Social Skills Contracts in Hertfordshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 251 193 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 30.13% 24.78% 22.25%
As % of the General category 48.64% 43.96% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 100 91
10th Percentile £172 £205 £136
25th Percentile £263 £300 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £478 £575 £538
90th Percentile £706 £653 £688
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 30 8
10th Percentile £37.91 £44.70 £12.17
25th Percentile - £49.00 £13.92
Median hourly rate £38.12 £60.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +75.18% +90.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.88 £52.50
East of England median hourly rate £27.67 £14.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +90.83% +7.41% -

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 516 439 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 61.94% 56.35% 56.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 208 234
10th Percentile £200 £231 £177
25th Percentile £335 £379 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £516 £458
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +12.84% -3.68%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £630
90th Percentile £700 £838 £713
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 93 53
10th Percentile - £42.60 £16.69
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.50 £39.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £60.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +22.45% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.75 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -9.38%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Stevenage +3 135 £319 -0.39% 63
Hatfield 0 37 £330 -40.00% 13
Watford 0 31 £400 -20.99% 42
Hemel Hempstead +12 18 £600 +4.35% 33
Welwyn Garden City -1 9 £550 +51.72% 9
St Albans +3 8 - - 15
Borehamwood - 4 - - 10
Rickmansworth +1 1 £350 -26.32% 1
Hertford -1 1 £350 - 10
Royston - 1 - - 7
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) IIS
2 2 (0.80%) SAS
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.39%) Windchill
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Primavera
1 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.80%) SAP PS
1 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.99%) AWS
1 5 (1.99%) SaaS
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (0.80%) BigCommerce
3 2 (0.80%) Snowflake
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.40%) Azure
4 1 (0.40%) Bloomreach
4 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.16%) Modbus
1 28 (11.16%) RS-422
1 28 (11.16%) RS-485
2 6 (2.39%) Ethernet
2 6 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) Wireless
4 2 (0.80%) Network Security
4 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.40%) Big Data
1 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
1 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (0.40%) Metadata
1 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.40%) MS Access
1 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.40%) Power BI
1 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (0.40%) QlikView
1 1 (0.40%) Redis
1 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.40%) SQLPlus
1 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.39%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.40%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.40%) ReSharper
General
1 68 (27.09%) Finance
2 64 (25.50%) Electronics
3 57 (22.71%) Organisational Skills
4 52 (20.72%) Influencing Skills
5 36 (14.34%) Manufacturing
6 33 (13.15%) Aerospace
6 33 (13.15%) Marketing
6 33 (13.15%) Retail
7 20 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.79%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.39%) Military
11 5 (1.99%) Legal
12 4 (1.59%) French Language
12 4 (1.59%) German Language
12 4 (1.59%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (13.94%) Software Engineer
2 34 (13.55%) Architect
3 31 (12.35%) Test Architect
4 23 (9.16%) C++ Software Engineer
5 21 (8.37%) Analyst
6 13 (5.18%) Senior
7 11 (4.38%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (3.98%) Support Analyst
8 10 (3.98%) Technical Support
8 10 (3.98%) Technical Support Analyst
9 9 (3.59%) Consultant
10 8 (3.19%) Developer
10 8 (3.19%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.79%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.39%) Administrator
12 6 (2.39%) Configuration Engineer
12 6 (2.39%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.39%) Lead
12 6 (2.39%) Senior Configuration Engineer
13 5 (1.99%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.79%) Node.js
1 7 (2.79%) Web Services
2 5 (1.99%) HTML
3 4 (1.59%) CSS
3 4 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.59%) REST
3 4 (1.59%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.80%) VML
5 1 (0.40%) .NET
5 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.40%) Flask
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) Middleware
5 1 (0.40%) PySpark
5 1 (0.40%) RESTful
5 1 (0.40%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.35%) Analogue Electronics
1 31 (12.35%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.39%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.20%) FMCG
4 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.80%) BYOD
5 2 (0.80%) EPoS
5 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.40%) Blog
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.18%) Windows
2 12 (4.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.80%) Android
3 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.25%) Project Management
2 51 (20.32%) Business Strategy
3 48 (19.12%) Agile
4 47 (18.73%) Business Development
5 43 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (15.54%) Software Engineering
7 36 (14.34%) Customer Requirements
8 35 (13.94%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (13.94%) Unit Testing
9 34 (13.55%) TDD
10 33 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (12.35%) Test Strategy
13 29 (11.55%) DevOps
13 29 (11.55%) Software Testing
13 29 (11.55%) Time Management
14 28 (11.16%) Decision-Making
14 28 (11.16%) Pair Programming
15 22 (8.76%) Coaching
16 21 (8.37%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.94%) C#
2 34 (13.55%) C++
3 29 (11.55%) C
4 10 (3.98%) JavaScript
4 10 (3.98%) SQL
5 6 (2.39%) Python
6 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) Ada
8 1 (0.40%) Java
8 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.40%) R
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.78%) Degree
4 7 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.99%) PMP
7 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.80%) ACCA
8 2 (0.80%) CCENT
8 2 (0.80%) CCNP
8 2 (0.80%) CIMA
8 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CCNA
9 1 (0.40%) CCSA
9 1 (0.40%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.40%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.40%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.99%) PMO
2 5 (1.99%) SLA
3 4 (1.59%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) SCCM
2 3 (1.20%) WSUS
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.97%) SAP
3 9 (3.59%) Cisco
4 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.39%) VMware
5 3 (1.20%) Adobe
5 3 (1.20%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Apple
6 2 (0.80%) Avaya
6 2 (0.80%) Genesys
6 2 (0.80%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.80%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.80%) Sophos
7 1 (0.40%) Juniper
7 1 (0.40%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.40%) Remedy
7 1 (0.40%) Siemens