Social Skills Contracts in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 8,132 9,961 14,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.10% 20.31% 20.21%
As % of the General category 37.99% 34.32% 35.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,112 6,665 9,295
10th Percentile £215 £250 £250
25th Percentile £384 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £640
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 419 639
10th Percentile £12.38 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £38.85 £59.28 £37.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -28.00% +32.82% +4.57%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,404 29,025 39,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.17% 59.17% 56.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,799 20,390 27,673
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 950 1,290
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.67
Median hourly rate £30.27 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +50.70% -4.10%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £46.44
90th Percentile £65.30 £70.85 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +2 3,820 £542 -5.83% 3,260
North of England +1 1,132 £475 -5.00% 1,962
South East 0 1,111 £490 -3.69% 1,775
South West +1 675 £525 - 1,038
Midlands 0 627 £450 -7.12% 1,459
North West +2 597 £475 - 1,060
East of England 0 549 £450 +5.88% 932
Yorkshire +1 472 £475 -5.00% 672
West Midlands 0 448 £475 -5.00% 878
East Midlands +2 171 £269 -37.08% 581
North East +9 60 £525 +40.00% 271
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 318 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 211 (2.59%) Confluence
3 206 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 86 (1.06%) CMS
5 54 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 48 (0.59%) SAS
7 39 (0.48%) Apache
8 36 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
9 19 (0.23%) IIS
10 18 (0.22%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.21%) nginx
12 15 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 14 (0.17%) WordPress
14 13 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 12 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
15 12 (0.15%) Appian
16 11 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 9 (0.11%) CICS
17 9 (0.11%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 592 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
2 477 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 225 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 117 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 104 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 92 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
7 42 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 31 (0.38%) Sketch
9 30 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 19 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 15 (0.18%) Adobe XD
12 13 (0.16%) Windchill
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
14 9 (0.11%) InDesign
15 7 (0.086%) Chatbot
15 7 (0.086%) InVision
15 7 (0.086%) Maya
16 6 (0.074%) Acrobat
16 6 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 195 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 36 (0.44%) Primavera
5 32 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 32 (0.39%) Endur
6 31 (0.38%) Shopify
7 28 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 27 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 27 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 26 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 25 (0.31%) Teamcenter
11 23 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 22 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
13 21 (0.26%) SAP EWM
14 19 (0.23%) SAP SD
15 18 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
15 18 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
16 17 (0.21%) NetSuite
17 16 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,135 (13.96%) Azure
2 584 (7.18%) AWS
3 545 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
4 428 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 237 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 209 (2.57%) GCP
7 170 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
8 135 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 125 (1.54%) Serverless
10 117 (1.44%) SaaS
11 115 (1.41%) GitHub
12 112 (1.38%) Power Automate
13 103 (1.27%) PowerApps
14 73 (0.90%) OCI
15 72 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 65 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 63 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
17 63 (0.77%) PaaS
18 59 (0.73%) OneDrive
19 58 (0.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 283 (3.48%) Firewall
2 198 (2.43%) DNS
3 173 (2.13%) WAN
4 168 (2.07%) LAN
5 157 (1.93%) VPN
6 131 (1.61%) DHCP
7 94 (1.16%) Network Security
8 91 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 81 (1.00%) BGP
10 80 (0.98%) Wireless
11 71 (0.87%) Internet
12 68 (0.84%) TCP/IP
13 65 (0.80%) SAN
14 54 (0.66%) MPLS
15 37 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
15 37 (0.45%) VLAN
16 35 (0.43%) Intranet
17 33 (0.41%) 5G
18 31 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (4.29%) Power BI
2 259 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 154 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 126 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 115 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 90 (1.11%) Tableau
7 86 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 85 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 83 (1.02%) Big Data
10 62 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 62 (0.76%) MySQL
11 53 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (0.63%) Metadata
13 48 (0.59%) Oracle Database
14 45 (0.55%) Data Mining
15 40 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (0.45%) SAP HANA
17 36 (0.44%) Hadoop
18 34 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
19 31 (0.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 517 (6.36%) JIRA
2 194 (2.39%) Git
3 189 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.12%) Selenium
5 85 (1.05%) GitLab
6 59 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 46 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 42 (0.52%) Postman
10 38 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 35 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 32 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 32 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.33%) Appium
14 26 (0.32%) WebDriver
15 24 (0.30%) JUnit
15 24 (0.30%) webpack
16 23 (0.28%) Maven
17 22 (0.27%) TeamCity
18 18 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 1,803 (22.17%) Finance
2 1,612 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
3 596 (7.33%) Public Sector
4 534 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
5 467 (5.74%) Banking
6 369 (4.54%) Marketing
7 366 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 294 (3.62%) Retail
9 291 (3.58%) Telecoms
10 257 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
11 255 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 222 (2.73%) Legal
13 155 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 134 (1.65%) Front Office
15 133 (1.64%) Electronics
16 126 (1.55%) Law
17 119 (1.46%) Investment Banking
18 110 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
19 103 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
20 100 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,160 (14.26%) Analyst
2 721 (8.87%) Developer
3 657 (8.08%) Architect
4 629 (7.73%) Senior
5 599 (7.37%) Consultant
6 594 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 505 (6.21%) Lead
8 431 (5.30%) Business Analyst
9 238 (2.93%) Support Engineer
10 234 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 168 (2.07%) Administrator
12 159 (1.96%) Data Analyst
13 149 (1.83%) IT Support
14 144 (1.77%) Network Engineer
15 135 (1.66%) Service Analyst
16 134 (1.65%) Data Engineer
17 133 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
18 130 (1.60%) Software Engineer
19 115 (1.41%) Designer
20 109 (1.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (2.85%) .NET
2 189 (2.32%) React
3 180 (2.21%) HTML
4 166 (2.04%) CSS
5 152 (1.87%) REST
6 122 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 104 (1.28%) JSON
8 102 (1.25%) XML
9 101 (1.24%) RESTful
10 100 (1.23%) Node.js
10 100 (1.23%) Web Services
11 85 (1.05%) Kafka
12 66 (0.81%) .NET Framework
12 66 (0.81%) Spring
13 60 (0.74%) .NET Core
14 59 (0.73%) Middleware
15 45 (0.55%) YAML
16 41 (0.50%) PySpark
16 41 (0.50%) SOAP
17 39 (0.48%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 332 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 315 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
3 267 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 186 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 141 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 118 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 109 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 104 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 94 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 91 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 85 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 85 (1.05%) NHS
12 83 (1.02%) CMDB
13 69 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 67 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 67 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
15 66 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 64 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
17 61 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
17 61 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 901 (11.08%) Windows
2 400 (4.92%) Linux
3 345 (4.24%) Windows 10
4 230 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 127 (1.56%) Unix
6 97 (1.19%) Windows 7
7 92 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 89 (1.09%) Android
9 86 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
10 77 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
11 73 (0.90%) Apple iOS
12 72 (0.89%) Mac OS
13 60 (0.74%) zOS
14 27 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 27 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 20 (0.25%) Windows NT
16 18 (0.22%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.20%) VMS
17 16 (0.20%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,327 (28.62%) Problem-Solving
2 1,735 (21.34%) Agile
3 1,197 (14.72%) Project Management
4 1,051 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 772 (9.49%) Customer Service
6 740 (9.10%) DevOps
7 593 (7.29%) Migration
8 590 (7.26%) ITIL
9 584 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 549 (6.75%) Decision-Making
11 539 (6.63%) Computer Science
12 513 (6.31%) Analytics
13 481 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
14 448 (5.51%) CI/CD
15 434 (5.34%) Project Delivery
16 430 (5.29%) Change Management
17 402 (4.94%) Scrum
18 371 (4.56%) Software Engineering
19 362 (4.45%) Roadmaps
20 344 (4.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 775 (9.53%) SQL
2 646 (7.94%) Python
3 415 (5.10%) Java
4 372 (4.57%) C#
5 336 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 298 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 154 (1.89%) TypeScript
8 135 (1.66%) C++
9 86 (1.06%) Bash
10 80 (0.98%) C
11 55 (0.68%) Scala
12 49 (0.60%) Bicep
13 46 (0.57%) Perl
13 46 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 44 (0.54%) Go
14 44 (0.54%) REXX
15 43 (0.53%) JCL
15 43 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 42 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 40 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 1,354 (16.65%) Degree
2 1,262 (15.52%) Security Cleared
3 789 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 403 (4.96%) DV Cleared
5 366 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 175 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 170 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 114 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 107 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 107 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 104 (1.28%) PMP
11 103 (1.27%) CCNA
12 80 (0.98%) CCNP
13 79 (0.97%) CISSP
14 67 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 50 (0.61%) Azure Certification
16 47 (0.58%) CISM
17 42 (0.52%) MCSE
18 39 (0.48%) MCP
19 37 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (4.99%) QA
2 283 (3.48%) SLA
3 259 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 193 (2.37%) PMO
5 127 (1.56%) NIST
6 110 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 105 (1.29%) GDPR
8 95 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 53 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 44 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
12 33 (0.41%) GRC
13 23 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.25%) NCSC
15 16 (0.20%) MiFID
16 15 (0.18%) SEPA
17 14 (0.17%) EMIR
17 14 (0.17%) HIPAA
18 13 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 553 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 202 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 170 (2.09%) Docker
4 78 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 68 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 64 (0.79%) Firmware
7 51 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 50 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 49 (0.60%) vSphere
10 43 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
11 34 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.31%) RACF
13 24 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 19 (0.23%) ACF2
14 19 (0.23%) KVM
15 18 (0.22%) NFS
16 16 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 11 (0.14%) Microcode
17 11 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 233 (2.87%) SCCM
2 225 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 200 (2.46%) Terraform
4 167 (2.05%) Ansible
5 144 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 63 (0.77%) WSUS
7 61 (0.75%) SCOM
8 56 (0.69%) Puppet
9 52 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 40 (0.49%) NetBackup
11 39 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 33 (0.41%) Grafana
13 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 27 (0.33%) PowerCLI
15 25 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
15 25 (0.31%) Prometheus
16 23 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
17 22 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 20 (0.25%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,717 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 585 (7.19%) SAP
3 349 (4.29%) Oracle
4 253 (3.11%) VMware
5 247 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 225 (2.77%) Cisco
7 169 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 161 (1.98%) Google
9 128 (1.57%) HP
10 127 (1.56%) IBM
11 125 (1.54%) Adobe
12 106 (1.30%) Databricks
12 106 (1.30%) Dell
13 96 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 84 (1.03%) Splunk
15 82 (1.01%) Citrix
16 67 (0.82%) Apple
17 55 (0.68%) F5
17 55 (0.68%) Palo Alto
18 51 (0.63%) Juniper