Social Skills Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 231 180 186
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 20.79% 27.48% 21.60%
As % of the General category 41.55% 43.58% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 113 134
10th Percentile £261 £168 £167
25th Percentile £393 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £270
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +39.15% -38.75%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £514
90th Percentile £613 £541 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £504
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 16
10th Percentile £13.90 £15.12 £12.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.16 £21.39 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% +47.57% -6.48%
75th Percentile £45.22 - £17.22
90th Percentile £74.00 £23.60 £21.13
England median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £18.35
% change year-on-year -4.35% +25.34% -18.55%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 556 413 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 50.05% 63.05% 52.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 275 291
10th Percentile £260 £220 £167
25th Percentile £393 £320 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £409 £410
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -0.24% -13.68%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £650 £550 £630
England median daily rate £519 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -1.23% -1.66% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 57
10th Percentile £13.01 £15.12 £12.22
25th Percentile £14.65 £17.69 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +25.82% -32.65%
75th Percentile £25.50 £26.36 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £37.60 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.23 £27.85 £31.50
% change year-on-year +15.71% -11.59% +2.78%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Northamptonshire -1 69 £500 +30.72% 42
Nottinghamshire -1 61 £423 -13.33% 86
Derbyshire 0 40 £419 -9.46% 42
Leicestershire 0 40 £525 +110.00% 61
Lincolnshire +1 20 £505 +68.33% 43
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.46%) Confluence
3 4 (1.73%) CMS
4 3 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.16%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 20 (8.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.87%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) Azure
2 23 (9.96%) Power Platform
3 22 (9.52%) Google Workspace
4 18 (7.79%) AWS
4 18 (7.79%) Google Sheets
5 17 (7.36%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.46%) GitHub
9 7 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.60%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 5 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.16%) GCP
12 4 (1.73%) Algolia
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.30%) SaaS
14 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) DHCP
1 6 (2.60%) DNS
1 6 (2.60%) VLAN
2 5 (2.16%) IPv4
2 5 (2.16%) IPv6
2 5 (2.16%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.87%) HTTP
4 2 (0.87%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.09%) Power BI
2 19 (8.23%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.60%) Aerospike
5 6 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.16%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.16%) Redis
7 4 (1.73%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.30%) Big Data
8 3 (1.30%) Power Query
8 3 (1.30%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.87%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.43%) Flink
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.19%) JIRA
2 8 (3.46%) GitLab
3 7 (3.03%) Git
3 7 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.60%) JUnit
5 4 (1.73%) Hudson
6 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) Gatling
6 2 (0.87%) Gradle
6 2 (0.87%) JMeter
6 2 (0.87%) Maven
6 2 (0.87%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.87%) TestNG
7 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 78 (33.77%) Finance
2 36 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.19%) Retail
6 10 (4.33%) Banking
6 10 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.46%) Law
8 8 (3.46%) Local Government
9 6 (2.60%) Marketing
10 5 (2.16%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (1.30%) Police
12 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
13 2 (0.87%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (16.88%) Analyst
2 25 (10.82%) Architect
3 21 (9.09%) Lead
4 17 (7.36%) Programme Manager
5 16 (6.93%) Consultant
5 16 (6.93%) Developer
5 16 (6.93%) Senior
6 12 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.90%) Administrator
9 8 (3.46%) SAP Architect
9 8 (3.46%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.03%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.03%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.03%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.60%) .NET Developer
11 6 (2.60%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.60%) Operations Manager
11 6 (2.60%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (2.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.63%) Node.js
2 8 (3.46%) Middleware
2 8 (3.46%) RESTful
3 7 (3.03%) Kafka
4 6 (2.60%) .NET
4 6 (2.60%) XML
5 5 (2.16%) pytest
5 5 (2.16%) React
5 5 (2.16%) REST
6 4 (1.73%) Jest
6 4 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.30%) CSS
7 3 (1.30%) HTML
7 3 (1.30%) J2EE
7 3 (1.30%) OSGi
7 3 (1.30%) PySpark
8 2 (0.87%) ADO
8 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.36%) Public Cloud
2 14 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.73%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.87%) CMDB
11 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.99%) Windows
2 14 (6.06%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.60%) Linux
3 6 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 74 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.78%) Migration
4 46 (19.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 39 (16.88%) Agile
6 34 (14.72%) Change Management
6 34 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (12.99%) CI/CD
8 28 (12.12%) Analytics
9 27 (11.69%) Project Management
10 26 (11.26%) Data Analysis
10 26 (11.26%) Validation
11 25 (10.82%) Decision-Making
12 24 (10.39%) User Experience
13 23 (9.96%) Data Modelling
13 23 (9.96%) Programme Management
14 22 (9.52%) Data Protection
14 22 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
15 21 (9.09%) DevOps
15 21 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.91%) SQL
2 18 (7.79%) Python
3 12 (5.19%) Java
4 10 (4.33%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.46%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.60%) C#
7 3 (1.30%) VBA
8 2 (0.87%) ABAP
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (15.15%) Degree
2 27 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.16%) ACCA
5 5 (2.16%) CIMA
6 4 (1.73%) CISSP
6 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.73%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.73%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.30%) PMP
8 2 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.87%) CISA
8 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.87%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.06%) GDPR
2 9 (3.90%) QA
3 8 (3.46%) PMO
4 6 (2.60%) SLA
5 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.60%) Docker
4 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.16%) SCCM
3 5 (2.16%) WSUS
4 4 (1.73%) Ansible
4 4 (1.73%) Terraform
5 2 (0.87%) Istio
5 2 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.72%) SAP
3 24 (10.39%) Google
4 13 (5.63%) Oracle
4 13 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.19%) Databricks
6 11 (4.76%) VMware
7 8 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.03%) Citrix
9 5 (2.16%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.73%) Adobe
11 3 (1.30%) Workday
12 2 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.87%) Concur
12 2 (0.87%) NetApp
12 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.87%) Sparx
13 1 (0.43%) Apple
13 1 (0.43%) JD Edwards
13 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud