Social Skills Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 170 318 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 28.48% 26.68% 24.11%
As % of the General category 42.08% 44.04% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 190 150
10th Percentile £356 £205 £325
25th Percentile £450 £248 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £573
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -2.58% +20.53%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £688
90th Percentile £673 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.37% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £36.44 £31.75
25th Percentile - £50.13 £46.88
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year - +2.95% +327.41%
75th Percentile - £64.55 £66.21
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +4.50% -3.17% +260.00%

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 common skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Reading

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (17.65%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (14.12%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (7.06%) Maximo
3 12 (7.06%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.94%) Azure
2 27 (15.88%) AWS
3 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.53%) GCP
4 6 (3.53%) OCI
5 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.35%) SaaS
6 3 (1.76%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.76%) SonarCloud
7 2 (1.18%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.18%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) VLAN
2 7 (4.12%) BGP
3 6 (3.53%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (3.53%) MPLS
3 6 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (2.35%) 3G
5 4 (2.35%) 4G
5 4 (2.35%) 5G
5 4 (2.35%) LTE
5 4 (2.35%) VoLTE
5 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.35%) Wireless
5 4 (2.35%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.76%) 802.11
6 3 (1.76%) Firewall
6 3 (1.76%) LAN
6 3 (1.76%) VPN
6 3 (1.76%) WAN
7 2 (1.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.35%) Big Data
3 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.76%) SSDT
4 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.18%) Power BI
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.59%) HBase
5 1 (0.59%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.59%) Impala
5 1 (0.59%) Metadata
5 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) JIRA
2 8 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.12%) GitLab
3 7 (4.12%) Selenium
4 6 (3.53%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.53%) REST Assured
4 6 (3.53%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.94%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.76%) Snyk
7 2 (1.18%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.18%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.59%) CMake
8 1 (0.59%) Git
8 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (42.35%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (14.71%) Telecoms
3 20 (11.76%) Finance
4 14 (8.24%) Legal
5 11 (6.47%) Marketing
5 11 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.71%) Law
7 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Police
9 3 (1.76%) Billing
9 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.76%) Retail
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (14.71%) Consultant
2 23 (13.53%) Oracle Consultant
3 20 (11.76%) Functional Consultant
3 20 (11.76%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 18 (10.59%) Senior
5 17 (10.00%) Architect
6 15 (8.82%) Analyst
7 14 (8.24%) Lead
8 10 (5.88%) Tester
9 8 (4.71%) Resilience Manager
10 7 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.53%) Developer
11 6 (3.53%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Officer
12 5 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Scrum Master
12 5 (2.94%) Security Manager
12 5 (2.94%) Security Project Manager
12 5 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.12%) ARM Templates
1 7 (4.12%) REST
2 6 (3.53%) Java EE
3 5 (2.94%) OAuth
4 4 (2.35%) Web Services
5 3 (1.76%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.76%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.76%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.76%) YAML
6 2 (1.18%) .NET
6 2 (1.18%) Middleware
6 2 (1.18%) PySpark
6 2 (1.18%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.59%) ADO
7 1 (0.59%) CNTK
7 1 (0.59%) JSON
7 1 (0.59%) Kafka
7 1 (0.59%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.47%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.18%) IoT
6 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.18%) Podcast
6 2 (1.18%) Social Media
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.59%) CMDB
7 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Windows
2 5 (2.94%) Linux
3 3 (1.76%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) AIX
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (40.59%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (16.47%) Project Delivery
3 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (12.35%) DevOps
5 19 (11.18%) Agile
6 18 (10.59%) Project Management
7 16 (9.41%) Containerisation
8 15 (8.82%) E-business
8 15 (8.82%) Test Automation
9 14 (8.24%) Data Protection
10 12 (7.06%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (5.88%) Migration
12 9 (5.29%) B2C
12 9 (5.29%) CI/CD
12 9 (5.29%) Configuration Management
12 9 (5.29%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (5.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (5.29%) Logistics
12 9 (5.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.65%) Python
2 12 (7.06%) SQL
3 9 (5.29%) Java
4 4 (2.35%) C++
4 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.18%) C
6 2 (1.18%) R
6 2 (1.18%) Ruby
7 1 (0.59%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.59%) Bash
7 1 (0.59%) C#
7 1 (0.59%) Perl
7 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.35%) Degree
3 19 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.12%) ISEB
6 6 (3.53%) CISSP
7 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.76%) CISM
9 2 (1.18%) CCNP
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.18%) GPEN
9 2 (1.18%) GWAPT
9 2 (1.18%) OSCE
9 2 (1.18%) OSCP
9 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.18%) PMP
9 2 (1.18%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) NIST
2 5 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.94%) PMO
2 5 (2.94%) QA
3 4 (2.35%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.59%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (8.82%) Docker
2 4 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.24%) Ansible
3 10 (5.88%) Terraform
4 6 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (3.53%) Podman
5 5 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.76%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) SCCM
8 1 (0.59%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (18.82%) Oracle
2 20 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.94%) Cisco
3 5 (2.94%) SAP
3 5 (2.94%) VMware
4 4 (2.35%) Aruba
5 3 (1.76%) AirMagnet
5 3 (1.76%) Databricks
5 3 (1.76%) Ekahau
5 3 (1.76%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (1.76%) Juniper
5 3 (1.76%) Meraki
5 3 (1.76%) UiPath
6 2 (1.18%) BT
6 2 (1.18%) Cognos
6 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.18%) Empirix
6 2 (1.18%) NetScout
6 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.18%) Virgin Media