Social Skills Contracts

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,371 11,531 17,719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 21.88% 20.49% 20.08%
As % of the General category 37.93% 34.99% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,832 7,648 11,599
10th Percentile £213 £250 £250
25th Percentile £381 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £455
% change year-on-year -3.06% +7.69% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 443 692
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% +25.63% +1.71%
75th Percentile £38.12 £59.42 £38.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £17.72 £15.74
% change year-on-year -8.41% +12.58% -8.50%

All General Skills
UK

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 requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,705 32,951 49,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.69% 58.56% 56.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,577 22,850 34,658
10th Percentile £275 £313 £323
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,967 996 1,421
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.84 £72.50 £59.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.27% +41.03% +0.52%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +2 8,031 £513 -5.09% 11,372
UK excluding London 0 4,653 £475 -3.06% 8,108
London +1 3,759 £540 -6.09% 3,509
Work from Home +1 3,051 £513 -2.38% 4,137
North of England +1 1,141 £475 -5.00% 2,112
South East 0 1,071 £488 -2.50% 1,878
South West +1 691 £525 -3.67% 1,090
Midlands 0 631 £450 -10.00% 1,565
North West +1 602 £475 - 1,167
East of England 0 530 £450 +5.88% 971
Scotland +1 514 £435 -7.40% 530
Yorkshire +1 473 £475 -5.00% 691
West Midlands 0 452 £475 -5.00% 936
East Midlands +3 172 £269 -38.86% 631
Wales +4 86 £388 -8.82% 205
North East +6 62 £533 +52.14% 297
Northern Ireland +2 38 £435 +12.26% 92
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 3

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 373 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 242 (2.58%) Confluence
3 223 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 108 (1.15%) CMS
5 65 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 62 (0.66%) SAS
7 54 (0.58%) Apache
8 32 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 23 (0.25%) IIS
10 22 (0.23%) WordPress
11 21 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 20 (0.21%) Skype for Business
13 18 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
13 18 (0.19%) nginx
14 15 (0.16%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 14 (0.15%) OpenStack
16 13 (0.14%) Appian
17 12 (0.13%) CICS
17 12 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 626 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
2 585 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 272 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 135 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 117 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 98 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 47 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 35 (0.37%) Sketch
9 31 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 23 (0.25%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 12 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
14 10 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 10 (0.11%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.096%) InDesign
15 9 (0.096%) SPSS
15 9 (0.096%) Trello
15 9 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 229 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 75 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 36 (0.38%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 34 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 34 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 30 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 29 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 28 (0.30%) Primavera
9 28 (0.30%) Shopify
10 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
11 26 (0.28%) NetSuite
11 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 26 (0.28%) SAP SD
12 25 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
12 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 23 (0.25%) Teamcenter
14 21 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
15 19 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (14.29%) Azure
2 705 (7.52%) AWS
3 625 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 487 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 279 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
6 274 (2.92%) GCP
7 210 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
8 163 (1.74%) Entra ID
9 160 (1.71%) GitHub
10 138 (1.47%) SaaS
11 125 (1.33%) Serverless
12 121 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 117 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 85 (0.91%) OCI
15 80 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 76 (0.81%) IaaS
17 74 (0.79%) Amazon S3
18 73 (0.78%) OneDrive
19 71 (0.76%) PaaS
20 65 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 325 (3.47%) Firewall
2 215 (2.29%) DNS
3 182 (1.94%) WAN
4 177 (1.89%) LAN
5 165 (1.76%) VPN
6 138 (1.47%) DHCP
7 95 (1.01%) Network Security
8 92 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 89 (0.95%) Internet
10 85 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 81 (0.86%) Wireless
12 76 (0.81%) BGP
13 71 (0.76%) SAN
14 53 (0.57%) MPLS
15 50 (0.53%) Intranet
16 46 (0.49%) VLAN
17 45 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 40 (0.43%) SD-WAN
19 39 (0.42%) VoIP
20 35 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (4.24%) Power BI
2 305 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 176 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 121 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 108 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 105 (1.12%) Tableau
8 102 (1.09%) Big Data
9 96 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 88 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 82 (0.88%) MySQL
12 68 (0.73%) MongoDB
13 63 (0.67%) Metadata
14 54 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 47 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (0.48%) Data Mining
16 45 (0.48%) Hadoop
16 45 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
17 43 (0.46%) SAP HANA
18 40 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 592 (6.32%) JIRA
2 273 (2.91%) Git
3 234 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 113 (1.21%) Selenium
5 112 (1.20%) GitLab
6 70 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 54 (0.58%) Postman
8 53 (0.57%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 41 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 41 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 40 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.38%) WebDriver
14 33 (0.35%) JUnit
14 33 (0.35%) Maven
15 30 (0.32%) Appium
16 26 (0.28%) JMeter
16 26 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
17 25 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 2,011 (21.46%) Finance
2 1,875 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
3 786 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 593 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
5 540 (5.76%) Banking
6 424 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 391 (4.17%) Marketing
8 325 (3.47%) Retail
9 317 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 304 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 295 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 264 (2.82%) Legal
13 180 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 133 (1.42%) Law
15 127 (1.36%) Front Office
16 124 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
17 123 (1.31%) Electronics
18 117 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
19 113 (1.21%) Investment Banking
20 95 (1.01%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,351 (14.42%) Analyst
2 864 (9.22%) Developer
3 792 (8.45%) Architect
4 733 (7.82%) Senior
5 684 (7.30%) Consultant
6 677 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 550 (5.87%) Lead
8 487 (5.20%) Business Analyst
9 297 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
10 273 (2.91%) Support Engineer
11 194 (2.07%) Administrator
12 186 (1.98%) IT Support
13 170 (1.81%) Data Analyst
14 159 (1.70%) Network Engineer
15 152 (1.62%) Senior Analyst
16 149 (1.59%) Data Engineer
16 149 (1.59%) Designer
17 146 (1.56%) Software Engineer
18 140 (1.49%) Service Analyst
19 128 (1.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (2.93%) .NET
2 215 (2.29%) HTML
2 215 (2.29%) React
3 199 (2.12%) CSS
4 193 (2.06%) REST
5 148 (1.58%) AngularJS
6 131 (1.40%) Web Services
7 123 (1.31%) RESTful
8 120 (1.28%) Kafka
9 116 (1.24%) XML
10 115 (1.23%) JSON
11 108 (1.15%) Node.js
12 95 (1.01%) Spring
13 89 (0.95%) Middleware
14 81 (0.86%) .NET Framework
15 62 (0.66%) .NET Core
16 60 (0.64%) SOAP
17 59 (0.63%) YAML
18 56 (0.60%) Spring Boot
19 48 (0.51%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 373 (3.98%) Management Information System
2 370 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
3 312 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 221 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 155 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 126 (1.34%) Driving Licence
7 112 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 112 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 110 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 104 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
10 94 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 92 (0.98%) NHS
12 89 (0.95%) CMDB
13 82 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 79 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
15 74 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
15 74 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
16 71 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
16 71 (0.76%) Mainframe
17 68 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 985 (10.51%) Windows
2 487 (5.20%) Linux
3 355 (3.79%) Windows 10
4 260 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 164 (1.75%) Unix
6 102 (1.09%) Android
7 89 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 88 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 87 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 86 (0.92%) Windows 7
11 84 (0.90%) Mac OS
12 83 (0.89%) Apple iOS
13 71 (0.76%) zOS
14 42 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.22%) Solaris
17 20 (0.21%) AIX
18 17 (0.18%) VMS
18 17 (0.18%) Windows NT
18 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,717 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
2 2,032 (21.68%) Agile
3 1,374 (14.66%) Project Management
4 1,201 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 868 (9.26%) DevOps
6 800 (8.54%) Customer Service
7 680 (7.26%) Migration
8 664 (7.09%) Computer Science
9 662 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 633 (6.75%) ITIL
11 607 (6.48%) Analytics
12 596 (6.36%) Decision-Making
13 537 (5.73%) Project Delivery
14 531 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
15 521 (5.56%) Change Management
16 506 (5.40%) CI/CD
17 478 (5.10%) Scrum
18 447 (4.77%) Roadmaps
19 392 (4.18%) Software Engineering
20 388 (4.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 911 (9.72%) SQL
2 754 (8.05%) Python
3 496 (5.29%) Java
4 399 (4.26%) C#
5 398 (4.25%) JavaScript
6 337 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 160 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 148 (1.58%) C++
9 117 (1.25%) Bash
10 84 (0.90%) C
11 74 (0.79%) Perl
12 68 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 57 (0.61%) Bicep
14 57 (0.61%) Go
15 55 (0.59%) REXX
15 55 (0.59%) Scala
16 53 (0.57%) JCL
17 50 (0.53%) R
18 46 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,566 (16.71%) Degree
2 1,386 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 905 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 471 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 402 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 201 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 182 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 139 (1.48%) PMP
9 138 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 126 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 125 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 113 (1.21%) CCNA
13 90 (0.96%) CISSP
14 88 (0.94%) CCNP
15 69 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 67 (0.71%) Azure Certification
17 53 (0.57%) CISM
18 51 (0.54%) MCSE
19 44 (0.47%) ISTQB
20 42 (0.45%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 491 (5.24%) QA
2 330 (3.52%) SLA
3 275 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 222 (2.37%) PMO
5 151 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 142 (1.52%) NIST
7 122 (1.30%) GDPR
8 98 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 61 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 50 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
12 37 (0.39%) GRC
13 31 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
14 24 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 17 (0.18%) NCSC
17 17 (0.18%) SEPA
18 15 (0.16%) MiFID
19 13 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 598 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 227 (2.42%) Docker
3 214 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 82 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 61 (0.65%) Firmware
7 57 (0.61%) vSphere
8 56 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 56 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 52 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
10 39 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.29%) RACF
12 24 (0.26%) NFS
12 24 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.22%) ACF2
13 21 (0.22%) KVM
14 14 (0.15%) vCloud
15 13 (0.14%) BitLocker
15 13 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
16 11 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 294 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 260 (2.77%) Terraform
3 248 (2.65%) SCCM
4 207 (2.21%) Ansible
5 145 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 69 (0.74%) WSUS
7 66 (0.70%) Puppet
8 62 (0.66%) SCOM
9 58 (0.62%) Grafana
10 56 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 44 (0.47%) NetBackup
12 41 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 37 (0.39%) Prometheus
14 34 (0.36%) Progress Chef
15 30 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
16 29 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
17 28 (0.30%) Kibana
18 27 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
18 27 (0.29%) PowerCLI
19 24 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,960 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 684 (7.30%) SAP
3 505 (5.39%) Oracle
4 296 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 277 (2.96%) VMware
6 248 (2.65%) Cisco
7 207 (2.21%) Google
8 203 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 148 (1.58%) IBM
10 145 (1.55%) Adobe
11 129 (1.38%) Dell
12 128 (1.37%) HP
13 121 (1.29%) Databricks
14 99 (1.06%) Citrix
15 96 (1.02%) Splunk
16 87 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 79 (0.84%) F5
18 77 (0.82%) Apple
19 62 (0.66%) Ariba
20 61 (0.65%) Palo Alto