Social Skills Contracts in Cardiff

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 2 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 40 36 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 25.00% 16.98% 19.29%
As % of the General category 53.33% 49.32% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 35
10th Percentile £189 - £160
25th Percentile £247 £143 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £303 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.17% -28.82% -0.23%
75th Percentile £466 £520 £538
90th Percentile £544 £575 £625
South Wales median daily rate £374 £412 £390
% change year-on-year -9.28% +5.64% -12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Median hourly rate £12.21 £12.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -3.85% -42.22%
South Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £17.59 £10.92
% change year-on-year +15.04% +61.08% -47.37%

All General Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 75 73 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 46.88% 34.43% 47.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 50 116
10th Percentile £167 £143 £161
25th Percentile £246 £211 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £480 £528 £577
90th Percentile £588 £589 £619
South Wales median daily rate £365 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -18.89% -2.70% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £11.32 £13.50
25th Percentile - £11.75 £14.26
Median hourly rate £12.21 £13.50 £15.53
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% -13.07% -24.70%
75th Percentile £32.98 £53.75 £16.82
90th Percentile £45.44 £60.50 £17.58
South Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £23.93 £10.92
% change year-on-year -12.24% +119.14% -49.50%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Cardiff

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Cardiff

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Cardiff

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Cardiff

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) JBoss
1 1 (2.50%) nginx
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP SD
1 1 (2.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) GCP
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) OCI
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) IPsec
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) DHCP
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) ATM
3 1 (2.50%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) Selenium
1 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Marketing
3 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (7.50%) Welsh Language
4 2 (5.00%) Digital Health
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Analyst
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Senior
2 4 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) IT Support
3 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (7.50%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Designer
4 2 (5.00%) Help Desk Adviser
4 2 (5.00%) Migration Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (5.00%) RESTful
1 2 (5.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) Express.js
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) JWT
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) NestJS
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) NumPy
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) Pandas
2 1 (2.50%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) NHS
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) Photography
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 8 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 8 (20.00%) ITIL
4 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (10.00%) TOGAF
7 3 (7.50%) Coaching
7 3 (7.50%) Data Science
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Master's Degree
3 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.00%) CITP
4 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Dell
3 2 (5.00%) Ivanti
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Datix
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat