Social Skills Contracts in Edinburgh

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 176 238 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.16% 29.20% 21.80%
As % of the General category 36.51% 39.02% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 154 209
10th Percentile £193 £156 £181
25th Percentile £400 £282 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £558
90th Percentile £636 £649 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £18.54 £12.96 £11.94
25th Percentile £21.00 £14.61 £14.11
Median hourly rate £22.88 £17.37 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +31.73% -2.00% -62.69%
75th Percentile £29.48 £20.12 -
90th Percentile £45.80 £21.77 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £19.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +7.38% +10.05% -47.38%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 482 610 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.12% 74.85% 72.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 688
10th Percentile £199 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 7
10th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +64.63% -46.85%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £31.34
90th Percentile £52.90 £67.23 £51.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 17 (9.66%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.55%) Confluence
3 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) Drupal
6 1 (0.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) iTrent
2 2 (1.14%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.57%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.05%) Azure
2 21 (11.93%) AWS
3 17 (9.66%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.98%) Serverless
7 6 (3.41%) SaaS
8 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.84%) IaaS
8 5 (2.84%) PaaS
9 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.11%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (1.70%) Internet
2 3 (1.70%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) Firewall
3 2 (1.14%) Intranet
3 2 (1.14%) LAN
3 2 (1.14%) MPLS
3 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) IPsec
4 1 (0.57%) SDH
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.57%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.39%) Power BI
2 9 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.84%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.27%) Power Query
5 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.70%) Tableau
7 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.14%) GIS
7 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.57%) MS Access
8 1 (0.57%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.57%) QlikView
8 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) JIRA
2 6 (3.41%) Cypress.io
2 6 (3.41%) Git
3 5 (2.84%) Selenium
4 4 (2.27%) Postman
5 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.70%) GitLab
5 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.70%) Subversion
5 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.70%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.57%) MSTest
6 1 (0.57%) NUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.57%) TestRail
6 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (34.66%) Public Sector
2 58 (32.95%) Finance
3 45 (25.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.07%) Banking
5 12 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Retail Banking
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Law
9 3 (1.70%) Legal
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Electronics
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (21.59%) Analyst
2 21 (11.93%) Lead
3 20 (11.36%) Senior
4 16 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 12 (6.82%) Developer
6 11 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) Architect
7 9 (5.11%) Data Analyst
8 7 (3.98%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.98%) Service Desk Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) Consultant
9 6 (3.41%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Exchange Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Exchange Support
10 5 (2.84%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Service Desk Support
10 5 (2.84%) Support Officer
10 5 (2.84%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.55%) XML
2 7 (3.98%) JSON
3 6 (3.41%) CSS
3 6 (3.41%) HTML
3 6 (3.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.27%) .NET
4 4 (2.27%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.27%) REST
4 4 (2.27%) SOAP
5 3 (1.70%) React
5 3 (1.70%) Web Services
6 2 (1.14%) Core Data
6 2 (1.14%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) Next.js
6 2 (1.14%) Node.js
6 2 (1.14%) Playwright
6 2 (1.14%) React Native
6 2 (1.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.14%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.68%) Device Driver
3 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.27%) CMDB
7 4 (2.27%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.27%) Replication
8 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.50%) Windows
2 10 (5.68%) Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.84%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.27%) Solaris
6 3 (1.70%) HPUX
6 3 (1.70%) Unix
7 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.93%) Agile
2 59 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (15.34%) DevOps
5 23 (13.07%) Project Delivery
6 22 (12.50%) ITIL
6 22 (12.50%) Project Management
7 20 (11.36%) Migration
8 16 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 16 (9.09%) Risk Management
9 15 (8.52%) Business Analysis
9 15 (8.52%) Time Management
10 13 (7.39%) Analytics
10 13 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (7.39%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.82%) Customer Service
11 12 (6.82%) Roadmaps
11 12 (6.82%) Waterfall
12 11 (6.25%) Test Automation
12 11 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.36%) JavaScript
2 18 (10.23%) SQL
3 16 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.11%) C#
5 8 (4.55%) VBA
6 7 (3.98%) Java
6 7 (3.98%) Python
7 4 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.70%) Bash
8 3 (1.70%) C++
8 3 (1.70%) VBScript
9 2 (1.14%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.14%) Swift
9 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.57%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (13.07%) Degree
2 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.55%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.84%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.27%) CIMA
5 4 (2.27%) ISEB
6 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.14%) CISSP
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) HNC
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.50%) QA
2 20 (11.36%) Disclosure Scotland
3 8 (4.55%) PMO
4 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) P3O
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.70%) Hyper-V
1 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (1.14%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) linkerd
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) Oracle
3 9 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.55%) VMware
5 7 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.41%) Citrix
7 4 (2.27%) IBM
8 3 (1.70%) Cisco
8 3 (1.70%) Databricks
8 3 (1.70%) Sun
8 3 (1.70%) Unisys
9 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.14%) Informatica
9 2 (1.14%) Teradata
9 2 (1.14%) Workday
10 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.57%) Meraki
10 1 (0.57%) Pega
10 1 (0.57%) Qualys