Social Skills Contracts in Northern Ireland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 56 39 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 35.22% 26.53% 16.34%
As % of the General category 43.41% 52.70% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 12
10th Percentile £148 £142 £201
25th Percentile £250 £322 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £418 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +11.33% +9.49%
75th Percentile £553 £508 £438
90th Percentile £619 £554 £475
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 3
10th Percentile £12.66 - £14.05
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £12.99 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.25% -16.19% +11.59%
75th Percentile £78.47 £23.27 £18.50
90th Percentile £81.62 £25.20 £20.15
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £18.13 £25.00
% change year-on-year +30.12% -27.48% +32.82%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 74 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.13% 50.34% 61.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 35 63
10th Percentile £153 £191 £159
25th Percentile £273 £288 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +8.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £529 £553 £494
90th Percentile £625 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 9
10th Percentile £15.61 - £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £22.50 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Northern Ireland

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim 0 56 £400 -4.19% 170
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) GemFire
3 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.79%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (3.57%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.79%) Azure
3 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
3 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) ATM
1 4 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (7.14%) Tableau
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (3.57%) Flink
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.79%) Big Data
3 1 (1.79%) GIS
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.79%) HBase
3 1 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (62.50%) Finance
2 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.93%) Front Office
6 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.57%) Law
8 2 (3.57%) Legal
8 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) EPoS Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) Help Desk Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) Kafka
2 4 (7.14%) Spring
2 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.57%) React
4 1 (1.79%) JMS
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) JWT
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth
4 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.79%) RAML
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) SAML
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
4 1 (1.79%) Swagger
4 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Equities
2 4 (7.14%) BYOD
2 4 (7.14%) EPoS
3 3 (5.36%) Derivative
3 3 (5.36%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 4 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (23.21%) Project Management
3 10 (17.86%) Agile
4 9 (16.07%) Data Analysis
5 8 (14.29%) DevOps
6 7 (12.50%) Change Management
6 7 (12.50%) Microservices
6 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.71%) Business Analysis
7 6 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.71%) Process Improvement
8 4 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (7.14%) Break/Fix
8 4 (7.14%) Customer Experience
8 4 (7.14%) Data Governance
8 4 (7.14%) Data Management
8 4 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.14%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.14%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) DataWeave
4 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.79%) R
4 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) PMO
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Computacenter
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce