Social Skills Contracts in the Home Counties

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Home Counties

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties. 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 2 2 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 37.50% 29.17% 17.29%
As % of the General category 100.00% 58.33% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 17
10th Percentile - £362 £428
25th Percentile £515 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £545 £538 £675
90th Percentile - £605 £745
South East median daily rate £480 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +6.32% +3.26%

All General Skills
Home Counties

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 Home Counties with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3 12 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 37.50% 50.00% 45.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 47
10th Percentile - £390 £413
25th Percentile £515 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £545 £650 £631
90th Percentile - £680 £675
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the Home Counties

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the Home Counties

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the Home Counties.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the Home Counties

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) F#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA