Social Skills Contracts 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 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 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 27 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.61% 20.35% 19.15%
As % of the General category 30.00% 34.33% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 20
10th Percentile £309 £354 £322
25th Percentile £357 £400 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £564 £558
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% +1.12% +15.05%
75th Percentile £495 £611 £680
90th Percentile £526 £626 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £491 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.62% +8.33% +2.86%

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 90 67 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 52.02% 59.29% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 62 64
10th Percentile £321 £351 £326
25th Percentile £358 £394 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £517
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -13.84% +6.06%
75th Percentile £492 £577 £620
90th Percentile £537 £626 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £485 £500 £478
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.71% +3.35%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Knutsford

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Knutsford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Knutsford

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Knutsford

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) Appian
3 1 (3.70%) Camunda
3 1 (3.70%) CICS
3 1 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) DB2
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) SQLPlus
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Gradle
4 1 (3.70%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Maven
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Banking
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Billing
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Publishing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Change Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Incident Manager
4 1 (3.70%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Programme Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Support Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.41%) CSS
1 2 (7.41%) CSS3
1 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
1 2 (7.41%) HTML
1 2 (7.41%) HTML5
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
1 2 (7.41%) React
1 2 (7.41%) REST
1 2 (7.41%) Spring
1 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) RAML
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Vue
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
4 5 (18.52%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 5 (18.52%) SDLC
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Business Strategy
5 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 3 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.11%) Matrix Management
6 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 3 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CBAP
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 2 (7.41%) SEPA
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.70%) TIBCO