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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,827 3,719 5,083
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 28.95% 21.11% 19.96%
As % of the General category 42.57% 33.90% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,509 2,508 3,530
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
England median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 109 93
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £14.36
25th Percentile £19.73 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £48.13 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £55.25 £71.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.05 £19.38 £21.03
% change year-on-year +13.81% -7.85% +10.99%

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 8,989 10,970 16,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.99% 62.26% 63.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,995 7,802 11,818
10th Percentile £330 £335 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 229 197
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.79 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.20% -8.45%
75th Percentile £50.97 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £68.15 £71.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.28% +9.65% +27.13%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 0 609 £540 -1.82% 2,339
West London 0 77 £400 - 545
South London +3 51 £578 +28.44% 191
East London +1 28 £500 +12.36% 163
North London 0 5 £463 +8.82% 78
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 125 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 38 (0.99%) Apache
5 36 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 32 (0.84%) CMS
7 30 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 9 (0.24%) JBoss
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
9 9 (0.24%) SAS
10 8 (0.21%) Drupal
10 8 (0.21%) GemFire
11 7 (0.18%) IIS
11 7 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.16%) WordPress
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 188 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 44 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.42%) Trello
7 11 (0.29%) Sketch
8 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
11 6 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.13%) InDesign
13 4 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
13 4 (0.10%) InfoPath
13 4 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.052%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 107 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (1.02%) Endur
4 26 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.47%) Shopify
7 17 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
7 17 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 16 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
8 16 (0.42%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.42%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
10 14 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (0.37%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
11 13 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
12 12 (0.31%) Aladdin
12 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
13 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
14 8 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 685 (17.90%) Azure
2 506 (13.22%) AWS
3 260 (6.79%) Power Platform
4 193 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 179 (4.68%) GCP
6 159 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (3.00%) SaaS
8 109 (2.85%) GitHub
9 80 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 79 (2.06%) Serverless
11 71 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 58 (1.52%) PowerApps
13 51 (1.33%) Amazon S3
14 49 (1.28%) Snowflake
15 45 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 45 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 43 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 41 (1.07%) dbt
18 37 (0.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 136 (3.55%) Firewall
2 78 (2.04%) DNS
3 69 (1.80%) Network Security
4 67 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 65 (1.70%) VPN
6 56 (1.46%) WAN
7 51 (1.33%) LAN
8 47 (1.23%) DHCP
9 37 (0.97%) BGP
10 35 (0.91%) OSPF
10 35 (0.91%) Wireless
11 32 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (0.68%) VLAN
13 23 (0.60%) Internet
14 22 (0.57%) HTTP
14 22 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.57%) SSL
15 20 (0.52%) EIGRP
16 14 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.37%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (5.23%) Power BI
2 119 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 113 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (2.40%) Tableau
6 83 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 45 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 42 (1.10%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.02%) Metadata
10 36 (0.94%) Redis
11 35 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 34 (0.89%) SAP HANA
13 33 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 32 (0.84%) DB2
15 29 (0.76%) BigQuery
15 29 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
16 28 (0.73%) MySQL
17 27 (0.71%) Big Data
18 23 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 324 (8.47%) JIRA
2 146 (3.81%) Git
3 127 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.36%) GitLab
5 50 (1.31%) JUnit
6 46 (1.20%) Selenium
7 39 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 27 (0.71%) Postman
9 23 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.52%) JMeter
11 19 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 19 (0.50%) Subversion
12 18 (0.47%) Maven
12 18 (0.47%) REST Assured
12 18 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.39%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.37%) LoadRunner
15 13 (0.34%) Gradle
15 13 (0.34%) Metasploit
General
1 1,310 (34.23%) Finance
2 912 (23.83%) Analytical Skills
3 521 (13.61%) Banking
4 242 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 201 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
6 180 (4.70%) Front Office
7 172 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 163 (4.26%) Marketing
9 138 (3.61%) Retail
10 130 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 124 (3.24%) Legal
12 103 (2.69%) Financial Institution
13 102 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
14 101 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
15 79 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 72 (1.88%) Telecoms
17 52 (1.36%) Back Office
18 40 (1.05%) Manufacturing
19 38 (0.99%) Local Government
20 33 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 649 (16.96%) Analyst
2 501 (13.09%) Developer
3 419 (10.95%) Senior
4 366 (9.56%) Architect
5 348 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 266 (6.95%) Consultant
7 261 (6.82%) Lead
8 245 (6.40%) Project Manager
9 98 (2.56%) Java Developer
10 96 (2.51%) Senior Developer
11 95 (2.48%) Data Analyst
12 93 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
13 79 (2.06%) Support Engineer
14 76 (1.99%) Data Engineer
15 68 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (1.72%) C# Developer
17 62 (1.62%) Network Engineer
18 57 (1.49%) Senior Manager
19 54 (1.41%) Support Analyst
20 50 (1.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.68%) .NET
2 115 (3.00%) Kafka
3 106 (2.77%) React
4 94 (2.46%) AngularJS
5 92 (2.40%) HTML
6 86 (2.25%) CSS
6 86 (2.25%) REST
6 86 (2.25%) RESTful
7 79 (2.06%) Web Services
8 72 (1.88%) Spring
9 47 (1.23%) Middleware
10 40 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 38 (0.99%) Node.js
12 37 (0.97%) ASP.NET
13 35 (0.91%) .NET Framework
13 35 (0.91%) HTML5
14 33 (0.86%) SOAP
15 31 (0.81%) XML
16 30 (0.78%) JSON
17 29 (0.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 157 (4.10%) Product Ownership
2 112 (2.93%) Onboarding
3 110 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 94 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 80 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 79 (2.06%) Cloud Native
8 68 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 62 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 55 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
12 54 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 54 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 48 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.18%) Fixed Income
15 45 (1.18%) Market Risk
16 44 (1.15%) Equities
16 44 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 251 (6.56%) Windows
2 185 (4.83%) Linux
3 78 (2.04%) Unix
4 64 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 42 (1.10%) Android
7 36 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.21%) Solaris
11 7 (0.18%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.18%) zOS
12 5 (0.13%) AIX
12 5 (0.13%) CatOS
12 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.078%) CentOS
13 3 (0.078%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.078%) VMS
13 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.052%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,240 (32.40%) Problem-Solving
2 1,055 (27.57%) Agile
3 701 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 488 (12.75%) Project Management
5 468 (12.23%) DevOps
6 363 (9.49%) Analytics
7 348 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 348 (9.09%) Migration
8 317 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 293 (7.66%) Risk Management
10 283 (7.39%) Scrum
11 278 (7.26%) Computer Science
12 271 (7.08%) Decision-Making
13 266 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
14 264 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 251 (6.56%) Roadmaps
16 224 (5.85%) Project Delivery
17 206 (5.38%) Data Modelling
18 204 (5.33%) Data Analysis
19 203 (5.30%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 629 (16.44%) SQL
2 563 (14.71%) Python
3 377 (9.85%) Java
4 203 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 184 (4.81%) C#
6 124 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 108 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 80 (2.09%) Bash
9 79 (2.06%) C++
10 62 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 42 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 38 (0.99%) Go
13 30 (0.78%) PHP
14 29 (0.76%) Perl
14 29 (0.76%) R
15 28 (0.73%) Bicep
16 27 (0.71%) VBA
17 26 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 26 (0.68%) Scala
18 20 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 533 (13.93%) Degree
2 416 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 335 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 147 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 112 (2.93%) PMI Certification
6 99 (2.59%) PMP
7 63 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 57 (1.49%) CISSP
10 55 (1.44%) AWS Certification
11 50 (1.31%) CCNP
12 42 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.02%) CISM
14 37 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.81%) DV Cleared
17 30 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
18 20 (0.52%) CCNA
18 20 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (5.62%) QA
2 124 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 100 (2.61%) GDPR
4 75 (1.96%) PMO
5 72 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 70 (1.83%) NIST
7 68 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (0.99%) MiFID
8 38 (0.99%) SLA
9 30 (0.78%) GRC
10 27 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.60%) EMIR
12 18 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.44%) SEPA
14 16 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.39%) NCSC
16 13 (0.34%) WCAG
17 12 (0.31%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.26%) Basel II
System Software
1 162 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 139 (3.63%) Docker
3 31 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.26%) Firmware
6 9 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.24%) vSphere
7 8 (0.21%) GridGain
8 7 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.078%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.078%) IAG
10 3 (0.078%) iptables
10 3 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.078%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.078%) XenApp
11 2 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 195 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 150 (3.92%) Terraform
3 93 (2.43%) Ansible
4 50 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.18%) SCCM
6 37 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 36 (0.94%) Grafana
8 16 (0.42%) Puppet
9 15 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 13 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.31%) Nmap
11 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.26%) Kibana
13 8 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.16%) CA Spectrum
14 6 (0.16%) Perfmon
15 5 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.13%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 568 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.98%) Oracle
3 250 (6.53%) SAP
4 156 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 132 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 107 (2.80%) Google
7 93 (2.43%) Cisco
8 81 (2.12%) Databricks
9 58 (1.52%) Adobe
10 51 (1.33%) VMware
11 47 (1.23%) IBM
11 47 (1.23%) Splunk
12 45 (1.18%) Workday
13 33 (0.86%) Citrix
14 31 (0.81%) Informatica
15 29 (0.76%) CyberArk
16 27 (0.71%) HP
17 26 (0.68%) Sybase
18 25 (0.65%) Palo Alto
19 23 (0.60%) Murex