Social Skills Jobs in the North of England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 4,118 5,140 4,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.32% 30.53% 22.30%
As % of the General category 42.05% 43.53% 37.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 1,958 2,270
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,741 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +4.76%

All General Skills
North of England

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,792 11,809 10,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.44% 70.15% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,398 5,064 6,078
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the North of England

Social Skills
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North West +1 2,166 £45,000 -12.62% 1,138
Yorkshire +1 1,475 £45,000 -5.26% 735
North East 0 479 £40,000 -5.88% 298
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 176 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 167 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 52 (1.26%) Confluence
4 46 (1.12%) SAS
5 42 (1.02%) WordPress
6 26 (0.63%) CMS
7 22 (0.53%) IIS
8 13 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (0.29%) Apache
9 12 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 11 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 9 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.19%) Anypoint
12 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.17%) MS Project Server
13 7 (0.17%) OpenEdge
14 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 341 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 276 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 107 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.70%) AutoCAD
6 23 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.39%) MS Visio
9 12 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.24%) Trello
11 8 (0.19%) InDesign
12 7 (0.17%) Sketch
13 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
13 6 (0.15%) LightWave 3D
14 5 (0.12%) 3ds Max
14 5 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.097%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.097%) Solid Edge
16 3 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.80%) Shopify
3 19 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.44%) SAP Business One
5 16 (0.39%) Magento
6 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 9 (0.22%) SAP CX
8 9 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.19%) SAP HCM
9 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.17%) NEC Housing
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.17%) SAP MM
11 6 (0.15%) SAP PP
12 5 (0.12%) Primavera
12 5 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 698 (16.95%) Azure
2 470 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
3 382 (9.28%) AWS
4 271 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 147 (3.57%) SaaS
6 133 (3.23%) GCP
7 77 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 75 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
9 70 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
10 65 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.12%) GitHub
12 45 (1.09%) Power Automate
13 44 (1.07%) Serverless
14 36 (0.87%) PowerApps
15 31 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (0.66%) Amazon S3
16 27 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
17 26 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 188 (4.57%) Firewall
2 103 (2.50%) LAN
3 94 (2.28%) WAN
4 91 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
5 80 (1.94%) DNS
6 78 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.63%) Internet
8 63 (1.53%) SAN
9 60 (1.46%) Network Security
10 53 (1.29%) VPN
11 52 (1.26%) Broadband
12 51 (1.24%) DHCP
12 51 (1.24%) VoIP
13 48 (1.17%) Wireless
14 30 (0.73%) VLAN
15 27 (0.66%) BGP
16 20 (0.49%) PPP
17 18 (0.44%) NAS
18 16 (0.39%) SSL
19 15 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 221 (5.37%) Power BI
3 106 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (1.70%) MySQL
6 59 (1.43%) Tableau
7 58 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 53 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 41 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 36 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 31 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 30 (0.73%) Oracle Database
14 26 (0.63%) DynamoDB
15 23 (0.56%) Looker
16 21 (0.51%) Power Query
17 20 (0.49%) Big Data
18 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 187 (4.54%) Git
2 141 (3.42%) JIRA
3 37 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.58%) Selenium
5 23 (0.56%) CircleCI
6 16 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 14 (0.34%) JUnit
9 13 (0.32%) GitLab
9 13 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.29%) Subversion
11 11 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 8 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (0.17%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.17%) Gatling
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.12%) Mockito
14 5 (0.12%) Sourcetree
General
1 872 (21.18%) Finance
2 766 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 330 (8.01%) Organisational Skills
3 330 (8.01%) Retail
4 260 (6.31%) Legal
5 249 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 228 (5.54%) Marketing
7 177 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 177 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 173 (4.20%) Manufacturing
9 167 (4.06%) Law
10 153 (3.72%) Banking
11 95 (2.31%) Games
12 88 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 79 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 65 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 64 (1.55%) Billing
16 57 (1.38%) Local Government
17 56 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
18 55 (1.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 517 (12.55%) Analyst
2 453 (11.00%) Developer
3 434 (10.54%) Senior
4 366 (8.89%) Lead
5 281 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 200 (4.86%) Architect
7 199 (4.83%) IT Support
8 174 (4.23%) IT Manager
9 154 (3.74%) Support Engineer
10 130 (3.16%) Team Leader
11 114 (2.77%) Consultant
11 114 (2.77%) IT Engineer
12 105 (2.55%) Support Analyst
13 104 (2.53%) Administrator
13 104 (2.53%) Service Analyst
14 100 (2.43%) Coordinator
14 100 (2.43%) Software Engineer
15 97 (2.36%) Service Desk Analyst
16 87 (2.11%) IT Support Engineer
17 85 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (4.83%) .NET
2 158 (3.84%) HTML
3 150 (3.64%) CSS
4 89 (2.16%) React
5 78 (1.89%) RESTful
6 71 (1.72%) .NET Framework
7 68 (1.65%) AngularJS
8 67 (1.63%) Node.js
9 51 (1.24%) Laravel
10 48 (1.17%) Vue
11 47 (1.14%) Web Services
12 43 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
12 43 (1.04%) Entity Framework
13 42 (1.02%) ASP.NET
14 41 (1.00%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.92%) EDI
16 35 (0.85%) JSON
17 33 (0.80%) HTML5
18 32 (0.78%) REST
19 31 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 269 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
2 209 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 203 (4.93%) Driving Licence
4 92 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 82 (1.99%) NHS
6 62 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 60 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 53 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.19%) Housing Association
9 49 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.00%) Credit Risk
11 40 (0.97%) IoT
12 39 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (0.90%) Client/Server
13 37 (0.90%) Cloud Native
14 36 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 34 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 33 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
17 30 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
17 30 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 503 (12.21%) Windows
2 209 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 155 (3.76%) Linux
4 148 (3.59%) Windows 10
5 46 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 38 (0.92%) Mac OS
9 35 (0.85%) Android
10 33 (0.80%) Apple iOS
11 27 (0.66%) VMS
12 26 (0.63%) Windows 7
13 25 (0.61%) Unix
14 17 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.41%) Windows 8
14 17 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.19%) zOS
16 4 (0.097%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.097%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.073%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,278 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 808 (19.62%) Agile
3 613 (14.89%) Customer Service
4 577 (14.01%) Project Management
5 419 (10.17%) ITIL
6 406 (9.86%) Mentoring
7 399 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 315 (7.65%) DevOps
9 312 (7.58%) Computer Science
10 289 (7.02%) Decision-Making
11 288 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 285 (6.92%) Analytics
12 285 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
13 282 (6.85%) Coaching
14 253 (6.14%) Time Management
15 241 (5.85%) Roadmaps
16 231 (5.61%) Collaborative Working
17 212 (5.15%) Cybersecurity
18 199 (4.83%) ERP
18 199 (4.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 474 (11.51%) SQL
2 294 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 232 (5.63%) C#
4 184 (4.47%) Python
5 123 (2.99%) PHP
6 85 (2.06%) Java
7 82 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 78 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 42 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 32 (0.78%) Bash
11 28 (0.68%) SystemVerilog
12 23 (0.56%) R
13 22 (0.53%) C
14 19 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 18 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.41%) C++
17 16 (0.39%) Scala
18 14 (0.34%) Go
19 13 (0.32%) Swift
20 11 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 871 (21.15%) Degree
2 208 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 182 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 139 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 132 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 128 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 88 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 76 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 66 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.43%) PMP
11 53 (1.29%) ACCA
11 53 (1.29%) HND
12 52 (1.26%) HNC
13 43 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 42 (1.02%) CCNA
15 40 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 39 (0.95%) CCNP
17 32 (0.78%) CISSP
18 28 (0.68%) AWS Certification
18 28 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (4.47%) SLA
2 167 (4.06%) QA
3 116 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 109 (2.65%) GDPR
5 106 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 68 (1.65%) PMO
7 64 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 57 (1.38%) IFRS
9 53 (1.29%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.12%) GMP
11 31 (0.75%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.73%) IFRS 9
13 29 (0.70%) GAAP
14 28 (0.68%) NIST
15 22 (0.53%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
18 9 (0.22%) GRC
18 9 (0.22%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 394 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 120 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 107 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (2.31%) Docker
5 56 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 13 (0.32%) Terminal Services
8 12 (0.29%) Firmware
9 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.17%) XenApp
11 7 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.073%) ACF2
13 3 (0.073%) RACF
13 3 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.049%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.024%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 128 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (1.70%) Terraform
3 66 (1.60%) Kubernetes
4 45 (1.09%) SCCM
5 24 (0.58%) Ansible
6 21 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.29%) Autotask
8 11 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Grafana
10 8 (0.19%) SCOM
11 7 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.17%) Nagios
11 7 (0.17%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.097%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 975 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.98%) VMware
3 151 (3.67%) SAP
4 121 (2.94%) Cisco
5 112 (2.72%) Google
6 82 (1.99%) Oracle
7 54 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 53 (1.29%) Adobe
8 53 (1.29%) IBM
9 52 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 49 (1.19%) Citrix
11 47 (1.14%) Apple
12 45 (1.09%) Veeam
13 37 (0.90%) Cadence
13 37 (0.90%) Virgin Media
14 36 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 34 (0.83%) Dell
16 33 (0.80%) CA
17 32 (0.78%) HP
17 32 (0.78%) NEC