Social Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,733 5,058 6,720
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.06% 21.52% 21.93%
As % of the General category 42.39% 38.10% 39.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 3,320 4,433
10th Percentile £185 £200 £166
25th Percentile £325 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 340 552
10th Percentile £12.25 £12.74 £12.24
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £19.00 £15.93
Median % change year-on-year -15.47% +19.27% -5.74%
75th Percentile £38.12 £56.69 £28.51
90th Percentile £61.38 £65.78 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £18.07 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.74% +31.58% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,166 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.40% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,357 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +1 1,143 £475 -5.00% 1,962
South East 0 1,114 £490 -2.00% 1,784
South West +1 677 £525 -0.47% 1,050
Midlands 0 629 £450 -10.00% 1,461
North West +2 602 £475 - 1,066
Scotland +1 550 £450 -2.91% 468
East of England 0 548 £450 +5.88% 938
Yorkshire +1 475 £475 -5.00% 669
West Midlands 0 450 £475 -5.00% 895
East Midlands +3 171 £269 -36.71% 566
Wales +3 87 £413 +3.13% 204
North East +9 64 £525 +50.00% 268
Northern Ireland +3 37 £435 +8.75% 92
Isle of Man -1 4 £388 -19.27% 1
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 201 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 173 (3.66%) Confluence
3 139 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (0.95%) SAS
5 43 (0.91%) CMS
6 37 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 17 (0.36%) Apache
9 11 (0.23%) WordPress
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
10 10 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.17%) Appian
11 8 (0.17%) IIS
12 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.085%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.085%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.085%) Drupal
14 4 (0.085%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 448 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
2 374 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 149 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 53 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 31 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.32%) Acrobat
10 10 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.21%) Windchill
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 9 (0.19%) Sketch
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
13 6 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
13 6 (0.13%) Maya
13 6 (0.13%) SPSS
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
15 3 (0.063%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 116 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.63%) Primavera
3 24 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 20 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 19 (0.40%) SAP ERP
7 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 15 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
9 11 (0.23%) SAP SD
10 10 (0.21%) Maximo
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.19%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.19%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.19%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
12 8 (0.17%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 552 (11.66%) Azure
2 375 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
3 232 (4.90%) AWS
4 206 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 89 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 72 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (1.50%) GCP
9 45 (0.95%) SaaS
10 41 (0.87%) GitHub
10 41 (0.87%) OCI
10 41 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 40 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 40 (0.85%) Serverless
12 37 (0.78%) Amazon S3
13 35 (0.74%) Azure Stack
14 33 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 33 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
15 31 (0.65%) IaaS
16 27 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 208 (4.39%) Firewall
2 153 (3.23%) DNS
3 123 (2.60%) LAN
4 117 (2.47%) DHCP
5 112 (2.37%) WAN
6 96 (2.03%) VPN
7 74 (1.56%) SAN
8 72 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (1.31%) TCP/IP
10 61 (1.29%) Network Security
11 54 (1.14%) Wireless
12 43 (0.91%) BGP
13 32 (0.68%) 5G
13 32 (0.68%) VLAN
14 29 (0.61%) Internet
15 28 (0.59%) Ethernet
15 28 (0.59%) Modbus
15 28 (0.59%) RS-422
15 28 (0.59%) RS-485
16 26 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (3.51%) Power BI
2 75 (1.58%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 46 (0.97%) Tableau
5 44 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (0.76%) Big Data
6 36 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 34 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 32 (0.68%) MySQL
8 32 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (0.63%) Metadata
10 26 (0.55%) Data Mining
11 23 (0.49%) MongoDB
12 22 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 20 (0.42%) GIS
14 20 (0.42%) SAP HANA
15 18 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.38%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 326 (6.89%) JIRA
2 120 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 84 (1.77%) Git
4 46 (0.97%) Selenium
5 41 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 34 (0.72%) GitLab
7 33 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 29 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 21 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 20 (0.42%) Postman
13 18 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
14 17 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
15 16 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
16 14 (0.30%) JUnit
17 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
18 10 (0.21%) IntelliJ
18 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 910 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 765 (16.16%) Finance
3 475 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 347 (7.33%) Organisational Skills
5 271 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
6 229 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 212 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 178 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 159 (3.36%) Marketing
10 147 (3.11%) Retail
11 129 (2.73%) Legal
12 127 (2.68%) Banking
13 99 (2.09%) Electronics
14 92 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.56%) Law
16 67 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
18 57 (1.20%) Military
19 49 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
20 40 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 698 (14.75%) Analyst
2 362 (7.65%) Project Manager
3 324 (6.85%) Architect
4 302 (6.38%) Senior
5 287 (6.06%) Lead
6 274 (5.79%) Developer
7 247 (5.22%) Consultant
8 174 (3.68%) Support Engineer
9 165 (3.49%) Business Analyst
10 140 (2.96%) IT Support
11 119 (2.51%) Administrator
12 112 (2.37%) Service Analyst
12 112 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
13 102 (2.16%) Service Desk Analyst
14 91 (1.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 83 (1.75%) Software Engineer
16 82 (1.73%) Network Engineer
16 82 (1.73%) Support Analyst
17 76 (1.61%) Data Analyst
18 72 (1.52%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.07%) REST
2 88 (1.86%) .NET
3 71 (1.50%) HTML
4 56 (1.18%) CSS
4 56 (1.18%) React
5 52 (1.10%) Web Services
6 43 (0.91%) Spring
7 40 (0.85%) JSON
7 40 (0.85%) XML
8 37 (0.78%) RESTful
9 36 (0.76%) Kafka
10 33 (0.70%) ISPF
10 33 (0.70%) Node.js
11 31 (0.65%) ARM Templates
11 31 (0.65%) Middleware
12 30 (0.63%) .NET Core
13 27 (0.57%) AngularJS
13 27 (0.57%) Java EE
14 23 (0.49%) Spring Boot
14 23 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 226 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 200 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 142 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 129 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 128 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 80 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 67 (1.42%) NHS
8 59 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 59 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 58 (1.23%) PKI
10 57 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 56 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 48 (1.01%) CMDB
13 40 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
14 39 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (0.80%) Mainframe
15 38 (0.80%) Private Cloud
16 37 (0.78%) Clustering
17 35 (0.74%) Life Science
18 32 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 685 (14.47%) Windows
2 273 (5.77%) Windows 10
3 271 (5.73%) Linux
4 184 (3.89%) Windows Server
5 83 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 78 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 74 (1.56%) Windows 7
7 74 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 73 (1.54%) Unix
9 55 (1.16%) Apple iOS
10 52 (1.10%) Android
11 48 (1.01%) zOS
12 43 (0.91%) Mac OS
13 28 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (0.42%) Windows NT
15 17 (0.36%) Windows XP
16 16 (0.34%) Ubuntu
17 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
18 11 (0.23%) AIX
18 11 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (29.77%) Problem-Solving
2 872 (18.42%) Agile
3 775 (16.37%) Project Management
4 626 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 606 (12.80%) Customer Service
6 440 (9.30%) ITIL
7 386 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 347 (7.33%) Decision-Making
9 320 (6.76%) Migration
10 299 (6.32%) DevOps
11 296 (6.25%) Service Management
12 276 (5.83%) Project Delivery
13 262 (5.54%) Change Management
14 228 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
15 225 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
16 214 (4.52%) Computer Science
16 214 (4.52%) Time Management
17 211 (4.46%) Analytics
18 198 (4.18%) Roadmaps
19 185 (3.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 303 (6.40%) SQL
2 241 (5.09%) Python
3 186 (3.93%) Java
4 175 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 145 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 123 (2.60%) C#
7 73 (1.54%) C++
8 70 (1.48%) C
9 46 (0.97%) Bash
9 46 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.91%) JCL
11 41 (0.87%) REXX
12 37 (0.78%) Perl
13 36 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.51%) VB
15 22 (0.46%) Bicep
16 21 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.44%) VBScript
17 18 (0.38%) Assembly Language
17 18 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 965 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 719 (15.19%) Degree
3 557 (11.77%) SC Cleared
4 362 (7.65%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 87 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (1.61%) CCNA
9 70 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 63 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 63 (1.33%) PMP
11 60 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 47 (0.99%) CCNP
13 42 (0.89%) MCP
14 41 (0.87%) HNC
15 38 (0.80%) MCSE
16 36 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 34 (0.72%) CISSP
17 34 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 34 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (5.07%) QA
1 240 (5.07%) SLA
2 139 (2.94%) PMO
3 104 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 84 (1.77%) NIST
5 67 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.39%) GDPR
7 49 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 46 (0.97%) NIST 800
9 44 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
10 35 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
11 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.27%) GRC
13 11 (0.23%) NCSC
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.11%) GMP
17 5 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 415 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 169 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (1.50%) Docker
3 71 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 57 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 48 (1.01%) Firmware
7 43 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 42 (0.89%) Time Sharing Option
9 38 (0.80%) vSphere
10 25 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.38%) ACF2
11 18 (0.38%) RACF
12 17 (0.36%) NFS
13 16 (0.34%) BitLocker
13 16 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
14 14 (0.30%) KVM
14 14 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
15 11 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 11 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 213 (4.50%) SCCM
2 124 (2.62%) Ansible
3 115 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 101 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 84 (1.77%) Terraform
6 64 (1.35%) WSUS
7 58 (1.23%) SCOM
8 57 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 43 (0.91%) NetBackup
10 30 (0.63%) Puppet
11 26 (0.55%) Grafana
12 23 (0.49%) PowerCLI
13 22 (0.46%) Kibana
14 21 (0.44%) OMEGAMON
15 20 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (0.42%) Sysprep
16 18 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
17 15 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
17 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,102 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 342 (7.23%) SAP
3 211 (4.46%) VMware
4 191 (4.04%) Oracle
5 140 (2.96%) Cisco
6 139 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 117 (2.47%) HP
8 90 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 82 (1.73%) Dell
10 78 (1.65%) IBM
11 73 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.46%) Splunk
13 65 (1.37%) Google
14 60 (1.27%) Adobe
15 55 (1.16%) Citrix
16 39 (0.82%) Apple
16 39 (0.82%) Juniper
17 34 (0.72%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.63%) Broadcom
18 30 (0.63%) BT