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

6 months to
8 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 225 207 149
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 18.92% 27.17% 19.68%
As % of the General category 39.34% 44.81% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 141 97
10th Percentile £170 £168 £185
25th Percentile £292 £250 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -6.25% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £451 £525
90th Percentile £630 £525 £638
England median daily rate £506 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.20% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 18
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.65 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.86 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% +19.27% -42.49%
75th Percentile £29.25 £21.39 £19.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £22.84 £24.22
England median hourly rate £22.81 £22.05 £27.24
% change year-on-year +3.45% -19.04% +36.18%

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 572 462 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.11% 60.63% 52.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 313 265
10th Percentile £219 £213 £200
25th Percentile £391 £322 £325
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 £674 £575 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 37 39
10th Percentile £12.81 £15.25 £12.74
25th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.90
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.50 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +33.73% -56.91%
75th Percentile £30.06 £25.15 £46.69
90th Percentile £56.43 £37.80 £52.12
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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
Derbyshire +1 51 £469 +47.99% 62
Northamptonshire 0 48 £488 +30.00% 83
Nottinghamshire -3 48 £443 +6.63% 100
Leicestershire 0 44 £525 +110.00% 99
Lincolnshire +5 32 £375 +87.50% 58
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 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.67%) Confluence
4 4 (1.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.78%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.33%) iTrent
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.33%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.89%) Lorenzo
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.89%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.89%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.89%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.44%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.78%) Azure
2 29 (12.89%) Power Platform
3 24 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.00%) AWS
7 6 (2.67%) Azure AKS
7 6 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 5 (2.22%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.78%) Algolia
9 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.78%) GitHub
9 4 (1.78%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.33%) OCI
10 3 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) DHCP
1 6 (2.67%) DNS
1 6 (2.67%) Network Security
2 5 (2.22%) IPv4
2 5 (2.22%) IPv6
2 5 (2.22%) LAN
2 5 (2.22%) VLAN
2 5 (2.22%) WAN
3 4 (1.78%) VPN
4 3 (1.33%) Firewall
4 3 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) SAN
5 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) VSAN
5 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.00%) Power BI
2 19 (8.44%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.33%) Big Data
7 3 (1.33%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Power Query
7 3 (1.33%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.89%) Aerospike
8 2 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Flink
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.44%) JIRA
2 6 (2.67%) Git
3 4 (1.78%) GitLab
3 4 (1.78%) Hudson
3 4 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.89%) JUnit
4 2 (0.89%) MSI
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Gatling
5 1 (0.44%) Gradle
5 1 (0.44%) JMeter
5 1 (0.44%) Maven
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.44%) TestNG
General
1 42 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
1 42 (18.67%) Finance
2 27 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (8.00%) Retail
4 17 (7.56%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.11%) Law
8 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.67%) Banking
9 4 (1.78%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.78%) Police
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Automotive
11 2 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (16.44%) Analyst
2 16 (7.11%) Administrator
2 16 (7.11%) Architect
3 14 (6.22%) Developer
3 14 (6.22%) Lead
3 14 (6.22%) Senior
4 13 (5.78%) Consultant
5 11 (4.89%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.44%) Trainer
7 9 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 8 (3.56%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.11%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.11%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.11%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) IT Support
10 6 (2.67%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.22%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.00%) Node.js
2 7 (3.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.11%) XML
3 6 (2.67%) .NET
4 5 (2.22%) Middleware
4 5 (2.22%) React
4 5 (2.22%) RESTful
5 4 (1.78%) REST
6 3 (1.33%) CSS
6 3 (1.33%) HTML
6 3 (1.33%) Kafka
6 3 (1.33%) PySpark
6 3 (1.33%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.89%) ADO
7 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.89%) pytest
8 1 (0.44%) Express.js
8 1 (0.44%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.56%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.11%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.67%) CMDB
6 6 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.78%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.33%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.33%) NHS
9 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.89%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.22%) Windows
2 18 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.67%) Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (17.78%) Migration
5 35 (15.56%) Validation
6 33 (14.67%) Agile
7 30 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 29 (12.89%) ERP
8 29 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (9.78%) CI/CD
10 22 (9.78%) Data Migration
10 22 (9.78%) Project Management
11 21 (9.33%) Customer Service
11 21 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
12 20 (8.89%) Data Modelling
12 20 (8.89%) Logistics
12 20 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (8.44%) AI
13 19 (8.44%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.22%) SQL
2 17 (7.56%) Python
3 9 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.67%) C#
6 4 (1.78%) ABAP
6 4 (1.78%) Java
7 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.56%) Degree
4 6 (2.67%) ACCA
4 6 (2.67%) CIMA
4 6 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.22%) CISSP
5 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.33%) CISM
6 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.89%) CISA
7 2 (0.89%) CRISC
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.89%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.33%) GDPR
3 8 (3.56%) QA
4 6 (2.67%) PMO
5 4 (1.78%) SLA
6 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.89%) NIST
7 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.44%) IFRS
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.33%) Docker
3 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.00%) SCCM
3 7 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.22%) WSUS
5 4 (1.78%) Ansible
5 4 (1.78%) Terraform
6 2 (0.89%) Istio
6 2 (0.89%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) SCOM
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (14.22%) SAP
3 20 (8.89%) Oracle
4 14 (6.22%) Workday
5 10 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.56%) VMware
8 7 (3.11%) Databricks
9 5 (2.22%) Citrix
9 5 (2.22%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.78%) Google
11 3 (1.33%) Adobe
11 3 (1.33%) Apple
11 3 (1.33%) Concur
11 3 (1.33%) Samsung
12 2 (0.89%) MEDITECH
12 2 (0.89%) NetApp
12 2 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.44%) Meraki
13 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud