Social Skills Contracts in London

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 3,757 5,008 7,900
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.40% 19.91% 20.41%
As % of the General category 34.19% 31.42% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 3,472 5,327
10th Percentile £270 £313 £343
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £656 £707 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -5.50% +2.10% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 94 119
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.20 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.93 £21.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £51.75 £59.69 £49.68
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £66.10
England median hourly rate £18.30 £22.53 £17.56
% change year-on-year -18.77% +28.30% -2.44%

All General Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,988 15,940 23,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.59% 63.37% 60.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,846 11,631 17,170
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 200 278
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.12 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £47.81 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.20 £70.00 £65.05
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in London

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +2 551 £550 -4.35% 321
West London +2 95 £350 -33.33% 191
East London 0 47 £450 - 116
South London +1 45 £450 -2.17% 82
North London -1 5 £350 -33.33% 31
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 153 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 77 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 71 (1.89%) Confluence
4 51 (1.36%) CMS
5 45 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 35 (0.93%) Apache
7 14 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.24%) IIS
9 9 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.21%) nginx
10 8 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.19%) Skype for Business
11 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 169 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 47 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 18 (0.48%) Sketch
8 15 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 14 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 10 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.13%) InDesign
11 5 (0.13%) InVision
11 5 (0.13%) Trello
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.080%) Windchill
14 2 (0.053%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 78 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.77%) Endur
4 22 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
5 21 (0.56%) Shopify
6 16 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 12 (0.32%) Aligne
9 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.27%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.24%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 9 (0.24%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
12 8 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.21%) SAP BPC
12 8 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 641 (17.06%) Azure
2 356 (9.48%) AWS
3 224 (5.96%) Power Platform
4 220 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 159 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 147 (3.91%) GCP
7 95 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 78 (2.08%) Serverless
9 75 (2.00%) GitHub
10 72 (1.92%) SaaS
11 65 (1.73%) Power Automate
11 65 (1.73%) PowerApps
12 59 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 47 (1.25%) PaaS
15 41 (1.09%) Figma
16 39 (1.04%) WhatsApp
17 36 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
18 35 (0.93%) Amazon S3
19 33 (0.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.58%) Firewall
2 57 (1.52%) VPN
3 55 (1.46%) WAN
4 53 (1.41%) DNS
5 51 (1.36%) Internet
6 48 (1.28%) LAN
7 32 (0.85%) BGP
8 31 (0.83%) MPLS
9 29 (0.77%) Network Security
10 24 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 24 (0.64%) DHCP
11 23 (0.61%) Wireless
12 22 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.51%) Intranet
13 19 (0.51%) SSL
13 19 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.45%) VoIP
15 15 (0.40%) SSH
16 14 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.37%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (4.87%) Power BI
2 182 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 104 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 78 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 66 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 57 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.46%) Big Data
9 45 (1.20%) Tableau
10 40 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 35 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (0.75%) Metadata
13 28 (0.75%) MySQL
14 27 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 25 (0.67%) RDBMS
16 23 (0.61%) Hadoop
16 23 (0.61%) KDB
17 21 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 232 (6.18%) JIRA
2 146 (3.89%) Git
3 97 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.60%) GitLab
5 57 (1.52%) Selenium
6 32 (0.85%) Postman
7 29 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 25 (0.67%) WebDriver
9 23 (0.61%) JUnit
10 22 (0.59%) Appium
11 20 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.40%) Maven
12 15 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.40%) webpack
13 14 (0.37%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.35%) JMeter
15 12 (0.32%) SoapUI
15 12 (0.32%) TestNG
General
1 1,101 (29.31%) Finance
2 768 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
3 364 (9.69%) Banking
4 272 (7.24%) Presentation Skills
5 255 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 198 (5.27%) Marketing
7 148 (3.94%) Retail
8 124 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 122 (3.25%) Front Office
10 110 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (2.85%) Legal
12 98 (2.61%) Investment Banking
13 85 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 78 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
15 67 (1.78%) Manufacturing
16 57 (1.52%) Back Office
16 57 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 54 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
18 45 (1.20%) Law
19 33 (0.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 559 (14.88%) Analyst
2 498 (13.26%) Developer
3 384 (10.22%) Senior
4 351 (9.34%) Architect
5 324 (8.62%) Consultant
6 288 (7.67%) Business Analyst
7 244 (6.49%) Project Manager
8 227 (6.04%) Lead
9 130 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 98 (2.61%) Data Engineer
11 91 (2.42%) Support Engineer
12 88 (2.34%) Senior Developer
13 84 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (2.21%) Data Analyst
15 79 (2.10%) C# Developer
16 75 (2.00%) Designer
17 66 (1.76%) Network Engineer
18 64 (1.70%) Administrator
19 63 (1.68%) Java Developer
20 59 (1.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (4.07%) .NET
2 126 (3.35%) React
3 117 (3.11%) HTML
4 110 (2.93%) CSS
5 90 (2.40%) REST
6 84 (2.24%) AngularJS
7 72 (1.92%) RESTful
8 71 (1.89%) Kafka
9 62 (1.65%) JSON
10 58 (1.54%) Web Services
11 57 (1.52%) .NET Framework
11 57 (1.52%) XML
12 49 (1.30%) Node.js
13 47 (1.25%) Spring
14 39 (1.04%) Middleware
15 30 (0.80%) PySpark
16 29 (0.77%) SOAP
17 28 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.75%) HTML5
18 23 (0.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 161 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 143 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
3 126 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 76 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 75 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 74 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 59 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 59 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 52 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 46 (1.22%) Derivative
12 44 (1.17%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.09%) FMCG
14 40 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
15 36 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
16 34 (0.90%) Solar Panel
17 33 (0.88%) Virtual Team
18 32 (0.85%) CMDB
18 32 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 273 (7.27%) Windows
2 161 (4.29%) Linux
3 84 (2.24%) Windows 10
4 79 (2.10%) Unix
5 61 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.28%) Android
7 35 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 32 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.56%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.32%) VMS
12 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.21%) zOS
15 7 (0.19%) Solaris
15 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
2 982 (26.14%) Agile
3 478 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 472 (12.56%) Project Management
5 448 (11.92%) DevOps
6 368 (9.80%) Computer Science
7 312 (8.30%) Analytics
8 288 (7.67%) Migration
9 273 (7.27%) CI/CD
10 257 (6.84%) Scrum
11 249 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
12 219 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 214 (5.70%) Decision-Making
14 211 (5.62%) Change Management
15 203 (5.40%) Data Modelling
16 198 (5.27%) Customer Service
17 195 (5.19%) Roadmaps
18 190 (5.06%) Software Engineering
19 188 (5.00%) Project Delivery
20 178 (4.74%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 496 (13.20%) SQL
2 404 (10.75%) Python
3 250 (6.65%) Java
4 242 (6.44%) C#
5 193 (5.14%) JavaScript
6 120 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 92 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 60 (1.60%) C++
9 47 (1.25%) Bash
10 41 (1.09%) Scala
11 36 (0.96%) Go
12 34 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 33 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 29 (0.77%) Perl
14 29 (0.77%) VBA
15 28 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.64%) Bicep
16 24 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.61%) Ruby
18 20 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 726 (19.32%) Degree
2 330 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 262 (6.97%) SC Cleared
4 259 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 56 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 47 (1.25%) PMP
9 46 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (0.98%) CISSP
12 32 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.80%) CCNP
14 28 (0.75%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.72%) CCNA
16 22 (0.59%) CISM
17 18 (0.48%) CCIE
18 17 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (4.52%) QA
2 156 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.02%) SLA
4 70 (1.86%) PMO
5 55 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.12%) GDPR
8 38 (1.01%) NIST
9 26 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.43%) GRC
11 16 (0.43%) SEPA
12 15 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (0.35%) MiFID
14 11 (0.29%) EMIR
15 9 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
16 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 173 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 123 (3.27%) Docker
3 44 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.48%) Firmware
6 15 (0.40%) vSphere
7 14 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 10 (0.27%) HDFS
9 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.19%) KVM
11 7 (0.19%) RACF
12 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 4 (0.11%) NFS
14 4 (0.11%) vCloud
14 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.080%) XenApp
15 3 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 135 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 127 (3.38%) Terraform
3 59 (1.57%) Ansible
4 38 (1.01%) SCCM
5 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.72%) Puppet
7 24 (0.64%) Grafana
8 23 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.35%) Consul
11 12 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.29%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.19%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.16%) VxRail
14 6 (0.16%) zSecure
15 5 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
15 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.13%) EnCase
Vendors
1 694 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 233 (6.20%) SAP
3 203 (5.40%) Oracle
4 132 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 104 (2.77%) Google
6 98 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 89 (2.37%) Cisco
8 80 (2.13%) Databricks
9 74 (1.97%) Adobe
10 62 (1.65%) VMware
11 54 (1.44%) IBM
12 38 (1.01%) Dell
13 37 (0.98%) Citrix
14 36 (0.96%) Apple
15 31 (0.83%) F5
16 29 (0.77%) Fortinet
17 24 (0.64%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.56%) Workday
19 20 (0.53%) Nokia
20 18 (0.48%) Informatica