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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,846 5,419 7,814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.72% 20.01% 20.07%
As % of the General category 34.36% 31.53% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 3,718 5,275
10th Percentile £270 £313 £346
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% +10.73%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £794
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 100 122
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.47 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £34.62 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +1.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £54.69 £63.07 £48.58
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £64.94
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
London

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,194 17,186 23,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.47% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,991 12,426 16,753
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £801 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 225 296
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.69 £19.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £70.00 £64.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +2 580 £550 -2.48% 320
West London +2 92 £350 -22.65% 172
East London -1 49 £460 +5.14% 112
South London +1 45 £450 - 72
North London +1 5 £350 -22.22% 25
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
1 143 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 88 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 65 (1.69%) Confluence
4 57 (1.48%) CMS
5 39 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.78%) Apache
7 11 (0.29%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.21%) IIS
10 8 (0.21%) MTS
10 8 (0.21%) SAS
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 198 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 186 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 25 (0.65%) Sketch
7 22 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
10 12 (0.31%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.21%) InVision
13 6 (0.16%) InDesign
14 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.10%) Trello
16 3 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
16 3 (0.078%) Windchill
17 2 (0.052%) AutoCAD
17 2 (0.052%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 73 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.81%) Endur
4 29 (0.75%) Loan IQ
5 24 (0.62%) Shopify
6 23 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
7 16 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
8 14 (0.36%) Aligne
8 14 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
8 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.31%) SAP EWM
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.23%) Primavera
12 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.23%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 612 (15.91%) Azure
2 363 (9.44%) AWS
3 238 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 229 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 155 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (3.43%) GCP
7 91 (2.37%) Serverless
8 82 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 79 (2.05%) SaaS
10 68 (1.77%) GitHub
10 68 (1.77%) Power Automate
11 62 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 57 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 50 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (1.20%) Figma
15 45 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 44 (1.14%) PaaS
17 40 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 37 (0.96%) OCI
19 33 (0.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 85 (2.21%) Firewall
2 69 (1.79%) VPN
3 57 (1.48%) WAN
4 55 (1.43%) DNS
5 53 (1.38%) LAN
6 45 (1.17%) Internet
7 38 (0.99%) BGP
8 36 (0.94%) MPLS
9 35 (0.91%) Network Security
10 28 (0.73%) Wireless
11 22 (0.57%) RSVP
12 21 (0.55%) DHCP
12 21 (0.55%) SSL
13 20 (0.52%) SNMP
14 18 (0.47%) Intranet
15 17 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (0.44%) IPv4
15 17 (0.44%) VPLS
15 17 (0.44%) VRRP
15 17 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (4.94%) Power BI
2 174 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 113 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 58 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 54 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (1.25%) Big Data
9 42 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 42 (1.09%) Tableau
10 39 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.73%) Metadata
13 26 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 24 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 24 (0.62%) MySQL
15 23 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (0.55%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 241 (6.27%) JIRA
2 131 (3.41%) Git
3 86 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.30%) GitLab
5 48 (1.25%) Selenium
6 28 (0.73%) Postman
7 27 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 26 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 25 (0.65%) webpack
10 24 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 22 (0.57%) Maven
11 22 (0.57%) WebDriver
12 21 (0.55%) JUnit
13 18 (0.47%) Appium
14 14 (0.36%) SoapUI
15 13 (0.34%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.31%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.31%) TestNG
17 11 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,134 (29.49%) Finance
2 793 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
3 356 (9.26%) Banking
4 280 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
5 275 (7.15%) Public Sector
6 222 (5.77%) Marketing
7 142 (3.69%) Retail
8 138 (3.59%) Front Office
9 122 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 121 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 119 (3.09%) Legal
12 112 (2.91%) Investment Banking
13 100 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 66 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 59 (1.53%) Law
18 56 (1.46%) Back Office
19 51 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
20 38 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 558 (14.51%) Analyst
2 485 (12.61%) Developer
3 374 (9.72%) Senior
4 346 (9.00%) Architect
5 343 (8.92%) Consultant
6 288 (7.49%) Business Analyst
7 252 (6.55%) Project Manager
8 223 (5.80%) Lead
9 131 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
10 95 (2.47%) Data Engineer
11 93 (2.42%) Support Engineer
12 84 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
13 82 (2.13%) Designer
13 82 (2.13%) Senior Developer
14 80 (2.08%) Data Analyst
15 79 (2.05%) C# Developer
16 67 (1.74%) Azure Engineer
17 65 (1.69%) Administrator
18 63 (1.64%) Java Developer
19 57 (1.48%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (3.80%) .NET
2 145 (3.77%) React
3 122 (3.17%) CSS
4 120 (3.12%) HTML
5 97 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 93 (2.42%) REST
7 71 (1.85%) Node.js
8 69 (1.79%) JSON
9 64 (1.66%) Kafka
10 63 (1.64%) RESTful
11 60 (1.56%) XML
12 54 (1.40%) Web Services
13 44 (1.14%) .NET Framework
14 40 (1.04%) Spring
15 36 (0.94%) .NET Core
16 34 (0.88%) WebSockets
17 28 (0.73%) HTML5
17 28 (0.73%) Middleware
18 27 (0.70%) PySpark
19 25 (0.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 159 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 131 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 128 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 75 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 73 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 70 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 57 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 52 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 51 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 50 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 50 (1.30%) Derivative
12 47 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
14 39 (1.01%) Solar Panel
14 39 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
15 35 (0.91%) CMDB
16 34 (0.88%) Social Media
17 32 (0.83%) FMCG
18 31 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 287 (7.46%) Windows
2 151 (3.93%) Linux
3 98 (2.55%) Windows 10
4 70 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.74%) Unix
6 48 (1.25%) Android
7 38 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 33 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.34%) Mac OS X
11 13 (0.34%) VMS
12 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.21%) Windows 8
14 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.21%) zOS
15 7 (0.18%) Solaris
16 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (27.28%) Problem-Solving
2 972 (25.27%) Agile
3 515 (13.39%) Project Management
4 475 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 442 (11.49%) DevOps
6 348 (9.05%) Computer Science
7 306 (7.96%) Analytics
7 306 (7.96%) Migration
8 276 (7.18%) CI/CD
9 271 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
10 260 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 245 (6.37%) Scrum
12 228 (5.93%) Decision-Making
13 221 (5.75%) Data Modelling
14 220 (5.72%) Change Management
15 215 (5.59%) Customer Service
16 208 (5.41%) Project Delivery
17 199 (5.17%) Roadmaps
18 198 (5.15%) ITIL
18 198 (5.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 491 (12.77%) SQL
2 412 (10.71%) Python
3 262 (6.81%) Java
4 245 (6.37%) C#
5 210 (5.46%) JavaScript
6 133 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 122 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 54 (1.40%) C++
9 40 (1.04%) Bash
10 38 (0.99%) Scala
11 31 (0.81%) Go
12 30 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.78%) R
13 29 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.62%) Bicep
16 24 (0.62%) VBA
17 23 (0.60%) Perl
18 20 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 714 (18.56%) Degree
2 334 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 264 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 246 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 68 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 46 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (1.20%) PMP
9 45 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.04%) CISSP
11 39 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 35 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.83%) CCNP
14 26 (0.68%) CCIE
15 24 (0.62%) CCNA
16 22 (0.57%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.55%) CISM
18 15 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (4.63%) QA
2 151 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.26%) PMO
4 86 (2.24%) SLA
5 59 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (1.01%) NIST
8 36 (0.94%) GDPR
9 23 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.47%) MiFID
10 18 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.44%) GRC
12 15 (0.39%) SEPA
13 14 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.36%) EMIR
14 11 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
14 11 (0.29%) NCSC
15 8 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 186 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 109 (2.83%) Docker
3 47 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.47%) Firmware
4 18 (0.47%) vSphere
5 17 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 8 (0.21%) HDFS
9 8 (0.21%) KVM
9 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.13%) NFS
10 5 (0.13%) RACF
10 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.10%) vCloud
11 4 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.026%) ACF2
12 1 (0.026%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 123 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 122 (3.17%) Terraform
3 48 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.17%) SCCM
5 42 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.68%) Puppet
7 18 (0.47%) Grafana
8 17 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.39%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.31%) Consul
13 9 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 8 (0.21%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
15 6 (0.16%) VxRail
16 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
16 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.13%) EnCase
16 5 (0.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 717 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.16%) SAP
3 205 (5.33%) Oracle
4 121 (3.15%) ServiceNow
5 103 (2.68%) Google
6 88 (2.29%) Cisco
6 88 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.13%) Adobe
8 76 (1.98%) Databricks
9 60 (1.56%) VMware
10 54 (1.40%) IBM
11 42 (1.09%) Citrix
12 40 (1.04%) Apple
13 30 (0.78%) Dell
14 26 (0.68%) F5
15 25 (0.65%) Nokia
16 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.55%) Informatica
18 20 (0.52%) Bloomberg
18 20 (0.52%) Splunk