Social Skills Contracts in Wiltshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 136 246 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 30.29% 26.06% 21.20%
As % of the General category 48.57% 48.81% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 190 191
10th Percentile £220 £200 £205
25th Percentile £458 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £714 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £12.00 £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - £14.54 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -83.84% +68.22%
75th Percentile - £26.32 £106.25
90th Percentile - £30.25 £110.00
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £28.50 £61.10
% change year-on-year +106.14% -53.36% +25.32%

All General Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 280 504 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 62.36% 53.39% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 369 471
10th Percentile £241 £263 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £648
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 5
10th Percentile - £12.00 -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £14.54 £70.80
Median % change year-on-year +312.65% -79.46% +11.50%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £39.00 £102.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Wiltshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Corsham -4 44 £594 +4.63% 13
Salisbury +6 34 £513 +156.25% 9
Swindon -1 25 £420 +133.33% 193
Warminster - 1 - -
Social Skills
South West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 20 (14.71%) Confluence
2 9 (6.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.21%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 30 (22.06%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.47%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.47%) Sketch
4 1 (0.74%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.47%) BASE24
3 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.74%) Primavera
3 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.56%) Azure
2 10 (7.35%) AWS
3 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.21%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.47%) Figma
5 2 (1.47%) GCP
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) VPN
2 5 (3.68%) DHCP
2 5 (3.68%) DNS
2 5 (3.68%) Skype
3 4 (2.94%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.47%) ATM
4 2 (1.47%) Firewall
4 2 (1.47%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.47%) SAN
5 1 (0.74%) BGP
5 1 (0.74%) Extranet
5 1 (0.74%) Intranet
5 1 (0.74%) LAN
5 1 (0.74%) OSPF
5 1 (0.74%) SMTP
5 1 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.74%) VLAN
5 1 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.47%) Metadata
2 2 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.47%) Power BI
3 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.74%) MySQL
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (16.18%) JIRA
2 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.47%) Git
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) VersaTest
4 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (33.82%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.09%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Finance
4 10 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.94%) Military
6 2 (1.47%) Legal
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Electronics
7 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (15.44%) Architect
2 15 (11.03%) Analyst
3 9 (6.62%) Availability Manager
3 9 (6.62%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 9 (6.62%) Capacity Manager
3 9 (6.62%) IT Support
3 9 (6.62%) Security Architect
3 9 (6.62%) Support Engineer
4 8 (5.88%) Service Manager
4 8 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 7 (5.15%) IT Engineer
5 7 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (5.15%) Report Analyst
5 7 (5.15%) Service Analyst
6 6 (4.41%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
6 6 (4.41%) Coordinator
6 6 (4.41%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 5 (3.68%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (3.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.88%) Flash
2 6 (4.41%) CSS
2 6 (4.41%) HTML
2 6 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.94%) Ajax
3 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.94%) LDAP
3 4 (2.94%) Web Services
4 2 (1.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.74%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.74%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.74%) Middleware
5 1 (0.74%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.74%) React
5 1 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.62%) PKI
3 8 (5.88%) Clustering
4 3 (2.21%) LIMS
5 2 (1.47%) EMV
5 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) CMDB
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.74%) Tandem
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Windows
2 19 (13.97%) Windows 10
3 9 (6.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.68%) Linux
5 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.85%) Service Management
2 53 (38.97%) ITIL
3 39 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (27.94%) Agile
5 21 (15.44%) Critical Thinking
6 17 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 16 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (11.76%) NsoIT
8 15 (11.03%) Computer Science
8 15 (11.03%) Project Management
8 15 (11.03%) System Testing
9 14 (10.29%) ITSM
10 13 (9.56%) Software Licensing
11 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (8.09%) Mentoring
12 11 (8.09%) Problem Management
12 11 (8.09%) Validation
13 10 (7.35%) Data Analysis
13 10 (7.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.35%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.41%) SQL
4 4 (2.94%) Python
5 2 (1.47%) Bash
5 2 (1.47%) COBOL
6 1 (0.74%) C
6 1 (0.74%) C++
6 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (74.26%) Security Cleared
2 84 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 47 (34.56%) DV Cleared
4 27 (19.85%) Degree
5 17 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (8.09%) Master's Degree
8 9 (6.62%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Certification
9 8 (5.88%) CCNA
9 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (3.68%) MCSA
12 4 (2.94%) MCSE
13 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
13 3 (2.21%) CCNP
13 3 (2.21%) CISSP
13 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) JSP 440
1 6 (4.41%) RMADS
2 5 (3.68%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.74%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (9.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.62%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (6.62%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) vCenter Server
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.21%) Ansible
4 3 (2.21%) Kibana
4 3 (2.21%) logstash
4 3 (2.21%) SCOM
4 3 (2.21%) WSUS
5 2 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.47%) OPNET
5 2 (1.47%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
6 1 (0.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.24%) Atlassian
3 16 (11.76%) VMware
4 11 (8.09%) Cisco
5 8 (5.88%) Oracle
6 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.94%) HP
7 4 (2.94%) Remedy
7 4 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.94%) Veeam
8 2 (1.47%) Adobe
8 2 (1.47%) Apple
8 2 (1.47%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) Juniper
8 2 (1.47%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) Aruba
9 1 (0.74%) BMC
9 1 (0.74%) Dell
9 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.74%) SAP