Social Skills Contracts in Cambridge

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 33 36 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.83% 17.91% 23.53%
As % of the General category 41.25% 29.27% 43.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 35
10th Percentile £340 £163 £150
25th Percentile £476 £216 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £531
90th Percentile £700 £738 £625
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £30.15 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £35.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £47.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.38% +171.91% -
75th Percentile £17.00 £60.67 £17.61
90th Percentile - £67.02 £17.68
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +14.83% +3.45% +7.41%

All General Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 80 123 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 65.04% 61.19% 53.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 66 80
10th Percentile £296 £216 £171
25th Percentile £403 £350 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.56% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £538 £554
90th Percentile £688 £588 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £478 £418 £450
% change year-on-year +14.37% -7.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 10
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £16.77
25th Percentile £17.10 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.90 £52.50 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year -25.90% +49.53% -38.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £66.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.27 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +6.41% +11.93% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Cambridge

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Cambridge

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Cambridge

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Cambridge

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) AWS
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (12.12%) Datadog
2 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (6.06%) GitHub
3 1 (3.03%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) OCI
3 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 3 (9.09%) SAN
3 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) VSAN
4 1 (3.03%) SNMP
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.06%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Hudson
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (3.03%) Marketing
3 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 5 (15.15%) Administrator
2 5 (15.15%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.12%) Programme Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Coordinator
5 2 (6.06%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) FPGA
3 1 (3.03%) Life Science
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Verilog
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) CentOS
2 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) ITSM
2 10 (30.30%) Change Management
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
5 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Project Management
6 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.12%) AIOps
7 4 (12.12%) Data Science
7 4 (12.12%) ITIL
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
7 4 (12.12%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) Service Management
7 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C-shell
5 1 (3.03%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (3.03%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) APMG
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) VCAP
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) COSO
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 31000
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.06%) vSphere
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
3 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Grafana
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Puppet
3 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.06%) PowerCLI
4 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Salt
4 2 (6.06%) VxRail
5 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Splunk
4 3 (9.09%) Dell
5 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) IFS
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.03%) Sun
6 1 (3.03%) Xilinx