Social Skills Contracts in Essex

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Essex. 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 2 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 22 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 27.50% 18.92% 16.32%
As % of the General category 46.81% 35.90% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 27
10th Percentile £315 £290 £200
25th Percentile £318 £347 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £300
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +41.67% -39.39%
75th Percentile £472 £528 £556
90th Percentile £538 £588 £604
East of England median daily rate £479 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +6.39% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.17 £10.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.99% -58.32% +38.89%
75th Percentile £21.52 £35.65 £27.50
90th Percentile £29.38 - -
East of England median hourly rate £33.75 £24.59 £14.50
% change year-on-year +37.28% +69.55% +7.41%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 47 117 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 58.75% 52.70% 59.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 96
10th Percentile £216 £250 £189
25th Percentile £317 £306 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% -4.64%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £531
90th Percentile £515 £641 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 9
10th Percentile - £10.42 £20.79
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.65 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -19.94% +107.12%
75th Percentile £30.00 £64.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £38.00 £78.50 £76.61
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -17.00% +81.52% +44.83%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Essex

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Essex

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Essex

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Essex

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Essex

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Basildon +8 8 £318 - 28
Brentwood -1 3 £400 +33.33% 10
Tilbury - 3 - - 2
Benfleet - 2 - -
Chelmsford +1 1 £325 +5.69% 32
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) dbt
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 4 (18.18%) Tableau
3 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Looker
4 2 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) TestRail
3 1 (4.55%) Gerrit
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Local Government
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) First Line Help Desk Support
2 3 (13.64%) Help Desk Assistant
2 3 (13.64%) Help Desk Support
2 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) QA Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Support Assistant
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) DTV Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Executive Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 4 (18.18%) PySpark
1 4 (18.18%) React
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) NumPy
2 3 (13.64%) Pandas
2 3 (13.64%) Yocto
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) STB
3 2 (9.09%) Digital TV
3 2 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (4.55%) Housing Association
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (4.55%) FreeBSD
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
3 5 (22.73%) Open Source
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (18.18%) Data Security
4 4 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (18.18%) User Stories
4 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 3 (13.64%) Data Management
5 3 (13.64%) Data Science
5 3 (13.64%) DataOps
5 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) C
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (22.73%) GDPR
3 3 (13.64%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Apple
3 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) SAP