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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Social Skills 163 155 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 29.37% 19.45% 17.31%
As % of the General category 52.75% 40.26% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 85 101 69
10th Percentile £30,165 £29,750 £25,525
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - +3.21%
75th Percentile £56,250 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,500 £80,000 £67,500
South West median annual salary £43,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.10% +5.00% +7.53%

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 309 385 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 55.68% 48.31% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 167 236 183
10th Percentile £29,700 £30,000 £28,218
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,313 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,752 £80,000 £68,750
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 1 January 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 1 January 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 37 £35,000 +0.27% 14
Chippenham +3 31 £30,000 -57.89% 5
Salisbury +1 21 £40,792 +1.98% 4
Trowbridge +2 19 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Corsham +10 7 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Devizes - 4 - -
Warminster - 4 £30,500 -
Malmesbury - 2 - -
Tidworth - 1 - -
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 44 (26.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (12.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Visualfiles
2 2 (1.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 64 (39.26%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (33.74%) Azure
3 6 (3.68%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.07%) AWS
4 5 (3.07%) SaaS
5 4 (2.45%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.84%) GitHub
6 3 (1.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.23%) GCP
7 2 (1.23%) OCI
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.61%) IaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 54 (33.13%) DNS
2 49 (30.06%) DHCP
3 14 (8.59%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.91%) Firewall
5 7 (4.29%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (3.07%) Network Security
6 5 (3.07%) VPN
7 4 (2.45%) BGP
7 4 (2.45%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.45%) Intranet
7 4 (2.45%) LAN
7 4 (2.45%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.45%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (2.45%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (2.45%) VoIP
7 4 (2.45%) WAN
7 4 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.45%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.84%) HTTP
8 3 (1.84%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.84%) Power BI
3 2 (1.23%) MySQL
3 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.61%) Git
2 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 55 (33.74%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 23 (14.11%) Electronics
4 19 (11.66%) Manufacturing
4 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 17 (10.43%) Marketing
5 17 (10.43%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.98%) Retail
7 11 (6.75%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (5.52%) Back Office
8 9 (5.52%) Military
9 7 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.68%) Law
11 4 (2.45%) Aeronautics
11 4 (2.45%) Automotive
11 4 (2.45%) Dutch Language
11 4 (2.45%) French Language
11 4 (2.45%) Humanities
11 4 (2.45%) Spanish Language
12 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (24.54%) Systems Engineer
2 23 (14.11%) Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.20%) Consultant
4 15 (9.20%) Security Consultant
5 13 (7.98%) IT Support
6 9 (5.52%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (5.52%) Desktop Support
6 9 (5.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 9 (5.52%) Site Engineer
6 9 (5.52%) Support Analyst
7 8 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.91%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.91%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (4.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) ICT Support Technician
9 5 (3.07%) ICT Technician
9 5 (3.07%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.20%) SAP CAF
2 6 (3.68%) CSS
3 4 (2.45%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.84%) .NET
4 3 (1.84%) OAuth
4 3 (1.84%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.23%) HTML
5 2 (1.23%) OpenID
5 2 (1.23%) React
5 2 (1.23%) SAML
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.61%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.61%) Blazor
6 1 (0.61%) Flutter
6 1 (0.61%) JWT
6 1 (0.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.61%) Vue
6 1 (0.61%) WSDL
6 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.93%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (6.13%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.91%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (4.29%) e-Learning
6 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.45%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.45%) Digital Signage
7 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.45%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (47.24%) Windows
2 51 (31.29%) Windows Server
3 40 (24.54%) Linux
4 37 (22.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (7.98%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.23%) Android
7 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (42.94%) Customer Service
2 64 (39.26%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (27.61%) Customer Experience
4 44 (26.99%) Migration
5 37 (22.70%) Kalman Filter
6 36 (22.09%) Email Filtering
6 36 (22.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 36 (22.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 36 (22.09%) Web Filtering
7 34 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (17.18%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (17.18%) ITIL
9 19 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (11.04%) Risk Management
11 17 (10.43%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (9.82%) ISMS
13 15 (9.20%) Digital Marketing
13 15 (9.20%) Programme Management
14 14 (8.59%) Project Management
15 13 (7.98%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.36%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.75%) Python
3 10 (6.13%) SQL
4 8 (4.91%) C
4 8 (4.91%) C++
5 4 (2.45%) Bash
5 4 (2.45%) Rust
6 3 (1.84%) C#
6 3 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.23%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.23%) VBA
8 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (53.99%) Security Cleared
2 78 (47.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (23.31%) Degree
4 18 (11.04%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.82%) CISM
5 16 (9.82%) CISSP
6 15 (9.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 9 (5.52%) CTC Cleared
7 9 (5.52%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.91%) MCP
9 7 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.07%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.45%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.84%) ACCA
12 3 (1.84%) CCNP
12 3 (1.84%) CIMA
12 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (23.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 37 (22.70%) PCI DSS
3 18 (11.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (10.43%) NIST
5 15 (9.20%) GRC
6 13 (7.98%) SLA
7 6 (3.68%) GDPR
8 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (33.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (25.77%) Hyper-V
3 36 (22.09%) Terminal Server
4 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.45%) vSphere
6 3 (1.84%) Docker
7 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.07%) Terraform
2 4 (2.45%) Ansible
3 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 70 (42.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (25.77%) VMware
3 37 (22.70%) SolarWinds
3 37 (22.70%) Splunk
4 36 (22.09%) Brocade
4 36 (22.09%) Nimble Storage
4 36 (22.09%) Tanium
4 36 (22.09%) Veeam
5 17 (10.43%) SAP
6 14 (8.59%) Cisco
7 4 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.84%) IBM
9 1 (0.61%) Dell
9 1 (0.61%) F5
9 1 (0.61%) Google
9 1 (0.61%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.61%) Qualys
9 1 (0.61%) Remedy