Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Salisbury. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 15.00% 29.41% 10.57%
As % of the General category 42.86% 62.50% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - - £185
25th Percentile £275 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £210 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -53.33% -28.00%
75th Percentile £325 £220 £625
90th Percentile - £369 £714
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%

All General Skills
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 35.00% 47.06% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 21
10th Percentile £302 £200 £300
25th Percentile £342 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £315 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.32% -30.00% -23.73%
75th Percentile £504 £354 £475
90th Percentile £540 £545 £700
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.39 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.00 £12.79 £61.00
% change year-on-year +87.65% -79.03% +12.96%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Salisbury

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

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

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Salisbury

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Operations Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware