Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Perthshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Perthshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Perthshire 50.00% 50.00% 19.05%
As % of the General category 83.33% 62.50% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £373 £535 £434
25th Percentile £388 £550 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £538
90th Percentile £568 £665 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £455 £425
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.94% -10.53%

All General Skills
Perthshire

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 general skills in Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 60.00% 80.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £383 £525 £449
25th Percentile £413 £531 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £538
90th Percentile - £663 -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Perthshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Perthshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Perthshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Perthshire

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perthshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Support
3 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Officer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Officer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Kanban
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ETRM
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks