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 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 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,387 11,578 17,613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.07% 20.47% 20.12%
As % of the General category 38.08% 34.96% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,842 7,667 11,529
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% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 776 448 694
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +30.16% +4.57%
75th Percentile £38.12 £59.85 £39.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £18.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -12.27% +17.53% -7.41%

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 24,653 33,116 49,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.97% 58.55% 56.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,556 22,952 34,348
10th Percentile £275 £313 £322
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 £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,949 1,004 1,411
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +1.26%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.60 £19.25
% change year-on-year +1.45% +43.40% -1.29%

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 23 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 23 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 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
England +2 8,041 £513 -5.09% 11,094
UK excluding London 0 4,652 £475 -2.56% 8,046
London +1 3,770 £540 -6.09% 3,365
Work from Home +1 3,060 £513 -2.38% 4,141
North of England +1 1,130 £475 -5.00% 2,100
South East 0 1,084 £490 -2.00% 1,875
South West +1 685 £525 -2.33% 1,082
Midlands 0 630 £450 -6.25% 1,556
North West +1 599 £475 - 1,162
East of England 0 535 £464 +9.12% 941
Scotland +1 511 £438 -6.31% 515
Yorkshire +1 468 £475 -5.00% 692
West Midlands 0 451 £475 -5.00% 908
East Midlands +3 172 £269 -37.44% 648
Wales +3 86 £388 -8.82% 218
North East +7 59 £525 +50.00% 288
Northern Ireland +2 39 £435 +10.48% 95
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 3

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
1 372 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 244 (2.60%) Confluence
3 227 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 108 (1.15%) CMS
5 62 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 62 (0.66%) SAS
6 52 (0.55%) Apache
7 32 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 23 (0.25%) IIS
9 21 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 21 (0.22%) WordPress
10 20 (0.21%) Skype for Business
11 18 (0.19%) nginx
12 15 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 14 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 14 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 13 (0.14%) Appian
15 12 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 12 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 631 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 592 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 272 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 137 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 118 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 96 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 45 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 38 (0.40%) 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 10 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 10 (0.11%) Windchill
15 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.096%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.096%) InDesign
15 9 (0.096%) SPSS
15 9 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 227 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 62 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 37 (0.39%) Endur
5 35 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 35 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 34 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
7 31 (0.33%) Primavera
8 30 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 30 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 29 (0.31%) Shopify
10 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
11 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 25 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
12 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 25 (0.27%) SAP SD
13 24 (0.26%) NetSuite
13 24 (0.26%) Teamcenter
14 21 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
15 19 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,328 (14.15%) Azure
2 700 (7.46%) AWS
3 623 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
4 489 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 280 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
6 269 (2.87%) GCP
7 209 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 162 (1.73%) Entra ID
9 159 (1.69%) GitHub
10 137 (1.46%) SaaS
11 129 (1.37%) Serverless
12 118 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 115 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 86 (0.92%) OCI
15 82 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 79 (0.84%) IaaS
17 75 (0.80%) PaaS
18 73 (0.78%) OneDrive
19 72 (0.77%) Amazon S3
20 67 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 320 (3.41%) Firewall
2 215 (2.29%) DNS
3 179 (1.91%) WAN
4 177 (1.89%) LAN
5 165 (1.76%) VPN
6 137 (1.46%) DHCP
7 97 (1.03%) Network Security
8 91 (0.97%) Internet
8 91 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 85 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 80 (0.85%) Wireless
11 74 (0.79%) BGP
12 72 (0.77%) SAN
13 53 (0.56%) MPLS
14 48 (0.51%) Intranet
15 45 (0.48%) VLAN
16 42 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 39 (0.42%) SD-WAN
18 37 (0.39%) HTTP
18 37 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (4.25%) Power BI
2 306 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 175 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 122 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 108 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (1.10%) Tableau
8 100 (1.07%) Big Data
9 97 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 85 (0.91%) Oracle Database
11 83 (0.88%) MySQL
12 70 (0.75%) MongoDB
13 62 (0.66%) Metadata
14 56 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 46 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 45 (0.48%) Data Mining
17 42 (0.45%) SAP HANA
17 42 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 41 (0.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 591 (6.30%) JIRA
2 267 (2.84%) Git
3 233 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 113 (1.20%) GitLab
5 111 (1.18%) Selenium
6 70 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 56 (0.60%) Postman
8 52 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 41 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 41 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 40 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 38 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.38%) WebDriver
14 33 (0.35%) JUnit
15 32 (0.34%) Maven
16 30 (0.32%) Appium
17 26 (0.28%) JMeter
17 26 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
17 26 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 2,021 (21.53%) Finance
2 1,882 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
3 798 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 595 (6.34%) Presentation Skills
5 537 (5.72%) Banking
6 427 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 398 (4.24%) Marketing
8 327 (3.48%) Retail
9 320 (3.41%) Telecoms
10 311 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 297 (3.16%) Manufacturing
12 262 (2.79%) Legal
13 181 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 136 (1.45%) Law
15 131 (1.40%) Front Office
16 127 (1.35%) Electronics
17 126 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 120 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
19 117 (1.25%) Investment Banking
20 99 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,358 (14.47%) Analyst
2 862 (9.18%) Developer
3 774 (8.25%) Architect
4 738 (7.86%) Senior
5 685 (7.30%) Consultant
6 683 (7.28%) Project Manager
7 555 (5.91%) Lead
8 497 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 289 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
10 275 (2.93%) Support Engineer
11 195 (2.08%) Administrator
12 188 (2.00%) IT Support
13 169 (1.80%) Data Analyst
14 156 (1.66%) Network Engineer
15 154 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
16 151 (1.61%) Designer
17 148 (1.58%) Data Engineer
18 147 (1.57%) Software Engineer
19 140 (1.49%) Service Analyst
20 127 (1.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (2.90%) .NET
2 216 (2.30%) React
3 214 (2.28%) HTML
4 199 (2.12%) CSS
5 196 (2.09%) REST
6 149 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 131 (1.40%) Web Services
8 121 (1.29%) RESTful
9 119 (1.27%) JSON
9 119 (1.27%) Kafka
10 118 (1.26%) XML
11 112 (1.19%) Node.js
12 95 (1.01%) Spring
13 87 (0.93%) Middleware
14 79 (0.84%) .NET Framework
15 62 (0.66%) .NET Core
16 61 (0.65%) SOAP
17 56 (0.60%) Spring Boot
17 56 (0.60%) YAML
18 46 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 367 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
2 365 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 314 (3.35%) Product Ownership
4 218 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 155 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 126 (1.34%) Driving Licence
7 112 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 111 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 110 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 99 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 95 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 92 (0.98%) NHS
13 90 (0.96%) CMDB
14 82 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 78 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 75 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 72 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
18 71 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 71 (0.76%) Mainframe
19 67 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 989 (10.54%) Windows
2 483 (5.15%) Linux
3 353 (3.76%) Windows 10
4 267 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 165 (1.76%) Unix
6 102 (1.09%) Android
7 90 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 89 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 88 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 86 (0.92%) Windows 7
11 82 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 81 (0.86%) Apple iOS
13 71 (0.76%) zOS
14 43 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.22%) Solaris
17 20 (0.21%) AIX
18 18 (0.19%) Windows NT
19 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
20 16 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,718 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 2,036 (21.69%) Agile
3 1,384 (14.74%) Project Management
4 1,194 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 870 (9.27%) DevOps
6 805 (8.58%) Customer Service
7 683 (7.28%) Migration
8 667 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 666 (7.09%) Computer Science
10 633 (6.74%) ITIL
11 600 (6.39%) Analytics
12 599 (6.38%) Decision-Making
13 540 (5.75%) Project Delivery
14 535 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
15 520 (5.54%) Change Management
16 501 (5.34%) CI/CD
17 480 (5.11%) Scrum
18 449 (4.78%) Roadmaps
19 393 (4.19%) Software Engineering
20 388 (4.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 908 (9.67%) SQL
2 753 (8.02%) Python
3 501 (5.34%) Java
4 399 (4.25%) C#
4 399 (4.25%) JavaScript
5 340 (3.62%) PowerShell
6 163 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 148 (1.58%) C++
8 116 (1.24%) Bash
9 87 (0.93%) C
10 76 (0.81%) Perl
11 68 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 65 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 58 (0.62%) Go
13 58 (0.62%) Scala
14 56 (0.60%) Bicep
15 55 (0.59%) REXX
16 53 (0.56%) JCL
17 49 (0.52%) R
18 47 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,570 (16.73%) Degree
2 1,389 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 909 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 468 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 405 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 198 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 182 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 141 (1.50%) PMP
9 140 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 125 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 124 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 112 (1.19%) CCNA
13 98 (1.04%) CISSP
14 85 (0.91%) CCNP
15 69 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 62 (0.66%) CISM
17 60 (0.64%) Azure Certification
18 53 (0.56%) MCSE
19 44 (0.47%) ISTQB
20 42 (0.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (5.31%) QA
2 328 (3.49%) SLA
3 272 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 222 (2.36%) PMO
5 155 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 137 (1.46%) NIST
7 121 (1.29%) GDPR
8 99 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 55 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 49 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 39 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
12 38 (0.40%) GRC
13 31 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
14 23 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 17 (0.18%) NCSC
17 17 (0.18%) SEPA
18 15 (0.16%) MiFID
19 13 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 599 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 223 (2.38%) Docker
3 219 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 81 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 63 (0.67%) Firmware
7 59 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 57 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 57 (0.61%) vSphere
9 52 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
10 38 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.29%) RACF
12 26 (0.28%) NFS
13 23 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
14 21 (0.22%) ACF2
14 21 (0.22%) KVM
15 14 (0.15%) BitLocker
15 14 (0.15%) vCloud
16 13 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
17 11 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 289 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 258 (2.75%) Terraform
3 249 (2.65%) SCCM
4 206 (2.19%) Ansible
5 144 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 69 (0.74%) WSUS
7 67 (0.71%) Puppet
8 60 (0.64%) SCOM
9 58 (0.62%) Grafana
10 57 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 44 (0.47%) NetBackup
12 42 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 37 (0.39%) Prometheus
14 36 (0.38%) Progress Chef
15 30 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
16 29 (0.31%) OMEGAMON
17 27 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
17 27 (0.29%) PowerCLI
18 23 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 23 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,961 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 693 (7.38%) SAP
3 505 (5.38%) Oracle
4 290 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 278 (2.96%) VMware
6 240 (2.56%) Cisco
7 204 (2.17%) Google
7 204 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 150 (1.60%) IBM
9 148 (1.58%) Adobe
10 128 (1.36%) Dell
11 126 (1.34%) HP
12 121 (1.29%) Databricks
13 99 (1.05%) Citrix
14 93 (0.99%) Splunk
15 86 (0.92%) Atlassian
16 78 (0.83%) Apple
17 75 (0.80%) F5
18 64 (0.68%) Ariba
19 59 (0.63%) Palo Alto