Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,867 5,388 7,811
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.72% 20.01% 20.06%
As % of the General category 34.45% 31.56% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 3,702 5,269
10th Percentile £267 £312 £341
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +0.88% +11.22%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £794
England median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 98 126
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.23 £18.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £20.25 £22.41
Median hourly rate £33.87 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +0.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.25 £62.64 £48.71
90th Percentile £74.25 £75.00 £65.38
England median hourly rate £18.07 £25.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -27.74% +38.89% -

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,225 17,072 23,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.06% 63.41% 59.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 12,354 16,781
10th Percentile £335 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £813 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 218 300
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £19.77
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% -13.51% +34.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £57.88 £49.81
90th Percentile £65.02 £70.00 £64.78
England median hourly rate £30.14 £33.39 £21.30
% change year-on-year -9.72% +56.74% -5.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +2 573 £550 -3.51% 299
West London +2 94 £350 -22.65% 202
East London -1 49 £460 +5.14% 123
South London +1 46 £458 -0.54% 77
North London +1 5 £350 -22.22% 34
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 151 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 87 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 66 (1.71%) Confluence
4 57 (1.47%) CMS
5 42 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.78%) Apache
7 11 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.26%) SAS
9 9 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.21%) IIS
10 8 (0.21%) MTS
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 195 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 189 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 25 (0.65%) Sketch
7 24 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
10 12 (0.31%) Adobe XD
11 10 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.21%) InVision
13 6 (0.16%) InDesign
14 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.10%) Trello
16 3 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
16 3 (0.078%) AutoCAD
16 3 (0.078%) Windchill
17 2 (0.052%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 72 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.85%) Endur
4 29 (0.75%) Loan IQ
5 24 (0.62%) Shopify
6 23 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
7 16 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
8 15 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 14 (0.36%) Aligne
9 14 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
9 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
10 13 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.34%) SAP EWM
11 12 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
12 11 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
12 11 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
13 10 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
13 10 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
13 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 630 (16.29%) Azure
2 360 (9.31%) AWS
3 241 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 239 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 159 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 137 (3.54%) GCP
7 97 (2.51%) Serverless
8 86 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (2.12%) SaaS
10 71 (1.84%) GitHub
11 70 (1.81%) Power Automate
12 65 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 60 (1.55%) Entra ID
14 50 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 48 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
16 46 (1.19%) PaaS
17 43 (1.11%) Figma
18 39 (1.01%) OCI
19 37 (0.96%) Amazon S3
20 33 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.25%) Firewall
2 68 (1.76%) VPN
3 59 (1.53%) WAN
4 55 (1.42%) DNS
4 55 (1.42%) LAN
5 46 (1.19%) Internet
6 40 (1.03%) BGP
7 38 (0.98%) MPLS
8 35 (0.91%) Network Security
9 27 (0.70%) Wireless
10 23 (0.59%) RSVP
11 22 (0.57%) DHCP
12 21 (0.54%) SSL
13 20 (0.52%) SNMP
14 18 (0.47%) Intranet
14 18 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
15 17 (0.44%) IPv4
15 17 (0.44%) VPLS
15 17 (0.44%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (5.17%) Power BI
2 176 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 116 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (2.28%) Relational Database
5 78 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 62 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 58 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (1.37%) Big Data
9 44 (1.14%) Tableau
10 41 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 38 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (0.72%) Oracle Database
14 27 (0.70%) Metadata
15 24 (0.62%) DynamoDB
15 24 (0.62%) MySQL
16 23 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (0.54%) BigQuery
18 20 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 240 (6.21%) JIRA
2 136 (3.52%) Git
3 86 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.32%) GitLab
5 49 (1.27%) Selenium
6 29 (0.75%) Postman
7 28 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.59%) WebDriver
10 23 (0.59%) webpack
11 22 (0.57%) Maven
11 22 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 21 (0.54%) JUnit
13 19 (0.49%) Appium
14 14 (0.36%) SoapUI
15 13 (0.34%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.34%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.31%) TestNG
17 11 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,135 (29.35%) Finance
2 792 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
3 358 (9.26%) Banking
4 281 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
5 276 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 224 (5.79%) Marketing
7 139 (3.59%) Retail
8 136 (3.52%) Front Office
9 127 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 116 (3.00%) Legal
11 115 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
11 115 (2.97%) Investment Banking
12 95 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
13 89 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 68 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 61 (1.58%) Manufacturing
