Social Skills Contract Job Trends 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 in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 549 604 512
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 21.07% 29.46% 22.40%
As % of the General category 35.63% 40.08% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 391 343
10th Percentile £350 £300 £303
25th Percentile £460 £406 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £534 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -5.58% +0.44%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 4
10th Percentile - £16.15 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.86 £18.91
Median % change year-on-year -49.82% +105.54% +30.40%
75th Percentile £29.04 £50.75 £31.37
90th Percentile £67.65 £89.88 £49.30
London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.82% -11.33% +1.35%

All General Skills
Central London

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 general skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,541 1,507 1,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 59.16% 73.51% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 999 1,038
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 15
10th Percentile - £22.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.00 £22.01
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +25.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £54.50 £51.46 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.57 £87.00
London median hourly rate £28.55 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.64% -10.71% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Central London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Central London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

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 7 August 2026. 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 0 498 £565 +4.63% 498
West End of London -1 25 £544 +97.73% 12
City of Westminster -1 22 £575 +41.54% 46
Southwark +1 8 £600 +33.33% 2
Social Skills
London

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.91%) Confluence
3 8 (1.46%) CMS
4 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.09%) Apache
5 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.73%) CICS
6 4 (0.73%) IIS
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) WordPress
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 26 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.36%) Revit
6 2 (0.36%) Sketch
6 2 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 13 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.73%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.55%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.36%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.36%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.18%) iTrent
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 107 (19.49%) Azure
2 68 (12.39%) AWS
3 48 (8.74%) Power Platform
4 32 (5.83%) GitHub
4 32 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (5.10%) GCP
6 24 (4.37%) SaaS
7 19 (3.46%) Power Automate
7 19 (3.46%) PowerApps
8 18 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.37%) Serverless
12 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.10%) Firewall
2 16 (2.91%) DNS
3 15 (2.73%) VPN
4 12 (2.19%) Network Security
5 9 (1.64%) LAN
6 8 (1.46%) DHCP
6 8 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.28%) WAN
7 7 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.09%) Internet
9 4 (0.73%) Multicast
10 3 (0.55%) HTTP
10 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.55%) Wireless
11 2 (0.36%) 5G
11 2 (0.36%) DMZ
11 2 (0.36%) FTP
11 2 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.46%) Power BI
2 21 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.73%) Metadata
4 10 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.28%) Db2
6 7 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.91%) Power Query
8 4 (0.73%) SAP BW
8 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
9 3 (0.55%) Big Data
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (8.20%) JIRA
2 17 (3.10%) Git
3 15 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.64%) GitLab
5 4 (0.73%) Gatling
5 4 (0.73%) Gradle
5 4 (0.73%) JMeter
5 4 (0.73%) Maven
6 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.55%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.55%) NeoLoad
6 3 (0.55%) Selenium
6 3 (0.55%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 195 (35.52%) Finance
2 112 (20.40%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (13.66%) Banking
4 62 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (4.55%) Marketing
7 23 (4.19%) Retail
8 22 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.10%) Front Office
11 15 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.73%) Legal
12 14 (2.55%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.37%) Investment Banking
14 11 (2.00%) Law
15 9 (1.64%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.64%) General Ledger
16 8 (1.46%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (17.49%) Analyst
2 64 (11.66%) Architect
3 58 (10.56%) Developer
4 57 (10.38%) Senior
5 52 (9.47%) Business Analyst
6 37 (6.74%) Project Manager
7 36 (6.56%) Lead
8 24 (4.37%) Consultant
9 20 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.10%) Data Analyst
11 16 (2.91%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.73%) IT Support
12 15 (2.73%) Product Manager
13 14 (2.55%) Data Engineer
13 14 (2.55%) Programme Manager
14 13 (2.37%) Data Architect
14 13 (2.37%) IT Analyst
15 12 (2.19%) Senior Manager
15 12 (2.19%) Support Engineer
16 11 (2.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.74%) REST
2 17 (3.10%) SOAP
3 16 (2.91%) .NET
4 13 (2.37%) HTML
4 13 (2.37%) JSON
4 13 (2.37%) PySpark
4 13 (2.37%) Web Services
5 12 (2.19%) Middleware
5 12 (2.19%) React
5 12 (2.19%) XML
6 11 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.00%) RESTful
6 11 (2.00%) Spring
6 11 (2.00%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.82%) CSS
8 9 (1.64%) Kafka
9 6 (1.09%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.91%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.91%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.01%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.82%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.64%) Derivative
11 8 (1.46%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.09%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.09%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.92%) Windows
2 17 (3.10%) Linux
3 10 (1.82%) Unix
4 9 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.09%) Android
7 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.73%) zOS
8 3 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (39.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 139 (25.32%) Agile
3 127 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 82 (14.94%) CI/CD
6 81 (14.75%) AI
7 75 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (12.93%) Migration
9 66 (12.02%) Analytics
10 57 (10.38%) DevOps
11 56 (10.20%) Decision-Making
11 56 (10.20%) Project Management
12 53 (9.65%) Data Modelling
13 48 (8.74%) Roadmaps
14 47 (8.56%) Project Delivery
15 43 (7.83%) Data Governance
16 42 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (7.10%) Translating Business Requirements
18 37 (6.74%) ITIL
18 37 (6.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 89 (16.21%) SQL
2 75 (13.66%) Python
3 28 (5.10%) Java
4 24 (4.37%) C#
5 19 (3.46%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.09%) C++
9 6 (1.09%) Korn
10 5 (0.91%) Bicep
10 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.91%) Ruby
11 4 (0.73%) JCL
11 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.36%) Bash
13 2 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 99 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.92%) Degree
4 26 (4.74%) PMI Certification
5 25 (4.55%) PMP
6 18 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.55%) CISSP
8 12 (2.19%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.82%) CISM
10 8 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.09%) CISA
11 6 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.91%) CCNA
12 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.73%) CRISC
13 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.55%) CSPO
14 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.10%) Data Quality
1 39 (7.10%) QA
2 19 (3.46%) PMO
3 16 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.91%) NIST
4 15 (2.73%) GDPR
5 14 (2.55%) SLA
6 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.09%) GRC
7 6 (1.09%) NCSC
8 5 (0.91%) COBIT
9 4 (0.73%) ITGC
10 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.55%) PERC
11 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.36%) IFRS
11 2 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.73%) Docker
3 7 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.36%) IAG
6 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.36%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) Firmware
7 1 (0.18%) GridGain
7 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.46%) Terraform
3 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.64%) Grafana
5 8 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.09%) SCCM
7 4 (0.73%) Ansible
7 4 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Nessus
9 2 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.18%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 28 (5.10%) Oracle
3 28 (5.10%) SAP
4 19 (3.46%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.10%) Databricks
5 17 (3.10%) Google
6 13 (2.37%) Cisco
6 13 (2.37%) Remedy
7 9 (1.64%) VMware
8 8 (1.46%) IBM
8 8 (1.46%) Splunk
9 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.09%) Apple
10 6 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.09%) Workday
10 6 (1.09%) Zscaler
11 5 (0.91%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.91%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.91%) Foundry