Social Media
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Media in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Media over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 486 295
Rank change year-on-year +242 -191 +78
Permanent jobs citing Social Media 1,191 596 2,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.59% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.40% 1.38% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 788 303 904
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £39,688 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,250 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% -16.37% +25.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £76,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £65,000 £104,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,225 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.94% -23.81% +50.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Social Media is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Social Media
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Social Media as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Media.

Salary trend for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Media over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Media in the UK

Social Media
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Media within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +234 1,025 £38,000 -15.56% 571
UK excluding London +203 597 £35,225 -11.94% 397
Work from Home +245 587 £39,500 -31.18% 243
London +218 509 £40,000 -24.03% 192
South East +121 211 £35,000 -12.50% 79
North of England +75 129 £39,500 -60.50% 148
Midlands +58 88 £35,000 -17.65% 83
North West +55 70 £40,000 -55.56% 84
West Midlands +47 53 £30,000 -18.92% 50
Yorkshire +63 50 £37,500 -62.50% 53
East of England +45 49 £25,750 -6.36% 33
Scotland -48 42 £55,000 +49.04% 18
East Midlands +18 35 £38,750 - 33
Wales +34 34 £37,500 +6.38% 8
South West -2 33 £31,778 -5.84% 39
Northern Ireland - 11 £42,000 -
North East - 9 £39,500 - 11

Social Media
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 66 (5.54%) CMS
2 59 (4.95%) WordPress
3 10 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.42%) Drupal
6 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 122 (10.24%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (6.80%) Photoshop
4 73 (6.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (4.95%) Adobe Illustrator
6 53 (4.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 50 (4.20%) InDesign
8 30 (2.52%) Adobe Premiere
9 27 (2.27%) Adobe After Effects
10 14 (1.18%) Trello
11 9 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.17%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.17%) CorelDRAW
14 2 (0.17%) Sketch
15 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.084%) CINEMA 4D
15 1 (0.084%) InVision
15 1 (0.084%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.92%) Shopify
3 8 (0.67%) Magento
4 6 (0.50%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.084%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.084%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 294 (24.69%) Azure
2 213 (17.88%) Entra ID
3 62 (5.21%) Google Analytics
4 38 (3.19%) Canva
5 30 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (2.43%) dbt
6 29 (2.43%) SaaS
7 23 (1.93%) MailChimp
8 19 (1.60%) Power Platform
9 16 (1.34%) Google Ads
10 13 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 8 (0.67%) AWS
12 7 (0.59%) Asana
12 7 (0.59%) Google Docs
13 6 (0.50%) Google Data Studio
13 6 (0.50%) Google Sheets
13 6 (0.50%) Google Tag Manager
13 6 (0.50%) Google Workspace
13 6 (0.50%) Serverless
14 5 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 235 (19.73%) Broadband
2 210 (17.63%) 5G
3 20 (1.68%) Internet
4 15 (1.26%) Intranet
4 15 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.59%) VoIP
7 4 (0.34%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
9 2 (0.17%) SNA
10 1 (0.084%) DKIM
10 1 (0.084%) DMARC
10 1 (0.084%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.26%) Power BI
3 7 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.34%) MySQL
5 4 (0.34%) Power Query
6 3 (0.25%) Looker
6 3 (0.25%) Metadata
6 3 (0.25%) QGIS
6 3 (0.25%) Tableau
7 2 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.17%) Big Data
8 1 (0.084%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.084%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.084%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.084%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (1.76%) JIRA
2 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.50%) JMeter
3 6 (0.50%) JUnit
3 6 (0.50%) Selenium
3 6 (0.50%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.25%) WiX
5 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.084%) Dreamweaver
General
1 554 (46.52%) Marketing
2 349 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 320 (26.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 314 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
5 162 (13.60%) Finance
6 132 (11.08%) Advertising
7 100 (8.40%) Retail
8 95 (7.98%) Organisational Skills
9 67 (5.63%) German Language
10 59 (4.95%) Public Sector
11 49 (4.11%) Local Government
12 35 (2.94%) Publishing
13 29 (2.43%) Digital Economy
13 29 (2.43%) Legal
14 28 (2.35%) Brand Awareness
15 27 (2.27%) Games
16 25 (2.10%) Multimedia
17 23 (1.93%) Law
18 21 (1.76%) French Language
19 15 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (18.30%) Senior
2 210 (17.63%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (17.63%) Technical Specialist
3 130 (10.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (10.66%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (10.66%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (10.66%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 78 (6.55%) Designer
5 78 (6.55%) Developer
6 58 (4.87%) Graduate
7 56 (4.70%) .NET Developer
8 54 (4.53%) Communications Manager
9 50 (4.20%) Graphic Designer
10 47 (3.95%) Social Media Developer
11 41 (3.44%) Analyst
12 34 (2.85%) Communications Officer
13 32 (2.69%) Lead
14 28 (2.35%) Coordinator
14 28 (2.35%) Senior Manager
15 27 (2.27%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.46%) .NET
2 56 (4.70%) .NET Framework
2 56 (4.70%) ASP.NET Web API
2 56 (4.70%) Entity Framework
3 48 (4.03%) HTML
4 39 (3.27%) AngularJS
5 37 (3.11%) CSS
6 36 (3.02%) .NET Core
7 33 (2.77%) ASP.NET
7 33 (2.77%) ASP.NET MVC
7 33 (2.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 17 (1.43%) React
9 7 (0.59%) HTML5
10 5 (0.42%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.42%) jQuery
10 5 (0.42%) Redux
11 4 (0.34%) JSON
11 4 (0.34%) Sass
11 4 (0.34%) Vue
11 4 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.08%) Blog
2 104 (8.73%) Self-Motivation
3 87 (7.30%) Photography
4 78 (6.55%) Graphic Design
5 58 (4.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 43 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 36 (3.02%) BBC
8 34 (2.85%) Driving Licence
9 30 (2.52%) Video Editing
10 29 (2.43%) Digital Media
11 20 (1.68%) Animation
12 16 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.01%) NHS
15 10 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.84%) e-Learning
15 10 (0.84%) Podcast
16 9 (0.76%) Motion Graphics
17 7 (0.59%) Taxonomies
18 6 (0.50%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 211 (17.72%) Linux
2 210 (17.63%) Ubuntu
3 37 (3.11%) Windows
4 17 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.26%) Android
6 12 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Vista
9 4 (0.34%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (25.69%) CRM
2 253 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
3 228 (19.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 210 (17.63%) IT Strategy
4 210 (17.63%) Technology Strategy
5 130 (10.92%) Analytics
5 130 (10.92%) Digital Marketing
6 111 (9.32%) Project Management
7 105 (8.82%) SEO
8 98 (8.23%) Agile
9 79 (6.63%) Customer Service
10 72 (6.05%) Line Management
11 69 (5.79%) User Experience
12 66 (5.54%) B2B
12 66 (5.54%) Strategic Planning
13 65 (5.46%) E-Commerce
13 65 (5.46%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (5.29%) Business Development
15 60 (5.04%) Decision-Making
16 59 (4.95%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (17.63%) Bash
2 71 (5.96%) JavaScript
3 54 (4.53%) C#
4 31 (2.60%) SQL
5 17 (1.43%) Python
6 10 (0.84%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.76%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.67%) Java
9 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.42%) PHP
11 3 (0.25%) R
11 3 (0.25%) VBA
12 1 (0.084%) Go
12 1 (0.084%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.084%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.084%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.084%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 218 (18.30%) Degree
2 85 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 12 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (0.92%) ACCA
4 11 (0.92%) CIMA
5 10 (0.84%) CCNA
5 10 (0.84%) CCNA CyberOps
5 10 (0.84%) CCNP
5 10 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (0.59%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.17%) CISA
9 2 (0.17%) CRISC
9 2 (0.17%) ISACA
9 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.17%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.084%) CISM
10 1 (0.084%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 7 (0.59%) GDPR
3 5 (0.42%) QA
4 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.25%) NIST
6 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 219 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 211 (17.72%) Jamf Pro
1 211 (17.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.50%) Terraform
3 4 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.084%) Core Impact
4 1 (0.084%) SCCM
4 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 350 (29.39%) Microsoft
2 210 (17.63%) CyberArk
2 210 (17.63%) Tanium
3 129 (10.83%) Google
4 112 (9.40%) Adobe
5 108 (9.07%) Facebook
6 68 (5.71%) Instagram
7 48 (4.03%) Apple
8 45 (3.78%) Twitter
9 41 (3.44%) YouTube
10 36 (3.02%) Sony
10 36 (3.02%) Yahoo!
11 35 (2.94%) TikTok
12 28 (2.35%) SAP
13 24 (2.02%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.09%) Sage
15 11 (0.92%) CA
15 11 (0.92%) HubSpot
16 10 (0.84%) Cisco
17 9 (0.76%) Ahrefs