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

6 months to
4 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 215 207 149
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 18.50% 26.85% 19.50%
As % of the General category 38.32% 44.52% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 142 98
10th Percentile £167 £168 £185
25th Percentile £305 £250 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £457 £525
90th Percentile £640 £530 £638
England median daily rate £503 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.62% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 17
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.12 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +42.60% -45.45%
75th Percentile £45.22 - £19.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £23.00 £23.47
England median hourly rate £23.21 £22.05 £26.97
% change year-on-year +5.26% -18.24% +34.85%

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 561 465 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.28% 60.31% 52.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 318 266
10th Percentile £217 £213 £200
25th Percentile £393 £325 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 36 40
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.25 £12.67
25th Percentile £14.44 £19.81 £13.52
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +41.43% -58.84%
75th Percentile £30.77 £25.15 £44.67
90th Percentile £57.83 £37.99 £52.01
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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
Nottinghamshire -2 50 £443 +6.63% 92
Northamptonshire 0 48 £488 +28.29% 74
Derbyshire 0 43 £488 +5.41% 65
Leicestershire 0 41 £525 +110.00% 85
Lincolnshire +5 31 £413 +106.25% 61
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 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.19%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.86%) CMS
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.86%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.40%) iTrent
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.40%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.93%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.47%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.93%) Azure
2 27 (12.56%) Power Platform
3 20 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.12%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.19%) AWS
6 6 (2.79%) Azure AKS
6 6 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 5 (2.33%) GitHub
8 4 (1.86%) Algolia
8 4 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.86%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.40%) OCI
9 3 (1.40%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) DHCP
1 6 (2.79%) DNS
1 6 (2.79%) Network Security
2 5 (2.33%) IPv4
2 5 (2.33%) IPv6
2 5 (2.33%) LAN
2 5 (2.33%) VLAN
3 4 (1.86%) WAN
4 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.93%) Firewall
5 2 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.47%) SAN
6 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) VSAN
6 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.63%) Power BI
2 19 (8.84%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.40%) Big Data
7 3 (1.40%) Metadata
7 3 (1.40%) Power Query
7 3 (1.40%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.93%) Aerospike
8 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.93%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Flink
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.47%) Redis
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.12%) JIRA
2 7 (3.26%) Git
3 5 (2.33%) GitLab
4 4 (1.86%) Hudson
4 4 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.93%) Gatling
6 2 (0.93%) Gradle
6 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 2 (0.93%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) MSI
6 2 (0.93%) Postman
6 2 (0.93%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.93%) TestNG
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (18.60%) Finance
3 24 (11.16%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (7.91%) Retail
5 16 (7.44%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.51%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.26%) Law
9 6 (2.79%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.79%) Banking
9 6 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.86%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.40%) Police
11 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) German Language
13 1 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.47%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (17.21%) Analyst
2 16 (7.44%) Architect
3 15 (6.98%) Administrator
4 14 (6.51%) Developer
4 14 (6.51%) Lead
5 13 (6.05%) Consultant
6 11 (5.12%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.12%) Senior
7 10 (4.65%) Trainer
8 8 (3.72%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.26%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.79%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.79%) IT Support
10 6 (2.79%) Project Manager
10 6 (2.79%) Support Analyst
10 6 (2.79%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.79%) Windows Engineer
11 5 (2.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.19%) Node.js
2 8 (3.72%) XML
3 6 (2.79%) .NET
3 6 (2.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.33%) Middleware
4 5 (2.33%) React
4 5 (2.33%) REST
4 5 (2.33%) RESTful
5 3 (1.40%) CSS
5 3 (1.40%) HTML
5 3 (1.40%) Kafka
5 3 (1.40%) PySpark
5 3 (1.40%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.93%) ADO
6 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.93%) Playwright
6 2 (0.93%) pytest
6 2 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.26%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.79%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.40%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) CMDB
10 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.21%) Windows
2 14 (6.51%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.79%) Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (15.35%) Agile
4 33 (15.35%) Validation
5 32 (14.88%) Migration
6 28 (13.02%) Decision-Making
6 28 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (12.09%) ERP
8 23 (10.70%) CI/CD
9 22 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (9.77%) Logistics
10 21 (9.77%) Project Management
10 21 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (9.30%) Customer Service
11 20 (9.30%) Data Modelling
11 20 (9.30%) Data Protection
11 20 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (8.84%) Coaching
12 19 (8.84%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.95%) SQL
2 17 (7.91%) Python
3 9 (4.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.79%) C#
6 5 (2.33%) Java
7 4 (1.86%) ABAP
8 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.44%) Degree
4 5 (2.33%) ACCA
4 5 (2.33%) CIMA
4 5 (2.33%) CISSP
4 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.86%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.40%) CISM
6 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.93%) CISA
7 2 (0.93%) CRISC
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.47%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.58%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.58%) GDPR
2 7 (3.26%) QA
3 6 (2.79%) PMO
4 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.40%) SLA
5 2 (0.93%) NIST
5 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (8.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.40%) Docker
3 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.33%) SCCM
3 5 (2.33%) WSUS
4 4 (1.86%) Ansible
4 4 (1.86%) Terraform
5 2 (0.93%) Istio
5 2 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.47%) SCOM
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 32 (14.88%) SAP
3 19 (8.84%) Oracle
4 14 (6.51%) Workday
5 10 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.72%) VMware
8 7 (3.26%) Databricks
9 5 (2.33%) Citrix
9 5 (2.33%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.40%) Adobe
10 3 (1.40%) Apple
10 3 (1.40%) Concur
10 3 (1.40%) Google
10 3 (1.40%) Samsung
11 2 (0.93%) NetApp
11 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.47%) Ariba
12 1 (0.47%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.47%) JDA