Social Skills Contracts in Ipswich

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 11 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 33.33% 34.38% 12.71%
As % of the General category 64.71% 64.71% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £167 £459 £177
25th Percentile £200 £463 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £513 £350
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +46.43% -29.65%
75th Percentile £238 £581 £534
90th Percentile £565 £611 £605
Suffolk median daily rate £225 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -56.10% +13.89% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.79 - £14.62
% change year-on-year - - +2.67%

All General Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17 17 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 51.52% 53.13% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 91
10th Percentile £173 £445 £450
25th Percentile £200 £463 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% -32.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £743
90th Percentile £600 £608 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £225 £475 £700
% change year-on-year -52.63% -32.14% +36.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
Median hourly rate £17.79 £11.50 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +54.70% -44.07% -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.79 £11.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +54.70% -29.23% +14.12%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Ipswich

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Ipswich

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Ipswich over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Ipswich

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Ipswich

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Support
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
2 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (9.09%) Validation
2 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ZyXEL