Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Telford

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Telford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 202 64 23
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 26.06% 34.04% 23.00%
As % of the General category 49.63% 51.20% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 49 21
10th Percentile £360 £230 £160
25th Percentile £447 £423 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £508
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.99% -6.02%
75th Percentile £567 £540 £540
90th Percentile £630 £554 £567
Shropshire median daily rate £481 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.48% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £14.06 - -
25th Percentile £14.15 - -
Median hourly rate £14.30 - -
75th Percentile £37.65 - -
90th Percentile £51.66 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £14.30 £37.46 -
% change year-on-year -61.83% - -

All General Skills
Telford

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 general skills in Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 407 125 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 52.52% 66.49% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 89 42
10th Percentile £358 £298 £143
25th Percentile £418 £405 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.56% -8.45%
75th Percentile £551 £537 £534
90th Percentile £630 £543 £567
Shropshire median daily rate £481 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.80% +2.56% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £14.12 - -
25th Percentile £14.30 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £58.10 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £14.30 £37.46 -
% change year-on-year -61.83% - -

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Telford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Telford over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Telford

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Telford

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Telford over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Telford

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (11.39%) Confluence
2 19 (9.41%) SAS
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.49%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.49%) SAP EP
4 2 (0.99%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.47%) SAP PSCD
2 4 (1.98%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.98%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.49%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.49%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.99%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 57 (28.22%) AWS
2 23 (11.39%) Azure
3 15 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.96%) GitHub
5 7 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.97%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (2.48%) SaaS
8 4 (1.98%) GCP
8 4 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.99%) Miro
9 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.50%) IaaS
10 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) VPN
1 2 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.85%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (8.42%) Metadata
2 17 (8.42%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (6.93%) Pentaho
4 9 (4.46%) MySQL
4 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.46%) Power BI
4 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.98%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.49%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.49%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 3 (1.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.99%) Ingres
8 2 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.50%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 51 (25.25%) JIRA
2 28 (13.86%) Git
3 25 (12.38%) GitLab
4 18 (8.91%) Zephyr
5 14 (6.93%) Postman
5 14 (6.93%) Selenium
6 13 (6.44%) JUnit
7 12 (5.94%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.95%) Gatling
9 8 (3.96%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.48%) Jenkins
11 3 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.49%) Maven
11 3 (1.49%) Mockito
General
1 65 (32.18%) Public Sector
2 20 (9.90%) Finance
2 20 (9.90%) Influencing Skills
3 17 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Legal
7 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.99%) Banking
8 2 (0.99%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.50%) Back Office
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (13.86%) Architect
2 19 (9.41%) Analyst
3 16 (7.92%) Data Architect
4 15 (7.43%) Developer
4 15 (7.43%) Lead
5 14 (6.93%) Tester
6 13 (6.44%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.44%) Senior
7 12 (5.94%) Consultant
7 12 (5.94%) Designer
7 12 (5.94%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (5.94%) Scrum Master
8 11 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.95%) Administrator
9 10 (4.95%) QA Tester
9 10 (4.95%) Quality Engineer
9 10 (4.95%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.46%) DBA
11 7 (3.47%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.42%) Spring
2 16 (7.92%) REST
3 13 (6.44%) Playwright
4 12 (5.94%) SOAP
5 10 (4.95%) Gherkin
6 8 (3.96%) WireMock
7 7 (3.47%) SAP PI
7 7 (3.47%) SAPUI5
7 7 (3.47%) Terraform
8 6 (2.97%) JDBC
8 6 (2.97%) Play Framework
8 6 (2.97%) React
9 5 (2.48%) JSON
9 5 (2.48%) OAuth
9 5 (2.48%) OpenAPI
9 5 (2.48%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.98%) IDoc
10 4 (1.98%) Swagger
11 3 (1.49%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.41%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.96%) Autonomous Agent
3 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.48%) Data Fabric
5 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.49%) BYOD
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.99%) Replication
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Unix
2 5 (2.48%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (57.43%) Agile
2 70 (34.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (34.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (27.23%) Scrum
6 49 (24.26%) Test Automation
7 47 (23.27%) Migration
8 46 (22.77%) CI/CD
9 39 (19.31%) DevOps
10 34 (16.83%) Analytics
11 29 (14.36%) ETL
11 29 (14.36%) Manual Testing
12 27 (13.37%) Integration Testing
12 27 (13.37%) Test Strategy
13 26 (12.87%) Decision-Making
14 25 (12.38%) Service Management
14 25 (12.38%) Sprint Planning
15 24 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (11.39%) Microservices
16 23 (11.39%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.31%) Java
2 30 (14.85%) SQL
3 13 (6.44%) ABAP
4 11 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.96%) Scala
6 6 (2.97%) Python
7 3 (1.49%) Bash
8 2 (0.99%) VB
8 2 (0.99%) VB6
9 1 (0.50%) COBOL
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (57.92%) Security Cleared
2 111 (54.95%) SC Cleared
3 64 (31.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (9.90%) ISTQB
5 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.46%) OCP
5 9 (4.46%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.99%) CCA
6 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.32%) QA
2 19 (9.41%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.94%) WCAG
4 6 (2.97%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (8.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.49%) Grafana
2 3 (1.49%) Kibana
3 2 (0.99%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (18.81%) Oracle
2 27 (13.37%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.42%) Denodo
4 15 (7.43%) Dynatrace
4 15 (7.43%) SAP
5 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.48%) Pega
7 4 (1.98%) Talend
7 4 (1.98%) webMethods
8 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.49%) Concur
9 2 (0.99%) Actian
9 2 (0.99%) Apple
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco
9 2 (0.99%) Informatica
9 2 (0.99%) Sage
10 1 (0.50%) Ariba