Social Skills Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 88 132 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.54% 25.14% 36.67%
As % of the General category 52.07% 44.90% 56.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 71
10th Percentile £195 £170 £161
25th Percentile £334 £300 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £605 £580 £525
90th Percentile £679 £719 £568
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 75 97
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £18.85 £16.30 £14.75
90th Percentile £20.01 £16.85 £15.00
East of England median hourly rate £28.48 £21.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +32.47% +48.28% +6.15%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 169 294 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 60.57% 56.00% 64.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 91 142
10th Percentile £227 £220 £182
25th Percentile £363 £350 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -8.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £545 £525
90th Percentile £685 £582 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 143 140
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £13.41
Median hourly rate £17.27 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £21.03 £21.46 £19.04
90th Percentile £33.26 £53.75 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -17.00% +92.43% +27.81%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Cambridgeshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Cambridge +1 33 £550 +19.57% 253
Peterborough -1 31 £200 -33.33% 39
Huntingdon +1 8 £604 +3.75% 10
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (19.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.14%) Simulink
4 1 (1.14%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.55%) AWS
1 4 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (4.55%) Datadog
1 4 (4.55%) GitHub
2 3 (3.41%) Azure
3 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.14%) OCI
4 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (6.82%) DNS
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (4.55%) LAN
3 4 (4.55%) Network Security
3 4 (4.55%) VPN
3 4 (4.55%) VSAN
3 4 (4.55%) WAN
3 4 (4.55%) WLAN
4 3 (3.41%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.41%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) SNMP
5 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 4 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) Hudson
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (15.91%) Organisational Skills
2 10 (11.36%) German Language
3 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Finance
5 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Spanish Language
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Hungarian Language
7 2 (2.27%) Lithuanian Language
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.14%) Automotive
8 1 (1.14%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Local Government
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (6.82%) IT Support
1 6 (6.82%) Lead
1 6 (6.82%) Project Manager
2 5 (5.68%) Administrator
2 5 (5.68%) Consultant
2 5 (5.68%) Support Officer
2 5 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (4.55%) Network Engineer
3 4 (4.55%) Programme Manager
3 4 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (3.41%) Analyst
4 3 (3.41%) Business Analyst
4 3 (3.41%) Java Engineer
4 3 (3.41%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (3.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (3.41%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (3.41%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.27%) RESTful
2 2 (2.27%) Web Services
3 1 (1.14%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.82%) CMDB
3 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Molecular Biology
3 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) FPGA
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.14%) Verilog
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) CentOS
3 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.41%) Incident Management
3 21 (23.86%) Service Delivery
4 19 (21.59%) ITSM
5 18 (20.45%) Customer Service
6 17 (19.32%) Mathematics
7 16 (18.18%) Change Management
8 14 (15.91%) Project Management
9 13 (14.77%) Agile
10 11 (12.50%) Service Management
11 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.23%) Time Management
12 8 (9.09%) Asset Management
12 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.95%) CI/CD
14 6 (6.82%) Configuration Management
14 6 (6.82%) Data Entry
14 6 (6.82%) Inventory Management
14 6 (6.82%) Migration
14 6 (6.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) SQL
4 3 (3.41%) Java
5 1 (1.14%) Bash
5 1 (1.14%) C-shell
5 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.14%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (1.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) VCAP
5 3 (3.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.27%) APMG
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) COSO
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.55%) vSphere
3 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Ansible
2 6 (6.82%) Terraform
3 5 (5.68%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.55%) Grafana
4 4 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 4 (4.55%) VxRail
5 3 (3.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.27%) Salt
6 2 (2.27%) SCCM
7 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) VMware
3 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.68%) Dell
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) Splunk
6 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.14%) Apple
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) HP
7 1 (1.14%) IFS
7 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.14%) Sun
7 1 (1.14%) Xilinx