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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 60 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 31.09% 12.97% 14.29%
As % of the General category 44.44% 21.62% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 22 18
10th Percentile £205 £276 £179
25th Percentile £317 £355 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £399 £370
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +7.77% -26.00%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £438
90th Percentile £488 £536 £511
Northamptonshire median daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 - -

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 135 111 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 69.95% 60.00% 49.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 93 52
10th Percentile £242 £327 £199
25th Percentile £330 £373 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -13.98%
75th Percentile £450 £565 £500
90th Percentile £500 £617 £627
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £35.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -38.89% -31.37% +45.71%

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 31 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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) GCP
3 6 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (1.67%) Asana
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.67%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.67%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) HTTP
1 3 (5.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) ATM
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.33%) MySQL
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Looker
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Banking
3 8 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) Developer
2 6 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Information Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Information Security Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Architect
4 4 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 4 (6.67%) Compliance Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) IT Support
4 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Support Officer
4 4 (6.67%) Tester
5 3 (5.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Identity Management Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Junior Automation Tester
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) LDAP
1 9 (15.00%) Spring
2 7 (11.67%) RESTful
3 6 (10.00%) HTML
3 6 (10.00%) REST
4 5 (8.33%) CSS
4 5 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 5 (8.33%) OAuth
4 5 (8.33%) OpenID
4 5 (8.33%) SAML
5 4 (6.67%) RAML
5 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.67%) Web Services
6 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.00%) JPA
6 3 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.00%) React
6 3 (5.00%) Spring Batch
7 2 (3.33%) .NET
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.67%) EPoS
2 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.00%) State Machine
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.67%) Agile
3 14 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
4 11 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (18.33%) Project Management
5 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.00%) Digital Identity
8 6 (10.00%) Information Security
8 6 (10.00%) ITSM
8 6 (10.00%) Scrum
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.00%) Validation
9 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.33%) RBAC
9 5 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) Java
1 18 (30.00%) SQL
2 6 (10.00%) Python
3 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.33%) C#
5 2 (3.33%) Scala
5 2 (3.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) CBAP
3 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.67%) IIBA
3 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
3 1 (1.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) GRC
3 5 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.00%) NIST
4 3 (5.00%) QA
5 2 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.67%) MiFID
6 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (5.00%) AirWatch
4 3 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (5.00%) SCCM
5 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) IBM
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle
2 5 (8.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco
3 1 (1.67%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce