Social Skills Contracts in the East of England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 551 513 760
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 29.06% 24.70% 29.55%
As % of the General category 46.93% 40.91% 49.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 267 379
10th Percentile £186 £158 £140
25th Percentile £300 £216 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £530
90th Percentile £638 £638 £613
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 132 197
10th Percentile £14.02 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £13.41 £12.50
Median hourly rate £24.59 £14.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.55% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £38.12 £23.32 £14.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.43 £16.90
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,174 1,254 1,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.92% 60.38% 59.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 692 781
10th Percentile £239 £200 £161
25th Percentile £350 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £626 £550
90th Percentile £650 £725 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 265 331
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Hertfordshire +2 248 £375 -15.25% 234
Cambridgeshire -2 135 £473 +7.39% 251
Bedfordshire 0 85 £525 +40.00% 64
Essex +4 44 £425 +41.67% 151
Suffolk +1 26 £475 +5.56% 72
Norfolk -1 13 £475 +193.21% 87
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 20 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.63%) Confluence
4 4 (0.73%) Apache
4 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 3 (0.54%) Alfresco
5 3 (0.54%) Appian
5 3 (0.54%) Camunda
5 3 (0.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Mendix
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.63%) Photoshop
5 7 (1.27%) Windchill
6 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 28 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.81%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.45%) SAP SD
4 5 (0.91%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.73%) Magento
5 4 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.73%) Shopify
6 3 (0.54%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.36%) Primavera
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (5.63%) Azure
2 26 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (3.27%) AWS
4 15 (2.72%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (0.91%) Amazon S3
6 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (0.91%) GCP
6 5 (0.91%) Google Sheets
6 5 (0.91%) Serverless
7 4 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.73%) SaaS
7 4 (0.73%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.36%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.36%) GitHub
9 2 (0.36%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.08%) Modbus
1 28 (5.08%) RS-422
1 28 (5.08%) RS-485
2 18 (3.27%) VPN
3 17 (3.09%) Firewall
4 16 (2.90%) Network Security
5 12 (2.18%) 4G
5 12 (2.18%) 5G
6 9 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.27%) Intranet
7 7 (1.27%) LAN
8 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.09%) Wireless
9 5 (0.91%) WAN
10 4 (0.73%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.72%) Power BI
2 6 (1.09%) Tableau
3 5 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.91%) GIS
3 5 (0.91%) SAP HANA
4 4 (0.73%) Big Data
4 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.54%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.36%) Looker
6 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.36%) Presto
6 2 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (2.72%) JIRA
2 5 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.54%) Git
5 2 (0.36%) Maven
5 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) CMake
6 1 (0.18%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 111 (20.15%) Finance
2 76 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 71 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.70%) Influencing Skills
5 67 (12.16%) Electronics
6 56 (10.16%) Manufacturing
7 43 (7.80%) Aerospace
8 38 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (5.99%) Marketing
9 33 (5.99%) Retail
10 31 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (3.45%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.90%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.54%) Dutch Language
13 14 (2.54%) Hungarian Language
14 13 (2.36%) German Language
15 9 (1.63%) Legal
16 8 (1.45%) Law
16 8 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
17 7 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (12.52%) Analyst
2 46 (8.35%) Architect
3 34 (6.17%) Software Engineer
4 32 (5.81%) Service Analyst
4 32 (5.81%) Service Desk Analyst
5 31 (5.63%) Consultant
5 31 (5.63%) Test Architect
6 26 (4.72%) Project Manager
7 23 (4.17%) Developer
7 23 (4.17%) Senior
8 22 (3.99%) Lead
9 21 (3.81%) C++ Software Engineer
9 21 (3.81%) Support Engineer
9 21 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
10 19 (3.45%) Administrator
11 15 (2.72%) Call Centre Analyst
11 15 (2.72%) Customer Analyst
11 15 (2.72%) Customer Service Analyst
12 13 (2.36%) Functional Consultant
12 13 (2.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.00%) Yocto
2 7 (1.27%) .NET
2 7 (1.27%) HTML
3 6 (1.09%) CSS
3 6 (1.09%) Middleware
3 6 (1.09%) Node.js
4 5 (0.91%) REST
4 5 (0.91%) Web Services
5 4 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.73%) Visualforce
6 3 (0.54%) Drools
6 3 (0.54%) jBPM
6 3 (0.54%) JSON
7 2 (0.36%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.36%) FFmpeg
7 2 (0.36%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.36%) Kafka
7 2 (0.36%) React
7 2 (0.36%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.36%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (5.63%) Analogue Electronics
3 18 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.36%) Life Science
5 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.27%) STB
6 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.91%) Digital TV
7 5 (0.91%) Graphic Design
8 4 (0.73%) CMDB
8 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.54%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.54%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.54%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.44%) Windows
2 30 (5.44%) Linux
3 6 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.54%) Android
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (23.96%) Project Management
2 128 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (21.42%) Customer Service
4 89 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (13.25%) Agile
6 52 (9.44%) Business Strategy
7 51 (9.26%) ITIL
8 47 (8.53%) Business Development
9 43 (7.80%) Software Engineering
10 42 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (7.44%) Customer Requirements
12 40 (7.26%) Service Delivery
13 39 (7.08%) DevOps
14 34 (6.17%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (6.17%) Test Strategy
15 33 (5.99%) Unit Testing
16 32 (5.81%) TDD
17 31 (5.63%) Time Management
18 30 (5.44%) Incident Management
18 30 (5.44%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.80%) C
2 36 (6.53%) C#
3 35 (6.35%) C++
4 28 (5.08%) SQL
5 19 (3.45%) Python
6 12 (2.18%) Java
7 11 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.73%) R
11 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) VB
13 1 (0.18%) Ada
13 1 (0.18%) Bicep
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 74 (13.43%) Degree
3 62 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.90%) MCP
5 20 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.72%) CCNA
7 13 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.09%) PMP
12 5 (0.91%) MCSE
12 5 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.73%) MCSA
14 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.54%) CCNP
14 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.72%) Data Quality
1 15 (2.72%) SLA
2 10 (1.81%) PMO
3 9 (1.63%) QA
4 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.09%) GDPR
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
6 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) GxP
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.91%) Firmware
4 3 (0.54%) Docker
5 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (2.72%) SCCM
2 6 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.73%) Terraform
4 3 (0.54%) WSUS
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.18%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) SCOM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 73 (13.25%) SAP
3 27 (4.90%) Cisco
4 13 (2.36%) Juniper
5 12 (2.18%) Ariba
5 12 (2.18%) VMware
6 11 (2.00%) Citrix
6 11 (2.00%) Google
7 7 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.73%) Adobe
9 4 (0.73%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.73%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.54%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.54%) Apple
10 3 (0.54%) F5
10 3 (0.54%) McAfee
10 3 (0.54%) NetApp
10 3 (0.54%) Pega
10 3 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud