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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,386 11,550 17,623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 20.60% 20.12%
As % of the General category 37.92% 35.21% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,830 7,675 11,571
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 £615 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £460
% change year-on-year -3.06% +6.52% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 775 438 677
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £23.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +28.61% -
75th Percentile £38.12 £58.96 £37.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £17.72 £15.62
% change year-on-year -8.41% +13.44% -10.74%

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 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 8,028 £511 -4.93% 10,935
UK excluding London 0 4,677 £475 -3.06% 7,681
London +1 3,754 £538 -6.52% 3,568
Work from Home +1 3,045 £501 -4.67% 4,026
North of England 0 1,153 £475 -5.00% 1,945
South East 0 1,080 £500 -0.99% 1,823
South West +1 687 £525 -2.33% 1,069
Midlands 0 627 £449 -10.20% 1,498
North West +1 615 £475 - 1,076
East of England 0 530 £450 +5.88% 869
Scotland +1 520 £425 -9.48% 501
Yorkshire 0 473 £475 -5.00% 631
West Midlands 0 446 £475 -5.00% 908
East Midlands +2 174 £269 -40.22% 592
Wales +4 87 £388 -8.82% 197
North East +4 61 £533 +63.85% 274
Northern Ireland +1 43 £363 -6.45% 98
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 2

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
1 382 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 242 (2.58%) Confluence
3 226 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (1.12%) CMS
5 66 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 62 (0.66%) SAS
7 54 (0.58%) Apache
8 32 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 24 (0.26%) IIS
10 22 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 22 (0.23%) WordPress
11 19 (0.20%) Skype for Business
12 18 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
12 18 (0.19%) nginx
13 15 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 13 (0.14%) Appian
16 12 (0.13%) CICS
16 12 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 616 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 589 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 271 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 133 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 116 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 101 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
7 46 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 33 (0.35%) Sketch
9 30 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 22 (0.23%) Adobe XD
11 20 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 13 (0.14%) Chatbot
14 11 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
14 11 (0.12%) Trello
15 9 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
15 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.096%) SPSS
15 9 (0.096%) Windchill
16 8 (0.085%) Maya
Business Applications
1 233 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 76 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 36 (0.38%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 34 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
7 32 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 31 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 29 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
9 29 (0.31%) Shopify
10 28 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 28 (0.30%) Primavera
11 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
12 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 26 (0.28%) SAP SD
13 25 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
13 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 23 (0.25%) Teamcenter
15 21 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
16 19 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (14.40%) Azure
2 707 (7.53%) AWS
3 635 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
4 479 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 278 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 276 (2.94%) GCP
7 209 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 167 (1.78%) Entra ID
9 157 (1.67%) GitHub
10 139 (1.48%) SaaS
11 124 (1.32%) Serverless
12 121 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 119 (1.27%) PowerApps
14 85 (0.91%) OCI
15 79 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 77 (0.82%) IaaS
17 72 (0.77%) PaaS
18 71 (0.76%) Amazon S3
18 71 (0.76%) OneDrive
19 63 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 326 (3.47%) Firewall
2 213 (2.27%) DNS
3 182 (1.94%) WAN
4 174 (1.85%) LAN
5 164 (1.75%) VPN
6 139 (1.48%) DHCP
7 92 (0.98%) Network Security
8 91 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (0.94%) Internet
10 86 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 78 (0.83%) Wireless
12 75 (0.80%) BGP
13 70 (0.75%) SAN
14 54 (0.58%) MPLS
15 51 (0.54%) Intranet
16 46 (0.49%) VLAN
17 45 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 42 (0.45%) SD-WAN
19 40 (0.43%) VoIP
20 36 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (4.14%) Power BI
2 310 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 177 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 122 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 108 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (1.11%) Tableau
8 101 (1.08%) Big Data
9 97 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 89 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 84 (0.89%) MySQL
12 71 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 63 (0.67%) Metadata
14 53 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 46 (0.49%) SAP HANA
17 45 (0.48%) Hadoop
18 43 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
19 41 (0.44%) Data Mining
19 41 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 594 (6.33%) JIRA
2 272 (2.90%) Git
3 232 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 114 (1.21%) GitLab
5 112 (1.19%) Selenium
6 70 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 54 (0.58%) Postman
8 52 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 48 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 41 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 41 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 40 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 36 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 36 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 33 (0.35%) JUnit
14 31 (0.33%) Maven
15 29 (0.31%) Appium
16 26 (0.28%) JMeter
16 26 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
17 24 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 2,011 (21.43%) Finance
2 1,887 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
3 791 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 596 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 543 (5.79%) Banking
6 420 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
7 390 (4.16%) Marketing
8 324 (3.45%) Retail
9 317 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 306 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
11 298 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 263 (2.80%) Legal
13 179 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 130 (1.39%) Law
15 128 (1.36%) Front Office
16 123 (1.31%) Electronics
17 119 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
18 116 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 111 (1.18%) Investment Banking
20 96 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,343 (14.31%) Analyst
2 879 (9.37%) Developer
3 791 (8.43%) Architect
4 738 (7.86%) Senior
5 687 (7.32%) Consultant
6 678 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 555 (5.91%) Lead
8 485 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 297 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
10 274 (2.92%) Support Engineer
11 195 (2.08%) Administrator
12 189 (2.01%) IT Support
13 168 (1.79%) Data Analyst
14 159 (1.69%) Network Engineer
15 151 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
16 149 (1.59%) Data Engineer
16 149 (1.59%) Software Engineer
17 147 (1.57%) Designer
18 140 (1.49%) Service Analyst
19 127 (1.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (2.96%) .NET
2 218 (2.32%) HTML
3 213 (2.27%) React
4 201 (2.14%) CSS
5 196 (2.09%) REST
6 146 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 135 (1.44%) Web Services
8 126 (1.34%) RESTful
9 122 (1.30%) Kafka
10 117 (1.25%) XML
11 116 (1.24%) JSON
12 106 (1.13%) Node.js
13 97 (1.03%) Spring
14 91 (0.97%) Middleware
15 84 (0.89%) .NET Framework
16 62 (0.66%) .NET Core
17 61 (0.65%) SOAP
17 61 (0.65%) Spring Boot
18 59 (0.63%) YAML
19 50 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 373 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
2 371 (3.95%) Management Information System
3 312 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 215 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 152 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 125 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 116 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 112 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 109 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 108 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 97 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 90 (0.96%) NHS
13 86 (0.92%) CMDB
14 82 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 79 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
16 76 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
17 75 (0.80%) Mainframe
18 73 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
18 73 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
19 70 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 978 (10.42%) Windows
2 486 (5.18%) Linux
3 349 (3.72%) Windows 10
4 261 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 163 (1.74%) Unix
6 98 (1.04%) Android
7 89 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 89 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 87 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 86 (0.92%) Apple iOS
10 83 (0.88%) Windows 7
11 82 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 72 (0.77%) zOS
13 41 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.22%) Solaris
16 20 (0.21%) AIX
17 18 (0.19%) VMS
18 17 (0.18%) Windows NT
18 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,727 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
2 2,020 (21.52%) Agile
3 1,377 (14.67%) Project Management
4 1,204 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 864 (9.21%) DevOps
6 788 (8.40%) Customer Service
7 687 (7.32%) Migration
8 663 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 661 (7.04%) Computer Science
10 623 (6.64%) ITIL
11 608 (6.48%) Analytics
12 602 (6.41%) Decision-Making
13 534 (5.69%) Project Delivery
14 532 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
15 527 (5.61%) Change Management
16 505 (5.38%) CI/CD
17 479 (5.10%) Scrum
18 443 (4.72%) Roadmaps
19 397 (4.23%) Cybersecurity
20 396 (4.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 914 (9.74%) SQL
2 741 (7.89%) Python
3 499 (5.32%) Java
4 402 (4.28%) C#
5 398 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 340 (3.62%) PowerShell
7 157 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 153 (1.63%) C++
9 116 (1.24%) Bash
10 90 (0.96%) C
11 72 (0.77%) Perl
12 68 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 59 (0.63%) Bicep
15 58 (0.62%) Go
16 55 (0.59%) REXX
17 54 (0.58%) Scala
18 53 (0.56%) JCL
19 45 (0.48%) Kotlin
20 43 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,570 (16.73%) Degree
2 1,387 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 904 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 467 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 403 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 198 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 182 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 143 (1.52%) PMP
9 142 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 127 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 127 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 113 (1.20%) CCNA
12 92 (0.98%) CISSP
13 88 (0.94%) CCNP
14 70 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
15 69 (0.74%) Azure Certification
16 54 (0.58%) CISM
17 53 (0.56%) MCSE
18 43 (0.46%) HNC
19 42 (0.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (5.18%) QA
2 320 (3.41%) SLA
3 277 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 219 (2.33%) PMO
5 147 (1.57%) NIST
6 146 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 124 (1.32%) GDPR
8 100 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 66 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 51 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 41 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 36 (0.38%) GRC
13 30 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 24 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 23 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 17 (0.18%) SEPA
18 16 (0.17%) NCSC
19 15 (0.16%) MiFID
20 14 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 602 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 225 (2.40%) Docker
3 216 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 80 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 60 (0.64%) Firmware
7 57 (0.61%) vSphere
8 55 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 54 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 52 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
11 43 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
12 27 (0.29%) RACF
13 23 (0.25%) NFS
13 23 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
14 21 (0.22%) ACF2
14 21 (0.22%) KVM
15 14 (0.15%) vCloud
16 13 (0.14%) BitLocker
17 12 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 12 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 294 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 263 (2.80%) Terraform
3 244 (2.60%) SCCM
4 205 (2.18%) Ansible
5 144 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 70 (0.75%) WSUS
7 65 (0.69%) Puppet
8 63 (0.67%) SCOM
9 59 (0.63%) Grafana
10 54 (0.58%) vCenter Server
11 43 (0.46%) NetBackup
12 39 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 38 (0.40%) Prometheus
14 33 (0.35%) Progress Chef
15 32 (0.34%) Kibana
16 29 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
17 28 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
18 27 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
18 27 (0.29%) PowerCLI
19 25 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,965 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 688 (7.33%) SAP
3 505 (5.38%) Oracle
4 292 (3.11%) ServiceNow
5 278 (2.96%) VMware
6 244 (2.60%) Cisco
7 208 (2.22%) Google
8 207 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 147 (1.57%) IBM
10 141 (1.50%) Adobe
11 128 (1.36%) Dell
12 125 (1.33%) HP
13 122 (1.30%) Databricks
14 103 (1.10%) Citrix
15 96 (1.02%) Splunk
16 84 (0.89%) Atlassian
17 80 (0.85%) F5
18 74 (0.79%) Apple
19 63 (0.67%) Palo Alto
20 62 (0.66%) Ariba