Social Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,164 4,889 7,961
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.89% 19.12% 17.85%
As % of the General category 35.51% 32.73% 32.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,128 3,413 5,558
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +1.94% +11.35%
75th Percentile £605 £640 £623
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 131 143
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.25 £12.76
25th Percentile £16.79 £27.43 £15.81
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +150.34% +36.63%
75th Percentile £41.88 £67.50 £46.67
90th Percentile £53.00 £82.50 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.48% +31.58% +5.56%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,909 14,937 24,184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.81% 58.40% 54.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,840 10,533 17,530
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 344 348
10th Percentile £14.01 £19.12 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.19 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +55.40% +34.06%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.39 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.14% +51.75% -2.22%

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Social Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Social Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 100 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 78 (2.47%) Confluence
3 57 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.07%) CMS
5 17 (0.54%) SAS
5 17 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 16 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) Apache
7 12 (0.38%) IIS
8 10 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.22%) Appian
10 7 (0.22%) JBoss
10 7 (0.22%) nginx
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.19%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 173 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
8 12 (0.38%) Sketch
9 9 (0.28%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.19%) InDesign
13 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
13 5 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
13 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
13 5 (0.16%) CINEMA 4D
13 5 (0.16%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.095%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 88 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
5 17 (0.54%) Primavera
6 16 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
7 15 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.47%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.44%) Loan IQ
8 14 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 12 (0.38%) SAP HCM
9 12 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 12 (0.38%) SAP SD
10 10 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.28%) Shopify
12 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 533 (16.85%) Azure
2 286 (9.04%) AWS
3 220 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 161 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 95 (3.00%) GCP
8 69 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.99%) PowerApps
10 55 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 52 (1.64%) SaaS
12 50 (1.58%) Serverless
13 48 (1.52%) GitHub
14 46 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (1.23%) IaaS
16 37 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
17 33 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 29 (0.92%) OCI
19 28 (0.88%) PaaS
20 27 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 121 (3.82%) Firewall
2 57 (1.80%) DNS
3 48 (1.52%) VPN
4 44 (1.39%) WAN
5 42 (1.33%) Network Security
6 35 (1.11%) LAN
7 34 (1.07%) DHCP
8 32 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (0.88%) BGP
10 26 (0.82%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.57%) Internet
12 17 (0.54%) Wireless
13 16 (0.51%) HTTP
14 15 (0.47%) 5G
15 14 (0.44%) SSL
16 12 (0.38%) 4G
16 12 (0.38%) SAN
16 12 (0.38%) VLAN
17 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (5.91%) Power BI
2 134 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 74 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.21%) Relational Database
5 54 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 42 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.17%) MySQL
7 37 (1.17%) Tableau
8 35 (1.11%) Oracle Database
9 34 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.01%) Big Data
11 31 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (0.95%) MongoDB
13 25 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.63%) Metadata
16 19 (0.60%) GIS
17 17 (0.54%) Power Query
18 14 (0.44%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 224 (7.08%) JIRA
2 87 (2.75%) Git
3 81 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.58%) GitLab
5 33 (1.04%) Selenium
6 20 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 19 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 17 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.44%) Maven
10 14 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.38%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.35%) Appium
13 11 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.28%) JMeter
16 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
General
1 808 (25.54%) Finance
2 631 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
3 331 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 193 (6.10%) Banking
5 184 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
6 153 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 134 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
8 119 (3.76%) Marketing
9 106 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 98 (3.10%) Retail
11 86 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 80 (2.53%) Legal
13 60 (1.90%) Front Office
14 46 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 44 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 39 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 39 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
17 36 (1.14%) General Ledger
18 32 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 451 (14.25%) Analyst
2 380 (12.01%) Developer
3 305 (9.64%) Consultant
4 283 (8.94%) Architect
5 266 (8.41%) Senior
6 239 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 219 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 184 (5.82%) Lead
9 100 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
10 78 (2.47%) Data Analyst
11 72 (2.28%) Data Engineer
12 63 (1.99%) Designer
13 58 (1.83%) Senior Developer
14 56 (1.77%) C# Developer
15 53 (1.68%) Service Analyst
16 51 (1.61%) Software Engineer
17 48 (1.52%) Functional Consultant
18 47 (1.49%) SAP Consultant
19 44 (1.39%) DevOps Engineer
19 44 (1.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.29%) .NET
2 82 (2.59%) React
3 79 (2.50%) REST
4 77 (2.43%) AngularJS
5 69 (2.18%) HTML
6 67 (2.12%) Web Services
7 66 (2.09%) CSS
8 60 (1.90%) RESTful
9 51 (1.61%) Kafka
10 50 (1.58%) JSON
11 46 (1.45%) XML
12 45 (1.42%) Node.js
13 41 (1.30%) Middleware
14 32 (1.01%) SOAP
14 32 (1.01%) YAML
15 31 (0.98%) ARM Templates
16 29 (0.92%) Spring
17 22 (0.70%) .NET Core
18 21 (0.66%) ASP.NET
19 19 (0.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 108 (3.41%) Management Information System
2 106 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 93 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 62 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 50 (1.58%) Data Centre
6 48 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 44 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 43 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 36 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 33 (1.04%) NHS
11 29 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 26 (0.82%) CMDB
14 25 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (0.79%) Cloud Native
15 22 (0.70%) Mobile App
16 21 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
17 20 (0.63%) PKI
17 20 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 255 (8.06%) Windows
2 184 (5.82%) Linux
3 58 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.14%) Unix
6 30 (0.95%) zOS
7 28 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.70%) Android
9 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.51%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.32%) AIX
13 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.28%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.25%) CentOS
15 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.22%) VMS
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.13%) OpenVMS
18 3 (0.095%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
2 773 (24.43%) Agile
3 500 (15.80%) Project Management
4 359 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 327 (10.34%) DevOps
6 262 (8.28%) Migration
7 241 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
8 226 (7.14%) Analytics
9 220 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (6.83%) Computer Science
11 214 (6.76%) Decision-Making
12 207 (6.54%) ITIL
13 196 (6.19%) CI/CD
14 191 (6.04%) Scrum
15 181 (5.72%) Change Management
16 169 (5.34%) Roadmaps
16 169 (5.34%) Service Management
17 165 (5.21%) Data Modelling
18 159 (5.03%) Project Delivery
19 156 (4.93%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 369 (11.66%) SQL
2 269 (8.50%) Python
3 176 (5.56%) Java
4 167 (5.28%) C#
5 143 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 107 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 57 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 49 (1.55%) Bash
9 47 (1.49%) C++
10 35 (1.11%) Bicep
11 34 (1.07%) Perl
12 28 (0.88%) PHP
12 28 (0.88%) REXX
13 27 (0.85%) Scala
14 26 (0.82%) Go
14 26 (0.82%) JCL
15 25 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.73%) Shell Script
18 21 (0.66%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 501 (15.83%) Degree
2 420 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 303 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 153 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 65 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 55 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (1.61%) PMP
9 47 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 37 (1.17%) CISSP
11 35 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 24 (0.76%) CISM
14 24 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (0.73%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 21 (0.66%) CCNP
18 18 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 17 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.13%) QA
2 117 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.50%) SLA
4 68 (2.15%) PMO
5 62 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.36%) GDPR
6 43 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.26%) NIST
8 18 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 17 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
9 17 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.38%) GRC
10 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.35%) MiFID
11 11 (0.35%) NCSC
11 11 (0.35%) SEPA
12 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
13 9 (0.28%) EMIR
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 143 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 91 (2.88%) Docker
3 38 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 25 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.47%) RACF
9 10 (0.32%) ACF2
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 8 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 7 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 7 (0.22%) Microcode
11 7 (0.22%) NFS
12 3 (0.095%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.095%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 127 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 109 (3.45%) Terraform
3 89 (2.81%) Ansible
4 47 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.20%) SCCM
6 34 (1.07%) SCOM
7 30 (0.95%) Puppet
8 25 (0.79%) Grafana
9 23 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 21 (0.66%) WSUS
11 17 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 14 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
14 12 (0.38%) Consul
14 12 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.32%) Data Guard
15 10 (0.32%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.25%) Podman
17 7 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 555 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 235 (7.43%) SAP
3 168 (5.31%) Oracle
4 86 (2.72%) ServiceNow
5 66 (2.09%) IBM
6 65 (2.05%) Google
7 64 (2.02%) Cisco
8 63 (1.99%) Databricks
9 54 (1.71%) Adobe
10 47 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.45%) VMware
12 41 (1.30%) Atlassian
13 33 (1.04%) Splunk
14 31 (0.98%) Ariba
15 29 (0.92%) Dell
16 25 (0.79%) Informatica
17 22 (0.70%) Juniper
18 21 (0.66%) Citrix
19 20 (0.63%) Palo Alto
20 19 (0.60%) Remedy