Social Skills Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 2 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 51 26 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.63% 15.57% 15.63%
As % of the General category 50.00% 27.08% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 59
10th Percentile £296 £131 £300
25th Percentile £379 £164 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £363 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -34.09% +61.76%
75th Percentile £574 £450 £631
90th Percentile £626 £590 £650
North East median daily rate £480 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.93% +60.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.05
25th Percentile £15.25 - £11.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £12.50
75th Percentile £17.75 - £14.50
90th Percentile - - £20.05
North East median hourly rate £46.18 - £12.50
% change year-on-year - - -24.24%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 102 96 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 51.26% 57.49% 49.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 200
10th Percentile £301 £208 £363
25th Percentile £356 £392 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £638
90th Percentile £626 £720 £716
North East median daily rate £450 £448 £540
% change year-on-year +0.56% -17.13% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile - £17.60 £11.05
25th Percentile £13.75 £18.00 £11.50
Median hourly rate £15.60 £19.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.03% +56.00% -4.98%
75th Percentile £19.75 £26.13 £14.50
90th Percentile £19.83 £32.70 £20.05
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year -10.26% +56.00% -10.71%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Tyne and Wear

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +4 42 £425 +6.25% 65
Sunderland -1 9 £600 +84.62% 13
Social Skills
North East

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (7.84%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.88%) Trello
3 1 (1.96%) EngageOne
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) SAP CO
1 5 (9.80%) SAP FI
1 5 (9.80%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (9.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.92%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.92%) GitHub
4 2 (3.92%) Kong
4 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) Route 53
4 2 (3.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.96%) GCP
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DHCP
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) FTP
1 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
2 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) GitLab
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 4 (7.84%) Selenium
3 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.92%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.96%) MSI
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.96%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 10 (19.61%) Finance
2 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) General Ledger
4 5 (9.80%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Billing
7 2 (3.92%) Electronics
7 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.96%) Military
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Analyst
2 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 5 (9.80%) Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) IT Manager
3 5 (9.80%) SAP CO Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) SAP FI Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) Senior SAP CO Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) Senior SAP FI Consultant
3 5 (9.80%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Data Governance Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Data Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) IT Operations Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (5.88%) Visualforce
2 2 (3.92%) Next.js
2 2 (3.92%) React
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) Akka
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (1.96%) OpenID
3 1 (1.96%) Play Framework
3 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) Swagger
3 1 (1.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.92%) Solar Power
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (29.41%) Agile
3 8 (15.69%) Migration
3 8 (15.69%) Project Management
4 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (13.73%) DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 6 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 6 (11.76%) Microservices
5 6 (11.76%) SFIA
5 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (9.80%) Accounts Payable
6 5 (9.80%) Accounts Receivable
6 5 (9.80%) Data Protection
6 5 (9.80%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (9.80%) ITIL
6 5 (9.80%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (9.80%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (7.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) Java
1 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.88%) Apex Code
2 3 (5.88%) Scala
2 3 (5.88%) SQL
3 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) SOQL
3 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.96%) C#
4 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) A+ Certification
3 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Terraform
2 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Kibana
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
3 3 (5.88%) Citrix
3 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Apple
4 1 (1.96%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.96%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.96%) Xamarin