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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8,275 10,236 14,244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.23% 20.18% 20.09%
As % of the General category 38.07% 34.05% 35.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,224 6,817 9,369
10th Percentile £213 £250 £250
25th Percentile £387 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 739 432 654
10th Percentile £12.35 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £39.09 £60.18 £37.27
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £53.72
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £26.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -30.93% +38.16% +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 21,735 30,061 39,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.38% 59.27% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,043 21,036 27,800
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 1,004 1,332
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.05 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.49 £14.59
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.81 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% +61.91% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.61 £57.99
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £21.86
% change year-on-year -18.57% +60.11% -2.84%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +2 3,874 £550 -4.35% 3,734
North of England +1 1,189 £475 -5.00% 1,911
South East 0 1,130 £478 -5.45% 1,889
South West +2 683 £525 - 1,054
North West +3 649 £488 +2.63% 1,086
Midlands 0 626 £450 -10.00% 1,341
East of England 0 568 £475 +11.76% 908
Yorkshire 0 472 £450 -10.00% 609
West Midlands 0 452 £475 -6.86% 808
East Midlands +2 163 £269 -37.08% 532
North East +8 66 £523 +39.33% 261
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 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 217 (2.62%) Confluence
3 205 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 88 (1.06%) CMS
5 57 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 45 (0.54%) SAS
7 44 (0.53%) Apache
8 35 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 20 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 18 (0.22%) IIS
11 16 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 16 (0.19%) WordPress
12 15 (0.18%) nginx
13 14 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 11 (0.13%) Appian
16 10 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 9 (0.11%) CICS
17 9 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
17 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 622 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 459 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 217 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 100 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 83 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 39 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 36 (0.44%) Sketch
9 30 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 21 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 18 (0.22%) Adobe XD
12 14 (0.17%) Windchill
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
14 11 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
15 9 (0.11%) InDesign
16 8 (0.097%) InVision
17 6 (0.073%) Acrobat
17 6 (0.073%) Chatbot
17 6 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
17 6 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 217 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.51%) Primavera
4 36 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 33 (0.40%) Loan IQ
5 33 (0.40%) Shopify
6 32 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
7 31 (0.37%) Endur
8 30 (0.36%) SAP ERP
9 28 (0.34%) Teamcenter
10 27 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
10 27 (0.33%) SAP FI
11 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
11 22 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 21 (0.25%) SAP SD
13 19 (0.23%) SAP EWM
14 17 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
15 16 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
15 16 (0.19%) SAP CO
15 16 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (13.74%) Azure
2 609 (7.36%) AWS
3 563 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 234 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
6 201 (2.43%) GCP
7 158 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 133 (1.61%) Entra ID
9 124 (1.50%) Serverless
10 117 (1.41%) SaaS
11 113 (1.37%) GitHub
11 113 (1.37%) Power Automate
12 103 (1.24%) PowerApps
13 73 (0.88%) OCI
14 69 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (0.81%) Amazon S3
16 66 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 61 (0.74%) Figma
18 60 (0.73%) OneDrive
18 60 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 291 (3.52%) Firewall
2 197 (2.38%) DNS
3 179 (2.16%) LAN
4 176 (2.13%) VPN
5 172 (2.08%) WAN
6 130 (1.57%) DHCP
7 104 (1.26%) Network Security
8 96 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 84 (1.02%) Wireless
10 83 (1.00%) BGP
11 72 (0.87%) Internet
12 65 (0.79%) TCP/IP
13 60 (0.73%) SAN
14 57 (0.69%) MPLS
15 38 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 37 (0.45%) 5G
16 37 (0.45%) VLAN
17 35 (0.42%) Intranet
18 32 (0.39%) VoIP
19 30 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (4.05%) Power BI
2 253 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 168 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (1.58%) Relational Database
5 110 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 87 (1.05%) Tableau
7 81 (0.98%) Big Data
7 81 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 80 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 62 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 59 (0.71%) MySQL
11 57 (0.69%) Metadata
12 55 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 45 (0.54%) Oracle Database
14 42 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 40 (0.48%) Data Mining
16 36 (0.44%) Hadoop
17 35 (0.42%) SAP HANA
18 33 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 535 (6.47%) JIRA
2 190 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 188 (2.27%) Git
4 89 (1.08%) Selenium
5 79 (0.95%) GitLab
6 59 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 46 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 35 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 33 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 32 (0.39%) Postman
12 31 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 30 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (0.34%) webpack
15 27 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.30%) JUnit
16 25 (0.30%) Maven
17 24 (0.29%) Appium
17 24 (0.29%) WebDriver
18 19 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 1,832 (22.14%) Finance
2 1,619 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
3 617 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 543 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
5 456 (5.51%) Banking
6 365 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 359 (4.34%) Marketing
8 306 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 287 (3.47%) Retail
10 277 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 265 (3.20%) Manufacturing
12 230 (2.78%) Legal
13 148 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 143 (1.73%) Electronics
15 140 (1.69%) Front Office
16 131 (1.58%) Law
17 128 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 116 (1.40%) Investment Banking
