Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,411 29,702 37,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.78% 28.68% 24.21%
As % of the General category 41.41% 42.01% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,578 14,983 18,640
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +5.26% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

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 requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +1 21,523 £48,770 -15.91% 10,930
UK excluding London 0 16,691 £44,309 -11.38% 7,965
Work from Home +2 9,133 £52,738 -12.10% 4,024
London +1 6,499 £65,000 -7.14% 3,407
South East 0 4,341 £44,309 -11.38% 1,879
North of England +1 4,071 £45,000 -10.00% 2,016
Midlands +1 2,812 £42,500 -15.00% 1,466
North West +1 2,134 £45,000 -10.00% 1,087
South West +1 2,012 £45,000 - 1,146
West Midlands +1 1,812 £45,000 -13.46% 880
East of England 0 1,538 £44,625 -7.77% 974
Yorkshire +1 1,466 £45,000 -10.00% 699
Scotland -16 1,262 £45,000 -18.18% 503
East Midlands 0 987 £39,000 -18.75% 584
Wales 0 503 £41,067 -5.93% 213
North East 0 474 £40,000 -5.88% 274
Northern Ireland +6 153 £50,000 -13.04% 95
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 5

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 941 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 842 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 451 (1.85%) SAS
4 305 (1.25%) Confluence
5 203 (0.83%) CMS
6 158 (0.65%) WordPress
7 130 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 111 (0.45%) Apache
9 82 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 70 (0.29%) IIS
11 52 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 37 (0.15%) nginx
13 30 (0.12%) Drupal
14 26 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) Anypoint
18 22 (0.090%) Skype for Business
18 22 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2,549 (10.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,152 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 791 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 213 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 129 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 107 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 99 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 61 (0.25%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 42 (0.17%) Sketch
14 41 (0.17%) Simulink
15 38 (0.16%) Adobe XD
15 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
16 32 (0.13%) SPSS
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
18 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 207 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 158 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 79 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 51 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 46 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 46 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 42 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
9 41 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 41 (0.17%) Primavera
10 40 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 40 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
11 34 (0.14%) Magento
12 33 (0.14%) NEC Housing
13 31 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 24 (0.098%) Oracle General Ledger
15 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
16 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,760 (15.40%) Azure
2 2,493 (10.21%) Microsoft 365
3 2,063 (8.45%) AWS
4 1,582 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 1,021 (4.18%) SaaS
6 560 (2.29%) GCP
7 537 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 468 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 420 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 317 (1.30%) Serverless
11 286 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 281 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 262 (1.07%) Power Automate
14 247 (1.01%) GitHub
15 187 (0.77%) PaaS
16 182 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.73%) IaaS
18 163 (0.67%) Amazon S3
19 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
20 144 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,074 (4.40%) Firewall
2 985 (4.04%) Broadband
3 681 (2.79%) WAN
4 625 (2.56%) DNS
5 550 (2.25%) LAN
6 523 (2.14%) Wireless
7 443 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 429 (1.76%) VPN
9 402 (1.65%) DHCP
10 338 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 326 (1.34%) Network Security
12 279 (1.14%) Internet
13 271 (1.11%) VoIP
14 261 (1.07%) SAN
15 229 (0.94%) SD-WAN
16 214 (0.88%) VLAN
17 160 (0.66%) Intranet
18 128 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
19 120 (0.49%) BGP
20 116 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,277 (5.23%) Power BI
2 1,268 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 481 (1.97%) Tableau
4 438 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 389 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 357 (1.46%) MySQL
7 323 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 273 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 200 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 197 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 181 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 181 (0.74%) Big Data
12 177 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 168 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 148 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 132 (0.54%) Oracle Database
16 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
17 103 (0.42%) RDBMS
18 91 (0.37%) Data Mining
19 89 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 954 (3.91%) Git
2 820 (3.36%) JIRA
3 338 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 173 (0.71%) GitLab
5 158 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 106 (0.43%) Selenium
7 86 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 54 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 51 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 51 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 49 (0.20%) JUnit
11 47 (0.19%) Postman
12 44 (0.18%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 38 (0.16%) Maven
15 37 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
16 34 (0.14%) Burp Suite
17 33 (0.14%) JMeter
17 33 (0.14%) LabVIEW
17 33 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 5,979 (24.49%) Finance
2 5,152 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1,895 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,827 (7.48%) Retail
5 1,775 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1,760 (7.21%) Marketing
7 1,472 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1,307 (5.35%) Law
9 1,286 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1,228 (5.03%) Legal
11 1,151 (4.72%) Public Sector
12 1,039 (4.26%) Manufacturing
13 782 (3.20%) Banking
14 641 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 341 (1.40%) Billing
16 338 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
17 337 (1.38%) Games
18 325 (1.33%) Electronics
19 297 (1.22%) Local Government
20 285 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,433 (14.06%) Analyst
2 3,180 (13.03%) Senior
3 2,362 (9.68%) Developer
4 1,715 (7.03%) Lead
5 1,538 (6.30%) Architect
6 1,401 (5.74%) Project Manager
7 1,116 (4.57%) Consultant
8 1,083 (4.44%) IT Support
9 861 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
10 821 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 716 (2.93%) IT Manager
12 713 (2.92%) Software Engineer
13 698 (2.86%) IT Engineer
14 632 (2.59%) Administrator
