Social Skills Contracts in Shropshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 2 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 50 16 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 38.46% 11.94% 42.11%
As % of the General category 60.98% 32.00% 71.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 63
10th Percentile £208 - £413
25th Percentile £313 £117 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £260 £540
Median % change year-on-year +74.49% -51.85% +8.22%
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £557 £311 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £511
% change year-on-year - -7.00% +7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £14.87 £15.65
% change year-on-year +26.90% -4.97% -5.17%

All General Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 82 50 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 63.08% 37.31% 59.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 86
10th Percentile £210 £248 £320
25th Percentile £332 £343 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £519 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -3.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £537 £535 £548
90th Percentile £541 £538 £596
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Shropshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Shropshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Shropshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Shropshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Telford +13 44 £463 +295.30% 166
Shrewsbury - 4 £285 - 150
Social Skills
West Midlands

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) NetWeaver
1 1 (2.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP HR
1 1 (2.00%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (26.00%) PowerApps
4 4 (8.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) VPN
1 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Lead
2 9 (18.00%) Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Technical Leader
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) DBA
7 2 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) ABAP Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.00%) SAP Developer
8 1 (2.00%) SAP Technical Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) CSS
1 2 (4.00%) HTML
1 2 (4.00%) Next.js
1 2 (4.00%) React
1 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (4.00%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.00%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) PKI
2 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
1 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (44.00%) Process Improvement
3 20 (40.00%) Agile
4 19 (38.00%) DevOps
5 14 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (26.00%) Test Strategy
7 12 (24.00%) Data Collection
7 12 (24.00%) Data Modelling
8 11 (22.00%) Configuration Management
8 11 (22.00%) OO
8 11 (22.00%) Problem Management
8 11 (22.00%) Workflow
9 8 (16.00%) Demand Management
9 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
11 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 4 (8.00%) Business Analysis
12 4 (8.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.00%) ABAP
4 2 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) OCP
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) PMO
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Ansible
1 6 (12.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Opsview
2 3 (6.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Apple
4 1 (2.00%) Ariba
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow