Social Skills Contracts in Sussex

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Sussex. 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 3 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sussex 20.00% 3.03% 8.33%
As % of the General category 33.33% 8.33% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -32.00% +400.00%
75th Percentile - £438 £638
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +6.32%

All General Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex 60.00% 36.36% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £414 £411 £583
25th Percentile £437 £411 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -32.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £513 £531 £638
90th Percentile £520 £588 -
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -
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 Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Sussex

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Sussex

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Sussex

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware