Social Skills Jobs in the North of England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 4,112 5,094 4,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.60% 30.78% 22.60%
As % of the General category 41.48% 44.34% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,077 1,974 2,304
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,875 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +5.00% +7.95%
75th Percentile £60,741 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,914 11,488 10,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 54.49% 69.42% 58.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,436 5,022 6,150
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,887 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +3.77% +9.79%
75th Percentile £62,833 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £79,500
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the North of England.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West +1 2,188 £45,000 -12.62% 1,175
Yorkshire +1 1,453 £45,000 -1.10% 693
North East 0 473 £40,000 -5.88% 301
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 174 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 164 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (1.22%) Confluence
4 44 (1.07%) WordPress
5 40 (0.97%) SAS
6 27 (0.66%) CMS
7 21 (0.51%) IIS
8 13 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.17%) MS Project Server
12 7 (0.17%) OpenEdge
13 6 (0.15%) Apache
13 6 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 348 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
2 278 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.71%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.39%) MS Visio
9 13 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 12 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.24%) Trello
12 8 (0.19%) InDesign
12 8 (0.19%) Sketch
13 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
13 6 (0.15%) LightWave 3D
14 5 (0.12%) 3ds Max
14 5 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.097%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.097%) Solid Edge
16 3 (0.073%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 35 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.80%) Shopify
3 31 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.44%) Magento
4 18 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.44%) SAP Business One
5 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 9 (0.22%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.22%) SAP BPC
7 9 (0.22%) SAP CX
8 8 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 5 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 709 (17.24%) Azure
2 465 (11.31%) Microsoft 365
3 408 (9.92%) AWS
4 272 (6.61%) Power Platform
5 143 (3.48%) SaaS
6 138 (3.36%) GCP
7 79 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 76 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 72 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 68 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (1.19%) Power Automate
12 48 (1.17%) GitHub
13 46 (1.12%) Serverless
14 40 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 40 (0.97%) PowerApps
15 30 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (0.66%) Amazon S3
17 26 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 184 (4.47%) Firewall
2 102 (2.48%) LAN
3 94 (2.29%) WAN
4 89 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
5 79 (1.92%) DNS
6 77 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 66 (1.61%) Internet
8 64 (1.56%) SAN
9 59 (1.43%) Network Security
10 54 (1.31%) VPN
11 51 (1.24%) Broadband
11 51 (1.24%) DHCP
12 49 (1.19%) VoIP
13 48 (1.17%) Wireless
14 30 (0.73%) VLAN
15 26 (0.63%) BGP
16 20 (0.49%) PPP
17 19 (0.46%) NAS
18 16 (0.39%) SSL
19 15 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 221 (5.37%) Power BI
3 104 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (1.68%) MySQL
6 59 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 58 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 55 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 48 (1.17%) Tableau
11 40 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 39 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 30 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 30 (0.73%) Redis
16 29 (0.71%) Oracle Database
17 22 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
18 21 (0.51%) Looker
18 21 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 191 (4.64%) Git
2 142 (3.45%) JIRA
3 38 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.63%) CircleCI
5 25 (0.61%) Selenium
6 17 (0.41%) Gatling
6 17 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 14 (0.34%) JUnit
8 13 (0.32%) GitLab
9 12 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
10 11 (0.27%) Subversion
11 8 (0.19%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.12%) Mockito
14 5 (0.12%) MSTest
General
1 866 (21.06%) Finance
2 757 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
3 335 (8.15%) Organisational Skills
4 332 (8.07%) Retail
5 259 (6.30%) Legal
6 248 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 228 (5.54%) Marketing
8 176 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 173 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 171 (4.16%) Manufacturing
11 167 (4.06%) Law
12 137 (3.33%) Banking
13 92 (2.24%) Games
14 88 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 74 (1.80%) Billing
15 74 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 64 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 58 (1.41%) Local Government
18 55 (1.34%) Automotive
18 55 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (11.79%) Analyst
2 452 (10.99%) Developer
3 430 (10.46%) Senior
4 362 (8.80%) Lead
5 283 (6.88%) Project Manager
6 202 (4.91%) Architect
7 193 (4.69%) IT Support
8 173 (4.21%) IT Manager
9 156 (3.79%) Support Engineer
10 121 (2.94%) Team Leader
11 116 (2.82%) IT Engineer
12 114 (2.77%) Consultant
13 112 (2.72%) Software Engineer
14 104 (2.53%) Administrator
14 104 (2.53%) Service Analyst
15 101 (2.46%) Coordinator
16 98 (2.38%) Service Desk Analyst
17 97 (2.36%) Support Analyst
18 88 (2.14%) IT Support Engineer
19 84 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (4.96%) .NET
2 161 (3.92%) HTML
3 153 (3.72%) CSS
4 90 (2.19%) React
5 76 (1.85%) RESTful
6 73 (1.78%) .NET Framework
7 72 (1.75%) Node.js
8 70 (1.70%) AngularJS
9 65 (1.58%) Web Services
10 51 (1.24%) Laravel
11 50 (1.22%) Vue
12 49 (1.19%) REST
13 47 (1.14%) ASP.NET
14 43 (1.05%) .NET Core
14 43 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
14 43 (1.05%) Entity Framework
15 41 (1.00%) GraphQL
16 38 (0.92%) EDI
17 36 (0.88%) JSON
18 35 (0.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 274 (6.66%) Self-Motivation
2 207 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 202 (4.91%) Driving Licence
4 93 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 80 (1.95%) NHS
6 66 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 62 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 53 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.19%) Housing Association
11 42 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 40 (0.97%) IoT
13 39 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 39 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 36 (0.88%) Blog
15 36 (0.88%) Client/Server
16 35 (0.85%) Credit Risk
17 32 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
18 31 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 497 (12.09%) Windows
2 203 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 156 (3.79%) Linux
4 146 (3.55%) Windows 10
5 46 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 40 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 36 (0.88%) Android
8 36 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 32 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 27 (0.66%) VMS
11 25 (0.61%) Unix
12 24 (0.58%) Windows 7
13 17 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 16 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
15 15 (0.36%) Windows 8
16 8 (0.19%) zOS
17 4 (0.097%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.097%) Windows Vista
18 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,278 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
2 816 (19.84%) Agile
3 609 (14.81%) Customer Service
4 576 (14.01%) Project Management
5 427 (10.38%) Mentoring
6 406 (9.87%) ITIL
7 394 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 339 (8.24%) DevOps
9 323 (7.86%) Computer Science
10 298 (7.25%) Decision-Making
11 289 (7.03%) Coaching
12 287 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 282 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
14 275 (6.69%) Analytics
15 253 (6.15%) Time Management
16 231 (5.62%) Roadmaps
17 227 (5.52%) Collaborative Working
18 206 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
19 201 (4.89%) Software Engineering
20 198 (4.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 475 (11.55%) SQL
2 302 (7.34%) JavaScript
3 240 (5.84%) C#
4 182 (4.43%) Python
5 125 (3.04%) PHP
6 90 (2.19%) Java
7 79 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 78 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 41 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 33 (0.80%) Bash
11 30 (0.73%) Scala
12 28 (0.68%) SystemVerilog
13 21 (0.51%) C
14 19 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 18 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.41%) R
17 16 (0.39%) C++
18 14 (0.34%) Go
18 14 (0.34%) Swift
19 11 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 863 (20.99%) Degree
2 221 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 185 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 143 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 136 (3.31%) DBS Check
6 125 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 79 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 62 (1.51%) PMP
11 53 (1.29%) ACCA
11 53 (1.29%) HND
12 52 (1.26%) HNC
13 43 (1.05%) CCNA
13 43 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 40 (0.97%) CCNP
15 38 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
16 32 (0.78%) CISSP
17 31 (0.75%) AWS Certification
18 28 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (4.43%) SLA
2 164 (3.99%) QA
3 112 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 107 (2.60%) GDPR
5 102 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 67 (1.63%) PMO
7 61 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 55 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 52 (1.26%) IFRS
10 46 (1.12%) GMP
11 30 (0.73%) ISO 9001
12 28 (0.68%) GAAP
12 28 (0.68%) NIST
13 25 (0.61%) IFRS 9
14 22 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
16 9 (0.22%) ISO 14001
17 8 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 384 (9.34%) Active Directory
2 121 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 108 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (2.48%) Docker
5 55 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 13 (0.32%) Firmware
7 13 (0.32%) Terminal Services
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.15%) XenApp
10 6 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.073%) ACF2
11 3 (0.073%) RACF
11 3 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.049%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.024%) NFS
Systems Management
1 131 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (1.87%) Terraform
3 73 (1.78%) Kubernetes
4 44 (1.07%) SCCM
5 27 (0.66%) Ansible
6 21 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.29%) Autotask
8 11 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Grafana
10 8 (0.19%) SCOM
11 7 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.17%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.15%) Nagios
13 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 4 (0.097%) OMEGAMON
14 4 (0.097%) WSUS
14 4 (0.097%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 975 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.99%) VMware
3 146 (3.55%) SAP
4 121 (2.94%) Cisco
5 116 (2.82%) Google
6 78 (1.90%) Oracle
7 58 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.29%) Adobe
10 52 (1.26%) IBM
11 51 (1.24%) Citrix
12 48 (1.17%) Apple
13 44 (1.07%) Veeam
14 37 (0.90%) Cadence
15 36 (0.88%) Virgin Media
16 35 (0.85%) Fortinet
17 34 (0.83%) Dell
17 34 (0.83%) HP
17 34 (0.83%) NEC
18 33 (0.80%) CA