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

6 months to
3 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 235 167 175
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 21.13% 27.42% 21.53%
As % of the General category 41.74% 43.95% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 108 130
10th Percentile £262 £166 £167
25th Percentile £393 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £391 £269
Median % change year-on-year +21.64% +45.17% -40.22%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £500
90th Percentile £613 £547 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 15
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.12 £12.72
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +49.89% -4.87%
75th Percentile £45.22 - £17.82
90th Percentile £74.00 £23.60 £21.35
England median hourly rate £21.35 £22.50 £18.13
% change year-on-year -5.11% +24.10% -21.17%

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 563 380 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 50.63% 62.40% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 255 280
10th Percentile £260 £215 £167
25th Percentile £393 £320 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £550
90th Percentile £650 £550 £625
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 25 56
10th Percentile £13.31 £15.12 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.65 £16.11 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +25.82% -24.44%
75th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £30.31
90th Percentile £67.85 £38.18 £51.91
England median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +12.36% -8.20% -4.45%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 72 £500 +33.33% 48
Nottinghamshire -2 63 £423 -15.50% 96
Leicestershire 0 41 £525 +110.00% 53
Derbyshire 0 36 £419 -9.46% 52
Lincolnshire -1 21 £521 +73.75% 48
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 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.83%) Confluence
2 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.70%) CMS
4 3 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 20 (8.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.70%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.85%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.43%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.70%) Azure
2 24 (10.21%) Google Workspace
2 24 (10.21%) Power Platform
3 20 (8.51%) Google Sheets
4 19 (8.09%) AWS
5 18 (7.66%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.68%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.40%) GitHub
10 7 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.98%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 6 (2.55%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.55%) GCP
12 5 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.70%) Algolia
14 3 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.28%) SaaS
15 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.55%) DHCP
1 6 (2.55%) DNS
1 6 (2.55%) VLAN
2 5 (2.13%) IPv4
2 5 (2.13%) IPv6
2 5 (2.13%) Network Security
3 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.85%) HTTP
4 2 (0.85%) 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 22 (9.36%) Power BI
2 19 (8.09%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.55%) Aerospike
5 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.13%) Redis
7 4 (1.70%) Big Data
8 3 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.28%) Power Query
8 3 (1.28%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.85%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL
10 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.43%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 13 (5.53%) JIRA
2 8 (3.40%) GitLab
3 7 (2.98%) Git
3 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.55%) JUnit
5 4 (1.70%) Hudson
6 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.85%) Gatling
6 2 (0.85%) Gradle
6 2 (0.85%) JMeter
6 2 (0.85%) Maven
6 2 (0.85%) Postman
6 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.85%) TestNG
7 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 80 (34.04%) Finance
2 36 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.53%) Retail
6 11 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.26%) Banking
8 9 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.40%) Law
9 8 (3.40%) Local Government
10 7 (2.98%) Marketing
11 6 (2.55%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.28%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (1.28%) Police
15 2 (0.85%) German Language
15 2 (0.85%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (17.45%) Analyst
2 25 (10.64%) Architect
3 20 (8.51%) Lead
4 18 (7.66%) Programme Manager
5 17 (7.23%) Consultant
6 16 (6.81%) Developer
6 16 (6.81%) Senior
7 12 (5.11%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.83%) Administrator
10 8 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.40%) SAP Architect
10 8 (3.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.98%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.55%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.55%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.55%) Operations Manager
12 6 (2.55%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (2.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.53%) Node.js
2 8 (3.40%) Middleware
2 8 (3.40%) RESTful
3 7 (2.98%) Kafka
4 6 (2.55%) .NET
4 6 (2.55%) XML
5 5 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.13%) pytest
5 5 (2.13%) React
5 5 (2.13%) REST
6 4 (1.70%) Jest
7 3 (1.28%) ADO
7 3 (1.28%) CSS
7 3 (1.28%) HTML
7 3 (1.28%) J2EE
7 3 (1.28%) OSGi
7 3 (1.28%) PySpark
8 2 (0.85%) JSON
8 2 (0.85%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Public Cloud
2 15 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.11%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.70%) Educational Technology
9 4 (1.70%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.77%) Windows
2 13 (5.53%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.55%) Linux
3 6 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.70%) Migration
4 49 (20.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 41 (17.45%) Agile
6 37 (15.74%) Change Management
7 36 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (12.77%) Analytics
8 30 (12.77%) CI/CD
9 29 (12.34%) Data Analysis
10 27 (11.49%) Project Management
11 26 (11.06%) Decision-Making
11 26 (11.06%) Validation
12 25 (10.64%) Programme Management
12 25 (10.64%) User Experience
13 23 (9.79%) Data Modelling
13 23 (9.79%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (9.36%) Dashboard Development
14 22 (9.36%) DevOps
14 22 (9.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.70%) SQL
2 19 (8.09%) Python
3 12 (5.11%) Java
4 10 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.55%) C#
7 3 (1.28%) VBA
8 2 (0.85%) ABAP
8 2 (0.85%) Bash
8 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (15.74%) Degree
2 29 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.13%) ACCA
5 5 (2.13%) CIMA
6 4 (1.70%) CISSP
6 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.70%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.70%) PMP
6 4 (1.70%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.85%) CISA
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.85%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.38%) GDPR
2 9 (3.83%) QA
3 8 (3.40%) PMO
4 6 (2.55%) SLA
5 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS
8 1 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.55%) Docker
4 3 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.55%) SCCM
4 5 (2.13%) WSUS
5 4 (1.70%) Ansible
5 4 (1.70%) Terraform
6 2 (0.85%) Istio
6 2 (0.85%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (20.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.47%) SAP
3 27 (11.49%) Google
4 14 (5.96%) Oracle
5 13 (5.53%) Databricks
5 13 (5.53%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.68%) VMware
7 9 (3.83%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.98%) Citrix
9 5 (2.13%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.70%) Adobe
11 2 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.85%) Concur
11 2 (0.85%) NetApp
11 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.85%) Sparx
12 1 (0.43%) Apple
12 1 (0.43%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.43%) Liquidlogic
12 1 (0.43%) NEC