Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 53 25 31
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 22.08% 20.49% 36.05%
As % of the General category 32.52% 31.65% 54.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 23 26
10th Percentile £268 £365 £495
25th Percentile £323 £445 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -13.19% +17.55%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £586
90th Percentile £630 £600 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £21.00 £23.14 £35.25
% change year-on-year -9.23% -34.37% +206.52%

All General Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 163 79 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 67.92% 64.75% 66.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 66 47
10th Percentile £305 £323 £458
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £434 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -17.43% +17.32%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £583
90th Percentile £604 £663 £604
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £24.09 £24.05
% change year-on-year -2.45% +0.17% +53.58%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Knutsford over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Knutsford

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (24.53%) Confluence
2 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.77%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 14 (26.42%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.89%) Datadog
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) SSH
3 4 (7.55%) VPN
4 2 (3.77%) LAN
4 2 (3.77%) Wireless
5 1 (1.89%) HTTP
5 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) GitLab
3 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.66%) TestRail
4 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.77%) Git
4 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
5 1 (1.89%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) Snyk
5 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (37.74%) Banking
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Publishing
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Analyst
2 11 (20.75%) Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Business Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Payments Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Service Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Tester
7 3 (5.66%) UAT Tester
8 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Monitoring Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Programme Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Writer
9 1 (1.89%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
2 7 (13.21%) Spring
3 3 (5.66%) REST
3 3 (5.66%) XML
4 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.77%) HTML
5 1 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) LDAP
5 1 (1.89%) OAuth
5 1 (1.89%) PySpark
5 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.89%) SAML
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
5 1 (1.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.21%) Tandem
3 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.89%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) PMI
5 1 (1.89%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Unix
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (35.85%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.64%) Computer Science
4 12 (22.64%) Incident Response
5 11 (20.75%) DevOps
6 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
6 10 (18.87%) ITIL
6 10 (18.87%) Microservices
7 9 (16.98%) Change Management
8 8 (15.09%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (15.09%) Information Security
9 7 (13.21%) Cryptography
9 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.21%) Migration
9 7 (13.21%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
9 7 (13.21%) Release Management
9 7 (13.21%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) Python
2 9 (16.98%) Java
3 2 (3.77%) Bash
3 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) Perl
4 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Degree
2 10 (18.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (15.09%) CISSP
4 6 (11.32%) CISM
4 6 (11.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CBAP
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.89%) OSCP
8 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) ISO 20022
2 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.43%) NIST
2 5 (9.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.89%) PSD2
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Fluentd
3 3 (5.66%) HP ALM
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Kibana
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) IBM
2 7 (13.21%) Splunk
3 6 (11.32%) Google
4 5 (9.43%) Cribl.io
4 5 (9.43%) Gemalto
4 5 (9.43%) Thales
5 3 (5.66%) HP
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.89%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.89%) Databricks
7 1 (1.89%) Okta
7 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) Veracode