Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Watford

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 15 8 33
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 26.32% 15.38% 24.63%
As % of the General category 46.88% 27.59% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 21
10th Percentile - £267 £300
25th Percentile £400 £292 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £329 £375
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -12.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £621 £361 £425
90th Percentile £672 £384 £538
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +23.53% +3.03% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.50 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £19.91 £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -67.36% +1.67% -7.69%

All General Skills
Watford

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 general skills in Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 32 29 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 56.14% 55.77% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 48
10th Percentile £170 £256 £208
25th Percentile £350 £306 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £345 £375
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -8.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £573 £495 £503
90th Percentile £640 £561 £629
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £481 £475
% change year-on-year +9.26% +1.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.20 -
25th Percentile £15.70 £14.97 -
Median hourly rate £18.27 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% - -
75th Percentile £20.71 £27.00 -
90th Percentile £22.10 £31.95 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +4.00% +2.86%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Watford

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

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

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Watford over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Watford

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

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

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Spanish Language
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Applications Tester
1 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Manual Tester
1 3 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (13.33%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) CCTV
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) VMS
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Governance
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C#
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Perl
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) IFS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Workday