Social Skills Contracts in the North East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 66 65 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 19.53% 15.33% 13.31%
As % of the General category 37.29% 30.81% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 55
10th Percentile £155 £201 £120
25th Percentile £172 £231 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £370 £230
Median % change year-on-year +41.22% +60.87% -35.21%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £519
90th Percentile £753 £605 £638
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £10.67 - £13.18
25th Percentile £12.73 - £13.71
Median hourly rate £16.48 - £15.00
75th Percentile £20.77 - £17.63
90th Percentile - - £20.55
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 177 211 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 52.37% 49.76% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 167 183
10th Percentile £163 £231 £140
25th Percentile £400 £370 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £588
90th Percentile £720 £732 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 13
10th Percentile £11.41 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.13 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £46.69 - £17.50
90th Percentile £49.88 - £19.67
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +14 38 £529 +11.32% 157
Durham 0 19 £175 -32.69% 54
Northumberland -1 5 £897 +307.71% 10
Teesside - 1 £90 - 1
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.09%) Azure
2 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.55%) AWS
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.55%) BrowserStack
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.55%) GitHub
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.55%) Serverless
4 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.52%) GCP
5 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) DHCP
1 2 (3.03%) DNS
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
1 2 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) SMTP
2 1 (1.52%) VLAN
2 1 (1.52%) VoIP
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Cypress.io
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Finance
2 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
5 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (9.09%) IT Support
3 5 (7.58%) Architect
3 5 (7.58%) Designer
3 5 (7.58%) Interaction Designer
3 5 (7.58%) IT Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) Senior
3 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Business Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Lead
5 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.03%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.03%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (3.03%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) RESTful
2 3 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (4.55%) Next.js
2 3 (4.55%) React
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
3 1 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.52%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) Clustering
3 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.03%) NHS
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.52%) PKI
4 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.52%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.58%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.73%) Project Management
3 10 (15.15%) Agile
4 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.09%) ITIL
7 6 (9.09%) Service Management
8 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.58%) Change Management
8 5 (7.58%) Computer Science
8 5 (7.58%) Interaction Design
8 5 (7.58%) Migration
8 5 (7.58%) Risk Management
8 5 (7.58%) User Experience
8 5 (7.58%) UX Design
9 4 (6.06%) Decision-Making
9 4 (6.06%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.06%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) SQL
2 4 (6.06%) Java
2 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.06%) Python
3 3 (4.55%) C#
3 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.52%) C++
4 1 (1.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) HNC
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.03%) MCSE
4 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.03%) PMP
4 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) CCNP
5 1 (1.52%) CEH
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.52%) GIAC
5 1 (1.52%) GPEN
5 1 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) PMO
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.03%) vSphere
3 1 (1.52%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.52%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Grafana
1 3 (4.55%) SCCM
2 2 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.52%) vMotion
3 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.06%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Citrix
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) HP
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Ariba
5 1 (1.52%) Aruba
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Symantec