Social Skills Jobs in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,799 18,101 17,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.46% 30.70% 24.17%
As % of the General category 41.03% 44.71% 39.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,489 7,501 9,164
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,347 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,313 £62,532
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,475 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.70% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,940 40,486 43,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.17% 68.66% 60.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,522 18,466 24,237
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,284 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East 0 4,391 £45,000 -10.00% 2,233
North of England +1 4,117 £45,000 -10.00% 2,126
Midlands +1 2,846 £42,500 -15.00% 1,561
North West +1 2,166 £45,000 -12.62% 1,138
South West +1 2,000 £45,000 - 1,072
West Midlands +1 1,826 £45,000 -13.46% 955
East of England 0 1,537 £44,250 -11.50% 975
Yorkshire +1 1,474 £45,000 -5.26% 732
Scotland -16 1,251 £45,000 -18.18% 472
East Midlands 0 1,006 £39,984 -15.82% 605
Wales 0 499 £41,134 -3.78% 234
North East 0 479 £40,000 -5.88% 297
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
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 700 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 560 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 201 (1.20%) Confluence
4 163 (0.97%) SAS
5 138 (0.82%) CMS
6 107 (0.64%) WordPress
7 67 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 59 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 43 (0.26%) Apache
9 43 (0.26%) IIS
10 21 (0.13%) nginx
10 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
12 19 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 19 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
14 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 16 (0.095%) Drupal
16 14 (0.083%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,707 (10.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1,696 (10.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 528 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 191 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 116 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 107 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 82 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 47 (0.28%) Simulink
12 46 (0.27%) InDesign
13 38 (0.23%) UserZoom
14 36 (0.21%) Sketch
15 35 (0.21%) Trello
16 34 (0.20%) Adobe XD
17 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
18 15 (0.089%) Chatbot
19 14 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
20 10 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 125 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 98 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 70 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 59 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 58 (0.35%) Shopify
6 41 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 30 (0.18%) Magento
9 30 (0.18%) Primavera
10 29 (0.17%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
12 18 (0.11%) SAP MM
13 16 (0.095%) Maximo
13 16 (0.095%) SAP FI
14 15 (0.089%) Sage 200
15 14 (0.083%) SAP SD
16 13 (0.077%) Teamcenter
16 13 (0.077%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2,580 (15.36%) Azure
2 1,884 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
3 1,241 (7.39%) AWS
4 1,085 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 570 (3.39%) SaaS
6 402 (2.39%) Entra ID
7 294 (1.75%) GCP
8 285 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
9 250 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 182 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 162 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 153 (0.91%) GitHub
13 151 (0.90%) Power Automate
14 144 (0.86%) Serverless
15 123 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 99 (0.59%) Amazon S3
17 94 (0.56%) Figma
18 93 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
19 91 (0.54%) Datadog
20 87 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 786 (4.68%) Firewall
2 491 (2.92%) Broadband
3 446 (2.65%) WAN
4 437 (2.60%) DNS
5 402 (2.39%) LAN
6 329 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 310 (1.85%) Wireless
8 303 (1.80%) DHCP
9 264 (1.57%) VPN
10 240 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 227 (1.35%) VoIP
12 216 (1.29%) Network Security
13 213 (1.27%) SAN
14 184 (1.10%) Internet
15 142 (0.85%) VLAN
16 132 (0.79%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) BGP
18 97 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
18 97 (0.58%) SD-WAN
19 85 (0.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 905 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 903 (5.38%) Power BI
3 322 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 264 (1.57%) MySQL
5 227 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 204 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 204 (1.21%) Tableau
7 193 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 144 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 122 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 114 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 110 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 99 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 90 (0.54%) Big Data
14 82 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 71 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
16 68 (0.40%) Redis
17 67 (0.40%) MongoDB
18 65 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 61 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 608 (3.62%) Git
2 570 (3.39%) JIRA
3 196 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 117 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 78 (0.46%) Selenium
6 63 (0.38%) GitLab
7 48 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 37 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 37 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 36 (0.21%) Subversion
10 34 (0.20%) JUnit
11 33 (0.20%) Maven
12 31 (0.18%) LabVIEW
13 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
14 29 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
15 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 25 (0.15%) JMeter
17 24 (0.14%) Ant
18 23 (0.14%) CircleCI
General
1 3,652 (21.74%) Finance
2 3,358 (19.99%) Analytical Skills
3 1,426 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
4 1,280 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,276 (7.60%) Retail
6 1,142 (6.80%) Marketing
7 923 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 893 (5.32%) Law
9 876 (5.21%) Manufacturing
10 815 (4.85%) Legal
11 811 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
12 751 (4.47%) Public Sector
13 505 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 470 (2.80%) Banking
15 294 (1.75%) Electronics
16 275 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 262 (1.56%) Billing
18 236 (1.40%) Automotive
19 231 (1.38%) Games
20 201 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,272 (13.52%) Analyst
2 1,821 (10.84%) Senior
3 1,636 (9.74%) Developer
4 1,166 (6.94%) Lead
5 1,074 (6.39%) Project Manager
6 851 (5.07%) IT Support
7 788 (4.69%) Architect
8 732 (4.36%) Consultant
9 689 (4.10%) Support Engineer
10 575 (3.42%) Software Engineer
11 570 (3.39%) IT Engineer
12 558 (3.32%) IT Manager
13 503 (2.99%) Administrator
14 400 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
15 370 (2.20%) Senior Developer
16 363 (2.16%) Support Analyst
17 362 (2.15%) Graduate
18 353 (2.10%) IT Support Engineer
19 344 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 331 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (4.62%) .NET
2 652 (3.88%) HTML
3 536 (3.19%) CSS
4 452 (2.69%) React
5 290 (1.73%) AngularJS
6 238 (1.42%) .NET Framework
6 238 (1.42%) Node.js
7 213 (1.27%) REST
8 200 (1.19%) RESTful
9 195 (1.16%) Vue
10 190 (1.13%) ASP.NET
10 190 (1.13%) Web Services
11 180 (1.07%) .NET Core
12 167 (0.99%) HTML5
13 143 (0.85%) Laravel
13 143 (0.85%) Spring
14 142 (0.85%) JSON
15 138 (0.82%) Entity Framework
16 129 (0.77%) XML
17 123 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,524 (9.07%) Self-Motivation
2 898 (5.35%) Management Information System
3 787 (4.68%) Driving Licence
4 383 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 378 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 317 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 247 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 222 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 200 (1.19%) IoT
10 196 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 193 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 185 (1.10%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) FMCG
14 176 (1.05%) Social Media
15 174 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 161 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
17 144 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 135 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 126 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,185 (13.01%) Windows
2 881 (5.24%) Linux
3 846 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 556 (3.31%) Windows 10
5 228 (1.36%) Android
5 228 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 183 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 166 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 152 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 145 (0.86%) Unix
10 138 (0.82%) Mac OS
11 106 (0.63%) Windows 7
12 103 (0.61%) VMS
13 68 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 47 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
15 43 (0.26%) Windows 8
16 39 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 36 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
19 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,461 (32.51%) Problem-Solving
2 3,311 (19.71%) Agile
3 2,704 (16.10%) Customer Service
4 2,469 (14.70%) Project Management
5 1,716 (10.21%) Mentoring
6 1,636 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,365 (8.13%) ITIL
8 1,342 (7.99%) Decision-Making
9 1,204 (7.17%) Computer Science
10 1,140 (6.79%) DevOps
11 1,077 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
12 1,048 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,038 (6.18%) Software Engineering
14 977 (5.82%) Time Management
15 976 (5.81%) Roadmaps
16 946 (5.63%) Project Delivery
17 938 (5.58%) Analytics
17 938 (5.58%) Collaborative Working
18 921 (5.48%) Actionable Insight
19 908 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,837 (10.94%) SQL
2 973 (5.79%) JavaScript
3 965 (5.74%) Python
4 935 (5.57%) C#
5 714 (4.25%) Java
6 368 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 356 (2.12%) C
8 318 (1.89%) PHP
9 298 (1.77%) C++
10 246 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 201 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 148 (0.88%) Bash
13 110 (0.65%) R
14 103 (0.61%) Go
15 102 (0.61%) Embedded C
16 76 (0.45%) Scala
17 71 (0.42%) MATLAB
18 70 (0.42%) VB
19 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
20 60 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,949 (23.51%) Degree
2 1,244 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 765 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 688 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 576 (3.43%) DBS Check
6 442 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 359 (2.14%) ACCA
8 318 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 278 (1.65%) CIMA
10 255 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 250 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 221 (1.32%) DV Cleared
13 212 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 190 (1.13%) CCNA
15 157 (0.93%) HND
16 155 (0.92%) PMP
17 154 (0.92%) HNC
18 144 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
19 115 (0.68%) A+ Certification
20 112 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 805 (4.79%) QA
2 731 (4.35%) SLA
3 417 (2.48%) GDPR
4 321 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.80%) PMO
6 295 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 204 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 202 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 159 (0.95%) ISO 9001
10 107 (0.64%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 103 (0.61%) IFRS
13 61 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 52 (0.31%) IFRS 9
15 51 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 50 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 37 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 34 (0.20%) GAAP
19 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1,411 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 466 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 423 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 359 (2.14%) Docker
5 205 (1.22%) Firmware
6 202 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 79 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 66 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 51 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
10 50 (0.30%) vSphere
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) KVM
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 15 (0.089%) VMware NSX
14 12 (0.071%) XenApp
15 11 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.065%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.048%) NFS
17 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 421 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 310 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 252 (1.50%) Terraform
4 206 (1.23%) SCCM
5 144 (0.86%) Ansible
6 88 (0.52%) Grafana
7 63 (0.38%) SCOM
8 60 (0.36%) WSUS
9 49 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 42 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 40 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 36 (0.21%) Puppet
13 34 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 34 (0.20%) EnCase
14 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
16 27 (0.16%) Autotask
17 26 (0.15%) OpenSSO
18 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
19 23 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4,474 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 701 (4.17%) VMware
3 560 (3.33%) SAP
4 484 (2.88%) Oracle
5 405 (2.41%) Cisco
6 353 (2.10%) Google
7 242 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 225 (1.34%) HP
9 193 (1.15%) Veeam
10 191 (1.14%) Adobe
11 186 (1.11%) Dell
12 183 (1.09%) Citrix
13 179 (1.07%) ServiceNow
14 156 (0.93%) Apple
15 146 (0.87%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Hyperion
18 94 (0.56%) Meraki
19 93 (0.55%) Dynatrace
20 92 (0.55%) Sage