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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 275 235 189
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 20.54% 29.45% 23.63%
As % of the General category 42.90% 48.06% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 164 97
10th Percentile £171 £185 £190
25th Percentile £263 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £380 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.45% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £575
90th Percentile £650 £550 £638
England median daily rate £513 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 15 20
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £15.25 £13.31
Median hourly rate £16.46 £16.34 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -2.85% -63.64%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.39 £17.37
90th Percentile £53.43 - £23.91
England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.39 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.77% +12.82%

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 641 489 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.87% 61.28% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 340 276
10th Percentile £213 £213 £263
25th Percentile £364 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £659 £590 £634
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 36 36
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.17 £14.56
Median hourly rate £17.97 £21.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +25.82% -46.47%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £44.97
90th Percentile £56.25 £30.30 £53.45
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +22.86% -34.02% +27.07%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +7.59% 106
Derbyshire +1 60 £488 +23.81% 106
Leicestershire 0 54 £550 +120.00% 125
Nottinghamshire -2 49 £425 +2.29% 201
Lincolnshire +3 44 £288 -31.34% 76
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 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.55%) Confluence
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 43 (15.64%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 4 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.45%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.09%) iTrent
4 3 (1.09%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.73%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.73%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.36%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.45%) Azure
2 30 (10.91%) Power Platform
3 28 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.18%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 10 (3.64%) AWS
7 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.18%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Algolia
9 4 (1.45%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.45%) OCI
9 4 (1.45%) SaaS
9 4 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.09%) GitHub
10 3 (1.09%) Intacct
10 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.00%) VPN
2 8 (2.91%) DHCP
2 8 (2.91%) DNS
2 8 (2.91%) Network Security
3 6 (2.18%) VLAN
4 5 (1.82%) Firewall
4 5 (1.82%) IPv4
4 5 (1.82%) IPv6
4 5 (1.82%) LAN
4 5 (1.82%) WAN
5 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.09%) SAN
7 2 (0.73%) Wireless
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) OSPF
8 1 (0.36%) RIP
8 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.18%) Power BI
2 17 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.18%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.82%) Metadata
4 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.09%) Big Data
5 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.73%) DTS
6 2 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.73%) Power Query
6 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.36%) Flink
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.00%) JIRA
2 7 (2.55%) Git
3 5 (1.82%) GitLab
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.09%) Hudson
5 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) Maven
7 1 (0.36%) MSI
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 49 (17.82%) Finance
2 46 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (14.55%) Organisational Skills
4 32 (11.64%) Retail
5 20 (7.27%) Manufacturing
5 20 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.00%) Police
8 9 (3.27%) Banking
9 8 (2.91%) Law
10 6 (2.18%) Billing
10 6 (2.18%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.18%) Marketing
11 5 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.09%) Legal
12 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Automotive
13 2 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (13.45%) Analyst
2 28 (10.18%) Administrator
3 17 (6.18%) Architect
4 14 (5.09%) Business Analyst
4 14 (5.09%) Developer
5 13 (4.73%) Senior
6 12 (4.36%) IT Engineer
6 12 (4.36%) Trainer
7 11 (4.00%) Lead
8 10 (3.64%) Consultant
9 9 (3.27%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.27%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.27%) Windows Engineer
10 8 (2.91%) Accountant
10 8 (2.91%) Coordinator
11 7 (2.55%) Deployment Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Systems Accountant
12 6 (2.18%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.55%) Node.js
3 6 (2.18%) React
3 6 (2.18%) RESTful
4 5 (1.82%) .NET
5 4 (1.45%) Terraform
5 4 (1.45%) XML
6 3 (1.09%) REST
7 2 (0.73%) ADO
7 2 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.73%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 2 (0.73%) Middleware
7 2 (0.73%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.73%) Spring
7 2 (0.73%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.36%) JWT
8 1 (0.36%) PySpark
8 1 (0.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 22 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 9 (3.27%) CMDB
6 7 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.55%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.82%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.45%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.09%) EPoS
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) NHS
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.73%) Windows
2 23 (8.36%) Windows 10
3 10 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.18%) Linux
5 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (18.18%) Migration
4 47 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (16.36%) Validation
6 40 (14.55%) ERP
7 37 (13.45%) Decision-Making
8 35 (12.73%) Customer Service
9 34 (12.36%) Agile
10 30 (10.91%) Process Improvement
11 28 (10.18%) Data Migration
12 27 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (9.45%) Logistics
14 25 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (8.36%) Workshop Facilitation
16 22 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (7.27%) Data Analysis
17 20 (7.27%) Data Modelling
17 20 (7.27%) Project Management
18 19 (6.91%) AI
Programming Languages
1 34 (12.36%) SQL
2 11 (4.00%) Python
3 9 (3.27%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.82%) C#
4 5 (1.82%) Java
4 5 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.73%) ABAP
5 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.73%) Degree
4 12 (4.36%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.27%) ACCA
5 9 (3.27%) CIMA
6 5 (1.82%) CISSP
6 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) CISM
7 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.09%) PMP
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) CISA
8 2 (0.73%) CRISC
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) GDPR
3 10 (3.64%) QA
4 6 (2.18%) PMO
5 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 25 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.45%) Docker
4 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (4.73%) SCCM
3 6 (2.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.82%) WSUS
5 3 (1.09%) Ansible
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) SCOM
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (33.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.91%) SAP
3 25 (9.09%) Oracle
4 15 (5.45%) Workday
5 9 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.55%) Google
6 7 (2.55%) VMware
7 5 (1.82%) Adobe
7 5 (1.82%) Citrix
7 5 (1.82%) Databricks
7 5 (1.82%) JD Edwards
7 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.09%) Apple
9 3 (1.09%) Concur
9 3 (1.09%) Sage
9 3 (1.09%) Samsung
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco
10 2 (0.73%) Juniper
10 2 (0.73%) Red Hat