Social Skills Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 181 507 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.41% 25.59% 35.92%
As % of the General category 28.59% 43.74% 58.73%
Number of salaries quoted 85 441 158
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,960 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,685 £39,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -8.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,300 £66,459 £70,300
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.52% +4.55%

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 common skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 633 1,159 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.36% 58.51% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 297 952 331
10th Percentile £24,542 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,375 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +0.75% -0.74%
75th Percentile £55,500 £62,200 £59,875
90th Percentile £72,200 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Tyne and Wear -7 94 £45,000 +15.38% 632
Durham -3 79 £42,685 +6.71% 41
Northumberland -5 8 £37,500 +38.89% 10
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Apache
2 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.23%) Azure
2 14 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.52%) AWS
4 6 (3.31%) GitHub
5 5 (2.76%) GCP
6 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.66%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.66%) dbt
7 3 (1.66%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.66%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.66%) Sentry
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) Firewall
2 7 (3.87%) VPN
3 5 (2.76%) Broadband
3 5 (2.76%) DHCP
3 5 (2.76%) DNS
3 5 (2.76%) VoIP
4 4 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.66%) SAN
5 3 (1.66%) VLAN
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.10%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) LAN
7 1 (0.55%) NAS
7 1 (0.55%) PSTN
7 1 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.87%) MySQL
3 5 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.66%) Power BI
5 3 (1.66%) Redis
6 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.55%) JUnit
General
1 96 (53.04%) Finance
2 71 (39.23%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (37.57%) Marketing
4 13 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.87%) Advertising
6 7 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.31%) Banking
7 6 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.66%) Electronics
9 3 (1.66%) Legal
9 3 (1.66%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Billing
10 2 (1.10%) Military
10 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.55%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 68 (37.57%) Development Manager
2 63 (34.81%) Product Manager
3 62 (34.25%) Product Development Manager
4 12 (6.63%) Lead
5 10 (5.52%) Analyst
5 10 (5.52%) Technical Support
6 8 (4.42%) Senior
7 7 (3.87%) Developer
7 7 (3.87%) IT Support
8 6 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (3.31%) Business Development Manager
8 6 (3.31%) Business Manager
8 6 (3.31%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.31%) Technical Product Support
9 5 (2.76%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Graduate
9 5 (2.76%) IT Analyst
9 5 (2.76%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.63%) .NET
2 6 (3.31%) CSS
3 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.76%) Node.js
4 4 (2.21%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.21%) jQuery
5 3 (1.66%) Django
6 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.10%) React
7 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.55%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.55%) HTML
7 1 (0.55%) Laravel
7 1 (0.55%) REST
7 1 (0.55%) RSS
7 1 (0.55%) Vue
7 1 (0.55%) Web Services
7 1 (0.55%) XML
7 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (34.25%) FMCG
2 13 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.76%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.66%) NHS
5 2 (1.10%) ASTM
5 2 (1.10%) Clustering
5 2 (1.10%) CMDB
5 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.10%) Derivative
5 2 (1.10%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) PropTech
6 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.50%) Windows
2 11 (6.08%) Linux
3 10 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.66%) Unix
4 3 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) Solaris
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (68.51%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (39.23%) Project Management
3 64 (35.36%) Product Strategy
4 62 (34.25%) Commercialisation
4 62 (34.25%) Competitor Analysis
5 25 (13.81%) Customer Service
6 20 (11.05%) Agile
7 18 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (9.39%) Computer Science
8 17 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (8.84%) CI/CD
9 16 (8.84%) Mentoring
10 14 (7.73%) DevOps
11 12 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (6.08%) Software Engineering
13 10 (5.52%) High Availability
13 10 (5.52%) Process Improvement
14 9 (4.97%) Roadmaps
15 8 (4.42%) Business Development
15 8 (4.42%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.84%) C#
2 15 (8.29%) SQL
3 9 (4.97%) Java
3 9 (4.97%) Python
4 7 (3.87%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.31%) PHP
6 5 (2.76%) C++
6 5 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) Bicep
8 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (51.93%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.66%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.10%) CCNA
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) MCSE
5 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CCDA
6 1 (0.55%) CCNP
6 1 (0.55%) CISA
6 1 (0.55%) CISM
6 1 (0.55%) CISSP
6 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.55%) MCSA
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (37.02%) QA
2 8 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.21%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 12 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.87%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.76%) Docker
6 2 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (6.08%) Terraform
2 8 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.10%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Control-M
5 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.63%) VMware
3 9 (4.97%) Cisco
4 5 (2.76%) Oracle
5 4 (2.21%) Concur
5 4 (2.21%) Dell
5 4 (2.21%) Google
5 4 (2.21%) JD Edwards
5 4 (2.21%) SAP
6 2 (1.10%) Adobe
6 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.10%) Facebook
6 2 (1.10%) Informatica
6 2 (1.10%) RedGate
6 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.10%) Talend
6 2 (1.10%) Veeam
6 2 (1.10%) YouTube
7 1 (0.55%) Epicor
7 1 (0.55%) Sun