Social Skills Contracts in South Yorkshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 110 133 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.49% 29.10% 14.69%
As % of the General category 45.83% 48.72% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 86 56
10th Percentile £150 £200 £300
25th Percentile £336 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £620 £613
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £11.61 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.26 -
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.73 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.06% +15.68% +15.91%
75th Percentile £18.41 £13.15 -
90th Percentile £18.47 £13.63 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £14.63 £17.72
% change year-on-year +24.48% -17.47% -2.60%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 240 273 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.34% 59.74% 74.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 154 269
10th Percentile £306 £296 £300
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £12.34 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.50 £13.96 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £37.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -2 91 £500 +2.56% 93
Barnsley +6 5 - - 5
Doncaster +1 2 £193 -57.22% 30
Social Skills
Yorkshire

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 13 (11.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Apache
2 5 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) SAS
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.91%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.09%) GCP
2 8 (7.27%) AWS
3 6 (5.45%) GitHub
3 6 (5.45%) OCI
4 5 (4.55%) Azure
4 5 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.73%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.91%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) Intranet
2 7 (6.36%) DNS
3 6 (5.45%) Network Security
3 6 (5.45%) SMTP
4 5 (4.55%) Firewall
5 4 (3.64%) NAS
5 4 (3.64%) SAN
5 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.73%) DWDM
7 2 (1.82%) ATM
7 2 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.82%) HTTP
7 2 (1.82%) LAN
7 2 (1.82%) VPN
7 2 (1.82%) WAN
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.91%) DHCP
8 1 (0.91%) Internet
8 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.55%) Flink
3 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.64%) MySQL
4 3 (2.73%) Big Data
4 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.82%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.91%) Presto
6 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) JIRA
2 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.55%) Git
4 4 (3.64%) GitLab
5 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.82%) JMeter
5 2 (1.82%) Postman
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
General
1 29 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Finance
3 22 (20.00%) Banking
4 10 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (9.09%) Local Government
4 10 (9.09%) Public Speaking
5 8 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Front Office
7 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.82%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Back Office
8 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.91%) International Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 10 (9.09%) Communications Officer
1 10 (9.09%) Developer
2 9 (8.18%) Analyst
2 9 (8.18%) Data Engineer
3 6 (5.45%) Architect
4 5 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (4.55%) Lead
5 4 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (3.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
5 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
5 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (2.73%) Database Engineer
6 3 (2.73%) Network Engineer
6 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (2.73%) Senior
6 3 (2.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) REST
2 7 (6.36%) React
3 5 (4.55%) CSS
3 5 (4.55%) HTML
3 5 (4.55%) Middleware
4 3 (2.73%) Kafka
4 3 (2.73%) SPFx
5 2 (1.82%) .NET
5 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.82%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.82%) ISPF
5 2 (1.82%) LDAP
5 2 (1.82%) Spring
5 2 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.91%) JPA
6 1 (0.91%) jQuery
6 1 (0.91%) JSON
6 1 (0.91%) SOAP
6 1 (0.91%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.55%) PMI
4 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.82%) EPoS
6 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.91%) LPAR
7 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Windows
2 11 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 9 (8.18%) Linux
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.82%) Unix
5 2 (1.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.91%) Agile
3 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
4 15 (13.64%) Data Protection
5 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (10.91%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.00%) Business Development
7 11 (10.00%) Coaching
7 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (10.00%) Migration
7 11 (10.00%) Project Management
7 11 (10.00%) Time Management
8 10 (9.09%) Business Continuity
9 9 (8.18%) Data Management
10 8 (7.27%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.27%) DevOps
11 7 (6.36%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (6.36%) Decision-Making
11 7 (6.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (6.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.18%) Python
2 14 (12.73%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.73%) SQL
3 11 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.82%) CLIST
7 2 (1.82%) Go
7 2 (1.82%) JCL
7 2 (1.82%) PHP
7 2 (1.82%) REXX
7 2 (1.82%) Ruby
8 1 (0.91%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
8 1 (0.91%) Scala
8 1 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (22.73%) Degree
2 12 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.73%) CCNA
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.73%) CISSP
5 3 (2.73%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.73%) OCP
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.82%) CCNP
6 2 (1.82%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.82%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CBAP
7 1 (0.91%) CISA
7 1 (0.91%) CISM
7 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.55%) PMO
3 4 (3.64%) QA
4 3 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.82%) NIST
5 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (11.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.27%) vSphere
3 4 (3.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.91%) HDFS
6 1 (0.91%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.91%) Microcode
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 23 (20.91%) Ansible
2 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.64%) Terraform
3 4 (3.64%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.64%) vRealize
4 2 (1.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.91%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.91%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (0.91%) Puppet
5 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.91%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (12.73%) Oracle
2 11 (10.00%) Apple
2 11 (10.00%) Citrix
3 8 (7.27%) VMware
4 7 (6.36%) Google
5 6 (5.45%) Cisco
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.55%) Commvault
7 2 (1.82%) Arista
7 2 (1.82%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.82%) IBM
7 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.82%) Veritas
8 1 (0.91%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.91%) Databricks
8 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.91%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto