Social Skills Contracts in Northampton

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Northampton. 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 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 27 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 21.95% 10.24% 14.81%
As % of the General category 32.93% 18.84% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 19
10th Percentile £185 £213 £243
25th Percentile £318 £325 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +6.67% -22.68%
75th Percentile £471 £475 £500
90th Percentile £525 £500 £508
Northamptonshire median daily rate £414 £405 £373
% change year-on-year +2.22% +8.72% -12.35%

All General Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 82 69 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 66.67% 54.33% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 55 58
10th Percentile £247 £318 £226
25th Percentile £356 £364 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.25% -12.09%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £497
90th Percentile £527 £620 £550
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £38.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -61.84% -25.49% +50.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Northampton

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Northampton

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Northampton

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Northampton

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.70%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.41%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) Asana
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Google App Engine
3 1 (3.70%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) ATM
1 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (11.11%) Analyst
1 3 (11.11%) Consultant
1 3 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (7.41%) Architect
2 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Developer
2 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
2 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
3 1 (3.70%) Applications Project Manager
3 1 (3.70%) ATM Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Deployment Project Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Scala Developer
3 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Software Programmer
3 1 (3.70%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Akka
2 1 (3.70%) Play Framework
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) EPoS
2 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) PMI
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 5 (18.52%) Project Management
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (14.81%) Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Change Management
6 3 (11.11%) Compliance Management
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Inventory Management
6 3 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Validation
6 3 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 3 (11.11%) PMP
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) CBAP
3 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.70%) IIBA
3 1 (3.70%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) AirWatch
1 3 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce