Social Skills Contracts in Hertfordshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 248 197 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 30.13% 24.11% 22.07%
As % of the General category 48.44% 42.83% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 108 91
10th Percentile £174 £205 £140
25th Percentile £274 £300 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £443 £429
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +3.15% -11.82%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £544
90th Percentile £681 £691 £688
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 32 9
10th Percentile £37.91 £42.30 £10.92
25th Percentile - £49.00 £12.60
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.25 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.76% +70.14% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £68.48 £49.30
East of England median hourly rate £24.59 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +69.55% +7.41% -

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 512 460 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 62.21% 56.30% 55.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 232 227
10th Percentile £200 £231 £184
25th Percentile £338 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £608
90th Percentile £700 £805 £705
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 95 58
10th Percentile - £40.53 £17.20
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.34 £39.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £60.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +22.45% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -3.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +3 135 £319 -0.39% 64
Watford +1 38 £400 -23.81% 35
Hatfield +2 36 £265 -51.82% 14
Hemel Hempstead +13 18 £600 -6.54% 24
Welwyn Garden City -1 8 £550 +83.33% 7
St Albans +3 4 - - 12
Borehamwood - 2 - - 7
Rickmansworth +1 1 £350 -26.32% 2
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (2.02%) Confluence
2 3 (1.21%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) IIS
3 2 (0.81%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Mendix
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.42%) Windchill
3 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Primavera
1 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.81%) SAP PS
1 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.81%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.23%) AWS
2 4 (1.61%) Amazon S3
2 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (1.61%) SaaS
2 4 (1.61%) Serverless
3 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.81%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (0.81%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (0.81%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (0.81%) BigCommerce
4 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.81%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.40%) Azure
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomreach
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.29%) Modbus
1 28 (11.29%) RS-422
1 28 (11.29%) RS-485
2 4 (1.61%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.61%) Wireless
3 2 (0.81%) LAN
3 2 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.40%) DHCP
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) Big Data
2 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
2 2 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.81%) Power BI
2 2 (0.81%) Presto
2 2 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.40%) Metadata
3 1 (0.40%) MS Access
3 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.40%) QlikView
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) SQLPlus
3 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.63%) JIRA
2 4 (1.61%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.81%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) Maven
3 2 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 72 (29.03%) Finance
2 67 (27.02%) Electronics
3 54 (21.77%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (20.97%) Influencing Skills
5 39 (15.73%) Manufacturing
6 33 (13.31%) Aerospace
7 26 (10.48%) Marketing
8 23 (9.27%) Retail
9 20 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (4.03%) Public Sector
11 10 (4.03%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.61%) Games
12 4 (1.61%) German Language
12 4 (1.61%) Law
12 4 (1.61%) Legal
12 4 (1.61%) Military
13 3 (1.21%) French Language
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (13.31%) Architect
2 32 (12.90%) Software Engineer
3 31 (12.50%) Test Architect
4 21 (8.47%) C++ Software Engineer
5 20 (8.06%) Analyst
6 12 (4.84%) Senior
7 11 (4.44%) Consultant
7 11 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (4.03%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.03%) Technical Support
8 10 (4.03%) Technical Support Analyst
9 8 (3.23%) Developer
10 7 (2.82%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.82%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.42%) Administrator
11 6 (2.42%) Configuration Engineer
11 6 (2.42%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.42%) Lead
11 6 (2.42%) Senior Configuration Engineer
12 5 (2.02%) Defect Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.02%) HTML
1 5 (2.02%) Node.js
1 5 (2.02%) REST
1 5 (2.02%) Web Services
2 4 (1.61%) CSS
2 4 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (1.61%) Visualforce
3 2 (0.81%) Kafka
3 2 (0.81%) VML
4 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.40%) Flask
4 1 (0.40%) Middleware
4 1 (0.40%) PySpark
4 1 (0.40%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.50%) Analogue Electronics
1 31 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.81%) BYOD
5 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.81%) EPoS
5 2 (0.81%) FMCG
5 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.45%) Linux
2 11 (4.44%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.71%) Project Management
2 51 (20.56%) Business Strategy
3 50 (20.16%) Agile
4 47 (18.95%) Business Development
5 42 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (16.13%) Customer Requirements
7 36 (14.52%) Software Engineering
8 34 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (13.31%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (12.90%) TDD
10 32 (12.90%) Test Strategy
10 32 (12.90%) Unit Testing
11 30 (12.10%) Software Testing
12 29 (11.69%) DevOps
13 28 (11.29%) Pair Programming
14 20 (8.06%) Customer Service
15 19 (7.66%) Time Management
16 18 (7.26%) Decision-Making
17 13 (5.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.90%) C#
1 32 (12.90%) C++
2 29 (11.69%) C
3 13 (5.24%) SQL
4 8 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.23%) Python
5 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.61%) Java
6 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.40%) Ada
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 58 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.24%) Degree
4 11 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.02%) PMP
8 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.81%) ACCA
9 2 (0.81%) CCENT
9 2 (0.81%) CCNP
9 2 (0.81%) CIMA
9 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) CCSA
10 1 (0.40%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.40%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.02%) PMO
2 5 (2.02%) SLA
3 4 (1.61%) QA
4 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
1 11 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.40%) KVM
3 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) SCCM
2 3 (1.21%) WSUS
3 2 (0.81%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.08%) SAP
3 11 (4.44%) VMware
4 8 (3.23%) Cisco
5 6 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.21%) Adobe
6 3 (1.21%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.81%) Apple
7 2 (0.81%) Informatica
7 2 (0.81%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.81%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.81%) Sophos
7 2 (0.81%) Talend
8 1 (0.40%) Avaya
8 1 (0.40%) Genesys
8 1 (0.40%) Juniper
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat