Social Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,082 4,770 7,933
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.88% 19.36% 18.00%
As % of the General category 35.47% 33.12% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,071 3,351 5,549
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +0.96% +11.23%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 124 134
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.23 £22.88 £15.72
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +128.15% +37.87%
75th Percentile £39.69 £67.50 £46.67
90th Percentile £52.85 £80.00 £60.33
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -28.00% +32.82% +4.57%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,690 14,404 24,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.87% 58.46% 54.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,713 10,150 17,491
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 323 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.80 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +52.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Social Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Social Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 100 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 85 (2.76%) Confluence
3 56 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.01%) CMS
5 17 (0.55%) SAS
5 17 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
6 14 (0.45%) Apache
6 14 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.29%) IIS
9 9 (0.29%) nginx
9 9 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.19%) JBoss
11 6 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 154 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 144 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 76 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 12 (0.39%) Sketch
9 11 (0.36%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.29%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.19%) InDesign
13 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
13 5 (0.16%) UserZoom
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
15 3 (0.097%) AutoCAD
15 3 (0.097%) Maya
Business Applications
1 85 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
5 16 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
6 15 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
7 14 (0.45%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.42%) SAP SD
9 12 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 11 (0.36%) SAP HCM
10 11 (0.36%) SAP HR
11 10 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.29%) Shopify
13 8 (0.26%) Loan IQ
13 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.26%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 527 (17.10%) Azure
2 272 (8.83%) AWS
3 218 (7.07%) Power Platform
4 159 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
5 118 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
7 102 (3.31%) GCP
8 65 (2.11%) PowerApps
9 63 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 54 (1.75%) Power Automate
11 53 (1.72%) SaaS
12 51 (1.65%) GitHub
13 47 (1.52%) Serverless
14 45 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (1.17%) IaaS
16 35 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
17 29 (0.94%) Amazon S3
17 29 (0.94%) OCI
18 26 (0.84%) PaaS
19 25 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.83%) Firewall
2 55 (1.78%) DNS
3 43 (1.40%) VPN
4 42 (1.36%) WAN
5 36 (1.17%) Network Security
6 33 (1.07%) DHCP
7 32 (1.04%) LAN
8 29 (0.94%) BGP
9 27 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 23 (0.75%) Internet
12 20 (0.65%) HTTP
13 18 (0.58%) Wireless
14 12 (0.39%) SAN
14 12 (0.39%) SSL
14 12 (0.39%) VLAN
15 11 (0.36%) 5G
15 11 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (0.36%) SD-WAN
15 11 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.00%) Power BI
2 138 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 69 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 53 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 40 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (1.23%) MySQL
7 36 (1.17%) Tableau
8 35 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 33 (1.07%) Big Data
10 31 (1.01%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.97%) MongoDB
11 30 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 22 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (0.71%) GIS
14 21 (0.68%) Metadata
15 17 (0.55%) Power Query
16 13 (0.42%) Couchbase
16 13 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 223 (7.24%) JIRA
2 93 (3.02%) Git
3 80 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.78%) GitLab
5 33 (1.07%) Selenium
6 22 (0.71%) Postman
7 19 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 17 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.49%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.45%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.42%) Appium
12 12 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.39%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.36%) JMeter
13 11 (0.36%) Maven
14 10 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 769 (24.95%) Finance
2 620 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
3 311 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 197 (6.39%) Banking
5 179 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
6 155 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
7 137 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
8 116 (3.76%) Marketing
9 97 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 91 (2.95%) Retail
11 87 (2.82%) Manufacturing
12 80 (2.60%) Legal
13 58 (1.88%) Front Office
14 52 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.17%) General Ledger
16 36 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 36 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 29 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 435 (14.11%) Analyst
2 369 (11.97%) Developer
3 288 (9.34%) Consultant
4 286 (9.28%) Architect
5 268 (8.70%) Senior
6 235 (7.62%) Project Manager
7 208 (6.75%) Business Analyst
8 177 (5.74%) Lead
9 108 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (2.43%) Data Analyst
11 68 (2.21%) Data Engineer
12 63 (2.04%) Designer
13 58 (1.88%) Senior Developer
14 55 (1.78%) C# Developer
15 52 (1.69%) Senior Manager
16 49 (1.59%) Service Analyst
16 49 (1.59%) Software Engineer
17 46 (1.49%) DevOps Engineer
18 45 (1.46%) Functional Consultant
19 42 (1.36%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.41%) .NET
2 81 (2.63%) React
3 79 (2.56%) REST
4 73 (2.37%) AngularJS
5 71 (2.30%) HTML
6 70 (2.27%) CSS
7 67 (2.17%) Web Services
8 56 (1.82%) Kafka
8 56 (1.82%) RESTful
9 48 (1.56%) JSON
10 47 (1.52%) XML
11 43 (1.40%) Middleware
12 42 (1.36%) Node.js
13 34 (1.10%) SOAP
14 32 (1.04%) YAML
15 30 (0.97%) ARM Templates
16 27 (0.88%) Spring
17 23 (0.75%) .NET Framework
18 20 (0.65%) ASP.NET
18 20 (0.65%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 102 (3.31%) Management Information System
2 100 (3.24%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 47 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 45 (1.46%) Algorithms
7 42 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 40 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 37 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 32 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 32 (1.04%) NHS
11 29 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 28 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (0.88%) CMDB
14 26 (0.84%) Cloud Native
15 25 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 24 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (0.75%) Public Cloud
18 22 (0.71%) PKI
19 21 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 240 (7.79%) Windows
2 183 (5.94%) Linux
3 59 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.14%) Unix
6 30 (0.97%) zOS
7 29 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (0.68%) Android
10 15 (0.49%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.32%) AIX
13 9 (0.29%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.13%) VMS
17 3 (0.097%) Debian
17 3 (0.097%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
2 749 (24.30%) Agile
3 479 (15.54%) Project Management
4 345 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 332 (10.77%) DevOps
6 257 (8.34%) Migration
7 233 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
8 231 (7.50%) Analytics
9 220 (7.14%) Computer Science
10 207 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (6.46%) Decision-Making
11 199 (6.46%) ITIL
12 195 (6.33%) CI/CD
13 183 (5.94%) Scrum
14 173 (5.61%) Roadmaps
15 171 (5.55%) Change Management
16 168 (5.45%) Service Management
17 159 (5.16%) Data Modelling
18 152 (4.93%) Customer Service
19 149 (4.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 366 (11.88%) SQL
2 257 (8.34%) Python
3 167 (5.42%) Java
4 166 (5.39%) C#
5 148 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 104 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 52 (1.69%) Bash
7 52 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.43%) C++
9 37 (1.20%) Bicep
10 31 (1.01%) Go
10 31 (1.01%) Perl
11 28 (0.91%) REXX
12 27 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 26 (0.84%) JCL
13 26 (0.84%) PHP
14 25 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.75%) Scala
16 19 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 478 (15.51%) Degree
2 401 (13.01%) Security Cleared
3 291 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 155 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 65 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 51 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.65%) PMP
8 47 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.14%) CISSP
11 32 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 23 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 23 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (0.71%) CCNP
14 22 (0.71%) CISM
15 20 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 17 (0.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.91%) QA
2 112 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.63%) SLA
4 65 (2.11%) PMO
5 61 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.49%) GDPR
7 42 (1.36%) NIST
8 39 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
10 18 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
12 13 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.39%) GRC
14 11 (0.36%) MiFID
14 11 (0.36%) SEPA
15 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
16 9 (0.29%) EMIR
16 9 (0.29%) NCSC
17 8 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 134 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 96 (3.11%) Docker
3 36 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
6 25 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.58%) vSphere
8 16 (0.52%) RACF
9 13 (0.42%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.32%) ACF2
11 9 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 9 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
13 7 (0.23%) Firmware
13 7 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 7 (0.23%) Microcode
13 7 (0.23%) NFS
14 3 (0.097%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.097%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 135 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 110 (3.57%) Terraform
3 88 (2.86%) Ansible
4 39 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (1.14%) SCCM
5 35 (1.14%) SCOM
6 29 (0.94%) Puppet
7 26 (0.84%) Grafana
8 21 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.68%) WSUS
9 18 (0.58%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 13 (0.42%) OMEGAMON
13 12 (0.39%) Consul
13 12 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.32%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.26%) Kibana
15 8 (0.26%) Podman
15 8 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 559 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 218 (7.07%) SAP
3 168 (5.45%) Oracle
4 92 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 71 (2.30%) Google
6 63 (2.04%) IBM
7 61 (1.98%) Cisco
8 59 (1.91%) Databricks
9 53 (1.72%) Adobe
10 49 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 45 (1.46%) VMware
12 37 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 34 (1.10%) Splunk
14 27 (0.88%) Ariba
14 27 (0.88%) Dell
15 26 (0.84%) Informatica
16 23 (0.75%) F5
17 20 (0.65%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.65%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.62%) Juniper