Social Skills Contracts in Belfast

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Belfast. 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 2 3 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 56 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 38.10% 20.97% 12.80%
As % of the General category 44.09% 43.33% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 14 8
10th Percentile £148 £142 £187
25th Percentile £253 £322 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £418 £281
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +48.44% -16.04%
75th Percentile £552 £508 £381
90th Percentile £618 £554 £475
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £418 £281
% change year-on-year -4.19% +48.44% -16.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £24.18 - £14.05
25th Percentile £26.34 £12.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £48.82 £12.99 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +275.79% -16.19% +42.73%
75th Percentile £78.47 £15.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £84.78 £18.87 £20.15
County Antrim median hourly rate £29.00 £15.38 £15.50
% change year-on-year +88.56% -0.77% +11.59%

All General Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 127 60 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 86.39% 48.39% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 35 54
10th Percentile £153 £191 £161
25th Percentile £273 £276 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -6.71%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £488
90th Percentile £625 £650 £609
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £22.67 - £13.88
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £15.38 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.88% -0.77% +34.78%
75th Percentile £58.85 £16.12 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £17.50 £18.16
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £16.12 £15.50
% change year-on-year +64.95% +4.00% +11.59%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Belfast

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Belfast

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Belfast

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Belfast

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Belfast

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Belfast

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 3 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) GemFire
3 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.79%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.93%) OpenShift
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.79%) Azure
5 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
5 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) ATM
1 4 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (7.14%) Tableau
2 3 (5.36%) Flink
3 2 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) GIS
4 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.79%) HBase
4 1 (1.79%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (66.07%) Finance
2 20 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.93%) Front Office
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.36%) Law
6 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Analyst
2 9 (16.07%) Business Analyst
2 9 (16.07%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Data Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.14%) EPoS Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Financial Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Kafka
2 4 (7.14%) Spring
2 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.57%) React
4 1 (1.79%) JMS
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) JWT
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth
4 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.79%) RAML
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) SAML
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
4 1 (1.79%) Swagger
4 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Equities
2 4 (7.14%) BYOD
2 4 (7.14%) EPoS
2 4 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.36%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.36%) Derivative
3 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 4 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Project Management
3 12 (21.43%) Agile
4 9 (16.07%) Data Analysis
5 8 (14.29%) DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) Microservices
6 7 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 7 (12.50%) Change Management
6 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.71%) Process Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Data Management
8 5 (8.93%) Decision-Making
9 4 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.14%) ETL
9 4 (7.14%) Scrum
9 4 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) SQL
2 9 (16.07%) Java
3 8 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) DataWeave
4 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.79%) R
4 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) PMO
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Computacenter
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce