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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 11 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 13.41% 8.73% 9.62%
As % of the General category 26.83% 20.37% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £368 £278 £413
25th Percentile £448 £393 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £448 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -31.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £755
90th Percentile £608 £630 £775
South London median daily rate £638 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +41.67% -4.76% -10.00%
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% +9.21%

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 41 54 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 50.00% 42.86% 60.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 71
10th Percentile £431 £370 £450
25th Percentile £467 £413 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.23% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £571 £675
90th Percentile £689 £589 £725
South London median daily rate £555 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +16.84% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +12.04%

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 30 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Camunda
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (18.18%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) GIS
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Product Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Business Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
1 2 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Product Management
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
2 1 (9.09%) GIAC
2 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Istio
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Wyse