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 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 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 9,345 11,369 17,627
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 21.57% 20.46% 20.11%
As % of the General category 37.71% 34.98% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,801 7,554 11,568
10th Percentile £213 £250 £260
25th Percentile £380 £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 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -3.06% +5.95% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 444 682
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.97 £23.15 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +26.45% +1.71%
75th Percentile £38.12 £58.82 £37.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £55.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £17.72 £15.50
% change year-on-year -8.41% +14.32% -11.43%

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 24,780 32,506 49,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.20% 58.50% 56.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,533 22,548 34,737
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 996 1,400
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +42.22% +6.89%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.40 £71.89 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.35% +41.03% +2.63%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 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
England +2 8,016 £507 -5.50% 10,700
UK excluding London 0 4,655 £475 -3.06% 7,597
London +1 3,757 £538 -6.52% 3,299
Work from Home +1 3,012 £500 -4.76% 4,217
North of England 0 1,149 £475 -5.00% 1,982
South East 0 1,072 £500 - 1,768
South West +1 684 £525 -2.46% 1,047
Midlands 0 640 £450 -10.00% 1,467
North West +1 615 £475 - 1,109
East of England 0 523 £450 +3.45% 901
Scotland +1 497 £430 -9.09% 480
Yorkshire 0 460 £480 -4.00% 647
West Midlands 0 448 £475 -6.40% 869
East Midlands +2 185 £270 -38.75% 601
Wales +4 91 £384 -9.71% 185
North East +5 69 £525 +40.00% 257
Northern Ireland +2 50 £350 -9.68% 91
Isle of Man 0 4 £388 -19.27% 4

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
1 383 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 240 (2.57%) Confluence
3 224 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 101 (1.08%) CMS
5 70 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 58 (0.62%) SAS
7 54 (0.58%) Apache
8 30 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 24 (0.26%) IIS
10 21 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 21 (0.22%) WordPress
11 17 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
12 16 (0.17%) nginx
12 16 (0.17%) Skype for Business
12 16 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 14 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 13 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 13 (0.14%) Appian
15 13 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 602 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
2 590 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 267 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 132 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 114 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 100 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 47 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 35 (0.37%) Sketch
9 31 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 23 (0.25%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 16 (0.17%) Acrobat
12 16 (0.17%) Trello
13 13 (0.14%) Chatbot
14 10 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 9 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
15 9 (0.096%) Maya
16 8 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
16 8 (0.086%) InDesign
16 8 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 224 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 58 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 36 (0.39%) Endur
5 34 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 32 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 30 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 30 (0.32%) Shopify
8 27 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 27 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 27 (0.29%) SAP EWM
8 27 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 26 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 25 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 25 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 25 (0.27%) Primavera
11 23 (0.25%) Teamcenter
12 22 (0.24%) SAP SD
13 20 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
14 19 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,357 (14.52%) Azure
2 708 (7.58%) AWS
3 634 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 481 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 279 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 277 (2.96%) GCP
7 217 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
8 167 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 155 (1.66%) GitHub
10 139 (1.49%) SaaS
11 127 (1.36%) Serverless
12 122 (1.31%) Power Automate
13 118 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 83 (0.89%) OCI
15 81 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 74 (0.79%) IaaS
17 73 (0.78%) PaaS
18 72 (0.77%) OneDrive
19 70 (0.75%) Amazon S3
20 64 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 320 (3.42%) Firewall
2 213 (2.28%) DNS
3 180 (1.93%) WAN
4 171 (1.83%) LAN
5 162 (1.73%) VPN
6 140 (1.50%) DHCP
7 90 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 88 (0.94%) Internet
9 87 (0.93%) Network Security
10 85 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 79 (0.85%) Wireless
12 73 (0.78%) BGP
13 67 (0.72%) SAN
14 53 (0.57%) MPLS
15 51 (0.55%) Intranet
16 47 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
16 47 (0.50%) VLAN
17 42 (0.45%) SD-WAN
18 41 (0.44%) VoIP
19 38 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (4.14%) Power BI
2 315 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 173 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 123 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 107 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (1.13%) Tableau
8 103 (1.10%) Big Data
9 99 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 87 (0.93%) MySQL
11 85 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 74 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 60 (0.64%) Metadata
14 52 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 49 (0.52%) SAP HANA
16 47 (0.50%) Hadoop
17 44 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 41 (0.44%) Data Mining
18 41 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 583 (6.24%) JIRA
2 274 (2.93%) Git
3 227 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 118 (1.26%) GitLab
5 114 (1.22%) Selenium
6 65 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 51 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 48 (0.51%) Postman
9 47 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 40 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 39 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 39 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 36 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 35 (0.37%) WebDriver
14 30 (0.32%) JUnit
14 30 (0.32%) Maven
15 29 (0.31%) Appium
16 28 (0.30%) JMeter
17 24 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
18 23 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 2,019 (21.61%) Finance
2 1,890 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
3 785 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 594 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
5 551 (5.90%) Banking
6 417 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
7 386 (4.13%) Marketing
8 322 (3.45%) Retail
9 314 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 312 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
11 301 (3.22%) Manufacturing
12 267 (2.86%) Legal
13 182 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 133 (1.42%) Law
15 127 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
16 126 (1.35%) Front Office
17 125 (1.34%) Electronics
18 111 (1.19%) Investment Banking
19 107 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
20 97 (1.04%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,341 (14.35%) Analyst
2 884 (9.46%) Developer
3 795 (8.51%) Architect
4 737 (7.89%) Senior
5 682 (7.30%) Consultant
6 675 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 568 (6.08%) Lead
8 485 (5.19%) Business Analyst
9 297 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
10 270 (2.89%) Support Engineer
11 193 (2.07%) Administrator
12 188 (2.01%) IT Support
13 171 (1.83%) Data Analyst
14 159 (1.70%) Network Engineer
15 153 (1.64%) Data Engineer
16 151 (1.62%) Senior Analyst
17 150 (1.61%) Software Engineer
18 149 (1.59%) Designer
19 141 (1.51%) Service Analyst
20 130 (1.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (3.03%) .NET
2 216 (2.31%) HTML
3 210 (2.25%) React
4 197 (2.11%) CSS
5 191 (2.04%) REST
6 146 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 135 (1.44%) Web Services
8 130 (1.39%) RESTful
9 120 (1.28%) Kafka
10 119 (1.27%) XML
11 117 (1.25%) JSON
12 103 (1.10%) Node.js
13 98 (1.05%) Middleware
14 93 (1.00%) Spring
15 89 (0.95%) .NET Framework
16 62 (0.66%) SOAP
17 60 (0.64%) Spring Boot
18 59 (0.63%) .NET Core
19 56 (0.60%) YAML
20 51 (0.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 374 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
2 370 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 307 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 215 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 150 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 122 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 115 (1.23%) Virtual Team
8 113 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 111 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 108 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 96 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 92 (0.98%) NHS
13 82 (0.88%) CMDB
14 79 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 78 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
15 78 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 74 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
17 73 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
18 71 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 71 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 972 (10.40%) Windows
2 471 (5.04%) Linux
3 342 (3.66%) Windows 10
4 252 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 157 (1.68%) Unix
6 98 (1.05%) Android
7 89 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 88 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 86 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 84 (0.90%) Apple iOS
11 81 (0.87%) Windows 7
12 79 (0.85%) Mac OS
13 66 (0.71%) zOS
14 39 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 22 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.22%) AIX
16 21 (0.22%) Solaris
17 17 (0.18%) Windows XP
18 16 (0.17%) Windows NT
19 15 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,743 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
2 2,023 (21.65%) Agile
3 1,379 (14.76%) Project Management
4 1,204 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 873 (9.34%) DevOps
6 786 (8.41%) Customer Service
7 677 (7.24%) Migration
8 672 (7.19%) Computer Science
9 654 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 606 (6.48%) Decision-Making
11 600 (6.42%) Analytics
12 593 (6.35%) ITIL
13 531 (5.68%) Project Delivery
14 527 (5.64%) Business Intelligence
15 523 (5.60%) Change Management
16 516 (5.52%) CI/CD
17 492 (5.26%) Scrum
18 439 (4.70%) Roadmaps
19 398 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
20 391 (4.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 920 (9.84%) SQL
2 734 (7.85%) Python
3 501 (5.36%) Java
4 412 (4.41%) C#
5 396 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 337 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 157 (1.68%) C++
8 155 (1.66%) TypeScript
9 115 (1.23%) Bash
10 92 (0.98%) C
11 67 (0.72%) Perl
11 67 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 66 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 61 (0.65%) Bicep
14 57 (0.61%) Scala
15 56 (0.60%) Go
16 50 (0.54%) REXX
17 47 (0.50%) JCL
18 46 (0.49%) Kotlin
19 44 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 1,585 (16.96%) Degree
2 1,370 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 898 (9.61%) SC Cleared
4 478 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 393 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 195 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 180 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 145 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 145 (1.55%) PMP
9 128 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 124 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 111 (1.19%) CCNA
12 91 (0.97%) CISSP
13 86 (0.92%) CCNP
14 70 (0.75%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
16 56 (0.60%) CISM
17 52 (0.56%) MCSE
18 44 (0.47%) HNC
19 41 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (5.22%) QA
2 312 (3.34%) SLA
3 276 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 214 (2.29%) PMO
5 148 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 148 (1.58%) NIST
6 124 (1.33%) GDPR
7 103 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 66 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 49 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 40 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 36 (0.39%) GRC
12 28 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
13 26 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 17 (0.18%) NCSC
16 17 (0.18%) SEPA
17 14 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
18 13 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 593 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 227 (2.43%) Docker
3 211 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 80 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 57 (0.61%) Firmware
7 56 (0.60%) vSphere
8 53 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 52 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 46 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
11 42 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
12 27 (0.29%) RACF
13 21 (0.22%) ACF2
13 21 (0.22%) KVM
14 19 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
15 17 (0.18%) NFS
16 14 (0.15%) BitLocker
16 14 (0.15%) vCloud
17 13 (0.14%) HDFS
18 12 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 291 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 269 (2.88%) Terraform
3 233 (2.49%) SCCM
4 209 (2.24%) Ansible
5 144 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 68 (0.73%) WSUS
7 66 (0.71%) Puppet
8 60 (0.64%) SCOM
9 58 (0.62%) Grafana
10 52 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 41 (0.44%) NetBackup
12 39 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 38 (0.41%) Prometheus
14 35 (0.37%) Progress Chef
15 28 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
16 27 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
16 27 (0.29%) Kibana
16 27 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
17 25 (0.27%) PowerCLI
18 23 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,953 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 681 (7.29%) SAP
3 500 (5.35%) Oracle
4 283 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 274 (2.93%) VMware
6 241 (2.58%) Cisco
7 210 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 204 (2.18%) Google
9 144 (1.54%) Adobe
10 139 (1.49%) IBM
11 124 (1.33%) Dell
12 120 (1.28%) Databricks
13 117 (1.25%) HP
14 98 (1.05%) Citrix
15 92 (0.98%) Splunk
16 80 (0.86%) Atlassian
17 78 (0.83%) F5
18 67 (0.72%) Apple
19 63 (0.67%) Ariba
20 62 (0.66%) Palo Alto