Social Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,157 4,829 7,918
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.91% 19.22% 17.91%
As % of the General category 35.57% 32.89% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,117 3,367 5,530
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +11.18%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 130 142
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.23 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.57 £25.88 £15.72
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £22.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +147.36% +37.38%
75th Percentile £43.13 £67.50 £46.67
90th Percentile £53.00 £82.65 £58.63
UK median hourly rate £18.07 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.74% +31.58% +5.56%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Social Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Social Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 104 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 81 (2.57%) Confluence
3 57 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.08%) CMS
5 17 (0.54%) SAS
5 17 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 16 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) Apache
7 12 (0.38%) IIS
8 10 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.25%) nginx
11 7 (0.22%) Appian
11 7 (0.22%) JBoss
12 6 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.19%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 167 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.41%) Sketch
8 11 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.29%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.19%) InDesign
13 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
13 5 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
13 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
13 5 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
13 5 (0.16%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.095%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
5 16 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
6 15 (0.48%) Primavera
6 15 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
7 14 (0.44%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.41%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 12 (0.38%) SAP HCM
9 12 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 12 (0.38%) SAP SD
10 10 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.29%) Shopify
12 8 (0.25%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 531 (16.82%) Azure
2 278 (8.81%) AWS
3 218 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 163 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
5 121 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
7 97 (3.07%) GCP
8 67 (2.12%) Entra ID
9 64 (2.03%) PowerApps
10 56 (1.77%) SaaS
11 54 (1.71%) Power Automate
12 50 (1.58%) Serverless
13 47 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
13 47 (1.49%) GitHub
14 39 (1.24%) IaaS
15 37 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
16 33 (1.05%) Amazon S3
17 29 (0.92%) OCI
18 28 (0.89%) PaaS
19 26 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 120 (3.80%) Firewall
2 56 (1.77%) DNS
3 46 (1.46%) VPN
4 42 (1.33%) Network Security
5 41 (1.30%) WAN
6 33 (1.05%) DHCP
7 32 (1.01%) LAN
8 30 (0.95%) BGP
8 30 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (0.79%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.57%) Internet
10 18 (0.57%) Wireless
11 15 (0.48%) HTTP
12 14 (0.44%) 5G
13 13 (0.41%) SSL
14 12 (0.38%) SAN
14 12 (0.38%) VLAN
15 11 (0.35%) 4G
15 11 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (5.86%) Power BI
2 138 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 72 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 54 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 42 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.20%) MySQL
7 38 (1.20%) Tableau
8 35 (1.11%) Oracle Database
9 34 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.01%) Big Data
11 31 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 31 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (0.63%) Metadata
15 19 (0.60%) GIS
16 17 (0.54%) Power Query
17 13 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 221 (7.00%) JIRA
2 91 (2.88%) Git
3 81 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.65%) GitLab
5 33 (1.05%) Selenium
6 22 (0.70%) Postman
7 21 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 19 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 16 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.44%) Maven
12 13 (0.41%) Appium
12 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.41%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.38%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.35%) JMeter
15 10 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
16 9 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 805 (25.50%) Finance
2 631 (19.99%) Analytical Skills
3 330 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 199 (6.30%) Banking
5 184 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
6 158 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 135 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
8 119 (3.77%) Marketing
9 105 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 95 (3.01%) Retail
11 85 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 81 (2.57%) Legal
13 60 (1.90%) Front Office
14 49 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 37 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (1.14%) General Ledger
19 32 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 448 (14.19%) Analyst
2 379 (12.01%) Developer
3 305 (9.66%) Consultant
4 281 (8.90%) Architect
5 266 (8.43%) Senior
6 236 (7.48%) Project Manager
7 212 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 182 (5.76%) Lead
9 102 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
10 78 (2.47%) Data Analyst
11 74 (2.34%) Data Engineer
12 65 (2.06%) Designer
13 57 (1.81%) Senior Developer
14 56 (1.77%) C# Developer
15 52 (1.65%) Software Engineer
16 51 (1.62%) Service Analyst
17 47 (1.49%) Functional Consultant
18 45 (1.43%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (1.43%) Senior Manager
19 43 (1.36%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.42%) .NET
2 81 (2.57%) React
3 77 (2.44%) REST
4 76 (2.41%) AngularJS
5 68 (2.15%) HTML
6 67 (2.12%) Web Services
7 65 (2.06%) CSS
8 59 (1.87%) RESTful
9 54 (1.71%) Kafka
10 50 (1.58%) JSON
11 46 (1.46%) XML
12 45 (1.43%) Node.js
13 41 (1.30%) Middleware
14 32 (1.01%) SOAP
14 32 (1.01%) YAML
15 31 (0.98%) ARM Templates
16 29 (0.92%) Spring
17 22 (0.70%) .NET Core
17 22 (0.70%) .NET Framework
18 21 (0.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.36%) Product Ownership
2 105 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 95 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 63 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 51 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 47 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 45 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 42 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 36 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 34 (1.08%) NHS
11 31 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (0.86%) CMDB
12 27 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (0.86%) Mobile App
13 25 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 24 (0.76%) Public Cloud
15 22 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
17 20 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 251 (7.95%) Windows
2 182 (5.76%) Linux
3 57 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.11%) Unix
6 30 (0.95%) zOS
7 28 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.73%) Android
9 21 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.32%) AIX
13 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.29%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.25%) CentOS
14 8 (0.25%) VMS
15 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.13%) OpenVMS
18 3 (0.095%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
2 769 (24.36%) Agile
3 497 (15.74%) Project Management
4 355 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 328 (10.39%) DevOps
6 270 (8.55%) Migration
7 238 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
8 229 (7.25%) Analytics
9 222 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 218 (6.91%) Computer Science
11 212 (6.72%) Decision-Making
12 204 (6.46%) ITIL
13 196 (6.21%) CI/CD
14 193 (6.11%) Scrum
15 182 (5.76%) Change Management
16 176 (5.57%) Roadmaps
17 169 (5.35%) Service Management
18 165 (5.23%) Data Modelling
19 157 (4.97%) Customer Service
20 155 (4.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 375 (11.88%) SQL
2 262 (8.30%) Python
3 177 (5.61%) Java
4 170 (5.38%) C#
5 146 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 105 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 54 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 48 (1.52%) Bash
9 45 (1.43%) C++
10 35 (1.11%) Bicep
11 32 (1.01%) Perl
12 28 (0.89%) PHP
12 28 (0.89%) REXX
13 27 (0.86%) Go
14 26 (0.82%) JCL
14 26 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.82%) Scala
15 25 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 20 (0.63%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 494 (15.65%) Degree
2 415 (13.15%) Security Cleared
3 299 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 53 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.68%) PMP
8 49 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 37 (1.17%) CISSP
10 36 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.76%) CISM
13 24 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.67%) CCNP
15 21 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 17 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (6.08%) QA
2 117 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.50%) SLA
4 68 (2.15%) PMO
5 62 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.39%) GDPR
7 41 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.30%) NIST
8 19 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 17 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
9 17 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.41%) GRC
11 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.35%) MiFID
12 11 (0.35%) NCSC
12 11 (0.35%) SEPA
13 9 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
13 9 (0.29%) EMIR
13 9 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 139 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.91%) Docker
3 37 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 25 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) RACF
9 14 (0.44%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.32%) ACF2
10 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
13 7 (0.22%) Firmware
13 7 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 7 (0.22%) Microcode
13 7 (0.22%) NFS
14 3 (0.095%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.095%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 128 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 105 (3.33%) Terraform
3 87 (2.76%) Ansible
4 47 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (1.17%) SCCM
6 33 (1.05%) SCOM
7 28 (0.89%) Puppet
8 26 (0.82%) Grafana
9 21 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.63%) WSUS
11 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.38%) Consul
15 12 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.32%) Data Guard
16 10 (0.32%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.25%) Podman
18 7 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 563 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 233 (7.38%) SAP
3 170 (5.38%) Oracle
4 85 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 67 (2.12%) Google
6 66 (2.09%) IBM
7 64 (2.03%) Cisco
7 64 (2.03%) Databricks
8 56 (1.77%) Adobe
9 46 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 45 (1.43%) VMware
11 40 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 33 (1.05%) Splunk
13 30 (0.95%) Ariba
14 28 (0.89%) Dell
15 26 (0.82%) Informatica
16 21 (0.67%) Citrix
16 21 (0.67%) Juniper
17 19 (0.60%) F5
17 19 (0.60%) Remedy