Social Skills Jobs in the West Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,826 1,995 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.44% 31.91% 24.93%
As % of the General category 42.54% 41.84% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 817 1,086
10th Percentile £24,697 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,751
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,292 4,768 4,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.46% 76.26% 62.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,026 2,191 2,892
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +0.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +2 643 £50,000 -13.04% 311
Staffordshire 0 321 £32,500 -18.75% 160
Warwickshire +1 196 £39,500 -23.39% 136
Worcestershire +1 126 £27,500 -35.29% 57
Shropshire 0 72 £42,286 -29.52% 40
Solihull -1 54 £50,000 +86.91% 26
Coventry +6 53 £53,500 +15.68% 88
Wolverhampton +9 47 £34,500 -1.43% 37
Herefordshire +1 30 £33,250 -20.83% 11
Walsall +8 26 £37,500 -18.92% 15
Dudley +12 15 £25,000 -58.33% 17
Halesowen - 13 £35,000 - 11
Tipton -2 11 £25,000 -23.08% 5
Brierley Hill - 9 £33,500 - 2
Sutton Coldfield -6 8 £29,500 -70.50% 3
Wednesbury +5 5 £37,500 +36.36% 5
West Bromwich -1 5 £34,000 -35.24% 9
Rowley Regis 0 4 - - 1
Smethwick - 4 - -
Willenhall - 4 - - 3
Bilston - 4 - -
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 115 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 60 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.82%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.60%) SAS
5 10 (0.55%) Confluence
6 9 (0.49%) WordPress
7 8 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.38%) CMS
9 6 (0.33%) Appian
10 5 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.27%) nginx
11 4 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.16%) IBM Notes
12 3 (0.16%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) MTS
14 1 (0.055%) JBoss
Applications
1 289 (15.83%) Microsoft Office
2 162 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.66%) Trello
6 10 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.33%) CANalyzer
10 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) SketchUp
12 3 (0.16%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) Revit
13 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.27%) SAP SD
5 5 (0.27%) Shopify
6 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.16%) Maximo
7 3 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.16%) Sage 300 ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.11%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.055%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.055%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 262 (14.35%) Azure
2 211 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
3 161 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 66 (3.61%) SaaS
5 61 (3.34%) Entra ID
6 54 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
7 50 (2.74%) AWS
8 28 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.53%) GitHub
9 26 (1.42%) Power Automate
10 25 (1.37%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.15%) GCP
12 19 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.71%) OneDrive
13 13 (0.71%) Smartsheet
13 13 (0.71%) Snowflake
14 12 (0.66%) Figma
15 8 (0.44%) Mavenlink
15 8 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.65%) Firewall
2 81 (4.44%) WAN
3 74 (4.05%) LAN
4 36 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.75%) DNS
6 27 (1.48%) DHCP
6 27 (1.48%) Intranet
7 26 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.37%) VoIP
9 20 (1.10%) PBX
10 19 (1.04%) Wireless
11 18 (0.99%) SAN
12 17 (0.93%) Ethernet
13 16 (0.88%) Skype
13 16 (0.88%) VLAN
14 15 (0.82%) VPN
15 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.77%) WLAN
16 12 (0.66%) Internet
17 11 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 136 (7.45%) Power BI
3 48 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.31%) MySQL
5 23 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (0.93%) Tableau
7 16 (0.88%) Metadata
8 15 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.77%) Data Mining
10 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.44%) Power Query
13 7 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
14 6 (0.33%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (3.61%) JIRA
2 49 (2.68%) Git
3 9 (0.49%) CANoe
4 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.27%) webpack
7 4 (0.22%) GitLab
7 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.16%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.16%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.16%) sqlmap
8 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 1 (0.055%) CMake
10 1 (0.055%) Moq
10 1 (0.055%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 474 (25.96%) Analytical Skills
2 428 (23.44%) Finance
3 269 (14.73%) Organisational Skills
4 164 (8.98%) Influencing Skills
5 152 (8.32%) Retail
6 124 (6.79%) Manufacturing
7 111 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (6.08%) Law
8 108 (5.91%) Marketing
9 104 (5.70%) Public Sector
10 87 (4.76%) Legal
11 62 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (2.85%) Local Government
13 37 (2.03%) Automotive
13 37 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.81%) Games
15 28 (1.53%) Back Office
16 27 (1.48%) Electronics
17 26 (1.42%) Banking
17 26 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (18.67%) Analyst
2 176 (9.64%) Developer
3 169 (9.26%) Senior
4 157 (8.60%) Project Manager
5 120 (6.57%) Product Analyst
6 117 (6.41%) Consultant
7 116 (6.35%) Sales Analyst
8 109 (5.97%) IT Support
9 97 (5.31%) Lead
10 68 (3.72%) IT Manager
11 65 (3.56%) Support Engineer
12 55 (3.01%) IT Engineer
13 50 (2.74%) Administrator
14 47 (2.57%) Software Developer
