Social Skills Contracts in Birmingham

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 178 156 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.99% 17.51% 18.64%
As % of the General category 46.84% 31.20% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 96 176
10th Percentile £200 £263 £196
25th Percentile £355 £372 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £644 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 12
10th Percentile £11.11 - £12.52
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £12.73
Median hourly rate £15.30 £13.00 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -20.00% -9.72%
75th Percentile £26.17 £21.10 £18.00
90th Percentile £55.38 £97.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £15.50 £17.72 £16.25
% change year-on-year -12.52% +9.03% +8.33%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 380 500 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 51.21% 56.12% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 328 529
10th Percentile £220 £293 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% +15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £593
90th Percentile £704 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 17
10th Percentile £11.89 £11.80 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.97 £12.50 £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% +24.24% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.50 £18.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.30 £20.97 £16.50
% change year-on-year -7.99% +27.09% +8.20%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Birmingham

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Moodle
Applications
1 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.12%) Maya
4 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 10 (5.62%) NetSuite
2 7 (3.93%) Odoo
3 5 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.56%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.56%) Maximo
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.80%) Azure
1 21 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (10.11%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.62%) AWS
3 10 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (4.49%) Power Automate
4 8 (4.49%) PowerApps
5 7 (3.93%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.37%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.69%) Boomi
8 3 (1.69%) OCI
9 2 (1.12%) SaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.56%) GCP
10 1 (0.56%) GitHub
10 1 (0.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.74%) WAN
2 9 (5.06%) LAN
3 8 (4.49%) Firewall
4 7 (3.93%) Internet
5 6 (3.37%) Network Security
5 6 (3.37%) Unified Communications
5 6 (3.37%) VPN
6 5 (2.81%) DNS
6 5 (2.81%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.25%) MPLS
7 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.69%) ADSL
8 3 (1.69%) DHCP
8 3 (1.69%) PSTN
8 3 (1.69%) VLAN
8 3 (1.69%) VoIP
8 3 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.12%) Wireless
10 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.55%) Power BI
2 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.69%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.12%) Power Query
4 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.12%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Big Data
5 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.56%) Presto
Development Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.12%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) webpack
3 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (24.72%) Finance
2 43 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.62%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.37%) German Language
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Billing
9 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.12%) Back Office
10 2 (1.12%) Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Local Government
10 2 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 24 (13.48%) Architect
1 24 (13.48%) Developer
2 23 (12.92%) Analyst
3 16 (8.99%) Project Manager
4 15 (8.43%) Lead
5 12 (6.74%) Consultant
5 12 (6.74%) Senior
6 10 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (5.62%) Business Manager
7 9 (5.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 9 (5.06%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (5.06%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.93%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.37%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.62%) HTML
2 9 (5.06%) React
3 7 (3.93%) CSS
4 6 (3.37%) Spring
5 4 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.25%) XML
6 3 (1.69%) Middleware
6 3 (1.69%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.12%) .NET
7 2 (1.12%) Next.js
7 2 (1.12%) OAuth
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.12%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) SAML
7 2 (1.12%) Web Services
8 1 (0.56%) Kafka
8 1 (0.56%) Node.js
8 1 (0.56%) OSGi
8 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.37%) Digital Signage
3 6 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.37%) PKI
4 5 (2.81%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.81%) IoT
4 5 (2.81%) Taxonomies
5 4 (2.25%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (1.69%) CCTV
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.69%) EPoS
6 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.73%) Windows
2 13 (7.30%) Windows 10
2 13 (7.30%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.37%) Linux
6 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.12%) Unix
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.56%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (25.28%) Agile
3 26 (14.61%) Customer Service
4 23 (12.92%) Project Management
4 23 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (11.80%) ERP
5 21 (11.80%) Roadmaps
6 18 (10.11%) Computer Science
7 17 (9.55%) Business Transformation
8 16 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.43%) Analytics
9 15 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (8.43%) Decision-Making
10 14 (7.87%) ITIL
10 14 (7.87%) Migration
10 14 (7.87%) Scrum
10 14 (7.87%) Service Delivery
11 12 (6.74%) Change Management
11 12 (6.74%) Data Modelling
11 12 (6.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.30%) Python
2 12 (6.74%) JavaScript
2 12 (6.74%) SQL
3 10 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.49%) Java
5 4 (2.25%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.25%) SOQL
6 3 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.12%) Perl
7 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 23 (12.92%) Degree
2 14 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.49%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.37%) BC Cleared
5 5 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.25%) CCIE
6 4 (2.25%) CCNP
6 4 (2.25%) PMP
6 4 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ACCA
8 2 (1.12%) CASP
8 2 (1.12%) CIMA
8 2 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.12%) GCED
8 2 (1.12%) GIAC
8 2 (1.12%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) QA
2 7 (3.93%) SLA
3 5 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (9.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.12%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.56%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.81%) SCCM
3 3 (1.69%) Autotask
3 3 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) OpenView
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) Oracle
3 10 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.49%) SAP
5 7 (3.93%) VMware
6 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.81%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) Apple
8 3 (1.69%) BT
8 3 (1.69%) Datto
8 3 (1.69%) Openreach
9 2 (1.12%) Citrix
9 2 (1.12%) Databricks
9 2 (1.12%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.12%) Informatica
9 2 (1.12%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.12%) Splunk
9 2 (1.12%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.12%) Trend Micro