Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Farnborough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 3
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 40 13 37
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 25.00% 12.75% 29.13%
As % of the General category 58.82% 21.67% 56.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 31
10th Percentile £311 £350 £378
25th Percentile £358 £363 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £425 £667
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% -36.28% +48.22%
75th Percentile £538 £500 -
90th Percentile £646 £583 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.70
25th Percentile - - £22.66
Median hourly rate - - £25.53
75th Percentile - - £29.64
90th Percentile - - £31.36
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £28.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -26.04% -2.61% +40.45%

All General Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 68 60 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 42.50% 58.82% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 44
10th Percentile £311 £313 £378
25th Percentile £380 £369 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -20.21% +25.33%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £667
90th Percentile £675 £725 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £18.80 £69.00 £16.73
25th Percentile £19.25 £74.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +66.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £63.44
90th Percentile - £77.25 £79.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +82.82%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Farnborough over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Farnborough

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Apache
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Ethereum
2 1 (2.50%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) GitHub
3 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.00%) Azure
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) OCI
7 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) BGP
2 3 (7.50%) MPLS
2 3 (7.50%) OSPF
2 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) DMZ
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (12.50%) JMeter
3 5 (12.50%) JUnit
4 4 (10.00%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) Gradle
4 4 (10.00%) Maven
4 4 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.50%) Gatling
7 1 (2.50%) GitLab
7 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.50%) Postman
7 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.50%) TestNG
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Consultant
5 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) IP Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Scrum Master
7 2 (5.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Security Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Service Design Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Junior
8 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
2 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (15.00%) RESTful
4 5 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.00%) Kafka
6 2 (5.00%) JPA
6 2 (5.00%) ModSecurity
6 2 (5.00%) React
6 2 (5.00%) REST
6 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.50%) .NET
7 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.50%) LDAP
7 1 (2.50%) OAuth
7 1 (2.50%) SAML
7 1 (2.50%) SOAP
7 1 (2.50%) Spring Batch
7 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile Computing
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (15.00%) Microservices
5 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
6 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Scrum
6 5 (12.50%) User Stories
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Epics
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (10.00%) ITIL
7 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.00%) Zero Trust
8 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) CISM
4 2 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.50%) CEH
5 1 (2.50%) CISA
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.50%) CRISC
5 1 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) GCIA
5 1 (2.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) JSP 440
1 3 (7.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 31000
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) VMware
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Nokia
2 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle