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 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 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 9,168 9,934 16,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.08% 24.58% 23.69%
As % of the General category 43.97% 37.30% 37.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,187 6,764 8,878
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,325 £45,512 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,806 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.99% +4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,325
UK median annual salary £48,475 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.70% +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 20,851 26,630 44,635
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.58% 65.90% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,097 17,776 24,517
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 £83,484 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 18 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 (3.66%) SAS
2 253 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 222 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 84 (0.92%) WordPress
5 81 (0.88%) CMS
6 73 (0.80%) Confluence
7 56 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 46 (0.50%) WebLogic
9 40 (0.44%) IIS
10 35 (0.38%) Apache
11 28 (0.31%) 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 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
16 6 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2000
16 6 (0.065%) Moodle
Applications
1 967 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 482 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 195 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 31 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 28 (0.31%) Photoshop
9 22 (0.24%) Simulink
10 21 (0.23%) Adobe XD
11 20 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
11 20 (0.22%) Sketch
12 18 (0.20%) Trello
13 17 (0.19%) InDesign
14 11 (0.12%) AutoCAD
15 8 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
15 8 (0.087%) Chatbot
16 7 (0.076%) Adobe Captivate
16 7 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
17 6 (0.065%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 307 (3.35%) SAP ERP
2 86 (0.94%) 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 12 (0.13%) Maximo
11 10 (0.11%) NEC Housing
11 10 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.11%) SAP CX
12 9 (0.098%) Primavera
12 9 (0.098%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.098%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,735 (18.92%) Azure
2 945 (10.31%) AWS
3 755 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 739 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 508 (5.54%) SaaS
6 282 (3.08%) GCP
7 220 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 198 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 171 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 159 (1.73%) Serverless
11 150 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 143 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 126 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 100 (1.09%) GitHub
15 99 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (0.98%) Amazon S3
17 88 (0.96%) Snowflake
18 86 (0.94%) PaaS
19 77 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
20 73 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 873 (9.52%) Broadband
2 375 (4.09%) Firewall
3 228 (2.49%) DNS
4 219 (2.39%) WAN
5 184 (2.01%) LAN
6 171 (1.87%) Wireless
7 156 (1.70%) VPN
8 155 (1.69%) TCP/IP
9 141 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
10 121 (1.32%) DHCP
11 117 (1.28%) SAN
12 102 (1.11%) Internet
13 92 (1.00%) VoIP
14 84 (0.92%) BGP
15 70 (0.76%) Network Security
16 63 (0.69%) VLAN
17 58 (0.63%) SSL
18 49 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
19 47 (0.51%) SD-WAN
20 45 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 630 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 628 (6.85%) Power BI
3 309 (3.37%) Tableau
4 261 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 242 (2.64%) Relational Database
6 211 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 160 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 147 (1.60%) MySQL
9 138 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 123 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 95 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 88 (0.96%) Big Data
13 84 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 78 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 74 (0.81%) Data Lake
16 72 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 63 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
18 62 (0.68%) NoSQL
19 54 (0.59%) DynamoDB
20 47 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 502 (5.48%) Git
2 251 (2.74%) JIRA
3 97 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 74 (0.81%) GitLab
5 62 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 43 (0.47%) Selenium
7 29 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 26 (0.28%) JUnit
9 23 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 21 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
11 19 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
12 18 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
13 17 (0.19%) Maven
14 16 (0.17%) webpack
15 15 (0.16%) Rational Rhapsody
16 14 (0.15%) Postman
17 13 (0.14%) TeamCity
18 12 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 12 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,775 (30.27%) Finance
2 1,828 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
3 732 (7.98%) Retail
4 678 (7.40%) Marketing
5 637 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
6 589 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 559 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
8 522 (5.69%) Public Sector
9 424 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
10 420 (4.58%) Legal
11 310 (3.38%) Law
12 246 (2.68%) Banking
13 226 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 168 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 144 (1.57%) Games
16 124 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 107 (1.17%) Electronics
18 99 (1.08%) Advertising
19 92 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
20 79 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,563 (17.05%) Analyst
2 1,514 (16.51%) Senior
3 1,227 (13.38%) Developer
4 874 (9.53%) Architect
5 707 (7.71%) Lead
6 605 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
7 516 (5.63%) Consultant
8 486 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 428 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
10 349 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 253 (2.76%) Software Engineer
12 252 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 234 (2.55%) Software Developer
14 232 (2.53%) Support Engineer
15 229 (2.50%) Data Analyst
16 211 (2.30%) IT Support
17 208 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 207 (2.26%) Administrator
19 179 (1.95%) Business Analyst
20 177 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (5.17%) .NET
2 376 (4.10%) HTML
3 339 (3.70%) CSS
4 245 (2.67%) React
5 176 (1.92%) Node.js
6 175 (1.91%) RESTful
7 165 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 162 (1.77%) REST
9 136 (1.48%) Kafka
10 135 (1.47%) Web Services
11 127 (1.39%) GraphQL
12 112 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
13 111 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 111 (1.21%) JSON
14 110 (1.20%) Vue
15 109 (1.19%) ASP.NET
16 100 (1.09%) Spring Boot
17 97 (1.06%) .NET Framework
18 94 (1.03%) Laravel
19 81 (0.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 492 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
2 344 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 246 (2.68%) Client/Server
4 238 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 215 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 211 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 206 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 192 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 139 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 136 (1.48%) Social Media
11 133 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 126 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 117 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 110 (1.20%) Mobile App
15 107 (1.17%) Cloud Native
16 91 (0.99%) IoT
17 88 (0.96%) Life Science
18 83 (0.91%) NHS
19 78 (0.85%) Virtual Team
20 67 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 802 (8.75%) Windows
2 546 (5.96%) Linux
3 332 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 143 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 141 (1.54%) Android
6 139 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 116 (1.27%) VMS
8 111 (1.21%) Unix
9 69 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 58 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 55 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 52 (0.57%) Ubuntu
13 43 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
14 40 (0.44%) Mac OS
15 32 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
16 27 (0.29%) zOS
17 21 (0.23%) Windows 7
18 20 (0.22%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.17%) Solaris
20 15 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,686 (29.30%) Agile
2 2,564 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
3 1,242 (13.55%) Mentoring
4 1,114 (12.15%) Project Management
5 1,064 (11.61%) Decision-Making
6 1,015 (11.07%) Actionable Insight
7 967 (10.55%) Roadmaps
8 782 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
9 745 (8.13%) Analytics
10 714 (7.79%) DevOps
11 702 (7.66%) Customer Service
12 682 (7.44%) Computer Science
13 680 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 677 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 668 (7.29%) Software Engineering
16 667 (7.28%) Business Case
17 637 (6.95%) ITIL
18 577 (6.29%) ERP
19 564 (6.15%) Change Management
20 547 (5.97%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,471 (16.04%) SQL
2 913 (9.96%) Python
3 601 (6.56%) C#
4 587 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 422 (4.60%) Java
6 232 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 200 (2.18%) PHP
8 198 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 193 (2.11%) C
10 160 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 113 (1.23%) Go
12 105 (1.15%) C++
13 98 (1.07%) Bash
14 76 (0.83%) R
15 68 (0.74%) Embedded C
16 58 (0.63%) Scala
17 39 (0.43%) VB
18 33 (0.36%) PL/SQL
19 31 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 30 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2,031 (22.15%) Degree
2 780 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 522 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 521 (5.68%) ACCA
5 471 (5.14%) CIMA
6 430 (4.69%) DBS Check
7 379 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 216 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 204 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 159 (1.73%) PMI Certification
11 135 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 130 (1.42%) Azure Certification
13 112 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 107 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 104 (1.13%) CISSP
15 104 (1.13%) PMP
16 95 (1.04%) AWS Certification
17 77 (0.84%) CCNA
18 75 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 69 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (4.47%) QA
2 178 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 175 (1.91%) SLA
4 136 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 107 (1.17%) GDPR
6 100 (1.09%) PMO
7 99 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 90 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 64 (0.70%) NIST
10 52 (0.57%) IFRS
11 47 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 41 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 26 (0.28%) GRC
14 22 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
15 20 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 19 (0.21%) NCSC
17 17 (0.19%) GxP
17 17 (0.19%) ITGC
18 16 (0.17%) GMP
19 15 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 544 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 280 (3.05%) Docker
3 193 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 163 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 145 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 112 (1.22%) Firmware
7 76 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 54 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
10 22 (0.24%) vSphere
11 10 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.087%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.076%) NFS
14 6 (0.065%) KVM
15 4 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.044%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 264 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 226 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 200 (2.18%) Terraform
4 147 (1.60%) Ansible
5 74 (0.81%) SCCM
6 43 (0.47%) vCenter Server
6 43 (0.47%) WSUS
7 42 (0.46%) SCOM
8 39 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 30 (0.33%) Puppet
10 29 (0.32%) Grafana
11 24 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
13 18 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.17%) Prometheus
15 15 (0.16%) Nagios
15 15 (0.16%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
17 13 (0.14%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 2,368 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 609 (6.64%) SAP
3 551 (6.01%) Oracle
4 308 (3.36%) VMware
5 304 (3.32%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.26%) Anaplan
7 273 (2.98%) Google
8 264 (2.88%) Databricks
9 201 (2.19%) Cisco
10 139 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 117 (1.28%) Dell
12 110 (1.20%) IBM
12 110 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 100 (1.09%) Adobe
14 85 (0.93%) HP
15 72 (0.79%) Fortinet
16 66 (0.72%) Citrix
17 53 (0.58%) Aruba
18 52 (0.57%) Facebook
18 52 (0.57%) Meraki