Social Skills Contracts in Abingdon

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Abingdon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Abingdon 12.50% 16.67% 33.33%
As % of the General category 100.00% 75.00% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £131 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £133 £260
Median % change year-on-year - -49.04% -22.85%
75th Percentile - £134 £265
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £444 £438
% change year-on-year +12.68% +1.43% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.46 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.14% -30.00% -

All General Skills
Abingdon

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 Abingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon 12.50% 22.22% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £132 £307
25th Percentile - £133 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £136 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -74.05% -
75th Percentile - £138 £556
90th Percentile - £139 £568
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.46 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.00 £22.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% -12.50% +36.84%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Abingdon

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Abingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Abingdon

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Abingdon

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Abingdon

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Abingdon 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Skype
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware