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

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 175 176 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 35.28% 23.66% 17.56%
As % of the General category 56.45% 46.44% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 129 98
10th Percentile £148 £200 £263
25th Percentile £190 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 11
10th Percentile £17.21 £11.11 -
25th Percentile £22.03 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £15.30 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.16% +17.65% -21.21%
75th Percentile £26.51 £26.17 £21.10
90th Percentile £52.50 £55.38 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £15.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +42.26% -12.52% +7.38%

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 310 379 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.50% 50.94% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 256 329
10th Percentile £163 £207 £263
25th Percentile £375 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £650
90th Percentile £699 £703 £734
West Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -9.13% -4.31% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 29
10th Percentile - £11.89 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.97 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.65 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.09% +20.24% +20.59%
75th Percentile £26.51 £48.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £28.78 £56.25 £71.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £19.59 £20.84
% change year-on-year +12.56% -5.99% +24.40%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Magento
1 2 (1.14%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.57%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (11.43%) Azure
3 13 (7.43%) Entra ID
4 12 (6.86%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.29%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.29%) AWS
6 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.29%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.29%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.71%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.14%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.14%) GCP
8 2 (1.14%) SaaS
9 1 (0.57%) Akamai
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.57%) Firewall
1 8 (4.57%) Network Security
1 8 (4.57%) VLAN
2 7 (4.00%) BGP
2 7 (4.00%) OSPF
3 6 (3.43%) IPsec
3 6 (3.43%) SSL
3 6 (3.43%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.43%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) DHCP
4 2 (1.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.57%) DMZ
5 1 (0.57%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.57%) Frame Relay
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.57%) Wireless
5 1 (0.57%) Wireless Security
5 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.57%) Power BI
2 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.14%) Power Query
3 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.57%) Big Data
4 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Sybase IQ
4 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) JIRA
1 5 (2.86%) MSI
2 3 (1.71%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) JMeter
3 2 (1.14%) Postman
3 2 (1.14%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.14%) Selenium
3 2 (1.14%) TestNG
3 2 (1.14%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.57%) Ant
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) Gradle
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.57%) Maven
4 1 (0.57%) Mockito
4 1 (0.57%) Pa11y
4 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (18.29%) Finance
3 20 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.43%) Marketing
8 5 (2.86%) Legal
9 4 (2.29%) Banking
9 4 (2.29%) Brand Awareness
9 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.14%) Retail
12 1 (0.57%) Billing
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (13.71%) Analyst
2 14 (8.00%) Developer
3 13 (7.43%) Project Manager
4 12 (6.86%) Architect
4 12 (6.86%) Lead
5 11 (6.29%) IT Analyst
6 10 (5.71%) Senior
7 8 (4.57%) IT Support
7 8 (4.57%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.43%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (3.43%) Check Point Expert
8 6 (3.43%) IT Manager
8 6 (3.43%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (3.43%) Senior Project Manager
8 6 (3.43%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.43%) Support Officer
9 5 (2.86%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) Consultant
9 5 (2.86%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.86%) Software Packaging
2 4 (2.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.71%) Node.js
3 3 (1.71%) RESTful
4 2 (1.14%) Ajax
4 2 (1.14%) CSS
4 2 (1.14%) CSS3
4 2 (1.14%) HTML
4 2 (1.14%) HTML5
4 2 (1.14%) Kafka
4 2 (1.14%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (1.14%) LDAP
4 2 (1.14%) Middleware
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.14%) RequireJS
4 2 (1.14%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) Spring
5 1 (0.57%) J2EE
5 1 (0.57%) OLE
5 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.86%) SCADA
3 5 (2.86%) Social Media
4 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) iPhone
7 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.14%) Windows
2 8 (4.57%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.00%) Android
4 6 (3.43%) Check Point GAiA
4 6 (3.43%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (15.43%) Project Management
2 27 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (12.00%) Agile
3 21 (12.00%) Customer Service
4 20 (11.43%) ITIL
5 19 (10.86%) Collaborative Working
6 17 (9.71%) Computer Science
7 13 (7.43%) SIEM
8 11 (6.29%) Data Analysis
8 11 (6.29%) Migration
8 11 (6.29%) Performance Metrics
9 10 (5.71%) Data Protection
9 10 (5.71%) Decision-Making
9 10 (5.71%) DevOps
10 9 (5.14%) Analytics
10 9 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (5.14%) CI/CD
10 9 (5.14%) High Availability
11 8 (4.57%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.43%) Python
2 13 (7.43%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.29%) SQL
4 10 (5.71%) Bash
5 5 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.14%) C#
7 2 (1.14%) Java
7 2 (1.14%) Ruby
8 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.57%) Perl
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.57%) Degree
3 18 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.43%) CCSE
6 6 (3.43%) CISSP
7 4 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.29%) CEH
7 4 (2.29%) HNC
7 4 (2.29%) HND
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
8 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CBAP
9 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.71%) PMO
3 3 (1.71%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.14%) GRC
4 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.86%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (5.14%) Ansible
1 9 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.43%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.29%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) Kibana
4 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) VMware
3 7 (4.00%) Adobe
3 7 (4.00%) SAP
4 6 (3.43%) CheckPoint
4 6 (3.43%) Fortinet
4 6 (3.43%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.86%) Cisco
5 5 (2.86%) Foundry
5 5 (2.86%) Juniper
5 5 (2.86%) Tanium
6 4 (2.29%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.29%) Google
6 4 (2.29%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.14%) Civica
7 2 (1.14%) Cognos
7 2 (1.14%) Varonis
8 1 (0.57%) F5
8 1 (0.57%) Qualys