Social Skills Contracts in the South East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 1,084 1,311 1,784
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 19.87% 23.41% 23.30%
As % of the General category 39.59% 39.85% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 868 1,163
10th Percentile £205 £220 £160
25th Percentile £350 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +7.37% +0.80%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £575
90th Percentile £713 £721 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 61 111
10th Percentile £11.20 £15.21 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.78 £18.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £31.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +77.14% -14.63%
75th Percentile £48.88 £58.75 £32.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £48.75
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,738 3,290 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.19% 58.75% 55.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,247 2,824
10th Percentile £205 £240 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +1.01% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 159 209
10th Percentile £12.88 £17.20 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -24.70%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £32.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.20 £48.75
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 the South East

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -1 598 £464 -9.95% 690
Berkshire -1 466 £500 -5.21% 314
Hampshire -3 223 £583 +10.95% 347
Surrey 0 113 £450 -11.33% 228
Buckinghamshire 0 90 £450 -10.00% 191
West Sussex -1 53 £475 +14.73% 90
Oxfordshire +1 42 £365 +1.39% 186
East Sussex +1 33 £530 -3.64% 71
Kent -1 29 £450 +6.51% 138
Middlesex +10 15 £275 -50.00% 4
M4 Corridor - 4 £540 -
Home Counties 0 3 £530 +8.72%
Sussex - 1 £425 - 5
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.32%) Confluence
3 22 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.55%) CMS
5 5 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.28%) Appian
6 3 (0.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.092%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.092%) IIS
8 1 (0.092%) Moodle
8 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.092%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 110 (10.15%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.46%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.28%) SPSS
10 2 (0.18%) InDesign
11 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.092%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.092%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (1.85%) Primavera
3 18 (1.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 17 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
7 6 (0.55%) Maximo
8 5 (0.46%) SAP BRIM
8 5 (0.46%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.28%) iTrent
10 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
12 1 (0.092%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.28%) Azure
2 78 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (5.26%) AWS
4 37 (3.41%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 21 (1.94%) OCI
8 17 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (1.57%) Azure Storage
9 15 (1.38%) SaaS
10 14 (1.29%) GCP
11 10 (0.92%) IaaS
12 9 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.83%) OneDrive
12 9 (0.83%) OpenShift
12 9 (0.83%) PowerApps
13 8 (0.74%) PaaS
13 8 (0.74%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.74%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.65%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.46%) DNS
2 63 (5.81%) Firewall
3 59 (5.44%) DHCP
4 40 (3.69%) SAN
5 37 (3.41%) LAN
6 32 (2.95%) WAN
7 28 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (2.21%) VPN
9 19 (1.75%) Network Security
10 15 (1.38%) Radio Access Network
10 15 (1.38%) Wireless
11 10 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 10 (0.92%) VLAN
12 9 (0.83%) 4G
12 9 (0.83%) 5G
12 9 (0.83%) VSAN
13 8 (0.74%) 3G
13 8 (0.74%) 802.11
13 8 (0.74%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.86%) Power BI
2 23 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.38%) Tableau
4 14 (1.29%) Oracle Database
5 12 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.92%) SAP HANA
7 8 (0.74%) Big Data
7 8 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.65%) Metadata
9 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.55%) Power Query
9 6 (0.55%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.37%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.37%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.37%) GIS
10 4 (0.37%) MySQL
11 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.28%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 64 (5.90%) JIRA
2 30 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.58%) Selenium
4 25 (2.31%) Cucumber
5 24 (2.21%) REST Assured
5 24 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.48%) GitLab
7 13 (1.20%) Git
8 11 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.37%) Postman
9 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.18%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.092%) Maven
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 234 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
2 131 (12.08%) Finance
3 92 (8.49%) Telecoms
4 74 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
4 74 (6.83%) Presentation Skills
5 65 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.63%) Marketing
7 48 (4.43%) Legal
8 40 (3.69%) Law
8 40 (3.69%) Retail
9 36 (3.32%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.12%) Military
12 19 (1.75%) Police
13 17 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.48%) Automotive
15 13 (1.20%) Aviation
15 13 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.11%) Billing
17 10 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 139 (12.82%) Analyst
2 87 (8.03%) Project Manager
3 73 (6.73%) Senior
4 72 (6.64%) Architect
5 68 (6.27%) Consultant
6 67 (6.18%) Lead
7 45 (4.15%) Developer
8 39 (3.60%) Business Analyst
8 39 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (3.60%) Support Engineer
9 35 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (3.04%) IT Support
11 30 (2.77%) Administrator
12 26 (2.40%) Java Architect
12 26 (2.40%) Network Engineer
13 25 (2.31%) Desktop Engineer
13 25 (2.31%) Functional Consultant
14 23 (2.12%) Desktop Support
14 23 (2.12%) Java Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.03%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.14%) REST
2 30 (2.77%) ARM Templates
3 25 (2.31%) Java EE
4 22 (2.03%) HTML
5 16 (1.48%) CSS
6 12 (1.11%) .NET
7 11 (1.01%) Web Services
8 10 (0.92%) SAP Basis
9 9 (0.83%) Spring
10 8 (0.74%) 802.1X
10 8 (0.74%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.74%) Kafka
10 8 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (0.65%) ASP.NET
11 7 (0.65%) JSON
11 7 (0.65%) React
11 7 (0.65%) RESTful
11 7 (0.65%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.80%) Driving Licence
2 47 (4.34%) Data Centre
2 47 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.77%) PKI
6 21 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 17 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (1.48%) NHS
10 15 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.11%) Life Science
12 11 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.83%) Operational Technology
15 8 (0.74%) PMI
15 8 (0.74%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 199 (18.36%) Windows
2 116 (10.70%) Windows 10
3 83 (7.66%) Windows Server
4 75 (6.92%) Linux
5 57 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 48 (4.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 44 (4.06%) Windows 7
9 19 (1.75%) Unix
9 19 (1.75%) Windows NT
10 14 (1.29%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.20%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.74%) Android
13 6 (0.55%) Debian
13 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.18%) Solaris
16 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.092%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.092%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (33.21%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (17.80%) Agile
3 164 (15.13%) Project Management
4 121 (11.16%) Customer Service
5 114 (10.52%) DevOps
5 114 (10.52%) ITIL
6 95 (8.76%) Decision-Making
7 79 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 71 (6.55%) Analytics
10 64 (5.90%) Service Management
11 63 (5.81%) Migration
12 53 (4.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 53 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
13 52 (4.80%) User Acceptance Testing
14 51 (4.70%) Change Management
15 48 (4.43%) Project Delivery
15 48 (4.43%) Time Management
15 48 (4.43%) Translating Business Requirements
16 47 (4.34%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 77 (7.10%) SQL
2 70 (6.46%) Java
3 59 (5.44%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.41%) Python
5 34 (3.14%) C#
6 27 (2.49%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.85%) VB
7 20 (1.85%) VBScript
8 18 (1.66%) C
9 17 (1.57%) Bicep
9 17 (1.57%) C++
10 13 (1.20%) Bash
11 11 (1.01%) Perl
12 8 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.74%) Tcl
13 4 (0.37%) F#
13 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.28%) PHP
14 3 (0.28%) R
14 3 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 295 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 200 (18.45%) Degree
3 176 (16.24%) DV Cleared
4 131 (12.08%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.58%) CCNP
8 22 (2.03%) CCNA
9 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 13 (1.20%) MCSE
11 13 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.11%) ISEB
12 12 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (1.01%) MCSA
13 11 (1.01%) PMP
14 10 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.83%) CIPD
15 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.27%) QA
2 61 (5.63%) SLA
3 28 (2.58%) PMO
4 20 (1.85%) NIST
5 17 (1.57%) GDPR
5 17 (1.57%) NIST 800
6 15 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.37%) HL7
11 3 (0.28%) COBIT
11 3 (0.28%) PMBOK
11 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.18%) DO-178B
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.18%) NCSC
13 1 (0.092%) ITGC
System Software
1 122 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 69 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (3.41%) Firmware
4 27 (2.49%) Docker
5 23 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 21 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.85%) VMware NSX
7 20 (1.85%) vSphere
8 19 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.65%) vCloud
11 4 (0.37%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) KVM
13 2 (0.18%) NFS
13 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.18%) Varnish
14 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (10.61%) SCCM
2 55 (5.07%) WSUS
3 54 (4.98%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.69%) Ansible
5 33 (3.04%) Terraform
6 31 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (2.86%) SCOM
7 24 (2.21%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.75%) Sysprep
9 17 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (1.38%) NetBackup
11 14 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.11%) Podman
13 7 (0.65%) Istio
13 7 (0.65%) Rancher
14 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.37%) Puppet
16 3 (0.28%) Nessus
16 3 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 276 (25.46%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.56%) VMware
3 71 (6.55%) Oracle
4 68 (6.27%) HP
5 61 (5.63%) SAP
6 47 (4.34%) Cisco
7 28 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.31%) Dell
9 24 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 20 (1.85%) Juniper
11 19 (1.75%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.48%) EMC
12 16 (1.48%) Extreme Networks
13 15 (1.38%) Veeam
14 14 (1.29%) 3PAR
14 14 (1.29%) Adobe
14 14 (1.29%) Symantec
15 12 (1.11%) Google
16 10 (0.92%) CheckPoint
17 9 (0.83%) Red Hat