Social Skills Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 252 529 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 23.38% 26.16% 31.11%
As % of the General category 27.36% 43.97% 47.54%
Number of salaries quoted 130 341 165
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £26,313 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £46,787
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -3.82% +4.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 921 1,203 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 85.44% 59.50% 65.44%
Number of salaries quoted 264 613 405
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £30,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £48,687
Median % change year-on-year - -7.57% -2.63%
75th Percentile £59,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,433 £75,000 £79,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Buckinghamshire.

Salary trend for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes -1 63 £52,500 +10.53% 128
Marlow +11 39 £25,500 -32.00% 8
Bletchley +7 14 £41,250 - 10
Newport Pagnell +8 12 £49,234 - 1
High Wycombe +1 12 £57,500 +139.58% 13
Gerrards Cross -5 12 £60,000 -
Buckingham -2 7 £29,000 +10.48% 5
Aylesbury -1 6 £50,967 +63.09% 9
Princes Risborough -2 5 £44,234 +37.16% 2
Iver +2 3 £50,967 -
Amersham -5 3 £43,773 +25.07% 4
Chesham -5 3 £57,984 +28.85% 3
Beaconsfield -6 2 £50,967 +13.26% 5
Olney - 2 £50,967 -
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 14 (5.56%) IBM Domino
2 9 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.79%) InDesign
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.92%) Azure
2 19 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.16%) AWS
3 13 (5.16%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.38%) GCP
5 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.19%) OneDrive
5 3 (1.19%) SaaS
6 2 (0.79%) Cloudflare
6 2 (0.79%) Contentsquare
6 2 (0.79%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.40%) Serverless
7 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.92%) TCP/IP
1 25 (9.92%) VPN
2 16 (6.35%) Firewall
3 11 (4.37%) 5G
4 10 (3.97%) VoIP
5 9 (3.57%) Bluetooth
5 9 (3.57%) LTE
5 9 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.78%) Broadband
7 4 (1.59%) Network Security
7 4 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.59%) WAN
8 2 (0.79%) 4G
8 2 (0.79%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.79%) LAN
8 2 (0.79%) SAN
8 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.40%) IPv4
9 1 (0.40%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.78%) Power BI
4 6 (2.38%) MySQL
5 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.79%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) Impala
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Cucumber
1 25 (9.92%) Robot Framework
2 14 (5.56%) JIRA
3 8 (3.17%) Git
4 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.59%) Subversion
5 3 (1.19%) GitLab
5 3 (1.19%) JUnit
5 3 (1.19%) Mockito
6 2 (0.79%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.79%) NUnit
6 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) ERwin
General
1 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (18.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (16.67%) Finance
4 37 (14.68%) Telecoms
5 27 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (7.14%) Electronics
7 15 (5.95%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.16%) Marketing
9 8 (3.17%) Spanish Language
10 7 (2.78%) Legal
11 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.98%) Banking
13 4 (1.59%) Aviation
13 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.19%) Law
14 3 (1.19%) Multimedia
14 3 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (24.21%) Analyst
2 27 (10.71%) Business Change Analyst
2 27 (10.71%) Change Analyst
3 26 (10.32%) Support Analyst
4 25 (9.92%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (9.92%) Test Engineer
5 24 (9.52%) Graduate
5 24 (9.52%) Graduate Sales Executive
5 24 (9.52%) Sales Executive
6 21 (8.33%) Lead
7 19 (7.54%) 1st Line Support
8 16 (6.35%) Senior
9 15 (5.95%) Developer
10 14 (5.56%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 12 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) IT Support
12 10 (3.97%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Systems Manager
14 8 (3.17%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.17%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.37%) AngularJS
2 10 (3.97%) .NET
3 6 (2.38%) React
4 5 (1.98%) RESTful
4 5 (1.98%) Vue
5 3 (1.19%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.19%) CSS
5 3 (1.19%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.19%) HTML
5 3 (1.19%) Kafka
5 3 (1.19%) OAuth
5 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.19%) Spring
5 3 (1.19%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.79%) CSS3
6 2 (0.79%) HTML5
6 2 (0.79%) Jest
6 2 (0.79%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.92%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.37%) IoT
3 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.57%) NB-IoT
5 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.59%) CPLD
6 4 (1.59%) FPGA
6 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.19%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.79%) Freedom of Information Act
8 2 (0.79%) Online Games
8 2 (0.79%) Social Media
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.40%) Animation
9 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.43%) Windows
2 37 (14.68%) Linux
3 15 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.46%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (17.06%) Mentoring
4 41 (16.27%) Strategic Thinking
5 37 (14.68%) Collaborative Working
5 37 (14.68%) DevOps
6 35 (13.89%) Change Management
7 32 (12.70%) Coaching
7 32 (12.70%) Customer Service
7 32 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (12.70%) Test Automation
8 30 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (11.90%) Use Case
9 29 (11.51%) Artificial Intelligence
9 29 (11.51%) Business Analysis
10 28 (11.11%) Business Case
11 27 (10.71%) Customer Experience
11 27 (10.71%) MoSCoW
11 27 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
12 26 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.22%) Python
2 39 (15.48%) SQL
3 37 (14.68%) Bash
3 37 (14.68%) PowerShell
4 31 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.75%) C#
6 14 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.17%) Java
8 4 (1.59%) C
8 4 (1.59%) C++
9 2 (0.79%) Korn
9 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (26.59%) Degree
2 27 (10.71%) CBAP
3 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (5.16%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.98%) MCSE
8 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) MCSA
9 3 (1.19%) CISSP
9 3 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.79%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.79%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.79%) CISMP
10 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) APMP
11 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.71%) QA
2 9 (3.57%) SLA
3 2 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 9 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (3.57%) vSphere
2 6 (2.38%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (4.76%) Terraform
2 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 9 (3.57%) Puppet
4 6 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.40%) Nessus
5 1 (0.40%) Netcool
5 1 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.37%) VMware
3 6 (2.38%) Splunk
4 4 (1.59%) Adobe
4 4 (1.59%) Agilent
4 4 (1.59%) SAP
5 3 (1.19%) AlienVault
5 3 (1.19%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.79%) Apple
6 2 (0.79%) ConnectWise
6 2 (0.79%) Dell
6 2 (0.79%) Freshdesk
6 2 (0.79%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.79%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.40%) Informatica
7 1 (0.40%) Nokia
7 1 (0.40%) Sage
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) Tenable