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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 56 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 33.73% 23.39% 15.33%
As % of the General category 40.58% 51.79% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 15 9
10th Percentile £179 £155 £191
25th Percentile £272 £185 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £560 £497 £394
90th Percentile £614 £549 £450
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £363 £350
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 £12.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £48.11 £14.19 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +239.18% -8.48% +46.26%
75th Percentile £78.47 £23.23 £15.75
90th Percentile - £23.94 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £23.00 £18.97 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.24% +22.39% +15.28%

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 138 56 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 83.13% 45.16% 54.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 31 43
10th Percentile £200 £155 £156
25th Percentile £300 £200 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -15.63% -9.35%
75th Percentile £553 £528 £505
90th Percentile £625 £650 £635
County Antrim median daily rate £425 £338 £400
% change year-on-year +25.93% -15.63% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 7
10th Percentile - £12.25 -
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.44 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.03% +1.61% +41.23%
75th Percentile £48.10 £21.28 £16.13
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.94 £16.86
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.50 £16.12 £15.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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
1 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) GemFire
3 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (32.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.57%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.79%) Azure
3 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
3 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (7.14%) Tableau
2 3 (5.36%) Power BI
3 2 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
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 36 (64.29%) Finance
2 23 (41.07%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (33.93%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.50%) Front Office
4 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Legal
7 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Electronics
9 1 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Analyst
2 9 (16.07%) Business Analyst
2 9 (16.07%) Project Manager
3 6 (10.71%) Data Analyst
3 6 (10.71%) Developer
4 4 (7.14%) EPoS Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) EPoS Field Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Service Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Kafka
1 4 (7.14%) Spring
1 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (3.57%) React
3 1 (1.79%) JMS
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) JWT
3 1 (1.79%) OAuth
3 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.79%) RAML
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) SAML
3 1 (1.79%) SOAP
3 1 (1.79%) Swagger
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Derivative
1 4 (7.14%) EPoS
1 4 (7.14%) Equities
2 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (51.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.79%) Project Management
3 10 (17.86%) Change Management
3 10 (17.86%) Data Analysis
4 9 (16.07%) Project Delivery
5 8 (14.29%) DevOps
6 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Risk Management
8 5 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (8.93%) Business Analysis
8 5 (8.93%) Microservices
8 5 (8.93%) Regulatory Change
9 4 (7.14%) Agile
9 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (7.14%) Break/Fix
9 4 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
9 4 (7.14%) Data Governance
9 4 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.14%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) Java
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) DataWeave
3 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.79%) R
3 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) PMO
2 5 (8.93%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) MiFID
3 2 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.79%) Basel III
4 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
3 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.79%) SAP
3 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow