Social Skills Jobs in Scotland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,238 1,460 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.35% 32.09% 23.81%
As % of the General category 25.58% 42.67% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 603 619 704
10th Percentile £24,575 £32,815 £28,400
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,293
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +5.18% +10.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,627 £80,000
UK median annual salary £48,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,840 3,422 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.74% 75.23% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,613 1,969
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,779 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,382 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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
Glasgow -34 532 £49,750 -5.24% 150
Edinburgh +1 300 £52,500 -11.80% 152
Aberdeen 0 87 £35,000 -17.65% 68
West Lothian +10 41 £26,250 -40.00% 11
Highlands 0 29 £41,000 +51.85% 7
Dundee -2 29 £45,000 -7.80% 11
Stirling +3 24 £26,637 -18.04% 10
Lanarkshire +3 24 £44,250 -15.71% 62
North Lanarkshire 0 24 £35,000 +40.00% 3
Fife -4 21 £40,818 +3.34% 10
Dumfries and Galloway 0 16 £39,000 +33.33% 4
Renfrewshire +2 15 £40,000 - 6
Aberdeenshire +6 14 £30,000 -53.85% 28
South Lanarkshire 0 9 £32,000 - 3
East Ayrshire - 9 £26,500 -
Midlothian +2 6 £35,000 -1.52% 43
Moray +2 5 - - 1
Perthshire +3 4 £30,000 - 2
Perth and Kinross -1 4 - - 1
Ross-shire - 4 - -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dunbartonshire - 4 - - 1
East Lothian - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 2 £17,000 - 1
South Ayrshire +1 2 £57,500 - 10
Argyll and Bute - 2 £23,802 - 2
Inverclyde -3 1 £23,000 - 1
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 30 (2.42%) Confluence
2 24 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.57%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.081%) IIS
9 1 (0.081%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 135 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.58%) UserZoom
4 18 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.40%) Simulink
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.24%) InDesign
8 3 (0.24%) InVision
8 3 (0.24%) Sketch
9 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.081%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.65%) NEC Housing
2 8 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Primavera
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.081%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 194 (15.67%) AWS
2 139 (11.23%) Azure
3 85 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 74 (5.98%) SaaS
5 72 (5.82%) Datadog
6 65 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 52 (4.20%) GCP
9 36 (2.91%) Figma
10 32 (2.58%) SurveyMonkey
11 28 (2.26%) Amazon S3
11 28 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.62%) Google Docs
13 20 (1.62%) Lucidchart
13 20 (1.62%) Miro
13 20 (1.62%) Slack
14 17 (1.37%) IaaS
15 13 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.44%) Wireless
2 26 (2.10%) WAN
3 22 (1.78%) Firewall
3 22 (1.78%) VPN
4 20 (1.62%) Network Security
4 20 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.53%) Broadband
6 18 (1.45%) DNS
7 13 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.89%) LAN
9 10 (0.81%) DHCP
9 10 (0.81%) VoIP
10 8 (0.65%) BGP
10 8 (0.65%) SAN
10 8 (0.65%) SSL
11 7 (0.57%) HTTP
11 7 (0.57%) MQTT
11 7 (0.57%) NAS
12 6 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.38%) Power BI
2 42 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.18%) Big Data
4 23 (1.86%) Hadoop
5 21 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.62%) Redis
6 20 (1.62%) Scylla
7 19 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.13%) RDBMS
11 12 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.89%) DB2
12 11 (0.89%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
14 9 (0.73%) Tableau
15 7 (0.57%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 63 (5.09%) JIRA
2 57 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.15%) Git
4 21 (1.70%) Maven
5 19 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.21%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.89%) Selenium
9 10 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.81%) Gradle
10 9 (0.73%) JMeter
10 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.48%) MSTest
12 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.16%) GitLab
14 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.081%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.081%) Postman
General
1 402 (32.47%) Finance
2 364 (29.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 215 (17.37%) Law
4 208 (16.80%) Marketing
5 178 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (8.16%) Legal
7 95 (7.67%) Public Sector
8 86 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (4.85%) Banking
9 60 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
10 45 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.75%) Retail
12 33 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.42%) Electronics
14 15 (1.21%) Military
15 12 (0.97%) Local Government
16 11 (0.89%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.89%) Publishing
17 10 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 187 (15.11%) Software Engineer
2 136 (10.99%) Analyst
3 103 (8.32%) Lead
4 96 (7.75%) Senior
5 92 (7.43%) Developer
6 71 (5.74%) Business Manager
7 70 (5.65%) Business Development Manager
7 70 (5.65%) Development Manager
8 63 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 58 (4.68%) Java Engineer
9 58 (4.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 56 (4.52%) Architect
11 53 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 52 (4.20%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 47 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 47 (3.80%) User Experience Researcher
14 45 (3.63%) Junior
15 44 (3.55%) Test Technician
16 42 (3.39%) Project Manager
17 39 (3.15%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (7.67%) React
2 72 (5.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 54 (4.36%) HTML
4 53 (4.28%) AngularJS
5 52 (4.20%) Node.js
6 35 (2.83%) .NET
7 34 (2.75%) HTML5
7 34 (2.75%) Spring Boot
7 34 (2.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 33 (2.67%) Kafka
9 31 (2.50%) Drools
9 31 (2.50%) jBPM
9 31 (2.50%) Middleware
10 29 (2.34%) Spring
11 24 (1.94%) GraphQL
11 24 (1.94%) REST
12 21 (1.70%) CSS
13 17 (1.37%) JSON
14 15 (1.21%) RESTful
15 14 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.46%) Public Cloud
3 71 (5.74%) Algorithms
4 68 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 63 (5.09%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.26%) Driving Licence
10 27 (2.18%) Market Risk
11 25 (2.02%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.53%) IoT
14 15 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.05%) Replication
16 12 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
19 8 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.59%) Windows
2 75 (6.06%) Linux
3 41 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.34%) Unix
5 14 (1.13%) Mac OS X
6 11 (0.89%) Android
7 10 (0.81%) VMS
8 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.40%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.18%) Agile
2 277 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 267 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 206 (16.64%) SDLC
5 164 (13.25%) Computer Science
5 164 (13.25%) Customer Service
6 159 (12.84%) CI/CD
7 158 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 156 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 148 (11.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 146 (11.79%) Project Management
11 143 (11.55%) Machine Learning
12 135 (10.90%) Community of Practice
13 129 (10.42%) User Experience
14 127 (10.26%) DevOps
15 124 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
16 118 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
17 116 (9.37%) Mentoring
18 115 (9.29%) Analytics
19 110 (8.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.51%) Java
2 144 (11.63%) SQL
3 115 (9.29%) Python
4 70 (5.65%) C
5 57 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 55 (4.44%) C#
7 50 (4.04%) Embedded C
8 39 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.42%) C++
9 30 (2.42%) Go
10 23 (1.86%) Bash
11 22 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 21 (1.70%) Scala
13 8 (0.65%) PHP
13 8 (0.65%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.40%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 339 (27.38%) Degree
2 68 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.83%) DBS Check
6 29 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 22 (1.78%) CISSP
8 21 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.62%) CISM
9 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.53%) PhD
11 17 (1.37%) CCNA
12 15 (1.21%) GCIA
12 15 (1.21%) GCIH
13 14 (1.13%) GREM
14 13 (1.05%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.05%) CISA
14 13 (1.05%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.89%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.54%) QA
2 34 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 22 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.70%) SLA
5 15 (1.21%) ISO 9001
5 15 (1.21%) PMO
6 12 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.89%) ITGC
8 9 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.65%) GDPR
9 8 (0.65%) NIST
10 6 (0.48%) IFRS
10 6 (0.48%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.40%) WCAG
12 4 (0.32%) DICOM
12 4 (0.32%) HL7
12 4 (0.32%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.24%) ISO 14000
13 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (4.68%) Firmware
2 28 (2.26%) Embedded Firmware
2 28 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.70%) Docker
5 13 (1.05%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) pfSense
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.081%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (6.46%) Terraform
2 74 (5.98%) Grafana
3 55 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 27 (2.18%) Ansible
5 21 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.05%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.65%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.32%) SCCM
10 3 (0.24%) Autotask
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
12 1 (0.081%) BMC PATROL
12 1 (0.081%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.081%) Nessus
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.081%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 211 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.90%) Splunk
3 72 (5.82%) Dynatrace
4 42 (3.39%) Oracle
5 40 (3.23%) Google
6 39 (3.15%) Dell
6 39 (3.15%) SAP
7 32 (2.58%) Qualtrics
8 29 (2.34%) Cisco
8 29 (2.34%) VMware
9 17 (1.37%) Sage
10 13 (1.05%) NetApp
11 10 (0.81%) Apple
12 9 (0.73%) TOWER Software
13 8 (0.65%) Mitel
13 8 (0.65%) NEC
13 8 (0.65%) Sparx
14 7 (0.57%) NVIDIA
14 7 (0.57%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.57%) Xero