Social Skills Contracts in the South East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 1,121 1,303 1,799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 20.29% 22.35% 23.15%
As % of the General category 39.84% 38.23% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 857 1,166
10th Percentile £205 £213 £163
25th Percentile £350 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +6.32% +3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 58 111
10th Percentile £11.25 £18.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.78 £20.12 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £47.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -61.37% +170.50% -11.98%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £46.25
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
South 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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,814 3,408 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.93% 58.47% 54.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,321 2,793
10th Percentile £205 £245 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 166 220
10th Percentile £12.91 £18.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £32.56
90th Percentile £70.29 £73.11 £48.75
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the South East

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Thames Valley -1 614 £455 -9.00% 688
Berkshire -1 481 £475 -9.52% 290
Hampshire -2 224 £575 +9.52% 357
Surrey +1 115 £450 -10.00% 213
Buckinghamshire -1 85 £450 -6.49% 202
West Sussex +1 63 £475 -5.00% 107
Oxfordshire +1 48 £444 +1.43% 200
East Sussex +2 35 £510 -13.19% 61
Kent -2 30 £491 +9.17% 128
Middlesex +10 18 £275 -57.69% 5
M4 Corridor - 5 £540 -
Home Counties 0 3 £530 +8.72%
Sussex -3 1 £425 -32.00% 5
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 35 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.03%) Confluence
3 23 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.54%) CMS
5 5 (0.45%) Apache
6 4 (0.36%) nginx
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.27%) Appian
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.089%) IIS
9 1 (0.089%) Moodle
9 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.089%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 116 (10.35%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
8 6 (0.54%) Adobe Premiere
8 6 (0.54%) CINEMA 4D
9 4 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.27%) SPSS
11 2 (0.18%) InDesign
11 2 (0.18%) Sketch
12 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.089%) FileZilla
12 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.089%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.089%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 19 (1.69%) Primavera
2 18 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
6 10 (0.89%) SAP PSCD
7 9 (0.80%) SAP BRIM
8 6 (0.54%) Maximo
9 5 (0.45%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.27%) iTrent
11 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.27%) Sage X3
11 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (12.67%) Azure
2 83 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (5.26%) AWS
4 35 (3.12%) Power Platform
5 33 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 20 (1.78%) OCI
8 16 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (1.43%) Azure Storage
9 14 (1.25%) GCP
10 11 (0.98%) SaaS
10 11 (0.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 9 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.80%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.71%) IaaS
12 8 (0.71%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.71%) Smartsheet
12 8 (0.71%) WhatsApp
13 7 (0.62%) GitHub
13 7 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.98%) DNS
2 63 (5.62%) Firewall
3 58 (5.17%) DHCP
4 44 (3.93%) LAN
5 39 (3.48%) SAN
6 32 (2.85%) WAN
6 32 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (2.05%) VPN
8 19 (1.69%) Network Security
9 17 (1.52%) Wireless
10 12 (1.07%) 802.11
10 12 (1.07%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
12 10 (0.89%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.80%) VLAN
13 9 (0.80%) VSAN
14 8 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.71%) iSCSI
15 7 (0.62%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.50%) Power BI
2 21 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.34%) Tableau
4 11 (0.98%) Oracle Database
5 10 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.62%) Big Data
7 7 (0.62%) Metadata
7 7 (0.62%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.54%) MySQL
9 5 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.45%) Power Query
9 5 (0.45%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.36%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.36%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.36%) GIS
11 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.27%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 58 (5.17%) JIRA
2 31 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.50%) Selenium
4 25 (2.23%) Cucumber
5 24 (2.14%) REST Assured
5 24 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.43%) GitLab
7 14 (1.25%) Git
8 11 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.27%) Postman
10 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
12 1 (0.089%) JUnit
12 1 (0.089%) Maven
12 1 (0.089%) Xcode
General
1 230 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
2 143 (12.76%) Finance
3 101 (9.01%) Telecoms
4 82 (7.31%) Presentation Skills
5 76 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
6 73 (6.51%) Public Sector
7 58 (5.17%) Marketing
8 48 (4.28%) Legal
9 39 (3.48%) Law
10 38 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 36 (3.21%) Retail
12 24 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.96%) Military
14 21 (1.87%) Police
15 18 (1.61%) Automotive
15 18 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.43%) Billing
17 13 (1.16%) Aviation
18 12 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (11.95%) Analyst
2 87 (7.76%) Project Manager
3 78 (6.96%) Architect
4 75 (6.69%) Senior
5 70 (6.24%) Consultant
6 68 (6.07%) Lead
7 53 (4.73%) Developer
8 45 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (3.75%) Support Engineer
10 37 (3.30%) Administrator
10 37 (3.30%) Business Analyst
11 34 (3.03%) IT Support
12 33 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.59%) Desktop Engineer
13 29 (2.59%) Functional Consultant
14 28 (2.50%) Network Engineer
15 27 (2.41%) Java Architect
16 26 (2.32%) Desktop Support
16 26 (2.32%) Windows Engineer
17 24 (2.14%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.21%) REST
2 28 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 25 (2.23%) Java EE
4 23 (2.05%) HTML
5 16 (1.43%) CSS
6 13 (1.16%) .NET
7 12 (1.07%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.98%) Web Dynpro
9 9 (0.80%) JSON
9 9 (0.80%) Spring
10 8 (0.71%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.71%) Web Services
10 8 (0.71%) XML
11 7 (0.62%) ASP.NET
11 7 (0.62%) Kafka
11 7 (0.62%) React
11 7 (0.62%) RESTful
11 7 (0.62%) SAP Basis
12 6 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
13 5 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (5.35%) Driving Licence
2 50 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 47 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 46 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 39 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.41%) PKI
7 21 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
8 19 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 17 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
10 15 (1.34%) NHS
11 13 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 11 (0.98%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.89%) Operational Technology
14 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.80%) Smartphone
15 8 (0.71%) Life Science
15 8 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 219 (19.54%) Windows
2 125 (11.15%) Windows 10
3 85 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 73 (6.51%) Linux
5 59 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (4.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 50 (4.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 49 (4.37%) Windows 7
9 21 (1.87%) Windows NT
10 20 (1.78%) Unix
11 16 (1.43%) Apple iOS
12 13 (1.16%) Android
12 13 (1.16%) Windows XP
13 8 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.54%) Debian
15 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.089%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (33.99%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (17.84%) Agile
3 165 (14.72%) Project Management
4 133 (11.86%) Customer Service
5 129 (11.51%) ITIL
6 106 (9.46%) DevOps
7 97 (8.65%) Decision-Making
8 78 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (6.51%) Migration
10 67 (5.98%) Service Management
11 63 (5.62%) Analytics
12 58 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (4.82%) Project Delivery
14 52 (4.64%) Service Delivery
15 51 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 51 (4.55%) User Acceptance Testing
16 50 (4.46%) Change Management
16 50 (4.46%) Roadmaps
16 50 (4.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (6.60%) SQL
2 71 (6.33%) Java
3 54 (4.82%) PowerShell
4 36 (3.21%) Python
5 35 (3.12%) C#
6 28 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.87%) C++
8 20 (1.78%) C
9 19 (1.69%) VB
9 19 (1.69%) VBScript
10 15 (1.34%) Bicep
10 15 (1.34%) Perl
11 13 (1.16%) Bash
12 12 (1.07%) Tcl
13 11 (0.98%) ABAP
14 8 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.36%) F#
15 4 (0.36%) R
15 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 304 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 205 (18.29%) Degree
3 180 (16.06%) DV Cleared
4 135 (12.04%) SC Cleared
5 38 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (2.77%) CCNP
7 23 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.96%) CCNA
9 21 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (1.43%) PMI Certification
12 14 (1.25%) PMP
13 12 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.07%) MCSE
14 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.98%) ISEB
14 11 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.89%) MCSA
16 9 (0.80%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.60%) QA
2 61 (5.44%) SLA
3 30 (2.68%) PMO
4 19 (1.69%) NIST
5 17 (1.52%) NIST 800
6 15 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.25%) GDPR
8 13 (1.16%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.36%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.27%) COBIT
12 3 (0.27%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) DO-178B
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.18%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.089%) ITGC
System Software
1 124 (11.06%) Active Directory
2 69 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.66%) Firmware
4 27 (2.41%) Docker
5 23 (2.05%) Hyper-V
6 21 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.69%) vSphere
8 18 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.43%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.62%) vCloud
11 4 (0.36%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) KVM
13 2 (0.18%) NFS
13 2 (0.18%) Varnish
14 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 122 (10.88%) SCCM
2 55 (4.91%) WSUS
3 54 (4.82%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.57%) Ansible
5 36 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (2.85%) Terraform
7 29 (2.59%) SCOM
8 24 (2.14%) vCenter Server
9 21 (1.87%) Sysprep
10 16 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (1.16%) NetBackup
12 12 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.07%) Podman
13 7 (0.62%) Istio
13 7 (0.62%) Rancher
14 4 (0.36%) Puppet
15 3 (0.27%) MOM
15 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 282 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.31%) VMware
3 75 (6.69%) HP
4 72 (6.42%) SAP
5 64 (5.71%) Oracle
6 49 (4.37%) Cisco
7 30 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 24 (2.14%) Adobe
10 22 (1.96%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.87%) Dell
12 19 (1.69%) Juniper
13 16 (1.43%) Veeam
14 14 (1.25%) EMC
14 14 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
15 13 (1.16%) 3PAR
15 13 (1.16%) Symantec
16 12 (1.07%) Google
16 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.89%) CheckPoint