Social Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,715 5,049 6,681
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.02% 21.61% 21.96%
As % of the General category 42.38% 38.31% 39.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 3,315 4,407
10th Percentile £187 £200 £170
25th Percentile £325 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 657 336 547
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.19
Median hourly rate £16.17 £18.75 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -13.76% +18.22% -5.45%
75th Percentile £38.12 £56.42 £28.43
90th Percentile £61.54 £65.88 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.48% +35.14% +2.78%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,126 13,178 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.32% 56.40% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,992 11,677
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 757 1,033
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK excluding London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +1 1,132 £475 -5.00% 2,036
South East 0 1,111 £490 -3.92% 1,866
South West 0 680 £525 - 1,071
Midlands 0 633 £450 -6.25% 1,497
North West +2 596 £475 - 1,104
East of England 0 544 £450 +5.88% 954
Scotland +1 542 £450 -3.49% 469
Yorkshire +1 472 £475 -5.00% 694
West Midlands 0 453 £475 -5.00% 903
East Midlands +3 172 £269 -32.75% 593
Wales +3 85 £412 +4.30% 218
North East +9 60 £525 +40.00% 281
Northern Ireland +3 37 £435 +8.75% 81
Isle of Man -1 4 £388 -19.27% 4
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 200 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 175 (3.71%) Confluence
3 140 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (0.95%) SAS
5 42 (0.89%) CMS
6 37 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 19 (0.40%) Apache
8 16 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.23%) WordPress
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
10 10 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.17%) Appian
11 8 (0.17%) IIS
12 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.085%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.085%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.085%) Drupal
14 4 (0.085%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.064%) CICS
Applications
1 440 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 372 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 148 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 53 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 31 (0.66%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.32%) Acrobat
10 10 (0.21%) Windchill
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
12 8 (0.17%) Sketch
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
14 6 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
14 6 (0.13%) Maya
14 6 (0.13%) SPSS
15 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
16 3 (0.064%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 121 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.55%) Primavera
3 23 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 20 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 19 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 18 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
8 15 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.25%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
10 11 (0.23%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.21%) Maximo
11 10 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.19%) SAP HCM
12 9 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 9 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 558 (11.83%) Azure
2 370 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
3 233 (4.94%) AWS
4 205 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 92 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (1.80%) Entra ID
7 79 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 73 (1.55%) GCP
9 47 (1.00%) GitHub
10 46 (0.98%) SaaS
11 42 (0.89%) Power Automate
12 41 (0.87%) OneDrive
13 40 (0.85%) OCI
14 37 (0.78%) Serverless
15 35 (0.74%) Amazon S3
15 35 (0.74%) Azure Stack
16 33 (0.70%) PowerApps
16 33 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
17 31 (0.66%) IaaS
18 27 (0.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 212 (4.50%) Firewall
2 155 (3.29%) DNS
3 123 (2.61%) LAN
4 117 (2.48%) DHCP
5 113 (2.40%) WAN
6 98 (2.08%) VPN
7 74 (1.57%) SAN
8 73 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 63 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 58 (1.23%) Network Security
11 56 (1.19%) Wireless
12 43 (0.91%) BGP
13 32 (0.68%) VLAN
14 31 (0.66%) 5G
15 28 (0.59%) Ethernet
15 28 (0.59%) Internet
15 28 (0.59%) Modbus
15 28 (0.59%) RS-422
15 28 (0.59%) RS-485
16 26 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (3.50%) Power BI
2 79 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 45 (0.95%) Tableau
5 43 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (0.74%) Big Data
6 35 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 33 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 33 (0.70%) MySQL
8 32 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (0.64%) Metadata
10 26 (0.55%) Data Mining
11 24 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 20 (0.42%) GIS
12 20 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
13 19 (0.40%) SAP HANA
14 18 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.36%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 326 (6.91%) JIRA
2 119 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 83 (1.76%) Git
4 46 (0.98%) Selenium
5 41 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 37 (0.78%) GitLab
7 33 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 31 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 20 (0.42%) Postman
13 18 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
14 17 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
15 16 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
16 14 (0.30%) JUnit
17 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
18 10 (0.21%) IntelliJ
18 10 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 9 (0.19%) Travis CI
General
1 910 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 760 (16.12%) Finance
3 468 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 348 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
5 271 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
6 225 (4.77%) Telecoms
7 208 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 176 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
9 161 (3.41%) Marketing
10 149 (3.16%) Retail
11 132 (2.80%) Banking
12 128 (2.71%) Legal
13 97 (2.06%) Electronics
14 92 (1.95%) Aerospace
15 72 (1.53%) Law
16 65 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 58 (1.23%) Military
18 49 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
19 40 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 692 (14.68%) Analyst
2 363 (7.70%) Project Manager
3 320 (6.79%) Architect
4 306 (6.49%) Senior
5 284 (6.02%) Lead
6 271 (5.75%) Developer
7 250 (5.30%) Consultant
8 175 (3.71%) Support Engineer
9 165 (3.50%) Business Analyst
10 140 (2.97%) IT Support
11 118 (2.50%) Administrator
12 110 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
13 107 (2.27%) Service Analyst
14 97 (2.06%) Service Desk Analyst
15 93 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 85 (1.80%) Network Engineer
16 85 (1.80%) Software Engineer
17 81 (1.72%) Support Analyst
18 75 (1.59%) Data Analyst
19 71 (1.51%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.10%) REST
2 87 (1.85%) .NET
3 74 (1.57%) HTML
4 60 (1.27%) CSS
5 55 (1.17%) React
6 52 (1.10%) Web Services
7 44 (0.93%) XML
8 42 (0.89%) Spring
9 39 (0.83%) JSON
10 38 (0.81%) Kafka
11 37 (0.78%) RESTful
12 34 (0.72%) Node.js
13 33 (0.70%) ISPF
14 31 (0.66%) ARM Templates
14 31 (0.66%) Middleware
15 30 (0.64%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.57%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.57%) Java EE
17 25 (0.53%) YAML
18 23 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 223 (4.73%) Management Information System
2 195 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
3 142 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 130 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 128 (2.71%) Driving Licence
6 80 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (1.44%) NHS
8 59 (1.25%) PKI
8 59 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 57 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
9 57 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 56 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 48 (1.02%) CMDB
12 40 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 38 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 38 (0.81%) Private Cloud
15 37 (0.78%) Clustering
15 37 (0.78%) Life Science
16 33 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 681 (14.44%) Windows
2 277 (5.87%) Linux
3 270 (5.73%) Windows 10
4 186 (3.94%) Windows Server
5 83 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 78 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 76 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 74 (1.57%) Windows 7
9 72 (1.53%) Unix
10 55 (1.17%) Apple iOS
11 51 (1.08%) Android
12 48 (1.02%) zOS
13 43 (0.91%) Mac OS
14 29 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 20 (0.42%) Windows NT
16 17 (0.36%) Windows XP
17 16 (0.34%) Ubuntu
18 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.23%) CentOS
19 11 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
2 871 (18.47%) Agile
3 773 (16.39%) Project Management
4 630 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 598 (12.68%) Customer Service
6 435 (9.23%) ITIL
7 388 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 343 (7.27%) Decision-Making
9 324 (6.87%) Migration
10 307 (6.51%) DevOps
11 291 (6.17%) Service Management
12 275 (5.83%) Project Delivery
13 262 (5.56%) Change Management
14 223 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
15 219 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
16 212 (4.50%) Time Management
17 208 (4.41%) Analytics
17 208 (4.41%) Computer Science
18 196 (4.16%) Roadmaps
19 184 (3.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 306 (6.49%) SQL
2 241 (5.11%) Python
3 183 (3.88%) Java
4 178 (3.78%) PowerShell
5 145 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 124 (2.63%) C#
7 73 (1.55%) C++
8 71 (1.51%) C
9 47 (1.00%) Bash
10 46 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 43 (0.91%) JCL
12 41 (0.87%) REXX
13 36 (0.76%) Perl
13 36 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.51%) VB
15 22 (0.47%) Bicep
16 21 (0.45%) VBScript
17 20 (0.42%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.38%) Assembly Language
18 18 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 960 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 703 (14.91%) Degree
3 555 (11.77%) SC Cleared
4 360 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 138 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 86 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (1.63%) CCNA
9 73 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 63 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 62 (1.31%) PMP
12 59 (1.25%) PMI Certification
13 48 (1.02%) CCNP
14 41 (0.87%) HNC
14 41 (0.87%) MCP
14 41 (0.87%) MCSE
15 37 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 34 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
17 33 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 32 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (5.09%) SLA
2 239 (5.07%) QA
3 138 (2.93%) PMO
4 104 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 84 (1.78%) NIST
6 66 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 64 (1.36%) GDPR
8 49 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 46 (0.98%) NIST 800
10 42 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
11 35 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
12 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.28%) GRC
14 11 (0.23%) NCSC
15 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.11%) GMP
18 5 (0.11%) HL7
18 5 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 414 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 170 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (1.61%) Docker
4 70 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 57 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 50 (1.06%) Firmware
8 44 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 42 (0.89%) Time Sharing Option
10 37 (0.78%) vSphere
11 24 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
12 18 (0.38%) ACF2
12 18 (0.38%) RACF
13 17 (0.36%) NFS
14 16 (0.34%) BitLocker
14 16 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
15 15 (0.32%) KVM
16 14 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
17 11 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 11 (0.23%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 213 (4.52%) SCCM
2 126 (2.67%) Ansible
3 111 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 106 (2.25%) Kubernetes
5 86 (1.82%) Terraform
6 66 (1.40%) WSUS
7 58 (1.23%) SCOM
8 56 (1.19%) vCenter Server
9 43 (0.91%) NetBackup
10 33 (0.70%) Puppet
11 28 (0.59%) Grafana
12 24 (0.51%) Kibana
13 23 (0.49%) PowerCLI
14 21 (0.45%) OMEGAMON
15 20 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
15 20 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (0.42%) Sysprep
16 18 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (0.38%) Progress Chef
17 15 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,100 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 339 (7.19%) SAP
3 212 (4.50%) VMware
4 189 (4.01%) Oracle
5 142 (3.01%) Cisco
6 137 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 116 (2.46%) HP
8 89 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 83 (1.76%) Dell
10 78 (1.65%) IBM
11 74 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.46%) Splunk
13 65 (1.38%) Google
14 59 (1.25%) Adobe
15 54 (1.15%) Citrix
16 38 (0.81%) Apple
16 38 (0.81%) Juniper
17 34 (0.72%) Palo Alto
18 32 (0.68%) Broadcom
19 30 (0.64%) F5