Social Skills Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 9,150 9,994 16,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 24.56% 23.59%
As % of the General category 43.99% 37.21% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 6,772 8,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,633
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,465 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +4.35% +5.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,400
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,798 26,857 44,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.65% 66.00% 63.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,066 17,869 24,396
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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
1 336 (3.67%) SAS
2 253 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 223 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 84 (0.92%) WordPress
5 81 (0.89%) CMS
6 71 (0.78%) Confluence
7 56 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 46 (0.50%) WebLogic
9 40 (0.44%) IIS
10 36 (0.39%) Apache
11 29 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
12 20 (0.22%) nginx
12 20 (0.22%) OpenEdge
12 20 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.15%) Documentum
13 14 (0.15%) Drupal
14 9 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
15 7 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
16 6 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2000
16 6 (0.066%) Moodle
Applications
1 966 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 488 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 194 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 31 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 29 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 20 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 19 (0.21%) Simulink
10 19 (0.21%) Sketch
11 18 (0.20%) InDesign
11 18 (0.20%) Trello
12 11 (0.12%) AutoCAD
13 8 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
13 8 (0.087%) Chatbot
14 7 (0.077%) Adobe Captivate
14 7 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
15 6 (0.066%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 307 (3.36%) SAP ERP
2 87 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 69 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 47 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 37 (0.40%) Shopify
5 37 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 20 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 19 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 19 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 13 (0.14%) TrackWise
10 11 (0.12%) Maximo
11 10 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.11%) SAP CX
12 9 (0.098%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.098%) Primavera
12 9 (0.098%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.098%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,726 (18.86%) Azure
2 939 (10.26%) AWS
3 751 (8.21%) Power Platform
4 734 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
5 509 (5.56%) SaaS
6 283 (3.09%) GCP
7 218 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 198 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 171 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 159 (1.74%) Serverless
11 149 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 142 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
13 125 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 101 (1.10%) GitHub
15 99 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (0.99%) Amazon S3
17 88 (0.96%) Snowflake
18 86 (0.94%) PaaS
19 75 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
20 73 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 877 (9.58%) Broadband
2 373 (4.08%) Firewall
3 231 (2.52%) DNS
4 221 (2.42%) WAN
5 186 (2.03%) LAN
6 172 (1.88%) Wireless
7 157 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 154 (1.68%) VPN
9 138 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
10 122 (1.33%) DHCP
11 117 (1.28%) SAN
12 101 (1.10%) Internet
13 92 (1.01%) VoIP
14 83 (0.91%) BGP
15 69 (0.75%) Network Security
16 65 (0.71%) VLAN
17 58 (0.63%) SSL
18 49 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
19 47 (0.51%) SD-WAN
20 45 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 629 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 622 (6.80%) Power BI
3 306 (3.34%) Tableau
4 260 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 240 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 211 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 162 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
8 148 (1.62%) MySQL
9 137 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
10 123 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 95 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 90 (0.98%) Big Data
13 83 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 79 (0.86%) MongoDB
15 74 (0.81%) Data Lake
16 72 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 64 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 59 (0.64%) NoSQL
19 54 (0.59%) DynamoDB
20 46 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 502 (5.49%) Git
2 250 (2.73%) JIRA
3 97 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 73 (0.80%) GitLab
5 63 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 44 (0.48%) Selenium
7 30 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 26 (0.28%) JUnit
9 25 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
10 21 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
11 19 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 18 (0.20%) Maven
12 18 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
13 16 (0.17%) webpack
14 15 (0.16%) Rational Rhapsody
15 14 (0.15%) Postman
16 13 (0.14%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 12 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,777 (30.35%) Finance
2 1,823 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
3 728 (7.96%) Retail
4 676 (7.39%) Marketing
5 644 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
6 588 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 555 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
8 519 (5.67%) Public Sector
9 424 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
10 420 (4.59%) Legal
11 313 (3.42%) Law
12 241 (2.63%) Banking
13 225 (2.46%) Manufacturing
14 170 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 144 (1.57%) Games
16 123 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 106 (1.16%) Electronics
18 98 (1.07%) Advertising
19 93 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
20 79 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,573 (17.19%) Analyst
2 1,514 (16.55%) Senior
3 1,223 (13.37%) Developer
4 875 (9.56%) Architect
5 706 (7.72%) Lead
6 608 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
7 513 (5.61%) Consultant
8 484 (5.29%) Project Manager
9 426 (4.66%) Senior Analyst
10 351 (3.84%) Senior Developer
11 250 (2.73%) Software Engineer
12 248 (2.71%) IT Manager
13 231 (2.52%) Software Developer
