Social Skills Jobs in Reading

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Social Skills 134 321 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 24.81% 20.24% 31.12%
As % of the General category 44.08% 45.47% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 78 154 217
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,763 £28,300
25th Percentile £28,875 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,938 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £78,000
Berkshire median annual salary £43,710 £51,500 £53,760
% change year-on-year -15.13% -4.20% +7.52%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Reading.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 304 706 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 56.30% 44.51% 64.57%
Number of salaries quoted 166 323 372
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.31% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,125 £52,525
% change year-on-year +1.62% +3.05% -4.50%

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
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Reading over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Salary histogram 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 12 (8.96%) CMS
2 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (2.99%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Shopify
4 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.15%) Azure
2 23 (17.16%) SaaS
3 16 (11.94%) AWS
4 10 (7.46%) iPaaS
4 10 (7.46%) PaaS
5 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.73%) GCP
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.73%) Serverless
8 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) DNS
2 6 (4.48%) Firewall
2 6 (4.48%) LAN
2 6 (4.48%) WAN
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) Broadband
4 2 (1.49%) DHCP
4 2 (1.49%) FTP
4 2 (1.49%) HTTP
4 2 (1.49%) SMTP
4 2 (1.49%) SSH
4 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.49%) Metadata
4 2 (1.49%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Git
1 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.73%) JIRA
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.49%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
General
1 40 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (26.87%) Marketing
3 32 (23.88%) Finance
4 30 (22.39%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (12.69%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (11.19%) Legal
7 9 (6.72%) Automotive
7 9 (6.72%) Banking
7 9 (6.72%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.48%) German Language
9 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.73%) Billing
10 5 (3.73%) Law
10 5 (3.73%) Retail
11 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.49%) Advertising
12 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.75%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 15 (11.19%) Consultant
2 13 (9.70%) Architect
3 12 (8.96%) Lead
4 11 (8.21%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (6.72%) Developer
5 9 (6.72%) Marketing Manager
6 8 (5.97%) Analyst
6 8 (5.97%) Product Manager
6 8 (5.97%) Product Marketing Manager
6 8 (5.97%) Support Specialist
6 8 (5.97%) Technical Specialist
6 8 (5.97%) Technical Support
6 8 (5.97%) Technical Support Specialist
7 7 (5.22%) Applications Architect
7 7 (5.22%) IT Architect
7 7 (5.22%) IT Support
7 7 (5.22%) Recruitment Consultant
7 7 (5.22%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 6 (4.48%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) .NET
1 5 (3.73%) Loki
1 5 (3.73%) React
2 4 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.99%) Kafka
2 4 (2.99%) Mustache
2 4 (2.99%) Node.js
2 4 (2.99%) REST
2 4 (2.99%) Spring
2 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.99%) Web Services
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.75%) CSS
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) HTML5
5 1 (0.75%) Next.js
5 1 (0.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.94%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (9.70%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (6.72%) Social Media
5 8 (5.97%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (5.22%) Driving Licence
7 6 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.48%) Virtual Team
8 5 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.99%) Hackathon
9 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.49%) Acoustics
11 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.49%) PKI
11 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.49%) Replication
12 1 (0.75%) Derivative
12 1 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.96%) Windows
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.49%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) VMS
4 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.37%) Agile
2 31 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (20.90%) CRM
4 27 (20.15%) Mentoring
5 18 (13.43%) B2B
5 18 (13.43%) Marketing Automation
6 16 (11.94%) ERP
7 15 (11.19%) Analytics
7 15 (11.19%) Customer Service
7 15 (11.19%) Migration
7 15 (11.19%) Project Management
7 15 (11.19%) Risk Management
8 14 (10.45%) CI/CD
8 14 (10.45%) Coaching
8 14 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (10.45%) DevOps
8 14 (10.45%) ITIL
9 13 (9.70%) Product Marketing
10 12 (8.96%) Strategic Thinking
11 11 (8.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.72%) SQL
2 6 (4.48%) Java
3 5 (3.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.73%) Python
4 4 (2.99%) C#
4 4 (2.99%) Go
5 3 (2.24%) Bash
5 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.49%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.49%) C
6 2 (1.49%) C++
6 2 (1.49%) Fortran
6 2 (1.49%) Groovy
6 2 (1.49%) Perl
6 2 (1.49%) SOQL
6 2 (1.49%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (23.13%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) A+ Certification
2 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
2 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.49%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.49%) PhD
6 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.75%) ACCA
7 1 (0.75%) CEH
7 1 (0.75%) CIMA
7 1 (0.75%) CISA
7 1 (0.75%) ISEB
7 1 (0.75%) OSCP
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) SLA
2 5 (3.73%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.49%) GxP
5 2 (1.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (5.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.97%) Terraform
3 7 (5.22%) Grafana
3 7 (5.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.48%) Oracle
4 4 (2.99%) Google
4 4 (2.99%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) VMware
6 2 (1.49%) IBM
6 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Cognos
7 1 (0.75%) Concur
7 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.75%) Genesys
7 1 (0.75%) NEC
7 1 (0.75%) PeopleSoft