Social Skills Contracts in South Yorkshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 133 78 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.17% 14.69% 12.55%
As % of the General category 48.90% 19.80% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 56 53
10th Percentile £200 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £613 £585
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £11.61 - -
25th Percentile £12.26 - -
Median hourly rate £12.73 £11.00 £9.49
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +15.91% +5.44%
75th Percentile £13.15 - -
90th Percentile £13.63 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £17.72 £18.19
% change year-on-year -17.47% -2.60% +12.30%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 272 394 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 59.65% 74.20% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 269 249
10th Percentile £263 £300 £317
25th Percentile £415 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £538
90th Percentile £634 £743 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -8.10% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £12.34 £13.90 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.63 £18.25 £16.09
Median hourly rate £13.23 £25.50 £21.08
Median % change year-on-year -48.12% +20.97% +53.92%
75th Percentile £13.96 £32.75 £22.71
90th Percentile £22.00 £37.10 £25.27
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £17.86 £18.70
% change year-on-year -18.11% -4.49% +0.97%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield +5 107 £488 -2.50% 84
Barnsley - 11 £423 - 8
Doncaster +2 10 £450 +200.00% 26
Rotherham +1 3 - - 16
Social Skills
Yorkshire

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (13.53%) SAS
2 7 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) CICS
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.01%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.80%) Azure
2 16 (12.03%) GitHub
3 15 (11.28%) GCP
4 14 (10.53%) AWS
5 12 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.51%) Apigee
6 6 (4.51%) Kong
7 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.01%) OCI
9 2 (1.50%) Slack
10 1 (0.75%) Intacct
10 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) VLAN
2 9 (6.77%) DWDM
3 8 (6.02%) DNS
3 8 (6.02%) Firewall
4 6 (4.51%) HTTP
4 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.51%) VPN
5 5 (3.76%) HTTPS
6 3 (2.26%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.75%) DHCP
7 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.75%) LAN
7 1 (0.75%) RTP
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.50%) Metadata
2 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) JIRA
3 7 (5.26%) Git
4 6 (4.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (4.51%) CircleCI
4 6 (4.51%) GitLab
4 6 (4.51%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (29.32%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (15.79%) Finance
3 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.77%) Banking
5 6 (4.51%) Law
6 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Local Government
8 2 (1.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (12.78%) Programmer
1 17 (12.78%) Systems Programmer
1 17 (12.78%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 12 (9.02%) Storage Engineer
3 11 (8.27%) Analyst
4 9 (6.77%) Consultant
5 8 (6.02%) Architect
6 7 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (5.26%) Data Protection Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) Storage Manager
7 6 (4.51%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) Hardware Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) Lead
8 5 (3.76%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) IT Support
8 5 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) z/OS Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.56%) ISPF
2 15 (11.28%) YAML
3 7 (5.26%) JSON
4 6 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.51%) XML
5 3 (2.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.26%) CSS
5 3 (2.26%) HTML
5 3 (2.26%) LDAP
6 2 (1.50%) REST
7 1 (0.75%) Series 60
7 1 (0.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.31%) Mainframe
2 20 (15.04%) Replication
3 11 (8.27%) LPAR
4 9 (6.77%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.01%) CMDB
7 4 (3.01%) e-Learning
7 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.26%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.50%) NHS
10 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.08%) zOS
2 32 (24.06%) Windows
3 27 (20.30%) Linux
4 12 (9.02%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.26%) AIX
5 3 (2.26%) Android
5 3 (2.26%) Solaris
6 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.50%) Unix
7 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.07%) Risk Management
2 33 (24.81%) Agile
3 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.30%) Change Management
5 26 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (18.80%) Project Management
7 21 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 19 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 17 (12.78%) Data Protection
10 16 (12.03%) Service Management
11 15 (11.28%) DevOps
12 12 (9.02%) Problem Management
13 11 (8.27%) DevSecOps
14 10 (7.52%) Software Testing
15 9 (6.77%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (6.77%) CRM
15 9 (6.77%) ITIL
15 9 (6.77%) ITSM
15 9 (6.77%) Scrum
15 9 (6.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (29.32%) JCL
2 37 (27.82%) REXX
3 21 (15.79%) Python
4 15 (11.28%) Assembly Language
5 11 (8.27%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.52%) Bash
6 10 (7.52%) CLIST
7 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.50%) Java
8 2 (1.50%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Degree
2 3 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.75%) CCNA
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.02%) QA
2 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) GRC
4 2 (1.50%) PMO
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (29.32%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (11.28%) ACF2
2 15 (11.28%) RACF
3 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 11 (8.27%) Microcode
5 9 (6.77%) NFS
6 6 (4.51%) Docker
7 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (2.26%) SRDF
9 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.75%) KVM
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (24.06%) Ansible
2 21 (15.79%) Puppet
3 20 (15.04%) OMEGAMON
4 15 (11.28%) NetBackup
5 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
7 7 (5.26%) Terraform
8 6 (4.51%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (4.51%) Grafana
8 6 (4.51%) Kibana
8 6 (4.51%) logstash
8 6 (4.51%) Progress Chef
8 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.26%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (29.32%) IBM
2 27 (20.30%) Broadcom
3 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 24 (18.05%) Splunk
4 15 (11.28%) Veritas
5 12 (9.02%) Brocade
5 12 (9.02%) Dell
6 10 (7.52%) CA
7 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
8 7 (5.26%) Oracle
8 7 (5.26%) VMware
9 5 (3.76%) EMC
10 3 (2.26%) Cisco
10 3 (2.26%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (2.26%) EqualLogic
10 3 (2.26%) Isilon
11 2 (1.50%) Google
12 1 (0.75%) F5
12 1 (0.75%) NetApp
12 1 (0.75%) Northgate