Social Skills Contracts in Basildon

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Essex > Basildon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Basildon. 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 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 42.11% 8.16% 8.00%
As % of the General category 61.54% 19.05% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £297
25th Percentile £315 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - £393
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.20%
75th Percentile £346 - £449
90th Percentile £390 - £480
Essex median daily rate £400 £425 £300
% change year-on-year -5.88% +41.67% -39.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.65 -
Essex median hourly rate £14.17 £10.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.99% -58.32% +38.89%

All General Skills
Basildon

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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 13 21 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 68.42% 42.86% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £315 £100 £289
25th Percentile £317 £219 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £586 £503
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +16.62% -2.16%
75th Percentile £422 £600 £523
90th Percentile £449 £675 £535
Essex median daily rate £400 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £32.00 £35.65 £56.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.20 £56.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% -0.83% +179.07%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.25 £65.63
90th Percentile £48.00 £73.75 £67.50
Essex median hourly rate £21.00 £35.65 £44.53
% change year-on-year -41.09% -19.94% +107.12%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Basildon

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Basildon

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Basildon

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) dbt
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
1 4 (50.00%) Tableau
2 3 (37.50%) Looker
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) TestRail
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) NumPy
2 3 (37.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Data Security
2 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) DataOps
3 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (37.50%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) SAP