Social Skills Contracts in Croydon

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 12 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 13.19% 7.59% 9.09%
As % of the General category 24.00% 16.67% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £413 £253 £190
25th Percentile £447 £387 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £499 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -18.57% +22.50%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £734
90th Percentile £593 £644 £775
South London median daily rate £650 £458 £450
% change year-on-year +42.08% +1.67% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.64 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £82.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -80.80% +63.63% +8.92%

All General Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50 66 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 54.95% 45.52% 61.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 84
10th Percentile £447 £284 £450
25th Percentile £481 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% -12.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £560 £675
90th Percentile £649 £598 £725
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -49.32%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Croydon

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Croydon

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Croydon

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Croydon

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Camunda
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) OCI
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) GIS
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) ERP Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Product Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Business Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Change and Release Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ERP
1 5 (41.67%) Workflow
2 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Product Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Data Deduplication
4 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Istio
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) SAP