Social Skills Contracts in Oxfordshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 51 48 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 48.57% 21.05% 18.00%
As % of the General category 68.92% 43.24% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 21
10th Percentile £248 £150 £200
25th Percentile £250 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £438
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +1.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £492 £638
90th Percentile £690 £538 £800
South East median daily rate £500 £482 £505
% change year-on-year +3.73% -4.55% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile - £14.30 £22.10
25th Percentile £13.08 £15.55 £22.25
Median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.14% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £28.42 £26.25 £28.87
90th Percentile £39.15 £39.75 £29.69
South East median hourly rate £18.50 £18.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year +0.82% -59.22% +157.14%

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 74 111 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 70.48% 48.68% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 69 86
10th Percentile £250 £150 £253
25th Percentile £363 £263 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% +2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £688 £585 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 25 12
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.17 £22.05
25th Percentile £18.91 £19.25 £25.09
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £32.89 £50.00 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.66 £65.00 £47.78
South East median hourly rate £24.18 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.27% -5.26% +137.50%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Oxfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Oxford 0 26 £525 +16.67% 100
Abingdon +2 1 - - 18
Banbury 0 1 £250 -52.38% 3
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) CATIA
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (17.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 8 (15.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.96%) Maximo
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.84%) AWS
3 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.96%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.96%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DHCP
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
1 1 (1.96%) HTTP
1 1 (1.96%) Internet
1 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.96%) IP Telephony
1 1 (1.96%) LAN
1 1 (1.96%) MPLS
1 1 (1.96%) NAS
1 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
1 1 (1.96%) RS-232
1 1 (1.96%) SAN
1 1 (1.96%) Skype
1 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.96%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.96%) VPN
1 1 (1.96%) WAN
1 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.92%) Power BI
1 2 (3.92%) Tableau
2 1 (1.96%) Metadata
2 1 (1.96%) MS Access
2 1 (1.96%) MySQL
2 1 (1.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Manufacturing
4 10 (19.61%) Finance
5 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.88%) Automotive
5 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.92%) Electronics
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.96%) Aviation
7 1 (1.96%) Military
7 1 (1.96%) Police
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Project Manager
2 6 (11.76%) Analyst
2 6 (11.76%) SAP Manager
3 5 (9.80%) Lead
3 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (7.84%) SAP Project Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Workday Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Workday Project Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Field Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Support
6 2 (3.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (3.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (3.92%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) XML
2 1 (1.96%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.96%) CSS
2 1 (1.96%) HTML
2 1 (1.96%) JSP
2 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Life Science
1 9 (17.65%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.92%) NHS
4 2 (3.92%) Robotics
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.96%) FPGA
5 1 (1.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.96%) AIX
5 1 (1.96%) Android
5 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (1.96%) HPUX
5 1 (1.96%) Solaris
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (29.41%) Agile
3 13 (25.49%) Migration
4 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (19.61%) Asset Management
6 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (17.65%) Time Management
7 7 (13.73%) Change Management
7 7 (13.73%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (13.73%) PRINCE2
7 7 (13.73%) Project Planning
7 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
7 7 (13.73%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
8 6 (11.76%) ERP
9 5 (9.80%) Analytics
9 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.80%) ITIL
9 5 (9.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) C#
3 1 (1.96%) Bash
3 1 (1.96%) C
3 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.96%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.96%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.96%) Korn
3 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.96%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) R
3 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.88%) PMP
5 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) MBA
6 1 (1.96%) MCP
6 1 (1.96%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (1.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.96%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) PMBOK
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) NCSC
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.96%) vSphere
2 1 (1.96%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) SCCM
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) SAP
3 4 (7.84%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) Workday
4 2 (3.92%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix
5 1 (1.96%) F5
5 1 (1.96%) Intel
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Siemens
5 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.96%) Talend
5 1 (1.96%) Twitter
5 1 (1.96%) VMware