Social Skills Contracts in Liverpool

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Merseyside > Liverpool

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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 40 36 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 30.08% 21.43% 20.58%
As % of the General category 51.28% 38.71% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 33
10th Percentile £143 - £323
25th Percentile £150 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £245 £500
Median % change year-on-year +93.88% -51.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £563 £494 £550
90th Percentile £638 £557 £640
Merseyside median daily rate £475 £315 £500
% change year-on-year +50.79% -37.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 4
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.75 £16.20
25th Percentile £15.57 £14.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% -
75th Percentile - £34.32 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £37.18 -
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +7.69%

All General Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 78 93 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 58.65% 55.36% 51.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 80
10th Percentile £150 £135 £374
25th Percentile £250 £200 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £556
90th Percentile £663 £580 £628
Merseyside median daily rate £465 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -16.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 27 7
10th Percentile £13.07 £14.50 £16.11
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +39.89%
75th Percentile £18.08 £34.21 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.23 £36.62 £22.17
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £17.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.43% +37.20%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Liverpool

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Liverpool

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Liverpool

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Liverpool

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Liverpool over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Liverpool

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Figma
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) LAN
1 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) ATM
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Siebel EIM
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (5.00%) UI Automator
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Billing
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) IT Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
3 6 (15.00%) Service Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Junior
5 3 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Siebel Developer
6 2 (5.00%) ERP Manager
6 2 (5.00%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) IT Security Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) JMS
1 4 (10.00%) SOAP
1 4 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (5.00%) Ajax
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) CSS
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.00%) React
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) Semantic HTML
2 2 (5.00%) Vue
2 2 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) EPoS
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Solaris
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (32.50%) Customer Service
3 7 (17.50%) ITIL
4 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.00%) Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) Change Management
6 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.00%) EAI
6 4 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (10.00%) SDLC
6 4 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (7.50%) CRM
7 3 (7.50%) ETL
7 3 (7.50%) ITSM
7 3 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 4 (10.00%) MCP
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) GRC
2 2 (5.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle
4 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.00%) Siebel
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) OneTrust
5 2 (5.00%) Talend
5 2 (5.00%) Varonis