Social Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,040 4,712 7,957
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.66% 19.67% 17.91%
As % of the General category 35.27% 33.53% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,035 3,299 5,630
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 132 134
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.00 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.23 £22.52 £15.13
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +132.56% +36.16%
75th Percentile £38.75 £66.94 £46.44
90th Percentile £51.50 £79.80 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £18.97 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -17.52% +27.78% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,619 14,055 24,462
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.58% 58.67% 55.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,650 9,923 17,874
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 318 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.59 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.69 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +47.98% +48.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.23 £65.27
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%

Social Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Social Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Social Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Social Skills.

Social Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Social Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 109 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 80 (2.63%) Confluence
3 63 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.89%) CMS
5 19 (0.63%) SAS
6 15 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
7 14 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.43%) Apache
9 11 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 11 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.30%) nginx
10 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.26%) IIS
12 7 (0.23%) Appian
12 7 (0.23%) WordPress
13 6 (0.20%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 150 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 137 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 76 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 14 (0.46%) Sketch
9 13 (0.43%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.36%) Adobe XD
10 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 6 (0.20%) Acrobat
12 6 (0.20%) InDesign
13 5 (0.16%) Trello
14 4 (0.13%) UserZoom
15 3 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.099%) AutoCAD
15 3 (0.099%) CINEMA 4D
15 3 (0.099%) Maya
Business Applications
1 79 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
5 16 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
6 14 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
6 14 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.43%) SAP SD
8 12 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.36%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.33%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.33%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.33%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.30%) Endur
11 9 (0.30%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.26%) SAP EWM
12 8 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 535 (17.60%) Azure
2 272 (8.95%) AWS
3 208 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 170 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
6 104 (3.42%) GCP
7 66 (2.17%) PowerApps
8 64 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.88%) Power Automate
10 51 (1.68%) GitHub
11 47 (1.55%) SaaS
12 42 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 41 (1.35%) Serverless
14 34 (1.12%) IaaS
15 29 (0.95%) Amazon S3
16 28 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
17 27 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
17 27 (0.89%) OCI
17 27 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.68%) Firewall
2 59 (1.94%) DNS
3 43 (1.41%) WAN
4 37 (1.22%) DHCP
5 36 (1.18%) VPN
6 32 (1.05%) LAN
7 28 (0.92%) Network Security
7 28 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 27 (0.89%) BGP
9 26 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.79%) Internet
11 17 (0.56%) HTTP
12 16 (0.53%) Wireless
13 13 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (0.43%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.36%) SAN
14 11 (0.36%) SSL
14 11 (0.36%) VLAN
15 10 (0.33%) MPLS
15 10 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.53%) Power BI
2 140 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 68 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 65 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 40 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (1.28%) MySQL
8 35 (1.15%) Tableau
9 33 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 33 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 30 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 29 (0.95%) Big Data
12 27 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 25 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.69%) GIS
15 20 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.63%) Metadata
17 15 (0.49%) Power Query
18 14 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
19 13 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 207 (6.81%) JIRA
2 93 (3.06%) Git
3 77 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.81%) GitLab
5 33 (1.09%) Selenium
6 18 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 18 (0.59%) Postman
7 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.46%) JMeter
8 14 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.43%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.39%) Appium
10 12 (0.39%) REST Assured
11 11 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.30%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
General
1 751 (24.70%) Finance
2 594 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 293 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 202 (6.64%) Banking
5 185 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
6 152 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 139 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 115 (3.78%) Marketing
9 96 (3.16%) Retail
10 93 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 90 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 71 (2.34%) Legal
13 59 (1.94%) Front Office
14 55 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 43 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.18%) Investment Banking
17 34 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (1.09%) General Ledger
19 28 (0.92%) Financial Institution
20 25 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 409 (13.45%) Analyst
2 372 (12.24%) Developer
3 295 (9.70%) Consultant
4 289 (9.51%) Architect
5 261 (8.59%) Senior
6 222 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 194 (6.38%) Business Analyst
8 168 (5.53%) Lead
9 114 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (2.34%) Data Engineer
11 69 (2.27%) Designer
12 67 (2.20%) Data Analyst
13 57 (1.88%) C# Developer
13 57 (1.88%) Senior Developer
14 56 (1.84%) Senior Manager
15 53 (1.74%) Functional Consultant
16 50 (1.64%) Software Engineer
17 46 (1.51%) DevOps Engineer
18 44 (1.45%) Service Analyst
19 42 (1.38%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (3.52%) .NET
2 81 (2.66%) React
3 78 (2.57%) REST
4 76 (2.50%) HTML
5 74 (2.43%) CSS
6 71 (2.34%) AngularJS
7 64 (2.11%) Web Services
8 60 (1.97%) RESTful
9 57 (1.88%) Kafka
10 50 (1.64%) JSON
11 49 (1.61%) Middleware
12 48 (1.58%) XML
13 39 (1.28%) Node.js
14 34 (1.12%) ARM Templates
15 31 (1.02%) SOAP
16 29 (0.95%) YAML
17 28 (0.92%) Spring
18 25 (0.82%) .NET Framework
19 23 (0.76%) ASP.NET
20 21 (0.69%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 97 (3.19%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 51 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 45 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 43 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 40 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 38 (1.25%) Mainframe
10 34 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 30 (0.99%) CMDB
13 28 (0.92%) NHS
13 28 (0.92%) PKI
14 27 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 27 (0.89%) Cloud Native
15 25 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 239 (7.86%) Windows
2 188 (6.18%) Linux
3 61 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.05%) Unix
5 32 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (0.99%) zOS
7 25 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.66%) Android
9 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.33%) AIX
11 10 (0.33%) CentOS
11 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.13%) VMS
16 2 (0.066%) OpenVMS
16 2 (0.066%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
2 730 (24.01%) Agile
3 458 (15.07%) Project Management
4 340 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 331 (10.89%) DevOps
6 252 (8.29%) Migration
7 233 (7.66%) Analytics
8 221 (7.27%) Computer Science
9 216 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
10 213 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (6.55%) CI/CD
12 194 (6.38%) Decision-Making
13 192 (6.32%) ITIL
14 180 (5.92%) Scrum
15 167 (5.49%) Roadmaps
16 160 (5.26%) Change Management
16 160 (5.26%) Service Management
17 155 (5.10%) Customer Service
18 154 (5.07%) Data Modelling
19 144 (4.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 369 (12.14%) SQL
2 247 (8.13%) Python
3 175 (5.76%) C#
4 166 (5.46%) Java
5 153 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 105 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 53 (1.74%) Bash
7 53 (1.74%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.45%) C++
9 42 (1.38%) Bicep
10 31 (1.02%) Go
11 29 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 28 (0.92%) PHP
12 28 (0.92%) REXX
13 26 (0.86%) JCL
13 26 (0.86%) Perl
13 26 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.72%) VB
15 21 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 479 (15.76%) Degree
2 392 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 287 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 164 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 86 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 63 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 51 (1.68%) PMP
8 48 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 39 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 28 (0.92%) CISSP
13 23 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.63%) CCNP
15 19 (0.63%) CISM
15 19 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 16 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (5.66%) QA
2 111 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.43%) SLA
4 60 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 58 (1.91%) PMO
6 48 (1.58%) NIST
7 47 (1.55%) GDPR
8 39 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 19 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 14 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.36%) SEPA
14 10 (0.33%) GRC
14 10 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.30%) MiFID
16 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.26%) NCSC
17 7 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 135 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 98 (3.22%) Docker
3 40 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
6 25 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.63%) vSphere
8 16 (0.53%) RACF
9 14 (0.46%) Hyper-V
10 12 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 10 (0.33%) ACF2
13 7 (0.23%) Firmware
13 7 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 7 (0.23%) Microcode
13 7 (0.23%) NFS
13 7 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.099%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.099%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 143 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 113 (3.72%) Terraform
3 89 (2.93%) Ansible
4 40 (1.32%) SCCM
5 39 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (1.15%) SCOM
7 32 (1.05%) Grafana
8 28 (0.92%) Puppet
9 23 (0.76%) WSUS
10 22 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 20 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (0.59%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.43%) Kibana
14 13 (0.43%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.39%) Consul
16 11 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.33%) logstash
18 9 (0.30%) Data Guard
19 8 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 573 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 202 (6.64%) SAP
3 167 (5.49%) Oracle
4 89 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 70 (2.30%) Google
6 62 (2.04%) Databricks
7 61 (2.01%) IBM
8 55 (1.81%) Cisco
9 54 (1.78%) VMware
10 53 (1.74%) Adobe
11 50 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 35 (1.15%) Splunk
13 28 (0.92%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.86%) Dell
14 26 (0.86%) Informatica
15 25 (0.82%) Ariba
16 23 (0.76%) F5
17 20 (0.66%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.63%) Red Hat
19 18 (0.59%) Remedy