Social Skills Contracts in Leicester

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Leicester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 29 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 36.71% 15.74% 17.27%
As % of the General category 60.42% 40.48% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile - £215 £275
25th Percentile - £301 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £418 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% -16.40% +8.11%
75th Percentile £447 £597 £563
90th Percentile £494 £688 £650
Leicestershire median daily rate £250 £265 £485
% change year-on-year -5.66% -45.36% +17.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.22
25th Percentile £21.25 £26.25 £18.05
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +28.44% -54.12%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £55.25
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £21.41
% change year-on-year -8.16% +14.43% -52.42%

All General Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 48 42 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 60.76% 38.89% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 42
10th Percentile - £252 £290
25th Percentile £250 £326 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £423
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -0.95% -6.11%
75th Percentile £541 £584 £497
90th Percentile £641 £654 £613
Leicestershire median daily rate £351 £310 £425
% change year-on-year +13.31% -27.06% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.20 £16.22
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.38 £18.05
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -4.25% -50.59%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.38 £35.00
90th Percentile - £27.40 £55.25
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £21.41
% change year-on-year +4.65% +0.42% -26.80%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Leicester

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Leicester

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Leicester over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Leicester

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Leicester

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Anthos
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) dbt
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) LAN
1 3 (10.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Power Query
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
General
1 10 (34.48%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Advertising
3 1 (3.45%) Automotive
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Consultant
2 3 (10.34%) Field Support Technician
2 3 (10.34%) IT Support
2 3 (10.34%) IT Support Technician
2 3 (10.34%) IT Technician
2 3 (10.34%) Support Technician
3 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Security Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (3.45%) Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Business Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) VMS
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Computer Science
2 7 (24.14%) Customer Service
3 6 (20.69%) Process Improvement
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.79%) Operations Management
6 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) ETL
7 2 (6.90%) Incident Response
7 2 (6.90%) Inventory Management
7 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Project Management
7 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (3.45%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.45%) R
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Degree
2 10 (34.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) CCENT
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) CRISC
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GRC
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) BitLocker
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Apple
3 2 (6.90%) Google