Social Skills Contracts

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,497 11,850 17,717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 20.37% 20.10%
As % of the General category 38.28% 34.82% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,890 7,841 11,609
10th Percentile £213 £250 £250
25th Percentile £380 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £636
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 465 707
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £18.89
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +32.38% +4.92%
75th Percentile £38.75 £60.55 £39.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.15 £18.50 £15.86
% change year-on-year -12.73% +16.65% -6.71%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,809 34,034 49,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.03% 58.51% 56.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,642 23,589 34,466
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,929 1,037 1,427
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +53.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% +52.63% -5.00%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the UK

Social Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +2 8,108 £513 -4.65% 11,464
UK excluding London 0 4,689 £475 -2.56% 8,232
London +2 3,814 £543 -5.52% 3,606
Work from Home +1 3,129 £503 -4.29% 4,279
North of England +1 1,121 £475 -5.00% 2,122
South East 0 1,107 £490 -3.92% 1,935
South West 0 678 £525 -0.94% 1,093
Midlands 0 628 £450 -6.25% 1,584
North West +2 591 £475 - 1,152
East of England 0 547 £451 +6.18% 996
Scotland +1 536 £450 -2.91% 512
Yorkshire +1 467 £475 -5.00% 722
West Midlands 0 450 £475 -5.00% 963
East Midlands +3 170 £269 -32.75% 620
Wales +3 84 £400 -0.06% 235
North East +9 60 £525 +40.00% 290
Northern Ireland +3 37 £435 +8.75% 87
Isle of Man -1 4 £388 -19.27% 4

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 372 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 253 (2.66%) Confluence
3 232 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 111 (1.17%) CMS
5 63 (0.66%) SAS
6 60 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 53 (0.56%) Apache
8 37 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
9 22 (0.23%) IIS
9 22 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 21 (0.22%) WordPress
11 20 (0.21%) nginx
12 18 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 15 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 15 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 13 (0.14%) JBoss
14 13 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 13 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 642 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 589 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 271 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 137 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 119 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 97 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 46 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 40 (0.42%) Sketch
9 30 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 26 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 20 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 13 (0.14%) Windchill
14 12 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
14 12 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
15 10 (0.11%) Chatbot
16 9 (0.095%) Autodesk Inventor
16 9 (0.095%) InDesign
16 9 (0.095%) SPSS
16 9 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 229 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 81 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 38 (0.40%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 35 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 34 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 32 (0.34%) Primavera
7 32 (0.34%) Shopify
7 32 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 31 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 30 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
10 28 (0.29%) Loan IQ
11 27 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 27 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 26 (0.27%) SAP EWM
13 25 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 24 (0.25%) SAP SD
15 23 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
16 22 (0.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,340 (14.11%) Azure
2 716 (7.54%) AWS
3 631 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
4 485 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 278 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
6 261 (2.75%) GCP
7 206 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 161 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 158 (1.66%) GitHub
10 140 (1.47%) Serverless
11 138 (1.45%) SaaS
12 118 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 114 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 89 (0.94%) OCI
15 82 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 79 (0.83%) Amazon S3
16 79 (0.83%) IaaS
17 71 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 71 (0.75%) PaaS
18 70 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 326 (3.43%) Firewall
2 216 (2.27%) DNS
3 184 (1.94%) WAN
4 183 (1.93%) LAN
5 173 (1.82%) VPN
6 139 (1.46%) DHCP
7 102 (1.07%) Network Security
8 97 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
9 87 (0.92%) Wireless
10 86 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 84 (0.88%) BGP
12 81 (0.85%) Internet
13 76 (0.80%) SAN
14 53 (0.56%) MPLS
15 47 (0.49%) Intranet
16 44 (0.46%) VLAN
17 41 (0.43%) 5G
17 41 (0.43%) HTTP
18 39 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
19 37 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (4.19%) Power BI
2 310 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 181 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 128 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 107 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (1.10%) Tableau
8 99 (1.04%) Big Data
9 97 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 90 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 80 (0.84%) MySQL
12 74 (0.78%) MongoDB
13 61 (0.64%) Metadata
14 58 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 48 (0.51%) Data Mining
16 47 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 45 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
18 44 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 41 (0.43%) SAP HANA
20 39 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 620 (6.53%) JIRA
2 266 (2.80%) Git
3 243 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.18%) GitLab
5 106 (1.12%) Selenium
6 76 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 68 (0.72%) Postman
8 50 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 50 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 41 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 40 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 40 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 38 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 36 (0.38%) JUnit
13 35 (0.37%) Maven
13 35 (0.37%) WebDriver
14 30 (0.32%) Appium
15 28 (0.29%) TeamCity
16 27 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
17 25 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 2,057 (21.66%) Finance
2 1,902 (20.03%) Analytical Skills
3 835 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 615 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
5 545 (5.74%) Banking
6 446 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
7 405 (4.26%) Marketing
8 335 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 320 (3.37%) Retail
10 301 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 301 (3.17%) Manufacturing
11 267 (2.81%) Legal
12 173 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 141 (1.48%) Electronics
14 138 (1.45%) Law
15 137 (1.44%) Front Office
16 128 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 127 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 117 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 102 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,369 (14.42%) Analyst
2 875 (9.21%) Developer
3 779 (8.20%) Architect
4 755 (7.95%) Senior
5 693 (7.30%) Consultant
6 687 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 574 (6.04%) Lead
8 499 (5.25%) Business Analyst
9 282 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
10 273 (2.87%) Support Engineer
11 193 (2.03%) Administrator
12 190 (2.00%) IT Support
13 172 (1.81%) Data Analyst
14 157 (1.65%) Network Engineer
15 155 (1.63%) Designer
16 152 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
17 149 (1.57%) Data Engineer
17 149 (1.57%) Software Engineer
18 145 (1.53%) Service Analyst
19 130 (1.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (2.90%) .NET
2 227 (2.39%) React
3 220 (2.32%) HTML
4 214 (2.25%) REST
5 205 (2.16%) CSS
6 155 (1.63%) AngularJS
7 131 (1.38%) Web Services
8 126 (1.33%) Node.js
9 123 (1.30%) Kafka
10 121 (1.27%) JSON
11 118 (1.24%) RESTful
12 115 (1.21%) XML
13 100 (1.05%) Spring
14 84 (0.88%) Middleware
15 77 (0.81%) .NET Framework
16 65 (0.68%) .NET Core
17 60 (0.63%) SOAP
18 56 (0.59%) YAML
19 54 (0.57%) Spring Boot
20 45 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 374 (3.94%) Management Information System
2 358 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 323 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 221 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 151 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 133 (1.40%) Driving Licence
7 113 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 110 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 110 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 107 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
10 97 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 96 (1.01%) NHS
12 92 (0.97%) CMDB
13 80 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 75 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 75 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
15 72 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 72 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
16 70 (0.74%) Mainframe
17 68 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1,011 (10.65%) Windows
2 483 (5.09%) Linux
3 368 (3.87%) Windows 10
4 267 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 166 (1.75%) Unix
6 106 (1.12%) Android
7 97 (1.02%) Windows 7
8 95 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 92 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
10 87 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 85 (0.90%) Apple iOS
11 85 (0.90%) Mac OS
12 70 (0.74%) zOS
13 45 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
15 20 (0.21%) AIX
15 20 (0.21%) Windows NT
16 19 (0.20%) Solaris
17 18 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,724 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
2 2,061 (21.70%) Agile
3 1,404 (14.78%) Project Management
4 1,185 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 870 (9.16%) DevOps
6 834 (8.78%) Customer Service
7 697 (7.34%) Migration
8 688 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 658 (6.93%) Computer Science
10 647 (6.81%) ITIL
11 615 (6.48%) Decision-Making
12 594 (6.25%) Analytics
13 545 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
14 543 (5.72%) Project Delivery
15 532 (5.60%) Change Management
16 514 (5.41%) CI/CD
17 482 (5.08%) Scrum
18 453 (4.77%) Roadmaps
19 404 (4.25%) Software Engineering
20 398 (4.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 916 (9.65%) SQL
2 748 (7.88%) Python
3 514 (5.41%) Java
4 405 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 402 (4.23%) C#
6 337 (3.55%) PowerShell
7 178 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 140 (1.47%) C++
9 106 (1.12%) Bash
10 83 (0.87%) C
11 77 (0.81%) Perl
12 68 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 61 (0.64%) Scala
14 59 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 57 (0.60%) Go
16 54 (0.57%) REXX
17 52 (0.55%) Bicep
17 52 (0.55%) JCL
18 46 (0.48%) R
19 44 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,580 (16.64%) Degree
2 1,420 (14.95%) Security Cleared
3 918 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 459 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 419 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 199 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 192 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 144 (1.52%) PMP
9 142 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 129 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 124 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 111 (1.17%) CCNA
13 104 (1.10%) CISSP
14 87 (0.92%) CCNP
15 70 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 63 (0.66%) CISM
17 60 (0.63%) Azure Certification
18 50 (0.53%) MCSE
19 48 (0.51%) MCP
20 45 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 505 (5.32%) QA
2 330 (3.47%) SLA
3 282 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 232 (2.44%) PMO
5 156 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 143 (1.51%) NIST
7 118 (1.24%) GDPR
8 103 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 56 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 47 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
12 39 (0.41%) GRC
13 36 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
14 25 (0.26%) NCSC
15 23 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 22 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
17 17 (0.18%) HIPAA
18 16 (0.17%) MiFID
18 16 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 608 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 225 (2.37%) Docker
3 220 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 68 (0.72%) Firmware
7 59 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 59 (0.62%) vSphere
8 58 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 51 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
10 36 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.28%) RACF
12 26 (0.27%) NFS
13 24 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
14 22 (0.23%) KVM
15 21 (0.22%) ACF2
16 16 (0.17%) BitLocker
16 16 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
17 14 (0.15%) vCloud
18 12 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 279 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 256 (2.70%) SCCM
3 249 (2.62%) Terraform
4 200 (2.11%) Ansible
5 149 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 70 (0.74%) WSUS
7 66 (0.69%) Puppet
8 62 (0.65%) SCOM
9 61 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 53 (0.56%) Grafana
11 44 (0.46%) NetBackup
11 44 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 34 (0.36%) Prometheus
14 30 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 28 (0.29%) Kibana
15 28 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
16 27 (0.28%) PowerCLI
17 26 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
18 22 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,971 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 713 (7.51%) SAP
3 508 (5.35%) Oracle
4 285 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 281 (2.96%) VMware
6 248 (2.61%) Cisco
7 200 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 196 (2.06%) Google
9 156 (1.64%) IBM
10 151 (1.59%) Adobe
11 142 (1.50%) HP
12 122 (1.28%) Databricks
13 121 (1.27%) Dell
14 101 (1.06%) Atlassian
15 99 (1.04%) Citrix
16 94 (0.99%) Splunk
17 79 (0.83%) Apple
18 69 (0.73%) F5
19 66 (0.69%) Ariba
20 59 (0.62%) Palo Alto