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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 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 9,405 11,529 17,619
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 21.92% 20.53% 20.11%
As % of the General category 38.04% 35.06% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,846 7,647 11,534
10th Percentile £213 £255 £250
25th Percentile £380 £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 778 440 688
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.25 £23.08 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +27.38% +0.64%
75th Percentile £38.12 £59.22 £37.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £17.99 £15.74
% change year-on-year -9.77% +14.28% -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 24,727 32,883 49,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.62% 58.56% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,561 22,792 34,447
10th Percentile £275 £313 £324
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
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 £763 £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 1,973 991 1,415
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.56 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.57% +42.77% +0.31%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 8,062 £513 -5.09% 11,313
UK excluding London 0 4,680 £475 -3.06% 8,044
London +1 3,767 £540 -6.09% 3,491
Work from Home +1 3,062 £513 -2.38% 4,112
North of England +1 1,150 £475 -5.00% 2,109
South East 0 1,081 £500 - 1,850
South West +1 693 £525 -2.60% 1,072
Midlands 0 634 £450 -10.00% 1,553
North West +1 612 £475 - 1,169
East of England 0 530 £450 +5.88% 967
Scotland +1 513 £427 -9.15% 531
Yorkshire +1 473 £475 -5.00% 688
West Midlands 0 454 £475 -5.00% 926
East Midlands +2 173 £269 -37.44% 629
Wales +4 86 £388 -8.82% 203
North East +5 61 £533 +63.85% 295
Northern Ireland +2 43 £363 -6.45% 94
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
1 378 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 241 (2.56%) Confluence
3 224 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 107 (1.14%) CMS
5 66 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 61 (0.65%) SAS
7 55 (0.58%) Apache
8 33 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 24 (0.26%) IIS
10 22 (0.23%) WordPress
11 21 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 20 (0.21%) Skype for Business
13 19 (0.20%) nginx
14 18 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
15 15 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 15 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 13 (0.14%) Appian
18 12 (0.13%) CICS
18 12 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 625 (6.65%) Microsoft Office
2 587 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 270 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 135 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 115 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 99 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 47 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 34 (0.36%) Sketch
9 31 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 22 (0.23%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 12 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 12 (0.13%) Chatbot
14 10 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 10 (0.11%) Trello
15 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.096%) InDesign
15 9 (0.096%) SPSS
15 9 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 230 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 76 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 37 (0.39%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 34 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 34 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 29 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 29 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 28 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 28 (0.30%) Primavera
8 28 (0.30%) Shopify
9 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
10 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 26 (0.28%) SAP SD
11 25 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 23 (0.24%) Teamcenter
13 21 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
14 19 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,340 (14.25%) Azure
2 709 (7.54%) AWS
3 632 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
4 484 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 279 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (2.92%) GCP
7 209 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 166 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 160 (1.70%) GitHub
10 139 (1.48%) SaaS
11 123 (1.31%) Serverless
12 120 (1.28%) Power Automate
13 118 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 86 (0.91%) OCI
15 79 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 77 (0.82%) IaaS
17 73 (0.78%) OneDrive
18 72 (0.77%) Amazon S3
18 72 (0.77%) PaaS
19 65 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 327 (3.48%) Firewall
2 216 (2.30%) DNS
3 183 (1.95%) WAN
4 175 (1.86%) LAN
5 165 (1.75%) VPN
6 138 (1.47%) DHCP
7 94 (1.00%) Network Security
8 91 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 87 (0.93%) Internet
10 84 (0.89%) TCP/IP
11 79 (0.84%) Wireless
12 76 (0.81%) BGP
13 70 (0.74%) SAN
14 53 (0.56%) MPLS
15 51 (0.54%) Intranet
16 46 (0.49%) VLAN
17 45 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 41 (0.44%) SD-WAN
19 39 (0.41%) VoIP
20 35 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (4.21%) Power BI
2 306 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 176 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 120 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 108 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 105 (1.12%) Tableau
8 102 (1.08%) Big Data
9 96 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 89 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 84 (0.89%) MySQL
12 70 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 64 (0.68%) Metadata
14 54 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 47 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (0.48%) Hadoop
16 45 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
17 44 (0.47%) Data Mining
18 43 (0.46%) SAP HANA
19 40 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 592 (6.29%) JIRA
2 271 (2.88%) Git
3 233 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.19%) GitLab
4 112 (1.19%) Selenium
5 70 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 54 (0.57%) Postman
7 53 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 49 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 41 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 41 (0.44%) REST Assured
10 40 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 36 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 36 (0.38%) WebDriver
12 33 (0.35%) JUnit
13 32 (0.34%) Maven
14 30 (0.32%) Appium
15 26 (0.28%) JMeter
15 26 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
16 25 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 2,022 (21.50%) Finance
2 1,882 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
3 785 (8.35%) Public Sector
4 594 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
5 542 (5.76%) Banking
6 423 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 391 (4.16%) Marketing
8 328 (3.49%) Retail
9 314 (3.34%) Telecoms
10 307 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
11 299 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 266 (2.83%) Legal
13 180 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 133 (1.41%) Law
15 127 (1.35%) Front Office
16 123 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 123 (1.31%) Electronics
17 116 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
18 112 (1.19%) Investment Banking
19 96 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,357 (14.43%) Analyst
2 871 (9.26%) Developer
3 791 (8.41%) Architect
4 737 (7.84%) Senior
5 691 (7.35%) Consultant
6 681 (7.24%) Project Manager
7 551 (5.86%) Lead
8 485 (5.16%) Business Analyst
9 297 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
10 274 (2.91%) Support Engineer
11 194 (2.06%) Administrator
12 189 (2.01%) IT Support
13 173 (1.84%) Data Analyst
14 158 (1.68%) Network Engineer
15 152 (1.62%) Senior Analyst
16 150 (1.59%) Designer
17 148 (1.57%) Data Engineer
17 148 (1.57%) Software Engineer
18 141 (1.50%) Service Analyst
19 129 (1.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (2.92%) .NET
2 216 (2.30%) HTML
3 215 (2.29%) React
4 200 (2.13%) CSS
5 195 (2.07%) REST
6 147 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 132 (1.40%) Web Services
8 123 (1.31%) RESTful
9 120 (1.28%) Kafka
10 116 (1.23%) XML
11 115 (1.22%) JSON
12 107 (1.14%) Node.js
13 95 (1.01%) Spring
14 90 (0.96%) Middleware
15 81 (0.86%) .NET Framework
16 62 (0.66%) .NET Core
17 61 (0.65%) SOAP
18 59 (0.63%) Spring Boot
18 59 (0.63%) YAML
19 50 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 376 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 373 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 311 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 219 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 156 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 125 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 113 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 110 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 109 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 108 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 96 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 91 (0.97%) NHS
13 89 (0.95%) CMDB
14 81 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
15 78 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 75 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 74 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
18 72 (0.77%) Mainframe
19 71 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
19 71 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 982 (10.44%) Windows
2 488 (5.19%) Linux
3 351 (3.73%) Windows 10
4 260 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 163 (1.73%) Unix
6 103 (1.10%) Android
7 90 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 88 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 88 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 84 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 84 (0.89%) Windows 7
10 72 (0.77%) zOS
11 41 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (0.22%) Solaris
14 20 (0.21%) AIX
15 17 (0.18%) VMS
15 17 (0.18%) Windows NT
15 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,727 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2,026 (21.54%) Agile
3 1,379 (14.66%) Project Management
4 1,208 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 871 (9.26%) DevOps
6 801 (8.52%) Customer Service
7 682 (7.25%) Migration
8 666 (7.08%) Computer Science
9 664 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 633 (6.73%) ITIL
11 607 (6.45%) Analytics
12 597 (6.35%) Decision-Making
13 539 (5.73%) Project Delivery
14 533 (5.67%) Change Management
15 532 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
16 505 (5.37%) CI/CD
17 476 (5.06%) Scrum
18 445 (4.73%) Roadmaps
19 397 (4.22%) Software Engineering
20 393 (4.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 915 (9.73%) SQL
2 752 (8.00%) Python
3 496 (5.27%) Java
4 398 (4.23%) C#
4 398 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 340 (3.62%) PowerShell
6 158 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 149 (1.58%) C++
8 118 (1.25%) Bash
9 87 (0.93%) C
10 71 (0.75%) Perl
11 68 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 68 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 57 (0.61%) Bicep
12 57 (0.61%) Go
13 55 (0.58%) REXX
13 55 (0.58%) Scala
14 53 (0.56%) JCL
15 50 (0.53%) R
16 46 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,568 (16.67%) Degree
2 1,391 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 906 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 472 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 405 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 201 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 181 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 141 (1.50%) PMP
9 140 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 129 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 125 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 112 (1.19%) CCNA
13 91 (0.97%) CISSP
14 88 (0.94%) CCNP
15 70 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 67 (0.71%) Azure Certification
17 53 (0.56%) CISM
18 51 (0.54%) MCSE
19 43 (0.46%) HNC
20 42 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (5.19%) QA
2 330 (3.51%) SLA
3 277 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 222 (2.36%) PMO
5 149 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 146 (1.55%) NIST
7 123 (1.31%) GDPR
8 100 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 65 (0.69%) NIST 800
10 51 (0.54%) 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 23 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 17 (0.18%) NCSC
17 17 (0.18%) SEPA
18 15 (0.16%) MiFID
19 14 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 603 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 226 (2.40%) Docker
3 216 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 80 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 60 (0.64%) Firmware
7 57 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 57 (0.61%) vSphere
8 56 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
10 41 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.29%) RACF
12 24 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 23 (0.24%) NFS
14 21 (0.22%) ACF2
14 21 (0.22%) KVM
15 14 (0.15%) vCloud
16 13 (0.14%) BitLocker
17 12 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 294 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 263 (2.80%) Terraform
3 246 (2.62%) SCCM
4 206 (2.19%) Ansible
5 146 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 70 (0.74%) WSUS
7 65 (0.69%) Puppet
8 64 (0.68%) SCOM
9 57 (0.61%) Grafana
10 55 (0.58%) vCenter Server
11 43 (0.46%) NetBackup
12 41 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 36 (0.38%) Prometheus
14 33 (0.35%) Progress Chef
15 31 (0.33%) Kibana
16 30 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
17 29 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
18 27 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
18 27 (0.29%) PowerCLI
19 25 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,966 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 687 (7.30%) SAP
3 507 (5.39%) Oracle
4 295 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 280 (2.98%) VMware
6 246 (2.62%) Cisco
7 207 (2.20%) Google
8 206 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 147 (1.56%) IBM
10 144 (1.53%) Adobe
11 129 (1.37%) Dell
12 125 (1.33%) HP
13 121 (1.29%) Databricks
14 100 (1.06%) Citrix
15 97 (1.03%) Splunk
16 87 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 81 (0.86%) F5
18 79 (0.84%) Apple
19 62 (0.66%) Ariba
19 62 (0.66%) Palo Alto