Social Skills Contract Job Trends in County Armagh

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Northern Ireland > County Armagh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in County Armagh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Armagh 75.00% - -
As % of the General category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £387 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £400 £363
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% -6.45%

All General Skills
County Armagh

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 County Armagh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Armagh 75.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £387 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £425 £381
% change year-on-year +11.76% +11.48% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.00 £15.50 £16.12
% change year-on-year +54.84% -3.85% +4.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in County Armagh

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in County Armagh

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in County Armagh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Armagh citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Armagh citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in County Armagh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Armagh citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Armagh citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in County Armagh

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 County Armagh region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Craigavon - 2 £418 - 4
Social Skills
Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Armagh 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNA
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 1 (33.33%) ERP Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Infor
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP