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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 24,452 29,178 38,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.69% 28.82% 24.24%
As % of the General category 41.27% 42.26% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,494 14,751 18,606
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,138 £29,750
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 £78,179 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,328 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +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 59,246 69,052 102,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.83% 68.22% 64.23%
Number of salaries quoted 39,585 37,352 51,252
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £82,000 £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 13 May 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 13 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 +1 21,590 £48,809 -15.12% 10,923
UK excluding London 0 16,738 £44,500 -11.00% 7,836
Work from Home +2 9,115 £53,000 -11.67% 4,197
London +1 6,499 £65,000 -7.14% 3,480
South East 0 4,388 £44,579 -10.84% 1,867
North of England +1 4,090 £45,000 -10.00% 2,018
Midlands +1 2,828 £42,500 -15.00% 1,500
North West +1 2,148 £45,000 -10.25% 1,103
South West +1 1,999 £45,000 - 1,059
West Midlands +1 1,821 £45,000 -13.46% 909
East of England 0 1,538 £44,500 -7.81% 939
Yorkshire +1 1,470 £45,000 -6.25% 675
Scotland -16 1,247 £45,000 -18.18% 484
East Midlands 0 993 £39,969 -16.30% 590
Wales 0 498 £41,200 -4.94% 217
North East 0 475 £40,000 -5.88% 283
Northern Ireland +6 152 £50,000 -13.04% 80
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 4

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
1 943 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 833 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 450 (1.84%) SAS
4 308 (1.26%) Confluence
5 202 (0.83%) CMS
6 154 (0.63%) WordPress
7 127 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 112 (0.46%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 53 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 38 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 28 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 22 (0.090%) Skype for Business
19 19 (0.078%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,574 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,158 (8.83%) Microsoft Office
3 803 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 214 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 153 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 131 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 105 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 58 (0.24%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 44 (0.18%) Simulink
14 40 (0.16%) Sketch
15 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
16 37 (0.15%) Adobe XD
17 32 (0.13%) SPSS
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
18 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 335 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 204 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 162 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 78 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 47 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 45 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 41 (0.17%) Primavera
9 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 39 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 39 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
12 38 (0.16%) NEC Housing
13 34 (0.14%) Magento
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 27 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
16 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
17 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
18 22 (0.090%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3,800 (15.54%) Azure
2 2,474 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
3 2,113 (8.64%) AWS
4 1,577 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1,009 (4.13%) SaaS
6 571 (2.34%) GCP
7 543 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 466 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 422 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 310 (1.27%) Serverless
11 291 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 289 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 269 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 250 (1.02%) GitHub
15 191 (0.78%) PaaS
16 178 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.72%) IaaS
18 162 (0.66%) Amazon S3
19 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
20 144 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,065 (4.36%) Firewall
2 974 (3.98%) Broadband
3 665 (2.72%) WAN
4 608 (2.49%) DNS
5 535 (2.19%) LAN
6 499 (2.04%) Wireless
7 432 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 423 (1.73%) VPN
9 384 (1.57%) DHCP
10 334 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 329 (1.35%) Network Security
12 280 (1.15%) Internet
13 268 (1.10%) VoIP
14 257 (1.05%) SAN
15 222 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 199 (0.81%) VLAN
17 165 (0.67%) Intranet
18 124 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 119 (0.49%) BGP
20 107 (0.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,271 (5.20%) Power BI
2 1,261 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 506 (2.07%) Tableau
4 440 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 381 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 355 (1.45%) MySQL
7 331 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 269 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 204 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 203 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 189 (0.77%) Big Data
12 181 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 177 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 160 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 151 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 137 (0.56%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 99 (0.40%) RDBMS
19 93 (0.38%) Metadata
19 93 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 987 (4.04%) Git
2 823 (3.37%) JIRA
3 331 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 172 (0.70%) GitLab
5 159 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 82 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 53 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 48 (0.20%) JUnit
11 46 (0.19%) Postman
12 43 (0.18%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 36 (0.15%) Maven
14 36 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
15 34 (0.14%) Burp Suite
16 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
17 32 (0.13%) LabVIEW
17 32 (0.13%) NUnit
General
1 5,992 (24.51%) Finance
2 5,175 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
3 1,934 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,866 (7.63%) Retail
5 1,785 (7.30%) Marketing
6 1,774 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1,514 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
8 1,301 (5.32%) Law
9 1,286 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 1,239 (5.07%) Legal
11 1,135 (4.64%) Public Sector
12 1,036 (4.24%) Manufacturing
13 778 (3.18%) Banking
14 631 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 349 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 341 (1.39%) Billing
17 334 (1.37%) Electronics
18 330 (1.35%) Games
19 303 (1.24%) Local Government
20 280 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,431 (14.03%) Analyst
2 3,236 (13.23%) Senior
3 2,351 (9.61%) Developer
4 1,702 (6.96%) Lead
5 1,561 (6.38%) Architect
6 1,404 (5.74%) Project Manager
7 1,118 (4.57%) Consultant
8 1,069 (4.37%) IT Support
9 857 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 817 (3.34%) Support Engineer
11 721 (2.95%) Software Engineer
12 707 (2.89%) IT Manager
13 694 (2.84%) IT Engineer
14 652 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
15 632 (2.58%) Administrator
16 583 (2.38%) Senior Manager
17 575 (2.35%) Graduate
18 565 (2.31%) Senior Developer
19 514 (2.10%) Support Analyst
20 437 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,125 (4.60%) .NET
2 929 (3.80%) HTML
3 788 (3.22%) CSS
4 656 (2.68%) React
5 395 (1.62%) AngularJS
6 351 (1.44%) REST
7 350 (1.43%) Node.js
8 323 (1.32%) Web Services
9 319 (1.30%) RESTful
10 301 (1.23%) .NET Framework
11 274 (1.12%) ASP.NET
12 262 (1.07%) .NET Core
13 236 (0.97%) JSON
14 234 (0.96%) Vue
15 224 (0.92%) HTML5
16 205 (0.84%) Kafka
17 196 (0.80%) Spring
18 194 (0.79%) XML
19 169 (0.69%) Entity Framework
20 164 (0.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2,049 (8.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1,265 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 967 (3.95%) Driving Licence
4 651 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 597 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 474 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 402 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 349 (1.43%) Social Media
9 297 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 293 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 288 (1.18%) Client/Server
12 277 (1.13%) IoT
13 263 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 261 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
15 248 (1.01%) FMCG
16 243 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 237 (0.97%) Data Structures
18 220 (0.90%) NHS
19 217 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
20 215 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,891 (11.82%) Windows
2 1,231 (5.03%) Linux
3 1,030 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 768 (3.14%) Windows 10
5 402 (1.64%) Android
6 312 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 225 (0.92%) Unix
8 205 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 195 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 190 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 189 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 142 (0.58%) VMS
13 116 (0.47%) Windows 7
14 98 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 84 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 49 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 48 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 44 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,677 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 5,246 (21.45%) Agile
3 3,403 (13.92%) Project Management
4 3,187 (13.03%) Customer Service
5 2,585 (10.57%) Mentoring
6 2,214 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,173 (8.89%) Decision-Making
8 2,042 (8.35%) Computer Science
9 1,756 (7.18%) Roadmaps
10 1,751 (7.16%) ITIL
11 1,699 (6.95%) DevOps
12 1,627 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,593 (6.51%) Analytics
14 1,581 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
15 1,521 (6.22%) Actionable Insight
16 1,501 (6.14%) Software Engineering
17 1,362 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 1,337 (5.47%) Project Delivery
19 1,281 (5.24%) Time Management
20 1,279 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 2,996 (12.25%) SQL
2 1,908 (7.80%) Python
3 1,406 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 1,380 (5.64%) C#
5 1,064 (4.35%) Java
6 604 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 416 (1.70%) C
8 372 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 369 (1.51%) PHP
10 357 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 350 (1.43%) C++
12 268 (1.10%) Bash
13 226 (0.92%) R
14 175 (0.72%) Go
15 104 (0.43%) Scala
16 103 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 84 (0.34%) MATLAB
18 83 (0.34%) Perl
19 82 (0.34%) VB
20 70 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,068 (24.82%) Degree
2 1,669 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 1,219 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,031 (4.22%) DBS Check
5 1,028 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 736 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 650 (2.66%) ACCA
8 579 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 536 (2.19%) CIMA
10 357 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 352 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 327 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 305 (1.25%) DV Cleared
14 269 (1.10%) CISSP
15 235 (0.96%) PMP
16 230 (0.94%) CCNA
17 211 (0.86%) AWS Certification
18 207 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 185 (0.76%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,109 (4.54%) QA
2 946 (3.87%) SLA
3 558 (2.28%) GDPR
4 487 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 480 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 379 (1.55%) PMO
7 313 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 257 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
9 202 (0.83%) NIST
10 174 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 169 (0.69%) IFRS
12 116 (0.47%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 72 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 66 (0.27%) GRC
16 62 (0.25%) GAAP
17 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
18 57 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 43 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
20 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,926 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 601 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 598 (2.45%) Docker
4 469 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 233 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 219 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 215 (0.88%) Firmware
8 105 (0.43%) XenApp
9 102 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 96 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 89 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 75 (0.31%) vSphere
13 54 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 17 (0.070%) VMware NSX
17 12 (0.049%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 560 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 531 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 520 (2.13%) Terraform
4 348 (1.42%) SCCM
5 256 (1.05%) Ansible
6 121 (0.49%) Grafana
7 96 (0.39%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 78 (0.32%) WSUS
10 72 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 59 (0.24%) Puppet
13 55 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 41 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 40 (0.16%) Nagios
17 39 (0.16%) EnCase
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 33 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,252 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 1,065 (4.36%) SAP
3 955 (3.91%) Oracle
4 908 (3.71%) VMware
5 626 (2.56%) Cisco
6 600 (2.45%) Google
7 421 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 382 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 326 (1.33%) Dell
10 325 (1.33%) Databricks
11 324 (1.33%) Hyperion
12 313 (1.28%) Citrix
13 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 300 (1.23%) Adobe
15 266 (1.09%) HP
16 215 (0.88%) Veeam
17 214 (0.88%) Apple
18 209 (0.85%) IBM
19 180 (0.74%) Splunk
20 124 (0.51%) Sage