Social Skills Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 38 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 15.70% 11.17% 11.42%
As % of the General category 29.46% 23.49% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 39
10th Percentile £152 £213 £136
25th Percentile £459 £311 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £548
90th Percentile £646 £630 £640
North East median daily rate £523 £370 £230
% change year-on-year +41.22% +60.87% -35.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £11.92 - -
25th Percentile £13.30 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile £21.30 - -
North East median hourly rate £16.48 - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 166 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 53.31% 47.56% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 132 139
10th Percentile £313 £280 £163
25th Percentile £425 £459 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £661 £600
90th Percentile £655 £755 £659
North East median daily rate £510 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 9
10th Percentile - - £10.50
25th Percentile £12.13 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.91%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.50
90th Percentile £61.75 - £18.98
North East median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - +29.41%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +16 36 £533 +6.50% 88
Gateshead 0 1 £150 -53.85% 18
Sunderland -5 1 - - 19
Social Skills
North East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.89%) BrowserStack
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (7.89%) GitHub
2 3 (7.89%) Serverless
3 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DHCP
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (5.26%) Wireless
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) SMTP
2 1 (2.63%) VLAN
2 1 (2.63%) VoIP
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.89%) MySQL
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 3 (7.89%) Designer
3 3 (7.89%) Full Stack Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Interaction Designer
3 3 (7.89%) Lead
3 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) DBA
4 2 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) IT Technician
4 2 (5.26%) Management Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Portfolio Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Senior IT Technician
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Technician
4 2 (5.26%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) SQL DBA
5 1 (2.63%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 3 (7.89%) Next.js
2 3 (7.89%) React
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Clustering
1 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.26%) NHS
1 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.16%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (18.42%) Project Management
4 5 (13.16%) ITIL
5 3 (7.89%) BDD
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.89%) Interaction Design
5 3 (7.89%) Microservices
5 3 (7.89%) Migration
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
5 3 (7.89%) Quality Management
5 3 (7.89%) SDLC
5 3 (7.89%) Service Management
5 3 (7.89%) Software Deployment
5 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) TDD
5 3 (7.89%) User Experience
5 3 (7.89%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Java
2 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.63%) C++
4 1 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.26%) MCSE
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) CCNA
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.63%) GIAC
4 1 (2.63%) GPEN
4 1 (2.63%) OSCP
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) vSphere
3 1 (2.63%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.63%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.63%) vMotion
3 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.89%) Citrix
3 3 (7.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Aruba
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Fiserv
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Symantec