Social Skills Jobs in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 21,651 25,709 31,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.21% 28.58% 23.87%
As % of the General category 42.56% 41.94% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,873 13,084 16,144
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,132 £40,881 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,872 61,304 85,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.24% 68.15% 64.17%
Number of salaries quoted 35,678 33,330 44,894
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,275 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +1 6,508 £65,000 -7.14% 3,350
South East 0 4,401 £44,500 -11.00% 1,854
North of England +1 4,099 £45,000 -10.00% 2,026
Midlands +1 2,834 £42,500 -15.00% 1,508
North West +1 2,157 £45,000 -10.00% 1,092
South West +1 2,018 £45,000 - 1,064
West Midlands +1 1,823 £45,000 -13.46% 907
East of England 0 1,540 £44,500 -7.81% 951
Yorkshire +1 1,469 £45,000 -10.00% 694
East Midlands 0 997 £39,969 -15.86% 600
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 284
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 885 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 794 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 434 (2.00%) SAS
4 263 (1.21%) Confluence
5 188 (0.87%) CMS
6 140 (0.65%) WordPress
7 103 (0.48%) Apache
8 88 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 59 (0.27%) IIS
10 56 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 54 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 35 (0.16%) nginx
13 28 (0.13%) Drupal
13 28 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 24 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 23 (0.11%) WebSphere
16 22 (0.10%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.097%) OpenEdge
18 18 (0.083%) ArcGIS
19 17 (0.079%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2,326 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,977 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
3 742 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 194 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 138 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 123 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 96 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 96 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 90 (0.42%) AutoCAD
9 63 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
10 55 (0.25%) InDesign
11 50 (0.23%) Trello
12 39 (0.18%) Simulink
13 31 (0.14%) Sketch
14 30 (0.14%) Adobe XD
15 28 (0.13%) SPSS
16 26 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
16 26 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
17 17 (0.079%) SOLIDWORKS
18 16 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 336 (1.55%) SAP ERP
2 195 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 113 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 70 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.31%) Shopify
6 40 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 39 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 36 (0.17%) Primavera
9 34 (0.16%) Magento
10 32 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 31 (0.14%) NEC Housing
12 29 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
13 28 (0.13%) SAP HR
14 26 (0.12%) SAP FI
15 23 (0.11%) SAP Business One
15 23 (0.11%) Teamcenter
16 22 (0.10%) Elite 3E
17 20 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
17 20 (0.092%) SAP CO
17 20 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3,373 (15.58%) Azure
2 2,307 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
3 1,714 (7.92%) AWS
4 1,439 (6.65%) Power Platform
5 842 (3.89%) SaaS
6 492 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 455 (2.10%) GCP
8 415 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 371 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 271 (1.25%) Serverless
11 259 (1.20%) PowerApps
12 247 (1.14%) Power Automate
13 242 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
14 228 (1.05%) GitHub
15 160 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
16 153 (0.71%) PaaS
17 142 (0.66%) IaaS
18 138 (0.64%) Snowflake
19 133 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
19 133 (0.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1,005 (4.64%) Firewall
2 949 (4.38%) Broadband
3 619 (2.86%) WAN
4 562 (2.60%) DNS
5 490 (2.26%) LAN
6 425 (1.96%) Wireless
7 393 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 376 (1.74%) VPN
9 365 (1.69%) DHCP
10 325 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
11 296 (1.37%) Network Security
12 268 (1.24%) Internet
13 249 (1.15%) VoIP
14 228 (1.05%) SAN
15 202 (0.93%) SD-WAN
16 185 (0.85%) VLAN
17 160 (0.74%) Intranet
18 109 (0.50%) WebEx
19 107 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
20 105 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,159 (5.35%) Power BI
2 1,151 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 467 (2.16%) Tableau
4 402 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 333 (1.54%) MySQL
6 296 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 293 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 243 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 179 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 169 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
11 167 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 149 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 147 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 146 (0.67%) Big Data
15 143 (0.66%) MongoDB
16 107 (0.49%) Oracle Database
17 88 (0.41%) DynamoDB
17 88 (0.41%) Metadata
18 87 (0.40%) Data Mining
19 79 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 899 (4.15%) Git
2 733 (3.39%) JIRA
3 255 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 166 (0.77%) GitLab
5 138 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 82 (0.38%) Selenium
7 64 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 52 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 44 (0.20%) JUnit
10 43 (0.20%) Subversion
11 41 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 41 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
13 34 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 34 (0.16%) Postman
14 33 (0.15%) Metasploit
15 32 (0.15%) NUnit
16 31 (0.14%) Cypress.io
16 31 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
17 29 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,251 (24.25%) Finance
2 4,756 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
3 1,734 (8.01%) Retail
4 1,629 (7.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1,467 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,420 (6.56%) Marketing
7 1,230 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1,101 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1,062 (4.91%) Legal
10 959 (4.43%) Public Sector
11 942 (4.35%) Law
12 826 (3.82%) Manufacturing
13 667 (3.08%) Banking
14 555 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 335 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 328 (1.51%) Billing
17 286 (1.32%) Games
18 278 (1.28%) Electronics
18 278 (1.28%) German Language
19 272 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,154 (14.57%) Analyst
2 2,856 (13.19%) Senior
3 2,081 (9.61%) Developer
4 1,522 (7.03%) Lead
5 1,347 (6.22%) Architect
6 1,271 (5.87%) Project Manager
7 995 (4.60%) IT Support
8 981 (4.53%) Consultant
9 775 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
10 740 (3.42%) Support Engineer
11 636 (2.94%) IT Manager
12 617 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
13 582 (2.69%) Administrator
14 536 (2.48%) IT Engineer
15 505 (2.33%) Senior Manager
16 486 (2.24%) Software Engineer
17 475 (2.19%) Support Analyst
18 463 (2.14%) Senior Developer
19 418 (1.93%) Graduate
20 409 (1.89%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 993 (4.59%) .NET
2 827 (3.82%) HTML
3 713 (3.29%) CSS
4 523 (2.42%) React
5 299 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 294 (1.36%) REST
7 264 (1.22%) RESTful
8 260 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 259 (1.20%) Web Services
10 248 (1.15%) Node.js
11 238 (1.10%) ASP.NET
12 224 (1.03%) .NET Core
13 211 (0.97%) Vue
14 208 (0.96%) JSON
15 178 (0.82%) XML
16 175 (0.81%) HTML5
17 150 (0.69%) Laravel
18 147 (0.68%) Kafka
18 147 (0.68%) Spring
19 144 (0.67%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1,900 (8.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1,111 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 912 (4.21%) Driving Licence
4 523 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 499 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 382 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 320 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 285 (1.32%) Social Media
9 282 (1.30%) Client/Server
10 259 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
11 247 (1.14%) IoT
12 246 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 215 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 211 (0.97%) NHS
15 200 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 199 (0.92%) Cloud Native
17 198 (0.91%) Public Cloud
18 195 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
19 178 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
20 166 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2,695 (12.45%) Windows
2 1,088 (5.03%) Linux
3 950 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 745 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 378 (1.75%) Android
6 282 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 197 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 194 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 186 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 186 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 178 (0.82%) Unix
11 131 (0.61%) VMS
12 115 (0.53%) Windows 7
13 96 (0.44%) Ubuntu
14 66 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 45 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 44 (0.20%) Windows 8
17 42 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
18 33 (0.15%) Kali Linux
19 30 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,878 (31.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4,578 (21.14%) Agile
3 3,054 (14.11%) Project Management
4 2,864 (13.23%) Customer Service
5 2,314 (10.69%) Mentoring
6 1,972 (9.11%) Decision-Making
7 1,830 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,750 (8.08%) Computer Science
9 1,600 (7.39%) ITIL
10 1,570 (7.25%) Roadmaps
11 1,446 (6.68%) DevOps
12 1,393 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
13 1,379 (6.37%) Analytics
14 1,346 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 1,276 (5.89%) Actionable Insight
16 1,232 (5.69%) Project Delivery
17 1,145 (5.29%) Time Management
18 1,131 (5.22%) Cybersecurity
19 1,121 (5.18%) Coaching
20 1,117 (5.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2,683 (12.39%) SQL
2 1,682 (7.77%) Python
3 1,261 (5.82%) JavaScript
4 1,221 (5.64%) C#
5 791 (3.65%) Java
6 582 (2.69%) PowerShell
7 341 (1.57%) PHP
8 322 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 319 (1.47%) C
10 315 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 309 (1.43%) C++
12 232 (1.07%) Bash
13 198 (0.91%) R
14 111 (0.51%) Go
15 79 (0.36%) VB
16 78 (0.36%) MATLAB
17 74 (0.34%) Perl
17 74 (0.34%) Scala
18 66 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
19 65 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5,283 (24.40%) Degree
2 1,452 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 1,107 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 965 (4.46%) DBS Check
5 816 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 639 (2.95%) Master's Degree
7 621 (2.87%) ACCA
8 541 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 517 (2.39%) CIMA
10 323 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 320 (1.48%) DV Cleared
12 313 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 277 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 219 (1.01%) CISSP
15 208 (0.96%) PMP
16 201 (0.93%) CCNA
17 170 (0.79%) AWS Certification
18 163 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
19 159 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
19 159 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 946 (4.37%) QA
2 887 (4.10%) SLA
3 528 (2.44%) GDPR
4 450 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 444 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 352 (1.63%) PMO
7 264 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 241 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 183 (0.85%) NIST
10 162 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 148 (0.68%) IFRS
12 115 (0.53%) GMP
13 83 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 62 (0.29%) GAAP
14 62 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 60 (0.28%) GRC
16 49 (0.23%) IFRS 9
17 41 (0.19%) NEBOSH
18 37 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
19 35 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,823 (8.42%) Active Directory
2 550 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 531 (2.45%) Docker
4 445 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 234 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 180 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 129 (0.60%) Firmware
8 106 (0.49%) XenApp
9 104 (0.48%) XenDesktop
10 98 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 83 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
12 73 (0.34%) vSphere
13 30 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 25 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
15 24 (0.11%) KVM
16 20 (0.092%) Terminal Services
17 12 (0.055%) vCloud
18 11 (0.051%) NFS
18 11 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
19 7 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 501 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 462 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 421 (1.94%) Terraform
4 330 (1.52%) SCCM
5 193 (0.89%) Ansible
6 98 (0.45%) AirWatch
7 83 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 78 (0.36%) WSUS
9 72 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 65 (0.30%) SCOM
11 59 (0.27%) Puppet
12 46 (0.21%) Grafana
13 45 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 44 (0.20%) EnCase
15 41 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 41 (0.19%) FortiGate
15 41 (0.19%) Nagios
16 35 (0.16%) Functional Safety
17 33 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
18 32 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5,755 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 921 (4.25%) SAP
3 846 (3.91%) VMware
4 838 (3.87%) Oracle
5 567 (2.62%) Cisco
6 508 (2.35%) Google
7 383 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 360 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 315 (1.45%) Databricks
9 315 (1.45%) Hyperion
10 309 (1.43%) Citrix
11 304 (1.40%) Anaplan
12 280 (1.29%) Adobe
13 262 (1.21%) HP
14 256 (1.18%) Dell
15 204 (0.94%) Veeam
16 193 (0.89%) Apple
17 182 (0.84%) IBM
18 114 (0.53%) Meraki
19 106 (0.49%) Splunk