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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 282 243 180
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 20.89% 29.45% 23.62%
As % of the General category 43.25% 47.65% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 169 90
10th Percentile £173 £197 £190
25th Percentile £263 £322 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £523
90th Percentile £666 £554 £619
England median daily rate £513 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.62% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 16 15
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.25 £14.83
Median hourly rate £16.46 £16.34 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.91% -73.85%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.39 £17.74
90th Percentile £29.82 - £24.68
England median hourly rate £20.56 £21.63 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.95% -3.89% +18.42%

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 652 510 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.30% 61.82% 58.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 356 263
10th Percentile £213 £219 £263
25th Percentile £357 £349 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £403 £449
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -10.33% -10.20%
75th Percentile £575 £492 £550
90th Percentile £673 £595 £618
England median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 36 28
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.42 £16.17 £15.08
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.39 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +21.12% -35.78%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £44.97
90th Percentile £53.63 £25.83 £55.00
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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
Northamptonshire 0 66 £425 +6.25% 106
Derbyshire +1 64 £525 +40.00% 94
Leicestershire 0 60 £550 +52.78% 138
Nottinghamshire -3 46 £434 -3.61% 208
Lincolnshire +3 44 £331 -34.08% 77
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 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.77%) Confluence
4 4 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 48 (17.02%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.35%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.35%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.77%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.42%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.06%) iTrent
4 3 (1.06%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.71%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.71%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.35%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 41 (14.54%) Azure
2 30 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (10.64%) Power Platform
3 18 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.26%) Google Workspace
5 10 (3.55%) AWS
6 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (2.48%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (1.42%) Algolia
8 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.42%) OCI
8 4 (1.42%) SaaS
8 4 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.06%) GitHub
9 3 (1.06%) Intacct
9 3 (1.06%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.26%) VPN
2 6 (2.13%) DHCP
2 6 (2.13%) DNS
2 6 (2.13%) Network Security
3 5 (1.77%) Firewall
3 5 (1.77%) LAN
3 5 (1.77%) WAN
4 4 (1.42%) VLAN
4 4 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.06%) IPv4
5 3 (1.06%) IPv6
5 3 (1.06%) SAN
6 2 (0.71%) Wireless
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
7 1 (0.35%) Modbus
7 1 (0.35%) MQTT
7 1 (0.35%) OSPF
7 1 (0.35%) RIP
7 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.93%) Power BI
2 13 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.77%) Metadata
6 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.06%) Big Data
7 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.71%) DTS
8 2 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.71%) Power Query
8 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.35%) Flink
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.19%) JIRA
2 5 (1.77%) Git
2 5 (1.77%) GitLab
3 4 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.06%) Hudson
5 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) MSI
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 50 (17.73%) Finance
2 46 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.25%) Organisational Skills
4 32 (11.35%) Retail
5 26 (9.22%) Manufacturing
6 21 (7.45%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (4.26%) Police
10 8 (2.84%) Banking
10 8 (2.84%) Billing
11 7 (2.48%) Marketing
12 6 (2.13%) General Ledger
12 6 (2.13%) Law
13 5 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.77%) Legal
14 3 (1.06%) Local Government
14 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
15 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (12.41%) Analyst
2 32 (11.35%) Administrator
3 16 (5.67%) Architect
4 15 (5.32%) Business Analyst
5 12 (4.26%) Consultant
5 12 (4.26%) Developer
5 12 (4.26%) Lead
5 12 (4.26%) Trainer
6 10 (3.55%) IT Engineer
6 10 (3.55%) Project Manager
7 9 (3.19%) Coordinator
7 9 (3.19%) Data Analyst
7 9 (3.19%) Senior
7 9 (3.19%) Windows Engineer
8 8 (2.84%) Accountant
8 8 (2.84%) Deployment Engineer
9 7 (2.48%) Support Engineer
9 7 (2.48%) Systems Accountant
10 6 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.48%) Node.js
3 6 (2.13%) React
4 4 (1.42%) RESTful
4 4 (1.42%) Terraform
4 4 (1.42%) XML
5 3 (1.06%) .NET
5 3 (1.06%) REST
6 2 (0.71%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.71%) Kafka
6 2 (0.71%) Middleware
6 2 (0.71%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.71%) Spring
6 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.35%) HTML5
7 1 (0.35%) JPA
7 1 (0.35%) NumPy
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.35%) OLE
7 1 (0.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.16%) Management Information System
2 21 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.90%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.55%) CMDB
5 7 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.48%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.77%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.42%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.06%) EPoS
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.06%) NHS
9 2 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.25%) Windows
2 22 (7.80%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.42%) Linux
5 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (18.79%) Migration
4 47 (16.67%) Validation
5 45 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (14.54%) ERP
7 39 (13.83%) Customer Service
8 36 (12.77%) Decision-Making
9 32 (11.35%) Process Improvement
10 31 (10.99%) Agile
11 30 (10.64%) Logistics
12 29 (10.28%) Data Migration
13 26 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
16 23 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
17 21 (7.45%) Data Modelling
17 21 (7.45%) Project Management
18 20 (7.09%) AI
18 20 (7.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.70%) SQL
2 10 (3.55%) Python
3 9 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.06%) C#
5 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.06%) Java
6 2 (0.71%) ABAP
7 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.87%) Degree
4 13 (4.61%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.19%) ACCA
5 9 (3.19%) CIMA
6 5 (1.77%) CISSP
6 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.42%) PMP
8 3 (1.06%) CISM
8 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) CISA
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.61%) GDPR
3 11 (3.90%) QA
4 6 (2.13%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 24 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Docker
3 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (4.96%) SCCM
3 3 (1.06%) WSUS
4 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.35%) SCOM
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.35%) SAP
3 25 (8.87%) Oracle
4 15 (5.32%) Workday
5 10 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.84%) Google
7 6 (2.13%) JD Edwards
8 5 (1.77%) Adobe
8 5 (1.77%) Databricks
8 5 (1.77%) VMware
9 4 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.06%) Apple
10 3 (1.06%) Citrix
10 3 (1.06%) Concur
10 3 (1.06%) Sage
10 3 (1.06%) Samsung
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco
11 2 (0.71%) Juniper
11 2 (0.71%) Siemens