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

6 months to
12 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 9,556 11,849 17,609
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.22% 20.37% 20.10%
As % of the General category 38.28% 34.81% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,931 7,840 11,531
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 £619 £650 £636
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 779 465 701
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £18.76
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +33.26% +4.22%
75th Percentile £39.45 £60.55 £39.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £54.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.17 £18.50 £15.86
% change year-on-year -12.59% +16.65% -6.71%

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 24,961 34,036 49,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.04% 58.51% 56.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,746 23,593 34,231
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £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 £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,935 1,037 1,415
10th Percentile £12.76 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +51.12% -0.53%
75th Percentile £52.89 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.55 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% +52.63% -5.00%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 8,157 £513 -4.65% 11,051
UK excluding London 0 4,720 £475 -2.56% 7,968
London +2 3,833 £542 -5.83% 3,496
Work from Home +1 3,153 £501 -4.67% 4,217
North of England +1 1,132 £475 -5.00% 2,060
South East 0 1,112 £490 -3.92% 1,891
South West 0 680 £525 -0.94% 1,077
Midlands 0 633 £450 -6.25% 1,516
North West +2 596 £475 - 1,120
East of England 0 548 £450 +5.88% 960
Scotland +1 542 £450 -2.91% 490
Yorkshire +1 472 £475 -5.00% 696
West Midlands 0 453 £475 -5.00% 917
East Midlands +3 172 £269 -32.75% 598
Wales +3 85 £412 +3.00% 223
North East +9 60 £525 +40.00% 287
Northern Ireland +3 37 £435 +8.75% 83
Isle of Man -1 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
1 373 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 254 (2.66%) Confluence
3 232 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 112 (1.17%) CMS
5 63 (0.66%) SAS
6 60 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 53 (0.55%) Apache
8 37 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
9 23 (0.24%) IIS
10 22 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 21 (0.22%) WordPress
12 20 (0.21%) nginx
13 18 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 16 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 15 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
16 13 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 13 (0.14%) JBoss
16 13 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 13 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 13 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 648 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 593 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 274 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 137 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 119 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 98 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 46 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 41 (0.43%) Sketch
9 30 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
10 26 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 20 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
13 13 (0.14%) Windchill
14 12 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
14 12 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
15 10 (0.10%) Chatbot
16 9 (0.094%) Autodesk Inventor
16 9 (0.094%) InDesign
16 9 (0.094%) InVision
16 9 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 234 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 81 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 38 (0.40%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 35 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 34 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
6 34 (0.36%) Primavera
7 33 (0.35%) Shopify
8 32 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 31 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 30 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
11 28 (0.29%) Loan IQ
12 27 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 27 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
13 26 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 26 (0.27%) SAP EWM
14 24 (0.25%) SAP SD
15 23 (0.24%) NetSuite
15 23 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,348 (14.11%) Azure
2 719 (7.52%) AWS
3 633 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 485 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 282 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 262 (2.74%) GCP
7 206 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
8 162 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 158 (1.65%) GitHub
10 141 (1.48%) Serverless
11 138 (1.44%) SaaS
12 118 (1.23%) Power Automate
13 114 (1.19%) PowerApps
14 89 (0.93%) OCI
15 82 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 80 (0.84%) Amazon S3
17 79 (0.83%) IaaS
18 72 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
19 71 (0.74%) PaaS
19 71 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 325 (3.40%) Firewall
2 220 (2.30%) DNS
3 186 (1.95%) WAN
4 185 (1.94%) LAN
5 174 (1.82%) VPN
6 142 (1.49%) DHCP
7 104 (1.09%) Network Security
8 98 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
9 87 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 86 (0.90%) BGP
10 86 (0.90%) Wireless
11 81 (0.85%) Internet
12 76 (0.80%) SAN
13 55 (0.58%) MPLS
14 47 (0.49%) Intranet
15 44 (0.46%) VLAN
16 43 (0.45%) HTTP
17 41 (0.43%) 5G
18 38 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
19 37 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (4.16%) Power BI
2 311 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 181 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 128 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 107 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (1.09%) Tableau
8 99 (1.04%) Big Data
9 97 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 90 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 80 (0.84%) MySQL
12 74 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 61 (0.64%) Metadata
14 58 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 48 (0.50%) Data Mining
16 47 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
17 45 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
18 44 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 41 (0.43%) SAP HANA
20 39 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 623 (6.52%) JIRA
2 269 (2.81%) Git
3 245 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 113 (1.18%) GitLab
5 106 (1.11%) Selenium
6 76 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 69 (0.72%) Postman
8 51 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 41 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 41 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 40 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 38 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 36 (0.38%) JUnit
13 35 (0.37%) Maven
13 35 (0.37%) WebDriver
14 30 (0.31%) Appium
15 29 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 27 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
17 25 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 2,069 (21.65%) Finance
2 1,913 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
3 839 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 618 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
5 546 (5.71%) Banking
6 451 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 409 (4.28%) Marketing
8 337 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 323 (3.38%) Retail
10 303 (3.17%) Manufacturing
11 302 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
12 267 (2.79%) Legal
13 175 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 141 (1.48%) Electronics
15 138 (1.44%) Front Office
15 138 (1.44%) Law
16 129 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
16 129 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 119 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 103 (1.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,374 (14.38%) Analyst
2 879 (9.20%) Developer
3 782 (8.18%) Architect
4 757 (7.92%) Senior
5 696 (7.28%) Consultant
6 691 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 578 (6.05%) Lead
8 500 (5.23%) Business Analyst
9 283 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
10 274 (2.87%) Support Engineer
11 193 (2.02%) Administrator
12 189 (1.98%) IT Support
13 173 (1.81%) Data Analyst
14 157 (1.64%) Network Engineer
15 156 (1.63%) Designer
16 153 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
17 151 (1.58%) Data Engineer
18 150 (1.57%) Software Engineer
19 146 (1.53%) Service Analyst
20 131 (1.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (2.88%) .NET
2 229 (2.40%) React
3 220 (2.30%) HTML
4 217 (2.27%) REST
5 206 (2.16%) CSS
6 155 (1.62%) AngularJS
7 132 (1.38%) Web Services
8 126 (1.32%) Node.js
9 125 (1.31%) JSON
10 123 (1.29%) Kafka
11 118 (1.23%) RESTful
11 118 (1.23%) XML
12 99 (1.04%) Spring
13 84 (0.88%) Middleware
14 77 (0.81%) .NET Framework
15 65 (0.68%) .NET Core
16 61 (0.64%) SOAP
17 57 (0.60%) YAML
18 54 (0.57%) Spring Boot
19 46 (0.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 375 (3.92%) Management Information System
2 359 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
3 324 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 223 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 152 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 133 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 113 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 110 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 110 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 107 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
10 97 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 96 (1.00%) NHS
12 92 (0.96%) CMDB
13 80 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 77 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
15 76 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
16 73 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
17 72 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
18 70 (0.73%) Mainframe
19 68 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1,018 (10.65%) Windows
2 483 (5.05%) Linux
3 369 (3.86%) Windows 10
4 270 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 165 (1.73%) Unix
6 106 (1.11%) Android
7 98 (1.03%) Windows 7
8 95 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
9 92 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 87 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 85 (0.89%) Apple iOS
11 85 (0.89%) Mac OS
12 70 (0.73%) zOS
13 45 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
15 20 (0.21%) AIX
15 20 (0.21%) Windows NT
16 19 (0.20%) Solaris
17 18 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 17 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,748 (28.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2,078 (21.75%) Agile
3 1,419 (14.85%) Project Management
4 1,195 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 878 (9.19%) DevOps
6 836 (8.75%) Customer Service
7 704 (7.37%) Migration
8 695 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 662 (6.93%) Computer Science
10 650 (6.80%) ITIL
11 622 (6.51%) Decision-Making
12 596 (6.24%) Analytics
13 547 (5.72%) Project Delivery
14 546 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
15 535 (5.60%) Change Management
16 515 (5.39%) CI/CD
17 489 (5.12%) Scrum
18 455 (4.76%) Roadmaps
19 406 (4.25%) Software Engineering
20 400 (4.19%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 921 (9.64%) SQL
2 751 (7.86%) Python
3 517 (5.41%) Java
4 408 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 405 (4.24%) C#
6 339 (3.55%) PowerShell
7 179 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 141 (1.48%) C++
9 107 (1.12%) Bash
10 83 (0.87%) C
11 77 (0.81%) Perl
12 69 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 61 (0.64%) Scala
14 59 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 57 (0.60%) Go
16 54 (0.57%) REXX
17 53 (0.55%) Bicep
18 52 (0.54%) JCL
19 46 (0.48%) R
20 44 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,593 (16.67%) Degree
2 1,429 (14.95%) Security Cleared
3 926 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 463 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 419 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 202 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 193 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 145 (1.52%) PMP
9 143 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 129 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 126 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 111 (1.16%) CCNA
13 106 (1.11%) CISSP
14 87 (0.91%) CCNP
15 70 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 64 (0.67%) CISM
17 60 (0.63%) Azure Certification
18 50 (0.52%) MCSE
19 49 (0.51%) MCP
20 45 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (5.32%) QA
2 331 (3.46%) SLA
3 284 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 236 (2.47%) PMO
5 156 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 143 (1.50%) NIST
7 118 (1.23%) GDPR
8 104 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 56 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 47 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 42 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 39 (0.41%) GRC
13 36 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
14 25 (0.26%) NCSC
15 23 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 22 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
17 17 (0.18%) HIPAA
18 16 (0.17%) MiFID
18 16 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 611 (6.39%) Active Directory
2 226 (2.37%) Docker
3 222 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 88 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 81 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 68 (0.71%) Firmware
7 59 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 59 (0.62%) vSphere
8 51 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
9 36 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (0.28%) RACF
11 26 (0.27%) NFS
12 24 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 23 (0.24%) KVM
14 21 (0.22%) ACF2
15 17 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.17%) BitLocker
17 14 (0.15%) vCloud
18 12 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 280 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 256 (2.68%) SCCM
3 250 (2.62%) Terraform
4 199 (2.08%) Ansible
5 150 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 69 (0.72%) WSUS
7 66 (0.69%) Puppet
8 62 (0.65%) SCOM
8 62 (0.65%) vCenter Server
9 53 (0.55%) Grafana
10 44 (0.46%) NetBackup
10 44 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 34 (0.36%) Prometheus
13 30 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 28 (0.29%) Kibana
14 28 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
15 27 (0.28%) PowerCLI
16 26 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 22 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,980 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 724 (7.58%) SAP
3 509 (5.33%) Oracle
4 283 (2.96%) VMware
5 282 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 248 (2.60%) Cisco
7 203 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 197 (2.06%) Google
9 156 (1.63%) IBM
10 153 (1.60%) Adobe
11 142 (1.49%) HP
12 123 (1.29%) Databricks
13 122 (1.28%) Dell
14 102 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 99 (1.04%) Citrix
16 95 (0.99%) Splunk
17 79 (0.83%) Apple
18 69 (0.72%) F5
19 68 (0.71%) Ariba
20 58 (0.61%) Palo Alto