Social Skills Contracts in Birmingham

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 177 159 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.47% 17.89% 18.72%
As % of the General category 46.21% 32.45% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 101 180
10th Percentile £200 £263 £205
25th Percentile £350 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £578
90th Percentile £750 £638 £664
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £508 £498
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.01% +22.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £11.11 - £12.66
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.38
Median hourly rate £15.30 £13.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £26.17 £21.10 £18.00
90th Percentile £55.38 £97.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £15.58 £17.72 £16.50
% change year-on-year -12.09% +7.38% +11.86%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 383 490 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.80% 55.12% 56.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 323 527
10th Percentile £200 £282 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £593
90th Percentile £701 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 15
10th Percentile £11.89 £11.90 £12.70
25th Percentile £13.97 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +21.19% +4.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £68.25 £18.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.59 £21.69 £17.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% +27.59% +13.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.56%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 12 (6.78%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.26%) Odoo
4 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.56%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.56%) Maximo
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.43%) Azure
1 22 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (9.60%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.65%) AWS
3 10 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (4.52%) Power Automate
4 8 (4.52%) PowerApps
5 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.39%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.69%) Boomi
9 3 (1.69%) OCI
10 2 (1.13%) GCP
10 2 (1.13%) SaaS
11 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.56%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.91%) WAN
2 11 (6.21%) LAN
3 7 (3.95%) DNS
3 7 (3.95%) Ethernet
3 7 (3.95%) Firewall
4 6 (3.39%) Internet
4 6 (3.39%) Unified Communications
4 6 (3.39%) VPN
5 5 (2.82%) DHCP
5 5 (2.82%) Network Security
6 4 (2.26%) MPLS
6 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.69%) ADSL
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.69%) Ethereal
7 3 (1.69%) PSTN
7 3 (1.69%) VLAN
7 3 (1.69%) VoIP
7 3 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.04%) Power BI
2 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.69%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.13%) MySQL
4 2 (1.13%) Power Query
4 2 (1.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.13%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Big Data
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.13%) Git
2 2 (1.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) webpack
3 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (24.29%) Finance
2 15 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.21%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.26%) Billing
6 4 (2.26%) German Language
6 4 (2.26%) Retail
7 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.69%) Marketing
8 2 (1.13%) Back Office
8 2 (1.13%) Banking
8 2 (1.13%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (1.13%) Games
8 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.13%) Local Government
8 2 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.56%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 25 (14.12%) Analyst
2 24 (13.56%) Architect
3 21 (11.86%) Developer
4 16 (9.04%) Project Manager
5 15 (8.47%) Lead
6 12 (6.78%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (6.78%) Consultant
6 12 (6.78%) Senior
6 12 (6.78%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 10 (5.65%) Business Manager
8 9 (5.08%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (3.95%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Support Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Coordinator
10 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.65%) HTML
2 9 (5.08%) React
3 7 (3.95%) CSS
4 6 (3.39%) Spring
5 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.26%) XML
6 3 (1.69%) Middleware
6 3 (1.69%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.13%) .NET
7 2 (1.13%) Next.js
7 2 (1.13%) OAuth
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.13%) RESTful
7 2 (1.13%) SAML
7 2 (1.13%) Web Services
8 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) LDAP
8 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.39%) Digital Signage
3 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.39%) PKI
4 5 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.82%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.26%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.69%) CCTV
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
6 3 (1.69%) EPoS
6 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.38%) Windows
2 14 (7.91%) Windows 10
3 13 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.39%) Linux
7 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.13%) Unix
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.56%) Android
10 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (24.29%) Agile
3 27 (15.25%) Customer Service
4 24 (13.56%) Project Management
5 22 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (11.86%) Roadmaps
7 19 (10.73%) ERP
8 18 (10.17%) Computer Science
9 16 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (8.47%) Analytics
10 15 (8.47%) Business Transformation
10 15 (8.47%) Decision-Making
10 15 (8.47%) Migration
11 14 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.91%) Scrum
11 14 (7.91%) Service Delivery
12 13 (7.34%) Change Management
12 13 (7.34%) ITIL
13 12 (6.78%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (6.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.91%) SQL
2 12 (6.78%) JavaScript
2 12 (6.78%) Python
3 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.52%) Java
5 5 (2.82%) Apex Code
5 5 (2.82%) SOQL
6 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.13%) Perl
6 2 (1.13%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) C#
7 1 (0.56%) ProC
7 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (12.99%) Degree
2 12 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.52%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.95%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.82%) BC Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.26%) CCIE
6 4 (2.26%) CCNP
6 4 (2.26%) PMP
6 4 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.69%) CCNA
7 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.13%) ACCA
8 2 (1.13%) CIMA
9 1 (0.56%) CASP
9 1 (0.56%) CIPD
9 1 (0.56%) GIAC
9 1 (0.56%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) QA
2 7 (3.95%) SLA
3 6 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.82%) GDPR
5 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.13%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (10.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.13%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.56%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.82%) SCCM
3 3 (1.69%) Autotask
3 3 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.69%) OpenView
4 2 (1.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) Oracle
2 11 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.95%) Cisco
3 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.95%) VMware
4 6 (3.39%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Apple
5 3 (1.69%) BT
5 3 (1.69%) Datto
5 3 (1.69%) Openreach
6 2 (1.13%) Databricks
6 2 (1.13%) Google
6 2 (1.13%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.13%) Informatica
6 2 (1.13%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) NetApp
7 1 (0.56%) Sage
7 1 (0.56%) Sophos