Social Skills Contracts in the North East

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Social Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 5 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 70 58 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 21.67% 16.57% 15.61%
As % of the General category 41.92% 31.35% 35.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 44 64
10th Percentile £163 £191 £123
25th Percentile £410 £231 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £571
90th Percentile £738 £618 £650
England median daily rate £510 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -4.49% +1.71% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £10.62 - £11.58
25th Percentile £11.58 - £12.83
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £14.00
75th Percentile £20.77 - £16.00
90th Percentile £20.99 - -
England median hourly rate £18.35 £23.15 £18.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% +28.61% -

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 167 185 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 51.70% 52.86% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 146 163
10th Percentile £281 £231 £140
25th Percentile £403 £369 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +24.22%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 13
10th Percentile £11.26 £18.23 £10.55
25th Percentile £12.13 £18.56 £12.83
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.75 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% +71.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £47.38 £32.44 £17.25
90th Percentile £48.75 £33.23 £18.50
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the North East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the North East

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Tyne and Wear +16 46 £525 +16.67% 154
Durham 0 17 £175 -32.69% 56
Northumberland -3 3 £897 +307.71% 10
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.29%) Trello
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.43%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) AWS
2 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (7.14%) BrowserStack
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (7.14%) GitHub
2 5 (7.14%) Serverless
3 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.43%) GCP
6 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) DHCP
2 2 (2.86%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) VoIP
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) SMTP
3 1 (1.43%) VLAN
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 5 (7.14%) MySQL
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.71%) Power BI
3 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 5 (7.14%) Selenium
3 3 (4.29%) Git
General
1 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Billing
4 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.86%) Marketing
5 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Legal
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 7 (10.00%) Senior
3 6 (8.57%) Designer
3 6 (8.57%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Architect
4 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Interaction Designer
4 5 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) IT Support
4 5 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Business Architect
5 3 (4.29%) Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (4.29%) IT Manager
5 3 (4.29%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) RESTful
2 5 (7.14%) Next.js
2 5 (7.14%) React
3 3 (4.29%) .NET
3 3 (4.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (4.29%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.29%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Solar Power
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) Photovoltaics
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Windows
2 7 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.43%) Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (31.43%) Project Management
3 19 (27.14%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.43%) Decision-Making
6 8 (11.43%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.00%) SFIA
7 7 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 6 (8.57%) Customer Service
8 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.57%) Scrum
9 5 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.14%) Interaction Design
9 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.14%) Sprint Review
9 5 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) Java
1 8 (11.43%) SQL
2 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.71%) Python
5 3 (4.29%) Apex Code
5 3 (4.29%) C#
5 3 (4.29%) SOQL
6 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (1.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) HNC
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.86%) MCSE
5 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) CCNP
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.43%) GPEN
6 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.43%) OSCP
6 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.43%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) Autotask
2 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.43%) SCCM
2 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.43%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.14%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) VMware
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Ariba
6 1 (1.43%) Aruba
6 1 (1.43%) Citrix
6 1 (1.43%) Datto
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Sophos
6 1 (1.43%) Symantec