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

6 months to
20 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 230 186 183
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 20.83% 27.60% 20.75%
As % of the General category 41.44% 43.66% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 117 130
10th Percentile £263 £160 £167
25th Percentile £393 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £321
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +16.82% -28.67%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £525
90th Percentile £625 £536 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
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% -6.48%
75th Percentile £39.04 £21.39 £17.22
90th Percentile £74.00 £22.84 £21.13
England median hourly rate £22.81 £22.84 £18.97
% change year-on-year -0.13% +20.40% -15.69%

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 555 426 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 50.27% 63.20% 51.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 282 284
10th Percentile £266 £213 £182
25th Percentile £395 £318 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £402 £422
Median % change year-on-year +21.89% -4.63% -11.26%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £568
90th Percentile £656 £543 £629
England median daily rate £520 £520 £534
% change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 30 59
10th Percentile £12.97 £15.12 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.26 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +30.56% -28.42%
75th Percentile £25.69 £28.79 £31.88
90th Percentile £62.03 £40.06 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%

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 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 20 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 20 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 64 £500 +30.72% 58
Nottinghamshire -2 61 £423 -13.18% 84
Derbyshire 0 42 £450 +42.07% 50
Leicestershire 0 38 £533 +113.00% 61
Lincolnshire +4 23 £538 +198.61% 38
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 8 (3.48%) Confluence
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.74%) CMS
3 3 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 20 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.74%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.87%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.43%) Azure
2 26 (11.30%) Power Platform
3 18 (7.83%) Google Workspace
4 17 (7.39%) AWS
5 15 (6.52%) Google Sheets
6 14 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.91%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.48%) GitHub
11 7 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.61%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 4 (1.74%) Algolia
14 3 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.30%) SaaS
15 2 (0.87%) GCP
15 2 (0.87%) OCI
15 2 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) DHCP
1 5 (2.17%) DNS
1 5 (2.17%) IPv4
1 5 (2.17%) IPv6
1 5 (2.17%) Network Security
1 5 (2.17%) VLAN
2 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) SAN
4 1 (0.43%) VSAN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.43%) Power BI
2 19 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.61%) Aerospike
7 5 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.17%) Redis
8 4 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.30%) Big Data
9 3 (1.30%) Power Query
9 3 (1.30%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.43%) Flink
11 1 (0.43%) MySQL
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) JIRA
2 8 (3.48%) GitLab
3 7 (3.04%) Git
3 7 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.61%) JUnit
5 4 (1.74%) Hudson
6 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) Gatling
6 2 (0.87%) Gradle
6 2 (0.87%) JMeter
6 2 (0.87%) Maven
6 2 (0.87%) MSI
6 2 (0.87%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.87%) TestNG
General
1 71 (30.87%) Finance
2 39 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.22%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.78%) Retail
7 10 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.91%) Banking
9 8 (3.48%) Local Government
10 7 (3.04%) Law
11 5 (2.17%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.17%) Marketing
12 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (1.30%) Police
13 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.87%) German Language
14 2 (0.87%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (16.96%) Analyst
2 25 (10.87%) Architect
3 21 (9.13%) Lead
4 17 (7.39%) Developer
5 16 (6.96%) Consultant
5 16 (6.96%) Programme Manager
5 16 (6.96%) Senior
6 11 (4.78%) Administrator
7 10 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.48%) Business Analyst
8 8 (3.48%) IT Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) SAP Architect
8 8 (3.48%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.61%) .NET Developer
9 6 (2.61%) Data Analyst
9 6 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (2.61%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (2.61%) Software Developer
9 6 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.65%) Node.js
2 8 (3.48%) Middleware
2 8 (3.48%) RESTful
3 7 (3.04%) Kafka
4 6 (2.61%) .NET
4 6 (2.61%) XML
5 5 (2.17%) pytest
5 5 (2.17%) React
5 5 (2.17%) REST
6 4 (1.74%) Jest
6 4 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.30%) CSS
7 3 (1.30%) HTML
7 3 (1.30%) J2EE
7 3 (1.30%) OSGi
7 3 (1.30%) PySpark
8 2 (0.87%) ADO
8 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.87%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.52%) Public Cloud
2 14 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.74%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.87%) CMDB
11 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.87%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.04%) Windows
2 12 (5.22%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.61%) Linux
3 6 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (33.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (19.57%) Migration
4 43 (18.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 37 (16.09%) Agile
6 35 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (13.04%) Change Management
7 30 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 28 (12.17%) Analytics
8 28 (12.17%) Validation
9 25 (10.87%) Project Management
10 24 (10.43%) Data Modelling
10 24 (10.43%) Decision-Making
11 23 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 22 (9.57%) ERP
13 21 (9.13%) Data Protection
13 21 (9.13%) DevOps
13 21 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (9.13%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.13%) SQL
2 18 (7.83%) Python
3 12 (5.22%) Java
4 8 (3.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.61%) C#
6 3 (1.30%) VBA
7 2 (0.87%) ABAP
7 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 31 (13.48%) Degree
2 26 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.17%) ACCA
5 5 (2.17%) CIMA
5 5 (2.17%) CISSP
6 4 (1.74%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.87%) CISA
8 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.87%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.87%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) GDPR
2 8 (3.48%) QA
3 7 (3.04%) PMO
4 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.61%) Docker
3 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.17%) WSUS
3 4 (1.74%) Ansible
3 4 (1.74%) Terraform
4 3 (1.30%) SCCM
5 2 (0.87%) Istio
5 2 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.78%) SAP
3 19 (8.26%) Google
4 14 (6.09%) Oracle
5 11 (4.78%) Databricks
5 11 (4.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.48%) VMware
7 5 (2.17%) Citrix
7 5 (2.17%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.17%) Workday
8 4 (1.74%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.87%) Concur
9 2 (0.87%) NetApp
9 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.87%) Sparx
10 1 (0.43%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.43%) NEC
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud