Social Skills Contracts in West London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 66 95 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 30.56% 26.32% 21.96%
As % of the General category 53.66% 47.74% 48.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 68 80
10th Percentile £178 £189 £215
25th Percentile £288 £213 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £491
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -28.75% +3.42%
75th Percentile £456 £519 £638
90th Percentile £518 £590 £670
London median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £18.88 £18.13 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.98 £23.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £21.63 £44.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.85% +21.38% +70.79%
75th Percentile £33.68 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £50.50 £66.20 £75.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +1.54% -7.14%

All General Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 123 199 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 56.94% 55.12% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 141 173
10th Percentile £194 £189 £301
25th Percentile £319 £250 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £650
90th Percentile £548 £627 £743
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 24
10th Percentile £19.41 £16.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £30.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -48.88% +174.42%
75th Percentile £29.04 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £86.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -20.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in West London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in West London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in West London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in West London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in West London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in West London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in West London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in West London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hounslow +2 25 £402 +43.66% 44
Hillingdon 0 18 £400 -15.79% 42
Hammersmith -2 4 £288 +49.35% 7
Ealing - 3 - - 8
Richmond upon Thames +7 2 £339 -3.21% 6
Social Skills
London

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 4 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.03%) Trello
5 1 (1.52%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.12%) AWS
2 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.55%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.52%) Azure
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.52%) Miro
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.52%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Structured Cabling
1 7 (10.61%) WAN
2 6 (9.09%) BGP
2 6 (9.09%) DHCP
2 6 (9.09%) DNS
2 6 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (9.09%) OSPF
2 6 (9.09%) VLAN
2 6 (9.09%) VPN
3 5 (7.58%) Network Security
3 5 (7.58%) SD-WAN
3 5 (7.58%) SSL
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (6.06%) DMVPN
4 4 (6.06%) LAN
4 4 (6.06%) Wireless
4 4 (6.06%) WLAN
5 3 (4.55%) EIGRP
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) Flink
3 1 (1.52%) MS Access
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.52%) Power Query
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) JIRA
2 4 (6.06%) JUnit
2 4 (6.06%) Selenium
3 2 (3.03%) Appium
3 2 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.52%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Postman
4 1 (1.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
5 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Aviation
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.52%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Local Government
7 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (13.64%) Analyst
2 6 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
3 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Administrator
4 4 (6.06%) Cabling Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Network Administrator
4 4 (6.06%) Project Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Tester
5 3 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (4.55%) Architect
5 3 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) IT Support
5 3 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Support Officer
6 2 (3.03%) Applications Support
6 2 (3.03%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.03%) Senior
6 2 (3.03%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) GraphQL
1 2 (3.03%) JWT
1 2 (3.03%) OAuth
1 2 (3.03%) REST
1 2 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (1.52%) Kafka
2 1 (1.52%) Playwright
2 1 (1.52%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Driving Licence
2 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) CCTV
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.03%) IoT
4 2 (3.03%) Learning Management System
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) PMI
5 1 (1.52%) Social Media
5 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (28.79%) Project Management
3 14 (21.21%) Agile
4 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (10.61%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.09%) User Experience
7 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.58%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.58%) Customer Experience
7 5 (7.58%) Data Analysis
7 5 (7.58%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.58%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (7.58%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.06%) E-Commerce
8 4 (6.06%) Regression Testing
8 4 (6.06%) Scrum
8 4 (6.06%) Service Delivery
8 4 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.58%) Python
2 4 (6.06%) Java
2 4 (6.06%) SQL
3 2 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) CCNP
2 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.06%) CCSA
3 4 (6.06%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.55%) PMP
4 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CBAP
5 1 (1.52%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) CSPO
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) HNC
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) COSHH
3 1 (1.52%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Firmware
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (3.03%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (3.03%) Kibana
2 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Cisco
1 6 (9.09%) F5
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Juniper
2 4 (6.06%) Meraki
2 4 (6.06%) SAP
2 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
3 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.03%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) Concur
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) HP
5 1 (1.52%) NEC
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle