Social Skills Contracts in Central London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 562 681 807
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 23.13% 18.06% 18.02%
As % of the General category 35.19% 29.09% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 482 610
10th Percentile £250 £231 £250
25th Percentile £419 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £722 £648
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
London median daily rate £542 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -5.83% +0.74% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile £18.74 - £18.50
25th Percentile £20.15 £14.25 £19.63
Median hourly rate £21.91 £21.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -17.65% +45.71%
75th Percentile £33.19 - £47.25
90th Percentile £54.68 £40.65 £63.75
London median hourly rate £33.87 £33.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.06% -3.30% +24.91%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,597 2,341 2,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.72% 62.10% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,658 1,868
10th Percentile £323 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £675
90th Percentile £818 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 27
10th Percentile £20.04 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.36 £16.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%
75th Percentile £30.25 £43.88 £60.25
90th Percentile £47.65 £56.75 £68.15
London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.92 £37.50
% change year-on-year -12.28% -14.88% +33.83%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
City of London +3 509 £550 -4.35% 252
West End of London -1 10 £500 +29.03% 11
City of Westminster -1 8 £750 +100.00% 8
Lambeth 0 3 £205 -68.46%
Southwark +5 2 £565 +41.25% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £400 - 5
Camden - 1 £500 - 11
Social Skills
London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 39 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.25%) Confluence
4 6 (1.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.71%) Apache
6 4 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.53%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 32 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.78%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.07%) Endur
4 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.53%) Primavera
5 3 (0.53%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.18%) Magento
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.18%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 108 (19.22%) Azure
2 52 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (9.07%) Power Platform
4 39 (6.94%) AWS
5 30 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 19 (3.38%) WhatsApp
8 15 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.67%) PowerApps
9 13 (2.31%) GCP
9 13 (2.31%) Power Automate
10 12 (2.14%) SaaS
11 11 (1.96%) IaaS
11 11 (1.96%) PaaS
12 10 (1.78%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.42%) GitHub
13 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.42%) Serverless
14 6 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.49%) Firewall
2 7 (1.25%) VPN
2 7 (1.25%) WAN
3 6 (1.07%) DNS
3 6 (1.07%) Network Security
4 5 (0.89%) Intranet
4 5 (0.89%) VoIP
5 4 (0.71%) LAN
5 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.53%) H.323
6 3 (0.53%) RTP
6 3 (0.53%) SSL
7 2 (0.36%) Internet
7 2 (0.36%) PBX
7 2 (0.36%) PSTN
7 2 (0.36%) WebEx
7 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.36%) Wireless
8 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.58%) Power BI
2 33 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.02%) Data Lake
4 15 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.60%) MySQL
6 9 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.07%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.07%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.89%) DB2
10 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.71%) Metadata
10 4 (0.71%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.71%) Siebel EIM
10 4 (0.71%) Sybase ASE
11 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (4.80%) JIRA
2 17 (3.02%) Git
3 12 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.78%) GitLab
5 9 (1.60%) Selenium
6 5 (0.89%) JUnit
7 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.71%) Postman
7 4 (0.71%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.53%) Appium
8 3 (0.53%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.53%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.53%) TestNG
8 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.36%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.36%) eggPlant
9 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 184 (32.74%) Finance
2 99 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.50%) Banking
4 44 (7.83%) Presentation Skills
5 31 (5.52%) Legal
6 29 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.91%) Retail
8 21 (3.74%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.02%) Marketing
10 15 (2.67%) Front Office
10 15 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.14%) General Ledger
11 12 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.96%) Law
13 7 (1.25%) Back Office
13 7 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.25%) Local Government
13 7 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (15.66%) Analyst
2 56 (9.96%) Consultant
3 53 (9.43%) Developer
4 50 (8.90%) Architect
5 46 (8.19%) Business Analyst
6 41 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 38 (6.76%) Senior
8 28 (4.98%) Lead
9 27 (4.80%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.20%) Desktop Engineer
11 17 (3.02%) Microsoft Consultant
12 16 (2.85%) Desktop Support
13 14 (2.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 13 (2.31%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.31%) IT Support
15 12 (2.14%) Administrator
15 12 (2.14%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.14%) IT Analyst
15 12 (2.14%) Product Owner
16 11 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.56%) .NET
2 15 (2.67%) Kafka
3 13 (2.31%) RESTful
4 11 (1.96%) HTML
4 11 (1.96%) Web Services
5 9 (1.60%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.60%) CSS
5 9 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.42%) React
7 7 (1.25%) REST
7 7 (1.25%) Spring
8 6 (1.07%) SAML
9 5 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.89%) jQuery
9 5 (0.89%) OAuth
9 5 (0.89%) OpenID
9 5 (0.89%) XML
10 4 (0.71%) Node.js
10 4 (0.71%) SOAP
10 4 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.74%) Data Structures
3 16 (2.85%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 15 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.96%) Blackberry
7 9 (1.60%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.42%) Market Risk
8 8 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.07%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.89%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.43%) Windows
2 33 (5.87%) Linux
3 21 (3.74%) Windows 10
4 12 (2.14%) Android
5 9 (1.60%) Mac OS X
5 9 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.25%) Unix
6 7 (1.25%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.89%) Windows 8
8 4 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.36%) Solaris
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
2 148 (26.33%) Agile
3 75 (13.35%) DevOps
4 71 (12.63%) Project Management
5 60 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (8.90%) Migration
7 48 (8.54%) CI/CD
8 43 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (7.30%) Change Management
9 41 (7.30%) Computer Science
10 37 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (6.58%) Data Analysis
11 35 (6.23%) ITIL
12 34 (6.05%) Analytics
13 31 (5.52%) Risk Management
14 30 (5.34%) Decision-Making
14 30 (5.34%) Roadmaps
14 30 (5.34%) Scrum
15 29 (5.16%) Microservices
15 29 (5.16%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (13.52%) SQL
2 63 (11.21%) Python
3 32 (5.69%) C#
4 30 (5.34%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.16%) Java
6 15 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.49%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.96%) C++
8 11 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.42%) Go
9 8 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.25%) Scala
11 6 (1.07%) R
12 5 (0.89%) Bash
12 5 (0.89%) Perl
13 4 (0.71%) Bicep
13 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.71%) PHP
13 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 90 (16.01%) Degree
2 40 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.78%) CISSP
6 10 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.42%) PMP
9 7 (1.25%) CISM
9 7 (1.25%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.89%) CCNA
10 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.71%) ACCA
11 4 (0.71%) CCNP
11 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.53%) CCSK
12 3 (0.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.87%) QA
2 25 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.74%) PMO
4 11 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (1.96%) SLA
5 10 (1.78%) NIST
6 7 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.25%) GDPR
7 5 (0.89%) ISO 22301
8 4 (0.71%) GRC
8 4 (0.71%) NCSC
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (7.47%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.20%) Docker
3 9 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 6 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.36%) KVM
7 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.36%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) Ceph
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.20%) Terraform
3 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.78%) Ansible
4 10 (1.78%) Consul
5 9 (1.60%) Grafana
6 8 (1.42%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.42%) SCCM
7 4 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.36%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.36%) Nessus
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.18%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.30%) Oracle
3 27 (4.80%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.27%) SAP
5 16 (2.85%) Adobe
6 14 (2.49%) Google
7 13 (2.31%) Apple
7 13 (2.31%) Citrix
8 12 (2.14%) IBM
9 11 (1.96%) iManage
10 10 (1.78%) VMware
11 9 (1.60%) Cisco
11 9 (1.60%) SaltStack
12 8 (1.42%) Databricks
13 6 (1.07%) Cadence
13 6 (1.07%) Ivanti
13 6 (1.07%) Workday
14 5 (0.89%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.89%) Sun
14 5 (0.89%) Veritas