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 advertised in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 472 468 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.30% 20.19% 16.13%
As % of the General category 49.53% 33.22% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 269 291
10th Percentile £184 £272 £166
25th Percentile £344 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +9.89% +2.82%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £538
90th Percentile £648 £638 £600
England median daily rate £513 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -4.38% +2.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 8 17
10th Percentile £12.66 £12.51 £11.82
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £13.03
Median hourly rate £14.63 £18.55 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% -1.76% +11.75%
75th Percentile £15.19 £33.21 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.83 £70.00 £31.19
England median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 953 1,409 1,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.13% 60.79% 53.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 957 1,045
10th Percentile £198 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £444 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 15 54
10th Percentile £12.11 £12.00 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.15 £12.58 £15.93
Median hourly rate £14.63 £17.72 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% -5.24% +1.08%
75th Percentile £15.19 £30.47 £24.76
90th Percentile £25.83 £61.76 £29.10
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.44%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +1 256 £490 -6.67% 389
South Yorkshire +5 134 £450 -10.00% 159
North Yorkshire +3 49 £205 -53.41% 109
East Yorkshire +1 10 £300 -58.62% 42
Humberside 0 3 £300 - 22
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 (4.03%) SAS
2 18 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.27%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.85%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) CICS
7 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 33 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.85%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.64%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.64%) Blender
4 3 (0.64%) Maya
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) MicroStation
4 3 (0.64%) Sketch
4 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 15 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.48%) SAP ERP
2 7 (1.48%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.29%) Azure
2 37 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (5.51%) AWS
4 21 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.24%) GCP
5 20 (4.24%) GitHub
6 14 (2.97%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.27%) Apigee
7 6 (1.27%) Kong
7 6 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (0.85%) Figma
9 4 (0.85%) iPaaS
9 4 (0.85%) MailChimp
9 4 (0.85%) OCI
9 4 (0.85%) SaaS
9 4 (0.85%) Slack
10 3 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.66%) Firewall
2 17 (3.60%) DNS
2 17 (3.60%) VPN
3 14 (2.97%) VLAN
4 11 (2.33%) WAN
5 10 (2.12%) LAN
6 9 (1.91%) DHCP
6 9 (1.91%) DWDM
6 9 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.27%) HTTP
9 5 (1.06%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.85%) Network Security
10 4 (0.85%) Wireless
10 4 (0.85%) WLAN
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.21%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.97%) Power BI
2 8 (1.69%) GIS
3 6 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.27%) Tableau
4 5 (1.06%) Metadata
5 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.85%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.64%) Big Data
6 3 (0.64%) QGIS
6 3 (0.64%) Spatial Data
7 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.21%) Ingres
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.39%) JIRA
3 9 (1.91%) Git
4 6 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.27%) CircleCI
4 6 (1.27%) GitLab
4 6 (1.27%) Travis CI
5 4 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.85%) XCUITest
6 3 (0.64%) Selenium
7 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.21%) Appium
8 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.21%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.21%) JMeter
8 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.21%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 80 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (8.47%) Finance
3 36 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.45%) Banking
5 15 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.27%) Law
9 5 (1.06%) Legal
9 5 (1.06%) Retail
10 3 (0.64%) Games
10 3 (0.64%) Local Government
10 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 2 (0.42%) Back Office
11 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.21%) Billing
Job Titles
1 74 (15.68%) Analyst
2 38 (8.05%) Business Analyst
3 33 (6.99%) Developer
4 32 (6.78%) Lead
5 26 (5.51%) Consultant
5 26 (5.51%) Project Manager
6 25 (5.30%) Senior
7 24 (5.08%) Architect
8 22 (4.66%) Service Desk Agent
9 19 (4.03%) Service Analyst
10 18 (3.81%) Programmer
10 18 (3.81%) Systems Programmer
10 18 (3.81%) z/OS Systems Programmer
11 15 (3.18%) Service Desk Analyst
12 13 (2.75%) IT Support
13 12 (2.54%) Storage Engineer
14 11 (2.33%) 1st Line Support
14 11 (2.33%) Data Engineer
15 10 (2.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 10 (2.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.57%) ISPF
2 15 (3.18%) YAML
3 7 (1.48%) JSON
3 7 (1.48%) SailPoint
4 6 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.27%) LDAP
4 6 (1.27%) Web Services
4 6 (1.27%) XML
5 4 (0.85%) .NET
5 4 (0.85%) CSS
5 4 (0.85%) HTML
6 3 (0.64%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.64%) REST
6 3 (0.64%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.42%) Playwright
7 2 (0.42%) XMPP
8 1 (0.21%) Node.js
8 1 (0.21%) SAP TM
8 1 (0.21%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.78%) Mainframe
2 23 (4.87%) Data Centre
2 23 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.24%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (4.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 20 (4.24%) Driving Licence
3 20 (4.24%) Replication
4 19 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (4.03%) NHS
5 11 (2.33%) LPAR
5 11 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (1.27%) CMDB
8 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.85%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.95%) Windows
2 41 (8.69%) zOS
3 36 (7.63%) Windows 10
4 33 (6.99%) Linux
5 12 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.33%) Windows 7
7 7 (1.48%) Android
8 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.64%) AIX
9 3 (0.64%) Solaris
9 3 (0.64%) Unix
10 2 (0.42%) Debian
10 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (31.99%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (17.58%) Agile
3 82 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (16.95%) Customer Service
5 73 (15.47%) Project Management
6 38 (8.05%) Risk Management
7 37 (7.84%) Change Management
8 34 (7.20%) Migration
9 31 (6.57%) CRM
9 31 (6.57%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (6.14%) Waterfall
11 28 (5.93%) DevOps
12 27 (5.72%) Incident Management
12 27 (5.72%) Service Delivery
13 26 (5.51%) Mentoring
13 26 (5.51%) Use Case
14 25 (5.30%) ITIL
15 24 (5.08%) Information Security
16 23 (4.87%) ERP
16 23 (4.87%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (8.47%) JCL
2 38 (8.05%) REXX
3 31 (6.57%) Python
4 22 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.39%) Assembly Language
6 14 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.75%) Bash
8 12 (2.54%) SQL
9 10 (2.12%) CLIST
10 9 (1.91%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.27%) ABAP
12 5 (1.06%) C++
12 5 (1.06%) Java
13 4 (0.85%) C#
14 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.64%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.64%) VBA
15 2 (0.42%) C
15 2 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (9.32%) Degree
2 37 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.03%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.91%) CCNA
6 9 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.85%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.85%) CBAP
11 3 (0.64%) CEH
11 3 (0.64%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.64%) GIAC
11 3 (0.64%) GPEN
11 3 (0.64%) OSCP
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.78%) QA
2 23 (4.87%) SLA
3 18 (3.81%) NIST
4 15 (3.18%) NIST 800
5 9 (1.91%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.27%) PMO
7 5 (1.06%) GDPR
8 3 (0.64%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (12.08%) Active Directory
2 40 (8.47%) Time Sharing Option
3 27 (5.72%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.39%) ACF2
4 16 (3.39%) RACF
5 12 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (2.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 11 (2.33%) Microcode
7 9 (1.91%) NFS
8 8 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.48%) KVM
9 7 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (1.27%) Docker
10 6 (1.27%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.64%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 32 (6.78%) Ansible
2 21 (4.45%) OMEGAMON
2 21 (4.45%) Puppet
3 15 (3.18%) NetBackup
4 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.91%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (1.69%) Terraform
6 8 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.27%) Grafana
7 6 (1.27%) Kibana
7 6 (1.27%) logstash
7 6 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.64%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.47%) IBM
3 28 (5.93%) Broadcom
3 28 (5.93%) SAP
4 25 (5.30%) Splunk
5 23 (4.87%) ServiceNow
6 20 (4.24%) BT
6 20 (4.24%) Virgin Media
7 17 (3.60%) VMware
8 15 (3.18%) Veritas
9 12 (2.54%) Brocade
9 12 (2.54%) Dell
10 10 (2.12%) CA
11 8 (1.69%) Brio
11 8 (1.69%) Oracle
12 7 (1.48%) ESRI
12 7 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.27%) Cisco
14 5 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.06%) EMC