Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
City of Westminster > Westminster

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Westminster 26.67% - 19.05%
As % of the General category 40.00% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £279 - £392
25th Percentile £322 - £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.33%
75th Percentile £522 - £571
90th Percentile £576 - £600
City of Westminster median daily rate £481 £450 £606
% change year-on-year +6.94% -25.77% +15.48%

All General Skills
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 66.67% 20.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £370 - £215
25th Percentile £450 £463 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +19.50% -21.29%
75th Percentile £719 £488 £504
90th Percentile £810 - £583
City of Westminster median daily rate £575 £475 £570
% change year-on-year +21.05% -16.59% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £26.00
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £21.97 - £26.00

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Westminster

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

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

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

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Westminster over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Westminster

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Westminster 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 1 (25.00%) Mattermost
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DKIM
1 1 (25.00%) DMARC
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) PSTN
1 1 (25.00%) STUN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (25.00%) GitOps
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Argo
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware