Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Reading

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 267 171 277
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 23.40% 28.50% 24.38%
As % of the General category 42.58% 45.60% 43.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 97 144
10th Percentile £349 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £536 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.63% +7.95%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £620
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -6.77% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 15 6
10th Percentile £19.34 - £33.30
25th Percentile £31.31 £14.75 £52.15
Median hourly rate £82.21 £17.30 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +375.17% -71.92% +47.24%
75th Percentile £85.36 £38.42 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £60.25 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £80.00 £28.00 £59.95
% change year-on-year +185.71% -53.29% +71.29%

All General Skills
Reading

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 627 375 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 54.95% 62.50% 55.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 227 291
10th Percentile £375 £350 £275
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -7.33% +11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £700 £699
Berkshire median daily rate £534 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +1.64% -2.78% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 17 33
10th Percentile £21.25 - £14.50
25th Percentile £78.06 £14.75 £49.00
Median hourly rate £84.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +304.82% -66.31% -4.75%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £76.99
90th Percentile £104.50 £60.50 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
% change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +20.99%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Reading

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Reading over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Reading over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.75%) IIS
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (4.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) Lectora
Business Applications
1 9 (3.37%) iTrent
2 7 (2.62%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.50%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.37%) Primavera
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.09%) Azure
2 45 (16.85%) AWS
3 20 (7.49%) GCP
4 19 (7.12%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.12%) SaaS
5 11 (4.12%) SuccessFactors
6 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.62%) GitHub
8 7 (2.62%) OCI
8 7 (2.62%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.50%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.75%) IaaS
10 2 (0.75%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.75%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.74%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.99%) DNS
3 14 (5.24%) Firewall
4 13 (4.87%) DHCP
5 12 (4.49%) MPLS
6 11 (4.12%) BGP
6 11 (4.12%) WAN
7 10 (3.75%) 2G
7 10 (3.75%) 3G
7 10 (3.75%) 4G
7 10 (3.75%) 5G
7 10 (3.75%) Diameter Protocol
7 10 (3.75%) LAN
7 10 (3.75%) SIGTRAN
7 10 (3.75%) SS7
8 9 (3.37%) Network Security
9 6 (2.25%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (2.25%) VoIP
10 5 (1.87%) SNMP
10 5 (1.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.37%) Power BI
2 10 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.25%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.25%) Tableau
6 5 (1.87%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.50%) Big Data
7 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.75%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (3.37%) Git
2 8 (3.00%) JIRA
3 5 (1.87%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (1.50%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (11.24%) Aerospace
3 29 (10.86%) Finance
4 18 (6.74%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Legal
7 9 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.25%) Advertising
8 6 (2.25%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Aviation
11 3 (1.12%) Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Billing
12 2 (0.75%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.75%) Local Government
12 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (15.36%) Analyst
2 38 (14.23%) Lead
3 27 (10.11%) Architect
4 26 (9.74%) Consultant
5 19 (7.12%) Data Analyst
6 17 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 16 (5.99%) Senior
8 12 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.49%) Designer
8 12 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.37%) Change Manager
9 9 (3.37%) Mobile Designer
9 9 (3.37%) Network Architect
10 8 (3.00%) HR Analyst
10 8 (3.00%) Product Manager
10 8 (3.00%) Product Owner
10 8 (3.00%) Security Analyst
10 8 (3.00%) Security Manager
11 7 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.62%) Operations Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.12%) LDAP
2 9 (3.37%) NETCONF
2 9 (3.37%) YANG
3 8 (3.00%) REST
4 6 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.87%) PySpark
6 4 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.50%) NestJS
6 4 (1.50%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 4 (1.50%) RESTCONF
6 4 (1.50%) XML
7 3 (1.12%) Kafka
7 3 (1.12%) OAuth
7 3 (1.12%) SAML
7 3 (1.12%) Web Services
8 2 (0.75%) OpenID
8 2 (0.75%) React
8 2 (0.75%) RESTful
8 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.12%) Data Centre
1 19 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (5.99%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.87%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.49%) Operational Technology
5 12 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (4.12%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.00%) SCADA
8 7 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.25%) Fibre Optics
9 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.37%) Windows
2 12 (4.49%) Linux
3 8 (3.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.25%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.25%) Unix
5 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (36.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (23.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 56 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (16.48%) Agile
6 43 (16.10%) DevOps
7 42 (15.73%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (14.61%) ITIL
9 34 (12.73%) Migration
9 34 (12.73%) Roadmaps
10 33 (12.36%) Analytics
11 30 (11.24%) ITSM
12 29 (10.86%) Change Management
13 27 (10.11%) Data Protection
14 24 (8.99%) Service Management
15 22 (8.24%) Project Delivery
15 22 (8.24%) Risk Management
16 21 (7.87%) AI
17 20 (7.49%) Service Delivery
18 19 (7.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.23%) Python
2 25 (9.36%) SQL
3 19 (7.12%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.87%) Bash
5 8 (3.00%) Java
6 6 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.50%) Korn
8 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (0.75%) Go
10 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.75%) Scala
10 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.37%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) C++
11 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 83 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.23%) Degree
4 19 (7.12%) CISSP
5 18 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (6.74%) PMI Certification
5 18 (6.74%) PMP
6 15 (5.62%) CISM
7 11 (4.12%) CCIE
8 10 (3.75%) JNCIE
9 8 (3.00%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.00%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.87%) BICSI Certification
11 5 (1.87%) City & Guilds
12 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.36%) NIST
2 20 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.87%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.00%) GRC
4 8 (3.00%) QA
5 7 (2.62%) GDPR
6 6 (2.25%) Def Stans
6 6 (2.25%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.25%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.50%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.50%) PMO
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.37%) ITGC
9 1 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.62%) Docker
3 6 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (8.61%) Ansible
2 20 (7.49%) Terraform
3 14 (5.24%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.25%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.12%) Grafana
7 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.75%) Istio
8 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
9 1 (0.37%) SCOM
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.99%) Oracle
3 22 (8.24%) SAP
4 21 (7.87%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.62%) Workday
6 14 (5.24%) Cisco
7 11 (4.12%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.62%) Databricks
9 6 (2.25%) F5
9 6 (2.25%) Juniper
9 6 (2.25%) VMware
10 5 (1.87%) Remedy
11 4 (1.50%) Ariba
11 4 (1.50%) BMC
11 4 (1.50%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.50%) Google
11 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.12%) Virgin Media
13 2 (0.75%) Concur