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 advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 240 286 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 27.78% 24.30% 25.94%
As % of the General category 39.09% 32.69% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 215 367
10th Percentile £156 £181 £200
25th Percentile £223 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £525
90th Percentile £646 £625 £588
Scotland median daily rate £430 £473 £425
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £13.09 £11.22 £16.76
25th Percentile £14.93 £12.31 £21.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.36 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% -64.54% +131.43%
75th Percentile £21.09 £16.17 £48.75
90th Percentile £22.94 £17.10 £51.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.47 £26.43
% change year-on-year +11.65% -33.91% +51.00%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 614 875 1,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.06% 74.34% 73.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 615 1,025
10th Percentile £158 £227 £230
25th Percentile £340 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £544 £564
90th Percentile £663 £600 £633
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 11
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.39 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.09 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -18.23% -49.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.67 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £33.27 £52.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.20 £19.88 £32.14
% change year-on-year -8.45% -38.15% +83.66%

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 5 June 2024.

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
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 11 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.33%) CMS
3 5 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.67%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.25%) WordPress
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.75%) Azure
2 28 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (8.75%) AWS
4 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 8 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (3.33%) IaaS
6 8 (3.33%) SaaS
7 7 (2.92%) Serverless
8 6 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 6 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.50%) GCP
8 6 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Intranet
1 8 (3.33%) LAN
2 6 (2.50%) WAN
3 3 (1.25%) Internet
4 2 (0.83%) FabricPath
4 2 (0.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.83%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.83%) VSAN
5 1 (0.42%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 9 (3.75%) Metadata
2 9 (3.75%) Power BI
3 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.67%) Big Data
5 4 (1.67%) GIS
5 4 (1.67%) Informix
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.67%) QGIS
6 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.25%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.25%) Tableau
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (5.00%) JIRA
2 11 (4.58%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.67%) Selenium
4 3 (1.25%) Git
4 3 (1.25%) JMeter
4 3 (1.25%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.83%) GitLab
5 2 (0.83%) Gradle
5 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.42%) JUnit
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) SilkCentral
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 111 (46.25%) Public Sector
2 50 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (17.08%) Finance
4 28 (11.67%) Banking
5 24 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (7.08%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.75%) Retail Banking
9 8 (3.33%) Back Office
9 8 (3.33%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (2.08%) Marketing
11 3 (1.25%) Billing
11 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) German Language
12 2 (0.83%) Legal
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Retail
13 1 (0.42%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (18.33%) Analyst
2 28 (11.67%) Senior
3 23 (9.58%) Architect
3 23 (9.58%) Support Officer
4 21 (8.75%) IT Support
5 17 (7.08%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.83%) Developer
7 13 (5.42%) Business Analyst
7 13 (5.42%) Infrastructure Support
7 13 (5.42%) Lead
8 11 (4.58%) Designer
8 11 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Consultant
9 10 (4.17%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.92%) AWS Architect
12 7 (2.92%) Coordinator
12 7 (2.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.75%) .NET
1 9 (3.75%) REST
2 8 (3.33%) SOAP
2 8 (3.33%) Web Services
3 6 (2.50%) AWS CDK
3 6 (2.50%) HTML
4 5 (2.08%) RESTful
4 5 (2.08%) Spring
5 4 (1.67%) CSS
5 4 (1.67%) Middleware
5 4 (1.67%) React
5 4 (1.67%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.25%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.25%) J2EE
6 3 (1.25%) Kafka
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.25%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.83%) ISPF
7 2 (0.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.33%) Social Media
3 6 (2.50%) Clustering
3 6 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.08%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.08%) Replication
5 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.25%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.83%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.83%) Video Editing
7 2 (0.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.33%) Windows
2 12 (5.00%) Linux
3 8 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.50%) Solaris
6 5 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.67%) Android
8 3 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.83%) Unix
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.83%) zOS
10 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.67%) Agile
2 47 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (14.17%) Migration
4 32 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (11.67%) Roadmaps
6 24 (10.00%) Scrum
7 23 (9.58%) Project Management
7 23 (9.58%) User Research
8 19 (7.92%) Analytics
8 19 (7.92%) Customer Service
9 18 (7.50%) Coaching
9 18 (7.50%) Service Design
10 17 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (6.67%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.67%) High Availability
11 16 (6.67%) Project Delivery
11 16 (6.67%) User Experience
12 15 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (5.83%) CI/CD
13 14 (5.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.58%) SQL
2 17 (7.08%) Java
3 11 (4.58%) PL/SQL
4 9 (3.75%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.08%) Python
7 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.25%) JCL
9 2 (0.83%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.83%) Groovy
9 2 (0.83%) Perl
9 2 (0.83%) REXX
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) VB
10 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (17.50%) Degree
2 18 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.50%) RHCE
7 5 (2.08%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.08%) MCP
7 5 (2.08%) MCSE
8 3 (1.25%) ISEB
8 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) ACCA
9 2 (0.83%) CIMA
9 2 (0.83%) CIPD
9 2 (0.83%) CIPFA
9 2 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) CISA
10 1 (0.42%) IIBA
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.75%) SLA
4 8 (3.33%) QA
5 7 (2.92%) PMO
6 3 (1.25%) WCAG
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.92%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.50%) KVM
5 5 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.08%) vSphere
6 2 (0.83%) ACF2
6 2 (0.83%) RACF
6 2 (0.83%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.42%) Docker
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (3.75%) SCCM
2 7 (2.92%) Terraform
2 7 (2.92%) WSUS
3 6 (2.50%) Ansible
3 6 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.83%) VxRail
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.67%) Oracle
3 10 (4.17%) VMware
4 8 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.92%) Cadence
6 6 (2.50%) Facebook
6 6 (2.50%) Google
6 6 (2.50%) Instagram
7 5 (2.08%) Cisco
7 5 (2.08%) Citrix
7 5 (2.08%) Dell
7 5 (2.08%) Twitter
7 5 (2.08%) YouTube
8 4 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.67%) Databricks
8 4 (1.67%) ESRI
8 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.25%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.25%) Brandwatch
9 3 (1.25%) Hootsuite