Social Skills Contracts in Merseyside

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 52 44 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 30.95% 19.30% 25.73%
As % of the General category 49.52% 35.20% 45.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 20 62
10th Percentile £143 - £401
25th Percentile £155 £213 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £315 £525
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -40.00% +13.51%
75th Percentile £563 £494 £675
90th Percentile £638 £530 £700
North West median daily rate £491 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.37% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 6
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.75 £16.22
25th Percentile £15.57 £14.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -11.11% +10.77%
75th Percentile - £34.32 £22.63
90th Percentile £24.11 £37.18 £23.75
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £26.00
% change year-on-year +79.02% -38.23% +12.77%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 105 125 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 62.50% 54.82% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 58 129
10th Percentile £150 £155 £393
25th Percentile £305 £213 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -15.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £588
90th Percentile £641 £588 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 35 9
10th Percentile £13.28 £14.50 £16.15
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +2.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Merseyside

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Merseyside

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Merseyside

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Merseyside

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Merseyside

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Liverpool +1 41 £469 +42.05% 223
Southport - 5 £523 -
Bootle - 1 £250 - 1
Social Skills
North West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 9 (17.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (13.46%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) dbt
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) LAN
1 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.92%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.77%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (5.77%) Tableau
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (19.23%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
3 5 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Billing
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) IT Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Service Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Change and Release Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Change Manager
4 5 (9.62%) IT Support
4 5 (9.62%) Release Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Business IT Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Developer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Business Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) D3.js
1 3 (5.77%) JMS
1 3 (5.77%) SOAP
1 3 (5.77%) Web Services
2 2 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) Middleware
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.92%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Windows 10
3 6 (11.54%) Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) Solaris
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 14 (26.92%) ITIL
4 9 (17.31%) Incident Management
5 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 7 (13.46%) Migration
7 5 (9.62%) DevOps
7 5 (9.62%) ETL
8 4 (7.69%) Agile
8 4 (7.69%) Analytics
8 4 (7.69%) Change Management
8 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (7.69%) CRM
8 4 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (5.77%) Business Development
9 3 (5.77%) Release Management
9 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.77%) Test Management
9 3 (5.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) SQL
2 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Java
3 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 4 (7.69%) MCP
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) GRC
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.31%) ServiceNow
3 7 (13.46%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) Siebel
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) Talend
5 2 (3.85%) Varonis
6 1 (1.92%) OneTrust