Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Brentford

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Hounslow > Brentford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Brentford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Brentford 60.00% - 50.00%
As % of the General category 100.00% - 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £363 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.68%
75th Percentile £388 - £568
90th Percentile - - £606
Hounslow median daily rate £475 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -23.71%

All General Skills
Brentford

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 general skills in Brentford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentford 60.00% - 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £363 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.77%
75th Percentile £388 - £575
90th Percentile - - £638
Hounslow median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentford.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Brentford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Brentford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Brentford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft