Social Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,651 4,986 6,687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.91% 21.67% 21.96%
As % of the General category 42.14% 38.34% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,733 3,287 4,417
10th Percentile £185 £201 £172
25th Percentile £325 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 324 544
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.12 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.22
Median hourly rate £16.17 £18.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +15.63% -6.66%
75th Percentile £38.12 £56.36 £28.75
90th Percentile £61.53 £65.93 £51.25
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -28.00% +32.82% +4.57%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,038 13,006 16,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.38% 56.52% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,866 11,696
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 739 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.16 £36.12
90th Percentile £67.04 £70.00 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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% 1,083
Midlands 0 622 £450 -6.25% 1,584
North West +2 600 £475 - 1,138
East of England 0 541 £475 +11.76% 983
Scotland +1 521 £440 -5.63% 484
Yorkshire +1 467 £475 -5.00% 742
West Midlands 0 445 £475 -5.00% 967
East Midlands +3 170 £269 -37.44% 616
Wales +3 84 £388 -8.82% 233
North East +7 59 £525 +35.48% 301
Northern Ireland +2 37 £435 +8.75% 86
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 4
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 198 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 167 (3.59%) Confluence
3 137 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (0.97%) SAS
5 38 (0.82%) CMS
6 37 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
7 18 (0.39%) Apache
8 15 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 11 (0.24%) WordPress
10 9 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.17%) Appian
11 8 (0.17%) IIS
12 7 (0.15%) nginx
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.086%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.086%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.086%) Drupal
15 3 (0.065%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.065%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 431 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 374 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 148 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 67 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.32%) Acrobat
10 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 8 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 8 (0.17%) Sketch
11 8 (0.17%) Windchill
12 6 (0.13%) Maya
12 6 (0.13%) SPSS
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
14 3 (0.065%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 119 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.52%) Primavera
4 23 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 21 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 18 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 18 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (0.26%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.24%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.22%) Maximo
11 10 (0.22%) Teamcenter
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
13 8 (0.17%) Odoo
13 8 (0.17%) SAP EWM
13 8 (0.17%) SAP HCM
13 8 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 547 (11.76%) Azure
2 366 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
3 226 (4.86%) AWS
4 211 (4.54%) Power Platform
5 92 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 82 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 73 (1.57%) GCP
9 49 (1.05%) GitHub
10 47 (1.01%) SaaS
11 44 (0.95%) Power Automate
12 40 (0.86%) OCI
12 40 (0.86%) OneDrive
13 36 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 35 (0.75%) Azure Stack
14 35 (0.75%) Serverless
15 33 (0.71%) Amazon S3
15 33 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
16 31 (0.67%) IaaS
17 28 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 207 (4.45%) Firewall
2 149 (3.20%) DNS
3 115 (2.47%) LAN
4 111 (2.39%) DHCP
5 106 (2.28%) WAN
6 93 (2.00%) VPN
7 71 (1.53%) SAN
8 66 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (1.33%) TCP/IP
10 53 (1.14%) Network Security
11 52 (1.12%) Wireless
12 42 (0.90%) BGP
13 34 (0.73%) Internet
14 33 (0.71%) VLAN
15 28 (0.60%) Ethernet
15 28 (0.60%) Modbus
15 28 (0.60%) RS-422
15 28 (0.60%) RS-485
16 26 (0.56%) Intranet
17 24 (0.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (3.63%) Power BI
2 77 (1.66%) SQL Server
3 50 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 45 (0.97%) Tableau
5 44 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 34 (0.73%) Big Data
8 33 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 33 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (0.69%) MySQL
10 30 (0.65%) Metadata
11 25 (0.54%) Data Mining
12 24 (0.52%) GIS
13 23 (0.49%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
14 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.43%) SAP HANA
15 18 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.32%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 312 (6.71%) JIRA
2 105 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 71 (1.53%) Git
4 47 (1.01%) Selenium
5 37 (0.80%) GitLab
6 34 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 32 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 32 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
13 12 (0.26%) Postman
14 11 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 10 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 10 (0.22%) Travis CI
16 9 (0.19%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.17%) JUnit
General
1 903 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
2 733 (15.76%) Finance
3 451 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 343 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
5 263 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
6 215 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 204 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 179 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 164 (3.53%) Marketing
10 152 (3.27%) Retail
11 129 (2.77%) Legal
12 125 (2.69%) Banking
13 95 (2.04%) Electronics
14 90 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 71 (1.53%) Law
16 66 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.25%) Military
18 57 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
19 50 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
20 39 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 697 (14.99%) Analyst
2 362 (7.78%) Project Manager
3 323 (6.94%) Architect
4 291 (6.26%) Senior
5 280 (6.02%) Lead
6 258 (5.55%) Developer
7 240 (5.16%) Consultant
8 170 (3.66%) Support Engineer
9 167 (3.59%) Business Analyst
10 141 (3.03%) IT Support
11 121 (2.60%) Administrator
12 114 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
13 108 (2.32%) Service Analyst
14 99 (2.13%) Service Desk Analyst
15 93 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 84 (1.81%) Software Engineer
17 82 (1.76%) Network Engineer
17 82 (1.76%) Support Analyst
18 76 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 68 (1.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.89%) .NET
2 86 (1.85%) REST
3 70 (1.51%) HTML
4 58 (1.25%) CSS
5 51 (1.10%) Web Services
6 48 (1.03%) React
7 44 (0.95%) XML
8 37 (0.80%) RESTful
9 36 (0.77%) JSON
10 34 (0.73%) Spring
11 33 (0.71%) ARM Templates
11 33 (0.71%) ISPF
12 32 (0.69%) Kafka
13 31 (0.67%) Middleware
14 30 (0.65%) .NET Core
14 30 (0.65%) Node.js
15 27 (0.58%) Java EE
16 26 (0.56%) YAML
17 25 (0.54%) AngularJS
18 22 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 215 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 190 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 138 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 126 (2.71%) Driving Licence
5 123 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 80 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 67 (1.44%) NHS
8 59 (1.27%) PKI
8 59 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 58 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 57 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 56 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 47 (1.01%) CMDB
13 42 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 38 (0.82%) Life Science
14 38 (0.82%) Mainframe
14 38 (0.82%) Private Cloud
15 36 (0.77%) Clustering
16 32 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 664 (14.28%) Windows
2 271 (5.83%) Linux
3 261 (5.61%) Windows 10
4 182 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 79 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 79 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 73 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 69 (1.48%) Unix
8 68 (1.46%) Windows 7
9 52 (1.12%) Apple iOS
10 48 (1.03%) zOS
11 47 (1.01%) Android
12 40 (0.86%) Mac OS
13 27 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 19 (0.41%) Windows NT
15 17 (0.37%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.30%) Ubuntu
17 11 (0.24%) CentOS
17 11 (0.24%) Debian
17 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,368 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 844 (18.15%) Agile
3 759 (16.32%) Project Management
4 619 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 589 (12.66%) Customer Service
6 423 (9.09%) ITIL
7 373 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 343 (7.37%) Decision-Making
9 317 (6.82%) Migration
10 306 (6.58%) DevOps
11 283 (6.08%) Service Management
12 268 (5.76%) Project Delivery
13 260 (5.59%) Change Management
14 223 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
15 221 (4.75%) Cybersecurity
16 216 (4.64%) Time Management
17 209 (4.49%) Analytics
18 199 (4.28%) Computer Science
19 188 (4.04%) Roadmaps
20 185 (3.98%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 297 (6.39%) SQL
2 239 (5.14%) Python
3 180 (3.87%) PowerShell
4 168 (3.61%) Java
5 137 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 124 (2.67%) C#
7 72 (1.55%) C++
8 71 (1.53%) C
9 49 (1.05%) Bash
10 43 (0.92%) JCL
10 43 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 41 (0.88%) REXX
12 33 (0.71%) Perl
12 33 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.54%) VB
14 24 (0.52%) Bicep
15 22 (0.47%) VBScript
16 21 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.39%) Assembly Language
18 17 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 934 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 687 (14.77%) Degree
3 546 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 353 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 132 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 84 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (1.66%) CCNA
9 76 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 60 (1.29%) PMP
12 59 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 47 (1.01%) CCNP
14 44 (0.95%) MCSE
15 41 (0.88%) HNC
16 40 (0.86%) MCP
17 34 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
17 34 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.69%) DBS Check
19 31 (0.67%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (5.18%) SLA
2 230 (4.95%) QA
3 131 (2.82%) PMO
4 102 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 82 (1.76%) NIST
6 66 (1.42%) GDPR
7 64 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 46 (0.99%) NIST 800
10 42 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
11 35 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
12 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.28%) GRC
14 10 (0.22%) NCSC
15 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.11%) Def Stans
17 5 (0.11%) HL7
17 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 406 (8.73%) Active Directory
2 164 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (1.53%) Docker
4 65 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 54 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (1.03%) Firmware
7 46 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 44 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 42 (0.90%) Time Sharing Option
10 36 (0.77%) vSphere
11 24 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
12 18 (0.39%) ACF2
12 18 (0.39%) RACF
13 17 (0.37%) NFS
14 15 (0.32%) BitLocker
15 14 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
16 12 (0.26%) KVM
16 12 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 11 (0.24%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 208 (4.47%) SCCM
2 126 (2.71%) Ansible
3 108 (2.32%) Kubernetes
4 103 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 89 (1.91%) Terraform
6 67 (1.44%) WSUS
7 60 (1.29%) SCOM
8 50 (1.08%) vCenter Server
9 43 (0.92%) NetBackup
10 33 (0.71%) Puppet
11 29 (0.62%) Grafana
12 23 (0.49%) PowerCLI
13 21 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
13 21 (0.45%) OMEGAMON
14 19 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.41%) Kibana
14 19 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (0.41%) Sysprep
15 18 (0.39%) Progress Chef
16 15 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,104 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 330 (7.10%) SAP
3 202 (4.34%) VMware
4 190 (4.09%) Oracle
5 139 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 133 (2.86%) Cisco
7 108 (2.32%) HP
8 86 (1.85%) Atlassian
9 85 (1.83%) Dell
10 76 (1.63%) IBM
11 74 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.48%) Splunk
13 64 (1.38%) Google
14 58 (1.25%) Adobe
15 51 (1.10%) Citrix
16 36 (0.77%) Juniper
17 35 (0.75%) Apple
18 32 (0.69%) Broadcom
18 32 (0.69%) Palo Alto
19 30 (0.65%) F5