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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 224 208 146
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 18.86% 27.01% 19.39%
As % of the General category 39.79% 44.73% 36.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 141 95
10th Percentile £170 £168 £185
25th Percentile £292 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -6.25% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £451 £528
90th Percentile £630 £525 £638
England median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 18
10th Percentile £13.73 £15.13 £12.74
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.86 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% +19.27% -65.81%
75th Percentile £29.25 £21.39 £19.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £22.84 £24.22
England median hourly rate £22.81 £22.05 £27.24
% change year-on-year +3.45% -19.04% +36.18%

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 563 465 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.39% 60.39% 52.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 315 264
10th Percentile £215 £213 £200
25th Percentile £387 £322 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -8.72%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £626
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 37 37
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £18.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.50 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +33.73% -56.91%
75th Percentile £30.00 £25.15 £42.66
90th Percentile £56.25 £37.80 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +1 49 £469 +47.99% 67
Northamptonshire 0 48 £479 +27.67% 84
Nottinghamshire -3 47 £434 +4.52% 101
Leicestershire 0 45 £525 +110.00% 103
Lincolnshire +5 33 £375 +87.50% 57
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 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.68%) Confluence
4 4 (1.79%) CMS
5 3 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) Apache
7 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (10.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.45%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.79%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.34%) iTrent
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.34%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.89%) Lorenzo
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.89%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.89%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.89%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.45%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.88%) Azure
2 30 (13.39%) Power Platform
3 23 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.70%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.02%) AWS
7 6 (2.68%) Azure AKS
7 6 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (2.68%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 5 (2.23%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.23%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.79%) Algolia
9 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.79%) GitHub
9 4 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.34%) OCI
10 3 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.68%) DHCP
1 6 (2.68%) DNS
1 6 (2.68%) Network Security
2 5 (2.23%) IPv4
2 5 (2.23%) IPv6
2 5 (2.23%) LAN
2 5 (2.23%) VLAN
2 5 (2.23%) WAN
3 4 (1.79%) VPN
4 3 (1.34%) Firewall
4 3 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.45%) HTTP
5 1 (0.45%) SAN
5 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) VSAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.50%) Power BI
2 19 (8.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.79%) Metadata
7 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.34%) Big Data
7 3 (1.34%) Power Query
7 3 (1.34%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.89%) Aerospike
8 2 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Flink
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
9 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.46%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) Git
3 4 (1.79%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) Hudson
3 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.89%) JUnit
5 2 (0.89%) MSI
5 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Gatling
6 1 (0.45%) Gradle
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 43 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (17.86%) Finance
3 29 (12.95%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (8.04%) Retail
5 16 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 15 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.57%) Law
9 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.68%) Banking
11 5 (2.23%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.23%) Police
12 4 (1.79%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Automotive
14 2 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.45%) Local Government
15 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (16.52%) Analyst
2 16 (7.14%) Administrator
3 15 (6.70%) Architect
4 14 (6.25%) Developer
4 14 (6.25%) Lead
5 13 (5.80%) Consultant
5 13 (5.80%) Senior
6 11 (4.91%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.46%) Trainer
8 9 (4.02%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.02%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.68%) Accountant
10 6 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.68%) IT Support
10 6 (2.68%) Project Manager
10 6 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.02%) Node.js
2 8 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.13%) XML
4 6 (2.68%) .NET
5 5 (2.23%) React
5 5 (2.23%) RESTful
6 4 (1.79%) Middleware
6 4 (1.79%) REST
7 3 (1.34%) CSS
7 3 (1.34%) HTML
7 3 (1.34%) Kafka
7 3 (1.34%) PySpark
7 3 (1.34%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.89%) ADO
8 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.89%) pytest
9 1 (0.45%) JSON
9 1 (0.45%) SOAP
9 1 (0.45%) WCF
9 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.13%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.68%) CMDB
7 5 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.34%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.34%) NHS
9 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.30%) Windows
2 18 (8.04%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.68%) Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (18.30%) Migration
5 36 (16.07%) Validation
6 33 (14.73%) Agile
7 31 (13.84%) Decision-Making
8 29 (12.95%) ERP
8 29 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (10.27%) Data Migration
11 22 (9.82%) CI/CD
12 21 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
13 20 (8.93%) AI
13 20 (8.93%) Customer Service
13 20 (8.93%) Data Modelling
13 20 (8.93%) Data Protection
13 20 (8.93%) Process Improvement
13 20 (8.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.29%) SQL
2 17 (7.59%) Python
3 9 (4.02%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.68%) C#
6 4 (1.79%) ABAP
6 4 (1.79%) Java
7 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.59%) Degree
4 7 (3.13%) ACCA
4 7 (3.13%) CIMA
5 6 (2.68%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.23%) CISSP
6 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.34%) CISM
7 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.89%) CISA
8 2 (0.89%) CRISC
8 2 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
9 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.36%) GDPR
3 8 (3.57%) QA
4 6 (2.68%) PMO
5 4 (1.79%) SLA
6 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.89%) NIST
7 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (9.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.34%) Docker
3 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.02%) SCCM
3 7 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.23%) WSUS
5 4 (1.79%) Ansible
5 4 (1.79%) Terraform
6 2 (0.89%) Istio
6 2 (0.89%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) SCOM
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (33.04%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.84%) SAP
3 21 (9.38%) Oracle
4 14 (6.25%) Workday
5 10 (4.46%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.57%) VMware
8 7 (3.13%) Databricks
9 5 (2.23%) Citrix
10 4 (1.79%) Google
10 4 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.34%) Adobe
11 3 (1.34%) Apple
11 3 (1.34%) Concur
11 3 (1.34%) Samsung
12 2 (0.89%) MEDITECH
12 2 (0.89%) NetApp
12 2 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.45%) Meraki