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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 47.83% 6.67% 6.90%
As % of the General category 68.75% 16.00% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £297
25th Percentile £315 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £300 £393
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% -23.64% -23.20%
75th Percentile £419 - £449
90th Percentile £451 - £480
Essex median daily rate £325 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -31.58% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.65 -
Essex median hourly rate £13.50 £10.42 -
% change year-on-year +29.56% - -

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 16 25 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 69.57% 41.67% 62.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 13
10th Percentile £315 £101 £418
25th Percentile £317 £164 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +13.86% -1.67%
75th Percentile £437 £600 £530
90th Percentile £476 £668 £567
Essex median daily rate £365 £419 £500
% change year-on-year -12.84% -16.17% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £32.00 £31.71 £56.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.65 £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 £66.50 £65.63
90th Percentile £48.00 £77.68 £67.50
Essex median hourly rate £21.75 £35.65 £51.02
% change year-on-year -38.99% -30.12% +137.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Basildon over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 (54.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (36.36%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) Confluence
4 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (9.09%) CMS
4 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) dbt
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Vertex AI
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
1 4 (36.36%) Tableau
2 3 (27.27%) Looker
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) TestRail
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Defect Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) React
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) PySpark
3 3 (27.27%) Kafka
3 3 (27.27%) NumPy
3 3 (27.27%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) JSR 170
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Data Security
4 4 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) User Stories
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Open Source
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
3 3 (27.27%) QA
4 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) StreamSets
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) SAP