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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 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 83 115 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 27.85% 19.49% 25.68%
As % of the General category 50.92% 36.74% 45.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 76 133
10th Percentile £165 £200 £234
25th Percentile £250 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.59% -9.00%
75th Percentile £525 £653 £588
90th Percentile £595 £738 £755
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £510
% change year-on-year +1.01% -2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 6
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.90 £37.25
25th Percentile £15.65 £12.78 £47.29
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.35 £60.85
Median % change year-on-year +22.62% -69.84% +35.21%
75th Percentile £34.44 £29.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £36.00 £65.01
South East median hourly rate £16.37 £18.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year -10.79% -39.84% +74.29%

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 163 313 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.70% 53.05% 56.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 218 286
10th Percentile £185 £250 £256
25th Percentile £250 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -4.66% -2.37%
75th Percentile £542 £609 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £794
South East median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 28
10th Percentile £14.65 £12.47 £38.60
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.39 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -54.44% -
75th Percentile £28.63 £45.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -50.96% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 16 £494 +279.62% 5
Guildford +8 11 £475 +35.71% 58
Reigate -3 7 £500 -19.68% 21
Leatherhead +8 6 £500 +23.46% 26
Staines -1 6 £259 -60.19% 11
Redhill +8 3 £450 +12.50% 27
Woking -1 3 £300 -25.00% 37
Weybridge +3 1 £350 -43.55% 8
Warlingham 0 1 £200 - 1
Horley 0 1 £450 -12.20% 5
Tadworth - 1 - - 1
Caterham - 1 £200 -
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 5 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) IIS
2 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.41%) TPMS
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.82%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.25%) Azure
2 6 (7.23%) SaaS
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.82%) AWS
5 3 (3.61%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.20%) Asana
7 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.20%) GCP
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.20%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) WAN
2 4 (4.82%) LAN
3 3 (3.61%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.41%) BGP
4 2 (2.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.41%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.20%) DMZ
5 1 (1.20%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.20%) FTP
5 1 (1.20%) Intranet
5 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.20%) MPLS
5 1 (1.20%) OSPF
5 1 (1.20%) PSTN
5 1 (1.20%) VPN
5 1 (1.20%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.61%) MySQL
2 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.20%) QlikView
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.20%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) JIRA
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) Git
4 2 (2.41%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) JMeter
5 1 (1.20%) JUnit
5 1 (1.20%) Maven
5 1 (1.20%) Selenium
5 1 (1.20%) TestRail
General
1 23 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 5 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.41%) Korean Language
5 2 (2.41%) Marketing
5 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.20%) Advertising
6 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Electronics
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (14.46%) Consultant
2 10 (12.05%) Support Engineer
3 9 (10.84%) Analyst
3 9 (10.84%) SAP Consultant
3 9 (10.84%) Server Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Architect
4 6 (7.23%) Developer
4 6 (7.23%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Administrator
5 5 (6.02%) Server Support
5 5 (6.02%) Server Support Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Service Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.82%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.82%) IT Support
6 4 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 4 (4.82%) SAP Security Consultant
6 4 (4.82%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.82%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) .NET
1 4 (4.82%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.61%) Middleware
3 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.41%) Java EE
3 2 (2.41%) LAMP
3 2 (2.41%) RAML
3 2 (2.41%) React
4 1 (1.20%) Google Maps API
4 1 (1.20%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.20%) JSON
4 1 (1.20%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.20%) REST
4 1 (1.20%) RESTful
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.20%) Swagger
4 1 (1.20%) Vaadin
4 1 (1.20%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Replication
3 2 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.20%) CCTV
4 1 (1.20%) Clustering
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.20%) NHS
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.10%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (16.87%) Agile
2 14 (16.87%) Migration
3 13 (15.66%) Time Management
4 12 (14.46%) Customer Service
5 11 (13.25%) ITIL
5 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.84%) Project Management
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps
8 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.23%) Analytics
9 6 (7.23%) Application Security
9 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.23%) Waterfall
10 5 (6.02%) Data Modelling
10 5 (6.02%) ITSM
10 5 (6.02%) Roadmaps
10 5 (6.02%) Scrum
10 5 (6.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) SQL
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) ABAP
4 3 (3.61%) C#
4 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.41%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.41%) PHP
6 1 (1.20%) Go
6 1 (1.20%) Perl
6 1 (1.20%) R
6 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Degree
2 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.61%) CISM
6 3 (3.61%) CISSP
6 3 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.61%) OCP
6 3 (3.61%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.61%) PMP
7 2 (2.41%) CEH
7 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.20%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CIMA
8 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.20%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) SLA
3 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.41%) COSHH
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.61%) Docker
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) XenApp
3 1 (1.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) SCCM
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
3 1 (1.20%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.20%) Foglight
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) SAP
2 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.23%) Dell
3 6 (7.23%) HP
3 6 (7.23%) IBM
4 4 (4.82%) Cisco
4 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.41%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Arista
7 1 (1.20%) Aruba
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Citrix
7 1 (1.20%) F5
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.20%) Sybase