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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 2,166 2,246 2,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.71% 29.16% 22.37%
As % of the General category 40.65% 43.03% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 960 1,124
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,003 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,782 £82,500 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,329 5,220 5,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 53.41% 67.77% 61.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,941 2,406 3,071
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,625
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 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 18 May 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 18 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
Manchester +1 1,166 £48,000 -16.52% 581
Cheshire 0 436 £39,000 -13.33% 244
Merseyside -2 256 £35,000 -17.65% 140
Lancashire -4 207 £41,867 +4.67% 139
Cumbria +2 85 £37,500 -16.67% 48
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 53 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.15%) Confluence
4 16 (0.74%) WordPress
5 15 (0.69%) CMS
5 15 (0.69%) IIS
5 15 (0.69%) SAS
6 8 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.37%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.32%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.092%) Apache
10 1 (0.046%) Drupal
10 1 (0.046%) Jetty
10 1 (0.046%) nginx
10 1 (0.046%) OpenStack
Applications
1 170 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.69%) Photoshop
5 13 (0.60%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.32%) Sketch
7 7 (0.32%) Trello
8 6 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.23%) InDesign
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) 3ds Max
12 2 (0.092%) InVision
12 2 (0.092%) SPSS
12 2 (0.092%) Stata
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.78%) Shopify
4 14 (0.65%) SAP Business One
5 10 (0.46%) SAP BPC
6 9 (0.42%) Magento
6 9 (0.42%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.32%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.23%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.18%) Primavera
11 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.18%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 299 (13.80%) Azure
2 201 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (7.71%) AWS
4 144 (6.65%) Power Platform
5 67 (3.09%) SaaS
6 57 (2.63%) GCP
7 36 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (1.02%) GitHub
11 21 (0.97%) Entra ID
12 19 (0.88%) Serverless
13 18 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (0.69%) Figma
15 13 (0.60%) PaaS
16 12 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (0.55%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (0.51%) IaaS
18 9 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.46%) Firewall
2 57 (2.63%) LAN
3 50 (2.31%) WAN
4 47 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 46 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 44 (2.03%) DNS
7 35 (1.62%) Broadband
7 35 (1.62%) VoIP
8 32 (1.48%) Wireless
9 31 (1.43%) Internet
10 27 (1.25%) DHCP
11 23 (1.06%) BGP
12 22 (1.02%) Network Security
13 20 (0.92%) PPP
14 15 (0.69%) OSPF
14 15 (0.69%) SAN
15 14 (0.65%) VPN
16 10 (0.46%) Ethernet
17 9 (0.42%) MPLS
17 9 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.36%) Power BI
2 104 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 46 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (1.85%) Tableau
6 32 (1.48%) MySQL
6 32 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 27 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (0.74%) Oracle Database
11 16 (0.74%) Power Query
12 14 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.55%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.51%) Redis
16 10 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 85 (3.92%) Git
2 63 (2.91%) JIRA
3 24 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.74%) TeamCity
5 9 (0.42%) Eclipse
5 9 (0.42%) Subversion
6 7 (0.32%) Gatling
6 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.23%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.18%) GitLab
8 4 (0.18%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.18%) JUnit
8 4 (0.18%) Mockito
8 4 (0.18%) Selenium
9 3 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.14%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 470 (21.70%) Finance
2 398 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 204 (9.42%) Retail
4 138 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 128 (5.91%) Legal
6 126 (5.82%) Public Sector
7 125 (5.77%) Marketing
8 112 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 109 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
10 78 (3.60%) Law
11 66 (3.05%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.54%) Games
13 53 (2.45%) Banking
14 52 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 46 (2.12%) Billing
16 39 (1.80%) Local Government
17 37 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
18 36 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
19 30 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
20 24 (1.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 249 (11.50%) Analyst
2 242 (11.17%) Developer
3 226 (10.43%) Senior
4 149 (6.88%) Project Manager
5 142 (6.56%) Lead
6 110 (5.08%) IT Support
7 103 (4.76%) IT Manager
8 99 (4.57%) Architect
9 77 (3.55%) Consultant
10 70 (3.23%) Software Engineer
10 70 (3.23%) Support Analyst
11 66 (3.05%) Administrator
12 60 (2.77%) Support Engineer
13 59 (2.72%) IT Engineer
14 54 (2.49%) Coordinator
15 48 (2.22%) Business Manager
16 46 (2.12%) Business Analyst
16 46 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.03%) Development Manager
17 44 (2.03%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (4.25%) HTML
2 88 (4.06%) .NET
3 78 (3.60%) CSS
4 37 (1.71%) Laravel
5 36 (1.66%) React
6 33 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 31 (1.43%) RESTful
8 29 (1.34%) Node.js
9 25 (1.15%) Vue
10 23 (1.06%) REST
10 23 (1.06%) Web Services
11 22 (1.02%) GraphQL
12 21 (0.97%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (0.83%) HTML5
13 18 (0.83%) JSON
14 16 (0.74%) .NET Core
15 15 (0.69%) React Native
15 15 (0.69%) Spring Boot
16 14 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 195 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
2 88 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 79 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 58 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
6 33 (1.52%) NHS
7 26 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 26 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.15%) EPoS
9 24 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.02%) Blog
10 22 (1.02%) Housing Association
11 21 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 20 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (0.92%) Security Posture
13 19 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 19 (0.88%) PMI
14 15 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 201 (9.28%) Windows
2 84 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 83 (3.83%) Linux
4 47 (2.17%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.06%) Android
6 21 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.78%) VMS
7 17 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.74%) Unix
9 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.28%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.18%) Windows Vista
14 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.046%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
2 417 (19.25%) Agile
3 337 (15.56%) Project Management
4 280 (12.93%) Customer Service
5 211 (9.74%) Mentoring
6 196 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 177 (8.17%) DevOps
8 172 (7.94%) Decision-Making
9 170 (7.85%) Analytics
10 169 (7.80%) ITIL
11 166 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 154 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
13 140 (6.46%) Computer Science
14 135 (6.23%) Coaching
15 129 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
16 126 (5.82%) Roadmaps
16 126 (5.82%) Time Management
17 120 (5.54%) ERP
18 114 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
18 114 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (10.16%) SQL
2 130 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 106 (4.89%) C#
4 105 (4.85%) Python
5 63 (2.91%) Java
6 53 (2.45%) PHP
7 34 (1.57%) T-SQL
8 31 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 21 (0.97%) C
10 19 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.83%) Bash
12 16 (0.74%) Scala
13 14 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.60%) Go
15 12 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
16 9 (0.42%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.37%) Rust
18 7 (0.32%) C++
18 7 (0.32%) Swift
18 7 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 465 (21.47%) Degree
2 121 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 96 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (2.40%) DBS Check
6 50 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 49 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.80%) ACCA
9 37 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.62%) PMP
11 30 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.15%) CIMA
12 25 (1.15%) HND
13 22 (1.02%) CCNP
14 21 (0.97%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.92%) CCNA
15 20 (0.92%) HNC
15 20 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 18 (0.83%) CISSP
17 17 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (4.11%) SLA
2 87 (4.02%) QA
3 57 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.63%) GDPR
4 44 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 33 (1.52%) PMO
7 28 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.02%) IFRS
9 16 (0.74%) NIST
10 15 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.65%) GAAP
11 14 (0.65%) GMP
12 12 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.37%) IFRS 9
15 7 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
15 7 (0.32%) GxP
16 6 (0.28%) GLP
17 5 (0.23%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 164 (7.57%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 45 (2.08%) Docker
5 24 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 8 (0.37%) Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.046%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.046%) Lustre
10 1 (0.046%) Postfix
10 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.15%) Terraform
3 17 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 11 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) SCCM
7 5 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 4 (0.18%) Grafana
8 4 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.18%) Nessus
8 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
8 4 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.18%) VxRail
8 4 (0.18%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.14%) Puppet
9 3 (0.14%) SELinux
9 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.092%) Icinga
Vendors
1 455 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.06%) SAP
3 66 (3.05%) VMware
4 44 (2.03%) Cisco
5 43 (1.99%) Oracle
6 37 (1.71%) Apple
7 34 (1.57%) Adobe
7 34 (1.57%) Google
7 34 (1.57%) Virgin Media
8 31 (1.43%) NEC
9 25 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 20 (0.92%) IBM
12 19 (0.88%) Cadence
12 19 (0.88%) HP
13 18 (0.83%) Veeam
14 17 (0.78%) CA
15 15 (0.69%) Facebook
16 14 (0.65%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.65%) Sophos