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

6 months to
11 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 16,792 18,319 17,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.65% 30.60% 23.93%
As % of the General category 41.22% 44.58% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,502 7,553 9,127
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,435 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,564
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +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 40,734 41,097 42,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.38% 68.64% 60.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26,464 18,709 24,097
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 11 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 11 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 4,396 £44,500 -11.00% 1,869
North of England +1 4,100 £45,000 -10.00% 2,018
Midlands +1 2,833 £42,500 -15.00% 1,501
North West +1 2,158 £45,000 -10.00% 1,084
South West +1 2,016 £45,000 - 1,065
West Midlands +1 1,822 £45,000 -13.46% 901
East of England 0 1,543 £44,500 -7.81% 959
Yorkshire +1 1,469 £45,000 -6.25% 696
Scotland -16 1,254 £45,000 -18.18% 467
East Midlands 0 997 £39,969 -15.86% 599
Wales 0 499 £41,134 -4.40% 216
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 282
Northern Ireland +6 153 £50,000 -13.04% 79
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 4
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
1 702 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 565 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 200 (1.19%) Confluence
4 166 (0.99%) SAS
5 135 (0.80%) CMS
6 108 (0.64%) WordPress
7 68 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 62 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 46 (0.27%) Apache
10 43 (0.26%) IIS
11 21 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.13%) nginx
11 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
13 19 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.11%) Skype for Business
14 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 16 (0.095%) Drupal
17 15 (0.089%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,714 (10.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1,691 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 522 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 188 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 117 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 104 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 84 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 48 (0.29%) InDesign
12 44 (0.26%) Simulink
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 99 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 71 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 59 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 58 (0.35%) Shopify
6 40 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 40 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 30 (0.18%) Magento
8 30 (0.18%) Primavera
9 26 (0.15%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
11 18 (0.11%) SAP MM
12 16 (0.095%) Sage 200
12 16 (0.095%) SAP FI
13 15 (0.089%) Maximo
14 14 (0.083%) SAP SD
15 13 (0.077%) SAP HR
15 13 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,544 (15.15%) Azure
2 1,886 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1,228 (7.31%) AWS
4 1,081 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 578 (3.44%) SaaS
6 399 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 293 (1.74%) GCP
8 284 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 247 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 182 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 163 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 150 (0.89%) Power Automate
13 149 (0.89%) GitHub
14 145 (0.86%) Serverless
15 121 (0.72%) OneDrive
16 99 (0.59%) Amazon S3
17 95 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
18 94 (0.56%) Figma
19 90 (0.54%) Datadog
20 83 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 785 (4.67%) Firewall
2 495 (2.95%) Broadband
3 468 (2.79%) DNS
4 447 (2.66%) WAN
5 403 (2.40%) LAN
6 359 (2.14%) TCP/IP
7 332 (1.98%) DHCP
8 313 (1.86%) Wireless
9 267 (1.59%) VPN
10 239 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 230 (1.37%) VoIP
12 218 (1.30%) Network Security
13 214 (1.27%) SAN
14 182 (1.08%) Internet
15 144 (0.86%) VLAN
16 133 (0.79%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) BGP
18 98 (0.58%) HTTP
19 97 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
20 96 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 908 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 898 (5.35%) Power BI
3 319 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 262 (1.56%) MySQL
5 227 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 209 (1.24%) Tableau
7 196 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
8 191 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 141 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 109 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 102 (0.61%) NoSQL
13 101 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 93 (0.55%) Big Data
15 80 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 72 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
17 66 (0.39%) MongoDB
18 65 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 61 (0.36%) Redis
20 48 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 605 (3.60%) Git
2 568 (3.38%) JIRA
3 195 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 118 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 79 (0.47%) Selenium
6 60 (0.36%) GitLab
7 48 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 37 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 37 (0.22%) Subversion
10 36 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.20%) JUnit
12 32 (0.19%) LabVIEW
12 32 (0.19%) Maven
13 31 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
14 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
15 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (0.15%) JMeter
17 24 (0.14%) Ant
18 23 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 3,667 (21.84%) Finance
2 3,351 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
3 1,431 (8.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1,324 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,271 (7.57%) Retail
6 1,129 (6.72%) Marketing
7 916 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 904 (5.38%) Law
9 880 (5.24%) Manufacturing
10 818 (4.87%) Legal
11 815 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
12 758 (4.51%) Public Sector
13 510 (3.04%) Telecoms
14 475 (2.83%) Banking
15 283 (1.69%) Electronics
16 267 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 256 (1.52%) Billing
18 231 (1.38%) Games
19 230 (1.37%) Automotive
20 197 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,291 (13.64%) Analyst
2 1,829 (10.89%) Senior
3 1,636 (9.74%) Developer
4 1,160 (6.91%) Lead
5 1,084 (6.46%) Project Manager
6 852 (5.07%) IT Support
7 793 (4.72%) Architect
8 722 (4.30%) Consultant
9 685 (4.08%) Support Engineer
10 569 (3.39%) Software Engineer
11 568 (3.38%) IT Engineer
12 555 (3.31%) IT Manager
13 503 (3.00%) Administrator
14 419 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
15 368 (2.19%) Senior Developer
16 366 (2.18%) Graduate
16 366 (2.18%) Support Analyst
17 352 (2.10%) IT Support Engineer
18 348 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 333 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (4.57%) .NET
2 677 (4.03%) HTML
3 530 (3.16%) CSS
4 453 (2.70%) React
5 290 (1.73%) AngularJS
6 237 (1.41%) .NET Framework
7 234 (1.39%) Node.js
8 207 (1.23%) REST
9 201 (1.20%) RESTful
10 193 (1.15%) Vue
11 190 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 181 (1.08%) Web Services
13 178 (1.06%) .NET Core
14 167 (0.99%) HTML5
15 142 (0.85%) Spring
16 139 (0.83%) JSON
17 138 (0.82%) Laravel
18 136 (0.81%) Entity Framework
19 125 (0.74%) XML
20 122 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,519 (9.05%) Self-Motivation
2 900 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 797 (4.75%) Driving Licence
4 389 (2.32%) Onboarding
5 380 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 318 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 243 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 223 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 219 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 199 (1.19%) IoT
11 193 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 181 (1.08%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) FMCG
14 177 (1.05%) Social Media
15 171 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 160 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 145 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 136 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 128 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,177 (12.96%) Windows
2 872 (5.19%) Linux
3 845 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 551 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 229 (1.36%) Android
6 227 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 181 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 165 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 149 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 145 (0.86%) Unix
11 139 (0.83%) Mac OS
12 107 (0.64%) Windows 7
13 103 (0.61%) VMS
14 70 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 45 (0.27%) Windows 8
16 44 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
17 40 (0.24%) Ubuntu
18 37 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,467 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3,323 (19.79%) Agile
3 2,694 (16.04%) Customer Service
4 2,466 (14.69%) Project Management
5 1,702 (10.14%) Mentoring
6 1,632 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,345 (8.01%) ITIL
8 1,324 (7.88%) Decision-Making
9 1,177 (7.01%) Computer Science
10 1,105 (6.58%) DevOps
11 1,083 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
12 1,040 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,023 (6.09%) Software Engineering
14 999 (5.95%) Roadmaps
15 965 (5.75%) Time Management
16 948 (5.65%) Analytics
17 944 (5.62%) Project Delivery
18 939 (5.59%) Collaborative Working
19 933 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
20 925 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,823 (10.86%) SQL
2 966 (5.75%) JavaScript
3 958 (5.71%) Python
4 929 (5.53%) C#
5 707 (4.21%) Java
6 366 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 352 (2.10%) C
8 316 (1.88%) PHP
9 291 (1.73%) C++
10 244 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 202 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 145 (0.86%) Bash
13 112 (0.67%) R
14 104 (0.62%) Go
15 101 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 70 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 70 (0.42%) Scala
16 70 (0.42%) VB
17 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
18 58 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,924 (23.37%) Degree
2 1,294 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 772 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 668 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 573 (3.41%) DBS Check
6 442 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 353 (2.10%) ACCA
8 314 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.65%) CIMA
10 256 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 255 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 245 (1.46%) PMI Certification
13 212 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 190 (1.13%) CCNA
15 158 (0.94%) HND
16 154 (0.92%) HNC
17 153 (0.91%) PMP
18 142 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 138 (0.82%) AWS Certification
20 116 (0.69%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 800 (4.76%) QA
2 730 (4.35%) SLA
3 418 (2.49%) GDPR
4 332 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 303 (1.80%) PMO
6 292 (1.74%) Data Quality
7 217 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 212 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 167 (0.99%) ISO 9001
10 109 (0.65%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 104 (0.62%) IFRS
13 61 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 58 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 55 (0.33%) IFRS 9
16 50 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 34 (0.20%) GAAP
19 32 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
19 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1,406 (8.37%) Active Directory
2 469 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 425 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 354 (2.11%) Docker
5 203 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 201 (1.20%) Firmware
7 77 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 65 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 48 (0.29%) vSphere
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) KVM
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.083%) VMware NSX
14 13 (0.077%) XenApp
15 11 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.066%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.048%) NFS
17 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 423 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 306 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 279 (1.66%) Terraform
4 208 (1.24%) SCCM
5 142 (0.85%) Ansible
6 89 (0.53%) Grafana
7 64 (0.38%) SCOM
8 58 (0.35%) WSUS
9 50 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 43 (0.26%) EnCase
10 43 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 34 (0.20%) Puppet
13 33 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
16 27 (0.16%) Autotask
16 27 (0.16%) OpenSSO
17 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
18 23 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4,448 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 705 (4.20%) VMware
3 565 (3.36%) SAP
4 487 (2.90%) Oracle
5 403 (2.40%) Cisco
6 351 (2.09%) Google
7 248 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 228 (1.36%) HP
9 196 (1.17%) Adobe
10 193 (1.15%) Veeam
11 190 (1.13%) Dell
12 185 (1.10%) Citrix
13 178 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 156 (0.93%) Apple
15 148 (0.88%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Sage
18 95 (0.57%) Hyperion
19 94 (0.56%) Meraki
20 93 (0.55%) Dynatrace