Social Skills Jobs in Northern Ireland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 1 2 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 82 164 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 31.91% 21.98% 22.08%
As % of the General category 40.80% 44.44% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 73 89
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,750 £31,150
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £71,504 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,416 £76,750 £65,800
UK median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -17.39% +4.55%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 201 369 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 78.21% 49.46% 58.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47 181 185
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,250 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £69,125 £62,200 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,833 £87,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +1 77 £55,000 +10.00% 615
County Armagh +7 3 - - 4
County Londonderry -4 2 £28,000 -56.92% 5
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (6.10%) nginx
1 5 (6.10%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.22%) Moodle
2 1 (1.22%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.88%) Revit
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (6.10%) Maximo
2 5 (6.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) AWS
2 7 (8.54%) Azure
3 5 (6.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (6.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (6.10%) GCP
4 4 (4.88%) IaaS
4 4 (4.88%) PaaS
5 3 (3.66%) SaaS
6 2 (2.44%) Boomi
7 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.22%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.22%) OCI
7 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) VLAN
1 7 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.66%) Network Security
3 1 (1.22%) 5G
3 1 (1.22%) 802.11
3 1 (1.22%) Internet
3 1 (1.22%) LAN
3 1 (1.22%) VoIP
3 1 (1.22%) WAN
3 1 (1.22%) Wireless
3 1 (1.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.10%) SAP HANA
2 5 (6.10%) Tableau
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.22%) DB2
3 1 (1.22%) GIS
3 1 (1.22%) Looker
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.22%) Power BI
3 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.10%) JUnit
3 5 (6.10%) Maven
3 5 (6.10%) Mockito
3 5 (6.10%) Postman
3 5 (6.10%) Selenium
3 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
3 5 (6.10%) TestNG
General
1 25 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.41%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.54%) Legal
6 5 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Retail
8 3 (3.66%) Advertising
8 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Law
10 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.22%) Games
10 1 (1.22%) German Language
10 1 (1.22%) Marketing
10 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (12.20%) Senior
2 8 (9.76%) Auditor
2 8 (9.76%) Lead
2 8 (9.76%) Senior Auditor
3 7 (8.54%) Analyst
3 7 (8.54%) Architect
3 7 (8.54%) Java Engineer
3 7 (8.54%) Programmer
4 6 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Network Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Network Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Network Operations Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Network Services Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Service Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Service Manager
5 5 (6.10%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) PLC Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Operations Manager
6 4 (4.88%) Risk Manager
6 4 (4.88%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) Spring
1 7 (8.54%) Spring Boot
2 6 (7.32%) Kafka
3 5 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.10%) Gherkin
3 5 (6.10%) Guice
3 5 (6.10%) JAX-RS
3 5 (6.10%) JSON
3 5 (6.10%) Middleware
3 5 (6.10%) Mustache
3 5 (6.10%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.10%) REST
3 5 (6.10%) RESTful
3 5 (6.10%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (6.10%) SAPUI5
3 5 (6.10%) Swagger
3 5 (6.10%) WireMock
4 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.76%) SCADA
3 7 (8.54%) Operational Technology
4 6 (7.32%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (6.10%) Life Science
5 5 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.88%) Driving Licence
6 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.44%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.44%) Derivative
7 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.22%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (1.22%) BYOD
8 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) IoT
8 1 (1.22%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Innovative Thinking
2 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.95%) Risk Management
4 16 (19.51%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (19.51%) Project Management
5 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.07%) Coaching
7 13 (15.85%) Information Security
8 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.98%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.76%) Business Analysis
10 8 (9.76%) Risk Analysis
11 7 (8.54%) Analytics
11 7 (8.54%) Contingency Planning
11 7 (8.54%) DevOps
11 7 (8.54%) ITSM
11 7 (8.54%) Risk Assessment
11 7 (8.54%) Security Monitoring
11 7 (8.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.76%) Java
2 7 (8.54%) SQL
3 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.88%) Python
4 3 (3.66%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) CISA
5 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.88%) CISSP
5 4 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (4.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.10%) GDPR
2 5 (6.10%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.44%) ITGC
4 2 (2.44%) NCSC
4 2 (2.44%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) GMP
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.10%) Ansible
2 5 (6.10%) Kustomize
2 5 (6.10%) Packer
2 5 (6.10%) Terraform
3 2 (2.44%) Control-M
3 2 (2.44%) Grafana
3 2 (2.44%) Kibana
3 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) BMC
3 6 (7.32%) Remedy
4 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.10%) SAP
5 4 (4.88%) Oracle
5 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.44%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (1.22%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.22%) Google
8 1 (1.22%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.22%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.22%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.22%) Ruckus Wireless