13 231 (2.52%) Support Engineer
14 227 (2.48%) Data Analyst
15 208 (2.27%) IT Support
16 207 (2.26%) Administrator
16 207 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 179 (1.96%) Business Analyst
18 177 (1.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (5.19%) .NET
2 376 (4.11%) HTML
3 339 (3.70%) CSS
4 245 (2.68%) React
5 177 (1.93%) RESTful
6 176 (1.92%) Node.js
7 166 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 162 (1.77%) REST
9 136 (1.49%) Kafka
10 135 (1.48%) Web Services
11 127 (1.39%) GraphQL
12 112 (1.22%) .NET Core
12 112 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
13 111 (1.21%) JSON
14 110 (1.20%) Vue
15 108 (1.18%) ASP.NET
16 101 (1.10%) Spring Boot
17 96 (1.05%) .NET Framework
18 93 (1.02%) Laravel
19 82 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 490 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
2 340 (3.72%) Management Information System
3 246 (2.69%) Client/Server
4 238 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 217 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 209 (2.28%) Algorithms
7 206 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 192 (2.10%) Driving Licence
9 139 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 136 (1.49%) Social Media
11 134 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 126 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 108 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 107 (1.17%) Cloud Native
16 90 (0.98%) IoT
17 87 (0.95%) Life Science
18 81 (0.89%) NHS
19 78 (0.85%) Virtual Team
20 66 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 798 (8.72%) Windows
2 544 (5.95%) Linux
3 331 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 144 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 142 (1.55%) Android
6 141 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 115 (1.26%) VMS
8 111 (1.21%) Unix
9 70 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 58 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 55 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 51 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 43 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
14 40 (0.44%) Mac OS
15 30 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
16 27 (0.30%) zOS
17 22 (0.24%) Windows 7
18 20 (0.22%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.17%) Solaris
20 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,685 (29.34%) Agile
2 2,552 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
3 1,240 (13.55%) Mentoring
4 1,110 (12.13%) Project Management
5 1,060 (11.58%) Decision-Making
6 1,009 (11.03%) Actionable Insight
7 960 (10.49%) Roadmaps
8 782 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
9 751 (8.21%) Analytics
10 711 (7.77%) DevOps
11 697 (7.62%) Customer Service
12 680 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 674 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 667 (7.29%) Business Case
15 664 (7.26%) Computer Science
16 660 (7.21%) Software Engineering
17 631 (6.90%) ITIL
18 579 (6.33%) ERP
19 567 (6.20%) Change Management
20 542 (5.92%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,458 (15.93%) SQL
2 909 (9.93%) Python
3 600 (6.56%) C#
4 586 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 420 (4.59%) Java
6 231 (2.52%) T-SQL
7 200 (2.19%) PHP
8 196 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 190 (2.08%) C
10 162 (1.77%) TypeScript
11 114 (1.25%) Go
12 100 (1.09%) C++
13 99 (1.08%) Bash
14 76 (0.83%) R
15 68 (0.74%) Embedded C
16 59 (0.64%) Scala
17 39 (0.43%) VB
18 33 (0.36%) PL/SQL
19 31 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 28 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,014 (22.01%) Degree
2 776 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 521 (5.69%) ACCA
4 520 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 471 (5.15%) CIMA
6 426 (4.66%) DBS Check
7 367 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 215 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 203 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 155 (1.69%) PMI Certification
11 131 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 128 (1.40%) Azure Certification
13 112 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 108 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
15 103 (1.13%) CISSP
16 102 (1.11%) PMP
17 93 (1.02%) AWS Certification
18 78 (0.85%) CCNA
19 74 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 67 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (4.55%) QA
2 179 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 173 (1.89%) SLA
4 133 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 105 (1.15%) GDPR
6 100 (1.09%) PMO
7 97 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 90 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 63 (0.69%) NIST
10 52 (0.57%) IFRS
11 47 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 41 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 27 (0.30%) GRC
14 22 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
15 20 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 19 (0.21%) NCSC
17 17 (0.19%) GMP
17 17 (0.19%) ITGC
18 16 (0.17%) GxP
19 15 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 538 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 282 (3.08%) Docker
3 193 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 163 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 145 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 111 (1.21%) Firmware
7 77 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
10 22 (0.24%) vSphere
11 9 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.087%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.077%) NFS
14 6 (0.066%) KVM
15 4 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.044%) XenApp
15 4 (0.044%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 264 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 228 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 199 (2.17%) Terraform
4 147 (1.61%) Ansible
5 74 (0.81%) SCCM
6 44 (0.48%) vCenter Server
7 43 (0.47%) WSUS
8 42 (0.46%) SCOM
9 39 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 30 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 30 (0.33%) Grafana
10 30 (0.33%) Puppet
11 24 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
13 18 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.17%) Nagios
14 16 (0.17%) Prometheus
15 15 (0.16%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
17 13 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 2,364 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 612 (6.69%) SAP
3 553 (6.04%) Oracle
4 308 (3.37%) VMware
5 305 (3.33%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.27%) Anaplan
7 273 (2.98%) Google
8 260 (2.84%) Databricks
9 203 (2.22%) Cisco
10 139 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 121 (1.32%) Dell
12 110 (1.20%) IBM
13 106 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 101 (1.10%) Adobe
15 85 (0.93%) HP
16 72 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 67 (0.73%) Citrix
18 53 (0.58%) Aruba
19 52 (0.57%) Facebook
19 52 (0.57%) Meraki