Social Skills Jobs in the Thames Valley

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,139 1,678 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 32.89% 22.11% 30.27%
As % of the General category 42.41% 42.83% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 422 1,109 775
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,686 3,918 3,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 77.56% 51.63% 63.80%
Number of salaries quoted 827 2,257 1,662
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -8.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,323 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.51%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Berkshire +1 601 £50,000 +4.17% 2,272
Oxfordshire 0 279 £42,500 -4.96% 617
Buckinghamshire -4 261 £41,137 -8.59% 885
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.49%) CMS
4 16 (1.40%) IBM Domino
5 11 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.79%) IIS
7 8 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.44%) Apache
8 5 (0.44%) Confluence
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.26%) Kentico
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.26%) InDesign
5 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.088%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.088%) Revit
7 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (1.40%) SAP FI
2 13 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.05%) Sage 200
4 11 (0.97%) Sage CRM
5 7 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.61%) Shopify
6 5 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.26%) Magento
9 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.088%) PORTIA
9 1 (0.088%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 188 (16.51%) Azure
2 89 (7.81%) AWS
3 86 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (4.65%) GCP
5 34 (2.99%) SaaS
6 28 (2.46%) Vertex AI
7 27 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 21 (1.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 18 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.23%) Salsify
12 13 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.05%) PaaS
14 10 (0.88%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.88%) iPaaS
15 8 (0.70%) Serverless
16 6 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.97%) TCP/IP
2 55 (4.83%) VPN
3 48 (4.21%) DNS
3 48 (4.21%) Firewall
4 27 (2.37%) WAN
4 27 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (2.28%) DHCP
6 25 (2.19%) LAN
7 21 (1.84%) VLAN
8 18 (1.58%) Broadband
8 18 (1.58%) VoIP
9 17 (1.49%) SAN
10 12 (1.05%) 5G
10 12 (1.05%) SNMP
11 9 (0.79%) Bluetooth
11 9 (0.79%) LTE
12 8 (0.70%) Network Security
13 7 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (0.53%) iSCSI
15 4 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.39%) Data Lake
2 37 (3.25%) Data Mining
3 32 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 31 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (1.58%) Metadata
6 18 (1.58%) Power BI
7 15 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.23%) Big Data
8 14 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.14%) MySQL
10 12 (1.05%) OLTP
11 11 (0.97%) Hadoop
11 11 (0.97%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.35%) Metabase
14 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (2.99%) Cucumber
1 34 (2.99%) Robot Framework
2 29 (2.55%) JIRA
3 21 (1.84%) Git
4 11 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.53%) GitLab
5 6 (0.53%) JUnit
6 4 (0.35%) Jasmine
6 4 (0.35%) NUnit
6 4 (0.35%) Subversion
6 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.26%) Mockito
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.088%) ERwin
9 1 (0.088%) Moq
9 1 (0.088%) SpecFlow
General
1 370 (32.48%) Finance
2 254 (22.30%) Law
3 233 (20.46%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.75%) Marketing
5 97 (8.52%) Legal
6 86 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
7 76 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (5.88%) Retail
9 64 (5.62%) Telecoms
10 48 (4.21%) Manufacturing
11 44 (3.86%) Public Sector
12 42 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (2.28%) Electronics
15 19 (1.67%) Banking
16 14 (1.23%) Automotive
17 10 (0.88%) Advertising
17 10 (0.88%) Local Government
17 10 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 227 (19.93%) Senior
2 172 (15.10%) Lead
3 167 (14.66%) Systems Manager
4 162 (14.22%) Resource Manager
5 98 (8.60%) Analyst
6 49 (4.30%) Support Analyst
7 44 (3.86%) Developer
7 44 (3.86%) Support Engineer
8 42 (3.69%) Architect
8 42 (3.69%) Senior Manager
9 38 (3.34%) IT Support
10 35 (3.07%) Project Manager
11 34 (2.99%) Test Automation Engineer
11 34 (2.99%) Test Engineer
12 32 (2.81%) 1st Line Support
13 30 (2.63%) Development Manager
13 30 (2.63%) Sales Executive
14 29 (2.55%) Business Development Manager
14 29 (2.55%) Business Manager
15 25 (2.19%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.37%) REST
2 24 (2.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 24 (2.11%) Middleware
3 23 (2.02%) SOAP
4 19 (1.67%) .NET
4 19 (1.67%) HTML
5 15 (1.32%) Kafka
6 14 (1.23%) JSON
6 14 (1.23%) React
7 13 (1.14%) Hugging Face
7 13 (1.14%) LangChain
7 13 (1.14%) PyTorch
7 13 (1.14%) TensorFlow
8 10 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.70%) CSS
9 8 (0.70%) Vue
10 7 (0.61%) RESTful
10 7 (0.61%) Spring
11 6 (0.53%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.44%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 61 (5.36%) Driving Licence
2 58 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 58 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
3 56 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 46 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 40 (3.51%) Algorithms
7 39 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
8 28 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.93%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.67%) Social Media
11 15 (1.32%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.23%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.05%) IoT
15 10 (0.88%) Replication
16 9 (0.79%) NB-IoT
16 9 (0.79%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 157 (13.78%) Windows
2 82 (7.20%) Linux
3 49 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.55%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.05%) Unix
6 11 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.088%) Android
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (28.62%) Analytics
3 267 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 230 (20.19%) Agile
4 230 (20.19%) ERP
5 229 (20.11%) Data Management
6 179 (15.72%) Project Management
7 177 (15.54%) Roadmaps
8 156 (13.70%) Computer Science
9 144 (12.64%) DevOps
10 142 (12.47%) Customer Service
11 126 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 122 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 117 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 117 (10.27%) Strategic Thinking
14 107 (9.39%) Data Science
14 107 (9.39%) Machine Learning
15 97 (8.52%) Project Delivery
16 90 (7.90%) Strategic Roadmap
17 85 (7.46%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.01%) SQL
2 102 (8.96%) Python
3 62 (5.44%) JavaScript
3 62 (5.44%) PowerShell
4 57 (5.00%) Bash
5 26 (2.28%) C#
5 26 (2.28%) Java
6 24 (2.11%) Apex Code
7 16 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 15 (1.32%) PL/SQL
9 14 (1.23%) C++
10 7 (0.61%) C
10 7 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.44%) Korn
11 5 (0.44%) Perl
12 4 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.35%) Go
12 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 283 (24.85%) Degree
2 82 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (5.36%) Master's Degree
4 43 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (3.60%) Security Cleared
6 31 (2.72%) SC Cleared
7 29 (2.55%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.37%) PMP
9 22 (1.93%) A+ Certification
10 19 (1.67%) MCP
11 11 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.97%) MCSE
11 11 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (0.79%) CISSP
13 9 (0.79%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.61%) MCSA
14 7 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
14 7 (0.61%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.21%) QA
2 37 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.37%) SLA
5 18 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (1.58%) GDPR
6 17 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.53%) NIST
10 5 (0.44%) GMP
10 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.26%) GRC
12 3 (0.26%) PMO
12 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) GxP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.088%) COBIT
14 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.76%) Docker
5 10 (0.88%) vSphere
6 5 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.35%) NFS
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.26%) GPFS
8 3 (0.26%) Lustre
8 3 (0.26%) vCloud
9 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.088%) HDFS
10 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (2.37%) Terraform
2 25 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.76%) Grafana
4 20 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.49%) Ansible
6 13 (1.14%) SCCM
7 12 (1.05%) Puppet
8 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.35%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.18%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.088%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.088%) Argo
11 1 (0.088%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.088%) Netcool
11 1 (0.088%) WSUS
Vendors
1 261 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.83%) Google
3 52 (4.57%) SAP
4 43 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 41 (3.60%) OpenAI
6 40 (3.51%) VMware
7 30 (2.63%) Oracle
8 22 (1.93%) Concur
9 21 (1.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (1.67%) Workday
11 13 (1.14%) Databricks
12 12 (1.05%) Sage
13 11 (0.97%) Apple
13 11 (0.97%) Cisco
14 10 (0.88%) Dell
14 10 (0.88%) Sophos
15 9 (0.79%) Adobe
15 9 (0.79%) Splunk
16 8 (0.70%) arcserve
17 6 (0.53%) PeopleSoft