Social Skills Contracts in Merton

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South London > Merton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Merton. 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 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 6 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 25.00% 31.58% 29.41%
As % of the General category 37.50% 37.50% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £253 £220 £376
25th Percentile £313 £231 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £250 £463
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.95% -
75th Percentile £338 £413 £509
90th Percentile £368 £510 £549
South London median daily rate £650 £458 £450
% change year-on-year +42.08% +1.67% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.42
75th Percentile - - £52.33
90th Percentile - - £57.83
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £82.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -80.80% +63.63% +8.92%

All General Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 66.67% 84.21% 61.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 14
10th Percentile £237 £187 £333
25th Percentile £313 £250 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £478 £575 £484
90th Percentile £488 £638 £523
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £70.24 - £39.64
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.29%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £51.70
90th Percentile £82.72 - £56.85
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -49.32%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Merton

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Merton

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Merton

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Merton

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton 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
Wimbledon -2 4 £325 -18.75% 1
Social Skills
South London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 3 (50.00%) JBoss
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP CO
1 1 (16.67%) SAP FI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) VMware