Social Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,787 5,215 6,882
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.02% 21.39% 21.96%
As % of the General category 42.02% 37.74% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,851 3,393 4,543
10th Percentile £185 £200 £163
25th Percentile £329 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £545
90th Percentile £685 £677 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.48% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 660 366 562
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £11.52
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £19.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -15.47% +20.71% -4.23%
75th Percentile £38.12 £57.50 £28.43
90th Percentile £59.93 £65.88 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £18.25 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% +31.58% +5.56%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,393 13,819 17,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.80% 56.69% 55.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,556 9,432 11,973
10th Percentile £205 £228 £208
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,618 812 1,053
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.45
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.83 £13.45
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.75 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +67.56% -8.25%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £53.96
UK median hourly rate £28.42 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% +62.79% -4.44%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +1 1,165 £475 -5.00% 1,867
South East 0 1,139 £485 -3.05% 1,743
South West +2 677 £525 - 1,071
North West +3 637 £488 +2.63% 1,046
Midlands 0 623 £450 -10.00% 1,328
East of England 0 569 £475 +11.76% 854
Scotland 0 552 £460 +0.22% 470
Yorkshire +1 459 £444 -11.25% 608
West Midlands 0 446 £475 -9.52% 790
East Midlands +3 164 £269 -32.75% 537
Wales +3 91 £425 +8.97% 199
North East +9 67 £520 +38.67% 259
Northern Ireland +3 39 £418 +15.17% 117
Isle of Man -2 4 £388 -19.27% 3
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 202 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.45%) Confluence
3 131 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 48 (1.00%) SAS
5 41 (0.86%) CMS
6 36 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
7 17 (0.36%) Apache
7 17 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.23%) WordPress
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
11 8 (0.17%) IIS
12 7 (0.15%) Appian
12 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
14 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.084%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.084%) Drupal
14 4 (0.084%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 463 (9.67%) Microsoft Office
2 340 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 133 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (1.09%) MS Visio
7 25 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.31%) Acrobat
10 12 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.23%) Windchill
12 9 (0.19%) Sketch
13 8 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
13 8 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
15 6 (0.13%) SPSS
16 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
17 3 (0.063%) InDesign
17 3 (0.063%) MicroStation
17 3 (0.063%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 134 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.67%) Primavera
3 23 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 21 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 20 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 19 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
8 16 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
8 16 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.31%) Teamcenter
10 14 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 12 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
12 10 (0.21%) Maximo
12 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
12 10 (0.21%) SAP PSCD
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
13 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
13 9 (0.19%) SAP HCM
13 9 (0.19%) SAP PM
13 9 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 549 (11.47%) Azure
2 376 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
3 234 (4.89%) AWS
4 201 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 88 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 72 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 64 (1.34%) GCP
9 45 (0.94%) SaaS
10 43 (0.90%) Power Automate
11 39 (0.81%) GitHub
11 39 (0.81%) PowerApps
12 38 (0.79%) OneDrive
13 37 (0.77%) Amazon S3
13 37 (0.77%) Serverless
14 36 (0.75%) OCI
15 35 (0.73%) Azure Stack
16 33 (0.69%) IaaS
17 29 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
18 27 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 210 (4.39%) Firewall
2 147 (3.07%) DNS
3 142 (2.97%) LAN
4 121 (2.53%) DHCP
5 119 (2.49%) WAN
6 104 (2.17%) VPN
7 77 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 70 (1.46%) Network Security
8 70 (1.46%) SAN
9 55 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 55 (1.15%) Wireless
10 50 (1.04%) BGP
11 34 (0.71%) 5G
12 32 (0.67%) VLAN
13 31 (0.65%) Internet
14 28 (0.58%) Modbus
14 28 (0.58%) RS-422
14 28 (0.58%) RS-485
15 27 (0.56%) 4G
16 26 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (3.32%) Power BI
2 75 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 51 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (0.98%) Tableau
5 46 (0.96%) Oracle Database
6 39 (0.81%) Relational Database
7 36 (0.75%) Metadata
8 35 (0.73%) Big Data
9 33 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 31 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (0.63%) MySQL
12 24 (0.50%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.46%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.42%) GIS
14 20 (0.42%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.38%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.38%) SAP HANA
17 15 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 321 (6.71%) JIRA
2 125 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 76 (1.59%) Git
4 48 (1.00%) Selenium
5 46 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 34 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 28 (0.58%) GitLab
8 27 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 23 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 20 (0.42%) Postman
12 19 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
13 17 (0.36%) JUnit
13 17 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
14 16 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
15 10 (0.21%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.21%) IntelliJ
15 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 10 (0.21%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.15%) JMeter
General
1 891 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
2 773 (16.15%) Finance
3 493 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 334 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
5 269 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
6 243 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 208 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 185 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
9 147 (3.07%) Marketing
10 146 (3.05%) Retail
11 124 (2.59%) Legal
12 116 (2.42%) Banking
13 102 (2.13%) Electronics
14 93 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 89 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (1.59%) Law
17 63 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
18 50 (1.04%) Military
19 46 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
20 41 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 719 (15.02%) Analyst
2 368 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 347 (7.25%) Architect
4 311 (6.50%) Senior
5 278 (5.81%) Developer
6 265 (5.54%) Lead
7 250 (5.22%) Consultant
8 178 (3.72%) Business Analyst
9 177 (3.70%) Support Engineer
10 147 (3.07%) IT Support
11 129 (2.69%) Administrator
12 116 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
13 113 (2.36%) Service Analyst
14 100 (2.09%) Service Desk Analyst
15 94 (1.96%) Network Engineer
16 85 (1.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 85 (1.78%) Support Analyst
17 80 (1.67%) Data Analyst
18 79 (1.65%) Coordinator
19 73 (1.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (2.11%) REST
2 89 (1.86%) .NET
3 71 (1.48%) HTML
4 55 (1.15%) CSS
4 55 (1.15%) React
5 42 (0.88%) Spring
6 40 (0.84%) Web Services
7 37 (0.77%) Kafka
8 34 (0.71%) JSON
8 34 (0.71%) RESTful
8 34 (0.71%) XML
9 33 (0.69%) ISPF
9 33 (0.69%) Middleware
10 30 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 29 (0.61%) .NET Core
12 28 (0.58%) ARM Templates
13 27 (0.56%) Java EE
14 25 (0.52%) Node.js
15 21 (0.44%) SailPoint
16 20 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 200 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
3 144 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 139 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 136 (2.84%) Driving Licence
6 69 (1.44%) NHS
7 67 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 59 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 58 (1.21%) CMDB
10 57 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.17%) PKI
12 53 (1.11%) Life Science
13 46 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
13 46 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 45 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 40 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
16 38 (0.79%) Mainframe
16 38 (0.79%) Private Cloud
17 35 (0.73%) Public Cloud
18 33 (0.69%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 711 (14.85%) Windows
2 281 (5.87%) Linux
3 275 (5.74%) Windows 10
4 190 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 84 (1.75%) Unix
6 82 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 80 (1.67%) Windows 7
8 75 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 75 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 55 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 51 (1.07%) Android
11 47 (0.98%) zOS
12 39 (0.81%) Mac OS
13 24 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (0.44%) Windows NT
15 18 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (0.31%) Ubuntu
17 14 (0.29%) Windows XP
18 12 (0.25%) Debian
19 10 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,437 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
2 868 (18.13%) Agile
3 773 (16.15%) Project Management
4 633 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 627 (13.10%) Customer Service
6 467 (9.76%) ITIL
7 385 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 345 (7.21%) Decision-Making
9 315 (6.58%) Migration
10 307 (6.41%) DevOps
11 296 (6.18%) Service Management
12 264 (5.51%) Project Delivery
13 261 (5.45%) Change Management
14 220 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
14 220 (4.60%) Cybersecurity
15 216 (4.51%) Computer Science
16 205 (4.28%) Time Management
17 202 (4.22%) Roadmaps
18 198 (4.14%) Analytics
19 194 (4.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 304 (6.35%) SQL
2 246 (5.14%) Python
3 190 (3.97%) Java
4 166 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 140 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 111 (2.32%) C#
7 73 (1.52%) C
8 72 (1.50%) C++
9 46 (0.96%) Perl
9 46 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.90%) JCL
11 41 (0.86%) REXX
12 39 (0.81%) Bash
13 36 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.46%) VBScript
15 21 (0.44%) PHP
16 20 (0.42%) Bicep
16 20 (0.42%) VB
17 18 (0.38%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 953 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 735 (15.35%) Degree
3 555 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 351 (7.33%) DV Cleared
5 143 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (1.61%) CCNA
9 73 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.50%) PMP
11 66 (1.38%) PMI Certification
12 61 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 49 (1.02%) CCNP
14 45 (0.94%) MCP
15 41 (0.86%) HNC
16 37 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 36 (0.75%) DBS Check
18 35 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 34 (0.71%) MCSE
19 34 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (5.29%) QA
2 244 (5.10%) SLA
3 128 (2.67%) PMO
4 106 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 81 (1.69%) NIST
6 66 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 55 (1.15%) GDPR
8 49 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 46 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
10 44 (0.92%) NIST 800
11 35 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
12 15 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.29%) GRC
14 11 (0.23%) NCSC
15 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.10%) GMP
18 5 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 5 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 420 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 184 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 69 (1.44%) Docker
5 56 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (1.07%) Firmware
6 51 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
7 42 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 38 (0.79%) vSphere
9 25 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 18 (0.38%) ACF2
10 18 (0.38%) NFS
10 18 (0.38%) RACF
11 17 (0.36%) BitLocker
12 16 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
13 11 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 11 (0.23%) Microcode
13 11 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 215 (4.49%) SCCM
2 124 (2.59%) Ansible
3 108 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 99 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 84 (1.75%) Terraform
6 60 (1.25%) WSUS
7 55 (1.15%) SCOM
8 54 (1.13%) vCenter Server
9 40 (0.84%) NetBackup
10 29 (0.61%) Puppet
11 24 (0.50%) PowerCLI
11 24 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.44%) OMEGAMON
12 21 (0.44%) Sysprep
13 20 (0.42%) Grafana
14 18 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.33%) Kibana
16 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
16 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
17 12 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,098 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 356 (7.44%) SAP
3 228 (4.76%) VMware
4 180 (3.76%) Oracle
5 153 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 148 (3.09%) Cisco
7 125 (2.61%) HP
8 102 (2.13%) Atlassian
9 83 (1.73%) Dell
10 78 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 76 (1.59%) IBM
12 67 (1.40%) Google
13 66 (1.38%) Adobe
14 60 (1.25%) Splunk
15 57 (1.19%) Citrix
16 48 (1.00%) Ariba
17 44 (0.92%) Juniper
18 37 (0.77%) Apple
19 32 (0.67%) Palo Alto
20 30 (0.63%) Broadcom