Social Skills Contracts in Wokingham

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 5 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 33 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 18.64% 11.43% 29.17%
As % of the General category 54.10% 40.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 9
10th Percentile £400 £405 £274
25th Percentile £405 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £563
90th Percentile £663 £605 -
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.37% -9.52% +10.53%

All General Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61 20 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 34.46% 28.57% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 16
10th Percentile £338 £310 £308
25th Percentile £394 £366 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £497 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.12% +7.89%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £678
90th Percentile £663 £869 £925
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.30 - -
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 Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Wokingham

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Wokingham

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Wokingham

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Wokingham

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Figma
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) BIG-IP
1 2 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (6.06%) IP Telephony
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) PBX
1 2 (6.06%) SSL
1 2 (6.06%) VoIP
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) Big Data
1 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) AdminStudio
1 2 (6.06%) MSI
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Billing
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Lead Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Security Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Project Leader
5 2 (6.06%) Voice Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Axis
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.03%) NumPy
2 1 (3.03%) Pandas
2 1 (3.03%) Prophet
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) SAML
2 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.03%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) CMDB
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) PMI
4 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.18%) ITIL
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Data Security
4 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
5 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.09%) High Availability
5 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 3 (9.09%) Microservices
5 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.06%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (6.06%) Event-Driven
6 2 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) CISSP
2 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) CEH
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) CCSK
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISM
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) GIAC
4 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.03%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) SCCM
1 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.06%) ThinApp
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco
2 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
2 2 (6.06%) F5
2 2 (6.06%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) Ivanti
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Juniper
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce