Social Skills Contracts in Suffolk

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 25 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 34.25% 19.40% 16.78%
As % of the General category 69.44% 65.00% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £163 £208 £150
25th Percentile £200 £254 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £350 £575 £497
90th Percentile £485 £598 £569
East of England median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.79 - £15.00
75th Percentile £31.99 - £16.00
90th Percentile £40.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £28.48 £38.12 £14.50
% change year-on-year -25.29% +162.90% -

All General Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 36 20 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 49.32% 29.85% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 89
10th Percentile £170 £210 £349
25th Percentile £200 £263 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £743
90th Percentile £575 £595 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £14.66
25th Percentile - £11.25 £15.64
Median hourly rate £17.79 £11.50 £17.78
Median % change year-on-year +54.70% -35.32% +24.86%
75th Percentile £31.99 £13.06 £19.42
90th Percentile £40.50 £15.43 £20.10
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £40.00 £17.88
% change year-on-year -1.70% +123.78% -2.05%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Suffolk

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Suffolk

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Suffolk over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Suffolk

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Suffolk

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Suffolk over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Suffolk

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Ipswich 0 12 £213 -60.47% 32
Leiston +4 7 £200 +14.29% 3
Bury St Edmunds 0 1 £450 +9.09% 3
Felixstowe - 1 £400 - 2
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Billing
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Desktop Support
3 8 (32.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) SharePoint Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) SharePoint Support
6 2 (8.00%) Administrator
6 2 (8.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) CSS3
1 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (4.00%) Express.js
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) HTML5
1 1 (4.00%) jQuery
1 1 (4.00%) NgRx
1 1 (4.00%) RxJS
1 1 (4.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (16.00%) iPad
2 4 (16.00%) iPhone
3 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) CentOS
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (16.00%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (16.00%) Inventory Management
4 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Time Management
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 2 (8.00%) Change Control
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.00%) Business Case
7 1 (4.00%) Conflict Management
7 1 (4.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (4.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
1 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) McAfee
3 1 (4.00%) Nintex
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) ZyXEL