Active Listening Job Trends in the North West

Active Listening
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Active Listening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 199 270
Rank change year-on-year -25 +71 +24
Permanent jobs citing Active Listening 3 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.029% 0.048% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.050% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £31,588 - -
25th Percentile £32,095 - £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,940 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.59%
75th Percentile £33,345 - £33,250
90th Percentile £33,588 - £40,900
England median annual salary £30,580 £30,580 £28,119
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -48.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Active Listening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,639 3,965 7,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 73.78% 95.11% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 2,158 6,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Active Listening relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Active Listening job vacancy trend in the North West

Active Listening
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Listening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Lancashire - 2 £32,940 - 2
Manchester -18 1 £32,500 - 1
Active Listening
England

Active Listening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) B2B Sales Executive
2 1 (33.33%) Sales Executive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) B2B Sales
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Generation