19 108 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
20 98 (1.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,161 (14.03%) Analyst
2 734 (8.87%) Developer
3 682 (8.24%) Architect
4 628 (7.59%) Senior
5 621 (7.50%) Consultant
6 595 (7.19%) Project Manager
7 500 (6.04%) Lead
8 439 (5.31%) Business Analyst
9 252 (3.05%) Support Engineer
10 243 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
11 174 (2.10%) Administrator
12 160 (1.93%) IT Support
13 153 (1.85%) Data Analyst
14 152 (1.84%) Network Engineer
15 137 (1.66%) Service Analyst
16 135 (1.63%) Data Engineer
17 127 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
18 126 (1.52%) Software Engineer
19 122 (1.47%) Designer
20 114 (1.38%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (2.78%) .NET
2 188 (2.27%) React
3 186 (2.25%) HTML
4 171 (2.07%) CSS
5 159 (1.92%) REST
6 125 (1.51%) AngularJS
7 107 (1.29%) JSON
8 102 (1.23%) RESTful
9 100 (1.21%) XML
10 98 (1.18%) Node.js
11 88 (1.06%) Web Services
12 87 (1.05%) Kafka
13 67 (0.81%) .NET Core
14 63 (0.76%) Spring
15 61 (0.74%) .NET Framework
16 54 (0.65%) Middleware
17 43 (0.52%) YAML
18 39 (0.47%) SOAP
19 37 (0.45%) PySpark
20 36 (0.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 346 (4.18%) Management Information System
2 309 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 270 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 192 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 139 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 124 (1.50%) Driving Licence
7 109 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 106 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 92 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 91 (1.10%) CMDB
11 88 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 82 (0.99%) NHS
13 80 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 74 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 68 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 67 (0.81%) Life Science
17 62 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
18 61 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
19 60 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 58 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 930 (11.24%) Windows
2 394 (4.76%) Linux
3 356 (4.30%) Windows 10
4 237 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 125 (1.51%) Unix
6 103 (1.24%) Windows 7
7 90 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 84 (1.02%) Android
9 83 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.93%) Apple iOS
11 73 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
12 72 (0.87%) Mac OS
13 59 (0.71%) zOS
14 27 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 21 (0.25%) Windows NT
17 18 (0.22%) Mac OS X
18 16 (0.19%) VMS
19 13 (0.16%) Ubuntu
19 13 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,383 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,731 (20.92%) Agile
3 1,214 (14.67%) Project Management
4 1,084 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 802 (9.69%) Customer Service
6 736 (8.89%) DevOps
7 632 (7.64%) ITIL
8 591 (7.14%) Migration
9 589 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 554 (6.69%) Decision-Making
11 542 (6.55%) Computer Science
12 496 (5.99%) Analytics
13 478 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
14 440 (5.32%) CI/CD
15 439 (5.31%) Project Delivery
16 434 (5.24%) Change Management
17 412 (4.98%) Scrum
18 376 (4.54%) Service Management
19 363 (4.39%) Roadmaps
20 361 (4.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 764 (9.23%) SQL
2 641 (7.75%) Python
3 415 (5.02%) Java
4 359 (4.34%) C#
5 338 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 293 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 161 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 129 (1.56%) C++
9 86 (1.04%) C
10 75 (0.91%) Bash
11 53 (0.64%) Scala
12 48 (0.58%) Perl
13 44 (0.53%) Bicep
13 44 (0.53%) REXX
14 43 (0.52%) JCL
14 43 (0.52%) R
15 42 (0.51%) Shell Script
16 41 (0.50%) Go
16 41 (0.50%) PHP
16 41 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,367 (16.52%) Degree
2 1,290 (15.59%) Security Cleared
3 813 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 407 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 361 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 180 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 166 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 119 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 113 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 105 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 103 (1.24%) CCNA
11 103 (1.24%) PMP
12 83 (1.00%) CCNP
13 77 (0.93%) CISSP
14 70 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 50 (0.60%) Azure Certification
16 45 (0.54%) CISM
17 44 (0.53%) MCSE
18 43 (0.52%) MCP
19 42 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (5.09%) QA
2 296 (3.58%) SLA
3 260 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 191 (2.31%) PMO
5 122 (1.47%) NIST
6 111 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 93 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 91 (1.10%) GDPR
9 52 (0.63%) NIST 800
10 40 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
12 31 (0.37%) GRC
13 25 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.23%) NCSC
15 18 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (0.22%) MiFID
16 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 15 (0.18%) SEPA
18 14 (0.17%) EMIR
19 13 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 569 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 213 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 162 (1.96%) Docker
4 77 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 73 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.79%) Firmware
7 50 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 48 (0.58%) vSphere
10 43 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
11 32 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 23 (0.28%) RACF
14 19 (0.23%) ACF2
14 19 (0.23%) KVM
15 17 (0.21%) NFS
16 16 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 11 (0.13%) Microcode
17 11 (0.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 245 (2.96%) SCCM
2 215 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 203 (2.45%) Terraform
4 173 (2.09%) Ansible
5 151 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 63 (0.76%) WSUS
7 61 (0.74%) Puppet
8 58 (0.70%) SCOM
9 51 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 40 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (0.45%) NetBackup
12 35 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 33 (0.40%) Grafana
14 29 (0.35%) PowerCLI
15 28 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
16 25 (0.30%) OMEGAMON
17 24 (0.29%) Prometheus
18 23 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
19 21 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 21 (0.25%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,729 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 617 (7.46%) SAP
3 342 (4.13%) Oracle
4 266 (3.21%) VMware
5 258 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 237 (2.86%) Cisco
7 174 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 158 (1.91%) Google
9 139 (1.68%) Adobe
10 129 (1.56%) HP
11 122 (1.47%) IBM
12 106 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 102 (1.23%) Dell
14 97 (1.17%) Databricks
15 88 (1.06%) Citrix
16 84 (1.02%) Splunk
17 70 (0.85%) Apple
18 62 (0.75%) Ariba
19 57 (0.69%) Palo Alto
20 54 (0.65%) Juniper