Social Skills Contracts in Oxfordshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire. 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 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 48 46 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 21.33% 18.40% 20.45%
As % of the General category 42.86% 30.87% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 48
10th Percentile £150 £200 £168
25th Percentile £213 £263 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £492 £638 £575
90th Percentile £538 £800 -
South East median daily rate £480 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +6.32% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £14.30 £22.10 -
25th Percentile £15.55 £22.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £26.25 £28.87 -
90th Percentile £39.75 £29.69 -
South East median hourly rate £18.35 £47.50 £17.56
% change year-on-year -61.37% +170.50% -11.98%

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 112 149 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 49.78% 59.60% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 86 97
10th Percentile £150 £253 £172
25th Percentile £267 £400 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +7.95%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £580 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 13
10th Percentile £16.16 £22.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.08 £25.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.75 £26.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +36.84% -57.78%
75th Percentile £49.06 £32.30 £20.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £47.78 £43.20
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +1 17 £450 +2.86% 62
Kidlington -1 8 £172 -63.88% 7
Banbury - 6 £525 - 15
Abingdon -3 3 £133 -49.04% 25
Bicester - 1 £363 - 7
Witney - 1 £488 - 15
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) nginx
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Sage X3
2 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.17%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 2 (4.17%) IaaS
4 2 (4.17%) PaaS
4 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) WAN
3 3 (6.25%) Wireless
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (4.17%) DHCP
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
4 2 (4.17%) SAN
4 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.08%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) MySQL
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Police
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Lead
2 6 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Administrator
6 2 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Help Desk Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Help Desk Support
6 2 (4.17%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IT Support
6 2 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
1 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.17%) CCTV
2 2 (4.17%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.08%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (14.58%) Windows 10
3 5 (10.42%) Android
4 4 (8.33%) Linux
5 3 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.08%) Solaris
7 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.92%) ITIL
3 9 (18.75%) Migration
4 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.42%) Customer Experience
5 5 (10.42%) Project Management
6 4 (8.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (8.33%) Data Lineage
6 4 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.33%) Logistics
6 4 (8.33%) Use Case
7 3 (6.25%) Agile
7 3 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Perl
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.08%) HNC
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) SLA
2 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) NFS
3 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.08%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) SCCM
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) PaperCut
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) CFEngine
4 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Cisco
4 4 (8.33%) Informatica
4 4 (8.33%) Splunk
5 3 (6.25%) Apple
5 3 (6.25%) Aruba
5 3 (6.25%) Facebook
5 3 (6.25%) Instagram
5 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.17%) Google
6 2 (4.17%) HP
6 2 (4.17%) Meraki
6 2 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) Sage
6 2 (4.17%) Veeam
6 2 (4.17%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft