Social Skills Contracts

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,676 15,428 17,232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 21.56% 20.10% 19.24%
As % of the General category 36.21% 33.95% 35.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,286 9,993 11,279
10th Percentile £225 £257 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £619
90th Percentile £725 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -1.04% +6.67% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 582 771
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.28 £11.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.47 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +16.97% -2.78%
75th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £37.63
90th Percentile £70.06 £65.75 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £18.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -4.22% +15.63% -

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,723 45,446 47,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.54% 59.19% 53.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,712 31,074 32,877
10th Percentile £281 £315 £310
25th Percentile £420 £446 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,106 1,212 1,428
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 £25.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% +28.07% -13.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £43.00
90th Percentile £71.28 £70.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.54% -18.05%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +2 8,134 £525 -2.42% 10,051
UK excluding London 0 4,610 £475 -1.04% 6,905
London +1 4,004 £550 -4.35% 3,866
Work from Home +2 3,414 £500 -7.41% 4,657
South East -1 1,282 £500 - 1,863
North of England +1 1,034 £488 +0.26% 1,772
Scotland +1 676 £475 +5.56% 487
North West +2 602 £495 +4.87% 989
East of England 0 553 £450 - 837
Midlands +1 522 £450 -10.00% 1,122
South West -1 481 £550 +10.00% 818
Yorkshire +1 400 £500 - 572
West Midlands +1 385 £467 -6.55% 764
East Midlands +1 126 £419 -6.37% 353
Wales +2 84 £315 -25.94% 183
Northern Ireland +3 49 £375 -21.05% 75
North East +5 36 £400 -20.00% 235

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 310 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 288 (2.98%) Confluence
3 97 (1.00%) CMS
4 84 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 59 (0.61%) Apache
6 40 (0.41%) MS Exchange
7 39 (0.40%) SAS
8 23 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 20 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 19 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 16 (0.17%) WordPress
12 15 (0.16%) IIS
13 14 (0.14%) JBoss
13 14 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 14 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 13 (0.13%) NetWeaver
14 13 (0.13%) nginx
14 13 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 12 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 625 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 500 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 267 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 153 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 122 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 61 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 32 (0.33%) Sketch
8 23 (0.24%) Trello
9 21 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 16 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 14 (0.14%) Photoshop
12 12 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
13 10 (0.10%) AutoCAD
13 10 (0.10%) Chatbot
14 9 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
15 8 (0.083%) Simulink
15 8 (0.083%) Windchill
16 7 (0.072%) Adobe After Effects
16 7 (0.072%) InVision
17 6 (0.062%) Revit
Business Applications
1 230 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 50 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
4 47 (0.49%) SAP PSCD
5 45 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
6 40 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 40 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 38 (0.39%) Loan IQ
8 35 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
9 34 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 30 (0.31%) ION MarketView
10 30 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 30 (0.31%) Primavera
11 28 (0.29%) SAP MM
12 26 (0.27%) SAP SD
13 25 (0.26%) Endur
14 23 (0.24%) SAP ERP
15 22 (0.23%) SAP PM
16 21 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
17 20 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (13.15%) Azure
2 852 (8.81%) AWS
3 625 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 442 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 249 (2.57%) GCP
6 226 (2.34%) SaaS
7 198 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 196 (2.03%) Serverless
9 192 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 158 (1.63%) GitHub
11 150 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 122 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 118 (1.22%) Amazon S3
14 110 (1.14%) PowerApps
15 94 (0.97%) PaaS
16 87 (0.90%) IaaS
17 85 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 84 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
18 84 (0.87%) Power Automate
19 82 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 327 (3.38%) Firewall
2 201 (2.08%) DNS
3 200 (2.07%) LAN
4 195 (2.02%) VPN
5 190 (1.96%) WAN
6 181 (1.87%) Network Security
7 142 (1.47%) DHCP
8 123 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 107 (1.11%) Wireless
10 100 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 84 (0.87%) Internet
12 80 (0.83%) BGP
13 71 (0.73%) 5G
14 59 (0.61%) SSL
15 56 (0.58%) SAN
16 55 (0.57%) HTTP
17 54 (0.56%) MPLS
17 54 (0.56%) SD-WAN
18 46 (0.48%) 4G
18 46 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (3.80%) Power BI
2 246 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 169 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 155 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 117 (1.21%) Big Data
7 105 (1.09%) Tableau
8 101 (1.04%) MySQL
9 97 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 96 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 88 (0.91%) NoSQL
12 87 (0.90%) Metadata
13 75 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
14 66 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 62 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 56 (0.58%) MongoDB
17 54 (0.56%) Hadoop
18 50 (0.52%) DynamoDB
19 48 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 39 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 664 (6.86%) JIRA
2 257 (2.66%) Git
3 253 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 77 (0.80%) GitLab
5 60 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 58 (0.60%) Postman
7 49 (0.51%) Selenium
8 48 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 48 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 45 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 44 (0.45%) webpack
11 35 (0.36%) JUnit
12 31 (0.32%) Subversion
13 28 (0.29%) Robot Framework
14 27 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 27 (0.28%) Maven
15 23 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 22 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
17 21 (0.22%) Axure RP
17 21 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,243 (23.18%) Finance
2 1,910 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
3 996 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 669 (6.91%) Banking
5 618 (6.39%) Presentation Skills
6 470 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
7 352 (3.64%) Marketing
8 345 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 308 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 288 (2.98%) Retail
11 275 (2.84%) Legal
12 237 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 192 (1.98%) Front Office
14 182 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 173 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 159 (1.64%) Investment Banking
17 149 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 148 (1.53%) Law
19 138 (1.43%) Electronics
20 109 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,516 (15.67%) Analyst
2 953 (9.85%) Developer
3 783 (8.09%) Architect
4 744 (7.69%) Senior
5 674 (6.97%) Project Manager
6 651 (6.73%) Consultant
7 594 (6.14%) Business Analyst
8 539 (5.57%) Lead
9 339 (3.50%) Support Engineer
10 226 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
11 209 (2.16%) Service Analyst
12 193 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
13 177 (1.83%) IT Support
14 163 (1.68%) Data Analyst
14 163 (1.68%) Data Engineer
15 159 (1.64%) Administrator
16 153 (1.58%) Service Desk Analyst
17 147 (1.52%) Network Engineer
18 142 (1.47%) IT Manager
19 140 (1.45%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (2.88%) .NET
2 272 (2.81%) REST
3 241 (2.49%) HTML
4 220 (2.27%) React
5 219 (2.26%) CSS
6 150 (1.55%) JSON
7 147 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 135 (1.40%) RESTful
9 134 (1.38%) XML
10 126 (1.30%) Kafka
11 121 (1.25%) Web Services
12 117 (1.21%) Node.js
13 94 (0.97%) Spring
14 90 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
15 86 (0.89%) SOAP
16 76 (0.79%) Middleware
17 62 (0.64%) .NET Core
18 59 (0.61%) .NET Framework
19 53 (0.55%) WebSockets
20 50 (0.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 417 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
2 375 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 318 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 230 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 192 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 135 (1.40%) Virtual Team
7 128 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 122 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 121 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 101 (1.04%) NHS
11 97 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 95 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 87 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
14 86 (0.89%) CMDB
14 86 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 82 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
16 79 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 78 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
18 76 (0.79%) Operational Technology
19 74 (0.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1,121 (11.59%) Windows
2 529 (5.47%) Linux
3 385 (3.98%) Windows 10
4 267 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 252 (2.60%) Unix
6 109 (1.13%) Windows 7
7 98 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 86 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 85 (0.88%) Android
10 64 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 63 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
12 61 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 53 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
14 38 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
15 34 (0.35%) Solaris
16 27 (0.28%) Ubuntu
17 23 (0.24%) AIX
18 20 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
18 20 (0.21%) VMS
19 17 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,699 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
2 2,303 (23.80%) Agile
3 1,415 (14.62%) Project Management
4 1,372 (14.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 916 (9.47%) Customer Service
6 819 (8.46%) ITIL
7 780 (8.06%) DevOps
8 741 (7.66%) Migration
9 644 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 622 (6.43%) Project Delivery
11 621 (6.42%) Computer Science
12 578 (5.97%) Analytics
13 563 (5.82%) Decision-Making
14 556 (5.75%) Roadmaps
15 550 (5.68%) Scrum
16 548 (5.66%) Change Management
17 520 (5.37%) Business Intelligence
17 520 (5.37%) CI/CD
18 458 (4.73%) Risk Management
19 441 (4.56%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (10.86%) SQL
2 886 (9.16%) Python
3 527 (5.45%) Java
4 434 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 334 (3.45%) C#
6 310 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 173 (1.79%) C++
7 173 (1.79%) TypeScript
8 117 (1.21%) Bash
9 104 (1.07%) C
10 92 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 83 (0.86%) Perl
12 71 (0.73%) Scala
13 68 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 61 (0.63%) R
15 59 (0.61%) PHP
16 55 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 52 (0.54%) ABAP
18 47 (0.49%) Ruby
19 45 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,514 (15.65%) Degree
2 1,328 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 939 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 412 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 345 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 226 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 206 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 138 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 136 (1.41%) CISSP
10 134 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 128 (1.32%) PMP
12 126 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 105 (1.09%) CCNA
14 104 (1.07%) Azure Certification
15 101 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
16 94 (0.97%) CCNP
17 80 (0.83%) CISM
18 65 (0.67%) MCP
19 59 (0.61%) DBS Check
20 57 (0.59%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (4.23%) QA
2 280 (2.89%) SLA
3 279 (2.88%) PMO
4 271 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 151 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 140 (1.45%) NIST
7 99 (1.02%) GDPR
8 89 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 67 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
10 48 (0.50%) GRC
11 47 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.28%) COBIT
12 27 (0.28%) NCSC
12 27 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 27 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 21 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 20 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 19 (0.20%) EMIR
15 19 (0.20%) MiFID
16 16 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 640 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 248 (2.56%) Docker
3 212 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 78 (0.81%) Firmware
6 67 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 66 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 56 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 32 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 25 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 24 (0.25%) vSphere
12 20 (0.21%) NFS
13 17 (0.18%) BitLocker
14 15 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 12 (0.12%) RACF
16 8 (0.083%) KVM
17 7 (0.072%) GPFS
17 7 (0.072%) Terminal Services
17 7 (0.072%) Varnish
18 6 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 273 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 257 (2.66%) Terraform
3 231 (2.39%) SCCM
4 212 (2.19%) Ansible
5 162 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 82 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 80 (0.83%) Puppet
8 64 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 51 (0.53%) Grafana
10 49 (0.51%) WSUS
11 43 (0.44%) Prometheus
12 42 (0.43%) SCOM
13 37 (0.38%) PowerBroker
14 34 (0.35%) Kibana
15 33 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 27 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
16 27 (0.28%) vCenter Server
17 25 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
18 23 (0.24%) BladeLogic
19 21 (0.22%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 1,712 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 781 (8.07%) SAP
3 540 (5.58%) Oracle
4 367 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 298 (3.08%) Cisco
6 276 (2.85%) VMware
7 198 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 186 (1.92%) Google
9 144 (1.49%) IBM
10 142 (1.47%) HP
11 118 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 114 (1.18%) Adobe
13 110 (1.14%) Databricks
14 105 (1.09%) Citrix
15 102 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 80 (0.83%) Ariba
17 76 (0.79%) Apple
17 76 (0.79%) Dell
18 73 (0.75%) Splunk
19 66 (0.68%) Palo Alto