Social Skills Contracts in South Yorkshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 93 77 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.85% 20.16% 17.00%
As % of the General category 32.98% 28.73% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 48 82
10th Percentile £155 £400 £300
25th Percentile £400 £417 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% +72.73%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £547
90th Percentile £622 £688 £575
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.15% +5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £15.70 £18.65 -
25th Percentile £16.42 £18.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.10 £19.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +2.63% +35.71%
75th Percentile £19.29 £19.88 £19.50
90th Percentile £19.72 £19.95 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.64 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +11.76%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 282 268 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.23% 70.16% 73.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 169 341
10th Percentile £209 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £439 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £561 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +12.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £720 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £13.14 £18.80 £8.88
25th Percentile £15.22 £19.25 £12.78
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £21.50 £35.00 £19.50
90th Percentile - £44.00 £20.01
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year +28.21% +4.28% +7.36%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in South Yorkshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Sheffield 0 76 £508 -7.73% 40
Doncaster +1 10 £375 +25.00% 6
Social Skills
Yorkshire

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 33 (35.48%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.53%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.08%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.08%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.68%) GCP
2 8 (8.60%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) GitHub
3 7 (7.53%) AWS
4 5 (5.38%) Kong
5 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.15%) SaaS
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.08%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) Firewall
2 4 (4.30%) HTTP
2 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.23%) BIG-IP
3 3 (3.23%) DNS
3 3 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (3.23%) SSL
3 3 (3.23%) VPN
4 2 (2.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.08%) Network Security
5 1 (1.08%) Wireless
5 1 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Data Mining
2 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) Tableau
4 1 (1.08%) DB2
4 1 (1.08%) KDB
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) MS Access
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (37.63%) JIRA
2 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.83%) Git
4 4 (4.30%) Jaeger
5 3 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.23%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.23%) GitLab
5 3 (3.23%) Selenium
5 3 (3.23%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.15%) Maven
7 1 (1.08%) Appium
7 1 (1.08%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.08%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.08%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.08%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (39.78%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.35%) Banking
4 17 (18.28%) Financial Institution
5 10 (10.75%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.38%) Law
6 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Legal
7 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Back Office
9 2 (2.15%) International Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Publishing
10 1 (1.08%) Aviation
10 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Local Government
10 1 (1.08%) Military
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (9.68%) Analyst
2 8 (8.60%) Lead
3 7 (7.53%) Architect
3 7 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.45%) Developer
4 6 (6.45%) Senior
5 4 (4.30%) Data Governance Analyst
5 4 (4.30%) Data Governance Manager
5 4 (4.30%) Data Manager
5 4 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (4.30%) Governance Manager
5 4 (4.30%) Tester
6 3 (3.23%) Automation Tester
6 3 (3.23%) Data Architect
6 3 (3.23%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (3.23%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.23%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.23%) Service Analyst
6 3 (3.23%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (4.30%) Kafka
2 4 (4.30%) REST
3 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.23%) JSON
3 3 (3.23%) XML
3 3 (3.23%) YAML
4 2 (2.15%) RESTful
5 1 (1.08%) CSS
5 1 (1.08%) Dask
5 1 (1.08%) HTML
5 1 (1.08%) ISPF
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) OLE
5 1 (1.08%) OpenID
5 1 (1.08%) PySpark
5 1 (1.08%) SciPy
5 1 (1.08%) SOAP
5 1 (1.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Virtual Team
2 7 (7.53%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (7.53%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.30%) Blockchain
5 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.15%) PMI
7 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.08%) SCADA
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.08%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.73%) Windows
2 9 (9.68%) Linux
3 3 (3.23%) Unix
4 2 (2.15%) AIX
4 2 (2.15%) Android
4 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.15%) Solaris
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (36.56%) Agile
3 26 (27.96%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (21.51%) DevOps
5 18 (19.35%) Data Privacy
6 16 (17.20%) Server Management
7 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (15.05%) Project Management
9 13 (13.98%) Active Listening
10 12 (12.90%) Customer Service
10 12 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.83%) CI/CD
11 11 (11.83%) Data Management
12 8 (8.60%) Computer Science
12 8 (8.60%) Critical Thinking
12 8 (8.60%) Data Analysis
12 8 (8.60%) Data Science
12 8 (8.60%) Product Management
12 8 (8.60%) Risk Management
12 8 (8.60%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.13%) SQL
2 13 (13.98%) Python
3 7 (7.53%) Bash
4 6 (6.45%) Java
4 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.23%) ActionScript
5 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.15%) C
6 2 (2.15%) Groovy
6 2 (2.15%) Korn
6 2 (2.15%) Perl
6 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.08%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.08%) CLIST
7 1 (1.08%) JCL
7 1 (1.08%) REXX
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.30%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.15%) CBAP
5 2 (2.15%) CEH
5 2 (2.15%) CISSP
5 2 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.15%) PMP
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) OSCP
6 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.08%) VCAP
6 1 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) SLA
4 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (9.68%) Docker
3 8 (8.60%) Firmware
3 8 (8.60%) Microcode
4 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (1.08%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (17.20%) Dell DRAC
2 12 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.75%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.60%) Ansible
5 7 (7.53%) Grafana
5 7 (7.53%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.53%) Puppet
6 4 (4.30%) Kiali
7 3 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.23%) Kibana
7 3 (3.23%) logstash
7 3 (3.23%) Terraform
8 2 (2.15%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.08%) Control-M
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.08%) Nessus
9 1 (1.08%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
9 1 (1.08%) vRealize
9 1 (1.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Dell
1 16 (17.20%) Red Hat
2 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.68%) Splunk
4 8 (8.60%) AppDynamics
5 6 (6.45%) Google
6 4 (4.30%) IBM
7 3 (3.23%) F5
7 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.23%) Veritas
8 2 (2.15%) EMC
8 2 (2.15%) Hitachi
8 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.08%) Apple
9 1 (1.08%) Ariba
9 1 (1.08%) Citrix
9 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.08%) Oracle
9 1 (1.08%) Samsung
9 1 (1.08%) SAP