Social Skills Contracts in Scotland

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 536 677 915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 24.85% 24.50% 26.55%
As % of the General category 38.62% 36.69% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 486 671
10th Percentile £156 £163 £185
25th Percentile £288 £363 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +9.06% -
75th Percentile £538 £562 £500
90th Percentile £613 £644 £580
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 28
10th Percentile £12.12 £12.90 £13.88
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.83 £15.59
Median hourly rate £16.53 £17.21 £26.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -34.87% +51.00%
75th Percentile £19.75 £59.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.70 £67.88 £54.35
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £18.89
% change year-on-year -27.48% +32.38% +4.92%

All General Skills
Scotland

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,388 1,845 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.35% 66.78% 71.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 1,336 1,791
10th Percentile £179 £237 £230
25th Percentile £350 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year - +2.37% +9.18%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £550
90th Percentile £662 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 29 43
10th Percentile £12.24 £12.75 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.67 £15.75 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -20.82% +16.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.82% +53.73% -2.22%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Scotland

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +1 241 £439 -7.58% 144
Glasgow 0 165 £445 -4.20% 121
West Lothian 0 33 £473 +263.46% 18
Aberdeen 0 15 £563 +36.36% 77
South Lanarkshire +2 10 £575 +27.78% 1
Renfrewshire -5 8 £344 -35.14% 5
Highlands - 7 - - 8
Perthshire +6 5 £525 +5.00% 1
Stirling +2 5 £420 +237.35% 14
Lanarkshire +1 4 £343 +107.58% 50
Dundee +2 3 - - 5
Fife +1 3 - - 6
Inverclyde 0 2 £172 -67.24% 2
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +2.44% 1
Midlothian +1 1 - - 42
Aberdeenshire -1 1 - - 37
South Ayrshire -2 1 - - 10
East Lothian - 1 £113 -
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.04%) Confluence
3 14 (2.61%) CMS
4 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.31%) SAS
6 5 (0.93%) Apache
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 3 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (0.56%) WordPress
8 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.19%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Applications
1 72 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.68%) Autodesk Inventor
4 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.19%) Lectora
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.19%) assyst
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.57%) Azure
2 50 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (7.46%) AWS
4 26 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (2.80%) OpenShift
7 12 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.87%) SaaS
9 10 (1.87%) Serverless
10 9 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (1.68%) AWS CodeBuild
10 9 (1.68%) AWS CodePipeline
10 9 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.68%) IaaS
11 8 (1.49%) OCI
12 7 (1.31%) Yammer
13 6 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.17%) Firewall
2 12 (2.24%) Intranet
3 11 (2.05%) LAN
3 11 (2.05%) SAN
4 8 (1.49%) DNS
4 8 (1.49%) VPN
4 8 (1.49%) WAN
5 7 (1.31%) NAS
6 6 (1.12%) 5G
6 6 (1.12%) DHCP
6 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.12%) VoIP
7 5 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (0.93%) HTTP
7 5 (0.93%) iSCSI
7 5 (0.93%) SMTP
8 4 (0.75%) Internet
9 3 (0.56%) Skype
9 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.22%) Oracle Database
2 25 (4.66%) Power BI
3 12 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.68%) Metadata
7 7 (1.31%) Big Data
8 6 (1.12%) DB2
8 6 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.75%) Informix
10 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 10g
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Discoverer
11 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.56%) Tableau
12 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (8.21%) JIRA
2 33 (6.16%) Git
3 24 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.80%) Oracle APEX
5 14 (2.61%) Postman
6 11 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.05%) JUnit
7 10 (1.87%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.75%) GitLab
8 4 (0.75%) Maven
8 4 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.75%) Selenium
9 3 (0.56%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.56%) JMeter
9 3 (0.56%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.37%) Gradle
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 167 (31.16%) Public Sector
2 115 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (19.22%) Finance
4 55 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 42 (7.84%) Banking
6 35 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.24%) Legal
10 9 (1.68%) Mandarin Language
11 8 (1.49%) Back Office
11 8 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.31%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.12%) Publishing
14 5 (0.93%) Billing
14 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.75%) Marketing
15 4 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 125 (23.32%) Analyst
2 55 (10.26%) Senior
3 41 (7.65%) Developer
4 36 (6.72%) Project Manager
5 32 (5.97%) Business Analyst
6 30 (5.60%) Architect
7 29 (5.41%) IT Support
8 26 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.66%) Lead
10 24 (4.48%) Support Officer
11 21 (3.92%) IT Analyst
12 20 (3.73%) Consultant
13 19 (3.54%) Support Analyst
14 18 (3.36%) Administrator
15 16 (2.99%) Designer
15 16 (2.99%) Support Engineer
16 15 (2.80%) IT Manager
16 15 (2.80%) Java Developer
17 13 (2.43%) Linux Engineer
17 13 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.90%) REST
2 21 (3.92%) Spring
3 17 (3.17%) J2EE
3 17 (3.17%) Kafka
4 16 (2.99%) Spring Boot
5 13 (2.43%) React
6 11 (2.05%) CSS
6 11 (2.05%) HTML
7 10 (1.87%) Apache Camel
7 10 (1.87%) SOAP
7 10 (1.87%) Web Services
8 9 (1.68%) .NET
8 9 (1.68%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.31%) Middleware
9 7 (1.31%) Playwright
10 6 (1.12%) Flash
10 6 (1.12%) WebRTC
11 5 (0.93%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.93%) LDAP
11 5 (0.93%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 22 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (1.87%) Clustering
4 10 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.49%) Client/Server
5 8 (1.49%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.31%) Video Editing
7 6 (1.12%) PKI
7 6 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.12%) Replication
7 6 (1.12%) Social Media
7 6 (1.12%) Wiki
8 5 (0.93%) CMDB
8 5 (0.93%) iPhone
8 5 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 5 (0.93%) NVMe
8 5 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 63 (11.75%) Windows
2 37 (6.90%) Linux
3 22 (4.10%) Unix
4 20 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.61%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.87%) Android
8 8 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (1.31%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.75%) Solaris
10 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.56%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.37%) zOS
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (27.61%) Agile
2 125 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (15.49%) Project Management
4 64 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (10.63%) Change Management
6 55 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (9.14%) Project Delivery
8 48 (8.96%) Migration
9 47 (8.77%) Roadmaps
10 40 (7.46%) ITIL
11 39 (7.28%) Customer Service
12 35 (6.53%) DevOps
13 34 (6.34%) Business Analysis
14 32 (5.97%) Scrum
14 32 (5.97%) Waterfall
15 31 (5.78%) ERP
15 31 (5.78%) Service Management
16 29 (5.41%) Coaching
16 29 (5.41%) Computer Science
17 28 (5.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.63%) SQL
2 44 (8.21%) Java
3 34 (6.34%) Python
4 21 (3.92%) PL/SQL
5 18 (3.36%) Perl
6 16 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.93%) C#
9 4 (0.75%) Bash
9 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.56%) Groovy
10 3 (0.56%) JCL
10 3 (0.56%) VB
11 2 (0.37%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.37%) COBOL
11 2 (0.37%) REXX
11 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 78 (14.55%) Degree
2 51 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.87%) MCP
5 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.12%) CISSP
8 5 (0.93%) ACCA
8 5 (0.93%) CIMA
8 5 (0.93%) CISM
8 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.93%) PMP
9 4 (0.75%) RHCE
10 3 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.56%) ISEB
10 3 (0.56%) MCSE
10 3 (0.56%) OSCP
10 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 27 (5.04%) PMO
3 20 (3.73%) QA
4 17 (3.17%) SLA
5 16 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.75%) GDPR
6 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.56%) WCAG
8 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) COREP
9 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.19%) FINREP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 39 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.54%) Docker
3 13 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.49%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.12%) vSphere
7 5 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.93%) NFS
7 5 (0.93%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.75%) GPFS
8 4 (0.75%) KVM
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.37%) ACF2
10 2 (0.37%) RACF
10 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (3.54%) SCCM
2 15 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.80%) Terraform
3 12 (2.24%) Grafana
3 12 (2.24%) Kibana
4 10 (1.87%) Ansible
5 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.93%) vMotion
6 5 (0.93%) WSUS
7 4 (0.75%) NetBackup
7 4 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.75%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (0.56%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.37%) VxRail
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.87%) Oracle
3 17 (3.17%) SAP
3 17 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.99%) VMware
5 15 (2.80%) Citrix
6 13 (2.43%) IBM
7 11 (2.05%) Google
8 10 (1.87%) Autodesk
8 10 (1.87%) Cisco
9 9 (1.68%) Veritas
10 8 (1.49%) Cadence
10 8 (1.49%) Dell
11 7 (1.31%) HP
11 7 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.31%) Splunk
12 5 (0.93%) Adobe
12 5 (0.93%) Apple
12 5 (0.93%) Infoblox
13 4 (0.75%) Alteryx