Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Wakefield

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Wakefield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 6 13 42
As % of all contract jobs in Wakefield 54.55% 48.15% 50.60%
As % of the General category 85.71% 86.67% 73.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £122 £154 £324
25th Percentile £131 £230 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 £365 £380
Median % change year-on-year -63.01% -3.95% +125.19%
75th Percentile £220 £373 £395
90th Percentile £403 - £453
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £518
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.21% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.17% +194.12%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £16.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +378.69% -46.03% +41.18%

All General Skills
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7 15 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield 63.64% 55.56% 68.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 18
10th Percentile £123 £154 £105
25th Percentile £132 £230 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £365 £358
Median % change year-on-year -51.37% +2.10% +78.75%
75th Percentile £449 £373 £380
90th Percentile £613 - £454
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £36.38 £11.52
25th Percentile - £36.56 £13.17
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year - +140.53% +57.94%
75th Percentile - £41.56 £18.07
90th Percentile - £42.13 £25.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +21.62% -1.07%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Social Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield.

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Wakefield

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Wakefield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Social Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Wakefield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Wakefield over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Wakefield

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Wakefield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Social Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Build Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Facilities Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Quantitative Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft