Social Skills Contracts in the North West

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 631 583 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 22.84% 18.15% 18.16%
As % of the General category 42.64% 35.12% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 379 492
10th Percentile £213 £225 £193
25th Percentile £375 £388 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 27 66
10th Percentile £12.54 £13.77 £13.75
25th Percentile £13.52 £17.00 £15.31
Median hourly rate £16.06 £26.00 £23.78
Median % change year-on-year -38.23% +9.35% +1.31%
75th Percentile £20.56 £38.75 £48.10
90th Percentile £46.38 £54.57 £56.28
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,660 2,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 51.67% 49.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,140 1,425
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £395 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 83 115
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.67 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.04 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.81 £53.52
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the North West

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +4 301 £458 -5.67% 558
Cheshire 0 142 £500 +11.11% 216
Cumbria +4 77 £493 -0.90% 32
Lancashire +12 58 £540 +16.76% 126
Merseyside +3 43 £315 -40.00% 115
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.43%) Confluence
2 9 (1.43%) SAS
3 7 (1.11%) CMS
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.48%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) Apache
7 2 (0.32%) IBM Notes
7 2 (0.32%) Mule
7 2 (0.32%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (12.84%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 35 (5.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.43%) Primavera
3 7 (1.11%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.63%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.48%) Maximo
5 3 (0.48%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.32%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.32%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (10.62%) Azure
2 65 (10.30%) AWS
3 52 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 20 (3.17%) Taleo
6 14 (2.22%) GCP
7 12 (1.90%) Snowflake
8 10 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.27%) GitHub
9 8 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.27%) Serverless
10 7 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.11%) SaaS
11 6 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.95%) Google Analytics
11 6 (0.95%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.95%) IaaS
11 6 (0.95%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.01%) Firewall
2 16 (2.54%) VPN
3 15 (2.38%) WAN
4 14 (2.22%) LAN
5 9 (1.43%) ATM
5 9 (1.43%) OSPF
5 9 (1.43%) Wireless
6 7 (1.11%) DSL
6 7 (1.11%) Ethernet
6 7 (1.11%) PPP
6 7 (1.11%) Wireless Security
7 6 (0.95%) DNS
8 5 (0.79%) DHCP
9 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.63%) VLAN
10 3 (0.48%) 3G
10 3 (0.48%) 4G
10 3 (0.48%) Skype
10 3 (0.48%) VoIP
10 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.65%) Power BI
2 16 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.58%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.58%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.58%) Tableau
5 7 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.11%) Hadoop
5 7 (1.11%) MySQL
6 6 (0.95%) Big Data
6 6 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.79%) Ataccama
7 5 (0.79%) Data Mining
7 5 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.63%) Metadata
8 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 45 (7.13%) JIRA
2 18 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.43%) Git
4 6 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.79%) Selenium
5 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.63%) Gatling
6 4 (0.63%) GitLab
7 3 (0.48%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.48%) LSMW
7 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.32%) Appium
8 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.32%) JMeter
8 2 (0.32%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.32%) Log4j
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.32%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
General
1 118 (18.70%) Finance
2 107 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 35 (5.55%) Retail
5 27 (4.28%) Banking
5 27 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
6 24 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.06%) Legal
12 11 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Law
14 4 (0.63%) Marketing
15 3 (0.48%) Back Office
15 3 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.48%) Police
16 2 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (16.01%) Analyst
2 43 (6.81%) Project Manager
2 43 (6.81%) Senior
3 39 (6.18%) Consultant
4 38 (6.02%) Architect
5 36 (5.71%) Developer
6 29 (4.60%) Data Analyst
6 29 (4.60%) Service Desk Agent
7 27 (4.28%) Business Analyst
8 23 (3.65%) Lead
9 20 (3.17%) Network Engineer
10 19 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (2.54%) Administrator
12 14 (2.22%) IT Support
12 14 (2.22%) Problem Manager
13 13 (2.06%) Functional Consultant
13 13 (2.06%) Support Engineer
14 12 (1.90%) Capacity Manager
14 12 (1.90%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (1.90%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.90%) .NET
2 10 (1.58%) Web Services
3 9 (1.43%) React
3 9 (1.43%) RESTful
4 8 (1.27%) REST
5 7 (1.11%) Kafka
6 6 (0.95%) HTML
6 6 (0.95%) Middleware
6 6 (0.95%) Node.js
7 5 (0.79%) CSS
7 5 (0.79%) OAuth
7 5 (0.79%) OAuth2
7 5 (0.79%) OpenID
8 4 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.63%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.63%) Spring
9 3 (0.48%) BAPI
9 3 (0.48%) JSON
9 3 (0.48%) React Native
9 3 (0.48%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.81%) Virtual Team
2 41 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 19 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.69%) EPoS
6 16 (2.54%) CMDB
6 16 (2.54%) Life Science
7 10 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.43%) Smartphone
9 8 (1.27%) NHS
10 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.79%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.63%) Clustering
14 3 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.83%) Windows
2 30 (4.75%) Linux
3 26 (4.12%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.22%) Unix
5 10 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.48%) Android
9 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.32%) Debian
10 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.32%) zOS
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (16.80%) Agile
3 104 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (14.42%) Customer Service
5 64 (10.14%) Project Management
6 54 (8.56%) Decision-Making
6 54 (8.56%) Service Management
7 53 (8.40%) ITIL
8 52 (8.24%) Mentoring
9 43 (6.81%) Quality Management
10 42 (6.66%) Statistics
11 38 (6.02%) Problem Management
11 38 (6.02%) Scrum
12 36 (5.71%) Migration
12 36 (5.71%) Time Management
13 34 (5.39%) DevOps
14 33 (5.23%) Asset Management
15 28 (4.44%) Change Management
15 28 (4.44%) Data Protection
16 27 (4.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.29%) SQL
2 38 (6.02%) Python
3 26 (4.12%) Java
4 15 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.58%) C#
7 8 (1.27%) Scala
8 7 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.11%) Ruby
8 7 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.63%) Bash
9 4 (0.63%) Go
9 4 (0.63%) PHP
10 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.48%) C
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) Groovy
11 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 105 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 90 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.14%) Degree
4 24 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.38%) CCNA
7 14 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.95%) CCNP
11 6 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.79%) PMP
13 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.63%) MCSE
14 3 (0.48%) OSCP
15 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.72%) SLA
2 40 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.91%) QA
4 12 (1.90%) GDPR
4 12 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.11%) NIST
6 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.48%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.48%) PMO
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.16%) GAMP
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 41 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.48%) Docker
5 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.06%) Ansible
3 11 (1.74%) Terraform
4 9 (1.43%) SCCM
5 7 (1.11%) CFEngine
5 7 (1.11%) PowerBroker
5 7 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.11%) Puppet
6 5 (0.79%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.48%) Autotask
8 3 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.32%) Nagios
9 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.16%) Grafana
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.78%) SAP
3 45 (7.13%) ServiceNow
4 30 (4.75%) VMware
5 15 (2.38%) Google
6 14 (2.22%) Ariba
7 13 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.58%) Cisco
8 10 (1.58%) Oracle
9 8 (1.27%) Pega
9 8 (1.27%) Sage
10 7 (1.11%) Apple
10 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.11%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.11%) Splunk
11 6 (0.95%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.95%) Citrix
11 6 (0.95%) Facebook
12 5 (0.79%) Informatica
12 5 (0.79%) Trillium