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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 4,652 4,964 6,676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.84% 21.67% 21.96%
As % of the General category 42.07% 38.42% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 3,261 4,399
10th Percentile £185 £203 £175
25th Percentile £325 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £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 653 327 541
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £18.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +17.53% -7.41%
75th Percentile £38.12 £56.38 £28.43
90th Percentile £61.20 £65.85 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -26.53% +30.16% +4.57%

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 11,059 12,919 16,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.30% 56.39% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,314 8,777 11,669
10th Percentile £208 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 738 1,040
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.66 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.60 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +43.40% -1.29%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.41 £37.11
90th Percentile £66.84 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +1.26%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
North of England +1 1,130 £475 -5.00% 2,039
South East 0 1,084 £490 -2.00% 1,798
South West +1 685 £525 -2.33% 1,058
Midlands 0 630 £450 -6.25% 1,516
North West +1 599 £475 - 1,103
East of England 0 535 £464 +9.12% 895
Scotland +1 511 £438 -6.31% 492
Yorkshire +1 468 £475 -5.00% 668
West Midlands 0 451 £475 -5.00% 874
East Midlands +3 172 £269 -37.44% 642
Wales +3 86 £388 -8.82% 208
North East +7 59 £525 +50.00% 309
Northern Ireland +2 39 £435 +10.48% 89
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 3
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
1 199 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 161 (3.46%) Confluence
3 143 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 46 (0.99%) SAS
5 37 (0.80%) CMS
6 32 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
7 18 (0.39%) Apache
8 17 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.24%) WordPress
10 10 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.21%) IIS
11 9 (0.19%) Appian
12 8 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 7 (0.15%) 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%) Drupal
Applications
1 429 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
2 382 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 150 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 70 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 17 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 15 (0.32%) Acrobat
10 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
11 8 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 8 (0.17%) Sketch
12 7 (0.15%) Windchill
13 6 (0.13%) Maya
13 6 (0.13%) SPSS
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
15 4 (0.086%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 118 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.49%) Primavera
3 23 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 21 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 19 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 18 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
9 13 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.24%) 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%) SAP EWM
13 8 (0.17%) SAP HCM
13 8 (0.17%) SAP HR
13 8 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 543 (11.67%) Azure
2 371 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
3 228 (4.90%) AWS
4 216 (4.64%) Power Platform
5 93 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 81 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
8 74 (1.59%) GCP
9 49 (1.05%) GitHub
10 47 (1.01%) SaaS
11 44 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 44 (0.95%) Power Automate
12 39 (0.84%) OCI
13 36 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 35 (0.75%) Serverless
14 35 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
15 32 (0.69%) Amazon S3
16 30 (0.64%) Azure Stack
16 30 (0.64%) IaaS
16 30 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 202 (4.34%) Firewall
2 152 (3.27%) DNS
3 117 (2.52%) LAN
4 112 (2.41%) DHCP
5 108 (2.32%) WAN
6 90 (1.93%) VPN
7 71 (1.53%) SAN
8 66 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 50 (1.07%) Network Security
10 50 (1.07%) Wireless
11 37 (0.80%) BGP
12 34 (0.73%) Internet
13 32 (0.69%) VLAN
14 29 (0.62%) RS-485
15 28 (0.60%) Ethernet
15 28 (0.60%) Modbus
15 28 (0.60%) RS-422
16 26 (0.56%) Intranet
17 21 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (3.72%) Power BI
2 78 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 47 (1.01%) Oracle Database
3 47 (1.01%) Tableau
4 44 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 35 (0.75%) Big Data
7 34 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (0.71%) MySQL
9 32 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 30 (0.64%) Metadata
11 25 (0.54%) Data Mining
12 23 (0.49%) GIS
12 23 (0.49%) MongoDB
13 22 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 21 (0.45%) SAP HANA
15 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.37%) Hadoop
17 15 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 303 (6.51%) JIRA
2 104 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 73 (1.57%) Git
4 48 (1.03%) Selenium
5 37 (0.80%) GitLab
6 35 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 32 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 32 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 22 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.26%) Postman
12 12 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
13 11 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 11 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 10 (0.21%) Travis CI
15 9 (0.19%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 910 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
2 736 (15.82%) Finance
3 443 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 334 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
5 257 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
6 210 (4.51%) Telecoms
7 204 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 185 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 168 (3.61%) Marketing
10 155 (3.33%) Retail
11 131 (2.82%) Legal
12 129 (2.77%) Banking
13 93 (2.00%) Electronics
14 88 (1.89%) Aerospace
15 71 (1.53%) Law
16 62 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 57 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
18 56 (1.20%) Military
19 51 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
20 42 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 690 (14.83%) Analyst
2 365 (7.85%) Project Manager
3 327 (7.03%) Architect
4 291 (6.26%) Senior
5 280 (6.02%) Lead
6 253 (5.44%) Developer
7 244 (5.25%) Consultant
8 173 (3.72%) Support Engineer
