Social Skills Contract Job Trends 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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 178 179 269
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 30.48% 28.50% 29.69%
As % of the General category 42.18% 38.41% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 118 172
10th Percentile £145 £175 £150
25th Percentile £274 £264 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £531 £519 £539
90th Percentile £599 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £439 £475
% change year-on-year +2.62% -7.68% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - £13.38 £11.98
25th Percentile - £13.64 £12.47
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £13.54
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +77.25% -8.88%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.18 £18.34
90th Percentile £54.30 - £21.06
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £22.47 £16.00
% change year-on-year -20.47% +40.44% -

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 422 466 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 72.26% 74.20% 75.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 248 422
10th Percentile £170 £192 £172
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £544 £538 £559
90th Percentile £600 £638 £631
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.22% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 10
10th Percentile £16.60 £14.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £20.69 £16.62
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.09 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% -16.74% +58.68%
75th Percentile £38.63 £24.18 £58.43
90th Percentile £68.13 £49.19 £61.60
Scotland median hourly rate £18.87 £23.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year -17.96% +19.92% +13.26%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.93%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.69%) Trello
6 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.54%) Azure
2 21 (11.80%) AWS
3 16 (8.99%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.06%) Power Automate
7 8 (4.49%) GitHub
8 7 (3.93%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.93%) Serverless
9 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.37%) GCP
10 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.69%) Figma
11 3 (1.69%) SaaS
12 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) Firewall
1 4 (2.25%) Network Security
1 4 (2.25%) VPN
2 2 (1.12%) DHCP
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.12%) LAN
2 2 (1.12%) VLAN
3 1 (0.56%) BGP
3 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) OSPF
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
3 1 (0.56%) Wireless
3 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.62%) Power BI
2 6 (3.37%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Redis
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (7.87%) JIRA
2 6 (3.37%) ClearCase
3 4 (2.25%) Git
3 4 (2.25%) GitLab
3 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.69%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.12%) Subversion
5 2 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) Storybook
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (26.97%) Finance
2 41 (23.03%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 7 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.81%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.81%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Billing
8 3 (1.69%) Electronics
8 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (11.24%) Analyst
2 19 (10.67%) Senior
3 14 (7.87%) Developer
4 12 (6.74%) Project Manager
4 12 (6.74%) Support Officer
5 10 (5.62%) Consultant
5 10 (5.62%) Lead
6 9 (5.06%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.06%) Network Engineer
7 8 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (3.37%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (3.37%) Project Officer
8 6 (3.37%) Project Support Officer
8 6 (3.37%) Security Engineer
8 6 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (2.81%) Architect
9 5 (2.81%) Business Consultant
9 5 (2.81%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Officer
9 5 (2.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.49%) RESTful
2 6 (3.37%) REST
3 5 (2.81%) OAuth
4 4 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.69%) .NET
5 3 (1.69%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.69%) JWT
5 3 (1.69%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.69%) React
6 2 (1.12%) CSS
6 2 (1.12%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.12%) HTML
6 2 (1.12%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.12%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.12%) SAML
6 2 (1.12%) Spring
6 2 (1.12%) XML
7 1 (0.56%) Kafka
7 1 (0.56%) Node.js
7 1 (0.56%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.69%) EPoS
6 3 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.12%) FPGA
7 2 (1.12%) PCIe
7 2 (1.12%) VHDL
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Linux
1 19 (10.67%) Windows
2 7 (3.93%) Unix
3 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Android
4 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.45%) Agile
2 52 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (23.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (17.42%) DevOps
5 30 (16.85%) Project Management
6 24 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (12.92%) Data Protection
8 18 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
8 18 (10.11%) Project Delivery
9 15 (8.43%) Change Management
9 15 (8.43%) Data Analysis
10 14 (7.87%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.87%) Migration
10 14 (7.87%) Scrum
11 13 (7.30%) Customer Service
11 13 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (7.30%) ITSM
11 13 (7.30%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.30%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.11%) Java
2 16 (8.99%) Python
2 16 (8.99%) SQL
3 11 (6.18%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.62%) C
5 9 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.49%) C#
7 7 (3.93%) C++
8 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.25%) Go
9 4 (2.25%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.12%) Perl
10 2 (1.12%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.56%) Bash
11 1 (0.56%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) Degree
2 13 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.25%) CISSP
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.69%) HND
7 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) ISEB
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (5.62%) GDPR
2 10 (5.62%) QA
3 8 (4.49%) PMO
4 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.12%) COBIT
6 2 (1.12%) DO-254
6 2 (1.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.56%) P3O
7 1 (0.56%) PSD2
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.49%) Grafana
3 5 (2.81%) Ansible
3 5 (2.81%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.81%) Terraform
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
4 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.56%) linkerd
4 1 (0.56%) logstash
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.56%) vRealize
4 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.74%) Oracle
3 11 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.93%) Cisco
5 6 (3.37%) NetApp
5 6 (3.37%) SAP
6 3 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.69%) ForgeRock
6 3 (1.69%) Splunk
6 3 (1.69%) Spotify
6 3 (1.69%) VMware
7 2 (1.12%) Altera
7 2 (1.12%) Apple
7 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.12%) Google
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.12%) Workday
7 2 (1.12%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce