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

6 months to
21 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 24,481 28,586 39,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.48% 28.91% 24.45%
As % of the General category 41.06% 42.36% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16,437 14,460 18,730
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,345 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.31% +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 59,626 67,480 105,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.25% 64.66%
Number of salaries quoted 39,669 36,484 51,611
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £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 21 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 21 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 21,609 £48,500 -15.65% 11,848
UK excluding London 0 16,763 £44,345 -11.31% 8,634
Work from Home +2 9,143 £53,150 -11.42% 4,254
London +1 6,505 £65,000 -7.14% 4,047
South East 0 4,384 £45,000 -10.00% 2,336
North of England +1 4,106 £45,000 -10.00% 2,159
Midlands +1 2,827 £42,500 -15.00% 1,603
North West +1 2,168 £45,000 -12.62% 1,161
South West +1 2,009 £45,000 - 1,087
West Midlands +1 1,816 £45,000 -13.46% 960
East of England 0 1,533 £43,500 -13.00% 970
Yorkshire +1 1,465 £45,000 -5.26% 746
Scotland -16 1,242 £45,000 -18.18% 505
East Midlands 0 997 £40,000 -15.79% 642
Wales 0 503 £41,250 -2.94% 228
North East 0 475 £40,000 -5.88% 292
Northern Ireland +8 157 £50,000 -13.04% 93
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 4
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 1

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
1 934 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 828 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 448 (1.83%) SAS
4 309 (1.26%) Confluence
5 206 (0.84%) CMS
6 153 (0.62%) WordPress
7 125 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 112 (0.46%) Apache
9 78 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 71 (0.29%) IIS
11 54 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 39 (0.16%) nginx
13 29 (0.12%) Drupal
14 27 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
15 25 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 24 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.098%) Umbraco
17 23 (0.094%) Skype for Business
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 19 (0.078%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2,573 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,145 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
3 803 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 218 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 152 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 134 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 102 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 56 (0.23%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 47 (0.19%) Simulink
14 41 (0.17%) Sketch
15 39 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
17 32 (0.13%) SPSS
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
18 25 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
19 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 334 (1.36%) SAP ERP
2 200 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 161 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 77 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.27%) Shopify
6 50 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 48 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 44 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 43 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
11 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 40 (0.16%) Primavera
12 38 (0.16%) SAP CO
12 38 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
13 34 (0.14%) Magento
14 29 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 23 (0.094%) SAP Business One
15 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
16 22 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
17 21 (0.086%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3,844 (15.70%) Azure
2 2,465 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
3 2,179 (8.90%) AWS
4 1,578 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 995 (4.06%) SaaS
6 583 (2.38%) GCP
7 545 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 467 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 423 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 320 (1.31%) Serverless
11 304 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
12 289 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 270 (1.10%) Power Automate
14 253 (1.03%) GitHub
15 192 (0.78%) PaaS
16 187 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.72%) IaaS
18 161 (0.66%) Amazon S3
19 159 (0.65%) OneDrive
20 145 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,065 (4.35%) Firewall
2 968 (3.95%) Broadband
3 658 (2.69%) WAN
4 582 (2.38%) DNS
5 529 (2.16%) LAN
6 495 (2.02%) Wireless
7 422 (1.72%) VPN
8 411 (1.68%) TCP/IP
9 366 (1.50%) DHCP
10 339 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 328 (1.34%) Network Security
12 283 (1.16%) Internet
13 263 (1.07%) VoIP
14 252 (1.03%) SAN
15 222 (0.91%) SD-WAN
16 190 (0.78%) VLAN
17 164 (0.67%) Intranet
18 128 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
19 113 (0.46%) BGP
20 105 (0.43%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,275 (5.21%) Power BI
2 1,259 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 519 (2.12%) Tableau
4 440 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 382 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 351 (1.43%) MySQL
7 339 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 267 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 226 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 216 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 189 (0.77%) Big Data
12 178 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 177 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 156 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 150 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 140 (0.57%) Oracle Database
17 115 (0.47%) DynamoDB
18 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
19 103 (0.42%) Redis
20 96 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,020 (4.17%) Git
2 839 (3.43%) JIRA
3 341 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 188 (0.77%) GitLab
5 158 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 78 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 58 (0.24%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 51 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 47 (0.19%) JUnit
10 47 (0.19%) Postman
11 41 (0.17%) Subversion
11 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
12 38 (0.16%) NUnit
13 37 (0.15%) Maven
14 34 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
15 33 (0.13%) Burp Suite
15 33 (0.13%) Metasploit
16 31 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 5,999 (24.50%) Finance
2 5,191 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 1,919 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,895 (7.74%) Retail
5 1,790 (7.31%) Marketing
6 1,769 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1,540 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
8 1,295 (5.29%) Law
9 1,268 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1,231 (5.03%) Legal
11 1,134 (4.63%) Public Sector
12 1,042 (4.26%) Manufacturing
13 781 (3.19%) Banking
14 626 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 358 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 348 (1.42%) Billing
16 348 (1.42%) Electronics
17 330 (1.35%) Games
18 307 (1.25%) Local Government
19 280 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,415 (13.95%) Analyst
2 3,258 (13.31%) Senior
3 2,348 (9.59%) Developer
