Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,754 5,112 7,876
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.44% 20.10% 20.37%
As % of the General category 34.20% 31.73% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 3,548 5,303
10th Percentile £270 £313 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £711 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.93% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 92 122
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.24 £18.93 £22.15
Median hourly rate £34.62 £32.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -6.87% +27.27%
75th Percentile £52.25 £60.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £64.88
England median hourly rate £18.13 £23.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.17% +31.43% -2.78%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,976 16,110 23,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.68% 63.34% 60.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,837 11,743 17,033
10th Percentile £335 £375 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.91%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 200 283
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £18.09
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.86 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.49% +23.05%
75th Percentile £48.44 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.90 £70.00 £64.55
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +2 546 £550 -4.35% 314
West London +2 97 £350 -31.20% 191
East London -1 47 £450 - 102
South London +1 45 £450 - 75
North London -1 5 £350 -33.33% 35
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 152 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 79 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 68 (1.81%) Confluence
4 53 (1.41%) CMS
5 43 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 33 (0.88%) Apache
7 15 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
8 10 (0.27%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.24%) IIS
9 9 (0.24%) nginx
9 9 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
11 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.19%) MTS
11 7 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 176 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 172 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 100 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 46 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.45%) Sketch
8 14 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.24%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
13 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
13 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
13 5 (0.13%) InDesign
13 5 (0.13%) Trello
14 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.11%) InVision
15 3 (0.080%) Windchill
16 2 (0.053%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 77 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.77%) Endur
4 22 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
5 21 (0.56%) Shopify
6 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 13 (0.35%) Aligne
8 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.29%) Loan IQ
11 10 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.24%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
13 8 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
13 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 640 (17.05%) Azure
2 358 (9.54%) AWS
3 222 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 159 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (3.94%) GCP
7 91 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 78 (2.08%) Serverless
9 74 (1.97%) GitHub
10 73 (1.94%) SaaS
11 66 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 65 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 59 (1.57%) Entra ID
14 53 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 47 (1.25%) PaaS
16 40 (1.07%) Figma
17 38 (1.01%) WhatsApp
18 35 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 35 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (0.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.58%) Firewall
2 59 (1.57%) VPN
3 58 (1.55%) WAN
4 52 (1.39%) DNS
4 52 (1.39%) Internet
5 51 (1.36%) LAN
6 32 (0.85%) BGP
6 32 (0.85%) MPLS
7 30 (0.80%) Network Security
8 24 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
9 23 (0.61%) DHCP
9 23 (0.61%) Wireless
10 22 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 20 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (0.51%) Intranet
12 19 (0.51%) SSL
13 17 (0.45%) VoIP
14 15 (0.40%) SSH
15 14 (0.37%) OSPF
15 14 (0.37%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (4.90%) Power BI
2 178 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 105 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 77 (2.05%) Data Lake
6 64 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 57 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (1.41%) Big Data
9 46 (1.23%) Tableau
10 39 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 36 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 29 (0.77%) Metadata
14 28 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (0.75%) MySQL
15 27 (0.72%) Oracle Database
16 23 (0.61%) KDB
16 23 (0.61%) RDBMS
17 22 (0.59%) Hadoop
18 20 (0.53%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 232 (6.18%) JIRA
2 145 (3.86%) Git
3 96 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.57%) GitLab
5 57 (1.52%) Selenium
6 32 (0.85%) Postman
7 29 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 25 (0.67%) WebDriver
10 23 (0.61%) JUnit
11 22 (0.59%) Appium
12 21 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.48%) webpack
14 16 (0.43%) Maven
14 16 (0.43%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.37%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.32%) JMeter
17 12 (0.32%) SoapUI
17 12 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 1,091 (29.06%) Finance
2 767 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
3 359 (9.56%) Banking
4 277 (7.38%) Presentation Skills
5 257 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 200 (5.33%) Marketing
7 148 (3.94%) Retail
8 124 (3.30%) Front Office
8 124 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
9 107 (2.85%) Legal
10 97 (2.58%) Investment Banking
11 84 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 76 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 66 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 58 (1.55%) Back Office
15 57 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 51 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (1.23%) Law
18 36 (0.96%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 555 (14.78%) Analyst
2 491 (13.08%) Developer
3 385 (10.26%) Senior
4 346 (9.22%) Architect
5 326 (8.68%) Consultant
6 282 (7.51%) Business Analyst
7 245 (6.53%) Project Manager
8 220 (5.86%) Lead
9 131 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 97 (2.58%) Data Engineer
11 93 (2.48%) Support Engineer
12 88 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
13 87 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 81 (2.16%) Data Analyst
15 75 (2.00%) C# Developer
16 74 (1.97%) Designer
17 67 (1.78%) Network Engineer
18 65 (1.73%) Administrator
19 62 (1.65%) Azure Engineer
19 62 (1.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (3.92%) .NET
2 129 (3.44%) React
3 119 (3.17%) HTML
4 113 (3.01%) CSS
5 88 (2.34%) REST
6 84 (2.24%) AngularJS
7 71 (1.89%) Kafka
8 70 (1.86%) RESTful
9 62 (1.65%) JSON
10 57 (1.52%) Web Services
10 57 (1.52%) XML
11 53 (1.41%) .NET Framework
12 51 (1.36%) Node.js
13 47 (1.25%) Spring
14 37 (0.99%) Middleware
15 30 (0.80%) PySpark
16 29 (0.77%) HTML5
17 28 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.75%) SOAP
18 26 (0.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 160 (4.26%) Product Ownership
2 144 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
3 125 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 76 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 74 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 58 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 57 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 53 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 53 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 46 (1.23%) Derivative
12 42 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
14 40 (1.07%) FMCG
15 36 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
16 35 (0.93%) CMDB
16 35 (0.93%) Solar Panel
17 34 (0.91%) Virtual Team
18 32 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 274 (7.30%) Windows
2 165 (4.40%) Linux
3 88 (2.34%) Windows 10
4 81 (2.16%) Unix
5 64 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 47 (1.25%) Android
7 36 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 33 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.56%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.37%) VMS
12 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.21%) zOS
16 7 (0.19%) Solaris
16 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
2 980 (26.11%) Agile
3 475 (12.65%) Project Management
4 473 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 444 (11.83%) DevOps
6 358 (9.54%) Computer Science
7 314 (8.36%) Analytics
8 295 (7.86%) Migration
9 272 (7.25%) CI/CD
10 254 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
11 251 (6.69%) Scrum
12 229 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 208 (5.54%) Change Management
13 208 (5.54%) Decision-Making
14 203 (5.41%) Data Modelling
15 202 (5.38%) Customer Service
16 195 (5.19%) Roadmaps
17 193 (5.14%) Project Delivery
17 193 (5.14%) Software Engineering
18 184 (4.90%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 499 (13.29%) SQL
2 410 (10.92%) Python
3 253 (6.74%) Java
4 238 (6.34%) C#
5 196 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 123 (3.28%) PowerShell
7 97 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 59 (1.57%) C++
9 47 (1.25%) Bash
10 40 (1.07%) Scala
11 37 (0.99%) Go
12 35 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 32 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 28 (0.75%) Perl
14 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 27 (0.72%) VBA
16 24 (0.64%) Bicep
16 24 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.59%) Ruby
18 21 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 714 (19.02%) Degree
2 334 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 264 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 253 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 58 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 47 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.25%) PMP
9 46 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 37 (0.99%) CISSP
11 37 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (0.85%) CCNP
13 29 (0.77%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.77%) CCNA
14 22 (0.59%) CISM
15 18 (0.48%) CCIE
16 17 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (4.45%) QA
2 156 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.08%) SLA
4 74 (1.97%) PMO
5 55 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.12%) GDPR
8 39 (1.04%) NIST
9 28 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.43%) GRC
11 16 (0.43%) SEPA
12 15 (0.40%) MiFID
13 14 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.35%) EMIR
15 11 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
16 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.13%) GAAP
System Software
1 177 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 122 (3.25%) Docker
3 46 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.48%) Firmware
6 16 (0.43%) vSphere
7 14 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 10 (0.27%) HDFS
9 10 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.19%) KVM
11 7 (0.19%) RACF
12 5 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.11%) NFS
13 4 (0.11%) vCloud
14 3 (0.080%) XenApp
14 3 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 136 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 129 (3.44%) Terraform
3 58 (1.55%) Ansible
4 41 (1.09%) SCCM
5 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.72%) Puppet
7 24 (0.64%) Grafana
8 23 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.35%) Consul
10 13 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.29%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.19%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.16%) VxRail
14 6 (0.16%) zSecure
15 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
15 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.13%) EnCase
Vendors
1 696 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 232 (6.18%) SAP
3 201 (5.35%) Oracle
4 135 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 108 (2.88%) Google
6 96 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 90 (2.40%) Cisco
8 82 (2.18%) Databricks
9 70 (1.86%) Adobe
10 63 (1.68%) VMware
11 52 (1.39%) IBM
12 41 (1.09%) Citrix
13 39 (1.04%) Apple
14 38 (1.01%) Dell
15 33 (0.88%) F5
16 29 (0.77%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.64%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.53%) Informatica
18 20 (0.53%) Nokia
18 20 (0.53%) Workday