Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Loughborough

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Leicestershire > Loughborough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Loughborough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Loughborough 25.00% 33.33% 16.67%
As % of the General category 40.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £180 £188
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile - - £194
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £421 £300 £300
% change year-on-year +40.42% - -16.08%

All General Skills
Loughborough

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 Loughborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Loughborough 62.50% 66.67% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £261 £171 -
25th Percentile £325 £173 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £175 £188
Median % change year-on-year +105.71% -6.67% -62.59%
75th Percentile £404 £178 £194
90th Percentile £484 £179 -
Leicestershire median daily rate £418 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +11.33% - -11.76%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Loughborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Loughborough.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Loughborough

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Loughborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Loughborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Loughborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
2 1 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle