Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,249 30,005 37,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.73% 28.67% 24.24%
As % of the General category 41.33% 41.73% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,532 15,104 18,589
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,240 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +5.26% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK

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 requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +1 21,390 £48,559 -17.70% 10,221
UK excluding London 0 16,610 £44,240 -11.52% 7,405
Work from Home +2 9,093 £53,000 -13.11% 3,679
London +1 6,441 £65,000 -7.14% 3,270
South East 0 4,310 £44,309 -11.38% 1,792
North of England +1 4,069 £45,000 -10.00% 1,887
Midlands +1 2,799 £42,500 -15.00% 1,343
North West +1 2,129 £45,000 -10.00% 1,046
South West +1 1,988 £45,000 - 1,042
West Midlands +1 1,802 £45,000 -13.46% 822
East of England 0 1,538 £44,500 -9.88% 867
Yorkshire +1 1,473 £45,000 -10.00% 621
Scotland -16 1,255 £45,000 -18.18% 507
East Midlands 0 986 £39,000 -22.00% 519
Wales 0 502 £41,067 -5.93% 190
North East 0 470 £40,000 -5.88% 264
Northern Ireland +6 150 £50,000 -13.04% 107
Isle of Man -4 14 £42,500 +21.43% 3
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 5

Social Skills
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
1 941 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 847 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 448 (1.85%) SAS
4 300 (1.24%) Confluence
5 204 (0.84%) CMS
6 158 (0.65%) WordPress
7 130 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 111 (0.46%) Apache
9 82 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 69 (0.28%) IIS
11 51 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 36 (0.15%) nginx
13 30 (0.12%) Drupal
14 26 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 25 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 25 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 23 (0.095%) Anypoint
17 22 (0.091%) Skype for Business
17 22 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2,496 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,117 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
3 783 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 215 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 129 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 109 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 98 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 63 (0.26%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 43 (0.18%) Sketch
14 39 (0.16%) Simulink
15 38 (0.16%) Adobe XD
15 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
16 31 (0.13%) SPSS
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
18 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 334 (1.38%) SAP ERP
2 207 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 153 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 80 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.28%) Shopify
6 51 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 46 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 44 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 43 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 42 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 41 (0.17%) Primavera
12 38 (0.16%) SAP CO
12 38 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
13 35 (0.14%) Magento
14 31 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
15 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
16 26 (0.11%) NEC Housing
17 25 (0.10%) SAP Business One
18 24 (0.099%) Elite 3E
19 23 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3,758 (15.50%) Azure
2 2,502 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
3 2,041 (8.42%) AWS
4 1,563 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1,022 (4.21%) SaaS
6 554 (2.28%) GCP
7 538 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 474 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 408 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
10 320 (1.32%) Serverless
11 290 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 279 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 255 (1.05%) Power Automate
14 242 (1.00%) GitHub
15 186 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
15 186 (0.77%) PaaS
16 178 (0.73%) IaaS
17 167 (0.69%) Amazon S3
18 160 (0.66%) OneDrive
19 143 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,075 (4.43%) Firewall
2 989 (4.08%) Broadband
3 691 (2.85%) WAN
4 628 (2.59%) DNS
5 559 (2.31%) LAN
6 532 (2.19%) Wireless
7 447 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 431 (1.78%) VPN
9 405 (1.67%) DHCP
10 339 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
11 323 (1.33%) Network Security
12 275 (1.13%) Internet
13 272 (1.12%) VoIP
14 261 (1.08%) SAN
15 234 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 221 (0.91%) VLAN
17 161 (0.66%) Intranet
18 127 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
19 126 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
20 124 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,268 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 1,258 (5.19%) Power BI
3 456 (1.88%) Tableau
4 438 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 389 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 366 (1.51%) MySQL
7 317 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 278 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 203 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
10 195 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 183 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 181 (0.75%) Big Data
13 176 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 175 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 148 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 131 (0.54%) Oracle Database
17 107 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
18 102 (0.42%) RDBMS
19 91 (0.38%) Data Mining
20 88 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 936 (3.86%) Git
2 822 (3.39%) JIRA
3 344 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 168 (0.69%) GitLab
5 156 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 107 (0.44%) Selenium
7 87 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 54 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 52 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 48 (0.20%) JUnit
11 47 (0.19%) Postman
12 42 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 41 (0.17%) Maven
13 41 (0.17%) Subversion
14 39 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 35 (0.14%) LabVIEW
15 35 (0.14%) webpack
16 34 (0.14%) Burp Suite
16 34 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 5,939 (24.49%) Finance
2 5,122 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
3 1,859 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,809 (7.46%) Retail
5 1,738 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1,727 (7.12%) Marketing
7 1,446 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1,278 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1,277 (5.27%) Law
10 1,224 (5.05%) Legal
11 1,134 (4.68%) Public Sector
12 1,035 (4.27%) Manufacturing
13 765 (3.15%) Banking
14 642 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 342 (1.41%) Billing
16 339 (1.40%) Games
17 324 (1.34%) Electronics
17 324 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
18 289 (1.19%) Local Government
19 285 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,412 (14.07%) Analyst
2 3,155 (13.01%) Senior
3 2,362 (9.74%) Developer
4 1,708 (7.04%) Lead
5 1,540 (6.35%) Architect
6 1,398 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 1,120 (4.62%) Consultant
8 1,099 (4.53%) IT Support
9 870 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
10 828 (3.41%) Support Engineer
11 718 (2.96%) IT Manager
12 710 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 700 (2.89%) IT Engineer
14 623 (2.57%) Administrator
15 614 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
16 586 (2.42%) Graduate
17 576 (2.38%) Senior Manager
18 568 (2.34%) Senior Developer
19 524 (2.16%) Support Analyst
20 424 (1.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,112 (4.59%) .NET
2 951 (3.92%) HTML
3 796 (3.28%) CSS
4 659 (2.72%) React
5 401 (1.65%) AngularJS
6 350 (1.44%) Node.js
7 348 (1.44%) REST
8 321 (1.32%) RESTful
9 307 (1.27%) Web Services
10 293 (1.21%) .NET Framework
11 270 (1.11%) ASP.NET
12 255 (1.05%) .NET Core
13 239 (0.99%) Vue
14 236 (0.97%) JSON
15 223 (0.92%) HTML5
16 199 (0.82%) Kafka
17 196 (0.81%) XML
18 195 (0.80%) Spring
19 166 (0.68%) Entity Framework
20 163 (0.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1,995 (8.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1,259 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 974 (4.02%) Driving Licence
4 648 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 598 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 475 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 377 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 342 (1.41%) Social Media
9 292 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 290 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 282 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 280 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
13 273 (1.13%) IoT
14 257 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 245 (1.01%) FMCG
16 240 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 229 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 222 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
19 220 (0.91%) NHS
20 213 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,947 (12.15%) Windows
2 1,227 (5.06%) Linux
3 1,048 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 799 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 415 (1.71%) Android
6 309 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 222 (0.92%) Unix
8 205 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 199 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 198 (0.82%) Mac OS
11 191 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 143 (0.59%) VMS
13 123 (0.51%) Windows 7
14 94 (0.39%) Ubuntu
15 82 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 55 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
17 48 (0.20%) Windows 8
18 46 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 41 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
20 33 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,538 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
2 5,279 (21.77%) Agile
3 3,408 (14.05%) Project Management
4 3,191 (13.16%) Customer Service
5 2,503 (10.32%) Mentoring
6 2,219 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,153 (8.88%) Decision-Making
8 2,026 (8.35%) Computer Science
9 1,750 (7.22%) Roadmaps
10 1,749 (7.21%) ITIL
11 1,658 (6.84%) DevOps
12 1,625 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,580 (6.52%) Analytics
14 1,561 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
15 1,554 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
16 1,502 (6.19%) Software Engineering
17 1,362 (5.62%) Project Delivery
18 1,360 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
19 1,262 (5.20%) Collaborative Working
20 1,258 (5.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,944 (12.14%) SQL
2 1,848 (7.62%) Python
3 1,410 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 1,376 (5.67%) C#
5 1,045 (4.31%) Java
6 611 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 402 (1.66%) C
8 375 (1.55%) PHP
9 370 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 367 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 336 (1.39%) C++
12 266 (1.10%) Bash
13 219 (0.90%) R
14 174 (0.72%) Go
15 104 (0.43%) Scala
16 102 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 84 (0.35%) Perl
18 83 (0.34%) MATLAB
19 81 (0.33%) VB
20 71 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5,906 (24.36%) Degree
2 1,730 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 1,232 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,079 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 970 (4.00%) DBS Check
6 733 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 645 (2.66%) ACCA
8 591 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 531 (2.19%) CIMA
10 361 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 351 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 326 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 320 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 276 (1.14%) CISSP
15 244 (1.01%) CCNA
16 227 (0.94%) PMP
17 223 (0.92%) AWS Certification
18 212 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
19 192 (0.79%) CISM
20 179 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,074 (4.43%) QA
2 948 (3.91%) SLA
3 556 (2.29%) GDPR
4 484 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 462 (1.91%) Data Quality
6 377 (1.55%) PMO
7 316 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 263 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
9 200 (0.82%) NIST
10 180 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 167 (0.69%) IFRS
12 105 (0.43%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 87 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 63 (0.26%) GAAP
16 63 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
18 43 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,970 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 608 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 596 (2.46%) Docker
4 476 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 250 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 225 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 215 (0.89%) Firmware
8 122 (0.50%) XenApp
9 118 (0.49%) XenDesktop
10 113 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
11 85 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 76 (0.31%) vSphere
13 55 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.099%) Terminal Services
16 23 (0.095%) KVM
17 16 (0.066%) VMware NSX
18 14 (0.058%) vCloud
19 12 (0.049%) NFS
20 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 548 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 539 (2.22%) Terraform
3 537 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 371 (1.53%) SCCM
5 254 (1.05%) Ansible
6 115 (0.47%) Grafana
7 113 (0.47%) AirWatch
8 89 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 81 (0.33%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 61 (0.25%) SCOM
12 56 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 51 (0.21%) Puppet
14 49 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 46 (0.19%) Prometheus
16 45 (0.19%) EnCase
17 40 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 38 (0.16%) Nagios
19 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
20 29 (0.12%) Autotask
Vendors
1 6,170 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 1,063 (4.38%) SAP
3 960 (3.96%) Oracle
4 916 (3.78%) VMware
5 658 (2.71%) Cisco
6 603 (2.49%) Google
7 428 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 383 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 341 (1.41%) Dell
10 327 (1.35%) Citrix
11 321 (1.32%) Hyperion
12 311 (1.28%) Adobe
13 303 (1.25%) Anaplan
14 283 (1.17%) Databricks
15 277 (1.14%) HP
16 216 (0.89%) Veeam
17 214 (0.88%) Apple
18 206 (0.85%) IBM
19 171 (0.71%) Splunk
20 130 (0.54%) Sage