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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 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 9,419 11,628 17,629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.12% 20.42% 20.14%
As % of the General category 38.15% 34.89% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,842 7,710 11,544
10th Percentile £213 £250 £250
25th Percentile £381 £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 £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 779 447 696
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +32.82% +4.57%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.17 £18.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -12.59% +15.63% -6.66%

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 24,687 33,324 49,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.98% 58.52% 56.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,577 23,107 34,304
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £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 £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,007 1,407
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.41 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 8,051 £513 -5.09% 11,601
UK excluding London 0 4,651 £475 -2.56% 8,423
London +1 3,779 £540 -6.09% 3,935
Work from Home +1 3,082 £511 -2.67% 4,179
North of England +1 1,129 £475 -5.00% 2,126
South East 0 1,084 £488 -4.41% 2,233
South West +1 682 £525 -1.87% 1,072
Midlands 0 622 £450 -6.25% 1,561
North West +2 600 £475 - 1,138
East of England 0 541 £475 +11.76% 975
Scotland +1 521 £440 -5.63% 472
Yorkshire +1 467 £475 -5.00% 732
West Midlands 0 445 £475 -5.00% 955
East Midlands +3 170 £269 -37.44% 605
Wales +3 84 £388 -8.82% 234
North East +7 59 £525 +35.48% 297
Northern Ireland +2 37 £435 +8.75% 86
Isle of Man 0 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
1 367 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 251 (2.66%) Confluence
3 222 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 108 (1.15%) CMS
5 61 (0.65%) SAS
6 60 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 53 (0.56%) Apache
8 37 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
9 22 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 22 (0.23%) IIS
10 21 (0.22%) Skype for Business
10 21 (0.22%) WordPress
11 18 (0.19%) nginx
12 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 13 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
13 13 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 13 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 12 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 635 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 591 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 274 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 139 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 119 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 93 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 45 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 39 (0.41%) Sketch
9 30 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 25 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 12 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
14 11 (0.12%) Windchill
15 10 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
16 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
16 9 (0.096%) Chatbot
16 9 (0.096%) InDesign
16 9 (0.096%) SPSS
16 9 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 232 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 81 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 61 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 37 (0.39%) 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
8 30 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 30 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
10 26 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
10 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 25 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 24 (0.25%) Teamcenter
13 23 (0.24%) NetSuite
14 22 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
15 20 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,329 (14.11%) Azure
2 701 (7.44%) AWS
3 621 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
4 488 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 278 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 265 (2.81%) GCP
7 211 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
8 160 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 157 (1.67%) GitHub
10 137 (1.45%) SaaS
11 134 (1.42%) Serverless
12 119 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 117 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 91 (0.97%) OCI
15 81 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 76 (0.81%) IaaS
17 74 (0.79%) Amazon S3
18 72 (0.76%) PaaS
19 68 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
20 67 (0.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 323 (3.43%) Firewall
2 212 (2.25%) DNS
3 180 (1.91%) WAN
4 177 (1.88%) LAN
5 169 (1.79%) VPN
6 135 (1.43%) DHCP
7 99 (1.05%) Network Security
8 91 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 89 (0.94%) Internet
10 86 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 83 (0.88%) Wireless
12 82 (0.87%) BGP
13 73 (0.78%) SAN
14 54 (0.57%) MPLS
15 48 (0.51%) Intranet
16 46 (0.49%) VLAN
17 42 (0.45%) HTTP
18 38 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
19 37 (0.39%) SD-WAN
19 37 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (4.24%) Power BI
2 308 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 176 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 125 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 105 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 102 (1.08%) Tableau
8 100 (1.06%) Big Data
9 95 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 89 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 79 (0.84%) MySQL
12 70 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 62 (0.66%) Metadata
14 57 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 51 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
16 46 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
16 46 (0.49%) Data Mining
17 43 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 42 (0.45%) SAP HANA
19 37 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 608 (6.46%) JIRA
2 260 (2.76%) Git
3 232 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 113 (1.20%) GitLab
5 109 (1.16%) Selenium
6 68 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 59 (0.63%) Postman
8 51 (0.54%) Visual Studio
9 50 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 41 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 41 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 38 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 36 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 35 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 30 (0.32%) Appium
14 30 (0.32%) JUnit
14 30 (0.32%) Maven
15 27 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
15 27 (0.29%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.27%) JMeter
General
1 2,035 (21.61%) Finance
2 1,882 (19.98%) Analytical Skills
3 816 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 604 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
5 536 (5.69%) Banking
6 442 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 396 (4.20%) Marketing
8 324 (3.44%) Telecoms
9 318 (3.38%) Retail
10 304 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
11 296 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 266 (2.82%) Legal
13 177 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 136 (1.44%) Law
15 135 (1.43%) Front Office
16 134 (1.42%) Electronics