16 59 (1.53%) Law
17 57 (1.47%) Back Office
18 53 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
19 39 (1.01%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 572 (14.79%) Analyst
2 487 (12.59%) Developer
3 376 (9.72%) Senior
4 352 (9.10%) Architect
5 339 (8.77%) Consultant
6 297 (7.68%) Business Analyst
7 250 (6.46%) Project Manager
8 226 (5.84%) Lead
9 133 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 102 (2.64%) Data Engineer
11 95 (2.46%) Support Engineer
12 85 (2.20%) Data Analyst
12 85 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
13 83 (2.15%) Senior Developer
14 79 (2.04%) Designer
15 77 (1.99%) C# Developer
16 68 (1.76%) Azure Engineer
17 65 (1.68%) Administrator
18 62 (1.60%) Java Developer
19 59 (1.53%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (3.80%) .NET
2 146 (3.78%) React
3 122 (3.15%) CSS
3 122 (3.15%) HTML
4 96 (2.48%) AngularJS
5 92 (2.38%) REST
6 72 (1.86%) Node.js
7 70 (1.81%) JSON
8 64 (1.66%) Kafka
8 64 (1.66%) RESTful
9 62 (1.60%) XML
10 56 (1.45%) Web Services
11 45 (1.16%) .NET Framework
12 41 (1.06%) Spring
13 34 (0.88%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.85%) WebSockets
15 32 (0.83%) Middleware
16 29 (0.75%) HTML5
17 28 (0.72%) PySpark
18 26 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 158 (4.09%) Product Ownership
2 134 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
3 128 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 82 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 76 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 75 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 67 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 54 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 51 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 50 (1.29%) Derivative
11 50 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 45 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
13 39 (1.01%) Solar Panel
14 38 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
15 36 (0.93%) CMDB
16 32 (0.83%) FMCG
16 32 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 291 (7.53%) Windows
2 155 (4.01%) Linux
3 98 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 71 (1.84%) Unix
5 69 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 47 (1.22%) Android
7 36 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 29 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.34%) Mac OS X
11 13 (0.34%) VMS
12 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.21%) Windows 8
14 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.21%) zOS
15 7 (0.18%) Solaris
16 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
2 977 (25.27%) Agile
3 511 (13.21%) Project Management
4 465 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 449 (11.61%) DevOps
6 351 (9.08%) Computer Science
7 313 (8.09%) Migration
8 307 (7.94%) Analytics
9 281 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
10 278 (7.19%) CI/CD
11 250 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 246 (6.36%) Scrum
13 226 (5.84%) Data Modelling
14 220 (5.69%) Decision-Making
15 219 (5.66%) Change Management
16 218 (5.64%) Customer Service
17 209 (5.40%) Project Delivery
18 203 (5.25%) Software Engineering
19 201 (5.20%) Roadmaps
20 192 (4.97%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 499 (12.90%) SQL
2 420 (10.86%) Python
3 264 (6.83%) Java
4 248 (6.41%) C#
5 205 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 135 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 120 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 57 (1.47%) C++
9 43 (1.11%) Scala
10 41 (1.06%) Bash
11 34 (0.88%) Go
12 31 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 28 (0.72%) R
14 27 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.67%) Bicep
15 26 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 25 (0.65%) VBA
17 24 (0.62%) Perl
18 20 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 721 (18.64%) Degree
2 329 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 258 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 249 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 67 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 46 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.16%) PMP
10 39 (1.01%) CISSP
11 38 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 35 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.85%) CCNP
14 25 (0.65%) CCIE
14 25 (0.65%) CCNA
15 24 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.54%) AWS Certification
16 21 (0.54%) CISM
17 15 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (4.50%) QA
2 157 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 86 (2.22%) PMO
4 84 (2.17%) SLA
5 61 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (0.98%) NIST
8 37 (0.96%) GDPR
9 25 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.47%) GRC
10 18 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.44%) MiFID
12 15 (0.39%) EMIR
12 15 (0.39%) SEPA
13 14 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
14 11 (0.28%) NCSC
15 7 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 185 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 110 (2.84%) Docker
3 46 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.47%) Firmware
4 18 (0.47%) vSphere
5 17 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 8 (0.21%) HDFS
10 8 (0.21%) KVM
11 6 (0.16%) RACF
12 5 (0.13%) NFS
12 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.10%) vCloud
13 4 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.026%) ACF2
14 1 (0.026%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 126 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 121 (3.13%) Terraform
3 47 (1.22%) Ansible
4 42 (1.09%) SCCM
5 41 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.67%) Puppet
7 19 (0.49%) Grafana
8 16 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.31%) Consul
11 9 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.23%) PingFederate
12 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.16%) VxRail
13 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.13%) EnCase
13 5 (0.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 724 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 238 (6.15%) SAP
3 209 (5.40%) Oracle
4 126 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 103 (2.66%) Google
6 89 (2.30%) Cisco
6 89 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 81 (2.09%) Databricks
8 80 (2.07%) Adobe
9 59 (1.53%) VMware
10 55 (1.42%) IBM
11 41 (1.06%) Citrix
12 39 (1.01%) Apple
13 31 (0.80%) Dell
14 27 (0.70%) F5
15 26 (0.67%) Nokia
16 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.57%) Informatica
18 20 (0.52%) Splunk
19 19 (0.49%) Bloomberg