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 in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Social Skills 45 33 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.27% 20.12% 12.63%
As % of the General category 39.47% 40.24% 23.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 18
10th Percentile £180 £277 £243
25th Percentile £325 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +4.35% -21.59%
75th Percentile £559 £567 £497
90th Percentile £585 £596 £633
North East median daily rate £520 £475 £413
% change year-on-year +9.47% +15.15% -19.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £12.84 - -
25th Percentile £13.66 - -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% - -
75th Percentile £20.63 - -
90th Percentile £30.04 - -
North East median hourly rate £14.00 £34.59 -
% change year-on-year -59.54% - -

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 114 82 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 51.35% 50.00% 54.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 49 72
10th Percentile £200 £308 £247
25th Percentile £410 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.20% -5.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £621
90th Percentile £600 £602 £720
North East median daily rate £480 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.76% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.03 £17.60
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.94 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -1.28% +27.87%
75th Percentile £20.63 £21.31 £26.13
90th Percentile £30.04 £22.33 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £14.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -23.68% -2.56% +27.87%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Social Skills

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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 43 £498 +13.71% 70
Sunderland +1 1 £550 -15.38% 21
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 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.22%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.22%) dbt
5 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.22%) Figma
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.22%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) LabVIEW
General
1 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.33%) Marketing
2 6 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Legal
4 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
5 3 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (4.44%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Senior
2 3 (6.67%) Architect
2 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (6.67%) Customer Service Representative
2 3 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Analyst
3 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
3 2 (4.44%) Business Manager
3 2 (4.44%) Business Operations Manager
3 2 (4.44%) Desktop Support
3 2 (4.44%) Developer
3 2 (4.44%) Marketing Manager
3 2 (4.44%) Operations Manager
3 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) Pega Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Node.js
2 1 (2.22%) Akka
2 1 (2.22%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) Next.js
2 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.22%) Playwright
2 1 (2.22%) React
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) Spring
2 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.22%) Swagger
2 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Blog
3 2 (4.44%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.44%) Digital Signage
3 2 (4.44%) Social Media
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) EPoS
4 1 (2.22%) FPGA
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Agile
1 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.89%) Coaching
6 4 (8.89%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (8.89%) Product Management
6 4 (8.89%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (8.89%) TDD
7 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (6.67%) Customer Experience
7 3 (6.67%) DevOps
7 3 (6.67%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.44%) B2B
8 2 (4.44%) Commercialisation
8 2 (4.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) Bash
2 4 (8.89%) Go
2 4 (8.89%) Perl
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) Scala
4 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.22%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GDPR
1 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) Kibana
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Facebook
2 2 (4.44%) Pega
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.22%) Bomgar
3 1 (2.22%) Dell
3 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty
3 1 (2.22%) Sage
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk
3 1 (2.22%) VMware