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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 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 24,536 28,639 39,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.56% 28.88% 24.36%
As % of the General category 41.19% 42.33% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 16,504 14,507 18,571
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,475 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,347 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.31% +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 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 18 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 18 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 21,659 £48,500 -15.65% 11,656
UK excluding London 0 16,799 £44,347 -11.31% 8,488
Work from Home +2 9,168 £52,806 -11.99% 4,291
London +1 6,521 £65,000 -7.14% 3,941
South East 0 4,391 £45,000 -10.00% 2,239
North of England +1 4,117 £45,000 -10.00% 2,139
Midlands +1 2,846 £42,500 -15.00% 1,584
North West +1 2,166 £45,000 -12.62% 1,138
South West +1 2,000 £45,000 - 1,084
West Midlands +1 1,826 £45,000 -13.46% 967
East of England 0 1,537 £44,250 -11.50% 983
Yorkshire +1 1,474 £45,000 -5.26% 742
Scotland -16 1,251 £45,000 -18.18% 484
East Midlands 0 1,006 £39,984 -15.82% 616
Wales 0 499 £41,134 -3.78% 233
North East 0 479 £40,000 -5.88% 301
Northern Ireland +7 157 £50,000 -13.04% 86
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 1

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
1 942 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 826 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 447 (1.82%) SAS
4 310 (1.26%) Confluence
5 205 (0.84%) CMS
6 153 (0.62%) WordPress
7 124 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 109 (0.44%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 52 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 39 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) Skype for Business
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 19 (0.077%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,585 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,157 (8.79%) Microsoft Office
3 814 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 217 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 153 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 133 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 102 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 56 (0.23%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 47 (0.19%) Simulink
14 41 (0.17%) Sketch
15 39 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 38 (0.15%) UserZoom
17 32 (0.13%) SPSS
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 203 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 161 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 78 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 48 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 44 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 42 (0.17%) NEC Housing
10 41 (0.17%) Primavera
10 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
11 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
12 38 (0.15%) SAP CO
12 38 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
13 33 (0.13%) Magento
14 29 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 24 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
16 23 (0.094%) SAP Business One
16 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
17 21 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3,837 (15.64%) Azure
2 2,477 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
3 2,157 (8.79%) AWS
4 1,584 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 1,004 (4.09%) SaaS
6 569 (2.32%) GCP
7 547 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 471 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 425 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 319 (1.30%) Serverless
11 293 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 289 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 270 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 254 (1.04%) GitHub
15 193 (0.79%) PaaS
16 186 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 179 (0.73%) IaaS
18 160 (0.65%) Amazon S3
19 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
20 145 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,066 (4.34%) Firewall
2 969 (3.95%) Broadband
3 662 (2.70%) WAN
4 587 (2.39%) DNS
5 535 (2.18%) LAN
6 497 (2.03%) Wireless
7 420 (1.71%) VPN
8 413 (1.68%) TCP/IP
9 367 (1.50%) DHCP
10 339 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 330 (1.34%) Network Security
12 285 (1.16%) Internet
13 266 (1.08%) VoIP
14 254 (1.04%) SAN
15 220 (0.90%) SD-WAN
16 196 (0.80%) VLAN
17 164 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 120 (0.49%) BGP
20 105 (0.43%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,281 (5.22%) Power BI
2 1,262 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 520 (2.12%) Tableau
4 442 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 385 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 357 (1.46%) MySQL
7 337 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 269 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 218 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 215 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 188 (0.77%) Big Data
12 182 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 178 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 157 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 151 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 140 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 109 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
18 108 (0.44%) DynamoDB
19 99 (0.40%) RDBMS
19 99 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,016 (4.14%) Git
2 826 (3.37%) JIRA
3 333 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 185 (0.75%) GitLab
5 158 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 104 (0.42%) Selenium
7 81 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 55 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 51 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 48 (0.20%) JUnit
11 48 (0.20%) Postman
12 42 (0.17%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 37 (0.15%) Maven
15 34 (0.14%) NUnit
15 34 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
16 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
16 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
17 31 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5,999 (24.45%) Finance
2 5,203 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 1,923 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,890 (7.70%) Retail
5 1,787 (7.28%) Marketing
6 1,774 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1,533 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1,299 (5.29%) Law
9 1,278 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
10 1,231 (5.02%) Legal
11 1,138 (4.64%) Public Sector
12 1,041 (4.24%) Manufacturing
13 789 (3.22%) Banking
14 627 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 357 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 344 (1.40%) Billing
17 343 (1.40%) Electronics
18 330 (1.34%) Games
19 308 (1.26%) Local Government
20 281 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,424 (13.96%) Analyst
2 3,253 (13.26%) Senior
3 2,370 (9.66%) Developer
4 1,714 (6.99%) Lead
5 1,583 (6.45%) Architect
6 1,396 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 1,118 (4.56%) Consultant
