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 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 2 1 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 113 133 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 27.76% 28.06% 12.87%
As % of the General category 42.64% 46.18% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 90 48
10th Percentile £150 £200 £288
25th Percentile £305 £413 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -5.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £644 £622 £610
Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.21% -5.00% +8.99%
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% -
75th Percentile £18.41 £13.15 -
90th Percentile £18.47 £13.63 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.00 £14.63 £17.72
% change year-on-year +23.08% -17.47% -11.40%

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 265 288 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.11% 60.76% 74.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 155 247
10th Percentile £264 £304 £300
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £700
90th Percentile £648 £621 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
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 £20.35 £14.63 £18.00
% change year-on-year +39.11% -18.75% -3.74%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 94 £480 -5.33% 783
Barnsley +6 7 £258 -39.05% 13
Doncaster 0 1 £160 -66.32% 666
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 11 (9.73%) Confluence
1 11 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.77%) CICS
3 2 (1.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (11.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (5.31%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.62%) GCP
2 10 (8.85%) AWS
3 7 (6.19%) OCI
4 6 (5.31%) Azure
5 5 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.42%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.88%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.88%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) Intranet
2 6 (5.31%) DNS
3 4 (3.54%) NAS
3 4 (3.54%) Network Security
3 4 (3.54%) SAN
4 3 (2.65%) DWDM
4 3 (2.65%) Firewall
4 3 (2.65%) SMTP
4 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.77%) ATM
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.77%) HTTP
5 2 (1.77%) LAN
5 2 (1.77%) VPN
5 2 (1.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.88%) BGP
6 1 (0.88%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.88%) NGN
6 1 (0.88%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.42%) Flink
3 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.65%) Big Data
4 3 (2.65%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.65%) MySQL
4 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.65%) Power BI
4 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.77%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.77%) Tableau
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.88%) Looker
6 1 (0.88%) Presto
Development Applications
1 14 (12.39%) JIRA
2 10 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.42%) Git
4 4 (3.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.77%) JMeter
5 2 (1.77%) Postman
5 2 (1.77%) Selenium
5 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (28.32%) Finance
2 29 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (25.66%) Banking
3 10 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (8.85%) Local Government
3 10 (8.85%) Public Speaking
4 8 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.65%) Legal
6 3 (2.65%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Front Office
7 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Back Office
8 1 (0.88%) International Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (12.39%) Analyst
2 11 (9.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 11 (9.73%) Business Analyst
3 10 (8.85%) Communications Officer
3 10 (8.85%) Developer
4 8 (7.08%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.31%) Lead
6 5 (4.42%) Architect
6 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Business Manager
7 4 (3.54%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Lead Business Analyst
7 4 (3.54%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (2.65%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) Middleware
1 5 (4.42%) REST
2 3 (2.65%) Kafka
2 3 (2.65%) React
3 2 (1.77%) .NET
3 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.77%) CSS
3 2 (1.77%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.77%) HTML
3 2 (1.77%) ISPF
3 2 (1.77%) JSON
3 2 (1.77%) LDAP
3 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.77%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) Spring
4 1 (0.88%) Web Services
4 1 (0.88%) XSD
4 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.54%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.65%) Replication
5 2 (1.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.77%) Derivative
5 2 (1.77%) EPoS
5 2 (1.77%) Equities
5 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.77%) VSAM
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.58%) Windows
2 12 (10.62%) Apple iOS
3 10 (8.85%) Linux
4 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.77%) Unix
5 2 (1.77%) zOS
6 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.67%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (25.66%) Agile
3 17 (15.04%) Data Protection
4 16 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (13.27%) Computer Science
6 12 (10.62%) CI/CD
6 12 (10.62%) Coaching
6 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.62%) Migration
7 11 (9.73%) DevOps
7 11 (9.73%) Scrum
8 10 (8.85%) Business Continuity
8 10 (8.85%) Business Development
8 10 (8.85%) Roadmaps
9 9 (7.96%) Containerisation
9 9 (7.96%) Decision-Making
9 9 (7.96%) Project Management
9 9 (7.96%) Risk Management
10 8 (7.08%) Data Modelling
10 8 (7.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.43%) Python
2 12 (10.62%) Shell Script
2 12 (10.62%) SQL
3 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.42%) Java
5 4 (3.54%) JCL
6 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.77%) CLIST
7 2 (1.77%) COBOL
7 2 (1.77%) Go
7 2 (1.77%) PHP
7 2 (1.77%) REXX
7 2 (1.77%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) Degree
2 10 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.65%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.65%) OCP
4 3 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) CCNA
5 2 (1.77%) CCNP
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.77%) JNCIA
5 2 (1.77%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CBAP
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) PMO
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.88%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.96%) Docker
2 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.08%) vSphere
3 4 (3.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.77%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.88%) HDFS
6 1 (0.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.88%) Microcode
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (19.47%) Ansible
2 14 (12.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 5 (4.42%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.54%) vRealize
5 3 (2.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.88%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.88%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) SCOM
6 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (12.39%) Oracle
2 13 (11.50%) Citrix
3 12 (10.62%) Apple
4 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.08%) VMware
6 7 (6.19%) Google
7 6 (5.31%) Commvault
8 4 (3.54%) Cisco
9 3 (2.65%) IBM
9 3 (2.65%) Veritas
10 2 (1.77%) Arista
10 2 (1.77%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.88%) Centrify
11 1 (0.88%) Confluent
11 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.88%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.88%) Thycotic
11 1 (0.88%) Zscaler