Social Skills Contracts in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8,055 9,813 14,278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.14% 20.37% 20.31%
As % of the General category 38.03% 34.34% 35.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,061 6,576 9,375
10th Percentile £225 £250 £250
25th Percentile £385 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £667 £640
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 406 642
10th Percentile £12.41 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £38.75 £59.95 £39.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.63
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £25.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.71% +32.89% +5.56%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,183 28,577 39,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.22% 59.31% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,071 27,958
10th Percentile £281 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £790 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 929 1,300
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +1 3,781 £545 -5.22% 3,322
North of England +1 1,129 £475 -5.00% 2,051
South East 0 1,083 £488 -4.41% 1,852
South West +1 684 £525 -0.47% 1,073
Midlands 0 623 £450 -6.25% 1,545
North West +2 599 £475 - 1,133
East of England 0 541 £464 +9.12% 922
Yorkshire +1 467 £475 -5.00% 679
West Midlands 0 447 £475 -5.00% 931
East Midlands +3 169 £269 -32.75% 613
North East +7 60 £525 +40.00% 277
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 317 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 222 (2.76%) Confluence
3 206 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 87 (1.08%) CMS
5 53 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.57%) SAS
7 44 (0.55%) Apache
8 36 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
9 18 (0.22%) IIS
10 17 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 15 (0.19%) nginx
12 14 (0.17%) WordPress
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 12 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
14 12 (0.15%) Appian
15 11 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 9 (0.11%) CICS
16 9 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 585 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
2 480 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 229 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 122 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 90 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
7 41 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 30 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 29 (0.36%) Sketch
10 18 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 15 (0.19%) Adobe XD
12 11 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
12 11 (0.14%) Windchill
13 10 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
14 9 (0.11%) InDesign
15 8 (0.099%) Chatbot
16 7 (0.087%) Maya
17 6 (0.074%) Acrobat
17 6 (0.074%) InVision
17 6 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 196 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 32 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 32 (0.40%) Primavera
5 31 (0.38%) Endur
6 30 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 30 (0.37%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 27 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 22 (0.27%) SAP EWM
10 20 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 20 (0.25%) Teamcenter
11 19 (0.24%) Loan IQ
12 18 (0.22%) NetSuite
12 18 (0.22%) SAP CO
12 18 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
13 17 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,125 (13.97%) Azure
2 576 (7.15%) AWS
3 536 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
4 429 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 233 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (2.64%) GCP
7 177 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 133 (1.65%) Entra ID
9 125 (1.55%) GitHub
10 117 (1.45%) SaaS
11 115 (1.43%) Serverless
12 113 (1.40%) Power Automate
13 107 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 72 (0.89%) OCI
15 70 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 64 (0.79%) PaaS
17 59 (0.73%) Amazon S3
17 59 (0.73%) OneDrive
18 57 (0.71%) IaaS
19 55 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 286 (3.55%) Firewall
2 194 (2.41%) DNS
3 167 (2.07%) WAN
4 160 (1.99%) LAN
5 155 (1.92%) VPN
6 127 (1.58%) DHCP
7 87 (1.08%) Network Security
8 84 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 78 (0.97%) Internet
10 77 (0.96%) BGP
10 77 (0.96%) Wireless
11 71 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 62 (0.77%) SAN
13 52 (0.65%) MPLS
14 38 (0.47%) VLAN
15 37 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 36 (0.45%) Intranet
17 34 (0.42%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.40%) HTTP
19 31 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (4.31%) Power BI
2 262 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 150 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 112 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 88 (1.09%) Tableau
7 84 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 83 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 82 (1.02%) Big Data
10 61 (0.76%) MySQL
11 58 (0.72%) MongoDB
12 54 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (0.63%) Metadata
14 48 (0.60%) Oracle Database
15 43 (0.53%) Data Mining
16 40 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 37 (0.46%) SAP HANA
18 33 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.40%) Hadoop
20 30 (0.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 521 (6.47%) JIRA
2 196 (2.43%) Git
3 190 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 96 (1.19%) Selenium
5 94 (1.17%) GitLab
6 57 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 47 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 46 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 41 (0.51%) Postman
10 38 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 35 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 32 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 30 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.36%) WebDriver
15 28 (0.35%) Appium
16 24 (0.30%) JUnit
17 22 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 22 (0.27%) webpack
18 18 (0.22%) Maven
19 17 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 1,787 (22.18%) Finance
2 1,590 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
3 583 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 530 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
5 467 (5.80%) Banking
6 366 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
7 363 (4.51%) Marketing
8 297 (3.69%) Retail
9 278 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 258 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
11 252 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 222 (2.76%) Legal
13 158 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 131 (1.63%) Front Office
15 128 (1.59%) Electronics
16 126 (1.56%) Law
17 113 (1.40%) Investment Banking
18 110 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
19 102 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
20 97 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,157 (14.36%) Analyst
2 709 (8.80%) Developer
3 659 (8.18%) Architect
4 636 (7.90%) Senior
5 598 (7.42%) Project Manager
6 585 (7.26%) Consultant
7 489 (6.07%) Lead
8 427 (5.30%) Business Analyst
9 238 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
10 235 (2.92%) Support Engineer
11 170 (2.11%) Administrator
12 158 (1.96%) Data Analyst
13 146 (1.81%) IT Support
14 143 (1.78%) Network Engineer
15 138 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
16 134 (1.66%) Service Analyst
17 128 (1.59%) Software Engineer
18 126 (1.56%) Data Engineer
19 114 (1.42%) Designer
20 108 (1.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (2.89%) .NET
2 185 (2.30%) HTML
3 180 (2.23%) React
4 170 (2.11%) CSS
5 149 (1.85%) REST
6 117 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 104 (1.29%) XML
8 102 (1.27%) JSON
9 100 (1.24%) RESTful
9 100 (1.24%) Web Services
10 92 (1.14%) Kafka
11 91 (1.13%) Node.js
12 68 (0.84%) .NET Framework
13 67 (0.83%) Spring
14 60 (0.74%) Middleware
15 59 (0.73%) .NET Core
16 45 (0.56%) YAML
17 39 (0.48%) ARM Templates
18 38 (0.47%) SOAP
19 37 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 328 (4.07%) Management Information System
2 312 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
3 269 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 179 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 137 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 115 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 106 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 105 (1.30%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 90 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 85 (1.06%) NHS
12 84 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 82 (1.02%) CMDB
14 69 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 69 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
15 67 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 66 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 65 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
18 61 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
18 61 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 876 (10.88%) Windows
2 400 (4.97%) Linux
3 336 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 226 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 127 (1.58%) Unix
6 89 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 88 (1.09%) Windows 7
8 85 (1.06%) Android
9 82 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 69 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 69 (0.86%) Mac OS
12 60 (0.74%) zOS
13 23 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (0.24%) Windows NT
16 17 (0.21%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.20%) Windows XP
18 14 (0.17%) VMS
19 13 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,290 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,737 (21.56%) Agile
3 1,186 (14.72%) Project Management
4 1,050 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 754 (9.36%) Customer Service
6 738 (9.16%) DevOps
7 583 (7.24%) Migration
8 575 (7.14%) ITIL
9 566 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 546 (6.78%) Decision-Making
11 535 (6.64%) Computer Science
12 511 (6.34%) Analytics
13 471 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
14 443 (5.50%) CI/CD
15 434 (5.39%) Project Delivery
16 431 (5.35%) Change Management
17 402 (4.99%) Scrum
18 366 (4.54%) Software Engineering
19 358 (4.44%) Roadmaps
20 336 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 763 (9.47%) SQL
2 636 (7.90%) Python
3 405 (5.03%) Java
4 365 (4.53%) C#
5 334 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 302 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 146 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 134 (1.66%) C++
9 92 (1.14%) Bash
10 82 (1.02%) C
11 52 (0.65%) Scala
12 49 (0.61%) Bicep
13 48 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 46 (0.57%) Perl
15 45 (0.56%) Go
16 44 (0.55%) REXX
17 43 (0.53%) JCL
17 43 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 43 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 39 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 1,331 (16.52%) Degree
2 1,248 (15.49%) Security Cleared
3 785 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 400 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 364 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 171 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
7 166 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 111 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 109 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 104 (1.29%) CCNA
10 104 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 101 (1.25%) PMP
12 79 (0.98%) CCNP
13 76 (0.94%) CISSP
14 68 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 49 (0.61%) Azure Certification
16 47 (0.58%) CISM
17 45 (0.56%) MCSE
18 37 (0.46%) MCP
19 35 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (4.99%) QA
2 282 (3.50%) SLA
3 253 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 193 (2.40%) PMO
5 126 (1.56%) NIST
6 110 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 106 (1.32%) GDPR
8 91 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (0.66%) NIST 800
10 44 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
12 32 (0.40%) GRC
13 21 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.24%) NCSC
15 16 (0.20%) MiFID
15 16 (0.20%) SEPA
16 14 (0.17%) EMIR
16 14 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 543 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 197 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 180 (2.23%) Docker
4 75 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.78%) Firmware
7 50 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 48 (0.60%) vSphere
9 47 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 43 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
11 34 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.31%) RACF
13 24 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 19 (0.24%) ACF2
15 18 (0.22%) NFS
16 15 (0.19%) KVM
17 12 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
18 11 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
18 11 (0.14%) Microcode
18 11 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 233 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 227 (2.82%) SCCM
3 206 (2.56%) Terraform
4 175 (2.17%) Ansible
5 135 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 64 (0.79%) WSUS
7 63 (0.78%) SCOM
8 61 (0.76%) Puppet
9 48 (0.60%) vCenter Server
10 40 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 38 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.45%) Grafana
13 33 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.35%) Prometheus
15 27 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 27 (0.34%) PowerCLI
16 26 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
17 25 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
18 22 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 19 (0.24%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,717 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 571 (7.09%) SAP
3 354 (4.39%) Oracle
4 255 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 249 (3.09%) VMware
6 217 (2.69%) Cisco
7 171 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 162 (2.01%) Google
9 123 (1.53%) IBM
10 121 (1.50%) HP
11 120 (1.49%) Adobe
12 109 (1.35%) Dell
13 104 (1.29%) Databricks
14 94 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 87 (1.08%) Splunk
16 80 (0.99%) Citrix
17 65 (0.81%) Apple
18 61 (0.76%) F5
19 55 (0.68%) Palo Alto
20 51 (0.63%) Juniper