Social Skills Jobs in the West Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,955 1,891 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.15% 32.69% 25.43%
As % of the General category 41.93% 43.26% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 859 1,152
10th Percentile £24,698 £27,500 £27,022
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,440
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.67% +5.42%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £64,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £79,875
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,663 4,371 4,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.22% 75.56% 63.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,065 2,215 3,026
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the West Midlands

Social Skills
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Birmingham 0 642 £50,000 -13.04% 281
Staffordshire 0 358 £32,500 -18.75% 172
Warwickshire 0 238 £37,500 -25.00% 98
Worcestershire +3 141 £27,500 -35.29% 60
Shropshire 0 75 £41,500 -30.83% 42
Coventry +8 56 £50,000 +11.11% 60
Solihull -1 54 £50,000 +86.91% 28
Wolverhampton +4 52 £34,500 +13.11% 32
Walsall +9 29 £37,500 -18.92% 10
Herefordshire 0 28 £35,000 -16.67% 18
Dudley +9 17 £25,000 -58.33% 9
Halesowen - 14 £35,000 - 5
Tipton -2 12 £25,000 -23.08% 6
Sutton Coldfield -7 11 £29,500 -70.50%
Brierley Hill - 10 £33,500 - 2
Wednesbury +5 9 £37,500 +36.36% 7
West Bromwich 0 8 £34,000 -35.24% 5
Willenhall - 5 - - 2
Bilston - 5 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 5 - - 1
Smethwick - 5 - - 2
Stourbridge -3 1 - - 2
Kingswinford - 1 - - 2
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
1 107 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.97%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.56%) Confluence
4 11 (0.56%) SAS
5 10 (0.51%) WordPress
6 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.31%) Appian
7 6 (0.31%) IIS
8 5 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.26%) nginx
8 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.20%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.15%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.10%) MTS
12 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 310 (15.86%) Microsoft Office
2 172 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.66%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.61%) Trello
7 10 (0.51%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.26%) Revit
12 4 (0.20%) CANalyzer
12 4 (0.20%) EPLAN
12 4 (0.20%) Sketch
12 4 (0.20%) SketchUp
13 3 (0.15%) InDesign
14 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.10%) Simulink
14 2 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.36%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.26%) Shopify
7 4 (0.20%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.15%) Maximo
8 3 (0.15%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.15%) Sage 300 ERP
9 2 (0.10%) Misys Midas
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.10%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 2 (0.10%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.10%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.051%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.051%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 262 (13.40%) Azure
2 216 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
3 157 (8.03%) Power Platform
4 68 (3.48%) SaaS
5 59 (3.02%) Entra ID
6 54 (2.76%) AWS
6 54 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.43%) GitHub
9 27 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 23 (1.18%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.07%) GCP
12 19 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (0.72%) Figma
14 13 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 13 (0.66%) Smartsheet
15 11 (0.56%) Snowflake
16 10 (0.51%) IaaS
16 10 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.30%) Firewall
2 79 (4.04%) WAN
3 70 (3.58%) LAN
4 38 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 35 (1.79%) DNS
6 28 (1.43%) DHCP
6 28 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (1.38%) Intranet
7 27 (1.38%) VoIP
8 21 (1.07%) VPN
9 20 (1.02%) SAN
9 20 (1.02%) Skype
10 18 (0.92%) PBX
11 17 (0.87%) Wireless
12 16 (0.82%) VLAN
13 14 (0.72%) Ethernet
13 14 (0.72%) Internet
13 14 (0.72%) WLAN
14 13 (0.66%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 137 (7.01%) Power BI
3 46 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.43%) MySQL
5 26 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.82%) Metadata
7 16 (0.82%) Tableau
8 13 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.41%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.41%) Power Query
13 7 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
14 5 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (3.38%) JIRA
2 54 (2.76%) Git
3 6 (0.31%) CANoe
3 6 (0.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (0.31%) webpack
4 4 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.15%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.15%) GitLab
5 3 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.15%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.15%) sqlmap
6 2 (0.10%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.10%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.051%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.051%) Maven
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.051%) PowerBuilder
General
1 492 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
2 441 (22.56%) Finance
3 269 (13.76%) Organisational Skills
4 249 (12.74%) Retail
5 169 (8.64%) Influencing Skills
6 147 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
7 132 (6.75%) Manufacturing
8 114 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 111 (5.68%) Marketing
10 110 (5.63%) Law
11 100 (5.12%) Legal
12 98 (5.01%) Public Sector
13 49 (2.51%) Local Government
14 37 (1.89%) Games
15 36 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.69%) Automotive
17 28 (1.43%) Banking
18 26 (1.33%) Back Office
18 26 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
