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 in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 41 44 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.67% 19.21% 18.96%
As % of the General category 37.27% 33.08% 40.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 45
10th Percentile £146 £140 £154
25th Percentile £153 £225 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £350 £405
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -13.58% -12.48%
75th Percentile £475 £481 £538
90th Percentile £494 £690 £575
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £16.74 £22.86 -
25th Percentile £21.66 £23.40 -
Median hourly rate £30.48 £26.58 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% - -
75th Percentile £39.93 £29.56 -
90th Percentile £45.22 £29.97 -
South East median hourly rate £17.60 £52.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -66.48% +200.00% -7.89%

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 110 133 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 44.72% 58.08% 46.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 80 94
10th Percentile £150 £245 £161
25th Percentile £252 £330 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £498 £538 £575
90th Percentile £563 £638 £646
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.70% - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 12
10th Percentile £16.11 £22.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.95 £17.42
Median hourly rate £22.77 £28.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +40.80% -17.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £32.30 £21.86
90th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £46.32
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £52.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.96% +161.50% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -3 13 £450 +46.34% 58
Kidlington -1 8 £172 -63.88%
Banbury - 4 £525 - 11
Abingdon 0 3 £133 -49.04% 23
Bicester - 2 £261 - 8
Witney - 1 £488 - 9
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 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.76%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.88%) AWS
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
3 2 (4.88%) IaaS
3 2 (4.88%) PaaS
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) LAN
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
2 2 (4.88%) WAN
2 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.44%) DHCP
3 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Law
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Police
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Lead
2 6 (14.63%) Service Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.44%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.44%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.44%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Management Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Supply Chain Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.32%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.44%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 7 (17.07%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.88%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Solaris
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (19.51%) ITIL
2 8 (19.51%) Migration
3 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (9.76%) Customer Experience
4 4 (9.76%) Customer Service
4 4 (9.76%) Data Governance
4 4 (9.76%) Data Lineage
4 4 (9.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
4 4 (9.76%) Incident Management
4 4 (9.76%) Logistics
4 4 (9.76%) Use Case
5 3 (7.32%) Agile
5 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.32%) Change Management
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Project Management
5 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.88%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.44%) Perl
2 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.44%) HNC
4 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) SLA
2 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) NFS
3 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.44%) Docker
4 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) SCCM
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) CFEngine
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) VMware
3 4 (9.76%) Informatica
3 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Facebook
4 3 (7.32%) Instagram
5 2 (4.88%) Google
5 2 (4.88%) Meraki
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Aruba