Social Skills Contracts in the City of London

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

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 519 639 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 23.72% 17.70% 18.13%
As % of the General category 35.74% 28.36% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 457 572
10th Percentile £255 £258 £285
25th Percentile £422 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £679 £725 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £17.96 - £18.50
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.25 £19.63
Median hourly rate £20.82 £21.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -17.65% +59.38%
75th Percentile £25.98 - £47.25
90th Percentile £38.88 £40.65 £63.75
Central London median hourly rate £21.91 £21.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% -17.65% +45.71%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,452 2,253 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.36% 62.39% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 1,589 1,770
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £681
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £560 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 27
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £32.05 £58.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -35.63% +148.57%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the City of London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the City of London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the City of London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the City of London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the City of London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Moorgate - 2 £413 -
London Bridge +1 1 £700 +75.00%
Social Skills
Central London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 34 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.16%) Confluence
4 5 (0.96%) Apache
4 5 (0.96%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.58%) CMS
6 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.39%) IIS
7 2 (0.39%) Luigi
7 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.93%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.16%) Endur
4 4 (0.77%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.58%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.58%) Primavera
5 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.42%) Azure
2 47 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (9.06%) Power Platform
3 36 (6.94%) AWS
4 30 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.66%) Entra ID
5 19 (3.66%) WhatsApp
6 15 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.70%) GCP
7 14 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 14 (2.70%) PowerApps
8 12 (2.31%) SaaS
9 11 (2.12%) IaaS
9 11 (2.12%) PaaS
10 9 (1.73%) GitHub
10 9 (1.73%) Serverless
11 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.54%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.70%) Firewall
2 7 (1.35%) WAN
3 6 (1.16%) DNS
4 5 (0.96%) Intranet
4 5 (0.96%) VPN
5 4 (0.77%) LAN
5 4 (0.77%) Network Security
5 4 (0.77%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.77%) VoIP
6 3 (0.58%) H.323
6 3 (0.58%) RTP
6 3 (0.58%) SSL
7 2 (0.39%) PBX
7 2 (0.39%) PSTN
7 2 (0.39%) WebEx
7 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.19%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) Multicast
8 1 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.55%) Power BI
2 28 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.54%) MySQL
7 8 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.96%) DB2
10 5 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.77%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.77%) Metadata
11 4 (0.77%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
12 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (4.82%) JIRA
2 18 (3.47%) Git
3 13 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.93%) GitLab
5 9 (1.73%) Selenium
6 5 (0.96%) JUnit
7 4 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.77%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.58%) Appium
8 3 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.58%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.58%) Postman
8 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.58%) TestNG
8 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.39%) eggPlant
9 2 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.39%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.39%) SOAtest
General
1 168 (32.37%) Finance
2 90 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (10.79%) Banking
4 39 (7.51%) Presentation Skills
5 31 (5.97%) Legal
6 27 (5.20%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.24%) Retail
8 21 (4.05%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.70%) Marketing
11 13 (2.50%) Front Office
11 13 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.31%) General Ledger
13 9 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.54%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.35%) Law
15 7 (1.35%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
17 5 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (16.38%) Analyst
2 50 (9.63%) Consultant
3 48 (9.25%) Business Analyst
4 47 (9.06%) Architect
4 47 (9.06%) Developer
5 37 (7.13%) Project Manager
6 36 (6.94%) Senior
7 26 (5.01%) Lead
8 25 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 17 (3.28%) Desktop Engineer
9 17 (3.28%) Microsoft Consultant
10 16 (3.08%) Desktop Support
11 14 (2.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 13 (2.50%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.31%) Administrator
13 12 (2.31%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.31%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.12%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.12%) IT Support
15 10 (1.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.66%) .NET
2 14 (2.70%) Kafka
3 13 (2.50%) RESTful
4 11 (2.12%) Web Services
5 10 (1.93%) HTML
6 8 (1.54%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.54%) CSS
6 8 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.35%) React
7 7 (1.35%) Spring
8 6 (1.16%) SAML
9 5 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.96%) jQuery
9 5 (0.96%) OAuth
9 5 (0.96%) OpenID
9 5 (0.96%) REST
10 4 (0.77%) JSON
10 4 (0.77%) Node.js
10 4 (0.77%) SOAP
10 4 (0.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.43%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 15 (2.89%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.12%) Blackberry
5 11 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.54%) Market Risk
6 8 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.77%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.77%) Replication
10 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.86%) Windows
2 31 (5.97%) Linux
3 19 (3.66%) Windows 10
4 11 (2.12%) Android
5 8 (1.54%) Mac OS X
6 7 (1.35%) Windows 7
6 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.16%) Unix
7 6 (1.16%) Windows 8
8 4 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.77%) VMS
9 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.39%) Solaris
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.19%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (26.40%) Agile
3 72 (13.87%) DevOps
4 59 (11.37%) Project Management
4 59 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (9.25%) Migration
6 45 (8.67%) CI/CD
7 41 (7.90%) Computer Science
8 39 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (7.13%) Change Management
10 36 (6.94%) Data Analysis
11 35 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (6.55%) Analytics
13 33 (6.36%) ITIL
14 29 (5.59%) Risk Management
15 28 (5.39%) Microservices
16 27 (5.20%) Data Modelling
16 27 (5.20%) Scrum
16 27 (5.20%) User Acceptance Testing
17 26 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.26%) SQL
2 61 (11.75%) Python
3 31 (5.97%) C#
4 30 (5.78%) Java
5 28 (5.39%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.12%) C++
6 11 (2.12%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.12%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.54%) Go
9 7 (1.35%) Scala
9 7 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.16%) R
11 5 (0.96%) Bash
11 5 (0.96%) Perl
12 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.77%) PHP
13 3 (0.58%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (16.57%) Degree
2 29 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.43%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.93%) CISSP
6 10 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.35%) CISM
9 6 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.16%) PMP
10 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.77%) CCNA
11 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.58%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.58%) CCSK
12 3 (0.58%) CISA
12 3 (0.58%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.55%) QA
2 22 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.66%) PMO
4 11 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (2.12%) SLA
5 10 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.93%) NIST
6 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.35%) GDPR
7 5 (0.96%) ISO 22301
8 4 (0.77%) GRC
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.66%) Docker
3 8 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 6 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.39%) KVM
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Ceph
8 1 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.19%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.47%) Terraform
3 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.73%) Ansible
4 9 (1.73%) Consul
5 8 (1.54%) Grafana
5 8 (1.54%) PingFederate
6 7 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.35%) SCCM
7 4 (0.77%) Puppet
8 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.39%) Nessus
9 2 (0.39%) Packer
9 2 (0.39%) QRadar
10 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.19%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 130 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.94%) Oracle
3 23 (4.43%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.05%) SAP
5 15 (2.89%) Adobe
6 14 (2.70%) Google
7 12 (2.31%) Apple
7 12 (2.31%) Citrix
7 12 (2.31%) IBM
8 10 (1.93%) iManage
9 9 (1.73%) Databricks
9 9 (1.73%) VMware
10 8 (1.54%) SaltStack
11 6 (1.16%) Cadence
11 6 (1.16%) Cisco
11 6 (1.16%) Workday
12 5 (0.96%) Ivanti
12 5 (0.96%) Okta
12 5 (0.96%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.96%) Sun