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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 16,774 18,374 16,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 30.55% 23.91%
As % of the General category 41.25% 44.49% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,493 7,573 9,083
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +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 40,663 41,296 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.34% 68.66% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 18,767 24,017
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £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 9 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 9 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 4,394 £44,468 -11.07% 1,782
North of England +1 4,093 £45,000 -10.00% 1,957
Midlands +1 2,830 £42,500 -15.00% 1,460
North West +1 2,153 £45,000 -10.00% 1,060
South West +1 2,016 £45,000 - 1,031
West Midlands +1 1,816 £45,000 -13.46% 882
East of England 0 1,537 £44,500 -7.81% 926
Yorkshire +1 1,467 £45,000 -8.25% 667
Scotland -16 1,253 £45,000 -18.18% 465
East Midlands 0 1,000 £39,734 -16.35% 577
Wales 0 499 £41,067 -4.53% 201
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 271
Northern Ireland +6 154 £50,000 -13.04% 83
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 4
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
1 702 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 566 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 199 (1.19%) Confluence
4 166 (0.99%) SAS
5 135 (0.80%) CMS
6 108 (0.64%) WordPress
7 68 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 62 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 46 (0.27%) Apache
10 43 (0.26%) IIS
11 21 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.13%) nginx
11 21 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 20 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
13 19 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 17 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 16 (0.095%) Drupal
17 15 (0.089%) Documentum
Applications
1 1,710 (10.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1,684 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 521 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 188 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 117 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 104 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 86 (0.51%) AutoCAD
8 84 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 62 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 57 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 48 (0.29%) InDesign
12 44 (0.26%) Simulink
13 38 (0.23%) UserZoom
14 37 (0.22%) Sketch
15 35 (0.21%) Adobe XD
15 35 (0.21%) Trello
16 17 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
17 15 (0.089%) Chatbot
18 14 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
19 10 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 125 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 99 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 70 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 59 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 58 (0.35%) Shopify
6 41 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 39 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 33 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 30 (0.18%) Magento
9 30 (0.18%) Primavera
10 24 (0.14%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.11%) SAP Business One
12 18 (0.11%) SAP MM
13 16 (0.095%) Sage 200
13 16 (0.095%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.078%) Maximo
14 13 (0.078%) SAP HR
14 13 (0.078%) SAP SD
14 13 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,537 (15.12%) Azure
2 1,889 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1,219 (7.27%) AWS
4 1,080 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 575 (3.43%) SaaS
6 398 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 291 (1.73%) GCP
8 281 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
9 247 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 181 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 162 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 150 (0.89%) Power Automate
13 149 (0.89%) GitHub
14 143 (0.85%) Serverless
15 122 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 97 (0.58%) Amazon S3
17 95 (0.57%) Figma
18 93 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
19 90 (0.54%) Datadog
20 83 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 787 (4.69%) Firewall
2 497 (2.96%) Broadband
3 471 (2.81%) DNS
4 450 (2.68%) WAN
5 407 (2.43%) LAN
6 361 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 335 (2.00%) DHCP
8 316 (1.88%) Wireless
9 267 (1.59%) VPN
10 239 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 233 (1.39%) VoIP
12 219 (1.31%) Network Security
13 216 (1.29%) SAN
14 181 (1.08%) Internet
15 146 (0.87%) VLAN
16 133 (0.79%) Intranet
17 99 (0.59%) BGP
18 98 (0.58%) HTTP
19 97 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
20 96 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 906 (5.40%) SQL Server
2 897 (5.35%) Power BI
3 315 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 262 (1.56%) MySQL
5 227 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 209 (1.25%) Tableau
7 193 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 191 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 140 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 121 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 109 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 101 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 100 (0.60%) NoSQL
14 93 (0.55%) Big Data
15 80 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 71 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
17 66 (0.39%) MongoDB
18 65 (0.39%) RDBMS
19 58 (0.35%) Redis
20 48 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 605 (3.61%) Git
2 566 (3.37%) JIRA
3 195 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 118 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 77 (0.46%) Selenium
6 59 (0.35%) GitLab
7 48 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 37 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 37 (0.22%) Subversion
10 36 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.20%) JUnit
12 32 (0.19%) LabVIEW
12 32 (0.19%) Maven
13 31 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
14 30 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
15 27 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
16 26 (0.16%) JMeter
17 24 (0.14%) Ant
18 23 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 3,662 (21.83%) Finance
2 3,346 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
3 1,427 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
4 1,323 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,267 (7.55%) Retail
6 1,121 (6.68%) Marketing
7 914 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 902 (5.38%) Law
9 880 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 818 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
11 816 (4.86%) Legal
12 757 (4.51%) Public Sector
13 512 (3.05%) Telecoms
14 475 (2.83%) Banking
15 281 (1.68%) Electronics
16 267 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 253 (1.51%) Billing
18 231 (1.38%) Games
19 229 (1.37%) Automotive
20 198 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,291 (13.66%) Analyst
2 1,824 (10.87%) Senior
3 1,633 (9.74%) Developer
4 1,168 (6.96%) Lead
5 1,086 (6.47%) Project Manager
6 853 (5.09%) IT Support
7 796 (4.75%) Architect
8 721 (4.30%) Consultant
9 687 (4.10%) Support Engineer
10 571 (3.40%) IT Engineer
11 564 (3.36%) Software Engineer
12 557 (3.32%) IT Manager
13 503 (3.00%) Administrator
14 420 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
15 368 (2.19%) Senior Developer
15 368 (2.19%) Support Analyst
16 366 (2.18%) Graduate
17 353 (2.10%) IT Support Engineer
18 349 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 333 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 765 (4.56%) .NET
2 676 (4.03%) HTML
3 529 (3.15%) CSS
4 452 (2.69%) React
5 290 (1.73%) AngularJS
6 236 (1.41%) .NET Framework
7 233 (1.39%) Node.js
8 205 (1.22%) REST
9 201 (1.20%) RESTful
10 193 (1.15%) Vue
11 190 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 178 (1.06%) .NET Core
12 178 (1.06%) Web Services
13 166 (0.99%) HTML5
14 142 (0.85%) Spring
15 139 (0.83%) JSON
16 138 (0.82%) Laravel
17 136 (0.81%) Entity Framework
18 125 (0.75%) XML
19 122 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1,512 (9.01%) Self-Motivation
2 901 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 804 (4.79%) Driving Licence
4 390 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 380 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 320 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 241 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 223 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 217 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 197 (1.17%) IoT
11 193 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 180 (1.07%) NHS
13 178 (1.06%) FMCG
14 175 (1.04%) Social Media
15 171 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 159 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 145 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 135 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
19 132 (0.79%) Digital Signage
20 128 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,186 (13.03%) Windows
2 869 (5.18%) Linux
3 849 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 554 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 228 (1.36%) Android
6 226 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 184 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 168 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 153 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 145 (0.86%) Unix
11 139 (0.83%) Mac OS
12 108 (0.64%) Windows 7
13 103 (0.61%) VMS
14 70 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 45 (0.27%) Windows 8
16 44 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
17 40 (0.24%) Ubuntu
18 37 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 23 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,455 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
2 3,317 (19.77%) Agile
3 2,690 (16.04%) Customer Service
4 2,468 (14.71%) Project Management
5 1,701 (10.14%) Mentoring
6 1,634 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,348 (8.04%) ITIL
8 1,322 (7.88%) Decision-Making
9 1,169 (6.97%) Computer Science
10 1,096 (6.53%) DevOps
11 1,078 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
12 1,039 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,025 (6.11%) Software Engineering
14 997 (5.94%) Roadmaps
15 963 (5.74%) Time Management
16 946 (5.64%) Project Delivery
17 943 (5.62%) Actionable Insight
18 942 (5.62%) Collaborative Working
19 940 (5.60%) Analytics
20 924 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,816 (10.83%) SQL
2 965 (5.75%) JavaScript
3 951 (5.67%) Python
4 925 (5.51%) C#
5 702 (4.19%) Java
6 367 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 351 (2.09%) C
8 316 (1.88%) PHP
9 289 (1.72%) C++
10 244 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 202 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 144 (0.86%) Bash
13 112 (0.67%) R
14 103 (0.61%) Go
15 101 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 70 (0.42%) MATLAB
16 70 (0.42%) VB
17 68 (0.41%) Scala
18 66 (0.39%) SystemVerilog
19 58 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3,915 (23.34%) Degree
2 1,297 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 773 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 663 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 571 (3.40%) DBS Check
6 444 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 352 (2.10%) ACCA
8 313 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.65%) CIMA
10 257 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 257 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 247 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 213 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 192 (1.14%) CCNA
14 158 (0.94%) HND
15 155 (0.92%) PMP
16 154 (0.92%) HNC
17 142 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
18 137 (0.82%) AWS Certification
19 117 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 793 (4.73%) QA
2 732 (4.36%) SLA
3 418 (2.49%) GDPR
4 333 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 303 (1.81%) PMO
6 289 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 219 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 214 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 169 (1.01%) ISO 9001
10 108 (0.64%) NIST
11 106 (0.63%) GMP
12 104 (0.62%) IFRS
13 61 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 60 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 55 (0.33%) IFRS 9
16 50 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 37 (0.22%) NEBOSH
18 34 (0.20%) GAAP
19 32 (0.19%) ISO 14001
20 31 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 1,410 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 471 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 425 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 354 (2.11%) Docker
5 204 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 203 (1.21%) Firmware
7 77 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 65 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 48 (0.29%) vSphere
11 23 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.12%) KVM
12 20 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 14 (0.083%) VMware NSX
14 13 (0.078%) XenApp
15 11 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.066%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.048%) NFS
17 6 (0.036%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 423 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 306 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 280 (1.67%) Terraform
4 211 (1.26%) SCCM
5 140 (0.83%) Ansible
6 89 (0.53%) Grafana
7 65 (0.39%) SCOM
8 58 (0.35%) WSUS
9 51 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 45 (0.27%) EnCase
11 43 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 37 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 33 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 33 (0.20%) Puppet
14 30 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 28 (0.17%) ZABBIX
16 27 (0.16%) Autotask
16 27 (0.16%) OpenSSO
17 25 (0.15%) NetBackup
18 23 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4,437 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 707 (4.21%) VMware
3 564 (3.36%) SAP
4 485 (2.89%) Oracle
5 406 (2.42%) Cisco
6 349 (2.08%) Google
7 247 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 232 (1.38%) HP
9 197 (1.17%) Adobe
10 194 (1.16%) Veeam
11 192 (1.14%) Dell
12 186 (1.11%) Citrix
13 179 (1.07%) ServiceNow
14 156 (0.93%) Apple
15 148 (0.88%) IBM
16 124 (0.74%) Splunk
17 96 (0.57%) Sage
18 95 (0.57%) Hyperion
19 94 (0.56%) Meraki
20 93 (0.55%) Dynatrace