15 41 (2.25%) Graduate
16 40 (2.19%) Architect
16 40 (2.19%) Support Technician
17 38 (2.08%) IT Technician
18 36 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (1.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (6.02%) .NET
2 77 (4.22%) HTML
3 50 (2.74%) CSS
4 28 (1.53%) ASP.NET
5 25 (1.37%) React
6 24 (1.31%) ASP.NET MVC
7 23 (1.26%) JSON
8 20 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 20 (1.10%) RESTful
8 20 (1.10%) Vue
9 17 (0.93%) HTML5
10 15 (0.82%) AngularJS
10 15 (0.82%) EDI
10 15 (0.82%) Laravel
10 15 (0.82%) XML
11 14 (0.77%) Web Services
12 13 (0.71%) .NET Framework
12 13 (0.71%) EDIFACT
12 13 (0.71%) jQuery
13 10 (0.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
2 127 (6.96%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.49%) Driving Licence
4 50 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 48 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.75%) NHS
7 29 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.15%) Replication
10 19 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.04%) Social Media
11 18 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (0.99%) FMCG
12 17 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
14 15 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 13 (0.71%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 220 (12.05%) Windows
2 86 (4.71%) Windows 10
3 68 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 65 (3.56%) Linux
5 25 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.26%) Android
6 23 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.99%) Windows 7
8 17 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.88%) Unix
10 12 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.44%) VMS
12 7 (0.38%) CentOS
12 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.27%) SUSE
13 5 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.11%) zOS
17 1 (0.055%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 447 (24.48%) Customer Service
3 312 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 296 (16.21%) Project Management
5 267 (14.62%) Agile
6 177 (9.69%) Mathematics
7 161 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 159 (8.71%) Customer Requirements
9 154 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 144 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
11 135 (7.39%) ITIL
12 130 (7.12%) Time Management
13 127 (6.96%) Decision-Making
14 122 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
15 114 (6.24%) CRM
16 108 (5.91%) ERP
17 104 (5.70%) Project Delivery
18 94 (5.15%) Risk Management
19 88 (4.82%) Computer Science
19 88 (4.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (12.81%) SQL
2 96 (5.26%) C#
3 82 (4.49%) JavaScript
4 80 (4.38%) Python
5 38 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 35 (1.92%) Java
7 23 (1.26%) C++
7 23 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.20%) PHP
9 20 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.71%) C
10 13 (0.71%) VB.NET
11 12 (0.66%) Perl
12 11 (0.60%) R
13 8 (0.44%) ActionScript
13 8 (0.44%) ActionScript 2.0
13 8 (0.44%) VB
14 4 (0.22%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.16%) Bicep
15 3 (0.16%) Dart
Qualifications
1 449 (24.59%) Degree
2 133 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 53 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 27 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 24 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.15%) A+ Certification
9 19 (1.04%) ACCA
9 19 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 15 (0.82%) CCNA
11 15 (0.82%) HND
11 15 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.77%) MCSE
13 11 (0.60%) PMP
14 10 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
15 9 (0.49%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.05%) GDPR
2 61 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (3.34%) QA
3 57 (3.12%) SLA
4 55 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (2.08%) ISO 9001
6 35 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 30 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.04%) PMO
10 17 (0.93%) GMP
11 12 (0.66%) NIST
12 9 (0.49%) ISO 26262
13 8 (0.44%) IFRS
14 7 (0.38%) GRC
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.22%) GAAP
16 4 (0.22%) IFRS 9
17 3 (0.16%) ISO 14001
17 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.57%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.88%) Docker
6 11 (0.60%) Firmware
7 8 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.33%) NFS
8 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.27%) vSphere
10 4 (0.22%) pfSense
11 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.055%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (1.86%) EnCase
3 28 (1.53%) SCCM
4 22 (1.20%) Terraform
5 12 (0.66%) Kubernetes
6 7 (0.38%) Functional Safety
7 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.22%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.22%) Nagios
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.055%) Ansible
10 1 (0.055%) Autotask
10 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.055%) Icinga
10 1 (0.055%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.055%) Kibana
10 1 (0.055%) Nessus
10 1 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.055%) VxRail
Vendors
1 514 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.71%) VMware
3 55 (3.01%) Cisco
4 32 (1.75%) SAP
4 32 (1.75%) Veeam
5 24 (1.31%) Citrix
5 24 (1.31%) Oracle
5 24 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.26%) Adobe
6 23 (1.26%) IFS
6 23 (1.26%) Sage
6 23 (1.26%) Sophos
7 21 (1.15%) IBM
7 21 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 18 (0.99%) Remedy
9 16 (0.88%) Dell
9 16 (0.88%) Google
9 16 (0.88%) Workday
10 15 (0.82%) HP
11 14 (0.77%) Databricks