Social Skills Jobs in the North West

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,668 1,472 2,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.12% 28.74% 24.72%
As % of the General category 38.59% 44.96% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 724 839 1,224
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,960 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +3.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £55,909
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.85% +1.65%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,322 3,274 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 52.14% 63.93% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 1,982 3,421
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,439
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.06% +8.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £76,750 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
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 Social Skills within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 September 2024. 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
Manchester 0 901 £50,000 -16.67% 410
Cheshire 0 268 £39,500 -7.06% 123
Lancashire -2 228 £50,055 +30.01% 83
Merseyside 0 150 £34,500 -21.14% 66
Cumbria +6 109 £29,250 -33.90% 29
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 35 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.50%) SAS
4 19 (1.14%) CMS
5 15 (0.90%) WordPress
6 13 (0.78%) Apache
6 13 (0.78%) IIS
6 13 (0.78%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.60%) Confluence
8 9 (0.54%) Drupal
9 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.48%) nginx
9 8 (0.48%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.24%) Mule
12 3 (0.18%) CICS
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 213 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
2 211 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 121 (7.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.78%) Simulink
6 9 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.42%) MadCap Flare
7 7 (0.42%) RoboHelp
8 6 (0.36%) Sketch
9 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.18%) InVision
12 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.060%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 59 (3.54%) Teamcenter
2 31 (1.86%) iTrent
3 20 (1.20%) NEC Housing
4 19 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.60%) Magento
6 8 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.24%) Primavera
7 4 (0.24%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.24%) Shopify
8 3 (0.18%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 1 (0.060%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.060%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 201 (12.05%) Azure
2 168 (10.07%) AWS
3 115 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 47 (2.82%) SaaS
6 46 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 30 (1.80%) GCP
8 29 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
9 26 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 25 (1.50%) Serverless
11 23 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (0.84%) GitHub
14 13 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (0.78%) Figma
14 13 (0.78%) OCI
14 13 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.88%) LAN
2 43 (2.58%) Firewall
3 38 (2.28%) PPP
4 35 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 34 (2.04%) DNS
6 26 (1.56%) WAN
7 23 (1.38%) Broadband
8 21 (1.26%) Internet
9 19 (1.14%) SSL
10 17 (1.02%) DHCP
10 17 (1.02%) Network Security
10 17 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.96%) VPN
12 15 (0.90%) Wireless
13 14 (0.84%) Intranet
14 13 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
15 12 (0.72%) VoIP
16 10 (0.60%) BGP
16 10 (0.60%) VLAN
17 6 (0.36%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
1 68 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.48%) Power BI
3 55 (3.30%) NoSQL
4 49 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 43 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 41 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.80%) Redis
9 25 (1.50%) QlikView
10 19 (1.14%) Tableau
11 17 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
11 17 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.96%) MySQL
13 15 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.78%) Big Data
15 11 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.66%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (3.18%) Git
2 40 (2.40%) JIRA
3 33 (1.98%) Rational DOORS
4 30 (1.80%) Gatling
5 11 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.66%) Selenium
6 7 (0.42%) GitLab
7 6 (0.36%) JMeter
7 6 (0.36%) Postman
8 5 (0.30%) SpecFlow
8 5 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.24%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.18%) Rational Functional Tester
11 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.12%) Maven
11 2 (0.12%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 377 (22.60%) Finance
2 337 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (9.23%) Retail
4 121 (7.25%) Legal
5 93 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
6 87 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 77 (4.62%) Law
8 75 (4.50%) Marketing
9 67 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 60 (3.60%) Billing
11 57 (3.42%) Electronics
12 55 (3.30%) Aerospace
13 52 (3.12%) Telecoms
14 49 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 40 (2.40%) Automotive
16 38 (2.28%) Banking
17 36 (2.16%) Local Government
18 30 (1.80%) Manufacturing
19 24 (1.44%) Games
20 23 (1.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 245 (14.69%) Analyst
2 237 (14.21%) Senior
3 150 (8.99%) Developer
4 122 (7.31%) Development Manager
5 121 (7.25%) Lead
6 108 (6.47%) Business Manager
7 98 (5.88%) Business Development Manager
8 84 (5.04%) Project Manager
9 83 (4.98%) Architect
10 77 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 52 (3.12%) Technical Support
12 51 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 45 (2.70%) Support Engineer
14 44 (2.64%) Consultant
15 42 (2.52%) Service Analyst
16 41 (2.46%) IT Support
17 40 (2.40%) HR Analyst
18 39 (2.34%) Senior Manager
19 35 (2.10%) Systems Engineer
20 34 (2.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (5.82%) HTML
2 92 (5.52%) CSS
3 84 (5.04%) Web Services
4 59 (3.54%) .NET
5 57 (3.42%) REST
6 46 (2.76%) GraphQL
7 41 (2.46%) http4s
7 41 (2.46%) Scalaz
8 27 (1.62%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.62%) React
9 26 (1.56%) ASP.NET
9 26 (1.56%) Laravel
10 25 (1.50%) jQuery
11 24 (1.44%) HTML5
12 23 (1.38%) Ajax
13 20 (1.20%) LDAP
14 19 (1.14%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.08%) Lambda Expressions
15 18 (1.08%) Vue
16 15 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.31%) Self-Motivation
2 65 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 46 (2.76%) Blog
4 44 (2.64%) Media Streaming
5 43 (2.58%) Driving Licence
6 40 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 31 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.74%) Social Media
10 27 (1.62%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.44%) Life Science
11 24 (1.44%) NHS
12 23 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.96%) EPoS
17 15 (0.90%) Credit Risk
17 15 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.73%) Windows
2 62 (3.72%) Linux
3 44 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.14%) Android
7 17 (1.02%) Windows Vista
8 15 (0.90%) Unix
9 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.36%) VMS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (30.52%) Problem-Solving
2 390 (23.38%) Agile
3 229 (13.73%) Project Management
4 193 (11.57%) DevOps
5 192 (11.51%) Mentoring
6 177 (10.61%) Customer Service
7 176 (10.55%) Decision-Making
8 167 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (9.83%) Analytics
10 139 (8.33%) Computer Science
11 138 (8.27%) Coaching
12 136 (8.15%) Business Development
13 122 (7.31%) ITIL
14 121 (7.25%) Software Engineering
15 110 (6.59%) Project Delivery
16 104 (6.24%) Time Management
17 96 (5.76%) Roadmaps
18 94 (5.64%) Stakeholder Management
19 93 (5.58%) Logistics
20 92 (5.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 177 (10.61%) SQL
2 109 (6.53%) JavaScript
3 95 (5.70%) Python
4 88 (5.28%) C#
5 60 (3.60%) Java
6 49 (2.94%) Scala
7 40 (2.40%) MATLAB
8 35 (2.10%) PHP
9 31 (1.86%) VBA
10 23 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 15 (0.90%) C++
12 14 (0.84%) C
13 13 (0.78%) Bash
14 10 (0.60%) R
14 10 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.48%) Ada
17 7 (0.42%) Swift
18 6 (0.36%) Objective-C
19 5 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 461 (27.64%) Degree
2 99 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 98 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (4.56%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.02%) HND
6 65 (3.90%) HNC
7 38 (2.28%) ACCA
8 35 (2.10%) DBS Check
9 34 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.92%) PMP
11 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.68%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.38%) DV Cleared
14 22 (1.32%) CIMA
15 20 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
17 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.84%) ISTQB
18 14 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
19 13 (0.78%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.72%) QA
2 58 (3.48%) SLA
3 53 (3.18%) GDPR
4 51 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.20%) PMO
8 18 (1.08%) IFRS
9 16 (0.96%) Def Stans
9 16 (0.96%) IEC 61508
9 16 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 16 (0.96%) WCAG
10 15 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.60%) GAAP
12 8 (0.48%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.42%) NEBOSH
14 6 (0.36%) NIST
15 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 89 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.16%) Docker
3 27 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.60%) Firmware
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) XenApp
10 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.060%) vSphere
10 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (1.86%) Terraform
2 27 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.02%) Ansible
6 11 (0.66%) SCCM
7 8 (0.48%) Autotask
8 6 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.30%) Packer
10 4 (0.24%) Grafana
10 4 (0.24%) Puppet
11 3 (0.18%) Galera Cluster
11 3 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.060%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.060%) vRealize
Vendors
1 402 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.20%) SAP
3 42 (2.52%) Oracle
4 41 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.22%) Google
6 36 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.10%) VMware
8 33 (1.98%) IBM
9 29 (1.74%) HP
10 26 (1.56%) ANSYS
10 26 (1.56%) NEC
11 23 (1.38%) Cisco
12 16 (0.96%) Adobe
13 15 (0.90%) CA
14 14 (0.84%) Ahrefs
14 14 (0.84%) BT
14 14 (0.84%) IFS
15 13 (0.78%) Apple
15 13 (0.78%) Databricks
16 12 (0.72%) Dell