Social Skills Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 100 373 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.38% 25.81% 36.69%
As % of the General category 27.40% 42.29% 59.82%
Number of salaries quoted 68 330 115
10th Percentile £24,871 £24,960 £25,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -8.24% -
75th Percentile £54,063 £53,750 £58,625
90th Percentile £62,375 £67,500 £70,600
North East median annual salary £40,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -8.24% +6.25%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 365 882 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 67.10% 61.04% 61.34%
Number of salaries quoted 225 744 247
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £27,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,234 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% -0.92% +0.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,772 £75,000
North East median annual salary £28,188 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -37.36% - -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -1 78 £40,000 - 151
Sunderland +1 18 £35,000 -45.31% 26
Gateshead -5 4 £48,750 +62.50% 19
Social Skills
North East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (2.00%) Apache
1 2 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.00%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.00%) Azure
2 6 (6.00%) GitHub
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.00%) AWS
3 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Firewall
1 4 (4.00%) VoIP
2 2 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (2.00%) SAN
3 1 (1.00%) PSTN
3 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.00%) VLAN
3 1 (1.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.00%) MySQL
3 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.00%) JUnit
General
1 42 (42.00%) Finance
2 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.00%) Marketing
4 8 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Advertising
6 6 (6.00%) Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Electronics
8 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.00%) Retail
9 2 (2.00%) Billing
9 2 (2.00%) Legal
9 2 (2.00%) Military
10 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.00%) Front Office
10 1 (1.00%) Law
10 1 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Development Manager
2 11 (11.00%) Product Development Manager
2 11 (11.00%) Product Manager
3 10 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (8.00%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (8.00%) Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Developer
5 6 (6.00%) IT Support
6 5 (5.00%) Business Development Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Business Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Graduate
6 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Administrator
7 4 (4.00%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Sales Executive
7 4 (4.00%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.00%) .NET
2 6 (6.00%) CSS
3 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.00%) Node.js
4 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.00%) jQuery
5 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.00%) React
6 1 (1.00%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.00%) HTML
6 1 (1.00%) Laravel
6 1 (1.00%) REST
6 1 (1.00%) RSS
6 1 (1.00%) Vue
6 1 (1.00%) Web Services
6 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) FMCG
2 8 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.00%) NHS
5 2 (2.00%) ASTM
5 2 (2.00%) Clustering
5 2 (2.00%) CMDB
5 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Derivative
5 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) SCADA
6 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.00%) Equities
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) PropTech
6 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Solaris
4 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (20.00%) Project Management
3 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (15.00%) Agile
4 15 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 13 (13.00%) Computer Science
6 12 (12.00%) Product Strategy
7 11 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (11.00%) Commercialisation
7 11 (11.00%) Competitor Analysis
8 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.00%) Business Development
9 7 (7.00%) CI/CD
10 6 (6.00%) Data Entry
10 6 (6.00%) ERP
10 6 (6.00%) High Availability
10 6 (6.00%) OOP
10 6 (6.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) C#
2 13 (13.00%) SQL
3 9 (9.00%) Java
4 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.00%) C++
5 5 (5.00%) PHP
5 5 (5.00%) Python
6 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (37.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) CCDA
5 1 (1.00%) CCNA
5 1 (1.00%) CCNP
5 1 (1.00%) CEH
5 1 (1.00%) CISA
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.00%) CISM
5 1 (1.00%) CISSP
5 1 (1.00%) MCSD
5 1 (1.00%) MCSE
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
5 1 (1.00%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.00%) QA
2 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.00%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.00%) GDPR
5 2 (2.00%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.00%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.00%) SLA
6 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.00%) ISO 14001
6 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) vSphere
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) Ansible
2 2 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Control-M
3 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Cisco
3 6 (6.00%) Oracle
4 5 (5.00%) Concur
4 5 (5.00%) JD Edwards
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
5 4 (4.00%) Dell
5 4 (4.00%) VMware
6 2 (2.00%) Adobe
6 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.00%) Facebook
6 2 (2.00%) Informatica
6 2 (2.00%) RedGate
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) Talend
6 2 (2.00%) YouTube
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.00%) Veeam
7 1 (1.00%) WatchGuard