Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Leatherhead

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Surrey > Leatherhead

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Leatherhead. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Leatherhead 26.09% 15.38% 18.03%
As % of the General category 66.67% 50.00% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £300 - £153
25th Percentile £455 £475 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £506 £162
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +213.47% -52.32%
75th Percentile £506 £542 £174
90th Percentile - £562 £306
Surrey median daily rate £463 £400 £481
% change year-on-year +15.63% -16.88% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.70
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - £45.50
Surrey median hourly rate £25.15 £13.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +86.30% -62.50% +63.08%

All General Skills
Leatherhead

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 Leatherhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9 8 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead 39.13% 30.77% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £174 £419 £153
25th Percentile £180 £475 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £170
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +197.79% -71.06%
75th Percentile £506 £564 £580
90th Percentile - £581 £688
Surrey median daily rate £488 £400 £515
% change year-on-year +21.88% -22.33% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.70
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.39%
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - £45.50
Surrey median hourly rate £25.15 £23.34 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.75% -37.76% -16.67%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Leatherhead

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Leatherhead

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Leatherhead over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Leatherhead

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leatherhead 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 4 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
1 4 (66.67%) Runbook
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Apple