Social Skills Contracts in Bedfordshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 88 38 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 36.21% 22.22% 24.28%
As % of the General category 46.81% 34.86% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 49
10th Percentile £285 £171 £263
25th Percentile £388 £208 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £551 £520 £530
90th Percentile £625 £565 £550
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £15.75 - -
25th Percentile £18.00 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £21.75 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £27.67 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +90.83% +7.41% -

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 188 109 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 77.37% 63.74% 75.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 72 116
10th Percentile £313 £208 £263
25th Percentile £425 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £536
90th Percentile £750 £637 £606
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 10
10th Percentile £15.32 £59.00 £39.80
25th Percentile £15.39 £70.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £90.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.11% +56.52% +259.38%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £66.94
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.88
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -6.84%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Bedfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Bedfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Bedfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Bedfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Bedfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Luton +2 67 £525 +16.67% 34
Bedford +5 6 £275 +46.67% 19
Henlow - 1 - -
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 11 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.14%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 26 (29.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.95%) Teamcenter
3 5 (5.68%) SAP GTS
4 3 (3.41%) SAP CO
4 3 (3.41%) SAP FI
4 3 (3.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.14%) SAP PS
5 1 (1.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.27%) AWS
4 2 (2.27%) GitHub
4 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.14%) Collibra
5 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.14%) Serverless
5 1 (1.14%) ShareGate
5 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Intranet
2 4 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.41%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (2.27%) BGP
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.27%) LAN
4 2 (2.27%) OSPF
4 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 2 (2.27%) WAN
5 1 (1.14%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (1.14%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.14%) Metadata
3 1 (1.14%) Power Query
3 1 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.14%) Subversion
3 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 20 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (17.05%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (14.77%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (13.64%) Manufacturing
7 10 (11.36%) Finance
8 8 (9.09%) Aerospace
9 7 (7.95%) Banking
10 4 (4.55%) Marketing
11 2 (2.27%) Legal
12 1 (1.14%) Automotive
12 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.14%) Military
12 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (14.77%) Consultant
2 12 (13.64%) Analyst
3 10 (11.36%) Functional Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) Lead
5 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Data Governance Analyst
6 6 (6.82%) Data Governance Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Data Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Governance Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Senior
7 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Administrator
7 5 (5.68%) Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Developer
8 4 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) IDoc
1 3 (3.41%) XML
2 2 (2.27%) CSS
2 2 (2.27%) HTML
2 2 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.14%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) jQuery
3 1 (1.14%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) React
3 1 (1.14%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Life Science
2 4 (4.55%) Graphic Design
3 3 (3.41%) CMDB
3 3 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.14%) EPoS
5 1 (1.14%) FMCG
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.18%) Business Transformation
4 14 (15.91%) Project Management
5 11 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 10 (11.36%) Migration
6 10 (11.36%) PRINCE2
7 9 (10.23%) Logistics
8 8 (9.09%) Agile
8 8 (9.09%) Analytics
8 8 (9.09%) Data Management
8 8 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 8 (9.09%) Order to Cash
9 7 (7.95%) ERP
9 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
9 7 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.82%) ITIL
10 6 (6.82%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.41%) Python
2 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (1.14%) Bicep
3 1 (1.14%) C#
3 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) CCNA
2 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (4.55%) MCSA
2 4 (4.55%) MCSE
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.55%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
3 3 (3.41%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.14%) NCSC
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (47.73%) SAP
2 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.50%) Ariba
4 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.41%) FIS
6 2 (2.27%) Cisco
6 2 (2.27%) F5
6 2 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.14%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.14%) Databricks
7 1 (1.14%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.14%) Siemens
7 1 (1.14%) Trillium