Social Skills Job Trends in Wiltshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in permanent job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 136 93 267
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 17.66% 25.14% 21.34%
As % of the General category 42.90% 38.27% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 71 62 213
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,825 £25,094
25th Percentile £35,869 £31,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £41,613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +17.15% -3.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,644 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All General Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 317 243 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 41.17% 65.68% 52.68%
Number of salaries quoted 203 176 468
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £42,246 £35,000 £30,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,525 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £68,568 £70,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +7.37% -5.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Social Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Social Skills in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Swindon +3 51 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Chippenham 0 33 £62,500 +123.21% 9
Salisbury -8 18 £37,000 +7.25% 5
Trowbridge 0 13 £91,436 +35.46% 2
Corsham +1 10 £47,500 -9.52% 11
Melksham - 2 £24,300 - 1
Warminster - 2 - - 2
Social Skills
South West

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (15.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.21%) Trello
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.47%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (19.85%) Azure
3 10 (7.35%) AWS
3 10 (7.35%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.94%) GitHub
5 3 (2.21%) Asana
5 3 (2.21%) ClickUp
5 3 (2.21%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) PaaS
5 3 (2.21%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Stripe
6 2 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.47%) OCI
7 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.44%) DNS
2 17 (12.50%) DHCP
3 15 (11.03%) Firewall
4 13 (9.56%) VPN
5 6 (4.41%) WAN
6 5 (3.68%) BGP
6 5 (3.68%) LAN
6 5 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.94%) LTE
7 4 (2.94%) Network Security
7 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.21%) VoIP
9 2 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.47%) NGFW
9 2 (1.47%) Tactical Data Link
9 2 (1.47%) VLAN
10 1 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.74%) SNMP
10 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.21%) Metadata
3 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) GitLab
2 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (22.06%) Finance
2 24 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Legal
5 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Back Office
8 6 (4.41%) Marketing
8 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.68%) Games
9 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.94%) Military
11 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.47%) Automotive
12 2 (1.47%) Electronics
12 2 (1.47%) Environmental Health
12 2 (1.47%) Law
13 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 20 (14.71%) Support Engineer
2 18 (13.24%) Senior
3 15 (11.03%) IT Support
3 15 (11.03%) Systems Engineer
4 14 (10.29%) IT Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Senior Manager
7 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) Project Manager
8 9 (6.62%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (5.15%) Lead
10 6 (4.41%) Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Desktop Support
10 6 (4.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Consultant
11 5 (3.68%) Security Consultant
11 5 (3.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.41%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (3.68%) OAuth
2 5 (3.68%) OAuth2
2 5 (3.68%) OpenID
2 5 (3.68%) SAML
3 3 (2.21%) .NET
3 3 (2.21%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.21%) React
4 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.47%) Blazor
4 2 (1.47%) Node.js
4 2 (1.47%) SAP CAF
4 2 (1.47%) Vue
5 1 (0.74%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.74%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.09%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.35%) Web Conferencing
4 9 (6.62%) Driving Licence
4 9 (6.62%) Podcast
4 9 (6.62%) Virtual Team
5 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 7 (5.15%) EPoS
7 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.94%) Digital Signage
9 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.21%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (2.21%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.47%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
12 1 (0.74%) Social Media
12 1 (0.74%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 48 (35.29%) Windows
2 29 (21.32%) Windows Server
3 15 (11.03%) Linux
3 15 (11.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (10.29%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.21%) Android
5 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.24%) Customer Service
2 51 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (22.06%) Customer Experience
4 25 (18.38%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (16.91%) Migration
7 19 (13.97%) ITIL
8 16 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
9 15 (11.03%) Agile
9 15 (11.03%) Email Filtering
9 15 (11.03%) Project Management
9 15 (11.03%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 15 (11.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 15 (11.03%) Web Filtering
10 13 (9.56%) Project Delivery
11 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (7.35%) Service Delivery
12 9 (6.62%) Analytics
12 9 (6.62%) Operations Management
12 9 (6.62%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
1 5 (3.68%) SQL
2 4 (2.94%) Python
3 3 (2.21%) C#
3 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.47%) Bash
4 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 53 (38.97%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.44%) Degree
4 14 (10.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.41%) CTC Cleared
8 5 (3.68%) CISM
8 5 (3.68%) CISSP
9 3 (2.21%) CISA
10 2 (1.47%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.47%) PhD
10 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.47%) PMP
11 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (11.03%) PCI DSS
3 11 (8.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.41%) GDPR
4 6 (4.41%) NIST
4 6 (4.41%) SLA
5 5 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.68%) GRC
6 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.21%) ISO 9001
7 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (2.21%) NCSC
8 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.47%) Def Stans
8 2 (1.47%) ISO 9000
8 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (1.47%) QA
9 1 (0.74%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 33 (24.26%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 15 (11.03%) Terminal Server
4 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.21%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.21%) VxRail
5 2 (1.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (30.15%) Microsoft
2 27 (19.85%) VMware
3 18 (13.24%) SolarWinds
4 16 (11.76%) Splunk
5 15 (11.03%) Brocade
5 15 (11.03%) Nimble Storage
5 15 (11.03%) Tanium
5 15 (11.03%) Veeam
6 13 (9.56%) Cisco
7 5 (3.68%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.21%) Dell
9 3 (2.21%) F5
9 3 (2.21%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.21%) Sage
9 3 (2.21%) Talend
10 2 (1.47%) Anaplan
10 2 (1.47%) Meraki
10 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow