Social Skills Contracts in Leeds

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 133 190 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 19.91% 19.06% 18.59%
As % of the General category 43.89% 34.36% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 116 214
10th Percentile £259 £261 £193
25th Percentile £402 £425 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +3.37% +9.47%
75th Percentile £567 £618 £580
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £461 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.75% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £14.86 - £11.63
25th Percentile £15.35 - £15.24
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £19.25
75th Percentile £38.31 - £21.88
90th Percentile £69.07 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +8.33% +41.18% +16.44%

All General Skills
Leeds

Social Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 303 553 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 45.36% 55.47% 58.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 369 706
10th Percentile £335 £263 £215
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £655 £720 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 12
10th Percentile £15.27 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.74 £10.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.01 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.71% +9.16% -6.12%
75th Percentile £40.38 £21.80 £22.94
90th Percentile £67.15 £22.11 £39.31
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £19.85 £19.35
% change year-on-year +63.71% +2.60% +8.40%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Leeds

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Leeds

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Leeds

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Leeds

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Leeds

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Leeds

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (3.76%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.50%) Trello
4 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.29%) Azure
2 18 (13.53%) AWS
3 11 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.52%) GCP
5 9 (6.77%) GitHub
6 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.01%) npm
10 4 (3.01%) Serverless
11 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.50%) Figma
11 2 (1.50%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Network Security
1 3 (2.26%) WAN
2 2 (1.50%) IMAP
2 2 (1.50%) POP3
2 2 (1.50%) SMTP
2 2 (1.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) LAN
3 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) Power BI
1 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.26%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.50%) Big Data
4 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.50%) QlikView
4 2 (1.50%) Tableau
5 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) JIRA
2 6 (4.51%) Git
3 4 (3.01%) Babel
3 4 (3.01%) webpack
4 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (24.06%) Finance
2 22 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Banking
7 7 (5.26%) Marketing
8 6 (4.51%) Legal
9 4 (3.01%) German Language
9 4 (3.01%) Law
10 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.26%) Social Science
11 2 (1.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (18.80%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Developer
3 10 (7.52%) Architect
3 10 (7.52%) Lead
4 9 (6.77%) Administrator
5 8 (6.02%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (6.02%) Senior
6 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) JSON
2 7 (5.26%) .NET
2 7 (5.26%) CSS
2 7 (5.26%) HTML
3 6 (4.51%) React
4 4 (3.01%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (3.01%) Entity Framework
4 4 (3.01%) JWT
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 4 (3.01%) Redux
4 4 (3.01%) RESTful
4 4 (3.01%) WCF
4 4 (3.01%) XML
5 3 (2.26%) Akka
5 3 (2.26%) jQuery
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.26%) Play Framework
5 3 (2.26%) PySpark
6 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) NHS
2 7 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.01%) BYOD
4 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Windows
2 5 (3.76%) Linux
3 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.26%) VMS
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.60%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (27.07%) Agile
3 19 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (12.03%) CI/CD
4 16 (12.03%) Project Management
5 12 (9.02%) Customer Service
5 12 (9.02%) DevOps
5 12 (9.02%) Project Delivery
6 11 (8.27%) Change Management
6 11 (8.27%) Data Analysis
6 11 (8.27%) Scrum
7 10 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (7.52%) Data Integration
7 10 (7.52%) ERP
7 10 (7.52%) Software Engineering
7 10 (7.52%) Translating Business Requirements
8 9 (6.77%) Decision-Making
8 9 (6.77%) Migration
9 8 (6.02%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) SQL
2 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
3 12 (9.02%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.77%) Bash
4 9 (6.77%) Python
5 8 (6.02%) C#
5 8 (6.02%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.76%) Scala
7 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.26%) Java
9 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Degree
2 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) OSCP
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (1.50%) PMO
1 2 (1.50%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) HL7
2 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Terraform
2 4 (3.01%) Grafana
3 3 (2.26%) Kibana
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.26%) SCCM
4 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Nessus
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Rancher
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize
5 1 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.51%) Brio
3 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.01%) Google
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle
5 3 (2.26%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.26%) Databricks
5 3 (2.26%) Snow
6 2 (1.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.50%) Cisco
6 2 (1.50%) F5
6 2 (1.50%) Qualys
6 2 (1.50%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) VMware
7 1 (0.75%) Civica
7 1 (0.75%) Commvault
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) Palantir
7 1 (0.75%) Veeam