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

6 months to
11 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 24,522 29,049 38,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.71% 28.79% 24.17%
As % of the General category 41.33% 42.21% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16,556 14,677 18,502
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,096 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,125 £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 £78,108 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,328 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,435 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.13% +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 59,332 68,820 101,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.21% 64.19%
Number of salaries quoted 39,684 37,197 50,962
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 £102,000 £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 11 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 11 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 21,649 £49,000 -14.78% 10,797
UK excluding London 0 16,792 £44,435 -11.13% 7,813
Work from Home +2 9,140 £53,000 -11.67% 3,947
London +1 6,510 £65,000 -7.14% 3,402
South East 0 4,396 £44,500 -11.00% 1,863
North of England +1 4,100 £45,000 -10.00% 2,009
Midlands +1 2,833 £42,500 -15.00% 1,497
North West +1 2,158 £45,000 -10.00% 1,082
South West +1 2,016 £45,000 - 1,064
West Midlands +1 1,822 £45,000 -13.46% 901
East of England 0 1,543 £44,500 -7.81% 943
Yorkshire +1 1,469 £45,000 -6.25% 690
Scotland -16 1,254 £45,000 -18.18% 469
East Midlands 0 997 £39,969 -15.86% 595
Wales 0 499 £41,134 -4.40% 215
North East 0 476 £40,000 -5.88% 281
Northern Ireland +6 153 £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
1 947 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 839 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 450 (1.84%) SAS
4 309 (1.26%) Confluence
5 202 (0.82%) CMS
6 155 (0.63%) WordPress
7 127 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 112 (0.46%) Apache
9 79 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 72 (0.29%) IIS
11 54 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 38 (0.15%) 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 (0.077%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,581 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,168 (8.84%) Microsoft Office
3 807 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 214 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 132 (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 41 (0.17%) Sketch
15 38 (0.15%) Adobe XD
15 38 (0.15%) UserZoom
16 32 (0.13%) SPSS
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
17 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
18 19 (0.077%) Revit
Business Applications
1 336 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 205 (0.84%) 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 (0.15%) NEC Housing
13 34 (0.14%) Magento
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 29 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
16 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
17 23 (0.094%) Oracle General Ledger
17 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,804 (15.51%) Azure
2 2,482 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
3 2,120 (8.65%) AWS
4 1,583 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 1,017 (4.15%) SaaS
6 572 (2.33%) GCP
7 545 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 465 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 422 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 309 (1.26%) Serverless
11 291 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 288 (1.17%) PowerApps
13 268 (1.09%) Power Automate
14 250 (1.02%) GitHub
15 193 (0.79%) PaaS
16 180 (0.73%) IaaS
17 178 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
18 160 (0.65%) OneDrive
19 159 (0.65%) Amazon S3
20 145 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,067 (4.35%) Firewall
2 974 (3.97%) Broadband
3 667 (2.72%) WAN
4 622 (2.54%) DNS
5 536 (2.19%) LAN
6 504 (2.06%) Wireless
7 446 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 425 (1.73%) VPN
9 397 (1.62%) DHCP
10 336 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 330 (1.35%) Network Security
12 282 (1.15%) Internet
13 269 (1.10%) VoIP
14 257 (1.05%) SAN
15 223 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 200 (0.82%) VLAN
17 165 (0.67%) Intranet
18 126 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 120 (0.49%) BGP
20 118 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,278 (5.21%) Power BI
2 1,269 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 504 (2.06%) Tableau
4 441 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 384 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 356 (1.45%) MySQL
7 332 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 270 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 202 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 202 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 188 (0.77%) Big Data
11 182 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 179 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 161 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 151 (0.62%) MongoDB
15 137 (0.56%) Oracle Database
16 111 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
17 100 (0.41%) RDBMS
18 94 (0.38%) Metadata
19 92 (0.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 983 (4.01%) Git
2 825 (3.36%) JIRA
3 332 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 171 (0.70%) GitLab
5 159 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 83 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 53 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 53 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.21%) Cucumber
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 6,012 (24.52%) Finance
2 5,185 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1,958 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,866 (7.61%) Retail
5 1,779 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1,774 (7.23%) Marketing
7 1,507 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1,313 (5.35%) Law
9 1,284 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
10 1,240 (5.06%) Legal
11 1,141 (4.65%) Public Sector
12 1,041 (4.25%) Manufacturing
13 778 (3.17%) Banking
14 634 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 344 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 340 (1.39%) Billing
17 332 (1.35%) Electronics
18 331 (1.35%) Games
19 303 (1.24%) Local Government
20 281 (1.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,441 (14.03%) Analyst
2 3,233 (13.18%) Senior
3 2,357 (9.61%) Developer
4 1,708 (6.97%) Lead
5 1,588 (6.48%) Architect
6 1,405 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 1,113 (4.54%) Consultant
8 1,074 (4.38%) IT Support
9 876 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 820 (3.34%) Support Engineer
11 721 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 710 (2.90%) IT Manager
13 695 (2.83%) IT Engineer
14 647 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
15 632 (2.58%) Administrator
16 579 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 577 (2.35%) Graduate
18 564 (2.30%) Senior Developer
19 516 (2.10%) Support Analyst
20 439 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,125 (4.59%) .NET
2 948 (3.87%) HTML
3 793 (3.23%) CSS
4 658 (2.68%) React
5 395 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 353 (1.44%) REST
7 350 (1.43%) Node.js
8 323 (1.32%) Web Services
9 319 (1.30%) RESTful
10 303 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 276 (1.13%) ASP.NET
12 262 (1.07%) .NET Core
13 237 (0.97%) JSON
14 234 (0.95%) Vue
15 226 (0.92%) HTML5
16 205 (0.84%) Kafka
17 197 (0.80%) Spring
18 195 (0.80%) XML
19 169 (0.69%) Entity Framework
20 163 (0.66%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2,050 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
2 1,267 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 975 (3.98%) Driving Licence
4 647 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 599 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 475 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 400 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 350 (1.43%) Social Media
9 305 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 297 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 288 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 276 (1.13%) IoT
13 265 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
14 263 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 248 (1.01%) FMCG
16 242 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 234 (0.95%) Data Structures
18 220 (0.90%) NHS
19 216 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
20 215 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,904 (11.84%) Windows
2 1,234 (5.03%) Linux
3 1,033 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 772 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 405 (1.65%) Android
6 313 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 227 (0.93%) Unix
8 206 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 196 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 192 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 190 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 143 (0.58%) VMS
13 117 (0.48%) Windows 7
14 99 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 84 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 50 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 48 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 45 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,705 (31.42%) Problem-Solving
2 5,271 (21.49%) Agile
3 3,411 (13.91%) Project Management
4 3,192 (13.02%) Customer Service
5 2,581 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2,215 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,175 (8.87%) Decision-Making
8 2,044 (8.34%) Computer Science
9 1,767 (7.21%) Roadmaps
10 1,752 (7.14%) ITIL
11 1,699 (6.93%) DevOps
12 1,624 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,604 (6.54%) Analytics
14 1,586 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
15 1,539 (6.28%) Actionable Insight
16 1,498 (6.11%) Software Engineering
17 1,366 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 1,344 (5.48%) Project Delivery
19 1,286 (5.24%) Collaborative Working
20 1,280 (5.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,999 (12.23%) SQL
2 1,905 (7.77%) Python
3 1,409 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 1,381 (5.63%) C#
5 1,064 (4.34%) Java
6 606 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 417 (1.70%) C
8 372 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 370 (1.51%) PHP
10 358 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 350 (1.43%) C++
12 269 (1.10%) Bash
13 224 (0.91%) R
14 175 (0.71%) Go
15 104 (0.42%) Embedded C
16 103 (0.42%) Scala
17 84 (0.34%) MATLAB
18 83 (0.34%) Perl
18 83 (0.34%) VB
19 70 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,066 (24.74%) Degree
2 1,710 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 1,222 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,045 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 1,026 (4.18%) DBS Check
6 737 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 649 (2.65%) ACCA
8 580 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 535 (2.18%) CIMA
10 356 (1.45%) PMI Certification
11 353 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 327 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 324 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 270 (1.10%) CISSP
15 234 (0.95%) PMP
16 231 (0.94%) CCNA
17 224 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 207 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
19 186 (0.76%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,106 (4.51%) QA
2 949 (3.87%) SLA
3 559 (2.28%) GDPR
4 489 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 485 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 380 (1.55%) PMO
7 325 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 261 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 203 (0.83%) NIST
10 178 (0.73%) ISO 9001
11 168 (0.69%) IFRS
12 115 (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
17 61 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 43 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 43 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,937 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 602 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 600 (2.45%) Docker
4 469 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 237 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 219 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 217 (0.88%) Firmware
8 107 (0.44%) XenApp
9 104 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 98 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
11 89 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 75 (0.31%) vSphere
13 56 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 17 (0.069%) VMware NSX
17 12 (0.049%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 559 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 534 (2.18%) Terraform
3 533 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 350 (1.43%) SCCM
5 257 (1.05%) Ansible
6 121 (0.49%) Grafana
7 98 (0.40%) AirWatch
8 89 (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 43 (0.18%) EnCase
16 41 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 41 (0.17%) Nagios
17 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
18 33 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,263 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 1,066 (4.35%) SAP
3 962 (3.92%) Oracle
4 911 (3.72%) VMware
5 628 (2.56%) Cisco
6 603 (2.46%) Google
7 421 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 382 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 329 (1.34%) Dell
10 323 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 320 (1.30%) Databricks
12 315 (1.28%) Citrix
13 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 301 (1.23%) Adobe
15 268 (1.09%) HP
16 215 (0.88%) Apple
16 215 (0.88%) Veeam
17 209 (0.85%) IBM
18 180 (0.73%) Splunk
19 127 (0.52%) Sage