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 in Buckinghamshire. 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 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 80 85 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 33.90% 17.86% 20.37%
As % of the General category 52.98% 34.27% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 58 152
10th Percentile £236 £174 £219
25th Percentile £422 £308 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.49% +13.24%
75th Percentile £590 £550 £587
90th Percentile £631 £625 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.25 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £12.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% +25.00% -10.19%
75th Percentile - £37.63 £10.50
90th Percentile £20.50 £52.55 -
South East median hourly rate £18.50 £18.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.82% -61.37% +171.43%

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 248 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 63.98% 52.10% 63.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 166 439
10th Percentile £275 £201 £246
25th Percentile £402 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +1.06% +2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £750 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 2
10th Percentile - £15.23 £12.68
25th Percentile - £19.13 £17.44
Median hourly rate £14.20 £24.72 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.55% -5.85% +113.24%
75th Percentile £20.50 £28.75 £35.44
90th Percentile £62.50 £30.00 £40.43
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +6 51 £507 +12.56% 268
Bletchley - 8 £590 - 14
Iver - 5 £508 - 1
Marlow -1 1 £525 +5.00% 8
Amersham -2 1 £425 - 5
High Wycombe -3 1 - - 164
Newport Pagnell - 1 £150 - 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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.50%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.50%) AutoCAD
3 2 (2.50%) Revit
4 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.50%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle ASCP
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 5 (6.25%) Google Workspace
4 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.25%) IaaS
7 1 (1.25%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) Firewall
2 7 (8.75%) Wireless
3 6 (7.50%) Internet
3 6 (7.50%) VLAN
3 6 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.75%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) BGP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) FTP
6 1 (1.25%) HTTP
6 1 (1.25%) MPLS
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) OSPF
6 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.25%) VPN
6 1 (1.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) MySQL
2 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Tableau
3 2 (2.50%) Big Data
3 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.50%) MS Access
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) ERwin
1 7 (8.75%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
General
1 25 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.25%) Retail
4 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Automotive
5 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.25%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Lead
2 12 (15.00%) Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Architect
3 11 (13.75%) Help Desk Support
4 7 (8.75%) Consultant
5 6 (7.50%) Data Modeller
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Help Desk Agent
6 5 (6.25%) IT Support
7 4 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Senior
7 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Management Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.75%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Team Leader
9 2 (2.50%) Configuration Management Consultant
9 2 (2.50%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) .NET
1 3 (3.75%) Django
1 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
1 3 (3.75%) Flask
1 3 (3.75%) RESTful
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) VML
2 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.25%) Blazor
3 1 (1.25%) EDI
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.25%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.25%) WCF
3 1 (1.25%) XML
3 1 (1.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.00%) EPoS
3 3 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) CMDB
4 2 (2.50%) CSOC
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.75%) Roadmaps
2 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (17.50%) Time Management
4 12 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 11 (13.75%) Agile
6 9 (11.25%) Migration
6 9 (11.25%) Workflow
7 8 (10.00%) Analytics
7 8 (10.00%) Data Architecture
7 8 (10.00%) ITIL
7 8 (10.00%) Waterfall
8 7 (8.75%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (8.75%) Architecture Roadmap
8 7 (8.75%) BPMN
8 7 (8.75%) Data Management
8 7 (8.75%) Microservices
9 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (7.50%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.75%) SQL
2 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (1.25%) ABAP
5 1 (1.25%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Dell Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) SCOM
2 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Sparx
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco
5 3 (3.75%) Citrix
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle
5 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.75%) SAP
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Autodesk
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) BMC
7 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.25%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) HP