%) AngularJS
6 236 (1.41%) Node.js
7 235 (1.40%) .NET Framework
8 207 (1.24%) REST
9 202 (1.21%) RESTful
10 195 (1.16%) Vue
11 188 (1.12%) ASP.NET
12 183 (1.09%) Web Services
13 178 (1.06%) .NET Core
14 166 (0.99%) HTML5
15 143 (0.85%) Spring
16 141 (0.84%) Laravel
17 139 (0.83%) JSON
18 136 (0.81%) Entity Framework
19 126 (0.75%) XML
20 122 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,518 (9.07%) Self-Motivation
2 897 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 784 (4.68%) Driving Licence
4 387 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 380 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 317 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 245 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 219 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 211 (1.26%) Cloud Native
10 198 (1.18%) IoT
11 193 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 181 (1.08%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) FMCG
14 175 (1.05%) Social Media
15 172 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 160 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
17 144 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 134 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 127 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,172 (12.97%) Windows
2 869 (5.19%) Linux
3 843 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 553 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 229 (1.37%) Android
6 228 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 183 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 167 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 150 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 144 (0.86%) Unix
11 138 (0.82%) Mac OS
12 107 (0.64%) Windows 7
13 103 (0.62%) VMS
14 67 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 45 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
16 44 (0.26%) Windows 8
17 39 (0.23%) Ubuntu
18 36 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 33 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,449 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
2 3,300 (19.71%) Agile
3 2,692 (16.08%) Customer Service
4 2,463 (14.71%) Project Management
5 1,703 (10.17%) Mentoring
6 1,634 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,351 (8.07%) ITIL
8 1,327 (7.93%) Decision-Making
9 1,183 (7.07%) Computer Science
10 1,111 (6.64%) DevOps
11 1,081 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
12 1,044 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,026 (6.13%) Software Engineering
14 990 (5.91%) Roadmaps
15 966 (5.77%) Time Management
16 943 (5.63%) Project Delivery
17 938 (5.60%) Analytics
18 933 (5.57%) Collaborative Working
19 919 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
20 916 (5.47%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,819 (10.86%) SQL
2 969 (5.79%) JavaScript
3 961 (5.74%) Python
4 929 (5.55%) C#
5 708 (4.23%) Java
6 366 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 351 (2.10%) C
8 317 (1.89%) PHP
9 291 (1.74%) C++
10 244 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 203 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 146 (0.87%) Bash
13 112 (0.67%) R
14 104 (0.62%) Go
15 101 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 72 (0.43%) Scala
17 71 (0.42%) MATLAB
18 70 (0.42%) VB
19 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
20 59 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,931 (23.48%) Degree
2 1,253 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 757 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 672 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 573 (3.42%) DBS Check
6 441 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 355 (2.12%) ACCA
8 317 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 278 (1.66%) CIMA
10 255 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 247 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 235 (1.40%) DV Cleared
13 212 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 190 (1.13%) CCNA
15 158 (0.94%) HND
16 154 (0.92%) HNC
17 153 (0.91%) PMP
18 142 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 123 (0.73%) AWS Certification
20 114 (0.68%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 803 (4.80%) QA
2 729 (4.35%) SLA
3 418 (2.50%) GDPR
4 326 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.80%) PMO
6 292 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 206 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 205 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 162 (0.97%) ISO 9001
10 108 (0.65%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 105 (0.63%) IFRS
13 61 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 55 (0.33%) IFRS 9
15 53 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 50 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 34 (0.20%) GAAP
19 33 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
20 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1,405 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 467 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 426 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 355 (2.12%) Docker
5 203 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 200 (1.19%) Firmware
7 77 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 66 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
10 48 (0.29%) vSphere
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) KVM
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.084%) VMware NSX
14 13 (0.078%) XenApp
15 11 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.066%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.048%) NFS
17 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 426 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 307 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 267 (1.59%) Terraform
4 206 (1.23%) SCCM
5 142 (0.85%) Ansible
6 89 (0.53%) Grafana
7 64 (0.38%) SCOM
8 58 (0.35%) WSUS
9 50 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 42 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.23%) EnCase
11 38 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 34 (0.20%) Puppet
13 33 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
16 27 (0.16%) Autotask
17 26 (0.16%) OpenSSO
18 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
19 23 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4,446 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 702 (4.19%) VMware
3 564 (3.37%) SAP
4 482 (2.88%) Oracle
5 403 (2.41%) Cisco
6 350 (2.09%) Google
7 242 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 221 (1.32%) HP
9 194 (1.16%) Adobe
10 193 (1.15%) Veeam
11 185 (1.10%) Citrix
12 183 (1.09%) Dell
13 179 (1.07%) ServiceNow
14 156 (0.93%) Apple
15 143 (0.85%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Hyperion
18 94 (0.56%) Meraki
19 93 (0.56%) Dynatrace
20 92 (0.55%) Sage