Social Skills Contracts in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8,051 9,818 14,288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.10% 20.37% 20.30%
As % of the General category 38.00% 34.40% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,055 6,584 9,386
10th Percentile £225 £255 £250
25th Percentile £386 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £643
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 401 634
10th Percentile £12.41 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £38.75 £58.59 £38.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.60
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -28.00% +32.82% +4.57%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,189 28,537 40,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.17% 59.22% 56.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,045 28,012
10th Percentile £281 £315 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £789 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 918 1,295
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.43 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.68 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £70.38 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +1 3,779 £540 -6.09% 3,941
North of England +1 1,129 £475 -5.00% 2,139
South East 0 1,084 £488 -4.41% 2,239
South West +1 682 £525 -1.87% 1,084
Midlands 0 622 £450 -6.25% 1,584
North West +2 600 £475 - 1,138
East of England 0 541 £475 +11.76% 983
Yorkshire +1 467 £475 -5.00% 742
West Midlands 0 445 £475 -5.00% 967
East Midlands +3 170 £269 -37.44% 616
North East +7 59 £525 +35.48% 301
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 315 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 224 (2.78%) Confluence
3 203 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 86 (1.07%) CMS
5 53 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.57%) SAS
7 44 (0.55%) Apache
8 36 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
9 18 (0.22%) IIS
10 17 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 15 (0.19%) nginx
12 14 (0.17%) WordPress
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 12 (0.15%) Appian
15 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
15 11 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 9 (0.11%) CICS
16 9 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 584 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 477 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 228 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 103 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 89 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
7 41 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 30 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 29 (0.36%) Sketch
10 19 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 15 (0.19%) Adobe XD
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
13 11 (0.14%) Windchill
14 10 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 9 (0.11%) InDesign
16 7 (0.087%) Chatbot
16 7 (0.087%) Maya
17 6 (0.075%) Acrobat
17 6 (0.075%) InVision
17 6 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 196 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 32 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 32 (0.40%) Primavera
5 31 (0.39%) Endur
6 30 (0.37%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 28 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 27 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 22 (0.27%) SAP EWM
10 20 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 20 (0.25%) Teamcenter
11 18 (0.22%) NetSuite
12 17 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 17 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 17 (0.21%) SAP CO
12 17 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,128 (14.01%) Azure
2 574 (7.13%) AWS
3 532 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 431 (5.35%) Power Platform
5 234 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (2.65%) GCP
7 179 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 132 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 125 (1.55%) GitHub
10 116 (1.44%) Serverless
11 115 (1.43%) SaaS
12 114 (1.42%) Power Automate
13 107 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 72 (0.89%) OCI
15 70 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 63 (0.78%) PaaS
17 60 (0.75%) OneDrive
18 58 (0.72%) Amazon S3
19 55 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
19 55 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 285 (3.54%) Firewall
2 194 (2.41%) DNS
3 167 (2.07%) WAN
4 160 (1.99%) LAN
5 154 (1.91%) VPN
6 127 (1.58%) DHCP
7 87 (1.08%) Network Security
8 84 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (0.97%) Internet
10 77 (0.96%) BGP
10 77 (0.96%) Wireless
11 71 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 62 (0.77%) SAN
13 52 (0.65%) MPLS
14 38 (0.47%) VLAN
15 37 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 36 (0.45%) Intranet
17 34 (0.42%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.40%) HTTP
19 31 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (4.33%) Power BI
2 263 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 148 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 112 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 88 (1.09%) Tableau
7 84 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 83 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 82 (1.02%) Big Data
10 61 (0.76%) MySQL
11 58 (0.72%) MongoDB
12 53 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (0.65%) Metadata
14 47 (0.58%) Oracle Database
15 43 (0.53%) Data Mining
16 39 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 38 (0.47%) SAP HANA
18 33 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.40%) Hadoop
20 30 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 522 (6.48%) JIRA
2 196 (2.43%) Git
3 191 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 96 (1.19%) Selenium
5 95 (1.18%) GitLab
6 57 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 47 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 46 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 42 (0.52%) Postman
10 38 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 35 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 32 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 31 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.36%) Appium
14 29 (0.36%) WebDriver
15 24 (0.30%) JUnit
16 22 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.27%) webpack
17 18 (0.22%) JMeter
17 18 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 1,785 (22.17%) Finance
2 1,593 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
3 579 (7.19%) Public Sector
4 529 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
5 467 (5.80%) Banking
6 363 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
7 362 (4.50%) Marketing
8 297 (3.69%) Retail
9 277 (3.44%) Telecoms
10 259 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
11 249 (3.09%) Manufacturing
12 221 (2.75%) Legal
13 157 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 132 (1.64%) Front Office
15 126 (1.57%) Electronics
16 125 (1.55%) Law
17 112 (1.39%) Investment Banking
18 110 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
19 103 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
20 98 (1.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,162 (14.43%) Analyst
2 713 (8.86%) Developer
3 658 (8.17%) Architect
4 633 (7.86%) Senior
5 594 (7.38%) Project Manager
6 583 (7.24%) Consultant
7 490 (6.09%) Lead
8 428 (5.32%) Business Analyst
9 239 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
10 235 (2.92%) Support Engineer
11 171 (2.12%) Administrator
12 159 (1.97%) Data Analyst
13 148 (1.84%) IT Support
14 144 (1.79%) Network Engineer
15 137 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
16 135 (1.68%) Service Analyst
17 128 (1.59%) Software Engineer
18 126 (1.57%) Data Engineer
19 114 (1.42%) Designer
20 108 (1.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (2.92%) .NET
2 186 (2.31%) HTML
3 180 (2.24%) React
4 171 (2.12%) CSS
5 150 (1.86%) REST
6 117 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 105 (1.30%) XML
8 103 (1.28%) JSON
9 101 (1.25%) RESTful
10 100 (1.24%) Web Services
11 92 (1.14%) Kafka
12 91 (1.13%) Node.js
13 70 (0.87%) .NET Framework
14 67 (0.83%) Spring
15 61 (0.76%) Middleware
16 59 (0.73%) .NET Core
17 46 (0.57%) YAML
18 39 (0.48%) ARM Templates
18 39 (0.48%) SOAP
19 37 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 328 (4.07%) Management Information System
2 313 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
3 264 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 177 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 135 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 115 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 106 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 106 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
9 91 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 84 (1.04%) NHS
11 83 (1.03%) CMDB
11 83 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 69 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 69 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 66 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 66 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 64 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
15 62 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
16 61 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 874 (10.86%) Windows
2 401 (4.98%) Linux
3 335 (4.16%) Windows 10
4 227 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 127 (1.58%) Unix
6 89 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 88 (1.09%) Windows 7
8 85 (1.06%) Android
9 82 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 69 (0.86%) Mac OS
12 60 (0.75%) zOS
13 23 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (0.24%) Windows NT
16 17 (0.21%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.20%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.19%) VMS
19 13 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,284 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
2 1,738 (21.59%) Agile
3 1,186 (14.73%) Project Management
4 1,055 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 752 (9.34%) Customer Service
6 742 (9.22%) DevOps
7 579 (7.19%) Migration
8 576 (7.15%) ITIL
9 562 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 541 (6.72%) Decision-Making
11 535 (6.65%) Computer Science
12 515 (6.40%) Analytics
13 470 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
14 444 (5.51%) CI/CD
15 432 (5.37%) Project Delivery
16 428 (5.32%) Change Management
17 401 (4.98%) Scrum
18 365 (4.53%) Software Engineering
19 358 (4.45%) Roadmaps
20 338 (4.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 765 (9.50%) SQL
2 637 (7.91%) Python
3 405 (5.03%) Java
4 367 (4.56%) C#
5 336 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 300 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 146 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 135 (1.68%) C++
9 94 (1.17%) Bash
10 82 (1.02%) C
11 52 (0.65%) Scala
12 49 (0.61%) Bicep
13 48 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 46 (0.57%) Perl
15 45 (0.56%) Go
16 44 (0.55%) REXX
17 43 (0.53%) JCL
17 43 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 43 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 39 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 1,334 (16.57%) Degree
2 1,244 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 785 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 398 (4.94%) DV Cleared
5 366 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 170 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 166 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 111 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 110 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.30%) CCNA
10 105 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 102 (1.27%) PMP
12 80 (0.99%) CCNP
13 74 (0.92%) CISSP
14 69 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 50 (0.62%) Azure Certification
16 47 (0.58%) CISM
17 46 (0.57%) MCSE
18 37 (0.46%) MCP
19 35 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (4.99%) QA
2 281 (3.49%) SLA
3 252 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 191 (2.37%) PMO
5 124 (1.54%) NIST
6 110 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 106 (1.32%) GDPR
8 92 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (0.66%) NIST 800
10 44 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
12 32 (0.40%) GRC
13 22 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.21%) NCSC
16 16 (0.20%) MiFID
16 16 (0.20%) SEPA
17 14 (0.17%) EMIR
17 14 (0.17%) HIPAA
18 11 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 541 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 196 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 180 (2.24%) Docker
4 75 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.78%) Firmware
7 50 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 48 (0.60%) vSphere
9 47 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 43 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
11 34 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.31%) RACF
13 24 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 19 (0.24%) ACF2
15 18 (0.22%) NFS
16 15 (0.19%) KVM
17 12 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
18 11 (0.14%) Microcode
18 11 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 233 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 226 (2.81%) SCCM
3 206 (2.56%) Terraform
4 175 (2.17%) Ansible
5 132 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 64 (0.79%) SCOM
6 64 (0.79%) WSUS
7 61 (0.76%) Puppet
8 48 (0.60%) vCenter Server
9 40 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 38 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 36 (0.45%) Grafana
12 33 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 28 (0.35%) Prometheus
14 27 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 27 (0.34%) PowerCLI
15 26 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
16 25 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
17 22 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 19 (0.24%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,713 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 568 (7.06%) SAP
3 354 (4.40%) Oracle
4 257 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 248 (3.08%) VMware
6 218 (2.71%) Cisco
7 172 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 163 (2.02%) Google
9 124 (1.54%) IBM
10 121 (1.50%) Adobe
10 121 (1.50%) HP
11 109 (1.35%) Dell
12 104 (1.29%) Databricks
13 94 (1.17%) Atlassian
14 86 (1.07%) Splunk
15 77 (0.96%) Citrix
16 65 (0.81%) Apple
17 61 (0.76%) F5
18 55 (0.68%) Palo Alto
19 51 (0.63%) Juniper