Social Skills Job Trends in the North East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 510 188 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 14.38% 19.16% 25.61%
As % of the General category 33.33% 34.06% 43.41%
Number of salaries quoted 335 148 180
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,500 £24,960
25th Percentile £30,625 £25,300 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £31,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -17.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,438 £52,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £64,125 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -0.87%

All General Skills
North East

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 general skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,530 552 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 43.15% 56.27% 58.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 329 395
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,086 £24,960
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -11.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,852 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £57,945
% change year-on-year +0.38% -5.44% -3.43%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in the North East

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North East over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -1 376 £52,500 +69.35% 253
Durham +14 105 £40,000 +26.98% 57
Northumberland +3 17 £59,900 +93.23% 25
Cleveland - 9 £50,000 - 4
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.76%) Apache
4 7 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.37%) CMS
4 7 (1.37%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.98%) WordPress
6 4 (0.78%) Confluence
6 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) SPSS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.20%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.20%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.39%) iTrent
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 110 (21.57%) Azure
2 74 (14.51%) AWS
3 46 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (8.63%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.73%) GitHub
6 18 (3.53%) Azure AI
7 13 (2.55%) GCP
7 13 (2.55%) Serverless
8 12 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.35%) Google Analytics
8 12 (2.35%) SaaS
9 11 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.33%) LAN
1 17 (3.33%) WAN
2 16 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (2.94%) Wireless
4 13 (2.55%) Firewall
5 11 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.16%) VPN
6 10 (1.96%) DNS
7 8 (1.57%) DHCP
7 8 (1.57%) Network Security
8 7 (1.37%) Broadband
9 3 (0.59%) NGN
9 3 (0.59%) Profibus
9 3 (0.59%) SAN
10 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.39%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.39%) SSH
10 2 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.39%) VLAN
10 2 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.84%) Power BI
2 18 (3.53%) Tableau
3 15 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.35%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.16%) Looker
6 10 (1.96%) Metadata
7 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.37%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.78%) GIS
11 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.78%) MySQL
12 3 (0.59%) Big Data
12 3 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (7.45%) Git
2 19 (3.73%) GitLab
3 12 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.98%) JIRA
6 3 (0.59%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (16.08%) Public Sector
2 69 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (11.96%) Finance
4 59 (11.57%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (10.98%) Manufacturing
6 45 (8.82%) Legal
7 44 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.71%) Electronics
9 24 (4.71%) Marketing
10 21 (4.12%) Retail
11 17 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.55%) Advertising
13 11 (2.16%) Law
14 8 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.37%) Brand Awareness
16 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 59 (11.57%) Analyst
2 51 (10.00%) Senior
3 39 (7.65%) Developer
4 36 (7.06%) Lead
5 31 (6.08%) IT Technician
6 29 (5.69%) Architect
7 28 (5.49%) IT Support
8 25 (4.90%) Junior
9 22 (4.31%) Sales Executive
10 21 (4.12%) IT Support Technician
10 21 (4.12%) Support Technician
11 20 (3.92%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.73%) Junior Analyst
13 15 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.75%) Software Developer
15 13 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.35%) Administrator
17 11 (2.16%) 3rd Line Support
17 11 (2.16%) Network Engineer
17 11 (2.16%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.86%) CSS
2 29 (5.69%) HTML
3 26 (5.10%) Terraform
4 22 (4.31%) Node.js
5 11 (2.16%) .NET
6 9 (1.76%) REST
7 6 (1.18%) PySpark
7 6 (1.18%) React
7 6 (1.18%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (0.98%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.59%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.39%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.39%) Ajax
10 2 (0.39%) boto
10 2 (0.39%) Flask
10 2 (0.39%) Jinja
10 2 (0.39%) jQuery
10 2 (0.39%) OpenLayers
10 2 (0.39%) Playwright
10 2 (0.39%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.51%) Web Conferencing
5 20 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.53%) Driving Licence
7 16 (3.14%) Renewable Energy
8 15 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.35%) Social Media
10 11 (2.16%) Podcast
10 11 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.57%) Cyberattack
14 5 (0.98%) FMCG
14 5 (0.98%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.78%) Blog
15 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.78%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.06%) Windows
2 15 (2.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.37%) CentOS
4 7 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.18%) Android
5 6 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (32.55%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (29.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 107 (20.98%) Agile
4 97 (19.02%) Mentoring
5 93 (18.24%) Decision-Making
6 71 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 70 (13.73%) CI/CD
7 70 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (12.75%) Customer Service
9 58 (11.37%) DevOps
10 56 (10.98%) Coaching
10 56 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
11 47 (9.22%) Analytics
12 46 (9.02%) CRM
13 45 (8.82%) AI
13 45 (8.82%) Customer Experience
14 42 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (7.45%) Data Modelling
17 36 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 63 (12.35%) Python
2 54 (10.59%) SQL
3 36 (7.06%) JavaScript
4 23 (4.51%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.35%) C#
6 8 (1.57%) Java
7 7 (1.37%) Bash
8 6 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.78%) PHP
10 2 (0.39%) R
10 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 71 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.96%) Degree
4 46 (9.02%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.16%) HND
9 10 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.76%) A+ Certification
10 9 (1.76%) HNC
11 8 (1.57%) CCNA
11 8 (1.57%) CEH
11 8 (1.57%) CompTIA CySA+
11 8 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.18%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.24%) QA
2 27 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.73%) GDPR
4 16 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.76%) ISO 9001
7 6 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.18%) SLA
8 5 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.78%) NIST
9 4 (0.78%) PMO
10 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.39%) WCAG
12 1 (0.20%) ECSS
12 1 (0.20%) HAZOP
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.49%) Docker
3 16 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.16%) Firmware
5 10 (1.96%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.16%) Ansible
3 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.59%) Puppet
4 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.20%) FTK
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 159 (31.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.27%) ForeScout
3 18 (3.53%) Google
3 18 (3.53%) VMware
4 12 (2.35%) Cisco
5 11 (2.16%) Databricks
5 11 (2.16%) YouTube
6 9 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.18%) Oracle
8 6 (1.18%) Siemens
9 4 (0.78%) SAP
10 3 (0.59%) BT
10 3 (0.59%) F5
10 3 (0.59%) Infor
10 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.59%) Sage
10 3 (0.59%) Veeam
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) MuleSoft