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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 232 198 172
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 19.98% 26.83% 20.38%
As % of the General category 40.42% 44.49% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 128 118
10th Percentile £203 £168 £167
25th Percentile £313 £250 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £380 £360
Median % change year-on-year +21.38% +5.56% -16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £478 £523
90th Percentile £624 £548 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £502
% change year-on-year - -0.35% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 16
10th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £12.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.75 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.65% +29.35% -32.30%
75th Percentile £39.04 £21.39 £17.22
90th Percentile £74.00 £22.84 £21.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £22.05 £21.36
% change year-on-year +13.38% +3.23% -1.48%

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 574 445 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.44% 60.30% 54.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 295 290
10th Percentile £260 £213 £187
25th Percentile £395 £319 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £669 £555 £627
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 33 54
10th Percentile £13.22 £15.15 £12.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.38 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +35.25% -56.98%
75th Percentile £28.75 £25.15 £33.44
90th Percentile £61.45 £38.57 £51.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.48 £33.75
% change year-on-year +28.42% -21.56% +10.51%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 63 £424 -13.03% 66
Northamptonshire 0 60 £495 +29.41% 49
Derbyshire +1 45 £350 -24.32% 50
Leicestershire 0 38 £525 +110.00% 47
Lincolnshire +5 24 £521 +53.31% 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 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.72%) CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (9.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.29%) iTrent
3 3 (1.29%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.86%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.86%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.69%) Azure
2 25 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 19 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.60%) Google Workspace
5 12 (5.17%) AWS
5 12 (5.17%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.88%) Google Sheets
8 8 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.59%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.59%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub
11 4 (1.72%) Algolia
11 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.86%) OCI
13 2 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.59%) DHCP
1 6 (2.59%) DNS
1 6 (2.59%) Network Security
2 5 (2.16%) IPv4
2 5 (2.16%) IPv6
2 5 (2.16%) VLAN
3 4 (1.72%) LAN
4 3 (1.29%) WAN
4 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.86%) Firewall
5 2 (0.86%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) SAN
6 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) VSAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.91%) Power BI
2 19 (8.19%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.29%) Big Data
7 3 (1.29%) Metadata
7 3 (1.29%) Power Query
7 3 (1.29%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.86%) Aerospike
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.86%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Flink
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.17%) JIRA
2 7 (3.02%) Git
3 5 (2.16%) GitLab
4 4 (1.72%) Hudson
4 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.29%) JUnit
6 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) Gatling
6 2 (0.86%) Gradle
6 2 (0.86%) JMeter
6 2 (0.86%) Maven
6 2 (0.86%) MSI
6 2 (0.86%) Postman
6 2 (0.86%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.86%) TestNG
General
1 58 (25.00%) Finance
2 42 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.19%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.47%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.31%) Retail
8 8 (3.45%) Banking
8 8 (3.45%) Local Government
9 7 (3.02%) Law
10 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.72%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.72%) Police
13 3 (1.29%) Fire and Rescue
14 2 (0.86%) German Language
14 2 (0.86%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (17.67%) Analyst
2 23 (9.91%) Architect
3 21 (9.05%) Lead
4 14 (6.03%) Administrator
4 14 (6.03%) Consultant
4 14 (6.03%) Developer
5 12 (5.17%) Programme Manager
5 12 (5.17%) Senior
6 10 (4.31%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.45%) IT Engineer
7 8 (3.45%) Project Manager
7 8 (3.45%) SAP Architect
7 8 (3.45%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.02%) Support Analyst
9 6 (2.59%) .NET Developer
9 6 (2.59%) Data Analyst
9 6 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.59%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (2.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.88%) Node.js
2 8 (3.45%) Middleware
2 8 (3.45%) RESTful
3 6 (2.59%) .NET
3 6 (2.59%) XML
4 5 (2.16%) React
4 5 (2.16%) REST
5 3 (1.29%) CSS
5 3 (1.29%) HTML
5 3 (1.29%) J2EE
5 3 (1.29%) Kafka
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.29%) OSGi
5 3 (1.29%) PySpark
5 3 (1.29%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.86%) ADO
6 2 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.86%) JSON
6 2 (0.86%) Playwright
6 2 (0.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.72%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.29%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.86%) CMDB
11 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.86%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.86%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.81%) Windows
2 14 (6.03%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.59%) Linux
5 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.86%) 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 76 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (28.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 39 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (16.81%) Migration
5 35 (15.09%) Agile
6 29 (12.50%) Validation
7 27 (11.64%) Analytics
7 27 (11.64%) Decision-Making
8 26 (11.21%) Change Management
8 26 (11.21%) CI/CD
9 24 (10.34%) Project Management
9 24 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
10 23 (9.91%) Data Protection
10 23 (9.91%) ERP
11 21 (9.05%) Data Modelling
11 21 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (8.62%) DevOps
13 19 (8.19%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (8.19%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.95%) SQL
2 17 (7.33%) Python
3 9 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.45%) Java
4 8 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.59%) C#
6 2 (0.86%) ABAP
6 2 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.21%) Degree
2 26 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.16%) ACCA
4 5 (2.16%) CIMA
5 4 (1.72%) CISSP
5 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.72%) SAP Certification
6 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.86%) CISA
7 2 (0.86%) CISM
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.86%) PMP
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.76%) GDPR
2 8 (3.45%) QA
3 7 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.59%) PMO
5 5 (2.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.59%) Docker
3 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.16%) SCCM
3 5 (2.16%) WSUS
4 4 (1.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.72%) Terraform
5 2 (0.86%) Istio
5 2 (0.86%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) SCOM
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.67%) SAP
3 16 (6.90%) Oracle
4 14 (6.03%) Workday
5 13 (5.60%) Google
6 10 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.45%) VMware
9 7 (3.02%) Databricks
10 5 (2.16%) Adobe
10 5 (2.16%) Citrix
10 5 (2.16%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.29%) Apple
11 3 (1.29%) Concur
12 2 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.86%) NetApp
12 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.86%) Samsung
12 2 (0.86%) Sparx
13 1 (0.43%) JD Edwards