Social Skills Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 5 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 10 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 17.86% 15.32% 26.09%
As % of the General category 29.41% 20.24% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 14
10th Percentile - £303 £174
25th Percentile - £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% +0.50% -20.40%
75th Percentile £638 £540 £565
90th Percentile - - £650
East London median daily rate £585 £460 £438
% change year-on-year +27.17% +5.14% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £28.60 £11.95 £18.93
% change year-on-year +139.33% -36.87% -41.93%

All General Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34 84 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 60.71% 75.68% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 80 34
10th Percentile £495 £450 £359
25th Percentile £540 £540 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £597 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +6.13% -18.48%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £694
90th Percentile £675 £773 £800
East London median daily rate £575 £570 £530
% change year-on-year +0.88% +7.55% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £26.63 £18.41 £22.49
% change year-on-year +44.67% -18.13% -31.03%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Tower Hamlets

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Tower Hamlets

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Tower Hamlets

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf 0 10 £585 +17.00% 4
Social Skills
East London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Legal
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
1 6 (60.00%) Workflow
1 6 (60.00%) Zachman Framework
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
3 3 (30.00%) Conceptual Models
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Case Management
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) Document Management
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) iManage
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle