Social Skills Contracts in Birmingham

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 172 185 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 23.93% 18.25%
As % of the General category 50.89% 45.23% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 135 105
10th Percentile £148 £200 £263
25th Percentile £258 £358 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £745 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £511
% change year-on-year - -7.00% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 12
10th Percentile - £11.11 £11.15
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.20 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £14.30 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.25% +9.96% -22.39%
75th Percentile £22.08 £26.98 £20.93
90th Percentile £59.33 £55.38 £89.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £14.87 £15.65
% change year-on-year +26.90% -4.97% -5.17%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.33%) Confluence
4 3 (1.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Magento
1 2 (1.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (12.79%) Azure
3 15 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.81%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.23%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.65%) AWS
7 7 (4.07%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.91%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.33%) GCP
9 4 (2.33%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.33%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.74%) GitHub
10 3 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.16%) Akamai
11 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.16%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.07%) Network Security
2 6 (3.49%) Firewall
2 6 (3.49%) VLAN
3 5 (2.91%) BGP
3 5 (2.91%) OSPF
4 4 (2.33%) IPsec
4 4 (2.33%) SSL
4 4 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) ATM
5 1 (0.58%) DHCP
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.58%) Internet
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) SDH
5 1 (0.58%) SMTP
5 1 (0.58%) VoIP
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
5 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.23%) Power BI
2 5 (2.91%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.16%) Power Query
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.58%) Big Data
5 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.58%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.23%) JIRA
2 5 (2.91%) MSI
3 2 (1.16%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) GitLab
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) JMeter
3 2 (1.16%) Postman
3 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.16%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) TestNG
3 2 (1.16%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.58%) Ant
4 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.58%) Gradle
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.58%) Maven
4 1 (0.58%) Mockito
4 1 (0.58%) Pa11y
4 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Finance
3 18 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.81%) Legal
6 7 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.49%) Banking
7 6 (3.49%) Marketing
8 5 (2.91%) Retail
9 4 (2.33%) Brand Awareness
9 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.16%) Back Office
11 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.58%) Advertising
12 1 (0.58%) Games
12 1 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (12.79%) Analyst
2 18 (10.47%) Architect
3 12 (6.98%) Developer
3 12 (6.98%) Lead
4 9 (5.23%) IT Analyst
4 9 (5.23%) Project Manager
4 9 (5.23%) Senior
4 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
5 7 (4.07%) Consultant
5 7 (4.07%) IT Support
6 6 (3.49%) Service Analyst
6 6 (3.49%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (2.91%) Business Analyst
7 5 (2.91%) IT Manager
7 5 (2.91%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (2.91%) Senior Manager
7 5 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.91%) Support Analyst
7 5 (2.91%) Test Manager
8 4 (2.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) Middleware
2 5 (2.91%) HTML
2 5 (2.91%) Software Packaging
3 4 (2.33%) .NET
3 4 (2.33%) REST
4 3 (1.74%) RESTful
5 2 (1.16%) Ajax
5 2 (1.16%) CSS
5 2 (1.16%) CSS3
5 2 (1.16%) HTML5
5 2 (1.16%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (1.16%) LDAP
5 2 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.16%) RequireJS
6 1 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.58%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.58%) J2EE
6 1 (0.58%) Kafka
6 1 (0.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.91%) SCADA
3 5 (2.91%) Social Media
4 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.16%) CMDB
5 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.58%) PMI
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.95%) Windows
2 11 (6.40%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.49%) Linux
4 5 (2.91%) Android
5 4 (2.33%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.16%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (14.53%) Agile
2 25 (14.53%) Project Management
3 22 (12.79%) Customer Service
3 22 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
5 17 (9.88%) ITIL
6 15 (8.72%) Computer Science
7 14 (8.14%) CI/CD
7 14 (8.14%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.56%) Data Protection
8 13 (7.56%) DevOps
8 13 (7.56%) ERP
9 12 (6.98%) Analytics
9 12 (6.98%) Migration
10 11 (6.40%) Performance Metrics
10 11 (6.40%) SIEM
11 10 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (5.23%) Change Management
12 9 (5.23%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.21%) Python
2 18 (10.47%) SQL
3 16 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.81%) Bash
5 7 (4.07%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.16%) C#
6 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.16%) Ruby
6 2 (1.16%) VB
6 2 (1.16%) VBA
7 1 (0.58%) Java
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
7 1 (0.58%) R
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.05%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.49%) CISSP
5 6 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.91%) CEH
7 4 (2.33%) CCSE
7 4 (2.33%) HNC
7 4 (2.33%) HND
7 4 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.16%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.16%) CISM
8 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.16%) GIAC
8 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.16%) MCP
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.07%) QA
2 5 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.91%) PMO
3 4 (2.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) GRC
4 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.23%) Ansible
2 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.33%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.16%) Kibana
4 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.65%) SAP
3 7 (4.07%) Adobe
4 6 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.49%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.91%) Foundry
5 5 (2.91%) Google
5 5 (2.91%) Tanium
5 5 (2.91%) VMware
6 4 (2.33%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco
7 2 (1.16%) Civica
7 2 (1.16%) F5
7 2 (1.16%) Genesys
7 2 (1.16%) Imperva
7 2 (1.16%) Juniper
7 2 (1.16%) Talend
7 2 (1.16%) Varonis