Social Skills Contracts in Yorkshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 411 433 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.17% 25.22% 20.08%
As % of the General category 51.96% 45.39% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 251 260
10th Percentile £200 £185 £263
25th Percentile £334 £351 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £518
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.25% +8.95%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 46 7
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.66 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £14.63 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +24.48% -17.47% -9.13%
75th Percentile £26.51 £15.19 £20.57
90th Percentile £81.25 £25.83 £24.57
England median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +18.42% -9.74% +16.94%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 791 954 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 63.84% 55.56% 61.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 534 882
10th Percentile £254 £213 £269
25th Percentile £375 £400 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £645 £700
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 20
10th Percentile £13.30 £12.03 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.06 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.19
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -23.80% +2.63%
75th Percentile £22.88 £15.23 £21.55
90th Percentile £57.86 £30.08 £30.20
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +30.28%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Yorkshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Yorkshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
West Yorkshire 0 206 £450 -6.25% 1,121
South Yorkshire 0 154 £450 -10.00% 504
North Yorkshire 0 26 £210 -58.00% 274
East Yorkshire 0 13 £244 -18.75% 128
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 19 (4.62%) Confluence
2 15 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.22%) Apache
7 3 (0.73%) CMS
7 3 (0.73%) IIS
8 2 (0.49%) CICS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.24%) Drupal
9 1 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 62 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (3.89%) MS Visio
5 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.49%) Trello
7 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Maple
Business Applications
1 7 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 48 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (9.25%) Azure
2 38 (9.25%) Entra ID
3 33 (8.03%) AWS
3 33 (8.03%) GCP
4 18 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.43%) SaaS
6 9 (2.19%) GitHub
7 8 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (1.95%) OCI
8 7 (1.70%) Azure AKS
8 7 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (1.70%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.22%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.97%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.97%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.14%) DNS
2 11 (2.68%) Firewall
2 11 (2.68%) Intranet
3 9 (2.19%) VPN
4 7 (1.70%) Wireless
5 5 (1.22%) NAS
5 5 (1.22%) SAN
6 4 (0.97%) Network Security
7 3 (0.73%) ATM
7 3 (0.73%) DWDM
7 3 (0.73%) SMTP
7 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.49%) LAN
8 2 (0.49%) WAN
9 1 (0.24%) Broadband
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.35%) Oracle Database
2 14 (3.41%) Power BI
3 11 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.95%) Tableau
5 7 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.46%) Big Data
6 6 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.22%) Flink
7 5 (1.22%) MySQL
7 5 (1.22%) Power Query
8 4 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.97%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.73%) DataStage
9 3 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.54%) JIRA
2 20 (4.87%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.41%) Git
4 7 (1.70%) GitLab
4 7 (1.70%) Selenium
5 6 (1.46%) Postman
6 4 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.97%) JMeter
7 3 (0.73%) JUnit
7 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.49%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.49%) TestNG
8 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.24%) Gradle
9 1 (0.24%) Log4j
9 1 (0.24%) Maven
9 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 91 (22.14%) Finance
2 72 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (10.71%) Banking
4 36 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.30%) Retail
6 25 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.89%) Legal
7 16 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.65%) Local Government
9 14 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.68%) Public Speaking
11 10 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.22%) Law
12 5 (1.22%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (19.22%) Analyst
2 38 (9.25%) Project Manager
3 37 (9.00%) Business Analyst
4 28 (6.81%) Support Manager
5 26 (6.33%) Architect
6 23 (5.60%) Lead
7 22 (5.35%) Developer
8 18 (4.38%) 1st Line Support
8 18 (4.38%) IT Manager
8 18 (4.38%) IT Support
9 14 (3.41%) Consultant
10 13 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 12 (2.92%) 1st Line Support Manager
11 12 (2.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 12 (2.92%) IT Support Manager
11 12 (2.92%) Senior
12 11 (2.68%) Communications Officer
13 10 (2.43%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.43%) Desktop Support
13 10 (2.43%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.68%) SAML
2 10 (2.43%) JSON
2 10 (2.43%) OAuth
3 9 (2.19%) Kafka
3 9 (2.19%) OpenID
4 8 (1.95%) .NET
5 7 (1.70%) Middleware
5 7 (1.70%) React
6 6 (1.46%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.46%) REST
7 5 (1.22%) CSS
7 5 (1.22%) HTML
7 5 (1.22%) PySpark
8 4 (0.97%) Django
8 4 (0.97%) FastAPI
8 4 (0.97%) Flask
8 4 (0.97%) LDAP
8 4 (0.97%) Node.js
9 3 (0.73%) Celery
9 3 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.87%) iPhone
1 20 (4.87%) Smartphone
2 17 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (3.16%) NHS
5 12 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.70%) EPoS
8 7 (1.70%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.97%) Replication
10 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.09%) Windows
2 31 (7.54%) Linux
3 30 (7.30%) Mac OS
4 19 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.41%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.73%) Android
8 3 (0.73%) Unix
9 2 (0.49%) zOS
10 1 (0.24%) HPUX
10 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (25.06%) Agile
3 81 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (16.06%) Customer Service
5 56 (13.63%) ITIL
6 43 (10.46%) ITSM
7 38 (9.25%) DevOps
8 37 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (8.76%) CI/CD
9 36 (8.76%) Project Management
10 35 (8.52%) Migration
11 34 (8.27%) Roadmaps
11 34 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (7.79%) Service Management
13 31 (7.54%) Decision-Making
14 26 (6.33%) Computer Science
14 26 (6.33%) Data Protection
15 25 (6.08%) Collaborative Working
15 25 (6.08%) Scrum
15 25 (6.08%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (11.19%) Python
2 42 (10.22%) SQL
3 21 (5.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.16%) Bash
4 13 (3.16%) PL/SQL
5 12 (2.92%) Perl
5 12 (2.92%) Shell Script
6 9 (2.19%) Scala
7 8 (1.95%) Java
7 8 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.22%) COBOL
9 4 (0.97%) C#
9 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.97%) JCL
9 4 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.73%) VBA
11 2 (0.49%) PHP
11 2 (0.49%) REXX
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (13.14%) Degree
2 28 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (2.68%) ACSP
5 11 (2.68%) ACTC
5 11 (2.68%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.70%) PMP
7 6 (1.46%) CBAP
7 6 (1.46%) CISMP
7 6 (1.46%) GSEC
7 6 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.22%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.97%) RIBA
9 4 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.62%) GDPR
2 16 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.43%) QA
5 8 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.95%) PMO
5 8 (1.95%) SLA
6 6 (1.46%) NIST
7 5 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.49%) NCSC
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.49%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) COSHH
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 75 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.14%) Docker
3 10 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.95%) vSphere
5 5 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.24%) Microcode
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (7.06%) Jamf Pro
2 26 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.84%) Ansible
4 20 (4.87%) Terraform
5 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.46%) Grafana
6 6 (1.46%) SmoothWall
7 5 (1.22%) SCCM
7 5 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.97%) vRealize
9 3 (0.73%) Kibana
9 3 (0.73%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.49%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.49%) Puppet
11 1 (0.24%) SCOM
11 1 (0.24%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 77 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.17%) ServiceNow
3 43 (10.46%) Apple
4 35 (8.52%) Oracle
5 19 (4.62%) Citrix
5 19 (4.62%) Google
6 17 (4.14%) Cisco
7 12 (2.92%) SAP
8 10 (2.43%) VMware
9 8 (1.95%) Alibaba
9 8 (1.95%) Databricks
10 6 (1.46%) Commvault
10 6 (1.46%) IBM
10 6 (1.46%) Veritas
11 4 (0.97%) Brio
11 4 (0.97%) Dell
11 4 (0.97%) EMC
11 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.73%) Informatica
12 3 (0.73%) Salesforce