Social Skills Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 88 182 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 17.92% 20.52% 26.04%
As % of the General category 33.08% 32.62% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 157 159
10th Percentile £175 £233 £149
25th Percentile £341 £400 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £538
90th Percentile £625 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.05% +5.32% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 23
10th Percentile - - £10.43
25th Percentile £12.25 £9.50 -
Median hourly rate £12.50 £10.00 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.15% -17.03%
75th Percentile £37.63 £10.50 £12.88
90th Percentile £52.55 - £18.21
South East median hourly rate £18.35 £31.27 £18.00
% change year-on-year -41.32% +73.72% -6.35%

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 266 558 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 54.18% 62.91% 61.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 448 379
10th Percentile £203 £248 £175
25th Percentile £350 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £463 £455
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +1.65% -4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £572 £540
90th Percentile £750 £661 £625
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 32
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.68 £10.53
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.44 £10.77
Median hourly rate £24.72 £26.25 £12.31
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +113.24% -48.71%
75th Percentile £28.75 £35.44 £16.69
90th Percentile £30.00 £40.43 £23.75
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Buckinghamshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes 0 70 £450 -2.17% 119
High Wycombe 0 6 £170 -71.71% 21
Aylesbury -2 2 £170 - 15
Marlow +2 1 £500 +135.29% 3
Amersham -2 1 - - 2
Buckingham - 1 £418 - 2
Chesham - 1 - -
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (3.41%) Appian
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.14%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) iTrent
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.27%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) PaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (1.14%) Figma
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) VPN
2 3 (3.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.41%) BusinessObjects XI
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) Maven
3 1 (1.14%) MLflow
3 1 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 18 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Retail
5 7 (7.95%) Automotive
6 6 (6.82%) Marketing
6 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.68%) Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Advertising
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Analyst
2 15 (17.05%) Business Analyst
3 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
4 6 (6.82%) Developer
4 6 (6.82%) Senior
5 5 (5.68%) Architect
5 5 (5.68%) Coordinator
6 4 (4.55%) Consultant
6 4 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.55%) Technical Coordinator
6 4 (4.55%) Technical Support
6 4 (4.55%) Test Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Digital Business Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Service Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Service Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) .NET
1 2 (2.27%) HTML
1 2 (2.27%) NumPy
1 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
1 2 (2.27%) Pandas
1 2 (2.27%) Swagger
2 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.14%) ADO
2 1 (1.14%) Ajax
2 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (1.14%) CSS
2 1 (1.14%) CSS3
2 1 (1.14%) HTML5
2 1 (1.14%) jQuery
2 1 (1.14%) PySpark
2 1 (1.14%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.14%) Web Services
2 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (4.55%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.27%) Robotics
3 2 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.14%) NHS
4 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.27%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.05%) Project Management
3 14 (15.91%) Data Analysis
4 13 (14.77%) Agile
5 12 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 11 (12.50%) Migration
7 10 (11.36%) PRINCE2
8 9 (10.23%) Change Management
8 9 (10.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 7 (7.95%) Decision-Making
10 7 (7.95%) Impact Assessments
11 6 (6.82%) Data Migration
11 6 (6.82%) Project Delivery
11 6 (6.82%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (6.82%) Waterfall
12 5 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (5.68%) Process Improvement
12 5 (5.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.91%) SQL
2 3 (3.41%) C#
2 3 (3.41%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.14%) Java
4 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) ISEB
5 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.14%) APMP
6 1 (1.14%) CISA
6 1 (1.14%) CISM
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.27%) BitLocker
1 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) SCCM
2 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle
3 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) HP
4 2 (2.27%) McAfee
4 2 (2.27%) MobileIron
4 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Adobe
5 1 (1.14%) Apple
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco
5 1 (1.14%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.14%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.14%) NEC
5 1 (1.14%) TippingPoint
5 1 (1.14%) Trend Micro