Social Skills Contracts in Scotland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 544 665 952
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 24.65% 23.30% 27.04%
As % of the General category 37.99% 35.41% 37.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 480 700
10th Percentile £158 £160 £163
25th Percentile £313 £356 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -
75th Percentile £547 £550 £500
90th Percentile £634 £639 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.36% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 27
10th Percentile £12.24 £12.90 £14.84
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.88 £19.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -34.00% +53.43%
75th Percentile £21.64 £59.79 £49.15
90th Percentile £39.45 £67.88 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £18.33 £26.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -29.52% +38.13% +4.57%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 238 £450 -5.26% 155
Glasgow 0 173 £450 -2.70% 124
West Lothian 0 33 £473 +243.64% 11
Aberdeen 0 13 £600 +45.45% 61
South Lanarkshire -2 10 £575 +26.37% 4
Renfrewshire -3 10 £344 -35.14% 5
Highlands - 7 - - 16
Stirling +1 5 £420 +237.35% 7
Lanarkshire 0 5 £400 +142.42% 46
Perthshire +7 4 £525 +5.00% 3
Dundee +8 3 - - 5
Fife 0 3 - - 10
Inverclyde 0 2 £172 -67.85% 2
South Ayrshire -1 2 - - 13
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +2.44%
Aberdeenshire -1 1 - - 36
Midlothian - 1 - - 51
East Lothian - 1 £113 -
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 26 (4.78%) Confluence
1 26 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.57%) CMS
3 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.47%) SAS
5 5 (0.92%) Apache
6 3 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (0.55%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.55%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (0.55%) WordPress
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 72 (13.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.18%) Lectora
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) assyst
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 59 (10.85%) Azure
2 47 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (7.72%) AWS
4 25 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.76%) OpenShift
6 14 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.39%) IaaS
8 12 (2.21%) Amazon S3
8 12 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (2.02%) SaaS
9 11 (2.02%) Serverless
10 9 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (1.65%) AWS CodeBuild
10 9 (1.65%) AWS CodePipeline
10 9 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.65%) OCI
11 7 (1.29%) PaaS
11 7 (1.29%) Yammer
12 6 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.13%) Firewall
2 12 (2.21%) HTTP
2 12 (2.21%) LAN
2 12 (2.21%) SAN
2 12 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.02%) DNS
4 9 (1.65%) WAN
5 8 (1.47%) DHCP
5 8 (1.47%) Intranet
5 8 (1.47%) SSL
5 8 (1.47%) VPN
6 7 (1.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (1.29%) NAS
6 7 (1.29%) NetScaler
7 6 (1.10%) 5G
7 6 (1.10%) VoIP
8 5 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (0.92%) iSCSI
8 5 (0.92%) SMTP
9 4 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.15%) Oracle Database
2 24 (4.41%) Power BI
3 13 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.84%) Metadata
6 8 (1.47%) DB2
7 6 (1.10%) Big Data
7 6 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.92%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.74%) Informix
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (8.09%) JIRA
2 36 (6.62%) Git
3 29 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
5 14 (2.57%) Postman
6 11 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.02%) JUnit
7 10 (1.84%) IntelliJ
8 7 (1.29%) GitLab
9 4 (0.74%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) Maven
9 4 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
10 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.55%) JMeter
10 3 (0.55%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.37%) Gradle
12 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 174 (31.99%) Public Sector
2 122 (22.43%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (21.14%) Finance
4 58 (10.66%) Organisational Skills
5 40 (7.35%) Banking
6 36 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.84%) Legal
9 10 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) Back Office
10 8 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
11 7 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.10%) Publishing
13 5 (0.92%) Billing
13 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.92%) Retail
14 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 126 (23.16%) Analyst
2 53 (9.74%) Developer
2 53 (9.74%) Senior
3 36 (6.62%) Architect
4 35 (6.43%) Business Analyst
5 32 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 26 (4.78%) IT Support
7 24 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (4.23%) IT Analyst
9 21 (3.86%) Lead
9 21 (3.86%) Support Officer
10 20 (3.68%) Consultant
11 19 (3.49%) Administrator
11 19 (3.49%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.31%) Designer
12 18 (3.31%) Java Developer
13 16 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.76%) Coordinator
15 13 (2.39%) Support Engineer
16 12 (2.21%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.35%) REST
2 23 (4.23%) Spring
3 17 (3.13%) J2EE
3 17 (3.13%) Kafka
4 16 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 14 (2.57%) React
6 11 (2.02%) CSS
6 11 (2.02%) HTML
7 10 (1.84%) Apache Camel
8 9 (1.65%) AWS CDK
8 9 (1.65%) Web Services
9 8 (1.47%) .NET
9 8 (1.47%) Middleware
9 8 (1.47%) SOAP
10 7 (1.29%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.29%) JSON
11 6 (1.10%) Flash
11 6 (1.10%) WebRTC
12 5 (0.92%) LDAP
12 5 (0.92%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (1.65%) Clustering
6 8 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 8 (1.47%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.29%) PKI
7 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.10%) CMDB
8 6 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.10%) Replication
8 6 (1.10%) Video Editing
8 6 (1.10%) Wiki
9 5 (0.92%) iPhone
9 5 (0.92%) Mainframe
9 5 (0.92%) NVMe
9 5 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (11.95%) Windows
2 42 (7.72%) Linux
3 27 (4.96%) Unix
4 20 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.84%) Android
6 10 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.47%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Solaris
11 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.37%) zOS
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (28.68%) Agile
2 136 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (16.36%) Project Management
4 62 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (9.01%) Change Management
7 47 (8.64%) Roadmaps
8 46 (8.46%) Migration
9 40 (7.35%) Customer Service
9 40 (7.35%) ITIL
10 38 (6.99%) Business Analysis
10 38 (6.99%) Project Delivery
11 34 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 34 (6.25%) ERP
12 33 (6.07%) Service Management
13 31 (5.70%) DevOps
14 30 (5.51%) Scrum
15 29 (5.33%) Waterfall
16 28 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
17 27 (4.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.21%) SQL
2 52 (9.56%) Java
3 41 (7.54%) Python
4 24 (4.41%) Perl
5 23 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.23%) PL/SQL
6 19 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.84%) Bash
7 10 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.55%) C#
9 3 (0.55%) Groovy
9 3 (0.55%) JCL
9 3 (0.55%) Scala
10 2 (0.37%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.37%) COBOL
10 2 (0.37%) REXX
10 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.18%) VBA
11 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 88 (16.18%) Degree
2 49 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.84%) MCP
8 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.10%) CISSP
10 5 (0.92%) ACCA
10 5 (0.92%) CIMA
10 5 (0.92%) CISM
10 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.92%) PMP
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.55%) HNC
11 3 (0.55%) ISEB
11 3 (0.55%) OSCP
11 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 29 (5.33%) PMO
3 24 (4.41%) QA
4 17 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.13%) SLA
5 5 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.55%) GDPR
7 3 (0.55%) NIST
7 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.55%) WCAG
8 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.68%) Docker
3 14 (2.57%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.65%) BitLocker
6 8 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.47%) vSphere
7 6 (1.10%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.92%) NFS
8 5 (0.92%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.74%) GPFS
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.37%) ACF2
11 2 (0.37%) KVM
11 2 (0.37%) RACF
11 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (3.13%) SCCM
2 15 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.57%) Terraform
4 12 (2.21%) Grafana
4 12 (2.21%) Kibana
5 10 (1.84%) Ansible
6 9 (1.65%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.92%) vMotion
8 4 (0.74%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.74%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 4 (0.74%) WSUS
9 3 (0.55%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 108 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.05%) Oracle
3 19 (3.49%) VMware
4 17 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.76%) SAP
6 14 (2.57%) Citrix
7 13 (2.39%) IBM
8 10 (1.84%) Cisco
8 10 (1.84%) Veritas
9 9 (1.65%) HP
10 8 (1.47%) Cadence
10 8 (1.47%) Dell
10 8 (1.47%) Google
11 7 (1.29%) F5
11 7 (1.29%) Splunk
12 6 (1.10%) Sybase
13 5 (0.92%) Apple
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) NetApp
13 5 (0.92%) Red Hat