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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 309 254 185
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 22.25% 29.99% 24.34%
As % of the General category 45.04% 48.11% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 179 97
10th Percentile £198 £200 £184
25th Percentile £270 £332 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £402 £390
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% +3.08% -9.30%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £519
90th Percentile £675 £575 £615
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 16 13
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.12 £14.72
25th Percentile £13.22 £15.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £14.50 £16.34 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% -3.91% -73.85%
75th Percentile £24.29 £21.39 £18.48
90th Percentile £25.75 - £24.99
England median hourly rate £20.00 £20.71 £23.24
% change year-on-year -3.43% -10.88% +16.19%

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 686 528 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.39% 62.34% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 374 270
10th Percentile £213 £214 £255
25th Percentile £352 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -7.87% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £536
90th Percentile £675 £620 £619
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 36 23
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £14.72
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.17 £16.05
Median hourly rate £16.46 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% +16.76% -33.38%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £42.45
90th Percentile £37.02 £25.83 £55.00
England median hourly rate £28.40 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.24% -28.36% +16.67%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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
Derbyshire +2 77 £563 +50.00% 46
Northamptonshire 0 69 £415 +3.49% 55
Leicestershire 0 68 £525 +45.83% 66
Lincolnshire +3 47 £331 -28.18% 29
Nottinghamshire -3 46 £434 -9.64% 110
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 10 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.62%) Confluence
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WinCC
Applications
1 60 (19.42%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.62%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 5 (1.62%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.29%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.97%) iTrent
4 3 (0.97%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.65%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.59%) Azure
2 34 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (9.06%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.44%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.21%) Google Workspace
6 11 (3.56%) AWS
7 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 5 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.29%) Algolia
10 4 (1.29%) OCI
11 3 (0.97%) GitHub
11 3 (0.97%) Intacct
11 3 (0.97%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Serverless
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.18%) VPN
2 5 (1.62%) DHCP
2 5 (1.62%) DNS
2 5 (1.62%) Firewall
2 5 (1.62%) LAN
2 5 (1.62%) WAN
3 4 (1.29%) Network Security
3 4 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.97%) SAN
5 2 (0.65%) VLAN
5 2 (0.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) IPsec
6 1 (0.32%) Modbus
6 1 (0.32%) MQTT
6 1 (0.32%) OSPF
6 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.32%) SMS
6 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.41%) Power BI
2 10 (3.24%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.27%) Metadata
4 5 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.97%) Big Data
5 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.97%) Power Query
5 3 (0.97%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.65%) DTS
6 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Flink
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.32%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (2.59%) JIRA
2 6 (1.94%) GitLab
3 5 (1.62%) Git
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.97%) Hudson
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Gradle
7 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 56 (18.12%) Finance
2 53 (17.15%) Organisational Skills
3 46 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.68%) Retail
5 29 (9.39%) Manufacturing
6 23 (7.44%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.85%) Police
9 11 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.59%) Banking
10 8 (2.59%) Billing
10 8 (2.59%) Marketing
11 7 (2.27%) Law
11 7 (2.27%) Legal
12 6 (1.94%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.62%) Local Government
14 3 (0.97%) Automotive
14 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (12.94%) Administrator
2 32 (10.36%) Analyst
3 16 (5.18%) Architect
4 15 (4.85%) Consultant
5 14 (4.53%) Business Analyst
5 14 (4.53%) Senior
6 12 (3.88%) Lead
6 12 (3.88%) Trainer
7 11 (3.56%) Deployment Engineer
7 11 (3.56%) Developer
7 11 (3.56%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.24%) Coordinator
8 10 (3.24%) Windows Engineer
9 9 (2.91%) Accountant
9 9 (2.91%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.59%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.59%) IT Manager
11 7 (2.27%) IT Support
11 7 (2.27%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.27%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.27%) Node.js
3 6 (1.94%) React
4 4 (1.29%) RESTful
5 3 (0.97%) REST
5 3 (0.97%) Terraform
5 3 (0.97%) XML
6 2 (0.65%) .NET
6 2 (0.65%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.65%) Kafka
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.65%) Spring
6 2 (0.65%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.32%) Django
7 1 (0.32%) HTML5
7 1 (0.32%) JPA
7 1 (0.32%) NumPy
7 1 (0.32%) OAuth
7 1 (0.32%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.09%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.53%) CMDB
4 11 (3.56%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.27%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.62%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.29%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.29%) NHS
8 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.97%) EPoS
9 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.97%) Replication
10 2 (0.65%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.21%) Windows
2 25 (8.09%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.29%) Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Android
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (17.48%) Migration
4 47 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (13.92%) Customer Service
5 43 (13.92%) Validation
6 39 (12.62%) ERP
7 37 (11.97%) Decision-Making
8 35 (11.33%) Logistics
9 31 (10.03%) Agile
9 31 (10.03%) Process Improvement
10 28 (9.06%) Data Migration
11 26 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.09%) Project Management
13 23 (7.44%) AI
13 23 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (7.44%) Data Protection
13 23 (7.44%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (6.80%) Analytics
14 21 (6.80%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.06%) SQL
2 9 (2.91%) JavaScript
2 9 (2.91%) Python
3 5 (1.62%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.97%) ABAP
4 3 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.97%) Java
5 2 (0.65%) C#
6 1 (0.32%) R
6 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.74%) Degree
4 17 (5.50%) DBS Check
5 10 (3.24%) ACCA
5 10 (3.24%) CIMA
6 5 (1.62%) CISSP
6 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.29%) PMP
8 3 (0.97%) CISM
8 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.65%) CRISC
9 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (0.65%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.56%) GDPR
2 11 (3.56%) QA
3 7 (2.27%) PMO
4 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.15%) SCCM
3 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.32%) SCOM
4 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (35.60%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.33%) SAP
3 21 (6.80%) Oracle
4 15 (4.85%) Workday
5 11 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.91%) Google
7 5 (1.62%) Databricks
7 5 (1.62%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.29%) Adobe
8 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.29%) VMware
9 3 (0.97%) Apple
9 3 (0.97%) Concur
9 3 (0.97%) Sage
9 3 (0.97%) Samsung
10 2 (0.65%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.65%) Siemens
10 2 (0.65%) Teradata