Social Skills Contract Job Trends 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 27 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 64 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 31.22% 22.77% 21.05%
As % of the General category 50.00% 50.00% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 5
10th Percentile £230 £160 £383
25th Percentile £397 £308 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -6.02% -
75th Percentile £534 £540 £588
90th Percentile £545 £567 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.91 - -
Median hourly rate £37.46 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% - -
75th Percentile £40.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £21.59 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% +19.94% +13.49%

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 128 46 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 62.44% 45.54% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 41 16
10th Percentile £278 £141 £313
25th Percentile £402 £308 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £470 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -2.08% -9.43%
75th Percentile £534 £520 £552
90th Percentile £541 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £505 £513
% change year-on-year -3.37% -1.46% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.91 - -
Median hourly rate £37.46 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% - -
75th Percentile £40.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £23.82 £20.50
% change year-on-year +18.30% +16.20% +25.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Shropshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Shropshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

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 27 September 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 0 59 £478 -5.79% 30
Shrewsbury - 2 £400 - 6
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 17 (26.56%) Apache
1 17 (26.56%) WebLogic
2 5 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.25%) JBoss
4 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (4.69%) SAS
5 1 (1.56%) Confluence
5 1 (1.56%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.56%) SAP EP
Applications
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (3.13%) SAP ERP
2 2 (3.13%) SAP HR
2 2 (3.13%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (1.56%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) AWS
2 21 (32.81%) Azure
3 13 (20.31%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.56%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.56%) Serverless
5 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 3 (4.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 3 (4.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 2 (3.13%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
1 5 (7.81%) JUnit
1 5 (7.81%) PVCS
1 5 (7.81%) Selenium
2 4 (6.25%) Eclipse
2 4 (6.25%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Gatling
General
1 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (20.31%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Billing
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Monitoring Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Service Design Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Transition Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Designer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Service Designer
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.13%) SAP BW Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) XML
2 5 (7.81%) JSON
2 5 (7.81%) Spring
3 4 (6.25%) EJB
3 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 4 (6.25%) HTML
3 4 (6.25%) HTML5
3 4 (6.25%) J2EE
3 4 (6.25%) J2SE
3 4 (6.25%) Play Framework
3 4 (6.25%) REST
3 4 (6.25%) SOAP
4 3 (4.69%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (4.69%) SAPUI5
5 2 (3.13%) Web Dynpro
6 1 (1.56%) .NET
6 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.56%) HP Storage
3 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.56%) PMI
3 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.25%) Windows
2 17 (26.56%) Unix
3 16 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) AIX
4 2 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (34.38%) Analytics
3 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (31.25%) Test Strategy
4 15 (23.44%) Agile
4 15 (23.44%) Service Management
5 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.88%) DevOps
5 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (20.31%) Incident Management
6 13 (20.31%) Incident Response
6 13 (20.31%) Log Analytics
6 13 (20.31%) Observability
6 13 (20.31%) Performance Monitoring
6 13 (20.31%) Proactive Management
6 13 (20.31%) Synthetic Monitoring
6 13 (20.31%) Visualisation
7 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
7 10 (15.63%) CRM
7 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) SQL
2 7 (10.94%) Java
3 5 (7.81%) ABAP
4 4 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (45.31%) Security Cleared
2 28 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) CCA
5 1 (1.56%) CAPM
5 1 (1.56%) CBAP
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) PMO
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Consul
3 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Oracle
2 14 (21.88%) Splunk
3 13 (20.31%) AppDynamics
3 13 (20.31%) Dynatrace
4 12 (18.75%) Cisco
5 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
6 6 (9.38%) SAP
7 5 (7.81%) OneLogin
8 4 (6.25%) Salesforce
8 4 (6.25%) webMethods
9 2 (3.13%) Adobe
10 1 (1.56%) Ariba
10 1 (1.56%) Aruba
10 1 (1.56%) Brocade
10 1 (1.56%) EMC
10 1 (1.56%) HP
10 1 (1.56%) NetApp
10 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.56%) Veritas