Social Skills Contracts in Hampshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 212 227 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.42% 14.10% 20.00%
As % of the General category 49.65% 33.33% 37.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 115 165
10th Percentile £200 £366 £200
25th Percentile £342 £463 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £586 £724 £623
90th Percentile £629 £738 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 36 32
10th Percentile £17.85 £7.43 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £12.04 £18.25
Median hourly rate £26.34 £15.00 £30.64
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% -51.04% +53.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £22.47 £55.81
90th Percentile £71.75 £48.63 £59.88
South East median hourly rate £18.50 £18.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.82% -61.37% +171.43%

All General Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 427 681 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.24% 42.30% 52.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 315 487
10th Percentile £281 £284 £230
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £671 £627
90th Percentile £650 £738 £718
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 118 77
10th Percentile £19.24 £12.71 £18.25
25th Percentile £21.88 £18.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.26% +187.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.30 £68.75
90th Percentile - £63.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hampshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Hampshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Hampshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Hampshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Hampshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth 0 50 £444 -17.87% 207
Farnborough +13 30 £475 +13.10% 46
Southampton +7 28 £350 -17.65% 224
Basingstoke +16 27 £575 -20.69% 183
Havant +3 14 £600 -2.44% 1
Eastleigh 0 13 £288 -41.03% 15
Winchester +2 9 £469 -1.32% 23
Fareham -3 5 £372 - 17
Fleet - 4 £300 - 7
Andover +1 3 - - 10
Aldershot +14 1 £525 +1.94% 4
Hook +2 1 £500 -9.09% 5
Gosport -3 1 - - 3
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 16 (7.55%) Confluence
2 4 (1.89%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.89%) Mule
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.42%) Mule ESB
3 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.36%) Infor LN
3 4 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.89%) SAP ECC
4 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.42%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.42%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.94%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.94%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.94%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.47%) Maximo
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.47%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.38%) AWS
2 19 (8.96%) Azure
3 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (1.89%) Cloudflare
5 4 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.42%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.42%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.94%) GCP
7 2 (0.94%) OCI
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.13%) Firewall
1 13 (6.13%) VPN
2 10 (4.72%) WAN
3 8 (3.77%) Network Security
4 6 (2.83%) LAN
5 5 (2.36%) Wireless
6 4 (1.89%) MPLS
7 3 (1.42%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.42%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.94%) DHCP
8 2 (0.94%) DNS
8 2 (0.94%) HTTP
8 2 (0.94%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.94%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.94%) NGFW
8 2 (0.94%) SAN
8 2 (0.94%) SSL
8 2 (0.94%) VLAN
9 1 (0.47%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
1 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.47%) MySQL
2 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (8.96%) JIRA
2 10 (4.72%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.42%) Git
3 3 (1.42%) TestRail
4 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.94%) MSI
5 1 (0.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.47%) Snyk
5 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (17.92%) Finance
3 21 (9.91%) Manufacturing
4 15 (7.08%) Marketing
4 15 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.83%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 2 (0.94%) Billing
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Law
11 2 (0.94%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Police
12 1 (0.47%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 29 (13.68%) Architect
2 19 (8.96%) Developer
3 18 (8.49%) Analyst
4 16 (7.55%) Network Engineer
5 14 (6.60%) Consultant
5 14 (6.60%) Project Manager
6 12 (5.66%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.72%) Communications Engineer
7 10 (4.72%) Delphi Developer
7 10 (4.72%) Senior
8 9 (4.25%) Lead
9 7 (3.30%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.30%) Digital Executive
9 7 (3.30%) E-Commerce Executive
10 6 (2.83%) Implementation Consultant
10 6 (2.83%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.83%) Tester
11 5 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) ERP Consultant
11 5 (2.36%) Infor Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.83%) CSS
2 4 (1.89%) JSON
2 4 (1.89%) React
2 4 (1.89%) RESTful
2 4 (1.89%) Web Services
2 4 (1.89%) XML
3 3 (1.42%) HTML
3 3 (1.42%) Next.js
3 3 (1.42%) Playwright
3 3 (1.42%) RAML
3 3 (1.42%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.47%) Kafka
5 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.47%) MUnit
5 1 (0.47%) Symfony
5 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.83%) Algorithms
1 6 (2.83%) Device Driver
1 6 (2.83%) Driving Licence
1 6 (2.83%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (2.83%) IoT
2 5 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.36%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.42%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.42%) PKI
4 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.42%) Smartphone
5 2 (0.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.85%) Windows
2 12 (5.66%) Linux
3 5 (2.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.94%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.55%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (16.04%) Agile
3 28 (13.21%) Migration
4 26 (12.26%) Project Management
5 23 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (9.91%) Collaborative Working
7 17 (8.02%) Network Architecture
8 16 (7.55%) Computer Science
8 16 (7.55%) ITIL
9 15 (7.08%) ERP
9 15 (7.08%) Risk Management
10 14 (6.60%) Analytics
10 14 (6.60%) Change Management
10 14 (6.60%) CRM
10 14 (6.60%) Validation
11 13 (6.13%) Data Migration
11 13 (6.13%) Decision-Making
11 13 (6.13%) Network Design
11 13 (6.13%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (5.19%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.38%) SQL
2 12 (5.66%) PL/SQL
3 11 (5.19%) C#
4 10 (4.72%) Delphi
5 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.30%) Python
7 6 (2.83%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.36%) C
9 4 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.42%) Bash
10 3 (1.42%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.42%) Java
11 2 (0.94%) ABAP
11 2 (0.94%) C++
11 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (41.98%) Security Cleared
2 61 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.68%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (8.49%) Degree
6 16 (7.55%) CCNP
7 15 (7.08%) CCNA
8 7 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.30%) JNCIS
9 6 (2.83%) CISSP
10 5 (2.36%) CCIE
10 5 (2.36%) CISM
11 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.42%) CISA
12 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.42%) PMP
13 2 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.91%) SLA
2 13 (6.13%) QA
3 9 (4.25%) NIST
4 7 (3.30%) PMO
5 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.89%) GDPR
7 3 (1.42%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.42%) P3O
7 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.94%) GRC
8 2 (0.94%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.47%) COBIT
9 1 (0.47%) COSO
9 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.47%) ITGC
9 1 (0.47%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (2.83%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.83%) Firmware
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.94%) vSphere
3 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.83%) Ansible
2 5 (2.36%) Terraform
3 3 (1.42%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.42%) SCCM
4 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.94%) WMI
4 2 (0.94%) WSUS
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.47%) Packer
5 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) Puppet
5 1 (0.47%) SCOM
5 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.43%) Oracle
3 19 (8.96%) Cisco
4 15 (7.08%) SAP
5 12 (5.66%) Google
6 11 (5.19%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.25%) Juniper
8 6 (2.83%) Fujitsu
9 5 (2.36%) Infor
9 5 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.89%) Citrix
10 4 (1.89%) F5
10 4 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.89%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.42%) Adobe
12 2 (0.94%) ArcSight
12 2 (0.94%) Dell
12 2 (0.94%) Palantir