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 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 270 185 130
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 30.54% 31.57% 17.93%
As % of the General category 50.00% 49.33% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 103 98
10th Percentile £213 £181 £159
25th Percentile £360 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £395 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £497
90th Percentile £610 £594 £613
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 9
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.29 £15.73
25th Percentile £16.17 - £16.67
Median hourly rate £16.71 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -38.18% +77.42%
75th Percentile £23.71 £23.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.62 £25.15 £88.75
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £20.50
% change year-on-year -16.91% +17.95% -2.38%

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 540 375 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.09% 63.99% 48.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 234 251
10th Percentile £192 £234 £160
25th Percentile £353 £314 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.39% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £567
90th Percentile £613 £624 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.01 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -18.58% +40.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.40 £42.74 £54.20
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +28.35%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 0 91 £425 +2.66% 160
Leicestershire 0 59 £425 +41.67% 172
Nottinghamshire 0 50 £450 +7.14% 175
Derbyshire -1 39 £375 -16.67% 299
Lincolnshire -3 24 £503 +67.50% 145
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 11 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.22%) Confluence
4 4 (1.48%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.37%) Documentum
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Mule
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.37%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.37%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (2.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 7 (2.59%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.74%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.37%) assyst
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (18.15%) Azure
2 35 (12.96%) AWS
3 19 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 15 (5.56%) GCP
6 14 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.07%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.07%) GitHub
7 11 (4.07%) Serverless
8 10 (3.70%) Google Workspace
9 9 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.96%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.59%) Google Sheets
11 7 (2.59%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.85%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) VPN
2 3 (1.11%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.11%) SSH
2 3 (1.11%) Telnet
2 3 (1.11%) Wireless
3 2 (0.74%) DHCP
3 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 2 (0.74%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.37%) Softphone
4 1 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.81%) Power BI
2 11 (4.07%) Big Data
3 9 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.59%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.59%) Metadata
6 6 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.48%) Aerospike
8 4 (1.48%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.11%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (1.11%) HBase
9 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.11%) Power Query
9 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.19%) JIRA
2 8 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.22%) Git
4 4 (1.48%) GitLab
4 4 (1.48%) Selenium
5 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.74%) JUnit
5 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 73 (27.04%) Finance
2 32 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.15%) Retail
5 18 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (6.30%) Banking
7 15 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.81%) Legal
9 12 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.44%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.07%) Fire and Rescue
10 11 (4.07%) Local Government
11 10 (3.70%) Marketing
12 8 (2.96%) Automotive
13 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 6 (2.22%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.74%) Publishing
15 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (14.07%) Analyst
2 27 (10.00%) Lead
3 21 (7.78%) Project Manager
4 17 (6.30%) Developer
5 16 (5.93%) Architect
5 16 (5.93%) Business Analyst
5 16 (5.93%) Senior
6 10 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 10 (3.70%) Project Officer
6 10 (3.70%) Trainer
7 9 (3.33%) Consultant
8 8 (2.96%) Programme Manager
8 8 (2.96%) Support Engineer
9 7 (2.59%) IT Support
9 7 (2.59%) Product Owner
10 6 (2.22%) Deployment Engineer
10 6 (2.22%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.22%) Support Technician
11 5 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.81%) Kafka
1 13 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.70%) EDI
3 8 (2.96%) ADO
4 6 (2.22%) .NET
4 6 (2.22%) Django
4 6 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 6 (2.22%) REST
4 6 (2.22%) RESTful
5 5 (1.85%) Node.js
6 4 (1.48%) pytest
6 4 (1.48%) VML
7 3 (1.11%) FHIR
7 3 (1.11%) Pandas
7 3 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.11%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.74%) Flash
8 2 (0.74%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.96%) e-Learning
6 6 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.22%) Robotics
7 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.11%) NHS
8 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.11%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.81%) Windows
2 11 (4.07%) Windows 10
3 10 (3.70%) Linux
4 8 (2.96%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.85%) OpenVMS
5 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.11%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.11%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Android
9 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.85%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (20.74%) Agile
4 41 (15.19%) Migration
5 33 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (11.48%) Project Delivery
7 28 (10.37%) CI/CD
8 27 (10.00%) Analytics
8 27 (10.00%) Project Management
9 26 (9.63%) Change Management
9 26 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (8.89%) DevOps
11 22 (8.15%) Customer Service
12 21 (7.78%) ERP
12 21 (7.78%) Project Governance
13 19 (7.04%) Business Analysis
13 19 (7.04%) Decision-Making
13 19 (7.04%) PRINCE2
13 19 (7.04%) Roadmaps
14 18 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.67%) SQL
2 28 (10.37%) Python
3 14 (5.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.96%) C#
4 8 (2.96%) Java
4 8 (2.96%) R
5 7 (2.59%) Bash
6 4 (1.48%) PHP
6 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.11%) Scala
8 2 (0.74%) C
8 2 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) VBA
9 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (10.37%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.26%) Degree
3 17 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.22%) PMP
7 4 (1.48%) CSPO
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) CISM
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.74%) CISA
9 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.56%) GDPR
2 14 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.44%) QA
4 7 (2.59%) SLA
5 6 (2.22%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.85%) PMO
7 3 (1.11%) NIST
7 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.74%) COBIT
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
8 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) HL7
9 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.85%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.85%) Docker
4 3 (1.11%) Firmware
4 3 (1.11%) HDFS
4 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (7.41%) SCCM
2 13 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.96%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.22%) Terraform
5 3 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (1.11%) Oozie
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 55 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.26%) Oracle
3 15 (5.56%) Google
4 12 (4.44%) Databricks
4 12 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.44%) VMware
5 11 (4.07%) Citrix
6 8 (2.96%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.22%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.48%) Cisco
10 3 (1.11%) Dell
10 3 (1.11%) Draytek
10 3 (1.11%) iManage
10 3 (1.11%) Informatica
10 3 (1.11%) McAfee
10 3 (1.11%) Siemens
10 3 (1.11%) Talend
11 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.74%) Workday