Social Skills Contracts in Hounslow

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West London > Hounslow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Hounslow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 23 33 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 29.49% 23.74% 28.28%
As % of the General category 53.49% 61.11% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 20
10th Percentile £281 £125 £200
25th Percentile £397 £207 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £280 £573
Median % change year-on-year +44.46% -51.09% +11.17%
75th Percentile £466 £375 £670
90th Percentile £528 £460 £788
West London median daily rate £400 £400 £550
% change year-on-year - -27.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £18.13 £31.25
25th Percentile - £22.66 £35.63
Median hourly rate £18.13 £45.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.37% -29.62% +202.33%
75th Percentile - £62.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £75.00
West London median hourly rate £21.63 £49.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -55.87% +35.17% +81.25%

All General Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 43 54 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 55.13% 38.85% 48.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 39
10th Percentile £283 £189 £330
25th Percentile £400 £265 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £351 £570
Median % change year-on-year +18.40% -38.51% +9.62%
75th Percentile £515 £438 £641
90th Percentile £558 £538 £699
West London median daily rate £423 £425 £565
% change year-on-year -0.59% -24.78% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile £24.90 £18.13 £31.25
25th Percentile £35.07 £27.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £52.00 £54.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -22.86% +225.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £60.80 £66.20 £88.50
West London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.86 £50.25
% change year-on-year -21.52% -36.61% +143.78%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hounslow

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Hounslow

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Hounslow over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Hounslow

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Hounslow

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Osterley +4 5 £481 +37.43%
Feltham - 5 £545 - 4
Isleworth +4 2 £525 +320.00% 5
Social Skills
West London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.35%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) GitHub
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Flink
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
1 4 (17.39%) JUnit
1 4 (17.39%) Selenium
2 2 (8.70%) Appium
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) HP UFT
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) QA Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) PMO Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Product Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Project Support Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) QA Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) JWT
1 2 (8.70%) OAuth
1 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SAPUI5
2 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Social Media
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Regression Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Security Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Observability
6 2 (8.70%) Product Requirements
6 2 (8.70%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) ISTQB
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) BICSI Certification
4 1 (4.35%) OCA
4 1 (4.35%) OCP
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.35%) PMP
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.70%) Google
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Dell
2 1 (4.35%) HP
2 1 (4.35%) NEC
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk