Social Skills Job Trends 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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 942 973 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 16.74% 28.95% 24.37%
As % of the General category 37.82% 37.85% 45.91%
Number of salaries quoted 501 369 1,144
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,125 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,536 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £70,775
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year -3.16% +6.74% -11.00%

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 general skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,491 2,571 3,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.27% 76.50% 53.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 764 2,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,272 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,063 £60,643
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,800 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 2026. 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 0 398 £47,500 -5.00% 244
Buckinghamshire +3 331 £50,000 - 110
Oxfordshire 0 213 £50,000 -9.09% 84
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.21%) Apache
4 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.21%) Gentran
4 2 (0.21%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.21%) WordPress
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.11%) Camunda
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 128 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.21%) InDesign
7 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.96%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.96%) SAP CO
2 5 (0.53%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 318 (33.76%) Azure
2 117 (12.42%) Power Platform
3 84 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (8.60%) Azure AI
5 68 (7.22%) AWS
6 27 (2.87%) SaaS
7 26 (2.76%) GCP
8 20 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (1.17%) Asana
9 11 (1.17%) Google Workspace
9 11 (1.17%) Sprout Social
10 10 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.06%) OpenShift
11 8 (0.85%) GitHub
12 7 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.74%) Figma
12 7 (0.74%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.63%) Firewall
2 26 (2.76%) DNS
3 22 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (2.23%) Internet
4 21 (2.23%) VPN
5 17 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.70%) WAN
7 12 (1.27%) Network Security
7 12 (1.27%) SAN
7 12 (1.27%) Wireshark
8 10 (1.06%) PBX
8 10 (1.06%) VoIP
9 8 (0.85%) DECT
9 8 (0.85%) DSL
9 8 (0.85%) iSCSI
9 8 (0.85%) LAN
9 8 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (0.85%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.85%) VLAN
10 7 (0.74%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (12.00%) Power BI
2 78 (8.28%) Tableau
3 21 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.38%) MySQL
6 11 (1.17%) GIS
7 10 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.96%) Metadata
9 7 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.42%) OLTP
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.21%) Power Query
11 2 (0.21%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.21%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.11%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.11%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.11%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 32 (3.40%) JIRA
2 24 (2.55%) Git
3 16 (1.70%) GitLab
4 6 (0.64%) Selenium
5 5 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.53%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.42%) Postman
6 4 (0.42%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.42%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.21%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) JUnit
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
1 163 (17.30%) Finance
2 85 (9.02%) Organisational Skills
3 75 (7.96%) Marketing
4 67 (7.11%) Influencing Skills
5 65 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 40 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 34 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 33 (3.50%) Retail
10 29 (3.08%) Law
11 27 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 25 (2.65%) Banking
12 25 (2.65%) Legal
13 17 (1.80%) Electronics
14 13 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.85%) Advertising
15 8 (0.85%) Japanese Language
16 7 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 241 (25.58%) Analyst
2 130 (13.80%) Junior
3 127 (13.48%) Junior Analyst
4 94 (9.98%) Senior
5 79 (8.39%) Data Analyst
6 67 (7.11%) Security Analyst
7 65 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 63 (6.69%) IT Support
8 63 (6.69%) Junior Data Analyst
8 63 (6.69%) Junior Security Analyst
9 45 (4.78%) Ethical Hacker
9 45 (4.78%) Lead
10 39 (4.14%) Developer
10 39 (4.14%) Senior Manager
11 38 (4.03%) Support Analyst
12 37 (3.93%) Development Manager
13 36 (3.82%) Architect
14 34 (3.61%) Project Manager
15 29 (3.08%) IT Technician
15 29 (3.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.72%) .NET
2 30 (3.18%) REST
3 27 (2.87%) JSON
4 17 (1.80%) HTML
5 15 (1.59%) Middleware
5 15 (1.59%) SOAP
6 13 (1.38%) YAML
7 12 (1.27%) XML
8 10 (1.06%) Jinja
8 10 (1.06%) React
9 9 (0.96%) SAP CO-PA
10 6 (0.64%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.64%) CSS
10 6 (0.64%) Django
10 6 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (0.64%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.53%) Twisted
11 5 (0.53%) Web Services
11 5 (0.53%) WebSockets
11 5 (0.53%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (4.78%) Cyberattack
3 41 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 39 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.18%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.34%) IoT
8 20 (2.12%) Life Science
9 19 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.70%) NHS
11 15 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
13 13 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.27%) Social Media
15 11 (1.17%) Video Editing
16 10 (1.06%) Hackathon
17 9 (0.96%) Security Posture
18 8 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
18 8 (0.85%) PKI
19 7 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 81 (8.60%) Windows
2 48 (5.10%) Linux
3 33 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.64%) Unix
6 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) CentOS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
2 190 (20.17%) Cybersecurity
3 165 (17.52%) AI
4 133 (14.12%) Agile
5 126 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 124 (13.16%) Decision-Making
7 123 (13.06%) Mentoring
8 115 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
9 101 (10.72%) Customer Service
10 77 (8.17%) Analytics
11 70 (7.43%) CRM
12 67 (7.11%) Project Management
13 66 (7.01%) Computer Science
14 55 (5.84%) ITIL
15 53 (5.63%) CI/CD
16 51 (5.41%) DevOps
17 49 (5.20%) ERP
18 47 (4.99%) Risk Management
19 46 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
20 45 (4.78%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 162 (17.20%) Python
2 144 (15.29%) SQL
3 33 (3.50%) C#
3 33 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.29%) Java
5 15 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.49%) VBA
7 12 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.96%) Bash
9 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.64%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.64%) C
10 6 (0.64%) Korn
11 4 (0.42%) C++
12 3 (0.32%) Groovy
12 3 (0.32%) Pascal
12 3 (0.32%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) ABAP
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 237 (25.16%) Degree
2 209 (22.19%) Azure Certification
3 71 (7.54%) Security Cleared
4 69 (7.32%) CompTIA Security+
5 66 (7.01%) CompTIA CySA+
6 46 (4.88%) SC Cleared
7 45 (4.78%) CEH
8 40 (4.25%) Master's Degree
9 36 (3.82%) ACCA
10 34 (3.61%) PMP
11 33 (3.50%) DV Cleared
12 32 (3.40%) CIMA
12 32 (3.40%) PMI Certification
13 30 (3.18%) A+ Certification
14 29 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (2.76%) PhD
16 22 (2.34%) CCNA
16 22 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
17 21 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
18 20 (2.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.99%) QA
2 41 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.44%) GDPR
4 21 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.80%) PMO
6 17 (1.80%) SLA
7 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.53%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.53%) NIST
9 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.42%) GRC
9 4 (0.42%) GxP
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.32%) IFRS
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.12%) Docker
3 8 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.64%) vSphere
5 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) Samba
6 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.27%) Terraform
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
4 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.32%) Packer
5 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.21%) SCCM
6 2 (0.21%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 392 (41.61%) Microsoft
2 144 (15.29%) ForeScout
3 43 (4.56%) SAP
4 30 (3.18%) Cisco
5 28 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.87%) Google
7 19 (2.02%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.91%) Oracle
9 15 (1.59%) Adobe
10 12 (1.27%) VMware
11 11 (1.17%) Hootsuite
11 11 (1.17%) Instagram
11 11 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.17%) Wrike
12 10 (1.06%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.85%) Dell
13 8 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.74%) Juniper
15 6 (0.64%) IBM
15 6 (0.64%) Palo Alto