Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,779 5,175 7,830
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.62% 20.00% 20.29%
As % of the General category 34.32% 31.63% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 3,579 5,249
10th Percentile £270 £313 £337
25th Percentile £413 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - +9.84%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 94 127
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.20 £17.59
25th Percentile £17.17 £19.20 £22.44
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +24.91%
75th Percentile £51.75 £59.69 £50.81
90th Percentile £71.63 £73.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,011 16,359 23,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.01% 63.23% 60.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,857 16,842
10th Percentile £336 £380 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 210 295
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.56 £18.70
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £52.92 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 548 £550 -4.35% 335
West London +2 96 £350 -28.75% 195
South London +1 47 £450 -4.26% 76
East London -1 47 £450 +3.15% 540
North London 0 5 £350 -22.22% 36
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 149 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 81 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 70 (1.85%) Confluence
4 54 (1.43%) CMS
5 40 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.79%) Apache
7 11 (0.29%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.24%) IIS
9 9 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.24%) SAS
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.21%) MTS
10 8 (0.21%) nginx
11 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 7 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 184 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
2 181 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 107 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 48 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.58%) Sketch
8 14 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 11 (0.29%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.16%) InDesign
11 6 (0.16%) InVision
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
12 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
13 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.11%) Trello
14 3 (0.079%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.079%) Windchill
15 2 (0.053%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 76 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.82%) Endur
4 23 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 23 (0.61%) Shopify
5 17 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
7 14 (0.37%) Aligne
7 14 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
11 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.24%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 625 (16.54%) Azure
2 352 (9.31%) AWS
3 236 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 228 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 139 (3.68%) GCP
7 93 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
8 87 (2.30%) Serverless
9 73 (1.93%) GitHub
9 73 (1.93%) SaaS
10 66 (1.75%) Power Automate
10 66 (1.75%) PowerApps
11 58 (1.53%) Entra ID
12 48 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.19%) PaaS
14 42 (1.11%) Figma
15 41 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (0.98%) OCI
17 35 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 32 (0.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 90 (2.38%) Firewall
2 63 (1.67%) VPN
3 61 (1.61%) WAN
4 54 (1.43%) LAN
5 51 (1.35%) Internet
6 50 (1.32%) DNS
7 34 (0.90%) BGP
7 34 (0.90%) MPLS
8 30 (0.79%) Network Security
9 25 (0.66%) Wireless
10 20 (0.53%) Intranet
10 20 (0.53%) SSL
11 19 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (0.50%) DHCP
11 19 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.48%) RSVP
12 18 (0.48%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.45%) SNMP
14 16 (0.42%) VoIP
15 15 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (5.21%) Power BI
2 180 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 103 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 75 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 62 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (1.35%) Big Data
9 44 (1.16%) Tableau
10 38 (1.01%) MongoDB
10 38 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 27 (0.71%) Metadata
13 26 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.66%) MySQL
15 23 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 22 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (0.56%) KDB
18 20 (0.53%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 238 (6.30%) JIRA
2 138 (3.65%) Git
3 94 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.51%) GitLab
5 54 (1.43%) Selenium
6 32 (0.85%) Postman
7 28 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 27 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 25 (0.66%) WebDriver
10 23 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 22 (0.58%) Appium
12 21 (0.56%) JUnit
13 20 (0.53%) webpack
14 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
15 17 (0.45%) Maven
16 14 (0.37%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.37%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.32%) JMeter
17 12 (0.32%) SoapUI
17 12 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 1,119 (29.61%) Finance
2 764 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
3 364 (9.63%) Banking
4 277 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 276 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
6 207 (5.48%) Marketing
7 140 (3.70%) Retail
8 131 (3.47%) Front Office
9 128 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 111 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
11 110 (2.91%) Legal
12 107 (2.83%) Investment Banking
13 86 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 84 (2.22%) Telecoms
15 63 (1.67%) Financial Institution
16 59 (1.56%) Back Office
16 59 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 56 (1.48%) Law
18 53 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
19 39 (1.03%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 564 (14.92%) Analyst
2 473 (12.52%) Developer
3 385 (10.19%) Senior
4 342 (9.05%) Architect
5 330 (8.73%) Consultant
6 285 (7.54%) Business Analyst
7 251 (6.64%) Project Manager
8 220 (5.82%) Lead
9 130 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (2.43%) Support Engineer
11 91 (2.41%) Data Engineer
12 90 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
13 86 (2.28%) Data Analyst
14 82 (2.17%) Senior Developer
15 79 (2.09%) Designer
16 74 (1.96%) C# Developer
17 66 (1.75%) Administrator
18 63 (1.67%) Azure Engineer
19 60 (1.59%) Network Engineer
20 59 (1.56%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (3.97%) .NET
2 138 (3.65%) React
3 119 (3.15%) HTML
4 115 (3.04%) CSS
5 90 (2.38%) REST
6 88 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 68 (1.80%) Kafka
8 66 (1.75%) JSON
9 65 (1.72%) RESTful
10 59 (1.56%) XML
11 58 (1.53%) Node.js
12 57 (1.51%) Web Services
13 50 (1.32%) .NET Framework
14 43 (1.14%) Spring
15 36 (0.95%) Middleware
16 30 (0.79%) .NET Core
16 30 (0.79%) HTML5
16 30 (0.79%) WebSockets
17 29 (0.77%) PySpark
18 26 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 158 (4.18%) Product Ownership
2 138 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
3 126 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 80 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 76 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 74 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 58 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 54 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 50 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.32%) Derivative
10 50 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 48 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 46 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
13 40 (1.06%) Solar Panel
14 38 (1.01%) CMDB
15 37 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
16 32 (0.85%) FMCG
17 30 (0.79%) Market Risk
17 30 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 272 (7.20%) Windows
2 161 (4.26%) Linux
3 90 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 77 (2.04%) Unix
5 64 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 46 (1.22%) Android
7 36 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 28 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.56%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.34%) VMS
12 12 (0.32%) Mac OS X
13 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.21%) zOS
16 7 (0.19%) Solaris
16 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
17 6 (0.16%) Windows 8
18 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
2 990 (26.20%) Agile
3 489 (12.94%) Project Management
4 471 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 446 (11.80%) DevOps
6 357 (9.45%) Computer Science
7 307 (8.12%) Analytics
8 296 (7.83%) Migration
9 272 (7.20%) CI/CD
10 262 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
11 249 (6.59%) Scrum
12 227 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 212 (5.61%) Change Management
14 210 (5.56%) Decision-Making
15 209 (5.53%) Customer Service
16 204 (5.40%) Data Modelling
16 204 (5.40%) Project Delivery
17 202 (5.35%) Roadmaps
18 196 (5.19%) Software Engineering
19 190 (5.03%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 493 (13.05%) SQL
2 410 (10.85%) Python
3 258 (6.83%) Java
4 241 (6.38%) C#
5 201 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 125 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 108 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 58 (1.53%) C++
9 44 (1.16%) Bash
10 40 (1.06%) Scala
11 37 (0.98%) Go
12 33 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 31 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 28 (0.74%) VBA
15 27 (0.71%) R
15 27 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.69%) Perl
16 26 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 24 (0.64%) Bicep
18 17 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 710 (18.79%) Degree
2 336 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 265 (7.01%) SC Cleared
4 252 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 60 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 46 (1.22%) PMP
9 45 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.11%) CISSP
12 40 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
13 35 (0.93%) Azure Certification
14 31 (0.82%) CCNP
15 26 (0.69%) CCNA
16 25 (0.66%) AWS Certification
17 24 (0.64%) CISM
18 21 (0.56%) CCIE
19 20 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
20 15 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (4.71%) QA
2 151 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 83 (2.20%) PMO
4 81 (2.14%) SLA
5 61 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.08%) GDPR
8 40 (1.06%) NIST
9 27 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) GRC
11 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.42%) MiFID
12 16 (0.42%) SEPA
13 14 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.37%) EMIR
14 11 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
15 8 (0.21%) NCSC
16 7 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 174 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 116 (3.07%) Docker
3 44 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.48%) Firmware
5 17 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.45%) vSphere
6 13 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 8 (0.21%) HDFS
9 8 (0.21%) KVM
10 7 (0.19%) RACF
11 5 (0.13%) NFS
11 5 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.11%) vCloud
13 1 (0.026%) ACF2
13 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 131 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 121 (3.20%) Terraform
3 53 (1.40%) Ansible
4 40 (1.06%) SCCM
5 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.74%) Puppet
7 19 (0.50%) Grafana
8 18 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.34%) Consul
12 11 (0.29%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.19%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.16%) VxRail
14 6 (0.16%) zSecure
15 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
15 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 705 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 231 (6.11%) SAP
3 210 (5.56%) Oracle
4 131 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 104 (2.75%) Google
6 89 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.33%) Cisco
8 81 (2.14%) Databricks
9 75 (1.98%) Adobe
10 59 (1.56%) VMware
11 53 (1.40%) IBM
12 38 (1.01%) Apple
13 37 (0.98%) Citrix
14 34 (0.90%) Dell
15 29 (0.77%) F5
16 25 (0.66%) Fortinet
17 23 (0.61%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.58%) Nokia
19 20 (0.53%) Bloomberg
19 20 (0.53%) Informatica