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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 112 38 4
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 34.36% 40.43% 10.26%
As % of the General category 62.57% 76.00% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 29 1
10th Percentile £400 £291 -
25th Percentile £431 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £435 £296
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% +46.96% -45.19%
75th Percentile £540 £515 -
90th Percentile £560 £567 -
Shropshire median daily rate £494 £435 £260
% change year-on-year +13.65% +67.31% -51.85%

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 179 50 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 54.91% 53.19% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 37 10
10th Percentile £400 £304 £390
25th Percentile £430 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -13.55% -0.93%
75th Percentile £535 £519 £538
90th Percentile £552 £567 £544
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +6.38% +15.63% -25.93%

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 28 December 2025.

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
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 30 (26.79%) SAS
2 22 (19.64%) WebLogic
3 21 (18.75%) Apache
4 12 (10.71%) Confluence
5 8 (7.14%) JBoss
6 5 (4.46%) Anypoint
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.89%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.89%) nginx
8 1 (0.89%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.57%) Adobe XD
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.57%) Sketch
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.89%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) AWS
2 25 (22.32%) Azure
3 13 (11.61%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 8 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.57%) Figma
7 4 (3.57%) Serverless
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.89%) GCP
9 1 (0.89%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.89%) Kong
9 1 (0.89%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 10 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.46%) Metadata
4 5 (4.46%) Pentaho
5 4 (3.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.68%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 2 (1.79%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (33.93%) Git
2 25 (22.32%) JUnit
3 24 (21.43%) Selenium
4 21 (18.75%) GitLab
5 17 (15.18%) Jenkins
6 13 (11.61%) JIRA
7 8 (7.14%) Eclipse
7 8 (7.14%) IntelliJ
8 6 (5.36%) Cucumber
9 5 (4.46%) Mockito
10 4 (3.57%) Maven
10 4 (3.57%) PVCS
11 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.89%) Gatling
11 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Finance
5 8 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.07%) Analyst
2 13 (11.61%) Test Specialist
3 11 (9.82%) Monitoring Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Developer
5 8 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Lead
7 6 (5.36%) Architect
7 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Test Automation Specialist
9 4 (3.57%) Designer
9 4 (3.57%) Pega Business Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) Senior
9 4 (3.57%) Service Design Manager
9 4 (3.57%) Service Manager
9 4 (3.57%) Service Transition Manager
9 4 (3.57%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) REST
2 16 (14.29%) HTML
3 15 (13.39%) Spring
4 13 (11.61%) JSON
5 12 (10.71%) HTML5
5 12 (10.71%) XML
6 11 (9.82%) Play Framework
6 11 (9.82%) pytest
7 9 (8.04%) React
7 9 (8.04%) SOAP
8 8 (7.14%) EJB
8 8 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 8 (7.14%) J2EE
8 8 (7.14%) J2SE
9 7 (6.25%) RESTful
9 7 (6.25%) Spring Boot
10 6 (5.36%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.36%) Playwright
11 4 (3.57%) Gherkin
11 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) HP Storage
5 1 (0.89%) PMI
5 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Unix
2 19 (16.96%) Windows
3 17 (15.18%) Linux
4 2 (1.79%) AIX
4 2 (1.79%) Solaris
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.25%) Agile
2 51 (45.54%) Analytics
3 47 (41.96%) CI/CD
4 42 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (34.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (34.82%) DevOps
6 36 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (27.68%) Test Strategy
8 29 (25.89%) Scrum
9 25 (22.32%) Test Automation
10 22 (19.64%) Microservices
11 20 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (16.96%) Containerisation
12 19 (16.96%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (16.07%) Service Management
14 17 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (14.29%) Incident Response
15 16 (14.29%) Log Analytics
15 16 (14.29%) Observability
15 16 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.57%) SQL
2 20 (17.86%) Java
3 14 (12.50%) Python
4 11 (9.82%) Scala
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.68%) ABAP
7 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.89%) COBOL
8 1 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 61 (54.46%) Security Cleared
2 60 (53.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.68%) IIBA
6 2 (1.79%) CCA
6 2 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.89%) CAPM
7 1 (0.89%) CBAP
7 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) GSEC
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 7 (6.25%) WCAG
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.57%) PMO
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) NIST
5 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (25.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.14%) Puppet
3 4 (3.57%) Grafana
3 4 (3.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (31.25%) Oracle
2 16 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 16 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 16 (14.29%) Splunk
3 15 (13.39%) Cisco
4 13 (11.61%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.04%) MuleSoft
6 8 (7.14%) webMethods
7 5 (4.46%) Denodo
7 5 (4.46%) OneLogin
8 4 (3.57%) Adobe
8 4 (3.57%) Pega
8 4 (3.57%) SAP
8 4 (3.57%) Talend
9 3 (2.68%) Axway
9 3 (2.68%) IBM
9 3 (2.68%) IBM Sterling
10 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.89%) Brocade
11 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow