Active Listening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Active Listening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Active Listening over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 890 1035
Rank change year-on-year +135 +145 -212
Permanent jobs citing Active Listening 141 80 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.076% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.080% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 109 50 69
10th Percentile £22,500 £29,400 £21,800
25th Percentile £27,300 £32,500 £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,119 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +46.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £52,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 - £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,119 £55,000 £35,350
% change year-on-year -48.87% +55.59% -25.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Active Listening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Active Listening.

Salary trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +162 128 £28,119 -48.87% 44
UK excluding London +74 117 £28,119 -48.87% 19
Midlands +72 66 £27,300 -33.41% 8
Work from Home +121 58 £32,500 -50.00% 18
West Midlands +71 47 £28,119 -31.42% 5
East Midlands - 19 £25,000 - 3
South East +31 18 £63,500 +32.29% 5
North of England +51 15 £30,750 -31.67% 2
London +121 12 £75,000 +85.29% 22
South West - 11 £22,000 - 1
Yorkshire +99 9 £21,500 -12.24%
North West +14 5 £32,500 -36.59% 1
East of England -4 4 £23,750 -68.33% 3
Scotland -61 3 £32,500 -30.20%
North East -10 1 - - 1

Active Listening
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 10 (7.09%) IIS
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (20.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (32.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.44%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (7.80%) Azure
3 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.96%) Mimecast
5 6 (4.26%) AWS
6 5 (3.55%) Serverless
7 4 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.71%) Akamai
9 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.71%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.71%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.67%) NGN
1 8 (5.67%) TACACS
1 8 (5.67%) TCP/IP
1 8 (5.67%) WAN
1 8 (5.67%) Wireless
2 7 (4.96%) Unified Communications
2 7 (4.96%) VoIP
3 1 (0.71%) MPLS
3 1 (0.71%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.42%) Power BI
4 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Git
1 2 (1.42%) JIRA
General
1 53 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Finance
3 18 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.09%) Aerospace
4 10 (7.09%) Aviation
4 10 (7.09%) Military
5 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.84%) Games
7 4 (2.84%) Law
7 4 (2.84%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (34.75%) Development Manager
2 48 (34.04%) Business Manager
3 46 (32.62%) Business Development Manager
4 23 (16.31%) Consultant
5 13 (9.22%) 1st Line Support
6 12 (8.51%) Lead
6 12 (8.51%) Senior
7 11 (7.80%) Analyst
8 10 (7.09%) Cyber Defence Consultant
8 10 (7.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 10 (7.09%) Security Consultant
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Security Consultant
9 9 (6.38%) Service Analyst
9 9 (6.38%) Service Desk Analyst
10 8 (5.67%) Presales Consultant
11 7 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) HTML
2 4 (2.84%) Spring
3 2 (1.42%) Flutter
3 2 (1.42%) Laravel
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Management Information System
2 21 (14.89%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.09%) CESG
4 8 (5.67%) IoT
5 7 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.13%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.42%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.42%) Femtech
8 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.42%) Social Media
9 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.44%) Windows
2 8 (5.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) Business Development
2 51 (36.17%) CRM
3 48 (34.04%) B2B
4 47 (33.33%) Value Proposition
5 46 (32.62%) Deadline-Driven
6 38 (26.95%) Customer Service
7 32 (22.70%) Mentoring
8 29 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (19.86%) Project Management
10 21 (14.89%) Creative Thinking
11 19 (13.48%) Coaching
12 16 (11.35%) ITSM
13 15 (10.64%) Innovative Thinking
13 15 (10.64%) Presales
14 14 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (9.93%) Project Delivery
15 13 (9.22%) Collaborative Working
15 13 (9.22%) ITIL
15 13 (9.22%) Service Management
15 13 (9.22%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.09%) Python
2 4 (2.84%) Java
2 4 (2.84%) SQL
3 2 (1.42%) Dart
3 2 (1.42%) PHP
4 1 (0.71%) C#
4 1 (0.71%) C++
4 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (30.50%) Degree
2 23 (16.31%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.64%) DBS Check
4 13 (9.22%) MCP
5 10 (7.09%) CISMP
5 10 (7.09%) IISP
6 8 (5.67%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.55%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (2.84%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.71%) CCSP
10 1 (0.71%) CISA
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.71%) CISM
10 1 (0.71%) CISSP
10 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (39.01%) SLA
2 10 (7.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 10 (7.09%) JSP 440
2 10 (7.09%) NIST
2 10 (7.09%) NIST 800
2 10 (7.09%) RMADS
3 4 (2.84%) GDPR
3 4 (2.84%) GRC
3 4 (2.84%) QA
4 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (12.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Ansible
2 4 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (35.46%) Microsoft
2 47 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 46 (32.62%) SAP
4 17 (12.06%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.67%) Aruba
5 8 (5.67%) Cisco
5 8 (5.67%) Meraki
5 8 (5.67%) VMware
6 4 (2.84%) Google
7 3 (2.13%) Citrix
8 2 (1.42%) Databricks
8 2 (1.42%) Informatica
8 2 (1.42%) YouTube
9 1 (0.71%) Veeam