8 1,065 (4.34%) IT Support
9 854 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 824 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 731 (2.98%) Software Engineer
12 701 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 699 (2.85%) IT Engineer
14 659 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
15 634 (2.58%) Administrator
16 580 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 573 (2.34%) Graduate
18 568 (2.31%) Senior Developer
19 509 (2.07%) Support Analyst
20 437 (1.78%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,137 (4.63%) .NET
2 930 (3.79%) HTML
3 806 (3.28%) CSS
4 659 (2.69%) React
5 397 (1.62%) AngularJS
6 358 (1.46%) REST
7 356 (1.45%) Node.js
8 334 (1.36%) Web Services
9 331 (1.35%) RESTful
10 307 (1.25%) .NET Framework
11 282 (1.15%) ASP.NET
12 264 (1.08%) .NET Core
13 239 (0.97%) JSON
14 237 (0.97%) Vue
15 227 (0.93%) HTML5
16 207 (0.84%) Kafka
17 198 (0.81%) Spring
17 198 (0.81%) XML
18 179 (0.73%) GraphQL
19 173 (0.71%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2,050 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
2 1,265 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 966 (3.94%) Driving Licence
4 641 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 596 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 473 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 414 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 349 (1.42%) Social Media
9 298 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 278 (1.13%) Cloud Native
11 278 (1.13%) IoT
12 266 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 260 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
14 248 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 247 (1.01%) FMCG
16 241 (0.98%) Data Structures
17 225 (0.92%) NHS
18 215 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
19 213 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,905 (11.84%) Windows
2 1,240 (5.05%) Linux
3 1,031 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 773 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 399 (1.63%) Android
6 313 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 227 (0.93%) Unix
8 208 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 194 (0.79%) Mac OS
10 193 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 191 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 143 (0.58%) VMS
13 115 (0.47%) Windows 7
14 97 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 81 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 51 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 48 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 43 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,724 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
2 5,278 (21.51%) Agile
3 3,403 (13.87%) Project Management
4 3,200 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 2,597 (10.58%) Mentoring
6 2,219 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,195 (8.95%) Decision-Making
8 2,082 (8.49%) Computer Science
9 1,772 (7.22%) ITIL
10 1,744 (7.11%) DevOps
11 1,740 (7.09%) Roadmaps
12 1,642 (6.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,604 (6.54%) Analytics
14 1,586 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
15 1,548 (6.31%) Actionable Insight
16 1,531 (6.24%) Software Engineering
17 1,339 (5.46%) Project Delivery
18 1,338 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
19 1,293 (5.27%) Time Management
20 1,284 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,036 (12.37%) SQL
2 1,937 (7.89%) Python
3 1,426 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 1,390 (5.67%) C#
5 1,069 (4.36%) Java
6 604 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 420 (1.71%) C
8 372 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 371 (1.51%) PHP
10 363 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 354 (1.44%) C++
12 268 (1.09%) Bash
13 223 (0.91%) R
14 177 (0.72%) Go
15 108 (0.44%) Scala
16 105 (0.43%) Embedded C
17 85 (0.35%) MATLAB
18 82 (0.33%) VB
19 79 (0.32%) Perl
20 76 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,109 (24.90%) Degree
2 1,656 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 1,238 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,058 (4.31%) DBS Check
5 1,031 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 737 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 655 (2.67%) ACCA
8 580 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 537 (2.19%) CIMA
10 365 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 355 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 323 (1.32%) Azure Certification
13 290 (1.18%) DV Cleared
14 267 (1.09%) CISSP
15 238 (0.97%) PMP
16 232 (0.95%) CCNA
17 210 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 193 (0.79%) AWS Certification
19 182 (0.74%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,114 (4.54%) QA
2 947 (3.86%) SLA
3 557 (2.27%) GDPR
4 491 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 471 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 378 (1.54%) PMO
7 319 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 248 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 200 (0.82%) NIST
10 171 (0.70%) ISO 9001
11 167 (0.68%) IFRS
12 116 (0.47%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 73 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 62 (0.25%) GAAP
17 58 (0.24%) IFRS 9
18 53 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 43 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 42 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,929 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 607 (2.47%) Docker
3 594 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 465 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 231 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 221 (0.90%) Firmware
7 218 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 101 (0.41%) XenApp
9 100 (0.41%) XenDesktop
10 94 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 92 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 76 (0.31%) vSphere
13 55 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 32 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 18 (0.073%) VMware NSX
17 11 (0.045%) NFS
17 11 (0.045%) vCloud
17 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 566 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 528 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 512 (2.09%) Terraform
4 345 (1.41%) SCCM
5 259 (1.06%) Ansible
6 119 (0.49%) Grafana
7 94 (0.38%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 80 (0.33%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 64 (0.26%) SCOM
12 61 (0.25%) Puppet
13 57 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 54 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 42 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 41 (0.17%) Nagios
17 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
18 34 (0.14%) EnCase
18 34 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,277 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 1,053 (4.29%) SAP
3 958 (3.90%) Oracle
4 901 (3.67%) VMware
5 629 (2.56%) Cisco
6 606 (2.47%) Google
7 425 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 381 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 344 (1.40%) Databricks
10 323 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 320 (1.30%) Dell
12 308 (1.26%) Citrix
13 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 298 (1.21%) Adobe
15 261 (1.06%) HP
16 214 (0.87%) Apple
17 213 (0.87%) Veeam
18 207 (0.84%) IBM
19 179 (0.73%) Splunk
20 123 (0.50%) Sage