Social Skills Contracts in the South West

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 682 627 709
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 21.58% 18.11% 19.39%
As % of the General category 42.31% 37.28% 37.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 467 470
10th Percentile £200 £200 £205
25th Percentile £413 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £589
90th Percentile £700 £713 £688
England median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 46 57
10th Percentile £12.23 £18.71 £14.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £53.75 £28.90
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.50 £48.76
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +26.14% +13.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £59.96 £78.75 £69.05
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,612 1,682 1,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.01% 48.57% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,241 1,308
10th Percentile £215 £275 £240
25th Percentile £413 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £591
90th Percentile £700 £714 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 112 141
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.35 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +43.69% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70.66 £70.75 £55.84
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.66 £65.25
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +4 248 £538 -2.18% 117
Bristol 0 160 £500 -4.76% 327
Gloucestershire +4 106 £529 +32.25% 136
Somerset +12 68 £530 +25.74% 229
Devon -2 48 £443 -5.85% 121
Dorset 0 21 £681 +9.00% 84
Cornwall +3 10 £150 -68.42% 36
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 82 (12.02%) Confluence
2 58 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 35 (5.13%) SharePoint Server
4 27 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.88%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Apache
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.59%) nginx
6 4 (0.59%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 79 (11.58%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (4.99%) Spreadsheet
4 33 (4.84%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (1.03%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.59%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.59%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.44%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.44%) Windchill
10 1 (0.15%) CATIA
10 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.88%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.88%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.44%) Shopify
7 2 (0.29%) Primavera
7 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.15%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.15%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (14.37%) Azure
2 53 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.43%) Power Platform
4 34 (4.99%) Azure Stack
5 23 (3.37%) AWS
6 12 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (1.76%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.32%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (0.88%) GCP
9 6 (0.88%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.59%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (0.59%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.59%) GitHub
11 4 (0.59%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.44%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.44%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.18%) Firewall
2 35 (5.13%) BGP
3 30 (4.40%) DNS
4 22 (3.23%) DHCP
5 19 (2.79%) LAN
6 17 (2.49%) TCP/IP
7 16 (2.35%) WAN
8 15 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.47%) Network Security
9 10 (1.47%) SAN
10 8 (1.17%) MPLS
10 8 (1.17%) Skype
10 8 (1.17%) VSAN
11 5 (0.73%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (0.73%) VPN
12 4 (0.59%) HTTP
12 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.59%) IPsec
12 4 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.37%) Power BI
2 18 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.03%) MySQL
4 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.59%) Couchbase
5 4 (0.59%) Triplestore
6 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.29%) OLAP
7 2 (0.29%) OLTP
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.29%) Power Query
7 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.15%) Parquet
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (18.04%) JIRA
2 27 (3.96%) Bitbucket
3 25 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.73%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.59%) GitLab
8 3 (0.44%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.29%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.29%) JUnit
9 2 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) Git
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 164 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
2 109 (15.98%) Finance
3 70 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
5 44 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 42 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 34 (4.99%) Aerospace
9 25 (3.67%) Military
10 22 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.93%) Legal
12 18 (2.64%) Marketing
13 14 (2.05%) Electronics
14 11 (1.61%) Banking
14 11 (1.61%) Retail
15 8 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.17%) Police
16 7 (1.03%) Law
17 6 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 98 (14.37%) Analyst
2 76 (11.14%) Lead
3 60 (8.80%) Project Manager
4 55 (8.06%) Architect
5 36 (5.28%) Developer
6 30 (4.40%) Senior
7 27 (3.96%) Consultant
8 26 (3.81%) Support Engineer
9 25 (3.67%) Author
10 24 (3.52%) Project Leader
10 24 (3.52%) Technical Author
11 22 (3.23%) Microsoft Engineer
11 22 (3.23%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 20 (2.93%) Cyber Threat Analyst
12 20 (2.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 20 (2.93%) IT Support
13 19 (2.79%) Technical Support
14 18 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (2.49%) Administrator
15 17 (2.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.67%) .NET
1 25 (3.67%) .NET Core
2 16 (2.35%) XML
3 7 (1.03%) CSS
3 7 (1.03%) HTML
4 5 (0.73%) Flash
4 5 (0.73%) JSON
4 5 (0.73%) Kafka
4 5 (0.73%) Node.js
4 5 (0.73%) REST
4 5 (0.73%) SailPoint
4 5 (0.73%) Web Services
4 5 (0.73%) YAML
5 4 (0.59%) Apache Jena
5 4 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.59%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.59%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (0.59%) Middleware
5 4 (0.59%) PostGIS
5 4 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.24%) Management Information System
2 53 (7.77%) Cyber Threat
3 39 (5.72%) Cyber Defence
4 35 (5.13%) Private Cloud
5 31 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 23 (3.37%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.35%) Clustering
8 16 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.35%) PKI
9 11 (1.61%) CMDB
10 10 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.03%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 138 (20.23%) Windows
2 62 (9.09%) Linux
3 27 (3.96%) Windows 10
4 25 (3.67%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.61%) Unix
7 10 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (1.32%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.88%) CentOS
10 5 (0.73%) Android
11 3 (0.44%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.29%) Rocky
12 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (21.26%) Agile
3 123 (18.04%) Project Management
4 111 (16.28%) ITIL
5 102 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 87 (12.76%) Cybersecurity
7 84 (12.32%) Service Management
8 83 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (11.00%) Project Delivery
10 68 (9.97%) SIEM
11 61 (8.94%) PRINCE2
12 60 (8.80%) Decision-Making
13 59 (8.65%) ITSM
14 55 (8.06%) SOAR
15 54 (7.92%) Capacity Management
16 52 (7.62%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 52 (7.62%) Threat Intelligence
17 49 (7.18%) Mentoring
18 48 (7.04%) Incident Management
19 47 (6.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.74%) PowerShell
2 38 (5.57%) Python
3 26 (3.81%) SQL
4 21 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.61%) C#
6 7 (1.03%) Bash
6 7 (1.03%) C++
6 7 (1.03%) PHP
7 5 (0.73%) C
7 5 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.59%) SPARQL
9 3 (0.44%) Java
10 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 349 (51.17%) Security Cleared
2 184 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 159 (23.31%) DV Cleared
4 89 (13.05%) Degree
5 24 (3.52%) APMP
5 24 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.91%) MCSE
10 11 (1.61%) CISSP
11 9 (1.32%) CISM
11 9 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (1.17%) HNC
12 8 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.03%) MCSA
14 6 (0.88%) CCNA
15 5 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.18%) PMO
2 47 (6.89%) NIST
3 35 (5.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 31 (4.55%) NIST 800
5 29 (4.25%) QA
6 19 (2.79%) SLA
7 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.61%) GDPR
9 7 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.88%) NCSC
11 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.59%) GMP
12 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.44%) GRC
14 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.15%) RMADS
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.20%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (1.61%) Docker
5 11 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.17%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.88%) vSphere
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (4.40%) Ansible
1 30 (4.40%) SCCM
2 27 (3.96%) SCOM
3 23 (3.37%) PowerCLI
4 19 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (2.05%) Terraform
6 13 (1.91%) Kubernetes
7 10 (1.47%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (1.17%) Nagios
8 8 (1.17%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.59%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.44%) WSUS
11 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.29%) MOM
11 2 (0.29%) OPNET
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 268 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.29%) Atlassian
3 39 (5.72%) SAP
4 38 (5.57%) VMware
5 27 (3.96%) Dell
6 24 (3.52%) HP
7 19 (2.79%) Remedy
8 15 (2.20%) Adobe
8 15 (2.20%) Cisco
9 14 (2.05%) Splunk
10 11 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.32%) Hitachi
11 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.17%) NetApp
13 7 (1.03%) Google
13 7 (1.03%) Juniper
14 6 (0.88%) IBM
14 6 (0.88%) Nokia
14 6 (0.88%) Oracle
15 4 (0.59%) Red Hat