Social Skills Contracts in the City of Westminster

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 10 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 24.39% 21.57% 20.45%
As % of the General category 47.62% 42.31% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £318 £350 £266
25th Percentile £388 £418 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +16.13% -24.76%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £455
90th Percentile £600 £624 £553
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All General Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21 26 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 51.22% 50.98% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 19
10th Percentile £385 £355 £223
25th Percentile £413 £440 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +19.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £622
90th Percentile £725 £822 £850
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.40 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.14% -12.86% -26.32%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the City of Westminster

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the City of Westminster

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the City of Westminster

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the City of Westminster.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the City of Westminster

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 29 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
Paddington 0 6 £575 +27.78%
Westminster +3 3 £425 - 6
Mayfair 0 1 £375 -6.25%
Social Skills
Central London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HSRP
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) IPv6
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless Security
1 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Snyk
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Product Management
4 2 (20.00%) Content Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CAPM
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Netcool
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Juniper
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) New Relic
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds