Social Skills Contracts in England

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. 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 8,028 9,718 14,349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 21.76% 20.47% 20.35%
As % of the General category 37.79% 34.61% 35.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,049 6,531 9,466
10th Percentile £225 £256 £256
25th Percentile £385 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £665 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 393 616
10th Percentile £12.38 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% +31.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £38.75 £58.59 £35.59
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.75 £55.78
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £23.15 £18.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% +28.61% -

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,245 28,077 40,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 59.14% 57.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,632 19,766 28,317
10th Percentile £280 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 893 1,284
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in England

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +1 3,754 £538 -6.52% 3,568
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
Yorkshire 0 473 £475 -5.00% 631
West Midlands 0 446 £475 -5.00% 908
East Midlands +2 174 £269 -40.22% 592
North East +4 61 £533 +63.85% 274
South Coast - 1 - -
Social Skills
UK

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 323 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 217 (2.70%) Confluence
3 205 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 85 (1.06%) CMS
5 58 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 48 (0.60%) SAS
7 46 (0.57%) Apache
8 30 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 20 (0.25%) IIS
10 16 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 15 (0.19%) nginx
11 15 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 15 (0.19%) WordPress
12 14 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 13 (0.16%) Appian
14 11 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 10 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 561 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 480 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 228 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 94 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
7 42 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 30 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 24 (0.30%) Sketch
10 18 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 13 (0.16%) Adobe XD
12 11 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
12 11 (0.14%) Chatbot
13 9 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 9 (0.11%) Windchill
14 8 (0.100%) InDesign
14 8 (0.100%) Maya
15 7 (0.087%) Trello
16 6 (0.075%) Acrobat
16 6 (0.075%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 197 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 31 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 29 (0.36%) Endur
5 29 (0.36%) Shopify
6 28 (0.35%) Primavera
6 28 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 26 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 26 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 23 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 23 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 22 (0.27%) SAP EWM
9 22 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 20 (0.25%) Teamcenter
11 17 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 16 (0.20%) Maximo
12 16 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 16 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,142 (14.23%) Azure
2 582 (7.25%) AWS
3 532 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 234 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 223 (2.78%) GCP
7 178 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 140 (1.74%) Entra ID
9 125 (1.56%) GitHub
10 117 (1.46%) SaaS
11 113 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 107 (1.33%) Serverless
13 106 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 70 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 67 (0.83%) OCI
16 64 (0.80%) PaaS
17 63 (0.78%) OneDrive
18 58 (0.72%) IaaS
19 56 (0.70%) Amazon S3
20 51 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 285 (3.55%) Firewall
2 197 (2.45%) DNS
3 168 (2.09%) WAN
4 157 (1.96%) LAN
5 149 (1.86%) VPN
6 132 (1.64%) DHCP
7 85 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 78 (0.97%) Network Security
9 77 (0.96%) Internet
10 72 (0.90%) Wireless
11 71 (0.88%) BGP
11 71 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 62 (0.77%) SAN
13 50 (0.62%) MPLS
14 44 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
15 39 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 37 (0.46%) Intranet
16 37 (0.46%) VLAN
17 34 (0.42%) VoIP
18 30 (0.37%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (4.24%) Power BI
2 267 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 151 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 112 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 91 (1.13%) Tableau
7 86 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 85 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 83 (1.03%) Big Data
10 63 (0.78%) MySQL
11 59 (0.73%) MongoDB
12 53 (0.66%) Metadata
13 50 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 43 (0.54%) SAP HANA
16 39 (0.49%) Hadoop
17 38 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (0.47%) Data Mining
18 37 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 30 (0.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 512 (6.38%) JIRA
2 207 (2.58%) Git
3 193 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 100 (1.25%) Selenium
5 97 (1.21%) GitLab
6 59 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 44 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 40 (0.50%) Postman
10 38 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 35 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 33 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 32 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 29 (0.36%) WebDriver
15 28 (0.35%) Appium
16 26 (0.32%) JUnit
17 20 (0.25%) webpack
18 19 (0.24%) JMeter
18 19 (0.24%) TeamCity
19 18 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 1,760 (21.92%) Finance
2 1,610 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
3 557 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 520 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
5 466 (5.80%) Banking
6 354 (4.41%) Marketing
7 340 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 305 (3.80%) Retail
9 270 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 261 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
11 256 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 219 (2.73%) Legal
13 159 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 125 (1.56%) Front Office
15 119 (1.48%) Electronics
16 117 (1.46%) Law
17 104 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
18 102 (1.27%) Investment Banking
19 100 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
20 95 (1.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,143 (14.24%) Analyst
2 729 (9.08%) Developer
3 670 (8.35%) Architect
4 625 (7.79%) Senior
5 591 (7.36%) Project Manager
6 586 (7.30%) Consultant
7 482 (6.00%) Lead
8 418 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 247 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
10 240 (2.99%) Support Engineer
11 170 (2.12%) Administrator
12 157 (1.96%) Data Analyst
13 148 (1.84%) IT Support
14 147 (1.83%) Network Engineer
15 136 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
16 133 (1.66%) Data Engineer
17 132 (1.64%) Software Engineer
18 129 (1.61%) Service Analyst
19 111 (1.38%) Designer
19 111 (1.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (2.88%) .NET
2 184 (2.29%) HTML
3 170 (2.12%) React
4 166 (2.07%) CSS
5 146 (1.82%) REST
6 114 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 104 (1.30%) RESTful
8 103 (1.28%) Web Services
8 103 (1.28%) XML
9 97 (1.21%) JSON
9 97 (1.21%) Kafka
10 82 (1.02%) Node.js
11 73 (0.91%) .NET Framework
12 69 (0.86%) Spring
13 67 (0.83%) Middleware
14 57 (0.71%) .NET Core
15 48 (0.60%) YAML
16 47 (0.59%) ARM Templates
17 41 (0.51%) SOAP
18 37 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 334 (4.16%) Management Information System
2 330 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
3 265 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 175 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 137 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 111 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 104 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 104 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 102 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
9 94 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 84 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 80 (1.00%) NHS
12 77 (0.96%) CMDB
13 73 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
13 73 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 72 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
15 70 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 66 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 63 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
18 62 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 862 (10.74%) Windows
2 409 (5.09%) Linux
3 322 (4.01%) Windows 10
4 228 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 130 (1.62%) Unix
6 88 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 84 (1.05%) Android
8 83 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 81 (1.01%) Windows 7
10 79 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 72 (0.90%) Apple iOS
12 67 (0.83%) Mac OS
13 62 (0.77%) zOS
14 23 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (0.21%) VMS
16 17 (0.21%) Windows NT
17 16 (0.20%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 13 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,310 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
2 1,722 (21.45%) Agile
3 1,168 (14.55%) Project Management
4 1,066 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 736 (9.17%) DevOps
6 717 (8.93%) Customer Service
7 576 (7.17%) Migration
8 562 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 562 (7.00%) ITIL
9 539 (6.71%) Computer Science
10 531 (6.61%) Analytics
11 530 (6.60%) Decision-Making
12 469 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
13 448 (5.58%) CI/CD
14 426 (5.31%) Change Management
15 422 (5.26%) Project Delivery
16 402 (5.01%) Scrum
17 364 (4.53%) Software Engineering
18 351 (4.37%) Roadmaps
19 334 (4.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 781 (9.73%) SQL
2 639 (7.96%) Python
3 408 (5.08%) Java
4 367 (4.57%) C#
5 335 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 304 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 146 (1.82%) C++
8 132 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 99 (1.23%) Bash
10 89 (1.11%) C
11 54 (0.67%) Bicep
12 49 (0.61%) Perl
12 49 (0.61%) Scala
13 48 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 46 (0.57%) PL/SQL
15 45 (0.56%) REXX
16 44 (0.55%) Go
16 44 (0.55%) JCL
17 43 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 37 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,328 (16.54%) Degree
2 1,229 (15.31%) Security Cleared
3 777 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 390 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 367 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 166 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 165 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 113 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 110 (1.37%) PMI Certification
10 108 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 107 (1.33%) PMP
12 105 (1.31%) CCNA
13 82 (1.02%) CCNP
14 68 (0.85%) CISSP
15 67 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
16 59 (0.73%) Azure Certification
17 45 (0.56%) MCSE
18 41 (0.51%) CISM
19 38 (0.47%) AWS Certification
20 36 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (4.87%) QA
2 274 (3.41%) SLA
3 252 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 181 (2.25%) PMO
5 132 (1.64%) NIST
6 109 (1.36%) GDPR
7 105 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 92 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 63 (0.78%) NIST 800
10 46 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
11 30 (0.37%) GRC
12 23 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 22 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.20%) SEPA
15 15 (0.19%) MiFID
16 14 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 13 (0.16%) EMIR
17 13 (0.16%) NCSC
18 12 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 542 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 197 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 186 (2.32%) Docker
4 80 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 64 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 57 (0.71%) Firmware
7 49 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 48 (0.60%) vSphere
9 46 (0.57%) VMware NSX
10 44 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
11 40 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.31%) RACF
13 23 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
14 19 (0.24%) ACF2
15 17 (0.21%) NFS
16 15 (0.19%) KVM
17 12 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
18 11 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
18 11 (0.14%) vCloud
18 11 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 247 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 220 (2.74%) Terraform
3 217 (2.70%) SCCM
4 177 (2.20%) Ansible
5 134 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 63 (0.78%) SCOM
6 63 (0.78%) WSUS
7 59 (0.73%) Puppet
8 47 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 42 (0.52%) Grafana
10 40 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 35 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 33 (0.41%) Prometheus
13 29 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.34%) PowerCLI
15 26 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.32%) OMEGAMON
16 25 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 25 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
16 25 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,709 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 560 (6.98%) SAP
3 350 (4.36%) Oracle
4 255 (3.18%) ServiceNow
5 253 (3.15%) VMware
6 220 (2.74%) Cisco
7 177 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 170 (2.12%) Google
9 123 (1.53%) IBM
10 113 (1.41%) Adobe
10 113 (1.41%) Dell
11 112 (1.40%) HP
12 107 (1.33%) Databricks
13 85 (1.06%) Citrix
14 84 (1.05%) Splunk
15 82 (1.02%) Atlassian
16 68 (0.85%) F5
17 65 (0.81%) Apple
18 60 (0.75%) Palo Alto
19 49 (0.61%) Juniper