Social Skills Contract Job Trends in East London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
London > East London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in East London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 26 18 49
As % of all contract jobs in East London 27.37% 17.48% 19.29%
As % of the General category 36.62% 32.14% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 44
10th Percentile £197 £413 £243
25th Percentile £416 £422 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £509 £647 £650
90th Percentile £641 £650 £676
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.14 - -
25th Percentile £32.61 - -
Median hourly rate £40.08 - -
75th Percentile £47.54 - -
90th Percentile £52.02 - -
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -24.86% -8.98% +26.07%

All General Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 71 56 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 74.74% 54.37% 62.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 48 140
10th Percentile £190 - £377
25th Percentile £280 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £498 £598
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -16.74% +25.79%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £700
90th Percentile £980 £675 £775
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £23.33 - £14.18
25th Percentile £23.86 - £14.85
Median hourly rate £24.03 - £26.41
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.43%
75th Percentile £32.61 - £38.28
90th Percentile £70.64 - -
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.86% +16.67% +10.09%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in East London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in East London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in East London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in East London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in East London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in East London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Tower Hamlets 0 14 £495 -20.80%
Havering - 3 £174 -
Greenwich +3 1 £500 +11.11% 1
Docklands, London 0 1 - -
Social Skills
London

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
3 2 (7.69%) Figma
3 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) DMZ
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) BGP
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Multicast
3 1 (3.85%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) JUnit
1 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.85%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Maven
2 1 (3.85%) Postman
2 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Front Office
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Procurement Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) EDI
1 2 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
1 2 (7.69%) Middleware
1 2 (7.69%) SOAP
1 2 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) CSS3
2 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) HTML5
2 1 (3.85%) JSP
2 1 (3.85%) OSGi
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.85%) EPoS
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) AIX
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Migration
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Project Management
5 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Project Governance
6 2 (7.69%) API Integration
6 2 (7.69%) API Management
6 2 (7.69%) Change Control
6 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
6 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) SDET
6 2 (7.69%) User Experience
6 2 (7.69%) User Research
6 2 (7.69%) UX Design
6 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Korn
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) SEPA
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) SCCM
1 2 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Ariba
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) ION Trading
4 2 (7.69%) Reuters
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) F5
5 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.85%) Informatica
5 1 (3.85%) Kronos
5 1 (3.85%) Marketo
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow