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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 247 145 172
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 22.50% 26.13% 22.34%
As % of the General category 43.72% 42.15% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 93 129
10th Percentile £263 £160 £168
25th Percentile £393 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £395 £269
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% +46.84% -32.75%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £525
90th Percentile £600 £561 £638
England median daily rate £500 £501 £513
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.34% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 15
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.06 -
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.75 £14.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.65% +27.38% -3.48%
75th Percentile £30.00 £21.79 £19.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £23.23 £26.15
England median hourly rate £20.75 £23.99 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.51% +33.28% -28.00%

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 565 344 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 51.46% 61.98% 51.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 225 267
10th Percentile £206 £204 £166
25th Percentile £388 £320 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +6.25% -13.51%
75th Percentile £540 £500 £550
90th Percentile £600 £570 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 21 56
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.63 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.11 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +30.43% -22.05%
75th Percentile £25.50 £30.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £33.75 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +11.20% -10.57% -5.38%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +2 76 £495 +26.60% 38
Nottinghamshire 0 69 £434 -13.25% 59
Derbyshire 0 37 £419 -10.67% 43
Leicestershire 0 36 £450 +80.00% 50
Lincolnshire -1 26 £538 +79.17% 31
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 12 (4.86%) Confluence
2 11 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.62%) CMS
6 3 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 17 (6.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.21%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.81%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.81%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.40%) assyst
5 1 (0.40%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.84%) Azure
2 24 (9.72%) Google Workspace
3 23 (9.31%) AWS
4 21 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.10%) Google Sheets
6 18 (7.29%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.45%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.45%) GitHub
9 10 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.64%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 8 (3.24%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.43%) GCP
13 5 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.62%) PowerApps
15 3 (1.21%) Algolia
15 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.43%) DHCP
1 6 (2.43%) DNS
1 6 (2.43%) Network Security
1 6 (2.43%) VLAN
2 5 (2.02%) IPv4
2 5 (2.02%) IPv6
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) SAN
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.69%) Power BI
2 15 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.64%) Aerospike
5 7 (2.83%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.43%) Redis
6 6 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.62%) Big Data
7 4 (1.62%) Power Query
8 3 (1.21%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.21%) Tableau
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.81%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.40%) Flink
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.48%) JIRA
2 12 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.45%) GitLab
4 9 (3.64%) Git
5 7 (2.83%) JUnit
6 4 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.81%) Gatling
8 2 (0.81%) Gradle
8 2 (0.81%) JMeter
8 2 (0.81%) Maven
8 2 (0.81%) Postman
8 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.81%) TestNG
9 1 (0.40%) Hudson
9 1 (0.40%) MSI
9 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 88 (35.63%) Finance
2 42 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.48%) Retail
5 14 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.45%) Banking
6 11 (4.45%) Marketing
7 9 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.24%) Local Government
9 7 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.83%) Law
9 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.62%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.21%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.21%) Legal
12 3 (1.21%) Police
13 2 (0.81%) German Language
Job Titles
1 41 (16.60%) Analyst
2 25 (10.12%) Architect
3 21 (8.50%) Lead
4 18 (7.29%) Programme Manager
5 17 (6.88%) Senior
6 16 (6.48%) Consultant
7 15 (6.07%) Developer
8 12 (4.86%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.45%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.24%) Administrator
10 8 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.43%) Operations Manager
11 6 (2.43%) SAP Architect
11 6 (2.43%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.43%) Software Developer
11 6 (2.43%) Trainer
12 5 (2.02%) .NET Software Developer
12 5 (2.02%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.07%) Node.js
2 10 (4.05%) Kafka
3 9 (3.64%) RESTful
4 8 (3.24%) pytest
5 7 (2.83%) Middleware
6 6 (2.43%) REST
6 6 (2.43%) XML
7 5 (2.02%) .NET
7 5 (2.02%) Jest
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (2.02%) PySpark
8 4 (1.62%) ADO
8 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.62%) React
8 4 (1.62%) VML
9 3 (1.21%) CSS
9 3 (1.21%) HTML
9 3 (1.21%) J2EE
9 3 (1.21%) OSGi
10 2 (0.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.48%) Public Cloud
2 15 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.07%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.02%) e-Learning
7 5 (2.02%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.62%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.62%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.55%) Windows
2 10 (4.05%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.02%) Linux
5 4 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.21%) Unix
7 2 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 87 (35.22%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (20.65%) Agile
4 50 (20.24%) Migration
5 48 (19.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 38 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (14.98%) Change Management
8 35 (14.17%) CI/CD
9 32 (12.96%) Analytics
10 28 (11.34%) Data Analysis
10 28 (11.34%) Project Management
11 27 (10.93%) Decision-Making
11 27 (10.93%) Programme Management
12 25 (10.12%) User Experience
13 24 (9.72%) DevOps
14 22 (8.91%) Dashboard Development
14 22 (8.91%) Data Protection
14 22 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
15 21 (8.50%) Workshop Facilitation
16 20 (8.10%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.43%) SQL
2 25 (10.12%) Python
3 15 (6.07%) Java
4 9 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.02%) C#
7 4 (1.62%) R
7 4 (1.62%) VBA
8 2 (0.81%) ABAP
8 2 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 39 (15.79%) Degree
2 37 (14.98%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.62%) CSPO
5 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.62%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.62%) PMP
5 4 (1.62%) SAP Certification
6 3 (1.21%) ACCA
6 3 (1.21%) CIMA
6 3 (1.21%) CISSP
6 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.81%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) GDPR
2 9 (3.64%) PMO
2 9 (3.64%) QA
3 6 (2.43%) SLA
4 4 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) GRC
6 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) IFRS
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.24%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (4.86%) Kubernetes
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.24%) SCCM
3 6 (2.43%) Ansible
4 5 (2.02%) WSUS
5 4 (1.62%) Istio
5 4 (1.62%) Puppet
5 4 (1.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.55%) SAP
3 30 (12.15%) Google
4 14 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.26%) Databricks
6 12 (4.86%) Oracle
6 12 (4.86%) Salesforce
7 11 (4.45%) VMware
8 7 (2.83%) Citrix
9 5 (2.02%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.62%) Adobe
11 3 (1.21%) NetApp
12 2 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.81%) Sparx
13 1 (0.40%) Apple
13 1 (0.40%) Ariba
13 1 (0.40%) iManage
13 1 (0.40%) JDA
13 1 (0.40%) Liquidlogic
13 1 (0.40%) Red Hat