Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,392 3,878 5,407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 27.02% 21.73% 20.00%
As % of the General category 40.00% 34.38% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 2,646 3,710
10th Percentile £310 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +1.32%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £713
90th Percentile £813 £775 £825
England median daily rate £501 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 114 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.45 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.38 £21.00
Median hourly rate £32.67 £34.62 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -1.80% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.69 £62.64
90th Percentile £64.13 £74.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.50 £18.16 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.91% -27.36% +38.89%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 538 £550 - 354
West London 0 62 £400 +14.29% 141
South London +3 58 £650 +42.08% 43
East London +1 23 £585 +27.17% 71
North London -3 5 £451 +28.93% 16
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 130 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 95 (2.80%) Confluence
3 37 (1.09%) CMS
4 34 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (0.74%) Apache
7 18 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.41%) SAS
9 12 (0.35%) Drupal
9 12 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.27%) JBoss
10 9 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
10 9 (0.27%) WordPress
11 8 (0.24%) GemFire
11 8 (0.24%) IIS
12 7 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.15%) nginx
13 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 193 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 44 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.59%) Trello
7 14 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.41%) Sketch
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.21%) Autodesk Smoke
10 7 (0.21%) Camtasia
11 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.18%) InDesign
12 4 (0.12%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.12%) Maya
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.68%) Endur
4 16 (0.47%) Shopify
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 10 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.21%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
12 6 (0.18%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.18%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 582 (17.16%) Azure
2 400 (11.79%) AWS
3 247 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 185 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (4.10%) GCP
6 121 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (2.92%) GitHub
8 89 (2.62%) SaaS
9 70 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.98%) Serverless
11 65 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
12 64 (1.89%) PowerApps
13 56 (1.65%) Figma
14 49 (1.44%) Power Automate
14 49 (1.44%) Snowflake
15 43 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 40 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.80%) Firewall
2 85 (2.51%) Network Security
3 56 (1.65%) DNS
4 52 (1.53%) VPN
5 43 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (1.03%) WAN
8 31 (0.91%) BGP
8 31 (0.91%) LAN
8 31 (0.91%) OSPF
9 30 (0.88%) DHCP
10 25 (0.74%) Wireless
11 22 (0.65%) SSL
12 17 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
12 17 (0.50%) EIGRP
12 17 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.50%) VLAN
13 16 (0.47%) Internet
14 15 (0.44%) HTTP
15 12 (0.35%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (5.63%) Power BI
2 103 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 98 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (2.71%) Tableau
5 78 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 43 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 42 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 33 (0.97%) Big Data
10 32 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (0.91%) Oracle Database
11 31 (0.91%) Redis
12 28 (0.83%) MySQL
13 26 (0.77%) Data Lake
13 26 (0.77%) DB2
14 25 (0.74%) Metadata
15 23 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
16 21 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 20 (0.59%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 243 (7.16%) JIRA
2 126 (3.71%) Git
3 104 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.74%) GitLab
5 39 (1.15%) JUnit
6 38 (1.12%) Selenium
7 25 (0.74%) Postman
7 25 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.68%) Subversion
8 23 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 22 (0.65%) JMeter
10 17 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.47%) Maven
11 16 (0.47%) REST Assured
12 14 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.38%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.35%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.32%) Gradle
16 10 (0.29%) Appium
General
1 1,125 (33.17%) Finance
2 871 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
3 426 (12.56%) Banking
4 234 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 208 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 159 (4.69%) Marketing
7 154 (4.54%) Front Office
8 141 (4.16%) Investment Banking
9 136 (4.01%) Retail
10 119 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 108 (3.18%) Legal
12 94 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
13 91 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 72 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 63 (1.86%) Telecoms
16 61 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 42 (1.24%) Manufacturing
18 41 (1.21%) Back Office
18 41 (1.21%) Local Government
19 27 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 517 (15.24%) Analyst
2 477 (14.06%) Developer
3 380 (11.20%) Senior
4 324 (9.55%) Architect
5 252 (7.43%) Lead
6 248 (7.31%) Business Analyst
7 232 (6.84%) Consultant
8 223 (6.57%) Project Manager
9 89 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (2.45%) Data Analyst
10 83 (2.45%) Senior Developer
11 82 (2.42%) C# Developer
12 76 (2.24%) Java Developer
13 70 (2.06%) Designer
14 67 (1.98%) Support Engineer
15 66 (1.95%) Data Engineer
16 53 (1.56%) Product Manager
17 52 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
18 50 (1.47%) Senior Manager
19 49 (1.44%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (4.95%) .NET
2 97 (2.86%) Kafka
3 87 (2.56%) HTML
4 85 (2.51%) React
5 81 (2.39%) CSS
6 75 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 67 (1.98%) Web Services
8 62 (1.83%) REST
9 56 (1.65%) RESTful
10 54 (1.59%) Spring
11 47 (1.39%) ASP.NET
12 35 (1.03%) Node.js
13 33 (0.97%) .NET Core
14 30 (0.88%) Spring Boot
15 29 (0.85%) Middleware
16 28 (0.83%) .NET Framework
17 27 (0.80%) JSON
17 27 (0.80%) XML
18 24 (0.71%) SailPoint
18 24 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (3.71%) Product Ownership
2 112 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 93 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 89 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 61 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 60 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 54 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 52 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.36%) Data Centre
13 46 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.27%) Equities
15 42 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 42 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
17 37 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 248 (7.31%) Windows
2 165 (4.86%) Linux
3 74 (2.18%) Unix
4 62 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 56 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 52 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.06%) Android
8 25 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.29%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.27%) Solaris
12 7 (0.21%) zOS
13 5 (0.15%) CatOS
14 3 (0.088%) AIX
14 3 (0.088%) VMS
14 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.059%) CentOS
15 2 (0.059%) SUSE
15 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,210 (35.67%) Problem-Solving
2 857 (25.27%) Agile
3 604 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 473 (13.94%) Project Management
5 384 (11.32%) DevOps
6 351 (10.35%) Analytics
7 298 (8.79%) Migration
8 282 (8.31%) CI/CD
9 277 (8.17%) Risk Management
10 256 (7.55%) Decision-Making
11 250 (7.37%) Computer Science
12 236 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
13 235 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 211 (6.22%) Roadmaps
15 193 (5.69%) Scrum
16 189 (5.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 184 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
18 183 (5.40%) Project Delivery
19 179 (5.28%) Data Analysis
19 179 (5.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 522 (15.39%) SQL
2 472 (13.92%) Python
3 312 (9.20%) Java
4 190 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 186 (5.48%) C#
6 134 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 85 (2.51%) C++
8 78 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 53 (1.56%) Bash
10 49 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.91%) Bicep
12 29 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 27 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 27 (0.80%) R
14 26 (0.77%) Scala
15 24 (0.71%) VBA
16 23 (0.68%) PHP
17 21 (0.62%) Go
17 21 (0.62%) Perl
18 20 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 498 (14.68%) Degree
2 375 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 302 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 139 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 85 (2.51%) PMP
7 73 (2.15%) CISSP
8 57 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (1.56%) CISM
11 52 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 41 (1.21%) CCNP
13 40 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 34 (1.00%) CISA
15 34 (1.00%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.88%) CRISC
17 25 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
18 22 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (5.45%) QA
2 125 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 100 (2.95%) GDPR
4 79 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 73 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.12%) PMO
7 67 (1.98%) NIST
8 32 (0.94%) GRC
9 30 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.83%) SLA
11 24 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.62%) MiFID
13 16 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.47%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.38%) EMIR
15 12 (0.35%) SEPA
15 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.29%) COBIT
16 10 (0.29%) WCAG
17 8 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 146 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 118 (3.48%) Docker
3 44 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.32%) vSphere
7 8 (0.24%) Firmware
7 8 (0.24%) GridGain
8 7 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.12%) IAG
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.088%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.088%) iptables
10 3 (0.088%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.059%) HDFS
11 2 (0.059%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.059%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.059%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 167 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.13%) Terraform
3 82 (2.42%) Ansible
4 49 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.24%) SCCM
6 32 (0.94%) Grafana
7 30 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.38%) Puppet
9 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.27%) QRadar
12 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.21%) Tivoli
14 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.18%) Perfmon
14 6 (0.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.15%) Argo
15 5 (0.15%) Istio
16 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 545 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 217 (6.40%) Oracle
3 207 (6.10%) SAP
4 136 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 109 (3.21%) Google
5 109 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 99 (2.92%) Cisco
7 69 (2.03%) Adobe
8 62 (1.83%) Databricks
9 60 (1.77%) VMware
10 48 (1.42%) IBM
11 39 (1.15%) Splunk
12 34 (1.00%) Workday
13 32 (0.94%) Informatica
14 27 (0.80%) CyberArk
15 25 (0.74%) Palo Alto
15 25 (0.74%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.71%) Apple
17 22 (0.65%) Citrix
17 22 (0.65%) Murex