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 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 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,754 18,059 17,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.09% 30.73% 24.39%
As % of the General category 40.66% 44.84% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,445 7,487 9,233
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +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 41,202 40,270 44,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.78% 68.53% 60.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,621 18,355 24,371
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 23 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 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
South East 0 4,397 £45,000 -10.00% 1,875
North of England +1 4,091 £45,000 -10.00% 2,100
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,556
North West +1 2,165 £45,000 -12.62% 1,162
South West +1 2,002 £45,000 - 1,082
West Midlands +1 1,821 £45,000 -13.46% 908
East of England 0 1,533 £43,750 -12.50% 941
Yorkshire +1 1,454 £45,000 -4.76% 692
Scotland -16 1,238 £45,000 -18.18% 515
East Midlands 0 995 £39,984 -15.82% 648
Wales 0 502 £41,250 -4.07% 218
North East 0 474 £40,000 -5.88% 288
Northern Ireland +7 159 £50,000 -13.04% 95
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 3
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
1 696 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 558 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 200 (1.19%) Confluence
4 156 (0.93%) SAS
5 138 (0.82%) CMS
6 108 (0.64%) WordPress
7 67 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 50 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 45 (0.27%) IIS
10 39 (0.23%) Apache
11 22 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 22 (0.13%) nginx
12 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 20 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
14 19 (0.11%) Skype for Business
15 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
16 17 (0.10%) Drupal
16 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
17 14 (0.084%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,692 (10.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1,680 (10.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 517 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 194 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 116 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 109 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 82 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.38%) 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%) Adobe XD
15 35 (0.21%) Trello
16 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
17 15 (0.090%) Chatbot
18 14 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
19 10 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 125 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 97 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 65 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 58 (0.35%) Shopify
5 57 (0.34%) NetSuite
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 32 (0.19%) Magento
10 30 (0.18%) NEC Housing
11 29 (0.17%) Primavera
12 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
13 17 (0.10%) Maximo
13 17 (0.10%) SAP MM
14 15 (0.090%) Sage 200
14 15 (0.090%) SAP FI
15 13 (0.078%) SAP SD
15 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
15 13 (0.078%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2,594 (15.48%) Azure
2 1,873 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1,266 (7.56%) AWS
4 1,082 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 559 (3.34%) SaaS
6 405 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 304 (1.81%) GCP
8 286 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 251 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 192 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
11 163 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 154 (0.92%) Power Automate
13 152 (0.91%) GitHub
14 146 (0.87%) Serverless
15 124 (0.74%) OneDrive
16 97 (0.58%) Amazon S3
17 95 (0.57%) Figma
18 94 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
19 92 (0.55%) Datadog
20 87 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 785 (4.69%) Firewall
2 490 (2.92%) Broadband
3 443 (2.64%) WAN
4 430 (2.57%) DNS
5 397 (2.37%) LAN
6 325 (1.94%) TCP/IP
7 311 (1.86%) Wireless
8 299 (1.78%) DHCP
9 266 (1.59%) VPN
10 240 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 222 (1.33%) VoIP
12 213 (1.27%) SAN
13 212 (1.27%) Network Security
14 182 (1.09%) Internet
15 139 (0.83%) VLAN
16 132 (0.79%) Intranet
17 98 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
17 98 (0.58%) SD-WAN
18 92 (0.55%) BGP
19 85 (0.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 902 (5.38%) Power BI
2 895 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 319 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 263 (1.57%) MySQL
5 224 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 210 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 196 (1.17%) Tableau
8 194 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 145 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 122 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 121 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 110 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 100 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 86 (0.51%) Big Data
15 80 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 73 (0.44%) Redis
17 71 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
18 70 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
19 67 (0.40%) MongoDB
20 64 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 614 (3.66%) Git
2 578 (3.45%) JIRA
3 204 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 115 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 75 (0.45%) Selenium
6 63 (0.38%) GitLab
7 50 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 35 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 35 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.21%) Subversion
10 33 (0.20%) JUnit
11 32 (0.19%) Maven
12 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
13 29 (0.17%) LabVIEW
14 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.15%) CircleCI
16 24 (0.14%) JMeter
17 23 (0.14%) Ant
General
1 3,649 (21.78%) Finance
2 3,352 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
3 1,422 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
4 1,280 (7.64%) Retail
5 1,274 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,143 (6.82%) Marketing
7 923 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 888 (5.30%) Law
9 874 (5.22%) Manufacturing
10 820 (4.89%) Legal
11 803 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
12 747 (4.46%) Public Sector
13 506 (3.02%) Telecoms
14 450 (2.69%) Banking
15 301 (1.80%) Electronics
16 277 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
17 267 (1.59%) Billing
18 232 (1.38%) Automotive
19 227 (1.35%) Games
20 200 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,239 (13.36%) Analyst
2 1,820 (10.86%) Senior
3 1,633 (9.75%) Developer
4 1,165 (6.95%) Lead
5 1,074 (6.41%) Project Manager
6 849 (5.07%) IT Support
7 797 (4.76%) Architect
8 728 (4.35%) Consultant
9 688 (4.11%) Support Engineer
10 574 (3.43%) Software Engineer
11 568 (3.39%) IT Engineer
12 561 (3.35%) IT Manager
13 501 (2.99%) Administrator
14 400 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
15 369 (2.20%) Senior Developer
16 358 (2.14%) Graduate
17 356 (2.12%) Support Analyst
18 353 (2.11%) IT Support Engineer
19 343 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 329 (1.96%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 784 (4.68%) .NET
2 650 (3.88%) HTML
3 536 (3.20%) CSS
4 450 (2.69%) React
5 293 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 249 (1.49%) Node.js
7 240 (1.43%) .NET Framework
8 223 (1.33%) REST
9 200 (1.19%) RESTful
10 199 (1.19%) Vue
11 197 (1.18%) Web Services
12 192 (1.15%) ASP.NET
13 183 (1.09%) .NET Core
14 169 (1.01%) HTML5
15 144 (0.86%) Laravel
16 142 (0.85%) JSON
17 139 (0.83%) Entity Framework
17 139 (0.83%) Spring
18 130 (0.78%) XML
19 124 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,518 (9.06%) Self-Motivation
2 884 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 781 (4.66%) Driving Licence
4 386 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 382 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 316 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 244 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 226 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 206 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 201 (1.20%) IoT
11 195 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 183 (1.09%) NHS
13 179 (1.07%) FMCG
14 175 (1.04%) Social Media
15 171 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 159 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 143 (0.85%) Client/Server
18 135 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 126 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,175 (12.98%) Windows
2 878 (5.24%) Linux
3 839 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 552 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 227 (1.35%) Android
6 226 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 186 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 166 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 153 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 143 (0.85%) Unix
11 136 (0.81%) Mac OS
12 105 (0.63%) VMS
13 102 (0.61%) Windows 7
14 69 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 47 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
16 40 (0.24%) Windows 8
17 39 (0.23%) Ubuntu
18 37 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,420 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 3,324 (19.84%) Agile
3 2,702 (16.13%) Customer Service
4 2,454 (14.65%) Project Management
5 1,740 (10.39%) Mentoring
6 1,659 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,355 (8.09%) ITIL
8 1,331 (7.94%) Decision-Making
9 1,215 (7.25%) Computer Science
10 1,166 (6.96%) DevOps
11 1,073 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
12 1,058 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,040 (6.21%) Software Engineering
14 971 (5.80%) Roadmaps
15 961 (5.74%) Time Management
16 950 (5.67%) Project Delivery
17 933 (5.57%) Collaborative Working
18 927 (5.53%) Analytics
19 923 (5.51%) Coaching
20 903 (5.39%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,827 (10.90%) SQL
2 981 (5.86%) JavaScript
3 962 (5.74%) Python
4 942 (5.62%) C#
5 708 (4.23%) Java
6 369 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 350 (2.09%) C
8 317 (1.89%) PHP
9 292 (1.74%) C++
10 235 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 204 (1.22%) TypeScript
12 145 (0.87%) Bash
13 103 (0.61%) R
14 101 (0.60%) Embedded C
15 99 (0.59%) Go
16 79 (0.47%) Scala
17 72 (0.43%) VB
18 68 (0.41%) MATLAB
19 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
20 60 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,945 (23.55%) Degree
2 1,254 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 781 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 697 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 578 (3.45%) DBS Check
6 438 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 361 (2.15%) ACCA
8 320 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 279 (1.67%) CIMA
10 252 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 252 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 223 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 219 (1.31%) Azure Certification
13 189 (1.13%) CCNA
14 156 (0.93%) HND
14 156 (0.93%) PMP
15 154 (0.92%) HNC
16 148 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
17 118 (0.70%) AWS Certification
18 114 (0.68%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 801 (4.78%) QA
2 728 (4.35%) SLA
3 413 (2.47%) GDPR
4 314 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 302 (1.80%) PMO
6 295 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 206 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 196 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 155 (0.93%) ISO 9001
10 107 (0.64%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 98 (0.58%) IFRS
13 56 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 53 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 47 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 46 (0.27%) IFRS 9
17 42 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
18 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
19 33 (0.20%) GAAP
20 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1,406 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 467 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 425 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 373 (2.23%) Docker
5 208 (1.24%) Firmware
6 201 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 81 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 66 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (0.30%) vSphere
10 49 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 19 (0.11%) KVM
14 15 (0.090%) VMware NSX
15 12 (0.072%) XenApp
16 11 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
16 11 (0.066%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
18 8 (0.048%) NFS
19 6 (0.036%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 426 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 325 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 265 (1.58%) Terraform
4 206 (1.23%) SCCM
5 155 (0.93%) Ansible
6 88 (0.53%) Grafana
7 64 (0.38%) SCOM
8 63 (0.38%) WSUS
9 49 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 43 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 41 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 38 (0.23%) Puppet
13 36 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 31 (0.19%) EnCase
15 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
16 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
17 26 (0.16%) Autotask
17 26 (0.16%) OpenSSO
18 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
19 23 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4,454 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 699 (4.17%) VMware
3 553 (3.30%) SAP
4 472 (2.82%) Oracle
5 401 (2.39%) Cisco
6 351 (2.10%) Google
7 245 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 224 (1.34%) HP
9 195 (1.16%) Veeam
10 192 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 190 (1.13%) Adobe
12 181 (1.08%) Citrix
13 180 (1.07%) Dell
14 154 (0.92%) Apple
15 143 (0.85%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Hyperion
18 93 (0.56%) Dynatrace
19 92 (0.55%) Meraki
19 92 (0.55%) Sage