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 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 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,677 4,953 6,654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.46% 21.74% 21.82%
As % of the General category 41.76% 38.66% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,763 3,265 4,398
10th Percentile £185 £201 £175
25th Percentile £325 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +6.52% +6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 317 528
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.12 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £17.72 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +13.44% -10.74%
75th Percentile £38.12 £56.35 £27.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £18.35 £23.15 £18.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% +28.61% -

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 11,199 12,812 17,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.77% 56.25% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 8,701 11,756
10th Percentile £205 £228 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,693 722 1,032
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £56.00
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
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
South Coast - 1 - -
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
1 210 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 161 (3.44%) Confluence
3 142 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 44 (0.94%) SAS
5 37 (0.79%) CMS
6 32 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.34%) Apache
9 11 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 11 (0.24%) WordPress
10 10 (0.21%) IIS
11 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 8 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.13%) nginx
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.086%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.086%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 421 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
2 382 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 153 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 78 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 75 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
6 49 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.32%) Acrobat
10 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 8 (0.17%) Sketch
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.13%) Maya
13 6 (0.13%) SPSS
13 6 (0.13%) Windchill
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.086%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.086%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 119 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 21 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 20 (0.43%) Primavera
6 19 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 18 (0.38%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
9 15 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.21%) Maximo
11 10 (0.21%) Teamcenter
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
13 8 (0.17%) iTrent
13 8 (0.17%) SAP EWM
13 8 (0.17%) Shopify
14 7 (0.15%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 554 (11.85%) Azure
2 382 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
3 233 (4.98%) AWS
4 216 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 91 (1.95%) Entra ID
6 89 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 76 (1.62%) GCP
9 51 (1.09%) SaaS
10 48 (1.03%) GitHub
11 46 (0.98%) Power Automate
12 42 (0.90%) OneDrive
13 38 (0.81%) OCI
14 37 (0.79%) PowerApps
15 34 (0.73%) Serverless
15 34 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
16 30 (0.64%) Amazon S3
16 30 (0.64%) IaaS
17 29 (0.62%) Azure Stack
18 28 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 205 (4.38%) Firewall
2 148 (3.16%) DNS
3 117 (2.50%) LAN
4 112 (2.39%) WAN
5 110 (2.35%) DHCP
6 90 (1.92%) VPN
7 69 (1.48%) SAN
8 64 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (1.30%) TCP/IP
10 48 (1.03%) Wireless
11 43 (0.92%) Network Security
12 36 (0.77%) BGP
13 33 (0.71%) Internet
14 32 (0.68%) VLAN
15 30 (0.64%) Intranet
16 29 (0.62%) RS-485
17 28 (0.60%) Ethernet
17 28 (0.60%) Modbus
17 28 (0.60%) RS-422
18 23 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (3.70%) Power BI
2 82 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 48 (1.03%) Tableau
5 43 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (0.75%) Big Data
6 35 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 33 (0.71%) MySQL
8 32 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 29 (0.62%) Metadata
11 26 (0.56%) GIS
12 23 (0.49%) Data Mining
12 23 (0.49%) MongoDB
12 23 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 22 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.36%) Hadoop
16 15 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 307 (6.56%) JIRA
2 102 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 71 (1.52%) Git
4 48 (1.03%) Selenium
5 37 (0.79%) GitLab
6 35 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 32 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 31 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 12 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 11 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 11 (0.24%) Postman
14 10 (0.21%) Travis CI
15 9 (0.19%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 922 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
2 743 (15.89%) Finance
3 453 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 331 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
5 257 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
6 208 (4.45%) Telecoms
7 205 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 183 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 168 (3.59%) Marketing
10 151 (3.23%) Retail
11 136 (2.91%) Banking
12 132 (2.82%) Legal
13 90 (1.92%) Electronics
14 87 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 73 (1.56%) Law
16 60 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 58 (1.24%) Military
18 53 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
19 50 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
20 45 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 685 (14.65%) Analyst
2 365 (7.80%) Project Manager
3 334 (7.14%) Architect
4 284 (6.07%) Senior
5 279 (5.97%) Lead
6 260 (5.56%) Developer
7 250 (5.35%) Consultant
8 174 (3.72%) Support Engineer
9 159 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 140 (2.99%) IT Support
11 122 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
12 119 (2.54%) Administrator
13 102 (2.18%) Service Analyst
14 97 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 93 (1.99%) Service Desk Analyst
16 87 (1.86%) Software Engineer
17 86 (1.84%) Support Analyst
18 80 (1.71%) Network Engineer
19 79 (1.69%) Data Analyst
20 74 (1.58%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (1.97%) .NET
2 84 (1.80%) REST
3 71 (1.52%) HTML
4 58 (1.24%) CSS
5 56 (1.20%) Web Services
6 50 (1.07%) React
7 43 (0.92%) XML
8 40 (0.86%) RESTful
9 36 (0.77%) ARM Templates
9 36 (0.77%) Middleware
10 34 (0.73%) ISPF
10 34 (0.73%) JSON
10 34 (0.73%) Kafka
10 34 (0.73%) Spring
11 31 (0.66%) .NET Core
12 28 (0.60%) Node.js
13 27 (0.58%) Java EE
13 27 (0.58%) YAML
14 26 (0.56%) AngularJS
14 26 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 218 (4.66%) Management Information System
2 200 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 120 (2.57%) Driving Licence
5 119 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 86 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
8 66 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 66 (1.41%) NHS
8 66 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 58 (1.24%) PKI
11 45 (0.96%) CMDB
12 44 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (0.90%) Mainframe
14 38 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 36 (0.77%) Life Science
16 35 (0.75%) Clustering
16 35 (0.75%) Private Cloud
17 32 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 653 (13.96%) Windows
2 272 (5.82%) Linux
3 253 (5.41%) Windows 10
4 180 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 80 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 79 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 71 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 63 (1.35%) Unix
9 61 (1.30%) Windows 7
10 50 (1.07%) zOS
11 49 (1.05%) Apple iOS
12 44 (0.94%) Android
13 43 (0.92%) Mac OS
14 26 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.36%) Windows NT
15 17 (0.36%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.30%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.26%) CentOS
18 11 (0.24%) AIX
18 11 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
2 840 (17.96%) Agile
3 762 (16.29%) Project Management
4 631 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 563 (12.04%) Customer Service
6 414 (8.85%) ITIL
7 373 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (7.27%) Decision-Making
9 316 (6.76%) Migration
10 305 (6.52%) DevOps
11 275 (5.88%) Project Delivery
12 267 (5.71%) Service Management
13 265 (5.67%) Change Management
14 236 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
15 232 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
16 219 (4.68%) Analytics
17 216 (4.62%) Time Management
18 200 (4.28%) Computer Science
19 193 (4.13%) Service Delivery
20 191 (4.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 308 (6.59%) SQL
2 239 (5.11%) Python
3 188 (4.02%) PowerShell
4 175 (3.74%) Java
5 142 (3.04%) JavaScript
6 128 (2.74%) C#
7 82 (1.75%) C++
8 77 (1.65%) C
9 51 (1.09%) Bash
10 44 (0.94%) JCL
11 42 (0.90%) REXX
11 42 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 32 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 29 (0.62%) Bicep
14 28 (0.60%) Perl
14 28 (0.60%) VB
15 25 (0.53%) VBScript
16 21 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.41%) Assembly Language
18 16 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 924 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 681 (14.56%) Degree
3 539 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 342 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 133 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (1.58%) CCNA
9 72 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 63 (1.35%) PMP
11 62 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 60 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.03%) CCNP
14 44 (0.94%) MCSE
15 43 (0.92%) HNC
16 34 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
17 33 (0.71%) MCP
17 33 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 32 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
19 31 (0.66%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (5.05%) SLA
2 229 (4.90%) QA
3 129 (2.76%) PMO
4 97 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 91 (1.95%) NIST
6 69 (1.48%) GDPR
7 65 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.20%) NIST 800
9 47 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 41 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
11 29 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
12 16 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.30%) GRC
14 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.17%) NCSC
15 6 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.11%) GMP
16 5 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 409 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 164 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.45%) Docker
4 63 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 57 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 47 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 43 (0.92%) Time Sharing Option
8 42 (0.90%) Firmware
9 40 (0.86%) VMware NSX
10 37 (0.79%) vSphere
11 33 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
12 18 (0.38%) ACF2
12 18 (0.38%) RACF
13 15 (0.32%) NFS
14 14 (0.30%) KVM
15 13 (0.28%) BitLocker
15 13 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
16 11 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
16 11 (0.24%) Microcode
16 11 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 201 (4.30%) SCCM
2 122 (2.61%) Ansible
3 113 (2.42%) Kubernetes
4 109 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 93 (1.99%) Terraform
6 68 (1.45%) WSUS
7 59 (1.26%) SCOM
8 48 (1.03%) vCenter Server
9 42 (0.90%) NetBackup
10 32 (0.68%) Puppet
11 29 (0.62%) Grafana
12 28 (0.60%) Kibana
13 23 (0.49%) PowerCLI
14 22 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 22 (0.47%) OMEGAMON
15 21 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 18 (0.38%) logstash
16 18 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (0.36%) Progress Chef
17 17 (0.36%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,115 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 323 (6.91%) SAP
3 205 (4.38%) VMware
4 192 (4.11%) Oracle
5 137 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 136 (2.91%) Cisco
7 101 (2.16%) HP
8 85 (1.82%) Dell
9 75 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 74 (1.58%) IBM
10 74 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 72 (1.54%) Splunk
12 69 (1.48%) Google
13 56 (1.20%) Adobe
13 56 (1.20%) Citrix
14 36 (0.77%) F5
14 36 (0.77%) Palo Alto
15 34 (0.73%) Apple
16 32 (0.68%) Broadcom
16 32 (0.68%) Juniper