15 629 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
16 582 (2.38%) Graduate
17 579 (2.37%) Senior Manager
18 569 (2.33%) Senior Developer
19 520 (2.13%) Support Analyst
20 427 (1.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,120 (4.59%) .NET
2 946 (3.88%) HTML
3 793 (3.25%) CSS
4 660 (2.70%) React
5 393 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 349 (1.43%) Node.js
7 347 (1.42%) REST
8 318 (1.30%) RESTful
9 313 (1.28%) Web Services
10 298 (1.22%) .NET Framework
11 276 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 260 (1.07%) .NET Core
13 236 (0.97%) JSON
14 234 (0.96%) Vue
15 222 (0.91%) HTML5
16 202 (0.83%) Kafka
16 202 (0.83%) Spring
17 196 (0.80%) XML
18 169 (0.69%) Entity Framework
19 165 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2,033 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1,272 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 977 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 649 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 599 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 476 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 387 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 352 (1.44%) Social Media
9 300 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 290 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 284 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 275 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
13 273 (1.12%) IoT
14 256 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 247 (1.01%) FMCG
16 241 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 231 (0.95%) Data Structures
18 218 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
19 216 (0.88%) NHS
20 215 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,931 (12.01%) Windows
2 1,226 (5.02%) Linux
3 1,045 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 789 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 405 (1.66%) Android
6 306 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 225 (0.92%) Unix
8 205 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 197 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 197 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 191 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 142 (0.58%) VMS
12 121 (0.50%) Windows 7
13 97 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 82 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 52 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 47 (0.19%) Windows 8
17 44 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
17 44 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 33 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,614 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
2 5,279 (21.63%) Agile
3 3,411 (13.97%) Project Management
4 3,189 (13.06%) Customer Service
5 2,512 (10.29%) Mentoring
6 2,233 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,177 (8.92%) Decision-Making
8 2,034 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 1,764 (7.23%) Roadmaps
10 1,747 (7.16%) ITIL
11 1,663 (6.81%) DevOps
12 1,633 (6.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,603 (6.57%) Analytics
14 1,587 (6.50%) Actionable Insight
15 1,580 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
16 1,513 (6.20%) Software Engineering
17 1,360 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
17 1,360 (5.57%) Project Delivery
18 1,282 (5.25%) Collaborative Working
19 1,266 (5.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,958 (12.12%) SQL
2 1,870 (7.66%) Python
3 1,403 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 1,376 (5.64%) C#
5 1,064 (4.36%) Java
6 604 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 410 (1.68%) C
8 373 (1.53%) PHP
9 371 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 364 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 341 (1.40%) C++
12 265 (1.09%) Bash
13 222 (0.91%) R
14 176 (0.72%) Go
15 104 (0.43%) Scala
16 103 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 84 (0.34%) Perl
18 83 (0.34%) MATLAB
19 82 (0.34%) VB
20 72 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5,953 (24.39%) Degree
2 1,734 (7.10%) Security Cleared
3 1,229 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,073 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 995 (4.08%) DBS Check
6 736 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 644 (2.64%) ACCA
8 588 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 533 (2.18%) CIMA
10 362 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 358 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 325 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 324 (1.33%) DV Cleared
14 275 (1.13%) CISSP
15 241 (0.99%) CCNA
16 234 (0.96%) PMP
17 223 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 211 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
19 191 (0.78%) CISM
20 175 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,089 (4.46%) QA
2 945 (3.87%) SLA
3 555 (2.27%) GDPR
4 479 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 478 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 377 (1.54%) PMO
7 327 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 261 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 199 (0.82%) NIST
10 180 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 166 (0.68%) IFRS
12 114 (0.47%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 80 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 65 (0.27%) GRC
16 63 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 62 (0.25%) GAAP
18 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
19 42 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,949 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 611 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 600 (2.46%) Docker
4 476 (1.95%) Hyper-V
5 243 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 223 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 216 (0.88%) Firmware
8 114 (0.47%) XenApp
9 111 (0.45%) XenDesktop
10 105 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 86 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 75 (0.31%) vSphere
13 57 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 29 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 16 (0.066%) VMware NSX
17 13 (0.053%) vCloud
18 12 (0.049%) NFS
19 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 553 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 540 (2.21%) Terraform
3 534 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 363 (1.49%) SCCM
5 253 (1.04%) Ansible
6 117 (0.48%) Grafana
7 106 (0.43%) AirWatch
8 89 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 80 (0.33%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 56 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 54 (0.22%) Puppet
14 50 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 50 (0.20%) Prometheus
15 45 (0.18%) EnCase
16 40 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 38 (0.16%) Nagios
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 31 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,218 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 1,067 (4.37%) SAP
3 962 (3.94%) Oracle
4 918 (3.76%) VMware
5 645 (2.64%) Cisco
6 602 (2.47%) Google
7 432 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 384 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 329 (1.35%) Dell
10 322 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 321 (1.31%) Citrix
12 307 (1.26%) Adobe
13 303 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 300 (1.23%) Databricks
15 277 (1.13%) HP
16 214 (0.88%) Veeam
17 213 (0.87%) Apple
18 204 (0.84%) IBM
19 174 (0.71%) Splunk
20 127 (0.52%) Sage