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

6 months to
12 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 58 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.73% 26.81% 16.24%
As % of the General category 42.96% 53.62% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 13 11
10th Percentile £148 £232 £200
25th Percentile £259 £331 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +8.75% +19.40%
75th Percentile £555 £519 £450
90th Percentile £616 £559 £475
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 3
10th Percentile £12.66 - £14.05
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £12.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +129.79% -18.58% +11.59%
75th Percentile £78.47 £23.40 £18.50
90th Percentile £81.62 £26.04 £20.15
UK median hourly rate £22.88 £18.13 £25.00
% change year-on-year +26.17% -27.48% +35.14%

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 135 69 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.84% 50.00% 59.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 31 57
10th Percentile £155 £200 £156
25th Percentile £279 £288 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £541 £569 £500
90th Percentile £624 £650 £596
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 9
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.88
25th Percentile £18.64 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.38 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% -0.77% +11.59%
75th Percentile £44.65 £23.00 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £34.00
% change year-on-year -8.82% -11.29% +54.55%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 58 £413 -5.17% 188
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 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) GemFire
3 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Mule
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.72%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
2 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.72%) Azure
4 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.72%) GCP
4 1 (1.72%) GitHub
4 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.72%) Serverless
4 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) ATM
1 4 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Tableau
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) Flink
5 1 (1.72%) GIS
5 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.72%) HBase
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (63.79%) Finance
2 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (32.76%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.07%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.34%) Front Office
6 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Law
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Analyst
2 9 (15.52%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) EPoS Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Field Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Tableau Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Kafka
2 4 (6.90%) Spring
2 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.45%) React
4 1 (1.72%) JMS
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) JWT
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth
4 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.72%) RAML
4 1 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) SAML
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) Swagger
4 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) BYOD
1 4 (6.90%) EPoS
1 4 (6.90%) Equities
2 3 (5.17%) Derivative
2 3 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.90%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (22.41%) Project Management
3 10 (17.24%) Data Analysis
4 9 (15.52%) Agile
5 8 (13.79%) Change Management
5 8 (13.79%) DevOps
5 8 (13.79%) Project Delivery
6 7 (12.07%) Business Analysis
7 6 (10.34%) Customer Service
7 6 (10.34%) Microservices
7 6 (10.34%) Process Improvement
8 4 (6.90%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (6.90%) Break/Fix
8 4 (6.90%) Customer Experience
8 4 (6.90%) Data Governance
8 4 (6.90%) Decision-Making
8 4 (6.90%) ETL
8 4 (6.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (6.90%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) SQL
2 7 (12.07%) Java
2 7 (12.07%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) DataWeave
3 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.72%) R
3 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) PMO
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) SCCM
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.45%) Computacenter
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce