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 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 549 573 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 27.44% 23.51% 17.99%
As % of the General category 38.88% 35.72% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 398 490
10th Percentile £305 £255 £231
25th Percentile £425 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £540 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -0.92% -5.22% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £31.85 £18.74 £16.28
25th Percentile £36.35 £20.15 £19.31
Median hourly rate £46.29 £21.91 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.29% +4.32% -30.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £33.19 £29.19
90th Percentile £75.38 £54.68 £43.93
London median hourly rate £34.00 £33.87 £35.25
% change year-on-year +0.40% -3.93% +0.71%

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 common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,412 1,604 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 70.56% 65.82% 62.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,146 1,697
10th Percentile £325 £331 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 15
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.11 £21.36 £18.42
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% -31.43% -23.08%
75th Percentile £49.22 £30.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.63 £47.65 £58.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -13.51%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 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
City of London 0 482 £550 - 334
West End of London +4 22 £450 -10.00% 59
City of Westminster +3 12 £488 -35.00% 10
Camden +9 9 £450 -10.00% 17
Southwark 0 5 £425 -24.78% 4
Lambeth +1 1 £240 +17.07% 2
Kensington and Chelsea -2 1 - - 1
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 36 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.10%) Confluence
3 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.46%) Apache
4 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.09%) CMS
6 4 (0.73%) Drupal
7 3 (0.55%) CICS
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (4.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.55%) Trello
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.36%) Sketch
8 1 (0.18%) EViews
Business Applications
1 12 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Endur
3 3 (0.55%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.36%) Actimize
4 2 (0.36%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.18%) BASE24
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.18%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 96 (17.49%) Azure
2 62 (11.29%) AWS
3 42 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (4.01%) GCP
6 16 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (2.91%) SaaS
7 14 (2.55%) GitHub
8 13 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 12 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.82%) OneDrive
10 10 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.09%) Asana
13 6 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.09%) IaaS
14 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.55%) Firewall
2 12 (2.19%) Network Security
3 11 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.82%) DNS
5 9 (1.64%) DHCP
6 8 (1.46%) LAN
7 6 (1.09%) VPN
8 5 (0.91%) WAN
9 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.73%) VLAN
9 4 (0.73%) Wireless
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.55%) HTTP
10 3 (0.55%) S/MIME
10 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.55%) SSL
10 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.56%) Power BI
2 27 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.28%) Tableau
5 14 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.28%) Big Data
6 7 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (0.91%) Metadata
8 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.73%) DB2
9 4 (0.73%) Looker
9 4 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (8.01%) JIRA
2 16 (2.91%) Git
3 15 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.00%) JUnit
5 9 (1.64%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.46%) Maven
7 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.91%) Postman
9 5 (0.91%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.73%) GitLab
10 4 (0.73%) Gradle
10 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.55%) Subversion
11 3 (0.55%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.36%) JMeter
12 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
General
1 214 (38.98%) Finance
2 133 (24.23%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (14.57%) Banking
4 44 (8.01%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.46%) Retail
7 25 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 23 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.64%) Front Office
10 20 (3.64%) Legal
11 19 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.19%) Marketing
15 10 (1.82%) Back Office
16 8 (1.46%) International Banking
17 7 (1.28%) Law
17 7 (1.28%) Retail Banking
18 6 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 110 (20.04%) Analyst
2 78 (14.21%) Developer
3 63 (11.48%) Business Analyst
4 56 (10.20%) Senior
5 41 (7.47%) Architect
5 41 (7.47%) Project Manager
6 33 (6.01%) Consultant
7 31 (5.65%) Lead
8 19 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (3.28%) Java Developer
10 16 (2.91%) Data Analyst
11 12 (2.19%) IT Support
12 11 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.00%) Senior Developer
13 10 (1.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.82%) Senior Manager
13 10 (1.82%) Support Analyst
14 9 (1.64%) Data Engineer
14 9 (1.64%) Power BI Developer
14 9 (1.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.83%) .NET
2 16 (2.91%) HTML
3 15 (2.73%) React
4 14 (2.55%) Spring
5 13 (2.37%) CSS
6 12 (2.19%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.00%) Kafka
7 11 (2.00%) Web Services
8 10 (1.82%) RESTful
9 7 (1.28%) JPA
9 7 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.91%) ADO
10 5 (0.91%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.91%) HTML5
10 5 (0.91%) JSON
10 5 (0.91%) REST
11 4 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.73%) JMS
11 4 (0.73%) Pandas
11 4 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (3.28%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.10%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.37%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.64%) Market Risk
8 9 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.46%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.28%) Equities
10 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.91%) PMI
12 5 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.02%) Windows
2 29 (5.28%) Linux
3 23 (4.19%) Unix
4 14 (2.55%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.82%) Android
8 6 (1.09%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.55%) zOS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (37.34%) Problem-Solving
2 150 (27.32%) Agile
3 112 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (16.39%) Project Management
5 66 (12.02%) DevOps
6 56 (10.20%) Risk Management
7 47 (8.56%) CI/CD
8 46 (8.38%) Migration
9 43 (7.83%) Analytics
9 43 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (7.83%) Decision-Making
10 38 (6.92%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (6.74%) Roadmaps
12 36 (6.56%) Change Management
13 35 (6.38%) Scrum
14 34 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (6.19%) Data Management
14 34 (6.19%) Process Improvement
14 34 (6.19%) Project Delivery
15 33 (6.01%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (16.39%) SQL
2 69 (12.57%) Python
3 45 (8.20%) Java
4 27 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.74%) C#
6 25 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.28%) Bash
8 7 (1.28%) C++
9 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.91%) C
10 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.91%) R
10 5 (0.91%) Scala
11 4 (0.73%) Bicep
11 4 (0.73%) JCL
11 4 (0.73%) Perl
11 4 (0.73%) REXX
11 4 (0.73%) VBA
12 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.11%) Degree
2 50 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 33 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.19%) PMI Certification
5 21 (3.83%) PMP
6 14 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.09%) CISSP
9 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.91%) CISM
10 5 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.73%) CBAP
11 4 (0.73%) CCNP
11 4 (0.73%) CFA
11 4 (0.73%) CISA
11 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.83%) QA
3 17 (3.10%) GDPR
4 13 (2.37%) PMO
5 12 (2.19%) MiFID
6 10 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.46%) NIST
8 7 (1.28%) EMIR
9 6 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.73%) COBIT
10 4 (0.73%) GRC
11 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.55%) Basel II
11 3 (0.55%) COSO
11 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.36%) SEPA
12 2 (0.36%) SLA
12 2 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (6.01%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.46%) Docker
3 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Firmware
4 3 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.36%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.18%) XenApp
6 1 (0.18%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 33 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.19%) Terraform
3 12 (2.19%) SCCM
4 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.09%) Ansible
7 5 (0.91%) Grafana
8 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco LMS
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.36%) Control-M
9 2 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 2 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.36%) QRadar
9 2 (0.36%) WSUS
10 1 (0.18%) Netcool
10 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 111 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.92%) Oracle
3 26 (4.74%) SAP
3 26 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 14 (2.55%) Cisco
4 14 (2.55%) Google
4 14 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.37%) Splunk
6 6 (1.09%) Apple
6 6 (1.09%) Citrix
6 6 (1.09%) IBM
6 6 (1.09%) OpenLink
7 5 (0.91%) Adobe
7 5 (0.91%) Databricks
7 5 (0.91%) VMware
7 5 (0.91%) Workday
8 4 (0.73%) HP
8 4 (0.73%) Informatica
8 4 (0.73%) Sybase
8 4 (0.73%) TOWER Software