Social Skills Contracts in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8,215 10,225 14,322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.23% 20.23% 20.14%
As % of the General category 38.04% 34.14% 35.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,169 6,817 9,414
10th Percentile £214 £250 £250
25th Percentile £385 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.36% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 735 428 652
10th Percentile £12.40 £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -
75th Percentile £39.09 £60.18 £37.27
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £53.72
UK median hourly rate £18.33 £26.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -29.52% +38.13% +4.57%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +2 3,846 £550 -4.35% 3,280
North of England +1 1,168 £475 -5.00% 1,891
South East 0 1,121 £480 -4.95% 1,785
South West +2 678 £525 - 1,041
North West +2 631 £475 - 1,052
Midlands 0 628 £450 -10.00% 1,341
East of England 0 551 £450 +5.88% 858
Yorkshire 0 469 £450 -10.00% 616
West Midlands 0 453 £475 -6.86% 820
East Midlands +3 164 £269 -37.08% 519
North East +9 66 £523 +41.22% 267
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 316 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 217 (2.64%) Confluence
3 207 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 88 (1.07%) CMS
5 54 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 45 (0.55%) SAS
7 42 (0.51%) Apache
8 35 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
9 20 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 18 (0.22%) IIS
11 16 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 15 (0.18%) nginx
12 15 (0.18%) WordPress
13 14 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 11 (0.13%) Appian
16 10 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 9 (0.11%) CICS
17 9 (0.11%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 623 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 461 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 216 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 86 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 39 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 35 (0.43%) Sketch
9 30 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 21 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 17 (0.21%) Adobe XD
12 14 (0.17%) Windchill
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
14 11 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
15 9 (0.11%) InDesign
16 8 (0.097%) InVision
17 6 (0.073%) Acrobat
17 6 (0.073%) Chatbot
17 6 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
17 6 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 198 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.51%) Primavera
4 36 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 32 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 32 (0.39%) Shopify
6 31 (0.38%) Endur
7 30 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 30 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 28 (0.34%) Teamcenter
9 27 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 27 (0.33%) SAP FI
10 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
10 22 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 20 (0.24%) SAP SD
12 19 (0.23%) SAP EWM
13 17 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
14 16 (0.19%) Maximo
14 16 (0.19%) SAP CO
14 16 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,130 (13.76%) Azure
2 601 (7.32%) AWS
3 560 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 236 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 201 (2.45%) GCP
7 157 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 134 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 123 (1.50%) Serverless
10 118 (1.44%) SaaS
11 115 (1.40%) GitHub
12 112 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 102 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 73 (0.89%) OCI
15 69 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
16 68 (0.83%) Amazon S3
17 65 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 60 (0.73%) Figma
18 60 (0.73%) OneDrive
18 60 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 287 (3.49%) Firewall
2 198 (2.41%) DNS
3 177 (2.15%) LAN
4 172 (2.09%) VPN
5 170 (2.07%) WAN
6 132 (1.61%) DHCP
7 102 (1.24%) Network Security
8 94 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
9 83 (1.01%) BGP
10 81 (0.99%) Wireless
11 70 (0.85%) Internet
12 64 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 61 (0.74%) SAN
14 57 (0.69%) MPLS
15 38 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 37 (0.45%) VLAN
17 36 (0.44%) 5G
18 33 (0.40%) Intranet
19 31 (0.38%) VoIP
20 29 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (4.10%) Power BI
2 250 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 162 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 109 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 88 (1.07%) Tableau
7 81 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 79 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 78 (0.95%) Big Data
10 61 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 58 (0.71%) MySQL
12 57 (0.69%) Metadata
13 55 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (0.54%) Oracle Database
15 42 (0.51%) Data Mining
15 42 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 35 (0.43%) SAP HANA
17 32 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
17 32 (0.39%) Hadoop
17 32 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 534 (6.50%) JIRA
2 192 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 187 (2.28%) Git
4 90 (1.10%) Selenium
5 80 (0.97%) GitLab
6 59 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 46 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 38 (0.46%) Postman
9 37 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 36 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 33 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 30 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (0.34%) TeamCity
15 27 (0.33%) webpack
16 25 (0.30%) Appium
16 25 (0.30%) JUnit
16 25 (0.30%) Maven
16 25 (0.30%) WebDriver
17 19 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 1,818 (22.13%) Finance
2 1,617 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
3 617 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 540 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
5 450 (5.48%) Banking
6 365 (4.44%) Marketing
6 365 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 306 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 292 (3.55%) Retail
9 274 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 264 (3.21%) Manufacturing
11 227 (2.76%) Legal
12 147 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 140 (1.70%) Electronics
14 139 (1.69%) Front Office
15 130 (1.58%) Law
16 116 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 110 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
18 108 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
19 98 (1.19%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,156 (14.07%) Analyst
2 726 (8.84%) Developer
3 671 (8.17%) Architect
4 629 (7.66%) Senior
5 603 (7.34%) Consultant
6 595 (7.24%) Project Manager
7 502 (6.11%) Lead
8 434 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 245 (2.98%) Support Engineer
10 236 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
11 172 (2.09%) Administrator
12 157 (1.91%) IT Support
13 151 (1.84%) Data Analyst
14 148 (1.80%) Network Engineer
15 135 (1.64%) Service Analyst
16 131 (1.59%) Data Engineer
16 131 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
17 124 (1.51%) Software Engineer
18 121 (1.47%) Designer
19 109 (1.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (2.78%) .NET
2 187 (2.28%) React
3 182 (2.22%) HTML
4 169 (2.06%) CSS
5 157 (1.91%) REST
6 123 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 106 (1.29%) JSON
8 99 (1.21%) XML
9 98 (1.19%) RESTful
10 97 (1.18%) Node.js
11 87 (1.06%) Web Services
12 84 (1.02%) Kafka
13 66 (0.80%) .NET Core
14 63 (0.77%) Spring
15 61 (0.74%) .NET Framework
16 53 (0.65%) Middleware
17 44 (0.54%) YAML
18 39 (0.47%) SOAP
19 37 (0.45%) ARM Templates
19 37 (0.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 345 (4.20%) Management Information System
2 310 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 269 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 193 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 137 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 124 (1.51%) Driving Licence
7 109 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 106 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 92 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 88 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
11 87 (1.06%) CMDB
12 80 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 80 (0.97%) NHS
13 78 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 66 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 62 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
16 61 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
17 60 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 58 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
19 57 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 927 (11.28%) Windows
2 394 (4.80%) Linux
3 357 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 238 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 124 (1.51%) Unix
6 102 (1.24%) Windows 7
7 91 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 90 (1.10%) Android
9 85 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.94%) Apple iOS
11 75 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
12 72 (0.88%) Mac OS
13 59 (0.72%) zOS
14 27 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 21 (0.26%) Windows NT
17 18 (0.22%) Mac OS X
18 15 (0.18%) VMS
19 14 (0.17%) Windows XP
20 13 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,379 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
2 1,730 (21.06%) Agile
3 1,211 (14.74%) Project Management
4 1,066 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 790 (9.62%) Customer Service
6 736 (8.96%) DevOps
7 627 (7.63%) ITIL
8 592 (7.21%) Migration
9 590 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 561 (6.83%) Decision-Making
11 534 (6.50%) Computer Science
12 501 (6.10%) Analytics
13 481 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
14 441 (5.37%) Project Delivery
15 440 (5.36%) CI/CD
16 434 (5.28%) Change Management
17 411 (5.00%) Scrum
18 376 (4.58%) Service Management
19 359 (4.37%) Roadmaps
19 359 (4.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 752 (9.15%) SQL
2 637 (7.75%) Python
3 411 (5.00%) Java
4 360 (4.38%) C#
5 335 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 299 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 159 (1.94%) TypeScript
8 130 (1.58%) C++
9 84 (1.02%) C
10 77 (0.94%) Bash
11 52 (0.63%) Scala
12 48 (0.58%) Perl
13 45 (0.55%) Bicep
14 44 (0.54%) REXX
15 43 (0.52%) JCL
16 42 (0.51%) R
16 42 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 41 (0.50%) Go
17 41 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 41 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,366 (16.63%) Degree
2 1,284 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 807 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 411 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 356 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 177 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 166 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 118 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 111 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 107 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 105 (1.28%) PMP
12 102 (1.24%) CCNA
13 82 (1.00%) CCNP
14 77 (0.94%) CISSP
15 70 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 50 (0.61%) Azure Certification
17 45 (0.55%) CISM
18 43 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 43 (0.52%) MCSE
19 41 (0.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 413 (5.03%) QA
2 294 (3.58%) SLA
3 258 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 195 (2.37%) PMO
5 123 (1.50%) NIST
6 110 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 93 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 92 (1.12%) GDPR
9 53 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 40 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
12 30 (0.37%) GRC
13 25 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.24%) NCSC
15 18 (0.22%) MiFID
16 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 15 (0.18%) SEPA
18 14 (0.17%) EMIR
19 13 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 567 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 214 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 164 (2.00%) Docker
4 78 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 74 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 66 (0.80%) Firmware
7 51 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 48 (0.58%) vSphere
10 43 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
11 32 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 23 (0.28%) RACF
14 19 (0.23%) ACF2
14 19 (0.23%) KVM
15 17 (0.21%) NFS
16 16 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 11 (0.13%) Microcode
17 11 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 244 (2.97%) SCCM
2 218 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 202 (2.46%) Terraform
4 174 (2.12%) Ansible
5 153 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 65 (0.79%) WSUS
7 62 (0.75%) Puppet
8 60 (0.73%) SCOM
9 52 (0.63%) vCenter Server
10 38 (0.46%) NetBackup
11 36 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 36 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 32 (0.39%) Grafana
13 29 (0.35%) PowerCLI
14 28 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 25 (0.30%) OMEGAMON
16 23 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
17 22 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 22 (0.27%) Prometheus
18 21 (0.26%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,729 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 599 (7.29%) SAP
3 340 (4.14%) Oracle
4 266 (3.24%) VMware
5 255 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 230 (2.80%) Cisco
7 173 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 158 (1.92%) Google
9 138 (1.68%) Adobe
10 130 (1.58%) HP
11 123 (1.50%) IBM
12 105 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 103 (1.25%) Dell
14 96 (1.17%) Databricks
15 88 (1.07%) Citrix
16 84 (1.02%) Splunk
17 69 (0.84%) Apple
18 56 (0.68%) Palo Alto
19 51 (0.62%) Juniper
20 47 (0.57%) Ariba