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 in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 120 62 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 24.74% 12.45% 16.92%
As % of the General category 41.96% 16.85% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 45 76
10th Percentile £200 £276 £300
25th Percentile £413 £319 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £526
90th Percentile £638 £594 £575
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.00% +8.11% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £11.61 - -
25th Percentile £12.26 - -
Median hourly rate £12.73 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% - -
75th Percentile £13.15 - -
90th Percentile £13.63 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £17.72 £19.44
% change year-on-year -17.47% -8.86% +13.42%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 286 368 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 58.97% 73.90% 67.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 237 274
10th Percentile £312 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £579 £700 £544
90th Percentile £623 £744 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £12.48 £13.90 £16.00
25th Percentile £12.64 £18.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £13.23 £25.50 £21.08
Median % change year-on-year -48.12% +20.97% +22.13%
75th Percentile £19.62 £32.75 £22.72
90th Percentile £22.00 £37.10 £25.46
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £18.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -18.75% -3.74% +5.23%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Sheffield +7 100 £514 +2.80% 92
Doncaster +1 11 £475 +216.67% 26
Barnsley - 4 £378 - 11
Rotherham - 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 14 (11.67%) Confluence
1 14 (11.67%) SAS
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.33%) Azure
2 21 (17.50%) GCP
3 19 (15.83%) AWS
4 14 (11.67%) GitHub
5 11 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (7.50%) Kong
7 6 (5.00%) Apigee
7 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.67%) OCI
9 2 (1.67%) SaaS
9 2 (1.67%) Slack
10 1 (0.83%) Intacct
10 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.67%) VLAN
2 13 (10.83%) Firewall
3 11 (9.17%) DNS
4 9 (7.50%) HTTP
4 9 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.50%) VPN
5 5 (4.17%) DWDM
5 5 (4.17%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.50%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.83%) DHCP
8 1 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.83%) LAN
8 1 (0.83%) RTP
8 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.67%) Metadata
2 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) JIRA
2 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.00%) Git
4 9 (7.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (7.50%) CircleCI
4 9 (7.50%) GitLab
4 9 (7.50%) Travis CI
5 2 (1.67%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Banking
4 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Law
7 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (1.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (10.83%) Programmer
1 13 (10.83%) Systems Programmer
1 13 (10.83%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 12 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.67%) Architect
5 7 (5.83%) Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Consultant
5 7 (5.83%) Data Protection Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Senior
7 5 (4.17%) Developer
7 5 (4.17%) Hardware Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) IT Support
8 4 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Lead
8 4 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) ISPF
2 11 (9.17%) YAML
3 10 (8.33%) JSON
4 9 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (7.50%) XML
5 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.50%) CSS
5 3 (2.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.50%) LDAP
5 3 (2.50%) REST
6 2 (1.67%) Kafka
6 2 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.83%) JWT
7 1 (0.83%) OLE
7 1 (0.83%) OpenID
7 1 (0.83%) PySpark
7 1 (0.83%) Series 60
7 1 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 20 (16.67%) Replication
2 9 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.17%) LPAR
3 5 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.33%) CMDB
5 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.50%) EMC VNX
6 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.83%) Windows
2 23 (19.17%) Linux
3 22 (18.33%) zOS
4 11 (9.17%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.33%) Android
6 3 (2.50%) AIX
6 3 (2.50%) Solaris
7 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.67%) Unix
8 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.67%) Agile
2 31 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (22.50%) Risk Management
4 25 (20.83%) DevOps
5 23 (19.17%) Change Management
6 20 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (15.83%) Project Management
7 19 (15.83%) Service Delivery
8 17 (14.17%) Data Protection
9 16 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 16 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
10 15 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 12 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (10.00%) Scrum
11 12 (10.00%) Use Case
12 11 (9.17%) Service Management
12 11 (9.17%) Task Automation
12 11 (9.17%) Workflow
13 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) JCL
1 21 (17.50%) REXX
2 18 (15.00%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.67%) Bash
5 12 (10.00%) Assembly Language
6 6 (5.00%) CLIST
7 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.17%) SQL
8 4 (3.33%) ActionScript
8 4 (3.33%) Java
9 2 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.83%) CCNA
4 1 (0.83%) CEH
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.83%) CISSP
4 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) GRC
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (17.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 12 (10.00%) ACF2
2 12 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.00%) RACF
3 11 (9.17%) Docker
4 5 (4.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 5 (4.17%) Microcode
5 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.50%) SRDF
7 2 (1.67%) NFS
7 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.83%) KVM
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 31 (25.83%) Ansible
2 26 (21.67%) Puppet
3 15 (12.50%) NetBackup
3 15 (12.50%) OMEGAMON
4 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
5 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (9.17%) Progress Chef
5 11 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.33%) Grafana
6 10 (8.33%) Terraform
7 9 (7.50%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (7.50%) Kibana
7 9 (7.50%) logstash
8 3 (2.50%) EMC TimeFinder
8 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.67%) Kiali
9 2 (1.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Splunk
2 21 (17.50%) IBM
2 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.50%) Broadcom
3 15 (12.50%) Veritas
4 7 (5.83%) VMware
5 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.17%) Brocade
6 5 (4.17%) Dell
6 5 (4.17%) EMC
6 5 (4.17%) Oracle
7 4 (3.33%) F5
8 3 (2.50%) CA
8 3 (2.50%) Cisco
8 3 (2.50%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (2.50%) EqualLogic
8 3 (2.50%) Isilon
9 2 (1.67%) Google
9 2 (1.67%) NEC
9 2 (1.67%) Northgate