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 advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 181 163 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.94% 18.44% 18.64%
As % of the General category 45.36% 31.41% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 103 185
10th Percentile £200 £263 £180
25th Percentile £359 £378 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £458
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +4.92% +14.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £556
90th Percentile £749 £638 £658
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 11
10th Percentile £11.11 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.20 £12.50 £13.38
Median hourly rate £14.30 £13.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £25.22 £20.93 £18.00
90th Percentile £55.38 £89.90 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.87 £16.94 £16.25
% change year-on-year -12.19% +4.22% -9.72%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 399 519 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 52.78% 58.71% 56.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 352 541
10th Percentile £258 £263 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +11.08% +9.08%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £575
90th Percentile £690 £712 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.37% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 17
10th Percentile £11.78 £11.00 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.73 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £17.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.73% +2.31% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £29.12 £17.75
90th Percentile £56.25 £74.75 £18.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £18.25 £17.00
% change year-on-year +4.11% +7.35% +4.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Moodle
Applications
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Odoo
2 5 (2.76%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.55%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.55%) Maximo
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.26%) Azure
2 22 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.84%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.08%) AWS
5 9 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.31%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.31%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.66%) Boomi
10 3 (1.66%) OCI
10 3 (1.66%) SaaS
11 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.55%) GCP
12 1 (0.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.18%) WAN
2 10 (5.52%) LAN
3 8 (4.42%) Firewall
3 8 (4.42%) Network Security
4 7 (3.87%) Internet
4 7 (3.87%) VPN
5 6 (3.31%) DNS
5 6 (3.31%) Unified Communications
6 5 (2.76%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.21%) DHCP
7 4 (2.21%) MPLS
7 4 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.66%) ADSL
8 3 (1.66%) PSTN
8 3 (1.66%) VLAN
8 3 (1.66%) VoIP
8 3 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.66%) Wireless
9 2 (1.10%) 5G
9 2 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) Power BI
2 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.66%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.10%) Power Query
4 2 (1.10%) Tableau
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.55%) MySQL
5 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.55%) Presto
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Git
2 2 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 41 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (22.10%) Finance
3 17 (9.39%) Public Sector
3 17 (9.39%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.31%) German Language
7 4 (2.21%) Retail
8 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.10%) Back Office
9 2 (1.10%) Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Billing
9 2 (1.10%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 23 (12.71%) Developer
2 22 (12.15%) Analyst
2 22 (12.15%) Architect
3 17 (9.39%) Project Manager
4 15 (8.29%) Lead
5 13 (7.18%) Senior
6 10 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (5.52%) Support Engineer
7 9 (4.97%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 9 (4.97%) Consultant
7 9 (4.97%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (3.87%) Business Manager
9 6 (3.31%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.31%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.31%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) React
2 8 (4.42%) HTML
3 6 (3.31%) Spring
4 5 (2.76%) CSS
5 4 (2.21%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.21%) XML
6 3 (1.66%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.10%) .NET
7 2 (1.10%) LDAP
7 2 (1.10%) Middleware
7 2 (1.10%) Next.js
7 2 (1.10%) OAuth
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.10%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.10%) RESTful
7 2 (1.10%) SAML
8 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.55%) JSON
8 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.31%) Digital Signage
3 6 (3.31%) IoT
3 6 (3.31%) PKI
4 5 (2.76%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.76%) Taxonomies
5 4 (2.21%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.66%) CCTV
6 3 (1.66%) Clustering
6 3 (1.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.66%) EPoS
6 3 (1.66%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.47%) Windows
2 14 (7.73%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.63%) Windows 10
4 11 (6.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (3.87%) Linux
7 5 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.66%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.10%) Unix
9 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.55%) Android
10 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (23.76%) Agile
3 28 (15.47%) Project Management
4 26 (14.36%) Customer Service
4 26 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (11.60%) Roadmaps
6 20 (11.05%) ITIL
7 19 (10.50%) Computer Science
7 19 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (10.50%) ERP
8 17 (9.39%) Decision-Making
9 16 (8.84%) Analytics
10 15 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (8.29%) Business Transformation
11 14 (7.73%) Service Delivery
12 13 (7.18%) Scrum
13 12 (6.63%) Migration
14 11 (6.08%) Data Modelling
14 11 (6.08%) Translating Business Requirements
15 10 (5.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.73%) Python
2 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
3 10 (5.52%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.52%) SQL
4 8 (4.42%) Java
5 3 (1.66%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.66%) SOQL
5 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.10%) Perl
7 1 (0.55%) C#
7 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.55%) ProC
7 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (12.71%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.42%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.31%) BC Cleared
5 5 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.21%) CCIE
6 4 (2.21%) CCNP
6 4 (2.21%) PMP
7 3 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.10%) ACCA
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.10%) CIMA
8 2 (1.10%) GSEC
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) QA
2 8 (4.42%) SLA
3 5 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.76%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (9.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.10%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.76%) SCCM
4 3 (1.66%) Autotask
4 3 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.55%) OpenView
5 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.08%) Oracle
3 8 (4.42%) SAP
4 7 (3.87%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.87%) VMware
5 5 (2.76%) Cisco
6 4 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.66%) Apple
7 3 (1.66%) BT
7 3 (1.66%) Datto
7 3 (1.66%) Openreach
8 2 (1.10%) Citrix
8 2 (1.10%) Databricks
8 2 (1.10%) HP
8 2 (1.10%) Informatica
8 2 (1.10%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk
8 2 (1.10%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.10%) Trend Micro