Social Skills Contracts in Cheshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 142 148 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.34% 27.46% 26.74%
As % of the General category 45.66% 47.28% 45.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 85 76
10th Percentile £122 £200 £178
25th Percentile £363 £320 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £409
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +10.16% -9.22%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £520
90th Percentile £617 £680 £630
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £12.14 £16.95 £9.90
25th Percentile £14.24 £23.15 £10.55
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.33 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.03% +20.60% -44.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £46.33
90th Percentile - £30.82 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £26.00 £23.78
% change year-on-year -38.23% +9.35% +1.31%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 311 313 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.08% 58.07% 59.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 207 185
10th Percentile £290 £221 £207
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +0.90%
75th Percentile £565 £568 £538
90th Percentile £628 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 21
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.95 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.07 £11.21
Median hourly rate £24.58 £29.26 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +39.33% +17.32%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.42 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.50 £58.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Cheshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Macclesfield -1 38 £525 +16.67% 19
Knutsford +1 24 £577 +1.86% 7
Warrington -4 19 £388 +93.75% 63
Chester -1 13 £650 +44.44% 46
Northwich - 11 £488 - 6
Daresbury - 7 £65 - 2
Wilmslow -2 3 £381 +65.76% 9
Runcorn -2 1 £475 +410.15% 11
Crewe -7 1 £500 +30.72% 12
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 5
Social Skills
North West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (6.34%) SAS
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) IBM Notes
3 2 (1.41%) IIS
3 2 (1.41%) Mule
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (11.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.93%) Primavera
3 3 (2.11%) Sage X3
4 2 (1.41%) Maximo
4 2 (1.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.70%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.97%) AWS
2 16 (11.27%) Azure
3 14 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.45%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
5 7 (4.93%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.52%) Collibra
6 5 (3.52%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.82%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub
9 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.70%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.70%) Commercetools
10 1 (0.70%) dbt
10 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.34%) Firewall
2 7 (4.93%) DSL
2 7 (4.93%) PPP
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 2 (1.41%) DMZ
5 1 (0.70%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.70%) LAN
5 1 (0.70%) SAN
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.70%) VSAN
5 1 (0.70%) WAN
5 1 (0.70%) Wireless
5 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Power BI
2 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.52%) Ataccama
3 5 (3.52%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.52%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.52%) Qlik Sense
4 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.11%) Big Data
5 3 (2.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.11%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.11%) Tableau
6 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.41%) Metadata
6 2 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.70%) Power Query
7 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (19.01%) JIRA
2 11 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.41%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.41%) Log4j
4 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (25.35%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
5 10 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Front Office
9 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Publishing
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Analyst
2 19 (13.38%) Project Manager
3 16 (11.27%) Consultant
3 16 (11.27%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.15%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (6.34%) SAP Analyst
6 9 (6.34%) Windows Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.63%) Functional Consultant
8 6 (4.23%) 1st Line Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Developer
8 6 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 5 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Data Quality Analyst
9 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) QA Analyst
9 5 (3.52%) Quality Analyst
9 5 (3.52%) SAP Data Analyst
9 5 (3.52%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) REST
2 2 (1.41%) .NET
2 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.41%) CSS
2 2 (1.41%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.41%) HTML
2 2 (1.41%) JSON
2 2 (1.41%) Kafka
2 2 (1.41%) Middleware
2 2 (1.41%) Web Services
2 2 (1.41%) XHTML
3 1 (0.70%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Virtual Team
2 12 (8.45%) Life Science
3 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.93%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.41%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (1.41%) IoT
8 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.41%) Robotics
9 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) FMCG
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.70%) Smart City
9 1 (0.70%) Social Media
9 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.49%) Windows
2 11 (7.75%) Linux
3 8 (5.63%) Unix
4 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.52%) Mac OS
4 5 (3.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) CentOS
5 1 (0.70%) Debian
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (38.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (26.76%) Agile
3 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.31%) Project Management
5 23 (16.20%) Customer Service
6 20 (14.08%) Risk Management
7 13 (9.15%) Asset Management
7 13 (9.15%) Decision-Making
7 13 (9.15%) Scrum
8 12 (8.45%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 11 (7.75%) Time Management
10 10 (7.04%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.04%) Information Security
10 10 (7.04%) Project Delivery
11 9 (6.34%) Data Analysis
11 9 (6.34%) DevOps
11 9 (6.34%) Kanban
12 8 (5.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.68%) SQL
2 11 (7.75%) Python
3 7 (4.93%) PL/SQL
3 7 (4.93%) Ruby
4 6 (4.23%) Java
5 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.41%) C#
6 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.70%) C
7 1 (0.70%) C++
7 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.70%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (11.97%) Degree
1 17 (11.97%) SC Cleared
1 17 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
2 2 (1.41%) PMP
3 1 (0.70%) APMP
3 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.70%) CCNP
3 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) SLA
2 11 (7.75%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.34%) QA
4 5 (3.52%) GDPR
4 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (2.11%) NIST
5 3 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) GAMP
6 1 (0.70%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 9 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.23%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) Ansible
1 7 (4.93%) CFEngine
1 7 (4.93%) PowerBroker
1 7 (4.93%) Progress Chef
1 7 (4.93%) Puppet
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.82%) SCCM
2 4 (2.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.70%) Avamar
3 1 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.94%) SAP
3 13 (9.15%) Ariba
4 12 (8.45%) ServiceNow
5 9 (6.34%) VMware
6 7 (4.93%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.93%) Avaloq
7 5 (3.52%) Alteryx
7 5 (3.52%) Dataiku
7 5 (3.52%) Google
7 5 (3.52%) Trillium
8 4 (2.82%) Apple
8 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.82%) Veeam
9 3 (2.11%) Databricks
9 3 (2.11%) Sage
9 3 (2.11%) Teradata
10 2 (1.41%) HP
10 2 (1.41%) Lotus
10 2 (1.41%) Nintex