Social Skills Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 137 167 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.85% 21.60% 17.64%
As % of the General category 42.28% 43.26% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 124 132
10th Percentile £156 £162 £150
25th Percentile £250 £200 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £269 £413
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -34.79% -2.94%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £525
90th Percentile £559 £638 £600
England median daily rate £501 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 19
10th Percentile £14.94 - £11.64
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £15.81 £14.72 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.03% +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.28 £19.50 £20.46
90th Percentile £23.38 £26.15 £30.00
England median hourly rate £24.50 £18.16 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.91% -27.36% +38.89%

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 common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 324 386 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.13% 49.94% 53.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 255 427
10th Percentile £201 £160 £213
25th Percentile £319 £230 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £575
90th Percentile £579 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 41
10th Percentile £14.45 £12.20 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.68 £13.88 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.40% +0.79%
75th Percentile £30.30 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.91 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 April 2025. 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 +3 40 £500 -3.85% 123
Leicestershire 0 35 £250 -6.37% 126
Northamptonshire +5 29 £414 +3.50% 77
Derbyshire -2 21 £475 +93.88% 100
Lincolnshire +1 9 £300 -52.00% 63
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.73%) Luigi
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.19%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.73%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.46%) Exstream
3 2 (1.46%) Primavera
3 2 (1.46%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.46%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.73%) Actimize
4 1 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.14%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) AWS
3 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.84%) GCP
4 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.65%) Asana
5 5 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.46%) Serverless
7 2 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.73%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.73%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) LAN
1 3 (2.19%) VLAN
2 2 (1.46%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.46%) WAN
3 1 (0.73%) ATM
3 1 (0.73%) BGP
3 1 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.73%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) Power BI
2 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.46%) Power Query
4 2 (1.46%) Tableau
5 1 (0.73%) Big Data
5 1 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.73%) Looker
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.30%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.46%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.46%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.73%) Postman
5 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 24 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (17.52%) Finance
2 12 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
2 12 (8.76%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (5.84%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.38%) Banking
4 6 (4.38%) Retail
5 4 (2.92%) Local Government
5 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.19%) Marketing
7 2 (1.46%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Advertising
8 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.73%) Automotive
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Games
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (12.41%) Project Manager
2 14 (10.22%) Consultant
3 12 (8.76%) Analyst
4 8 (5.84%) IT Manager
4 8 (5.84%) Senior
5 7 (5.11%) Lead
6 6 (4.38%) Architect
6 6 (4.38%) IT Project Manager
6 6 (4.38%) IT Support
6 6 (4.38%) Programme Manager
7 5 (3.65%) Developer
8 4 (2.92%) Business Analyst
8 4 (2.92%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.92%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.19%) IT Support Technician
9 3 (2.19%) IT Technician
9 3 (2.19%) Team Leader
9 3 (2.19%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.19%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (1.46%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (1.46%) Kafka
1 2 (1.46%) POSIX
2 1 (0.73%) Akka
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.73%) Play Framework
2 1 (0.73%) PySpark
2 1 (0.73%) RESTful
2 1 (0.73%) Spring
2 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.73%) Web Services
2 1 (0.73%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
1 5 (3.65%) Smartphone
2 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.92%) EPoS
2 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.19%) iPhone
3 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.73%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.84%) Android
1 8 (5.84%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (22.63%) Project Management
3 29 (21.17%) Agile
4 28 (20.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (13.87%) Migration
6 17 (12.41%) Computer Science
7 15 (10.95%) Customer Service
7 15 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (9.49%) Risk Management
9 12 (8.76%) Analytics
9 12 (8.76%) Data Governance
10 11 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (8.03%) Process Improvement
11 10 (7.30%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.57%) Data Analytics
12 9 (6.57%) Decision-Making
13 8 (5.84%) DevOps
13 8 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (5.84%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.95%) Python
2 10 (7.30%) SQL
3 5 (3.65%) Java
4 3 (2.19%) Bash
4 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.46%) C
5 2 (1.46%) C++
5 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.46%) Scala
6 1 (0.73%) Bicep
6 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.73%) R
6 1 (0.73%) Tcl
6 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.25%) Degree
2 13 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.65%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.65%) PMP
6 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.19%) CCENT
7 3 (2.19%) CCNA
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (2.19%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.46%) CISM
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
8 2 (1.46%) CRISC
9 1 (0.73%) AAT
9 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.68%) QA
2 10 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.65%) PMO
4 3 (2.19%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.46%) GRC
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.46%) MISRA
5 2 (1.46%) MISRA C
5 2 (1.46%) NEBOSH
5 2 (1.46%) NIST
5 2 (1.46%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.73%) MiFID
6 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.92%) BitLocker
2 4 (2.92%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.92%) SCCM
3 3 (2.19%) AirWatch
3 3 (2.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) SAP
3 6 (4.38%) Apple
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco
4 3 (2.19%) Google
5 2 (1.46%) OpenText
5 2 (1.46%) QNX
5 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.73%) Avaya
6 1 (0.73%) Citrix
6 1 (0.73%) Databricks
6 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.73%) IBM
6 1 (0.73%) Logitech
6 1 (0.73%) Marketo
6 1 (0.73%) Meraki
6 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle
6 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) Siemens