Social Skills Jobs in Lancashire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 513 211 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 23.29% 16.19% 32.42%
As % of the General category 31.47% 28.59% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 396 172 89
10th Percentile £43,750 £24,550 £25,004
25th Percentile £48,867 £30,970 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £54,793 £52,084 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,081 £60,741 £63,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.23% -10.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
Lancashire

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,630 738 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 73.99% 56.64% 71.33%
Number of salaries quoted 858 616 246
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £25,002
25th Percentile £47,863 £32,500 £32,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £44,511
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +6.71% -2.15%
75th Percentile £54,793 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £70,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Lancashire

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Social Skills in Lancashire

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Lancashire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Lancashire

Social Skills
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
Blackpool +5 99 £50,055 -13.65% 6
Preston -2 92 £50,055 +56.42% 58
Blackburn -10 80 £50,055 +116.91% 23
Lytham St Annes - 75 £50,055 - 2
Chorley -2 15 £22,850 -49.22% 11
Lancaster +4 11 £50,890 +58.25% 3
Social Skills
North West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 15 (2.92%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 210 (40.94%) Microsoft Office
2 179 (34.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 174 (33.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (9.36%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 174 (33.92%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.78%) Infor LN
3 3 (0.58%) Maximo
4 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (6.24%) Power Platform
2 12 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (2.14%) Azure
4 2 (0.39%) AWS
4 2 (0.39%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.90%) Firewall
1 20 (3.90%) LAN
1 20 (3.90%) WAN
2 3 (0.58%) DNS
2 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.58%) VPN
3 2 (0.39%) FTP
3 2 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.39%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.39%) Intranet
3 2 (0.39%) NAS
3 2 (0.39%) SAN
3 2 (0.39%) SSH
3 2 (0.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.24%) Power BI
2 18 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (2.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.75%) MySQL
6 4 (0.78%) Tableau
7 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (4.87%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (1.36%) ClearCase
2 7 (1.36%) Git
3 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.58%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.19%) JIRA
General
1 216 (42.11%) Aerospace
2 158 (30.80%) Automotive
3 71 (13.84%) Avionics
4 61 (11.89%) Influencing Skills
5 59 (11.50%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (8.58%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (6.04%) Finance
9 30 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (5.65%) Electronics
11 22 (4.29%) Aviation
12 20 (3.90%) Military
13 11 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.39%) Retail
16 1 (0.19%) Legal
16 1 (0.19%) Mandarin Language
16 1 (0.19%) Marketing
16 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 331 (64.52%) Systems Engineer
2 127 (24.76%) Senior
3 126 (24.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 63 (12.28%) Lead
5 60 (11.70%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 41 (7.99%) Analyst
6 41 (7.99%) Team Leader
7 31 (6.04%) Integration Engineer
7 31 (6.04%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 26 (5.07%) Digital Analyst
8 26 (5.07%) Graduate
8 26 (5.07%) Graduate Analyst
8 26 (5.07%) Junior
9 24 (4.68%) IT Support
10 22 (4.29%) Radar Engineer
11 19 (3.70%) Architect
11 19 (3.70%) Security Engineer
12 18 (3.51%) Junior Architect
12 18 (3.51%) Junior Solutions Architect
12 18 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.75%) XML
2 7 (1.36%) XSD
3 3 (0.58%) EDI
4 2 (0.39%) LAMP
4 2 (0.39%) Loki
5 1 (0.19%) Laravel
5 1 (0.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 15 (2.92%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (2.14%) EPoS
4 5 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.39%) CMDB
6 2 (0.39%) Life Science
6 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.39%) Replication
7 1 (0.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.19%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.92%) Windows
2 7 (1.36%) Linux
3 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.39%) AIX
4 2 (0.39%) CentOS
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (65.50%) Systems Engineering
2 177 (34.50%) PLM
3 139 (27.10%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 120 (23.39%) Agile
5 116 (22.61%) Coaching
6 101 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (13.26%) Project Management
8 67 (13.06%) SysML
9 62 (12.09%) Safety Engineering
10 61 (11.89%) Analytics
10 61 (11.89%) Collaborative Working
10 61 (11.89%) Cryptography
10 61 (11.89%) Customer Requirements
11 59 (11.50%) Line Management
12 45 (8.77%) System Testing
13 44 (8.58%) Time Management
14 43 (8.38%) Project Delivery
15 42 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (7.80%) Software Delivery
17 39 (7.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 165 (32.16%) MATLAB
2 23 (4.48%) C
3 22 (4.29%) Java
4 10 (1.95%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.75%) PHP
6 8 (1.56%) Python
7 7 (1.36%) SQL
8 3 (0.58%) Bash
8 3 (0.58%) C++
8 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.39%) AWK
9 2 (0.39%) Korn
9 2 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) Ada
10 1 (0.19%) C#
10 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 389 (75.83%) Degree
2 293 (57.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 265 (51.66%) HND
4 245 (47.76%) HNC
5 22 (4.29%) CEH
6 20 (3.90%) CCNA
6 20 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.90%) DBS Check
6 20 (3.90%) JNCIA
7 7 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.36%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.78%) ACCA
9 4 (0.78%) CIMA
9 4 (0.78%) ICAEW
9 4 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.78%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.19%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.29%) DO-254
2 6 (1.17%) QA
3 4 (0.78%) IFRS
4 3 (0.58%) GDPR
5 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (4.29%) Firmware
2 21 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.58%) KVM
4 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.39%) Docker
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.39%) Postfix
4 2 (0.39%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.39%) Grafana
1 2 (0.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.39%) Nagios
1 2 (0.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 237 (46.20%) Microsoft
2 157 (30.60%) ANSYS
3 40 (7.80%) MathWorks
4 26 (5.07%) Alteryx
5 24 (4.68%) Oracle
6 20 (3.90%) Aruba
6 20 (3.90%) Cisco
6 20 (3.90%) Fortinet
6 20 (3.90%) Juniper
6 20 (3.90%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.95%) SAP
8 9 (1.75%) IBM
9 6 (1.17%) Hyperion
10 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.78%) Infor
11 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.58%) VMware
13 2 (0.39%) Apple
13 2 (0.39%) Tenable