Social Skills Contracts in Exeter

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Devon > Exeter

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Exeter. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 15 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 19.74% 26.42% 25.96%
As % of the General category 37.50% 56.00% 61.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 20
10th Percentile £263 £253 £350
25th Percentile £338 £394 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £474 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -11.40% +46.58%
75th Percentile £520 £594 £600
90th Percentile £554 £636 £709
Devon median daily rate £200 £465 £465
% change year-on-year -56.99% - +27.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.76 £13.86 -
Median hourly rate £22.84 £14.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.43% - -
75th Percentile £22.92 £18.74 -
90th Percentile - £24.16 -
Devon median hourly rate £22.84 £14.79 -
% change year-on-year +54.43% - -

All General Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40 50 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 52.63% 47.17% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 33
10th Percentile £302 £354 £252
25th Percentile £325 £402 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +8.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £724
Devon median daily rate £413 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -13.16% +2.15% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.76 £13.86 -
Median hourly rate £22.84 £14.79 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.43% -17.83% -
75th Percentile £22.92 £26.92 -
90th Percentile - £27.43 -
Devon median hourly rate £26.28 £25.28 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.98% -57.88% +144.13%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Exeter

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Exeter

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Exeter

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Exeter over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Exeter

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Exeter

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Legal
1 2 (13.33%) Military
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support
1 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Database Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Information
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Information Management
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Knowledge Management
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Executive
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) ICT Trainer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Management
2 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (13.33%) Community of Practice
3 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (13.33%) Database Security
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (13.33%) Information Management
3 2 (13.33%) Line Management
3 2 (13.33%) People Management
3 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) MCSE
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce