Social Skills Contracts in Sheffield

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 91 107 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 28.53% 28.23% 16.52%
As % of the General category 41.94% 45.92% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 68 53
10th Percentile £150 £200 £300
25th Percentile £357 £423 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £608 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £631 £616
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.10 - -
Median hourly rate £18.21 - £11.00
75th Percentile £18.41 - -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.73 £11.00
% change year-on-year +43.06% +15.68% +15.91%

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 217 233 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.03% 61.48% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 132 249
10th Percentile £323 £375 £383
25th Percentile £389 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -6.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £688
90th Percentile £650 £644 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -13.73% +59.38%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 - £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Sheffield

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Sheffield

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Sheffield

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Sheffield

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (5.49%) Apache
1 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) SAS
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) GCP
2 8 (8.79%) AWS
3 6 (6.59%) GitHub
3 6 (6.59%) OCI
4 5 (5.49%) Azure
4 5 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.30%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.10%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) DNS
2 6 (6.59%) Network Security
2 6 (6.59%) SMTP
3 5 (5.49%) Firewall
4 4 (4.40%) NAS
4 4 (4.40%) SAN
4 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.30%) DWDM
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.20%) HTTP
6 2 (2.20%) LAN
6 2 (2.20%) VPN
6 2 (2.20%) WAN
7 1 (1.10%) ATM
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.10%) DHCP
7 1 (1.10%) Internet
7 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.49%) Flink
3 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) Big Data
4 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) Presto
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Jenkins
1 9 (9.89%) JIRA
2 5 (5.49%) Git
3 4 (4.40%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.20%) JMeter
4 2 (2.20%) Postman
4 2 (2.20%) Selenium
4 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 28 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Finance
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 7 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Front Office
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Back Office
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) International Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (10.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 10 (10.99%) Developer
2 9 (9.89%) Data Engineer
3 7 (7.69%) Analyst
4 6 (6.59%) Architect
5 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.40%) Lead
6 4 (4.40%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Database Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.30%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Senior
7 3 (3.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) REST
2 7 (7.69%) React
3 5 (5.49%) CSS
3 5 (5.49%) HTML
3 5 (5.49%) Middleware
4 3 (3.30%) Kafka
4 3 (3.30%) SPFx
5 2 (2.20%) .NET
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.20%) ISPF
5 2 (2.20%) LDAP
5 2 (2.20%) Spring
5 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.10%) JPA
6 1 (1.10%) jQuery
6 1 (1.10%) JSON
6 1 (1.10%) SOAP
6 1 (1.10%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (10.99%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.30%) PMI
4 3 (3.30%) Replication
5 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) EPoS
6 1 (1.10%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) LPAR
6 1 (1.10%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Windows
2 11 (12.09%) Apple iOS
3 9 (9.89%) Linux
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.20%) Unix
5 2 (2.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (58.24%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (24.18%) Agile
3 15 (16.48%) Data Protection
4 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
5 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (12.09%) Coaching
7 10 (10.99%) Migration
8 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.89%) Data Management
8 9 (9.89%) Project Management
8 9 (9.89%) Time Management
9 8 (8.79%) Containerisation
9 8 (8.79%) DevOps
10 7 (7.69%) Data Modelling
10 7 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (7.69%) ITSM
10 7 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.07%) Python
2 14 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.29%) SQL
4 11 (12.09%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.49%) Java
7 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) CLIST
8 2 (2.20%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) JCL
8 2 (2.20%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) REXX
8 2 (2.20%) Ruby
9 1 (1.10%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Degree
2 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.30%) CCNA
4 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.30%) CISSP
4 3 (3.30%) OCP
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.30%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) CCNP
5 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.20%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CISA
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) PMO
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) NIST
4 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.79%) vSphere
3 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.10%) HDFS
6 1 (1.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.10%) Microcode
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Ansible
2 12 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.40%) vRealize
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.10%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.10%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (1.10%) Puppet
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Oracle
2 11 (12.09%) Apple
2 11 (12.09%) Citrix
3 8 (8.79%) VMware
4 7 (7.69%) Google
5 6 (6.59%) Cisco
5 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.49%) Commvault
7 2 (2.20%) Arista
7 2 (2.20%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.20%) Veritas
8 1 (1.10%) Centrify
8 1 (1.10%) Databricks
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Okta
8 1 (1.10%) Thycotic
8 1 (1.10%) Zscaler