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

6 months to
7 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 24,422 29,194 38,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.80% 28.75% 24.21%
As % of the General category 41.46% 42.13% 37.78%
Number of salaries quoted 16,519 14,738 18,498
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,309 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +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 58,908 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,488 37,345 51,003
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 7 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 7 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 21,541 £48,734 -15.38% 12,090
UK excluding London 0 16,728 £44,309 -11.38% 8,454
Work from Home +2 9,109 £52,738 -12.10% 4,504
London +1 6,473 £65,000 -7.14% 4,026
South East 0 4,373 £44,309 -11.38% 2,014
North of England +1 4,078 £45,000 -10.00% 2,127
Midlands +1 2,821 £42,500 -15.00% 1,600
North West +1 2,143 £45,000 -10.00% 1,152
South West +1 2,011 £45,000 - 1,141
West Midlands +1 1,809 £45,000 -13.46% 1,000
East of England 0 1,538 £44,500 -7.81% 1,047
Yorkshire +1 1,466 £45,000 -10.00% 740
Scotland -16 1,254 £45,000 -18.18% 508
East Midlands 0 998 £39,000 -17.89% 600
Wales 0 500 £41,067 -4.50% 224
North East 0 472 £40,000 -5.88% 274
Northern Ireland +6 153 £50,000 -13.04% 106
Isle of Man - 14 £42,500 - 2
Channel Islands +1 7 £92,500 - 3

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
1 939 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 838 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 449 (1.84%) SAS
4 303 (1.24%) Confluence
5 202 (0.83%) CMS
6 155 (0.63%) WordPress
7 129 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 110 (0.45%) Apache
9 81 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 71 (0.29%) IIS
11 51 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 37 (0.15%) 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%) Anypoint
17 23 (0.094%) WebSphere
18 22 (0.090%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2,555 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2,159 (8.84%) Microsoft Office
3 804 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 212 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 154 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 129 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 106 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 100 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 97 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 69 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
11 60 (0.25%) InDesign
12 51 (0.21%) Trello
13 41 (0.17%) Simulink
13 41 (0.17%) Sketch
14 38 (0.16%) Adobe XD
14 38 (0.16%) UserZoom
15 32 (0.13%) SPSS
16 26 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
16 26 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
17 19 (0.078%) Revit
Business Applications
1 336 (1.38%) 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 51 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 47 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 46 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 41 (0.17%) Primavera
9 41 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 41 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 41 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 40 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
11 34 (0.14%) Magento
12 33 (0.14%) NEC Housing
13 31 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
14 30 (0.12%) SAP HR
15 24 (0.098%) Oracle General Ledger
15 24 (0.098%) SAP Business One
16 23 (0.094%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,766 (15.42%) Azure
2 2,480 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
3 2,068 (8.47%) AWS
4 1,574 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1,014 (4.15%) SaaS
6 557 (2.28%) GCP
7 541 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 465 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 419 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 311 (1.27%) Serverless
11 285 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 282 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 264 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 247 (1.01%) GitHub
15 187 (0.77%) PaaS
16 178 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.72%) IaaS
18 161 (0.66%) OneDrive
19 159 (0.65%) Amazon S3
20 143 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1,063 (4.35%) Firewall
2 979 (4.01%) Broadband
3 673 (2.76%) WAN
4 624 (2.56%) DNS
5 543 (2.22%) LAN
6 512 (2.10%) Wireless
7 443 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 424 (1.74%) VPN
9 399 (1.63%) DHCP
10 335 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 328 (1.34%) Network Security
12 279 (1.14%) Internet
13 269 (1.10%) VoIP
14 258 (1.06%) SAN
15 225 (0.92%) SD-WAN
16 204 (0.84%) VLAN
17 162 (0.66%) Intranet
18 125 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
19 118 (0.48%) BGP
20 115 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,271 (5.20%) Power BI
2 1,262 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 478 (1.96%) Tableau
4 436 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 385 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 358 (1.47%) MySQL
7 325 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 268 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 200 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 198 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 182 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 181 (0.74%) Big Data
13 177 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 161 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 150 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 132 (0.54%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 100 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 91 (0.37%) Data Mining
20 89 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 957 (3.92%) Git
2 815 (3.34%) JIRA
3 330 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 169 (0.69%) GitLab
5 158 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 105 (0.43%) Selenium
7 83 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 53 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 52 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 52 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 49 (0.20%) JUnit
11 46 (0.19%) Postman
12 43 (0.18%) Subversion
13 41 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 37 (0.15%) Maven
14 37 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
15 33 (0.14%) Burp Suite
15 33 (0.14%) JMeter
15 33 (0.14%) webpack
16 32 (0.13%) NUnit
General
1 5,970 (24.45%) Finance
2 5,137 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1,952 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,837 (7.52%) Retail
5 1,767 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
6 1,758 (7.20%) Marketing
7 1,477 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1,309 (5.36%) Law
9 1,286 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1,235 (5.06%) Legal
11 1,148 (4.70%) Public Sector
12 1,037 (4.25%) Manufacturing
13 771 (3.16%) Banking
14 636 (2.60%) Telecoms
15 338 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 337 (1.38%) Billing
17 336 (1.38%) Games
18 329 (1.35%) Electronics
19 297 (1.22%) Local Government
20 283 (1.16%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3,429 (14.04%) Analyst
2 3,187 (13.05%) Senior
3 2,354 (9.64%) Developer
4 1,734 (7.10%) Lead
5 1,607 (6.58%) Architect
6 1,393 (5.70%) Project Manager
7 1,102 (4.51%) Consultant
8 1,081 (4.43%) IT Support
9 899 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
10 822 (3.37%) Support Engineer
11 712 (2.92%) IT Manager
11 712 (2.92%) Software Engineer
12 698 (2.86%) IT Engineer
13 631 (2.58%) Administrator
14 630 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
15 578 (2.37%) Graduate
16 576 (2.36%) Senior Manager
17 567 (2.32%) Senior Developer
18 521 (2.13%) Support Analyst
19 423 (1.73%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,122 (4.59%) .NET
2 947 (3.88%) HTML
3 793 (3.25%) CSS
4 657 (2.69%) React
5 395 (1.62%) AngularJS
6 352 (1.44%) Node.js
7 350 (1.43%) REST
8 319 (1.31%) RESTful
8 319 (1.31%) Web Services
9 302 (1.24%) .NET Framework
10 277 (1.13%) ASP.NET
11 263 (1.08%) .NET Core
12 235 (0.96%) JSON
13 234 (0.96%) Vue
14 223 (0.91%) HTML5
15 203 (0.83%) Kafka
16 198 (0.81%) Spring
17 196 (0.80%) XML
18 170 (0.70%) Entity Framework
19 163 (0.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2,029 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
2 1,268 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 975 (3.99%) Driving Licence
4 641 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 596 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 476 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 389 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 352 (1.44%) Social Media
9 300 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 289 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 284 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 274 (1.12%) IoT
13 269 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
14 254 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 247 (1.01%) FMCG
16 243 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
17 231 (0.95%) Data Structures
18 217 (0.89%) NHS
19 216 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
20 214 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2,915 (11.94%) Windows
2 1,221 (5.00%) Linux
3 1,035 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 783 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 402 (1.65%) Android
6 305 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 222 (0.91%) Unix
8 206 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 198 (0.81%) Mac OS
10 195 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
11 192 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 143 (0.59%) VMS
13 120 (0.49%) Windows 7
14 98 (0.40%) Ubuntu
15 83 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 50 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 46 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
18 45 (0.18%) Windows 8
19 42 (0.17%) Mac OS X
20 33 (0.14%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7,657 (31.35%) Problem-Solving
2 5,254 (21.51%) Agile
3 3,389 (13.88%) Project Management
4 3,182 (13.03%) Customer Service
5 2,569 (10.52%) Mentoring
6 2,223 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 2,181 (8.93%) Decision-Making
8 2,017 (8.26%) Computer Science
9 1,754 (7.18%) Roadmaps
10 1,746 (7.15%) ITIL
11 1,674 (6.85%) DevOps
12 1,631 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,589 (6.51%) Analytics
14 1,579 (6.47%) Actionable Insight
15 1,573 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
16 1,501 (6.15%) Software Engineering
17 1,360 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
18 1,350 (5.53%) Project Delivery
19 1,281 (5.25%) Collaborative Working
20 1,268 (5.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2,951 (12.08%) SQL
2 1,866 (7.64%) Python
3 1,403 (5.74%) JavaScript
4 1,376 (5.63%) C#
5 1,058 (4.33%) Java
6 599 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 411 (1.68%) C
8 372 (1.52%) PHP
9 371 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 358 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 343 (1.40%) C++
12 263 (1.08%) Bash
13 220 (0.90%) R
14 176 (0.72%) Go
15 103 (0.42%) Embedded C
16 102 (0.42%) Scala
17 84 (0.34%) Perl
18 83 (0.34%) MATLAB
19 82 (0.34%) VB
20 71 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5,997 (24.56%) Degree
2 1,726 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 1,213 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 1,066 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 1,000 (4.09%) DBS Check
6 728 (2.98%) Master's Degree
7 645 (2.64%) ACCA
8 581 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 534 (2.19%) CIMA
10 358 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 355 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 325 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 323 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 275 (1.13%) CISSP
15 235 (0.96%) PMP
16 234 (0.96%) CCNA
17 222 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 209 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
19 191 (0.78%) CISM
20 175 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,084 (4.44%) QA
2 950 (3.89%) SLA
3 552 (2.26%) GDPR
4 481 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 481 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 380 (1.56%) PMO
6 324 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 261 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 200 (0.82%) NIST
9 180 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 165 (0.68%) IFRS
11 114 (0.47%) GMP
12 93 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 72 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 66 (0.27%) GRC
15 63 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 62 (0.25%) GAAP
17 61 (0.25%) IFRS 9
18 43 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 42 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,940 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 601 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 596 (2.44%) Docker
4 469 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 237 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 224 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 219 (0.90%) Firmware
8 110 (0.45%) XenApp
9 107 (0.44%) XenDesktop
10 101 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 87 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 74 (0.30%) vSphere
13 57 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 29 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 24 (0.098%) KVM
15 24 (0.098%) Terminal Services
16 16 (0.066%) VMware NSX
17 12 (0.049%) vCloud
18 11 (0.045%) NFS
18 11 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 552 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 532 (2.18%) Terraform
3 531 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 358 (1.47%) SCCM
5 253 (1.04%) Ansible
6 118 (0.48%) Grafana
7 102 (0.42%) AirWatch
8 89 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 78 (0.32%) WSUS
10 71 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 65 (0.27%) SCOM
12 56 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 55 (0.23%) Puppet
14 51 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 51 (0.21%) Prometheus
15 45 (0.18%) EnCase
16 40 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 38 (0.16%) Nagios
18 35 (0.14%) Functional Safety
19 32 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 6,213 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 1,069 (4.38%) SAP
3 957 (3.92%) Oracle
4 908 (3.72%) VMware
5 634 (2.60%) Cisco
6 596 (2.44%) Google
7 433 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 384 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 329 (1.35%) Dell
10 322 (1.32%) Hyperion
11 318 (1.30%) Citrix
12 305 (1.25%) Adobe
13 303 (1.24%) Anaplan
14 296 (1.21%) Databricks
15 274 (1.12%) HP
16 214 (0.88%) Apple
16 214 (0.88%) Veeam
17 209 (0.86%) IBM
18 175 (0.72%) Splunk
19 126 (0.52%) Sage