Social Skills Contracts in Northamptonshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 35 47 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.57% 20.09% 20.16%
As % of the General category 24.65% 34.81% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 56
10th Percentile £236 £304 £194
25th Percentile £355 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -8.82% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £504
90th Percentile £533 £566 £530
East Midlands median daily rate £269 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -40.22% +2.27% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £10.50
25th Percentile - - £14.50
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £29.07
90th Percentile - - £32.63
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.27 £15.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -4.87% -22.08% +92.50%

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 142 135 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 55.04% 57.69% 55.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 110 167
10th Percentile £272 £213 £199
25th Percentile £358 £313 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £510
90th Percentile £620 £575 £550
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 22
10th Percentile - £21.61 £19.28
25th Percentile £14.00 £50.50 £29.66
Median hourly rate £35.00 £51.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% +45.71% -
75th Percentile £46.61 £51.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £23.25
% change year-on-year -24.44% -3.23% +88.07%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Northamptonshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Northamptonshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Northamptonshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Northamptonshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Northampton -4 24 £399 +7.77% 77
Kettering - 3 - - 17
Corby +2 2 - - 11
Social Skills
East Midlands

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DHCP
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) InfiniBand
2 1 (2.86%) LTE
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.71%) Impala
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.86%) Redash
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Games
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) SAP Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Agile Coach
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Build Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Hadoop Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) SAP PI
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) DataPower
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Robotics
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.71%) AIX
4 2 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (20.00%) Migration
4 7 (20.00%) Project Management
5 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
6 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) SDLC
7 3 (8.57%) Business Strategy
7 3 (8.57%) Change Management
7 3 (8.57%) Coaching
7 3 (8.57%) PRINCE2
7 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.57%) Scrum
7 3 (8.57%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (5.71%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
8 2 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Java
1 5 (14.29%) Python
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) ABAP
3 2 (5.71%) R
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) CBAP
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) ISEB
3 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) HDFS
3 1 (2.86%) Lustre
3 1 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) SCOM
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) PowerBroker
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Citrix
2 2 (5.71%) IBM
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
2 2 (5.71%) VMware