Social Skills Contracts in Guildford

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Guildford. 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 4 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 23.81% 8.43% 18.18%
As % of the General category 50.00% 19.44% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £155 £285
25th Percentile £250 £158 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% +19.21%
75th Percentile £500 £369 £666
90th Percentile £650 £528 £784
Surrey median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.00 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile £27.40 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £22.50 £18.35 £63.35
% change year-on-year +22.62% -71.03% +40.77%

All General Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20 36 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 47.62% 43.37% 47.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 21
10th Percentile £290 £217 £263
25th Percentile £481 £390 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £655 £650
90th Percentile £596 £755 £756
Surrey median daily rate £425 £475 £504
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.75% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £21.50 - -
25th Percentile £23.75 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.43% - -
75th Percentile £28.00 £18.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £24.83 £19.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.82% -56.83% -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Guildford

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Guildford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Guildford

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Guildford

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Softphone
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HCM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) API Management
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
3 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk