Social Skills Contracts in Surrey

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Surrey. 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 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 81 116 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 27.18% 19.76% 24.93%
As % of the General category 50.63% 37.42% 44.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 75 125
10th Percentile £154 £200 £225
25th Percentile £241 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £509 £656 £575
90th Percentile £586 £738 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 5
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.08 £39.37
25th Percentile £15.65 £12.78 £54.17
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.35 £63.35
Median % change year-on-year +22.62% -71.03% +40.77%
75th Percentile £34.44 £28.17 £65.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £34.25 £65.01
South East median hourly rate £18.50 £18.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.82% -61.37% +171.43%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 160 310 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 53.69% 52.81% 55.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 218 268
10th Percentile £178 £248 £229
25th Percentile £250 £353 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £504
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.75% -4.91%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £638
90th Percentile £621 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 29
10th Percentile £14.94 £12.42 £39.90
25th Percentile £20.00 £13.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £24.83 £19.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -56.83% -
75th Percentile £28.31 £41.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.50 £63.04
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Surrey

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Surrey

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Surrey

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Surrey

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Surrey

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Camberley +4 14 £448 +244.23% 11
Guildford +6 10 £450 +28.57% 182
Reigate -3 8 £380 -38.96% 14
Leatherhead +7 6 £500 +23.46% 22
Staines -1 6 £259 -59.41% 14
Redhill +10 3 £450 +12.50% 14
Woking -1 3 £300 -25.00% 167
Weybridge +3 1 £350 -43.55% 3
Warlingham 0 1 £200 -
Horley 0 1 £450 -12.20% 3
Caterham - 1 £200 -
Tadworth - 1 - -
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) IIS
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.47%) TPMS
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) SaaS
3 5 (6.17%) AWS
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.70%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.47%) GCP
6 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.23%) Asana
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.23%) Datadog
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.23%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) WAN
2 4 (4.94%) LAN
3 3 (3.70%) Firewall
3 3 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.47%) BGP
4 2 (2.47%) DHCP
4 2 (2.47%) DNS
4 2 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.23%) DMZ
5 1 (1.23%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.23%) Intranet
5 1 (1.23%) MPLS
5 1 (1.23%) Multicast
5 1 (1.23%) Network Security
5 1 (1.23%) OSPF
5 1 (1.23%) PSTN
5 1 (1.23%) Softphone
5 1 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) MySQL
2 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.23%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.23%) QlikView
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.23%) Sybase IQ
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) JIRA
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) Git
4 2 (2.47%) Balsamiq
4 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.47%) JMeter
5 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) JUnit
5 1 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) Mocha
5 1 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.23%) TestRail
General
1 24 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.47%) Korean Language
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Electronics
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Analyst
2 9 (11.11%) Consultant
2 9 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 6 (7.41%) Developer
3 6 (7.41%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Administrator
4 5 (6.17%) Architect
4 5 (6.17%) Server Support
4 5 (6.17%) Server Support Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Service Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) IT Manager
5 4 (4.94%) SAP Security Consultant
5 4 (4.94%) Security Consultant
5 4 (4.94%) Senior
5 4 (4.94%) Windows Server Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Nutanix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) .NET
1 4 (4.94%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.70%) Middleware
3 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.47%) Java EE
3 2 (2.47%) LAMP
3 2 (2.47%) RAML
3 2 (2.47%) React
4 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.23%) Java SE
4 1 (1.23%) JSON
4 1 (1.23%) Kafka
4 1 (1.23%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.23%) Playwright
4 1 (1.23%) REST
4 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.23%) Swagger
4 1 (1.23%) Vaadin
4 1 (1.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Replication
4 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) CCTV
5 1 (1.23%) Clustering
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.46%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Linux
3 4 (4.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.52%) Agile
3 13 (16.05%) Customer Service
4 12 (14.81%) Migration
5 11 (13.58%) ITIL
5 11 (13.58%) Time Management
6 10 (12.35%) DevOps
7 9 (11.11%) Project Management
8 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (8.64%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.41%) Application Security
10 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.41%) ITSM
10 6 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (6.17%) Analytics
11 5 (6.17%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.17%) SDLC
11 5 (6.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) SQL
2 7 (8.64%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) C#
4 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.47%) Java
6 2 (2.47%) Perl
6 2 (2.47%) PHP
6 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.23%) ABAP
7 1 (1.23%) Go
7 1 (1.23%) R
7 1 (1.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) CISM
5 3 (3.70%) CISSP
5 3 (3.70%) OCP
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.70%) PMP
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.47%) CEH
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CRISC
7 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.52%) QA
2 8 (9.88%) SLA
3 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) COSHH
4 2 (2.47%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Foglight
3 2 (2.47%) SCCM
4 1 (1.23%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.23%) Puppet
4 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
1 8 (9.88%) SAP
2 7 (8.64%) Dell
2 7 (8.64%) HP
2 7 (8.64%) IBM
3 4 (4.94%) MuleSoft
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) Cisco
4 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.70%) Splunk
5 2 (2.47%) Databricks
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.47%) Sybase
6 1 (1.23%) Arista
6 1 (1.23%) Aruba
6 1 (1.23%) F5
6 1 (1.23%) Marketo
6 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.23%) PagerDuty