Social Skills Contracts in the Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 607 636 795
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.71% 23.07% 23.10%
As % of the General category 50.84% 42.04% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 432 551
10th Percentile £160 £191 £206
25th Percentile £263 £275 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £578
90th Percentile £683 £724 £675
England median daily rate £501 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.72% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 72 35
10th Percentile £14.70 £11.06 £11.32
25th Percentile £14.84 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.95 £14.72 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.93% -5.03% -4.62%
75th Percentile £22.08 £19.61 £21.23
90th Percentile £41.38 £32.81 £56.50
England median hourly rate £23.99 £18.13 £25.00
% change year-on-year +32.32% -27.48% +38.89%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,194 1,513 1,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.38% 54.88% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,034 1,359
10th Percentile £190 £207 £213
25th Percentile £343 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +1.56% +2.67%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 167 83
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.88 £17.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -13.88% +14.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £38.13 £32.13
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.80 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the Midlands

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands 0 458 £475 - 841
East Midlands 0 138 £398 +47.77% 552
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 19 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.64%) Confluence
3 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) Luigi
8 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.16%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.16%) Maya
7 1 (0.16%) QuarkXPress
7 1 (0.16%) SPSS
7 1 (0.16%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 10 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.49%) Maximo
3 3 (0.49%) Primavera
3 3 (0.49%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Exstream
4 2 (0.33%) Magento
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 85 (14.00%) Azure
2 63 (10.38%) Power Platform
3 58 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (5.77%) AWS
5 28 (4.61%) PowerApps
6 26 (4.28%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.47%) GCP
9 13 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.48%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.48%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.32%) SaaS
13 7 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.99%) Serverless
15 5 (0.82%) Asana
15 5 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.81%) Firewall
1 11 (1.81%) Network Security
2 10 (1.65%) VPN
3 9 (1.48%) LAN
3 9 (1.48%) VLAN
4 8 (1.32%) WAN
5 7 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.99%) BGP
6 6 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.82%) OSPF
8 4 (0.66%) IPsec
8 4 (0.66%) SSL
8 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.49%) Internet
9 3 (0.49%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.49%) VoIP
10 2 (0.33%) ATM
10 2 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.10%) Power BI
2 15 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.81%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.66%) Power Query
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.49%) MySQL
9 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.49%) Tableau
10 2 (0.33%) Big Data
10 2 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (7.08%) JIRA
2 11 (1.81%) GitLab
3 7 (1.15%) Git
3 7 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.99%) MSI
4 6 (0.99%) Postman
4 6 (0.99%) Selenium
5 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.49%) JMeter
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.49%) TestNG
5 3 (0.49%) Travis CI
6 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.33%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.33%) Maven
6 2 (0.33%) NetBeans
6 2 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
General
1 129 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
2 100 (16.47%) Finance
3 44 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
4 42 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
5 35 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.46%) Legal
7 19 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.13%) Law
8 18 (2.97%) Retail
9 14 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.14%) Banking
11 11 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.65%) Marketing
13 9 (1.48%) Automotive
14 8 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.32%) Local Government
15 7 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 78 (12.85%) Analyst
2 51 (8.40%) Project Manager
3 48 (7.91%) Architect
4 47 (7.74%) Lead
5 36 (5.93%) Consultant
6 33 (5.44%) Developer
7 25 (4.12%) Senior
8 23 (3.79%) Support Engineer
9 21 (3.46%) Business Analyst
10 19 (3.13%) IT Support
11 18 (2.97%) IT Manager
12 17 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.64%) Desktop Engineer
13 16 (2.64%) IT Engineer
14 15 (2.47%) IT Analyst
14 15 (2.47%) Windows Engineer
15 14 (2.31%) Deployment Engineer
16 13 (2.14%) Junior
17 11 (1.81%) Technical Leader
18 10 (1.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.81%) HTML
2 8 (1.32%) .NET
2 8 (1.32%) CSS
3 7 (1.15%) Middleware
4 6 (0.99%) LDAP
4 6 (0.99%) SailPoint
4 6 (0.99%) Software Packaging
5 5 (0.82%) React
5 5 (0.82%) RESTful
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.66%) REST
7 3 (0.49%) ADO
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Axis
7 3 (0.49%) Kafka
7 3 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.49%) SPFx
8 2 (0.33%) MACH
8 2 (0.33%) Next.js
8 2 (0.33%) POSIX
8 2 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.46%) Operational Technology
2 19 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.64%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.47%) SCADA
7 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 10 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.48%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.32%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.15%) IoT
13 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.82%) Industry 4.0
14 5 (0.82%) Smartphone
14 5 (0.82%) Social Media
15 4 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (11.86%) Windows
2 29 (4.78%) Windows 10
3 22 (3.62%) Linux
4 12 (1.98%) Android
5 8 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.99%) Unix
8 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.66%) Check Point GAiA
10 3 (0.49%) AIX
10 3 (0.49%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (33.28%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (19.77%) Agile
2 120 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (13.84%) Project Management
4 60 (9.88%) Customer Service
5 59 (9.72%) Computer Science
6 53 (8.73%) Migration
7 50 (8.24%) Collaborative Working
8 47 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (7.58%) DevOps
10 44 (7.25%) ITIL
11 42 (6.92%) Data Modelling
11 42 (6.92%) Process Improvement
12 39 (6.43%) Decision-Making
13 37 (6.10%) Change Management
13 37 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (5.93%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (5.44%) Analytics
16 32 (5.27%) Risk Management
16 32 (5.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (11.70%) SQL
2 56 (9.23%) Python
3 35 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 22 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.97%) Java
6 15 (2.47%) Bash
7 8 (1.32%) C#
8 6 (0.99%) R
9 5 (0.82%) Ruby
10 4 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.49%) C++
11 3 (0.49%) Perl
11 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.33%) ABAP
12 2 (0.33%) C
12 2 (0.33%) Scala
12 2 (0.33%) Tcl
12 2 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (14.83%) Degree
2 79 (13.01%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 36 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.47%) CISSP
6 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.48%) PMP
10 8 (1.32%) CEH
10 8 (1.32%) MCSE
11 7 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.99%) CISM
13 5 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.82%) HND
13 5 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.59%) QA
2 24 (3.95%) SLA
3 19 (3.13%) PMO
4 17 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.47%) GDPR
6 14 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.31%) NIST
7 7 (1.15%) GRC
8 4 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) NCSC
9 3 (0.49%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.33%) MISRA
10 2 (0.33%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.33%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 55 (9.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.64%) Docker
3 7 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.99%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.62%) Kubernetes
1 22 (3.62%) SCCM
2 19 (3.13%) Ansible
3 16 (2.64%) Terraform
4 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.49%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.49%) Grafana
8 3 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.49%) Opsview
9 2 (0.33%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.16%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 130 (21.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.43%) SAP
3 27 (4.45%) Oracle
4 22 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.64%) Cisco
6 11 (1.81%) CyberArk
7 10 (1.65%) Apple
7 10 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.65%) VMware
8 9 (1.48%) Adobe
8 9 (1.48%) Google
9 8 (1.32%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.99%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.99%) Tanium
11 5 (0.82%) Foundry
12 4 (0.66%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.66%) Databricks
12 4 (0.66%) IBM
12 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.49%) Citrix