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 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 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,255 1,476 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.71% 31.93% 23.62%
As % of the General category 25.84% 42.47% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 615 642 691
10th Percentile £24,875 £32,625 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +8.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,627 £80,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +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 4,856 3,475 3,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.38% 75.18% 61.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 1,674 1,934
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,040
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 10 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 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
Glasgow -34 534 £50,000 -4.76% 115
Edinburgh 0 307 £52,500 -11.80% 134
Aberdeen 0 89 £35,000 -17.65% 74
West Lothian +8 42 £27,500 -38.89% 17
Highlands 0 29 £41,000 +51.85% 13
Dundee -2 29 £45,000 -7.80% 8
Stirling +4 24 £26,637 -18.04% 12
Lanarkshire +3 24 £44,250 -15.71% 50
North Lanarkshire 0 24 £35,000 +40.00% 3
Fife -2 24 £41,659 +5.47% 6
Aberdeenshire +7 16 £35,000 -46.15% 37
Dumfries and Galloway 0 16 £39,000 +33.33% 5
Renfrewshire +2 15 £40,000 - 4
South Lanarkshire 0 9 £32,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 9 £26,500 - 3
Midlothian +1 6 £35,000 -1.52% 41
Moray +2 5 - -
Perthshire +3 4 £30,000 - 1
Perth and Kinross +1 4 - - 1
Ross-shire - 4 - - 1
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dunbartonshire - 4 - - 1
East Lothian - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 2 £57,500 - 9
Argyll and Bute - 2 £23,802 - 4
Inverclyde -3 1 £23,000 - 2
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 31 (2.47%) Confluence
2 28 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.80%) SAS
6 8 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.32%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.080%) IIS
9 1 (0.080%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 136 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (8.69%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.55%) UserZoom
4 18 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.40%) Simulink
7 3 (0.24%) InDesign
7 3 (0.24%) InVision
7 3 (0.24%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.080%) EViews
9 1 (0.080%) Revit
9 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.96%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 191 (15.22%) AWS
2 138 (11.00%) Azure
3 84 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 81 (6.45%) SaaS
5 72 (5.74%) Datadog
6 68 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (4.54%) GCP
8 54 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (2.87%) Figma
10 32 (2.55%) SurveyMonkey
11 31 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 31 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (1.83%) Google Docs
13 23 (1.83%) Lucidchart
13 23 (1.83%) Miro
13 23 (1.83%) Slack
14 17 (1.35%) IaaS
15 13 (1.04%) PaaS
16 12 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.70%) Wireless
2 26 (2.07%) WAN
3 23 (1.83%) Firewall
4 22 (1.75%) Network Security
4 22 (1.75%) VPN
5 20 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.51%) Broadband
7 18 (1.43%) DNS
8 13 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.88%) LAN
9 11 (0.88%) VoIP
10 10 (0.80%) DHCP
11 8 (0.64%) BGP
11 8 (0.64%) SAN
11 8 (0.64%) SSL
12 7 (0.56%) HTTP
12 7 (0.56%) MQTT
12 7 (0.56%) NAS
12 7 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.22%) Power BI
2 44 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.39%) Big Data
4 26 (2.07%) Hadoop
5 24 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (1.83%) Redis
6 23 (1.83%) Scylla
7 22 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.20%) RDBMS
11 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.88%) DB2
12 11 (0.88%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.80%) Tableau
14 6 (0.48%) MS Access
15 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (4.86%) JIRA
2 58 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.35%) Git
4 20 (1.59%) Maven
5 19 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.20%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 11 (0.88%) Selenium
9 10 (0.80%) Gradle
10 9 (0.72%) JMeter
10 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.48%) MSTest
12 3 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.16%) GitLab
13 2 (0.16%) JUnit
13 2 (0.16%) Postman
13 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.080%) Bugzilla
General
1 403 (32.11%) Finance
2 375 (29.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 215 (17.13%) Law
4 204 (16.25%) Marketing
5 184 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (7.97%) Legal
7 95 (7.57%) Public Sector
8 88 (7.01%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (5.42%) Banking
10 62 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
11 45 (3.59%) Manufacturing
12 38 (3.03%) Retail
13 32 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.31%) Electronics
15 14 (1.12%) Military
16 11 (0.88%) Publishing
17 10 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.80%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (15.62%) Software Engineer
2 148 (11.79%) Analyst
3 104 (8.29%) Lead
4 98 (7.81%) Senior
5 94 (7.49%) Developer
6 72 (5.74%) Business Manager
7 71 (5.66%) Business Development Manager
7 71 (5.66%) Development Manager
8 65 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 59 (4.70%) Java Engineer
9 59 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
10 54 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
11 52 (4.14%) Architect
11 52 (4.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 47 (3.75%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.75%) User Experience Researcher
13 44 (3.51%) Junior
13 44 (3.51%) Project Manager
13 44 (3.51%) Test Technician
14 43 (3.43%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.65%) React
2 72 (5.74%) OpenTelemetry
3 54 (4.30%) HTML
4 53 (4.22%) AngularJS
5 47 (3.75%) Node.js
6 38 (3.03%) Kafka
7 37 (2.95%) Spring Boot
8 34 (2.71%) .NET
8 34 (2.71%) HTML5
8 34 (2.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 31 (2.47%) Drools
9 31 (2.47%) jBPM
9 31 (2.47%) Middleware
10 30 (2.39%) Spring
11 27 (2.15%) GraphQL
12 26 (2.07%) REST
13 21 (1.67%) CSS
14 18 (1.43%) JSON
15 17 (1.35%) RESTful
16 14 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.37%) Public Cloud
3 74 (5.90%) Algorithms
4 69 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (2.31%) Driving Licence
9 28 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 27 (2.15%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.91%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.43%) IoT
13 16 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.04%) Replication
16 11 (0.88%) Credit Risk
17 10 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
19 8 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.49%) Windows
2 78 (6.22%) Linux
3 42 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.31%) Unix
5 14 (1.12%) Mac OS X
6 11 (0.88%) Android
7 10 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.80%) VMS
8 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.080%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (30.60%) Agile
2 284 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (21.99%) Software Engineering
4 206 (16.41%) SDLC
5 165 (13.15%) Computer Science
5 165 (13.15%) Customer Service
6 156 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 153 (12.19%) CI/CD
8 152 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (11.87%) Artificial Intelligence
10 147 (11.71%) Project Management
11 143 (11.39%) Machine Learning
12 134 (10.68%) Community of Practice
13 133 (10.60%) User Experience
14 131 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
15 122 (9.72%) Analytics
15 122 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
16 121 (9.64%) DevOps
17 113 (9.00%) Visualisation
18 112 (8.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 193 (15.38%) Java
2 146 (11.63%) SQL
3 117 (9.32%) Python
4 77 (6.14%) C
5 56 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 54 (4.30%) C#
6 54 (4.30%) Embedded C
7 38 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.63%) Go
9 32 (2.55%) C++
10 26 (2.07%) Bash
11 24 (1.91%) Scala
11 24 (1.91%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.64%) PHP
12 8 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.64%) R
13 7 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 348 (27.73%) Degree
2 66 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 62 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 42 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.55%) DBS Check
6 28 (2.23%) Master's Degree
7 22 (1.75%) CISSP
7 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (1.59%) CISM
9 19 (1.51%) PhD
10 16 (1.27%) CCNA
11 15 (1.20%) GCIA
11 15 (1.20%) GCIH
12 14 (1.12%) GREM
13 13 (1.04%) CISA
14 12 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.96%) PMP
15 11 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.06%) QA
2 35 (2.79%) Actionable Recommendations
3 21 (1.67%) SLA
4 19 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.20%) ISO 9001
5 15 (1.20%) PMO
6 12 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.88%) ITGC
8 9 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.64%) GDPR
9 8 (0.64%) IFRS
9 8 (0.64%) IFRS 9
9 8 (0.64%) NIST
10 5 (0.40%) WCAG
11 4 (0.32%) DICOM
11 4 (0.32%) HL7
11 4 (0.32%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.24%) ISO 14000
12 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (4.86%) Firmware
2 31 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
3 29 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.59%) Docker
6 13 (1.04%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) pfSense
9 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.080%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 78 (6.22%) Terraform
2 74 (5.90%) Grafana
3 58 (4.62%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.99%) Ansible
5 21 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.04%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.64%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.32%) SCCM
10 3 (0.24%) Autotask
10 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
12 1 (0.080%) BMC PATROL
12 1 (0.080%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.080%) Nessus
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.080%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 213 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.82%) Splunk
3 72 (5.74%) Dynatrace
4 46 (3.67%) Dell
5 45 (3.59%) Google
6 42 (3.35%) Oracle
7 39 (3.11%) SAP
8 32 (2.55%) Qualtrics
9 29 (2.31%) VMware
10 28 (2.23%) Cisco
11 17 (1.35%) Sage
12 13 (1.04%) NetApp
13 11 (0.88%) Apple
14 9 (0.72%) TOWER Software
15 8 (0.64%) Mitel
15 8 (0.64%) Sparx
16 7 (0.56%) IBM
16 7 (0.56%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.56%) Salesforce
16 7 (0.56%) Xero