17 127 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 121 (1.28%) Investment Banking
19 120 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
20 101 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,367 (14.51%) Analyst
2 860 (9.13%) Developer
3 779 (8.27%) Architect
4 743 (7.89%) Senior
5 686 (7.28%) Project Manager
6 680 (7.22%) Consultant
7 561 (5.96%) Lead
8 496 (5.27%) Business Analyst
9 287 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
10 269 (2.86%) Support Engineer
11 198 (2.10%) Administrator
12 189 (2.01%) IT Support
13 171 (1.82%) Data Analyst
14 156 (1.66%) Network Engineer
15 152 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
16 151 (1.60%) Designer
17 148 (1.57%) Software Engineer
18 146 (1.55%) Service Analyst
19 143 (1.52%) Data Engineer
20 127 (1.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (2.95%) .NET
2 219 (2.33%) React
3 217 (2.30%) HTML
4 205 (2.18%) REST
5 203 (2.16%) CSS
6 148 (1.57%) AngularJS
7 131 (1.39%) Web Services
8 122 (1.30%) JSON
9 119 (1.26%) XML
10 118 (1.25%) Kafka
10 118 (1.25%) RESTful
11 114 (1.21%) Node.js
12 92 (0.98%) Spring
13 86 (0.91%) Middleware
14 80 (0.85%) .NET Framework
15 64 (0.68%) .NET Core
16 61 (0.65%) SOAP
17 58 (0.62%) YAML
18 50 (0.53%) Spring Boot
19 45 (0.48%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 369 (3.92%) Management Information System
2 356 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 314 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 216 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 149 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 131 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 114 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 111 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 110 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 106 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 95 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 95 (1.01%) NHS
12 92 (0.98%) CMDB
13 78 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 78 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
14 75 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
14 75 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
15 72 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
16 70 (0.74%) Mainframe
17 67 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 988 (10.49%) Windows
2 480 (5.10%) Linux
3 358 (3.80%) Windows 10
4 262 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 166 (1.76%) Unix
6 101 (1.07%) Android
7 90 (0.96%) Windows 7
7 90 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 87 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 87 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 82 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 82 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 70 (0.74%) zOS
11 42 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 20 (0.21%) AIX
13 20 (0.21%) Solaris
14 19 (0.20%) Windows NT
15 17 (0.18%) Mac OS X
15 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,698 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
2 2,041 (21.67%) Agile
3 1,396 (14.82%) Project Management
4 1,190 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 872 (9.26%) DevOps
6 822 (8.73%) Customer Service
7 689 (7.32%) Migration
8 661 (7.02%) Computer Science
9 659 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 638 (6.77%) ITIL
11 609 (6.47%) Decision-Making
12 595 (6.32%) Analytics
13 539 (5.72%) Project Delivery
14 536 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
15 526 (5.58%) Change Management
16 502 (5.33%) CI/CD
17 480 (5.10%) Scrum
18 450 (4.78%) Roadmaps
19 401 (4.26%) Software Engineering
20 397 (4.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 901 (9.57%) SQL
2 743 (7.89%) Python
3 496 (5.27%) Java
4 401 (4.26%) C#
5 399 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 336 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 170 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 142 (1.51%) C++
9 111 (1.18%) Bash
10 83 (0.88%) C
11 75 (0.80%) Perl
12 66 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 66 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.63%) Go
14 58 (0.62%) Scala
15 54 (0.57%) Bicep
15 54 (0.57%) REXX
16 52 (0.55%) JCL
17 45 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 45 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 1,574 (16.71%) Degree
2 1,398 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 912 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 465 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 412 (4.37%) DV Cleared
6 198 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 189 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 142 (1.51%) PMP
9 141 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 128 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 124 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 113 (1.20%) CCNA
13 101 (1.07%) CISSP
14 87 (0.92%) CCNP
15 72 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 63 (0.67%) CISM
17 60 (0.64%) Azure Certification
18 53 (0.56%) MCSE
19 48 (0.51%) MCP
20 45 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (5.30%) QA
2 328 (3.48%) SLA
3 277 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 228 (2.42%) PMO
5 153 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 139 (1.48%) NIST
7 121 (1.28%) GDPR
8 100 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 56 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 48 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 42 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 38 (0.40%) GRC
13 36 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
14 23 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.22%) NCSC
17 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
18 17 (0.18%) SEPA
19 16 (0.17%) MiFID
20 14 (0.15%) EMIR
System Software
1 596 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 220 (2.34%) Docker
3 215 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 78 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 66 (0.70%) Firmware
7 58 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 57 (0.61%) vSphere
9 54 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 51 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
11 36 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
12 27 (0.29%) RACF
13 26 (0.28%) NFS
14 24 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
15 21 (0.22%) ACF2
16 20 (0.21%) KVM
17 15 (0.16%) BitLocker
18 14 (0.15%) vCloud
19 13 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
20 11 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 282 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 250 (2.65%) SCCM
2 250 (2.65%) Terraform
3 203 (2.16%) Ansible
4 138 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 70 (0.74%) WSUS
6 67 (0.71%) Puppet
7 64 (0.68%) SCOM
8 56 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 53 (0.56%) Grafana
10 44 (0.47%) NetBackup
11 43 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 34 (0.36%) Prometheus
14 30 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
15 28 (0.30%) OMEGAMON
16 27 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
16 27 (0.29%) PowerCLI
17 23 (0.24%) Kibana
18 22 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,966 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 705 (7.48%) SAP
3 512 (5.44%) Oracle
4 291 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 273 (2.90%) VMware
6 241 (2.56%) Cisco
7 204 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 200 (2.12%) Google
9 150 (1.59%) IBM
10 149 (1.58%) Adobe
11 132 (1.40%) HP
12 124 (1.32%) Dell
13 120 (1.27%) Databricks
14 99 (1.05%) Atlassian
15 95 (1.01%) Splunk
16 94 (1.00%) Citrix
17 75 (0.80%) Apple
18 72 (0.76%) F5
19 66 (0.70%) Ariba
20 58 (0.62%) Palo Alto