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 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 5 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 182 476 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 24.20% 25.59% 35.74%
As % of the General category 32.68% 43.39% 58.11%
Number of salaries quoted 86 410 155
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £73,379 £66,563 £70,600
England median annual salary £54,793 £49,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -14.78% +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 557 1,097 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 74.07% 58.98% 61.51%
Number of salaries quoted 287 904 339
10th Percentile £24,678 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,675 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +5.48% -1.67%
75th Percentile £59,625 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 11 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 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
Tyne and Wear -3 95 £45,000 +12.50% 218
Durham -2 79 £42,685 +6.71% 28
Northumberland -4 8 £37,500 +38.89% 9
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 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Apache
2 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Kentico
3 1 (0.55%) SAS
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.10%) Notion
4 2 (1.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) iTrent
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.23%) Azure
2 16 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.59%) AWS
4 5 (2.75%) GCP
5 4 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.20%) GitHub
5 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (1.65%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.65%) dbt
6 3 (1.65%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.65%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.65%) SaaS
6 3 (1.65%) Sentry
7 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.49%) Firewall
2 7 (3.85%) VPN
3 5 (2.75%) DHCP
3 5 (2.75%) DNS
3 5 (2.75%) VoIP
4 4 (2.20%) Broadband
5 3 (1.65%) SAN
5 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.10%) LAN
6 2 (1.10%) NAS
6 2 (1.10%) VLAN
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) PSTN
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.30%) MySQL
3 5 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.20%) Redis
5 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.55%) Git
1 1 (0.55%) GitLab
1 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
1 1 (0.55%) Jasmine
1 1 (0.55%) JIRA
1 1 (0.55%) JUnit
1 1 (0.55%) Maven
1 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (51.65%) Finance
2 72 (39.56%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (36.81%) Marketing
4 12 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.75%) Advertising
7 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Retail
8 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.65%) Automotive
9 3 (1.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.10%) Electronics
10 2 (1.10%) Front Office
10 2 (1.10%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Back Office
11 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (37.36%) Development Manager
2 64 (35.16%) Product Manager
3 62 (34.07%) Product Development Manager
4 11 (6.04%) Analyst
4 11 (6.04%) Lead
5 10 (5.49%) Developer
6 9 (4.95%) Senior
6 9 (4.95%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.40%) Software Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) IT Support
9 6 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (3.30%) Business Development Manager
9 6 (3.30%) Business Manager
9 6 (3.30%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) Technical Product Support
10 5 (2.75%) C# Developer
10 5 (2.75%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.75%) Support Analyst
10 5 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.34%) .NET
2 8 (4.40%) AngularJS
2 8 (4.40%) CSS
3 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 5 (2.75%) Node.js
4 5 (2.75%) React
5 4 (2.20%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.20%) jQuery
6 3 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.65%) Blazor
6 3 (1.65%) Django
6 3 (1.65%) HTML
7 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.10%) Web Services
8 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.55%) RSS
8 1 (0.55%) Spring
8 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.55%) XML
8 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (34.07%) FMCG
2 9 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.65%) Derivative
4 3 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.10%) ASTM
5 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.10%) Equities
5 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.10%) NHS
5 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) PropTech
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.89%) Windows
2 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.49%) Linux
4 3 (1.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.65%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (66.48%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (40.11%) Project Management
3 64 (35.16%) Product Strategy
4 62 (34.07%) Commercialisation
4 62 (34.07%) Competitor Analysis
5 25 (13.74%) Customer Service
6 24 (13.19%) Agile
7 17 (9.34%) Software Engineering
8 16 (8.79%) CI/CD
8 16 (8.79%) Computer Science
9 14 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (7.14%) DevOps
10 13 (7.14%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.49%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (5.49%) Roadmaps
12 9 (4.95%) Business Development
12 9 (4.95%) Process Improvement
13 8 (4.40%) Customer Requirements
13 8 (4.40%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.09%) SQL
2 20 (10.99%) C#
3 11 (6.04%) Python
4 10 (5.49%) Java
4 10 (5.49%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.30%) PHP
7 5 (2.75%) C++
8 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.55%) R
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (51.65%) Degree
2 13 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) CCNA
4 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.65%) MCSE
5 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) MCSA
5 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) CCDA
6 1 (0.55%) CEH
6 1 (0.55%) CISSP
6 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.55%) MCSD
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (38.46%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.20%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.10%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.75%) Docker
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (6.04%) Terraform
2 8 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.65%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.59%) VMware
3 7 (3.85%) Cisco
4 4 (2.20%) Adobe
4 4 (2.20%) Google
5 3 (1.65%) Oracle
5 3 (1.65%) SAP
6 2 (1.10%) Concur
6 2 (1.10%) Dell
6 2 (1.10%) Facebook
6 2 (1.10%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.10%) Veeam
6 2 (1.10%) YouTube
7 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.55%) Capita
7 1 (0.55%) Databricks
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.55%) Salesforce