18 26 (1.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 358 (18.31%) Analyst
2 193 (9.87%) Developer
3 173 (8.85%) Senior
4 160 (8.18%) Project Manager
5 124 (6.34%) IT Support
6 120 (6.14%) Product Analyst
7 116 (5.93%) Sales Analyst
8 114 (5.83%) Consultant
9 98 (5.01%) Lead
10 74 (3.79%) IT Manager
11 64 (3.27%) Support Engineer
12 55 (2.81%) IT Engineer
13 50 (2.56%) Software Developer
14 47 (2.40%) Administrator
15 42 (2.15%) Support Technician
16 41 (2.10%) Graduate
17 40 (2.05%) IT Technician
18 39 (1.99%) Architect
19 38 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (1.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.04%) .NET
2 88 (4.50%) HTML
3 61 (3.12%) CSS
4 33 (1.69%) ASP.NET
5 28 (1.43%) React
6 27 (1.38%) JSON
7 26 (1.33%) Vue
8 25 (1.28%) .NET Core
9 24 (1.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 24 (1.23%) HTML5
10 22 (1.13%) RESTful
11 20 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 19 (0.97%) Laravel
13 17 (0.87%) .NET Framework
14 16 (0.82%) jQuery
14 16 (0.82%) XML
15 15 (0.77%) EDI
16 14 (0.72%) Web Services
17 13 (0.66%) EDIFACT
18 12 (0.61%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.93%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 105 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 79 (4.04%) Driving Licence
5 50 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 48 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 32 (1.64%) NHS
8 27 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.07%) Social Media
11 20 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (0.97%) FMCG
12 19 (0.97%) Replication
13 16 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 14 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.72%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.66%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.61%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 230 (11.76%) Windows
2 87 (4.45%) Windows 10
3 68 (3.48%) Linux
4 65 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.38%) Android
7 22 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.97%) Windows 7
9 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.66%) Unix
11 10 (0.51%) VMS
12 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.36%) CentOS
14 5 (0.26%) SUSE
14 5 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.10%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (38.06%) Problem-Solving
2 547 (27.98%) Customer Service
3 324 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 294 (15.04%) Project Management
5 273 (13.96%) Agile
6 264 (13.50%) Mathematics
7 248 (12.69%) Mentoring
8 163 (8.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 162 (8.29%) Data Analysis
10 158 (8.08%) Customer Requirements
11 148 (7.57%) Decision-Making
12 147 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
13 145 (7.42%) ITIL
14 134 (6.85%) Time Management
15 117 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
16 113 (5.78%) CRM
17 106 (5.42%) ERP
18 104 (5.32%) Project Delivery
19 99 (5.06%) Computer Science
20 94 (4.81%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (12.79%) SQL
2 111 (5.68%) C#
3 93 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 81 (4.14%) Python
5 42 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 35 (1.79%) Java
7 28 (1.43%) PHP
8 27 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.18%) C++
10 20 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.77%) VB.NET
12 12 (0.61%) R
13 10 (0.51%) Perl
14 9 (0.46%) C
15 8 (0.41%) ActionScript
15 8 (0.41%) ActionScript 2.0
15 8 (0.41%) VB
16 5 (0.26%) Bicep
17 3 (0.15%) VBA
18 2 (0.10%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 545 (27.88%) Degree
2 130 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 92 (4.71%) HNC
4 60 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 23 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.13%) A+ Certification
10 21 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 18 (0.92%) ACCA
12 18 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 17 (0.87%) MCSE
14 16 (0.82%) HND
15 14 (0.72%) CCNA
15 14 (0.72%) PMP
16 10 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.89%) GDPR
2 66 (3.38%) SLA
3 65 (3.32%) QA
4 56 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 32 (1.64%) ISO 9001
7 28 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 27 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 23 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.97%) PMO
11 17 (0.87%) GMP
12 10 (0.51%) NIST
13 8 (0.41%) IFRS
14 7 (0.36%) GRC
15 6 (0.31%) ISO 14001
15 6 (0.31%) ISO 26262
15 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.20%) GAAP
16 4 (0.20%) IFRS 9
17 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 161 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.77%) Docker
6 12 (0.61%) Firmware
7 8 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.31%) NFS
9 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.26%) vSphere
11 4 (0.20%) pfSense
12 2 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 41 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.43%) Terraform
3 27 (1.38%) EnCase
4 25 (1.28%) SCCM
5 11 (0.56%) Kubernetes
6 7 (0.36%) Functional Safety
7 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (0.20%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.15%) Nagios
10 2 (0.10%) SCOM
10 2 (0.10%) VxRail
10 2 (0.10%) WSUS
11 1 (0.051%) Autotask
11 1 (0.051%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.051%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.051%) Kibana
11 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.051%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 541 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.40%) VMware
3 53 (2.71%) Cisco
4 32 (1.64%) Veeam
5 31 (1.59%) SAP
5 31 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 25 (1.28%) IFS
7 24 (1.23%) Adobe
7 24 (1.23%) Citrix
7 24 (1.23%) Oracle
8 23 (1.18%) Sophos
9 22 (1.13%) Sage
10 21 (1.07%) Google
10 21 (1.07%) IBM
10 21 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.92%) Dell
11 18 (0.92%) HP
12 17 (0.87%) Remedy
12 17 (0.87%) Workday
13 13 (0.66%) Databricks