9 165 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 140 (3.01%) IT Support
11 119 (2.56%) Administrator
12 117 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (2.21%) Service Analyst
14 94 (2.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 94 (2.02%) Service Desk Analyst
15 86 (1.85%) Software Engineer
16 82 (1.76%) Support Analyst
17 80 (1.72%) Network Engineer
18 76 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 71 (1.53%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.89%) .NET
2 82 (1.76%) REST
3 68 (1.46%) HTML
4 56 (1.20%) CSS
5 52 (1.12%) Web Services
6 48 (1.03%) React
7 43 (0.92%) XML
8 37 (0.80%) RESTful
9 34 (0.73%) ARM Templates
9 34 (0.73%) ISPF
9 34 (0.73%) JSON
10 33 (0.71%) Kafka
10 33 (0.71%) Middleware
10 33 (0.71%) Spring
11 31 (0.67%) .NET Core
12 29 (0.62%) Node.js
13 27 (0.58%) Java EE
14 25 (0.54%) AngularJS
14 25 (0.54%) YAML
15 23 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 212 (4.56%) Management Information System
2 197 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 141 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 123 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 121 (2.60%) Driving Licence
6 76 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
7 65 (1.40%) NHS
8 63 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 59 (1.27%) PKI
10 56 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 55 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 55 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 46 (0.99%) CMDB
13 43 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (0.84%) Mainframe
15 38 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 38 (0.82%) Life Science
16 37 (0.80%) Clustering
17 33 (0.71%) Private Cloud
18 32 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 661 (14.21%) Windows
2 272 (5.85%) Linux
3 257 (5.52%) Windows 10
4 186 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 80 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 80 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 72 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 64 (1.38%) Unix
7 64 (1.38%) Windows 7
8 51 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 49 (1.05%) zOS
10 47 (1.01%) Android
11 42 (0.90%) Mac OS
12 28 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (0.39%) Windows NT
14 17 (0.37%) Windows XP
15 14 (0.30%) Ubuntu
16 11 (0.24%) CentOS
16 11 (0.24%) Debian
16 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,380 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
2 845 (18.16%) Agile
3 759 (16.32%) Project Management
4 620 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 576 (12.38%) Customer Service
6 419 (9.01%) ITIL
7 377 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 335 (7.20%) Decision-Making
9 315 (6.77%) Migration
10 307 (6.60%) DevOps
11 272 (5.85%) Project Delivery
11 272 (5.85%) Service Management
12 263 (5.65%) Change Management
13 231 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
14 220 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
15 217 (4.66%) Time Management
16 214 (4.60%) Analytics
17 207 (4.45%) Computer Science
18 189 (4.06%) Roadmaps
19 187 (4.02%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 306 (6.58%) SQL
2 247 (5.31%) Python
3 182 (3.91%) PowerShell
4 173 (3.72%) Java
5 140 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 125 (2.69%) C#
7 78 (1.68%) C++
8 75 (1.61%) C
9 51 (1.10%) Bash
10 44 (0.95%) JCL
11 42 (0.90%) REXX
12 41 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 33 (0.71%) Perl
14 32 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.56%) Bicep
15 26 (0.56%) VB
16 23 (0.49%) VBScript
17 21 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.41%) Assembly Language
19 17 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 924 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 688 (14.79%) Degree
3 545 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 342 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 136 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 85 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (1.63%) CCNA
9 70 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 60 (1.29%) PMP
12 59 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 47 (1.01%) CCNP
14 43 (0.92%) MCSE
15 42 (0.90%) HNC
16 34 (0.73%) MCP
16 34 (0.73%) NVQ Level 3
16 34 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 32 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 31 (0.67%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (5.27%) SLA
2 231 (4.97%) QA
3 130 (2.79%) PMO
4 98 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 80 (1.72%) NIST
6 67 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.44%) GDPR
7 47 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 45 (0.97%) NIST 800
9 39 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
10 30 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
11 15 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.30%) GRC
13 8 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.17%) NCSC
14 6 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.11%) GMP
15 5 (0.11%) HL7
15 5 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 411 (8.83%) Active Directory
2 167 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (1.53%) Docker
4 65 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 57 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 45 (0.97%) Firmware
7 45 (0.97%) VMware NSX
8 43 (0.92%) Time Sharing Option
9 37 (0.80%) vSphere
10 27 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.39%) ACF2
11 18 (0.39%) RACF
12 17 (0.37%) NFS
13 14 (0.30%) BitLocker
13 14 (0.30%) KVM
14 13 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
15 12 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
16 11 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
16 11 (0.24%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 205 (4.41%) SCCM
2 125 (2.69%) Ansible
3 113 (2.43%) Kubernetes
4 109 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 91 (1.96%) Terraform
6 67 (1.44%) WSUS
7 56 (1.20%) SCOM
8 51 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 43 (0.92%) NetBackup
10 32 (0.69%) Puppet
11 30 (0.64%) Grafana
12 23 (0.49%) PowerCLI
13 22 (0.47%) OMEGAMON
14 21 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
15 20 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 19 (0.41%) Kibana
16 19 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.39%) Sysprep
18 17 (0.37%) Progress Chef
19 15 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 1,103 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 325 (6.99%) SAP
3 207 (4.45%) VMware
4 189 (4.06%) Oracle
5 137 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 131 (2.82%) Cisco
7 102 (2.19%) HP
8 85 (1.83%) Dell
9 77 (1.66%) IBM
10 76 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 75 (1.61%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.48%) Splunk
13 68 (1.46%) Google
14 58 (1.25%) Adobe
15 53 (1.14%) Citrix
16 35 (0.75%) Apple
17 34 (0.73%) Juniper
18 32 (0.69%) Broadcom
18 32 (0.69%) Palo Alto
19 31 (0.67%) F5