Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,868 5,435 7,780
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.71% 20.00% 20.02%
As % of the General category 34.35% 31.49% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,639 3,725 5,266
10th Percentile £270 £313 £342
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% +10.73%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 102 123
10th Percentile £15.46 £14.21 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.52 £21.06 £22.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.64 £48.58
90th Percentile £74.50 £75.00 £64.88
England median hourly rate £18.16 £25.52 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.84% +41.78% -

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,262 17,257 23,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.52% 59.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 12,452 16,699
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £538 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.67% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 231 297
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.61 £19.91
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -8.45% +29.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.38 £70.00 £64.53
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -11.76% +58.69% -4.78%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London +2 582 £550 -2.31% 331
West London +2 92 £350 -23.08% 174
East London -1 49 £460 +5.14% 114
South London +1 45 £450 - 72
North London +1 6 £350 -22.22% 26
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 144 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 88 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 65 (1.68%) Confluence
4 57 (1.47%) CMS
5 41 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 32 (0.83%) Apache
7 11 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.21%) IIS
10 8 (0.21%) MTS
10 8 (0.21%) SAS
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 197 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 186 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.67%) Sketch
7 22 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 13 (0.34%) Adobe XD
10 11 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.21%) InVision
12 6 (0.16%) InDesign
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
14 4 (0.10%) Trello
15 3 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
15 3 (0.078%) Windchill
16 2 (0.052%) AutoCAD
16 2 (0.052%) Revit
Business Applications
1 75 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.83%) Loan IQ
4 31 (0.80%) Endur
5 24 (0.62%) Shopify
6 23 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
7 16 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
8 14 (0.36%) Aligne
8 14 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
8 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.31%) SAP EWM
10 11 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.23%) Primavera
12 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.23%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 615 (15.90%) Azure
2 368 (9.51%) AWS
3 239 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
4 230 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 155 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (3.41%) GCP
7 92 (2.38%) Serverless
8 83 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 79 (2.04%) SaaS
10 69 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 68 (1.76%) GitHub
12 63 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 57 (1.47%) Entra ID
14 50 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
15 47 (1.22%) Figma
16 45 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
17 44 (1.14%) PaaS
18 40 (1.03%) Amazon S3
19 37 (0.96%) OCI
20 33 (0.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.22%) Firewall
2 69 (1.78%) VPN
3 57 (1.47%) WAN
4 56 (1.45%) DNS
5 53 (1.37%) LAN
6 46 (1.19%) Internet
7 38 (0.98%) BGP
8 36 (0.93%) MPLS
9 35 (0.90%) Network Security
10 29 (0.75%) Wireless
11 22 (0.57%) RSVP
12 21 (0.54%) DHCP
12 21 (0.54%) SSL
13 20 (0.52%) SNMP
14 18 (0.47%) Intranet
15 17 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (0.44%) HSRP
15 17 (0.44%) VPLS
15 17 (0.44%) VRRP
15 17 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (4.91%) Power BI
2 174 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 116 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 58 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (1.29%) Big Data
9 43 (1.11%) MongoDB
10 42 (1.09%) Tableau
11 39 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (0.72%) Metadata
14 26 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 24 (0.62%) DynamoDB
15 24 (0.62%) MySQL
16 23 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
18 21 (0.54%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 243 (6.28%) JIRA
2 131 (3.39%) Git
3 86 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.29%) GitLab
5 48 (1.24%) Selenium
6 28 (0.72%) Postman
7 27 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 26 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 26 (0.67%) webpack
9 24 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 22 (0.57%) Maven
10 22 (0.57%) WebDriver
11 21 (0.54%) JUnit
12 18 (0.47%) Appium
13 14 (0.36%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.34%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.31%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.31%) TestNG
16 11 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,140 (29.47%) Finance
2 795 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
3 359 (9.28%) Banking
4 284 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
5 277 (7.16%) Public Sector
6 223 (5.77%) Marketing
7 143 (3.70%) Retail
8 140 (3.62%) Front Office
9 123 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 122 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 119 (3.08%) Legal
12 113 (2.92%) Investment Banking
13 101 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 69 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.63%) Manufacturing
17 59 (1.53%) Law
18 56 (1.45%) Back Office
19 51 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
20 39 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 558 (14.43%) Analyst
2 492 (12.72%) Developer
3 376 (9.72%) Senior
4 350 (9.05%) Architect
5 345 (8.92%) Consultant
6 288 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 252 (6.51%) Project Manager
8 224 (5.79%) Lead
9 135 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 98 (2.53%) Data Engineer
11 93 (2.40%) Support Engineer
12 84 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
13 83 (2.15%) Designer
13 83 (2.15%) Senior Developer
14 80 (2.07%) C# Developer
14 80 (2.07%) Data Analyst
15 68 (1.76%) Azure Engineer
16 65 (1.68%) Administrator
17 64 (1.65%) Java Developer
18 58 (1.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (3.80%) .NET
1 147 (3.80%) React
2 124 (3.21%) CSS
3 123 (3.18%) HTML
4 99 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 95 (2.46%) REST
6 72 (1.86%) Node.js
7 69 (1.78%) JSON
8 65 (1.68%) Kafka
9 64 (1.65%) RESTful
10 60 (1.55%) XML
11 55 (1.42%) Web Services
12 44 (1.14%) .NET Framework
13 40 (1.03%) Spring
14 37 (0.96%) .NET Core
15 35 (0.90%) WebSockets
16 31 (0.80%) HTML5
17 28 (0.72%) Middleware
18 27 (0.70%) PySpark
18 27 (0.70%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.14%) Product Ownership
2 131 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 127 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 75 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 74 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 58 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 52 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 51 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 50 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 50 (1.29%) Derivative
12 47 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
14 39 (1.01%) Solar Panel
14 39 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
15 35 (0.90%) CMDB
16 34 (0.88%) Social Media
17 32 (0.83%) FMCG
17 32 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 287 (7.42%) Windows
2 151 (3.90%) Linux
3 98 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 70 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.73%) Unix
6 48 (1.24%) Android
7 38 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 33 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.34%) Mac OS X
11 13 (0.34%) VMS
12 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.21%) Windows 8
14 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.21%) zOS
15 7 (0.18%) Solaris
16 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
2 977 (25.26%) Agile
3 518 (13.39%) Project Management
4 477 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 444 (11.48%) DevOps
6 350 (9.05%) Computer Science
7 306 (7.91%) Analytics
7 306 (7.91%) Migration
8 277 (7.16%) CI/CD
9 271 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
10 261 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 245 (6.33%) Scrum
12 228 (5.89%) Decision-Making
13 224 (5.79%) Data Modelling
14 220 (5.69%) Change Management
15 216 (5.58%) Customer Service
16 208 (5.38%) Project Delivery
17 201 (5.20%) Roadmaps
18 200 (5.17%) Software Engineering
19 199 (5.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 496 (12.82%) SQL
2 415 (10.73%) Python
3 264 (6.83%) Java
4 246 (6.36%) C#
5 214 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 133 (3.44%) PowerShell
7 125 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 54 (1.40%) C++
9 40 (1.03%) Bash
10 38 (0.98%) Scala
11 31 (0.80%) Go
12 30 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.78%) R
13 29 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.62%) Bicep
16 24 (0.62%) VBA
17 23 (0.59%) Perl
18 20 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 715 (18.49%) Degree
2 335 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 265 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 248 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 69 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 48 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.16%) PMP
10 40 (1.03%) CISSP
11 39 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 35 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.85%) CCNP
14 26 (0.67%) CCIE
15 25 (0.65%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.62%) CCNA
17 22 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 21 (0.54%) CISM
19 15 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (4.68%) QA
2 154 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.25%) PMO
4 86 (2.22%) SLA
5 60 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (1.01%) NIST
8 36 (0.93%) GDPR
9 23 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.47%) MiFID
10 18 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.44%) GRC
12 15 (0.39%) SEPA
13 14 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.36%) EMIR
14 11 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
14 11 (0.28%) NCSC
15 8 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 186 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 109 (2.82%) Docker
3 47 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.47%) Firmware
4 18 (0.47%) vSphere
5 17 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 8 (0.21%) HDFS
9 8 (0.21%) KVM
9 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.13%) NFS
10 5 (0.13%) RACF
10 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.10%) vCloud
11 4 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.026%) ACF2
12 1 (0.026%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 126 (3.26%) Terraform
2 123 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 48 (1.24%) Ansible
4 45 (1.16%) SCCM
5 42 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.67%) Puppet
7 19 (0.49%) Grafana
8 17 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.41%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.31%) Consul
12 9 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 8 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.16%) VxRail
15 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
15 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.13%) EnCase
15 5 (0.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 717 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 239 (6.18%) SAP
3 205 (5.30%) Oracle
4 121 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 103 (2.66%) Google
6 89 (2.30%) Cisco
7 88 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 83 (2.15%) Adobe
9 76 (1.96%) Databricks
10 60 (1.55%) VMware
11 54 (1.40%) IBM
12 42 (1.09%) Citrix
13 40 (1.03%) Apple
14 30 (0.78%) Dell
15 26 (0.67%) F5
16 25 (0.65%) Nokia
17 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.54%) Informatica
19 20 (0.52%) Bloomberg
19 20 (0.52%) Splunk