Social Skills Contract Job Trends in Workington

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Cumbria > Workington

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Workington. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Workington 66.67% - 25.00%
As % of the General category 66.67% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £528
75th Percentile £538 - £542
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £511 £513 £493
% change year-on-year -0.29% +3.96% -10.36%

All General Skills
Workington

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 Workington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Workington 100.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £528
75th Percentile £538 - £542
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £515 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.90% -8.70% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.49 - -
Cumbria median hourly rate £21.42 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +29.17% -51.01%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Workington

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

Social Skills job vacancy trend in Workington

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Workington

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

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

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Workington

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Workington citing Social Skills

Social Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes