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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 94 105 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 26.55% 26.52% 14.62%
As % of the General category 39.17% 42.51% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 45
10th Percentile £150 £360 £300
25th Percentile £313 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +1.40% +2.25%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £550
90th Percentile £647 £626 £614
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% -5.50% +7.53%
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% -

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 240 247 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 67.80% 62.37% 82.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 131 223
10th Percentile £278 £378 £363
25th Percentile £381 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £485 £553
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -12.22% +10.50%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £700
90th Percentile £650 £622 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +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% +55.73%
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 2 June 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 10 (10.64%) Confluence
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
2 5 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) CICS
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.32%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.06%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) GCP
2 10 (10.64%) AWS
3 7 (7.45%) OCI
4 6 (6.38%) Azure
5 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.32%) GitHub
6 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.06%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) DNS
2 4 (4.26%) NAS
2 4 (4.26%) Network Security
2 4 (4.26%) SAN
3 3 (3.19%) DWDM
3 3 (3.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.19%) SMTP
3 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.13%) HTTP
4 2 (2.13%) LAN
4 2 (2.13%) VPN
4 2 (2.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.06%) ATM
5 1 (1.06%) BGP
5 1 (1.06%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.06%) NGN
5 1 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.32%) Flink
3 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.19%) Big Data
4 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.19%) MySQL
4 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.19%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.13%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.06%) Power BI
6 1 (1.06%) Presto
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) JIRA
2 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.32%) Git
4 4 (4.26%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.13%) JMeter
5 2 (2.13%) Postman
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (32.98%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (29.79%) Banking
3 8 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.19%) Legal
5 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Front Office
6 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Back Office
7 1 (1.06%) International Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (12.77%) Analyst
2 11 (11.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 10 (10.64%) Developer
4 9 (9.57%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.32%) Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
8 4 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Database Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Lead Business Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) Middleware
1 5 (5.32%) REST
2 3 (3.19%) Kafka
2 3 (3.19%) React
3 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.13%) CSS
3 2 (2.13%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.13%) HTML
3 2 (2.13%) ISPF
3 2 (2.13%) JSON
3 2 (2.13%) LDAP
3 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.13%) XML
4 1 (1.06%) SAML
4 1 (1.06%) SOAP
4 1 (1.06%) Spring
4 1 (1.06%) Web Services
4 1 (1.06%) XSD
4 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Replication
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Derivative
5 2 (2.13%) Equities
5 2 (2.13%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) VSAM
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.06%) EPoS
6 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.06%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.34%) Windows
2 12 (12.77%) Apple iOS
3 10 (10.64%) Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 2 (2.13%) zOS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (57.45%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (29.79%) Agile
3 17 (18.09%) Data Protection
4 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 12 (12.77%) Coaching
6 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (11.70%) DevOps
6 11 (11.70%) Migration
7 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
7 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.64%) Scrum
8 9 (9.57%) Containerisation
9 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (8.51%) Risk Management
10 7 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (7.45%) Data Management
10 7 (7.45%) Project Management
10 7 (7.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.91%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) Shell Script
3 10 (10.64%) SQL
4 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.32%) Java
6 4 (4.26%) JCL
7 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) CLIST
8 2 (2.13%) COBOL
8 2 (2.13%) Go
8 2 (2.13%) PHP
8 2 (2.13%) REXX
8 2 (2.13%) Ruby
9 1 (1.06%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.06%) Bicep
9 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Degree
2 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.19%) OCP
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) CCNA
5 2 (2.13%) CCNP
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.13%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.13%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISM
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) SEPA
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
1 9 (9.57%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.51%) vSphere
3 4 (4.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.13%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.06%) HDFS
6 1 (1.06%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.06%) Microcode
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (23.40%) Ansible
2 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.32%) Terraform
3 5 (5.32%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.26%) vRealize
5 3 (3.19%) Grafana
6 1 (1.06%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.06%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.06%) SCOM
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Oracle
2 13 (13.83%) Citrix
3 12 (12.77%) Apple
4 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.51%) VMware
6 7 (7.45%) Google
7 6 (6.38%) Commvault
8 4 (4.26%) Cisco
9 3 (3.19%) IBM
9 3 (3.19%) Veritas
10 2 (2.13%) Arista
10 2 (2.13%) Cloudera
10 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.06%) Centrify
11 1 (1.06%) Confluent
11 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.06%) Dell
11 1 (1.06%) HP
11 1 (1.06%) Thycotic
11 1 (1.06%) Zscaler