Social Skills Contracts in Manchester

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 1 4 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 282 289 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 19.56% 16.20% 14.99%
As % of the General category 40.81% 33.03% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 197 304
10th Percentile £181 £250 £275
25th Percentile £350 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 11
10th Percentile £12.24 £15.59 -
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.27 £26.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.13% +73.33% -7.86%
75th Percentile £35.00 £38.75 £19.53
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.80 £21.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £23.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +10.24% -2.89%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 691 875 1,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.92% 49.05% 46.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 623 912
10th Percentile £300 £301 £263
25th Percentile £388 £401 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +1.52% +9.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 32 35
10th Percentile £12.27 £15.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £34.50 £30.16 £32.25
90th Percentile £59.75 £38.61 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% +6.51%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Manchester

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Manchester

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Manchester

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Manchester

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Manchester

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bolton +2 6 £503 +151.25% 24
Salford -2 5 - - 21
Stockport +1 3 - - 31
Cheadle +1 1 - - 6
Sale - 1 £145 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £150 - 3
Social Skills
North West

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 15 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) LiveLink
Applications
1 22 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.77%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.35%) Primavera
5 1 (0.35%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.83%) Azure
2 36 (12.77%) AWS
3 15 (5.32%) GCP
3 15 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.61%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.48%) Serverless
7 6 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.13%) SaaS
8 5 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.77%) IaaS
8 5 (1.77%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.42%) GitHub
9 4 (1.42%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) LAN
1 13 (4.61%) WAN
2 11 (3.90%) VPN
3 9 (3.19%) ATM
3 9 (3.19%) Firewall
4 8 (2.84%) OSPF
4 8 (2.84%) Wireless
5 7 (2.48%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.48%) Wireless Security
6 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.42%) DNS
8 3 (1.06%) HTTP
8 3 (1.06%) Internet
8 3 (1.06%) VLAN
8 3 (1.06%) VoIP
8 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.71%) 3G
9 2 (0.71%) 4G
9 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.71%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.19%) Power BI
3 8 (2.84%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.48%) MySQL
5 6 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.77%) Tableau
7 4 (1.42%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.06%) Big Data
8 3 (1.06%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.06%) DB2
8 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.06%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 13 (4.61%) JIRA
2 8 (2.84%) Git
3 5 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.77%) Selenium
4 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.06%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.06%) LSMW
5 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) Appium
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) Gatling
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) JMeter
6 2 (0.71%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 49 (17.38%) Finance
2 43 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.32%) Retail
5 13 (4.61%) Banking
6 12 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.48%) Legal
8 7 (2.48%) Marketing
8 7 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Back Office
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 44 (15.60%) Analyst
2 27 (9.57%) Service Desk Agent
3 23 (8.16%) Senior
4 20 (7.09%) Project Manager
5 19 (6.74%) Architect
6 16 (5.67%) Network Engineer
7 15 (5.32%) Consultant
7 15 (5.32%) Developer
8 14 (4.96%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.61%) Lead
10 11 (3.90%) IT Technician
11 10 (3.55%) Administrator
12 9 (3.19%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 7 (2.48%) Data Engineer
15 6 (2.13%) HR Manager
15 6 (2.13%) Implementation Manager
15 6 (2.13%) Implementation Project Manager
15 6 (2.13%) Project Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.77%) Kafka
2 4 (1.42%) .NET
2 4 (1.42%) Node.js
2 4 (1.42%) React
2 4 (1.42%) RESTful
2 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
2 4 (1.42%) Web Services
3 3 (1.06%) BAPI
3 3 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (1.06%) Middleware
3 3 (1.06%) Spring
4 2 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (0.71%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.71%) OAuth
4 2 (0.71%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.71%) OpenID
4 2 (0.71%) pytest
4 2 (0.71%) SOAP
4 2 (0.71%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (0.35%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.61%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.55%) EPoS
4 9 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.19%) Smartphone
5 5 (1.77%) CMDB
5 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.77%) NHS
5 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.06%) Clustering
7 3 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.71%) CCTV
8 2 (0.71%) Derivative
8 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.51%) Windows
2 19 (6.74%) Linux
3 8 (2.84%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.77%) Unix
4 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.42%) zOS
6 3 (1.06%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (16.67%) Agile
3 41 (14.54%) Customer Service
4 36 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (10.28%) Project Management
6 23 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (6.74%) DevOps
7 19 (6.74%) ITIL
8 17 (6.03%) Analytics
8 17 (6.03%) ETL
9 16 (5.67%) Data Modelling
10 14 (4.96%) Data Governance
10 14 (4.96%) Decision-Making
10 14 (4.96%) Migration
10 14 (4.96%) Scrum
10 14 (4.96%) Waterfall
11 13 (4.61%) Data Analysis
12 12 (4.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (3.90%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (3.90%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.22%) SQL
2 25 (8.87%) Python
3 15 (5.32%) Java
4 9 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.77%) Scala
6 4 (1.42%) PHP
6 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.06%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.06%) Bash
7 3 (1.06%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) Go
8 2 (0.71%) C
8 2 (0.71%) Groovy
8 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.35%) Bicep
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.80%) Degree
3 21 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.03%) CCNA
4 17 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.48%) CCNP
5 7 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.42%) PMP
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.06%) OSCP
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CISM
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.71%) MCSE
9 2 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.41%) SLA
2 24 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.32%) QA
4 8 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.77%) GDPR
6 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.06%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
8 2 (0.71%) PMO
9 1 (0.35%) GxP
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Docker
5 1 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.55%) Terraform
2 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.77%) Ansible
5 4 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.06%) Autotask
6 3 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.06%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.06%) SCCM
7 2 (0.71%) Nagios
7 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.35%) Grafana
8 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.45%) SAP
3 15 (5.32%) VMware
4 10 (3.55%) Cisco
5 7 (2.48%) Google
6 6 (2.13%) Facebook
6 6 (2.13%) Oracle
6 6 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.13%) Splunk
7 5 (1.77%) Informatica
7 5 (1.77%) Sage
8 4 (1.42%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.42%) Databricks
8 4 (1.42%) F5
9 3 (1.06%) Apple
9 3 (1.06%) Datto
9 3 (1.06%) Instagram
9 3 (1.06%) Siemens
9 3 (1.06%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.71%) Juniper