Social Skills Contracts in Cheshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 144 136 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.18% 26.88% 26.65%
As % of the General category 41.14% 44.30% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 71 76
10th Percentile £312 £215 £173
25th Percentile £400 £324 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £583 £571 £538
90th Percentile £638 £680 £632
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £14.24 £21.30 £9.90
25th Percentile £22.04 £22.53 £10.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.19% +10.24% -9.19%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £35.70
90th Percentile - £33.60 £59.60
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £23.15 £23.78
% change year-on-year -30.63% -2.64% +11.89%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 350 307 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 63.64% 60.67% 60.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 197 193
10th Percentile £313 £262 £201
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +3.84%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £638 £668 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 28
10th Percentile £16.89 £14.50 £9.90
25th Percentile £18.92 £22.13 £10.96
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.74 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.17% +26.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £37.25 £34.47 £31.44
90th Percentile £43.75 £37.52 £47.38
North West median hourly rate £21.43 £23.15 £23.39
% change year-on-year -7.43% -1.03% +14.10%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield -2 32 £525 +16.67% 10
Knutsford -3 27 £568 -2.49% 8
Chester +2 22 £650 +52.94% 53
Warrington -1 16 £375 +87.50% 55
Northwich - 11 £475 - 6
Crewe -8 4 £538 +40.52% 12
Wilmslow 0 3 £381 +65.76% 3
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 6
Runcorn - 1 £475 - 10
Social Skills
North West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (6.25%) SAS
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) IBM Notes
3 2 (1.39%) IIS
3 2 (1.39%) Mule
Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (9.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.08%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.39%) Maximo
3 2 (1.39%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.39%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.69%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.69%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.64%) Azure
4 9 (6.25%) AWS
5 7 (4.86%) Power Automate
5 7 (4.86%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.47%) Collibra
6 5 (3.47%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.69%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.69%) dbt
8 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub
8 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.69%) LAN
2 1 (0.69%) SAN
2 1 (0.69%) VLAN
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) VSAN
2 1 (0.69%) WAN
2 1 (0.69%) Wireless
2 1 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) Power BI
2 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.47%) Ataccama
4 5 (3.47%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.47%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.78%) Big Data
6 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.08%) MySQL
6 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.08%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.08%) Tableau
7 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.39%) Metadata
7 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.69%) Power Query
8 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (11.81%) JIRA
2 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.39%) Log4j
4 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.69%) Git
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Postman
5 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (27.08%) Finance
2 21 (14.58%) Pharmaceutical
3 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.42%) Banking
5 10 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Automotive
8 5 (3.47%) Marketing
9 4 (2.78%) German Language
9 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.08%) Legal
10 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.39%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Law
12 1 (0.69%) Local Government
12 1 (0.69%) Publishing
12 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 26 (18.06%) Analyst
3 14 (9.72%) Consultant
4 12 (8.33%) Senior
5 10 (6.94%) Data Analyst
6 9 (6.25%) Developer
6 9 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
8 7 (4.86%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.86%) Risk Analyst
8 7 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 5 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Data Quality Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Lead
9 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) QA Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Quality Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) SAP Manager
10 4 (2.78%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.78%) CSS
1 4 (2.78%) HTML
1 4 (2.78%) REST
2 2 (1.39%) .NET
2 2 (1.39%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.39%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.39%) jQuery
2 2 (1.39%) JSON
2 2 (1.39%) Kafka
2 2 (1.39%) Middleware
2 2 (1.39%) Node.js
2 2 (1.39%) React
2 2 (1.39%) Web Services
2 2 (1.39%) XHTML
2 2 (1.39%) XML
3 1 (0.69%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Life Science
2 7 (4.86%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.39%) Derivative
6 2 (1.39%) Equities
6 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.39%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.39%) IoT
6 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.39%) Robotics
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.69%) Smart City
7 1 (0.69%) Social Media
7 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.72%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.08%) Android
3 3 (2.08%) Linux
3 3 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.39%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Debian
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (25.69%) Project Management
3 32 (22.22%) Agile
4 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.89%) Customer Service
6 13 (9.03%) Decision-Making
6 13 (9.03%) Risk Management
7 12 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (7.64%) Migration
8 11 (7.64%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
8 11 (7.64%) Time Management
9 10 (6.94%) Data Management
10 9 (6.25%) Business Transformation
10 9 (6.25%) CRM
10 9 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (6.25%) Information Security
10 9 (6.25%) SDLC
11 8 (5.56%) Thought Leadership
11 8 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.97%) SQL
2 13 (9.03%) Python
3 7 (4.86%) Java
3 7 (4.86%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.78%) C
4 4 (2.78%) C#
4 4 (2.78%) C++
4 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.39%) Bash
5 2 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.69%) Ruby
6 1 (0.69%) Scala
6 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.42%) Degree
2 6 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.08%) PMP
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) APMP
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) CCNP
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) MCSE
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) SLA
2 12 (8.33%) QA
3 8 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.17%) GDPR
5 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.08%) NIST
6 3 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.08%) PMO
7 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.69%) GAMP
7 1 (0.69%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Avamar
1 1 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.69%) SCCM
1 1 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.14%) SAP
3 10 (6.94%) Ariba
4 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.56%) VMware
6 7 (4.86%) Avaloq
7 6 (4.17%) Google
8 5 (3.47%) Alteryx
8 5 (3.47%) Dataiku
8 5 (3.47%) Trillium
9 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.78%) Veeam
10 3 (2.08%) Citrix
10 3 (2.08%) Databricks
10 3 (2.08%) Oracle
10 3 (2.08%) Sage
10 3 (2.08%) Teradata
11 2 (1.39%) Cisco
11 2 (1.39%) HP
11 2 (1.39%) IBM