Social Skills Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Wales > West Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in West Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 14 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 13 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 30.95% 3.13% -
As % of the General category 76.47% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £155 - -
25th Percentile £161 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.25% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
Wales median daily rate £325 £406 £394
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.17% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 - -
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
75th Percentile £14.36 - -
90th Percentile £20.34 - -
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £20.62 £33.00
% change year-on-year +1.86% -37.52% +65.75%

All General Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 17 15 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 40.48% 46.88% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £159 £126 £148
25th Percentile £304 £145 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £175
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +157.14% -63.16%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £240
90th Percentile £598 £570 £381
Wales median daily rate £388 £365 £420
% change year-on-year +6.16% -13.10% -8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £16.43 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.92 - -
Wales median hourly rate £19.60 £22.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year -11.93% -32.58% +64.02%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in West Wales

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in West Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in West Wales over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in West Wales

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Carmarthenshire - 7 - -
Swansea +8 5 £323 +61.25% 5
Pembrokeshire - 1 - - 1
Social Skills
Wales

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
1 7 (53.85%) Service Desk Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
1 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Customer Service
2 8 (61.54%) Service Delivery
3 7 (53.85%) Customer Experience
3 7 (53.85%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Change Advisory Board
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Due Diligence
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Observability
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) ITGC
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft