Social Skills Contracts in Edinburgh

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 246 283 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.44% 24.04% 25.91%
As % of the General category 39.68% 32.57% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 214 364
10th Percentile £156 £169 £200
25th Percentile £230 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £525
90th Percentile £646 £625 £593
Scotland median daily rate £425 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -9.53% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £13.09 £11.22 £16.76
25th Percentile £14.93 £12.31 £21.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.36 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% -64.54% +131.43%
75th Percentile £21.09 £16.17 £48.75
90th Percentile £22.94 £17.10 £51.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.47 £26.43
% change year-on-year +11.65% -33.91% +51.00%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 620 869 1,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.68% 73.83% 74.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 616 1,022
10th Percentile £162 £228 £231
25th Percentile £340 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £565
90th Percentile £663 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 11
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.39 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.09 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -18.23% -49.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.67 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £33.27 £52.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.13 £19.88 £32.14
% change year-on-year -8.80% -38.15% +83.66%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Edinburgh

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 11 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.25%) CMS
3 5 (2.03%) Confluence
4 4 (1.63%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.22%) WordPress
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 28 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.41%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.41%) Azure
2 28 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (8.13%) AWS
4 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.25%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.25%) AWS CodeBuild
6 8 (3.25%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (3.25%) IaaS
6 8 (3.25%) SaaS
7 6 (2.44%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 6 (2.44%) GCP
7 6 (2.44%) OCI
7 6 (2.44%) Serverless
8 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.03%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.25%) Intranet
1 8 (3.25%) LAN
2 6 (2.44%) WAN
3 3 (1.22%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) FabricPath
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) VSAN
5 1 (0.41%) Broadband
5 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.41%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.10%) Oracle Database
2 9 (3.66%) Metadata
2 9 (3.66%) Power BI
3 7 (2.85%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.63%) Big Data
5 4 (1.63%) GIS
5 4 (1.63%) QGIS
6 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.22%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.22%) Informix
6 3 (1.22%) Tableau
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 13 (5.28%) JIRA
2 11 (4.47%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (1.63%) Selenium
4 3 (1.22%) Git
4 3 (1.22%) JMeter
4 3 (1.22%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.81%) Gradle
5 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) SilkCentral
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
6 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 114 (46.34%) Public Sector
2 50 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.67%) Finance
4 27 (10.98%) Banking
4 27 (10.98%) Presentation Skills
5 18 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.66%) Mandarin Language
8 8 (3.25%) Back Office
8 8 (3.25%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.03%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) German Language
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (18.70%) Analyst
2 28 (11.38%) Senior
3 23 (9.35%) Architect
3 23 (9.35%) Support Officer
4 21 (8.54%) IT Support
5 20 (8.13%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.10%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.69%) Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (5.28%) Lead
9 11 (4.47%) Consultant
9 11 (4.47%) Designer
10 10 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.85%) AWS Architect
13 7 (2.85%) Coordinator
13 7 (2.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.66%) .NET
1 9 (3.66%) REST
2 8 (3.25%) SOAP
2 8 (3.25%) Web Services
3 6 (2.44%) HTML
4 5 (2.03%) AWS CDK
4 5 (2.03%) RESTful
4 5 (2.03%) Spring
5 4 (1.63%) CSS
5 4 (1.63%) Middleware
5 4 (1.63%) React
5 4 (1.63%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.22%) J2EE
6 3 (1.22%) Kafka
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.22%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.22%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.81%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.25%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.25%) Social Media
3 6 (2.44%) Clustering
3 6 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.03%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.63%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.63%) Replication
6 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.22%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.81%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (0.81%) Video Editing
7 2 (0.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.13%) Windows
2 12 (4.88%) Linux
3 8 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.44%) Solaris
6 5 (2.03%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.63%) Android
8 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.81%) Unix
9 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.81%) zOS
10 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.24%) Agile
2 49 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (14.63%) Migration
4 32 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (11.79%) Roadmaps
6 24 (9.76%) Project Management
7 23 (9.35%) Scrum
7 23 (9.35%) User Research
8 20 (8.13%) Coaching
9 19 (7.72%) Analytics
9 19 (7.72%) Customer Service
10 18 (7.32%) Service Design
11 17 (6.91%) Project Delivery
11 17 (6.91%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (6.50%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (6.50%) User Experience
13 15 (6.10%) High Availability
13 15 (6.10%) User Stories
14 14 (5.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.94%) SQL
2 17 (6.91%) Java
3 11 (4.47%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.25%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.03%) Python
7 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.22%) JCL
9 2 (0.81%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.81%) Groovy
9 2 (0.81%) Perl
9 2 (0.81%) REXX
10 1 (0.41%) Bash
10 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.41%) Scala
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) VB
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (17.48%) Degree
2 18 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.44%) RHCE
7 5 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.03%) MCP
7 5 (2.03%) MCSE
8 3 (1.22%) ISEB
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) ACCA
9 2 (0.81%) CIMA
9 2 (0.81%) CIPD
9 2 (0.81%) CIPFA
9 2 (0.81%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) CISA
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (4.47%) SLA
3 10 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.07%) QA
4 7 (2.85%) PMO
5 3 (1.22%) WCAG
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.44%) KVM
5 5 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.03%) vSphere
6 2 (0.81%) ACF2
6 2 (0.81%) RACF
6 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.41%) Docker
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (3.66%) SCCM
2 7 (2.85%) Terraform
2 7 (2.85%) WSUS
3 5 (2.03%) Ansible
3 5 (2.03%) Grafana
4 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.81%) VxRail
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.20%) Oracle
3 10 (4.07%) VMware
4 8 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.85%) Cadence
6 6 (2.44%) Facebook
6 6 (2.44%) Google
6 6 (2.44%) Instagram
6 6 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.03%) Cisco
7 5 (2.03%) Citrix
7 5 (2.03%) Dell
7 5 (2.03%) Twitter
7 5 (2.03%) YouTube
8 4 (1.63%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.63%) Databricks
8 4 (1.63%) ESRI
9 3 (1.22%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.22%) Brandwatch
9 3 (1.22%) Hootsuite