Social Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 598 677 889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.96% 24.16% 25.55%
As % of the General category 41.38% 39.09% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 439 565
10th Percentile £205 £261 £154
25th Percentile £280 £412 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +14.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £593 £631 £550
90th Percentile £638 £714 £622
South East median daily rate £488 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -4.41% +7.37% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 38
10th Percentile £15.41 £17.88 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.11 £19.88 £11.40
Median hourly rate £55.04 £26.58 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.06% +104.46% -14.75%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £17.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £70.98 £23.75
South East median hourly rate £18.35 £31.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -40.81% +77.14% -14.63%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,445 1,732 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.49% 61.81% 60.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,152 1,362
10th Percentile £205 £280 £213
25th Percentile £332 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £598 £610 £575
90th Percentile £663 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 41 69
10th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £22.52 £22.00 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% +66.48% -17.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £21.50
90th Percentile £75.77 £75.75 £37.75
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -26.25%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the Thames Valley

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire -1 466 £500 -5.21% 311
Buckinghamshire 0 90 £450 -10.00% 191
Oxfordshire +1 42 £365 -3.95% 191
Social Skills
South East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.17%) Confluence
3 12 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.50%) Appian
4 3 (0.50%) SAS
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Moodle
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 85 (14.21%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.84%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.84%) CINEMA 4D
8 4 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.50%) SPSS
10 2 (0.33%) InDesign
11 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (3.34%) Primavera
2 17 (2.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 15 (2.51%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 13 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (1.00%) Maximo
6 3 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.50%) iTrent
6 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.17%) Magento
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.17%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (16.56%) Azure
2 43 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (5.35%) AWS
4 27 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.18%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (2.84%) Azure Storage
8 16 (2.68%) OCI
9 9 (1.51%) GCP
9 9 (1.51%) IaaS
9 9 (1.51%) SaaS
10 8 (1.34%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.34%) OpenShift
10 8 (1.34%) Smartsheet
10 8 (1.34%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.17%) PaaS
12 6 (1.00%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 49 (8.19%) Firewall
2 44 (7.36%) DNS
3 35 (5.85%) DHCP
4 24 (4.01%) LAN
4 24 (4.01%) SAN
5 15 (2.51%) Radio Access Network
6 14 (2.34%) WAN
7 10 (1.67%) VPN
8 9 (1.51%) 4G
8 9 (1.51%) 5G
9 8 (1.34%) 3G
10 7 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (1.17%) VoLTE
10 7 (1.17%) VSAN
10 7 (1.17%) Wireshark
11 6 (1.00%) Diameter Protocol
11 6 (1.00%) GGSN
11 6 (1.00%) LTE
11 6 (1.00%) RANAP
11 6 (1.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.18%) Power BI
2 14 (2.34%) Tableau
3 12 (2.01%) Oracle Database
4 10 (1.67%) SAP HANA
5 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.00%) Power Query
6 6 (1.00%) PowerPivot
7 5 (0.84%) Metadata
7 5 (0.84%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.67%) Big Data
8 4 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.67%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.67%) GIS
9 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
9 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.50%) EDMS
9 3 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.33%) MySQL
10 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (6.02%) JIRA
2 26 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 26 (4.35%) Selenium
3 25 (4.18%) Cucumber
4 24 (4.01%) REST Assured
4 24 (4.01%) SonarQube
5 14 (2.34%) GitLab
6 10 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.84%) Git
8 4 (0.67%) Postman
9 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.17%) CMake
11 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 132 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 61 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
4 52 (8.70%) Finance
4 52 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (7.86%) Marketing
6 38 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 34 (5.69%) Legal
8 33 (5.52%) Law
9 23 (3.85%) Retail
10 14 (2.34%) Police
11 13 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.84%) Aviation
12 11 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.67%) Automotive
13 10 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.00%) Billing
14 6 (1.00%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (15.05%) Analyst
2 51 (8.53%) Senior
3 47 (7.86%) Consultant
4 35 (5.85%) Project Manager
5 26 (4.35%) Support Engineer
6 25 (4.18%) Business Analyst
7 24 (4.01%) Lead
8 23 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
9 20 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (3.34%) Windows Engineer
10 19 (3.18%) Architect
10 19 (3.18%) Build Engineer
10 19 (3.18%) Functional Consultant
10 19 (3.18%) Support Specialist
10 19 (3.18%) Windows Build Engineer
11 18 (3.01%) Desktop Support
11 18 (3.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 18 (3.01%) Developer
12 17 (2.84%) Active Directory Support
12 17 (2.84%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.02%) ARM Templates
2 26 (4.35%) REST
3 25 (4.18%) Java EE
4 14 (2.34%) HTML
5 10 (1.67%) SAP Basis
6 9 (1.51%) CSS
7 7 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (1.00%) React
9 5 (0.84%) jQuery
9 5 (0.84%) Node.js
9 5 (0.84%) Web Services
10 4 (0.67%) XML
11 3 (0.50%) .NET
11 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.50%) D3.js
11 3 (0.50%) EDI
11 3 (0.50%) React Native
11 3 (0.50%) SPFx
12 2 (0.33%) OpenAPI
12 2 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.86%) Driving Licence
2 30 (5.02%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.84%) PKI
5 15 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.84%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.34%) Life Science
9 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.84%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.84%) Motion Graphics
11 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.84%) PMI
12 4 (0.67%) Animation
12 4 (0.67%) CCTV
12 4 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 127 (21.24%) Windows
2 81 (13.55%) Windows 10
3 60 (10.03%) Windows Server
4 54 (9.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 51 (8.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (6.02%) Linux
7 34 (5.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 32 (5.35%) Windows 7
9 19 (3.18%) Windows NT
10 14 (2.34%) Unix
10 14 (2.34%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.33%) Solaris
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (34.45%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (16.89%) ITIL
3 93 (15.55%) Agile
4 89 (14.88%) Project Management
5 85 (14.21%) DevOps
6 75 (12.54%) Customer Service
7 66 (11.04%) Decision-Making
8 57 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 43 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (7.02%) Service Management
11 42 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
12 41 (6.86%) Release Management
13 37 (6.19%) Analytics
13 37 (6.19%) CI/CD
14 36 (6.02%) Change Management
15 34 (5.69%) Collaborative Working
15 34 (5.69%) Service Delivery
16 33 (5.52%) Test Automation
17 31 (5.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.19%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.35%) SQL
3 31 (5.18%) Java
4 25 (4.18%) C#
5 17 (2.84%) Bicep
5 17 (2.84%) VB
5 17 (2.84%) VBScript
6 15 (2.51%) Python
7 14 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.50%) F#
8 3 (0.50%) R
9 2 (0.33%) C
9 2 (0.33%) C++
9 2 (0.33%) PHP
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Perl
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 176 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 140 (23.41%) Degree
3 118 (19.73%) DV Cleared
4 86 (14.38%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.18%) CCNA
6 19 (3.18%) CCNP
7 17 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.01%) ISEB
10 9 (1.51%) CIPD
11 8 (1.34%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.67%) CISA
14 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.50%) CIMA
15 3 (0.50%) CISM
15 3 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.70%) QA
2 36 (6.02%) SLA
3 15 (2.51%) GDPR
4 12 (2.01%) PMO
5 10 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.51%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.33%) COBIT
8 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) COSO
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.17%) ITGC
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (12.21%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.69%) Firmware
4 22 (3.68%) Docker
5 19 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (2.51%) Hyper-V
9 13 (2.17%) VMware NSX
10 7 (1.17%) vCloud
11 2 (0.33%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.33%) NFS
12 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 102 (17.06%) SCCM
2 52 (8.70%) WSUS
3 48 (8.03%) Kubernetes
4 31 (5.18%) SCOM
5 26 (4.35%) Ansible
6 23 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (3.85%) vCenter Server
7 21 (3.51%) Terraform
8 19 (3.18%) Sysprep
9 17 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (2.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (2.34%) NetBackup
11 12 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (2.01%) Podman
12 7 (1.17%) Istio
12 7 (1.17%) Rancher
13 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.33%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.17%) CFEngine
14 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 167 (27.93%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.54%) HP
3 57 (9.53%) Oracle
4 37 (6.19%) VMware
5 24 (4.01%) Dell
6 23 (3.85%) Cisco
7 20 (3.34%) SAP
8 18 (3.01%) Palo Alto
8 18 (3.01%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.51%) Juniper
10 14 (2.34%) 3PAR
10 14 (2.34%) EMC
10 14 (2.34%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (2.34%) Salesforce
10 14 (2.34%) Symantec
10 14 (2.34%) Veeam
11 9 (1.51%) Google
12 7 (1.17%) Adobe
12 7 (1.17%) Reuters
13 6 (1.00%) Empirix