Social Skills Contracts in Milton Keynes

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 51 66 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 29.48% 16.92% 17.98%
As % of the General category 46.79% 32.84% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 122
10th Percentile £195 £202 £244
25th Percentile £384 £346 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £580
90th Percentile £600 £629 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £510 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.49% +13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £13.90 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - £9.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.60% +525.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £45.25 - £10.50
90th Percentile £60.10 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £12.50 £10.00
% change year-on-year +13.60% +25.00% -10.19%

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 109 201 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 63.01% 51.54% 60.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 143 369
10th Percentile £274 £213 £228
25th Percentile £400 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +2.70% +0.54%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £570
90th Percentile £650 £750 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £508 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +6.84% +1.06% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 1
10th Percentile £13.90 £17.75 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.13 £9.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% +132.15% -17.90%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.36 £10.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £30.00 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £24.72 £26.25
% change year-on-year -42.55% -5.85% +113.24%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Milton Keynes

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Milton Keynes

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Milton Keynes

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Milton Keynes

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Milton Keynes

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 7 (13.73%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.96%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.92%) Avolution ABACUS
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle ASCP
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.96%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.96%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) GCP
3 3 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) IaaS
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 3 (5.88%) WAN
2 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) LAN
3 1 (1.96%) BGP
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) FTP
3 1 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (1.96%) MPLS
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
3 1 (1.96%) NGFW
3 1 (1.96%) OSPF
3 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.96%) VLAN
3 1 (1.96%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) VSAN
3 1 (1.96%) Wireless
3 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) Big Data
2 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.92%) MS Access
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) ERwin
1 6 (11.76%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
General
1 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Marketing
3 3 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (3.92%) Automotive
4 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.92%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Lead
2 8 (15.69%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Consultant
3 6 (11.76%) Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Team Leader
6 2 (3.92%) ITSM Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Management Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Test Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) .NET
1 3 (5.88%) Django
1 3 (5.88%) FastAPI
1 3 (5.88%) Flask
1 3 (5.88%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) Middleware
2 2 (3.92%) VML
2 2 (3.92%) Web Services
3 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.96%) EDI
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.96%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.96%) React
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
3 1 (1.96%) WCF
3 1 (1.96%) XML
3 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.84%) EPoS
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) CSOC
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) CMDB
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.96%) FMCG
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 9 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 7 (13.73%) Agile
5 7 (13.73%) ITIL
5 7 (13.73%) Microservices
6 6 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (11.76%) Analytics
6 6 (11.76%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (11.76%) BPMN
6 6 (11.76%) Data Architecture
6 6 (11.76%) Data Management
6 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (9.80%) Inventory Management
7 5 (9.80%) ITSM
7 5 (9.80%) Migration
7 5 (9.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.88%) Python
4 2 (3.92%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.96%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) CCNP
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.96%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) SCOM
2 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Sparx
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
3 3 (5.88%) Citrix
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle
3 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) IBM
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.96%) BMC
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint