Social Skills Contracts in the East Midlands

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 169 171 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.09% 16.86% 18.72%
As % of the General category 42.14% 31.73% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 127 158
10th Percentile £168 £198 £188
25th Percentile £208 £308 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -37.44% +1.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £518
90th Percentile £638 £605 £619
England median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 29
10th Percentile - £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £12.75 £12.14 £10.50
Median hourly rate £14.72 £15.25 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -22.45% +96.65%
75th Percentile £19.50 £21.44 £27.50
90th Percentile £26.15 £45.63 £39.00
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -26.53% +36.11% -

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 401 539 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 52.42% 53.16% 49.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 420 497
10th Percentile £166 £213 £200
25th Percentile £254 £329 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £466 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +5.97% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 54
10th Percentile £12.19 £12.21 £9.64
25th Percentile £13.75 £16.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.38 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.04% -3.74% +66.07%
75th Percentile £34.13 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 - -
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the East Midlands

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Derbyshire +4 57 £245 -40.61% 128
Leicestershire +2 45 £266 -46.80% 134
Nottinghamshire +5 28 £510 +7.37% 155
Northamptonshire -2 28 £410 +10.07% 148
Lincolnshire +14 8 £650 +108.00% 74
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Appian
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.59%) SAS
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (22.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.78%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.18%) Sketch
5 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.59%) Maya
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.59%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.59%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.18%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.83%) Azure
2 12 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.55%) AWS
4 6 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.18%) Figma
6 2 (1.18%) GCP
6 2 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.59%) Discord
7 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.59%) IaaS
7 1 (0.59%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) DNS
1 5 (2.96%) Wireless
2 4 (2.37%) LAN
2 4 (2.37%) VPN
2 4 (2.37%) WAN
3 3 (1.78%) DHCP
3 3 (1.78%) NAS
3 3 (1.78%) SAN
3 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.18%) Ethereal
4 2 (1.18%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.18%) Firewall
4 2 (1.18%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.59%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.59%) LTE
5 1 (0.59%) PBX
5 1 (0.59%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.55%) Power BI
2 5 (2.96%) Big Data
2 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.37%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.18%) Impala
5 2 (1.18%) MySQL
5 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.18%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.59%) Metadata
6 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.18%) Selenium
2 2 (1.18%) TestRail
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 33 (19.53%) Finance
2 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.92%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.73%) Banking
7 7 (4.14%) Electronics
8 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.96%) Games
10 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.37%) Legal
10 4 (2.37%) Marketing
11 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Local Government
12 1 (0.59%) Retail
12 1 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (15.38%) Analyst
2 15 (8.88%) Lead
3 14 (8.28%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.10%) Test Engineer
5 9 (5.33%) Support Engineer
6 7 (4.14%) Architect
6 7 (4.14%) Developer
6 7 (4.14%) Team Leader
6 7 (4.14%) Test Manager
7 6 (3.55%) Consultant
7 6 (3.55%) Coordinator
7 6 (3.55%) Project Coordinator
8 5 (2.96%) Network Engineer
8 5 (2.96%) Production Manager
8 5 (2.96%) Quality Inspector
9 4 (2.37%) Administrator
9 4 (2.37%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.37%) Data Analyst
10 3 (1.78%) Network Support
10 3 (1.78%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.37%) HTML
2 3 (1.78%) React
2 3 (1.78%) SAP PI
3 2 (1.18%) .NET
3 2 (1.18%) CSS
3 2 (1.18%) JSON
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.59%) HTML5
4 1 (0.59%) OpenMP
4 1 (0.59%) REST
4 1 (0.59%) SOAP
4 1 (0.59%) Vue
4 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.89%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.55%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.78%) iPad
3 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.18%) DataPower
4 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.18%) NHS
4 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.18%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.59%) BYOD
5 1 (0.59%) Clustering
5 1 (0.59%) CMDB
5 1 (0.59%) FMCG
5 1 (0.59%) iPhone
5 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.59%) PDA
5 1 (0.59%) Robotics
5 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.20%) Windows
2 11 (6.51%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.96%) Linux
3 5 (2.96%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) AIX
5 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) VMS
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.59%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.99%) Time Management
2 47 (27.81%) Conflict Management
3 46 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (13.61%) Customer Service
6 17 (10.06%) Decision-Making
6 17 (10.06%) Migration
7 16 (9.47%) Agile
7 16 (9.47%) Asset Management
7 16 (9.47%) Critical Thinking
7 16 (9.47%) People Management
8 14 (8.28%) Project Management
9 12 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.51%) Computer Science
10 11 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (5.92%) Validation
12 9 (5.33%) Business Strategy
13 7 (4.14%) Analytics
13 7 (4.14%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (4.14%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.88%) SQL
2 10 (5.92%) Python
3 7 (4.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.96%) Java
5 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.78%) ABAP
6 3 (1.78%) C#
7 2 (1.18%) R
7 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.18%) X++
8 1 (0.59%) Bash
8 1 (0.59%) C
8 1 (0.59%) C++
8 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.59%) Rust
8 1 (0.59%) Scala
8 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (28.99%) Degree
2 31 (18.34%) Security Cleared
3 28 (16.57%) NVQ Level 3
4 22 (13.02%) SC Cleared
5 19 (11.24%) HNC
5 19 (11.24%) HND
6 7 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.78%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.18%) CCNA
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.59%) CBAP
12 1 (0.59%) ISEB
12 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.59%) PMP
12 1 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) QA
2 6 (3.55%) SLA
3 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.78%) PMO
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) GDPR
6 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.59%) HDFS
3 1 (0.59%) KVM
3 1 (0.59%) Lustre
3 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) SCCM
2 2 (1.18%) OpenView
2 2 (1.18%) Terraform
2 2 (1.18%) VxRail
3 1 (0.59%) Ansible
3 1 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.59%) PowerBroker
3 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.88%) SAP
3 5 (2.96%) Oracle
4 4 (2.37%) Cisco
4 4 (2.37%) Computacenter
5 3 (1.78%) Dell
5 3 (1.78%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Adobe
6 2 (1.18%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.18%) Brocade
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) Citrix
7 1 (0.59%) Google
7 1 (0.59%) HP
7 1 (0.59%) Infor
7 1 (0.59%) Intel
7 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.59%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.59%) Workday