4 1,716 (7.01%) Lead
5 1,577 (6.44%) Architect
6 1,391 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 1,115 (4.55%) Consultant
8 1,063 (4.34%) IT Support
9 853 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 823 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 733 (2.99%) Software Engineer
12 700 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 698 (2.85%) IT Engineer
14 666 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
15 632 (2.58%) Administrator
16 582 (2.38%) Senior Manager
17 571 (2.33%) Graduate
18 564 (2.30%) Senior Developer
19 508 (2.08%) Support Analyst
20 438 (1.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,140 (4.66%) .NET
2 927 (3.79%) HTML
3 806 (3.29%) CSS
4 651 (2.66%) React
5 394 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 370 (1.51%) Node.js
7 363 (1.48%) REST
8 344 (1.41%) Web Services
9 335 (1.37%) RESTful
10 311 (1.27%) .NET Framework
11 284 (1.16%) ASP.NET
12 265 (1.08%) .NET Core
13 237 (0.97%) JSON
13 237 (0.97%) Vue
14 225 (0.92%) HTML5
15 206 (0.84%) Kafka
16 201 (0.82%) XML
17 193 (0.79%) Spring
18 183 (0.75%) GraphQL
19 177 (0.72%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2,042 (8.34%) Self-Motivation
2 1,254 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 957 (3.91%) Driving Licence
4 641 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 601 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 468 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 415 (1.70%) Algorithms
8 350 (1.43%) Social Media
9 299 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 291 (1.19%) Cloud Native
11 287 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 278 (1.14%) IoT
13 265 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 260 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
15 248 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 247 (1.01%) FMCG
17 239 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 225 (0.92%) NHS
19 213 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
20 211 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2,899 (11.84%) Windows
2 1,234 (5.04%) Linux
3 1,029 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 775 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 396 (1.62%) Android
6 311 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 227 (0.93%) Unix
8 211 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 194 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 192 (0.78%) Mac OS
11 191 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 143 (0.58%) VMS
13 114 (0.47%) Windows 7
14 97 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 80 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 51 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 49 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 43 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 43 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 33 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,692 (31.42%) Problem-Solving
2 5,286 (21.59%) Agile
3 3,396 (13.87%) Project Management
4 3,193 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 2,619 (10.70%) Mentoring
6 2,240 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,181 (8.91%) Decision-Making
8 2,084 (8.51%) Computer Science
9 1,766 (7.21%) ITIL
10 1,761 (7.19%) DevOps
11 1,727 (7.05%) Roadmaps
12 1,646 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,603 (6.55%) Analytics
14 1,578 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
15 1,554 (6.35%) Actionable Insight
16 1,532 (6.26%) Software Engineering
17 1,346 (5.50%) Project Delivery
18 1,330 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
19 1,279 (5.22%) Time Management
20 1,275 (5.21%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3,034 (12.39%) SQL
2 1,951 (7.97%) Python
3 1,436 (5.87%) JavaScript
4 1,389 (5.67%) C#
5 1,063 (4.34%) Java
6 602 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 415 (1.70%) C
8 373 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 365 (1.49%) PHP
9 365 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 350 (1.43%) C++
11 265 (1.08%) Bash
12 223 (0.91%) R
13 177 (0.72%) Go
14 114 (0.47%) Scala
15 104 (0.42%) Embedded C
16 85 (0.35%) MATLAB
17 83 (0.34%) VB
18 77 (0.31%) Perl
19 76 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6,112 (24.97%) Degree
2 1,673 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 1,237 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,065 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1,049 (4.28%) SC Cleared
6 735 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 655 (2.68%) ACCA
8 576 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 537 (2.19%) CIMA
10 368 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 350 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 333 (1.36%) Azure Certification
13 293 (1.20%) DV Cleared
14 267 (1.09%) CISSP
15 239 (0.98%) PMP
16 229 (0.94%) CCNA
17 210 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
18 209 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 182 (0.74%) CISM
20 178 (0.73%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,117 (4.56%) QA
2 941 (3.84%) SLA
3 552 (2.25%) GDPR
4 493 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 466 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 377 (1.54%) PMO
7 321 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 244 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 200 (0.82%) NIST
10 168 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 167 (0.68%) IFRS
12 117 (0.48%) GMP
13 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 73 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 64 (0.26%) GRC
16 61 (0.25%) GAAP
17 58 (0.24%) IFRS 9
18 50 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 42 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,923 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 620 (2.53%) Docker
3 595 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 464 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 229 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 220 (0.90%) Firmware
7 219 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 101 (0.41%) XenApp
9 100 (0.41%) XenDesktop
10 95 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 93 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
12 76 (0.31%) vSphere
13 53 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 31 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 23 (0.094%) KVM
17 18 (0.074%) VMware NSX
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 578 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 529 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 524 (2.14%) Terraform
4 348 (1.42%) SCCM
5 273 (1.12%) Ansible
6 120 (0.49%) Grafana
7 94 (0.38%) AirWatch
8 88 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 83 (0.34%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 61 (0.25%) Puppet
13 57 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 54 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 54 (0.22%) Prometheus
15 43 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 37 (0.15%) Nagios
17 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
18 34 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
19 31 (0.13%) EnCase
Vendors
1 6,253 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 1,054 (4.31%) SAP
3 951 (3.88%) Oracle
4 899 (3.67%) VMware
5 627 (2.56%) Cisco
6 607 (2.48%) Google
7 424 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 395 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 347 (1.42%) Databricks
10 323 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 315 (1.29%) Dell
12 307 (1.25%) Citrix
13 304 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 299 (1.22%) Adobe
15 260 (1.06%) HP
16 213 (0.87%) Apple
16 213 (0.87%) Veeam
17 205 (0.84%) IBM
18 180 (0.74%) Splunk
19 123 (0.50%) Sage