Social Skills Contracts in the East of England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 555 498 769
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 29.03% 24.63% 29.79%
As % of the General category 47.03% 40.82% 49.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 257 384
10th Percentile £180 £161 £139
25th Percentile £300 £231 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £638 £613
England median daily rate £513 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -4.38% +2.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 129 199
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £13.41 £12.50
Median hourly rate £27.67 £14.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.83% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £38.12 £25.52 £14.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.90 £17.65
England median hourly rate £18.07 £25.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -27.74% +38.89% -

All General Skills
East of England

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,180 1,220 1,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.72% 60.34% 59.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 667 796
10th Percentile £231 £200 £161
25th Percentile £350 £303 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £490 £460
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.52% +8.24%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £550
90th Percentile £660 £736 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 258 332
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.20 £22.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £55.90
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.86% +50.70% -4.44%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the East of England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +2 252 £370 -14.94% 278
Cambridgeshire -1 136 £425 -5.56% 286
Bedfordshire 0 88 £525 +40.00% 72
Essex +3 41 £425 +6.38% 156
Suffolk +1 24 £475 +2.70% 91
Norfolk -1 14 £488 +167.12% 110
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 20 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.62%) Confluence
4 4 (0.72%) Apache
4 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.72%) Appian
4 4 (0.72%) IIS
5 3 (0.54%) Alfresco
5 3 (0.54%) Camunda
5 3 (0.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 62 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.62%) Photoshop
4 6 (1.08%) Windchill
5 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.18%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 31 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.80%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.44%) SAP SD
4 5 (0.90%) SAP GTS
5 4 (0.72%) Magento
5 4 (0.72%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.72%) Shopify
6 3 (0.54%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.36%) Primavera
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.18%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (5.77%) Azure
2 27 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (3.24%) AWS
4 14 (2.52%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.08%) Serverless
6 5 (0.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (0.90%) GCP
6 5 (0.90%) Google Sheets
7 4 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.72%) SaaS
7 4 (0.72%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.36%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.36%) GitHub
9 2 (0.36%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.05%) Modbus
1 28 (5.05%) RS-422
1 28 (5.05%) RS-485
2 16 (2.88%) VPN
3 15 (2.70%) Firewall
4 14 (2.52%) Network Security
5 10 (1.80%) 4G
5 10 (1.80%) 5G
6 9 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.44%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.08%) Ethernet
8 6 (1.08%) Intranet
8 6 (1.08%) Wireless
9 5 (0.90%) LAN
10 4 (0.72%) WAN
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (0.36%) DHCP
12 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.34%) Power BI
2 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (0.90%) GIS
2 5 (0.90%) SAP HANA
2 5 (0.90%) Tableau
3 4 (0.72%) Big Data
3 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.54%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.36%) Looker
5 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.36%) Presto
5 2 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.88%) JIRA
2 8 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.08%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.72%) Git
4 4 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) Maven
5 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) CMake
6 1 (0.18%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) Subversion
6 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 112 (20.18%) Finance
2 80 (14.41%) Organisational Skills
3 72 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.61%) Influencing Skills
5 66 (11.89%) Electronics
6 55 (9.91%) Manufacturing
7 43 (7.75%) Aerospace
8 40 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (6.85%) Retail
10 37 (6.67%) Marketing
11 32 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 18 (3.24%) Telecoms
13 15 (2.70%) German Language
14 14 (2.52%) Hungarian Language
14 14 (2.52%) Public Sector
15 13 (2.34%) Dutch Language
16 9 (1.62%) Legal
16 9 (1.62%) Military
17 8 (1.44%) Law
17 8 (1.44%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 67 (12.07%) Analyst
2 47 (8.47%) Architect
3 36 (6.49%) Software Engineer
4 31 (5.59%) Service Analyst
4 31 (5.59%) Service Desk Analyst
4 31 (5.59%) Test Architect
5 29 (5.23%) Consultant
6 26 (4.68%) Project Manager
7 25 (4.50%) Developer
8 24 (4.32%) Lead
8 24 (4.32%) Senior
9 23 (4.14%) C++ Software Engineer
9 23 (4.14%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (3.24%) Administrator
12 14 (2.52%) Call Centre Analyst
12 14 (2.52%) Customer Analyst
12 14 (2.52%) Customer Service Analyst
13 13 (2.34%) Support Analyst
14 12 (2.16%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.98%) Yocto
2 9 (1.62%) .NET
3 8 (1.44%) Node.js
3 8 (1.44%) Web Services
4 7 (1.26%) HTML
5 6 (1.08%) CSS
5 6 (1.08%) Middleware
6 5 (0.90%) REST
7 4 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.72%) Visualforce
8 3 (0.54%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.54%) Drools
8 3 (0.54%) jBPM
8 3 (0.54%) JSON
8 3 (0.54%) React
9 2 (0.36%) FFmpeg
9 2 (0.36%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.36%) Kafka
9 2 (0.36%) RESTful
9 2 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.21%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (5.59%) Analogue Electronics
3 18 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.16%) Life Science
5 8 (1.44%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.26%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.26%) STB
7 6 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (0.90%) Digital TV
8 5 (0.90%) Graphic Design
9 4 (0.72%) CMDB
9 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.54%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.54%) iPad
10 3 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.75%) Windows
2 31 (5.59%) Linux
3 6 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.54%) Android
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (23.78%) Project Management
2 129 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (21.26%) Customer Service
4 90 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 78 (14.05%) Agile
6 52 (9.37%) Business Strategy
7 51 (9.19%) ITIL
8 47 (8.47%) Business Development
9 46 (8.29%) Software Engineering
10 42 (7.57%) Service Delivery
11 41 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (7.39%) Customer Requirements
12 39 (7.03%) DevOps
13 38 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
13 38 (6.85%) Unit Testing
14 36 (6.49%) TDD
15 35 (6.31%) Time Management
16 34 (6.13%) Incident Management
16 34 (6.13%) Mathematics
16 34 (6.13%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.75%) C
2 40 (7.21%) C#
3 37 (6.67%) C++
4 28 (5.05%) SQL
5 19 (3.42%) Python
6 14 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.16%) Java
8 7 (1.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.72%) R
11 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) VB
13 1 (0.18%) Ada
13 1 (0.18%) Bicep
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 84 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.51%) Degree
3 62 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.68%) MCP
5 21 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.70%) CCNA
7 13 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.08%) PMP
12 5 (0.90%) MCSE
12 5 (0.90%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.72%) MCSA
14 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.54%) CCNP
14 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.52%) SLA
3 10 (1.80%) PMO
3 10 (1.80%) QA
4 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.08%) GDPR
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
6 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.90%) Firmware
4 3 (0.54%) Docker
5 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (2.70%) SCCM
2 6 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.72%) Terraform
4 3 (0.54%) WSUS
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.18%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) SCOM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 74 (13.33%) SAP
3 26 (4.68%) Cisco
4 13 (2.34%) Ariba
5 11 (1.98%) Citrix
5 11 (1.98%) Google
5 11 (1.98%) Juniper
5 11 (1.98%) VMware
6 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.72%) Adobe
8 4 (0.72%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.72%) Pega
9 3 (0.54%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.54%) Apple
9 3 (0.54%) F5
9 3 (0.54%) NetApp
9 3 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.54%) Siemens