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 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 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 1,048 1,644 1,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.64% 23.31% 30.57%
As % of the General category 39.09% 44.56% 47.54%
Number of salaries quoted 380 1,118 793
10th Percentile £25,125 £25,588 £27,750
25th Percentile £28,875 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £49,976
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.96% -0.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £70,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 2,681 3,689 3,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.39% 52.31% 64.31%
Number of salaries quoted 763 2,212 1,670
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,050
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 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 31 May 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 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
Berkshire +1 533 £50,000 +5.26% 450
Oxfordshire 0 265 £51,500 +14.44% 311
Buckinghamshire -3 252 £46,250 +2.78% 232
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 21 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.43%) CMS
4 14 (1.34%) IBM Domino
5 11 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.86%) IIS
7 7 (0.67%) Kentico
8 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.48%) Apache
9 5 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.19%) Confluence
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.19%) InDesign
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (1.53%) SAP FI
2 13 (1.24%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.15%) Sage 200
4 11 (1.05%) Sage CRM
5 6 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.38%) Shopify
8 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.095%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.095%) PORTIA
9 1 (0.095%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 157 (14.98%) Azure
2 83 (7.92%) AWS
3 67 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (5.06%) GCP
5 26 (2.48%) Power Platform
5 26 (2.48%) SaaS
6 21 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 16 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (1.43%) Vertex AI
9 14 (1.34%) Salsify
10 13 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.15%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.95%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.95%) Serverless
13 9 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.67%) Kontent
15 6 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.39%) TCP/IP
2 55 (5.25%) VPN
3 44 (4.20%) DNS
4 41 (3.91%) Firewall
5 27 (2.58%) DHCP
6 24 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (2.00%) WAN
8 19 (1.81%) LAN
9 18 (1.72%) Broadband
9 18 (1.72%) VLAN
10 17 (1.62%) VoIP
11 12 (1.15%) 5G
12 9 (0.86%) Bluetooth
12 9 (0.86%) LTE
12 9 (0.86%) Network Security
12 9 (0.86%) SAN
12 9 (0.86%) SNMP
13 4 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.38%) Wireless
14 3 (0.29%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.10%) Data Lake
2 29 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.29%) Data Mining
5 18 (1.72%) Metadata
6 17 (1.62%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.43%) Power BI
8 14 (1.34%) Big Data
9 13 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.05%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.95%) MySQL
13 9 (0.86%) OLTP
14 4 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.38%) Metabase
14 4 (0.38%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 2 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (3.24%) Cucumber
1 34 (3.24%) Robot Framework
2 28 (2.67%) JIRA
3 19 (1.81%) Git
4 9 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.57%) JUnit
6 4 (0.38%) GitLab
6 4 (0.38%) Jasmine
6 4 (0.38%) NUnit
6 4 (0.38%) Subversion
6 4 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.29%) Mockito
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.095%) ERwin
9 1 (0.095%) Moq
9 1 (0.095%) SpecFlow
General
1 363 (34.64%) Finance
2 219 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
3 211 (20.13%) Law
4 103 (9.83%) Marketing
5 86 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
6 69 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (6.58%) Legal
7 63 (6.01%) Telecoms
8 54 (5.15%) Retail
9 47 (4.48%) Manufacturing
10 41 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 37 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (2.10%) Electronics
14 17 (1.62%) Banking
15 12 (1.15%) Automotive
16 10 (0.95%) Advertising
17 8 (0.76%) German Language
17 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 178 (16.98%) Senior
2 166 (15.84%) Systems Manager
3 162 (15.46%) Resource Manager
4 137 (13.07%) Lead
5 107 (10.21%) Analyst
6 48 (4.58%) Project Manager
7 46 (4.39%) Developer
8 41 (3.91%) Architect
8 41 (3.91%) Senior Manager
8 41 (3.91%) Support Engineer
9 36 (3.44%) Support Analyst
10 34 (3.24%) Test Automation Engineer
10 34 (3.24%) Test Engineer
11 33 (3.15%) IT Support
12 30 (2.86%) Sales Executive
13 29 (2.77%) 1st Line Support
14 27 (2.58%) Business Change Analyst
14 27 (2.58%) Change Analyst
15 25 (2.39%) Development Manager
16 24 (2.29%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.77%) REST
2 25 (2.39%) Middleware
3 24 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 22 (2.10%) SOAP
5 21 (2.00%) .NET
6 17 (1.62%) Kafka
7 16 (1.53%) HTML
7 16 (1.53%) React
8 13 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.24%) Hugging Face
8 13 (1.24%) LangChain
8 13 (1.24%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.24%) TensorFlow
9 9 (0.86%) JSON
9 9 (0.86%) Spring
10 8 (0.76%) CSS
10 8 (0.76%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.76%) Vue
11 7 (0.67%) RESTful
12 6 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.15%) Driving Licence
1 54 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 50 (4.77%) Data Centre
3 49 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
6 36 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 27 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.72%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.53%) Social Media
12 14 (1.34%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.15%) IoT
14 9 (0.86%) NB-IoT
14 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
15 8 (0.76%) Freedom of Information Act
16 7 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 130 (12.40%) Windows
2 71 (6.77%) Linux
3 36 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.48%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.95%) Unix
6 9 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.095%) Android
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (35.97%) Problem-Solving
2 303 (28.91%) Analytics
3 289 (27.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 228 (21.76%) Data Management
5 220 (20.99%) ERP
6 193 (18.42%) Agile
7 163 (15.55%) Project Management
8 139 (13.26%) Roadmaps
9 133 (12.69%) Computer Science
9 133 (12.69%) Strategic Thinking
10 124 (11.83%) DevOps
11 113 (10.78%) Customer Service
12 109 (10.40%) Mentoring
13 106 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 95 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 94 (8.97%) Change Management
16 88 (8.40%) Data Science
17 87 (8.30%) Machine Learning
18 78 (7.44%) Project Delivery
19 72 (6.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (9.35%) SQL
2 94 (8.97%) Python
3 60 (5.73%) JavaScript
4 59 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 53 (5.06%) Bash
6 28 (2.67%) C#
7 24 (2.29%) Apex Code
7 24 (2.29%) Java
8 14 (1.34%) C++
8 14 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.67%) C
10 7 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.38%) Go
11 4 (0.38%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.19%) Fortran
12 2 (0.19%) Korn
12 2 (0.19%) Perl
12 2 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (23.28%) Degree
2 79 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 38 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (3.15%) Security Cleared
6 27 (2.58%) CBAP
6 27 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.48%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.39%) PMP
9 20 (1.91%) A+ Certification
10 17 (1.62%) MCP
11 11 (1.05%) CISSP
11 11 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (0.95%) MCSE
13 9 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.67%) CISA
14 7 (0.67%) CISM
14 7 (0.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.01%) QA
2 37 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.00%) SLA
5 18 (1.72%) GDPR
6 15 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.86%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.57%) NIST
11 5 (0.48%) GMP
11 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.29%) GRC
13 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.095%) COBIT
15 1 (0.095%) ECSS
15 1 (0.095%) PMO
15 1 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.43%) Docker
5 10 (0.95%) vSphere
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.29%) NFS
8 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.19%) GPFS
8 2 (0.19%) Lustre
9 1 (0.095%) HDFS
9 1 (0.095%) vCloud
9 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (2.39%) Terraform
2 22 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.72%) Grafana
3 18 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 16 (1.53%) Ansible
5 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.15%) Puppet
7 8 (0.76%) SCCM
8 5 (0.48%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.38%) PaperCut
9 4 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.29%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.095%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.095%) Argo
12 1 (0.095%) Nessus
12 1 (0.095%) Netcool
12 1 (0.095%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.095%) QRadar
12 1 (0.095%) vRealize
Vendors
1 214 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.87%) SAP
3 42 (4.01%) Google
4 40 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.34%) VMware
6 28 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.39%) Oracle
8 22 (2.10%) Concur
9 21 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 19 (1.81%) Workday
11 13 (1.24%) Cisco
11 13 (1.24%) Databricks
12 12 (1.15%) Sage
13 7 (0.67%) Apple
13 7 (0.67%) Dell
14 6 (0.57%) Adobe
14 6 (0.57%) Sophos
14 6 (0.57%) Splunk
15 5 (0.48%) Facebook
15 5 (0.48%) Infor