Influencing Skills Contracts in London

Influencing Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 217 185
Rank change year-on-year +29 -32 +19
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 226 321 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.28% 1.19% 1.62%
As % of the General category 2.02% 1.87% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 227 449
10th Percentile £406 £350 £400
25th Percentile £480 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £875 £905 £800
England median daily rate £575 £575 £531
% change year-on-year - +8.39% +3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £47.13 £42.88 £29.85
25th Percentile £48.44 £61.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £68.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +96.43% +28.44%
75th Percentile £60.94 £75.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £63.38 - £52.35
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +16.83%

All General Skills
London

Influencing 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 11,194 17,186 23,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.47% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,991 12,426 16,753
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £801 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 225 296
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.69 £19.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £70.00 £64.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing 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 Influencing Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +5 23 £550 -15.38% 23
West London +12 3 £575 +21.05% 14
South London +13 2 £500 +5.26% 3
North London - 2 - - 1
East London -5 1 £850 +17.24% 6
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing 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 7 (3.10%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.77%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.88%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.73%) AWS
2 20 (8.85%) Azure
3 11 (4.87%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.87%) SaaS
4 10 (4.42%) PaaS
5 7 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.21%) GitHub
7 4 (1.77%) IaaS
8 3 (1.33%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.33%) FinancialForce
8 3 (1.33%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) 5G
1 3 (1.33%) LAN
1 3 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.88%) DMZ
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
2 2 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.44%) 4G
3 1 (0.44%) ATM
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.44%) WebEx
3 1 (0.44%) Wireless
3 1 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.87%) Power BI
2 6 (2.65%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.77%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.33%) MySQL
5 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.88%) Flink
5 2 (0.88%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.44%) Adabas
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.44%) Big Data
6 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.44%) GIS
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (10.18%) JIRA
2 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.21%) JMeter
3 5 (2.21%) Selenium
4 3 (1.33%) GitLab
4 3 (1.33%) Maven
5 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.44%) RStudio
5 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 122 (53.98%) Social Skills
2 92 (40.71%) Finance
3 63 (27.88%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.04%) Banking
5 21 (9.29%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (8.85%) Marketing
7 17 (7.52%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.75%) Legal
9 11 (4.87%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.54%) Retail Banking
11 7 (3.10%) Back Office
11 7 (3.10%) Local Government
11 7 (3.10%) Retail
12 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.77%) Electronics
13 4 (1.77%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (18.58%) Project Manager
2 39 (17.26%) Analyst
3 28 (12.39%) Architect
4 23 (10.18%) Business Analyst
5 19 (8.41%) Senior
6 14 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
7 12 (5.31%) Lead
8 11 (4.87%) Programme Manager
8 11 (4.87%) Senior Manager
8 11 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.42%) ITIL Manager
10 8 (3.54%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.54%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Business IT Analyst
11 7 (3.10%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.10%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (3.10%) Lean Specialist
12 6 (2.65%) Agile Business Analyst
12 6 (2.65%) Service Design Manager
12 6 (2.65%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.54%) Web Services
2 6 (2.65%) REST
3 5 (2.21%) ADO
4 3 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.33%) CSS
4 3 (1.33%) J2EE
4 3 (1.33%) jQuery
4 3 (1.33%) JSON
4 3 (1.33%) Sass
4 3 (1.33%) SOAP
4 3 (1.33%) Spring
4 3 (1.33%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.33%) VML
4 3 (1.33%) XML
5 2 (0.88%) Kafka
5 2 (0.88%) Middleware
5 2 (0.88%) RESTful
6 1 (0.44%) EDI
6 1 (0.44%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.10%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.77%) FMCG
5 4 (1.77%) IoT
5 4 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.88%) Solar Power
8 1 (0.44%) CMDB
8 1 (0.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.87%) Linux
2 7 (3.10%) Unix
3 5 (2.21%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.36%) Agile
2 71 (31.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (23.89%) Project Management
5 33 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (14.60%) Decision-Making
5 33 (14.60%) Programme Management
6 32 (14.16%) Roadmaps
7 29 (12.83%) Project Delivery
8 28 (12.39%) Change Management
9 27 (11.95%) Scrum
10 25 (11.06%) PRINCE2
11 24 (10.62%) Business Analysis
12 22 (9.73%) Service Management
13 20 (8.85%) Business Case
13 20 (8.85%) ITIL
14 19 (8.41%) Kanban
15 18 (7.96%) Process Improvement
15 18 (7.96%) Service Design
15 18 (7.96%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.54%) SQL
2 7 (3.10%) Python
3 5 (2.21%) Java
4 3 (1.33%) Bash
4 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.88%) VBA
6 1 (0.44%) Natural
6 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.95%) Degree
4 10 (4.42%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (3.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 7 (3.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.77%) PMP
8 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) CISM
8 2 (0.88%) CISSP
9 1 (0.44%) ACCA
9 1 (0.44%) CIMA
9 1 (0.44%) CISA
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.64%) PMO
1 15 (6.64%) QA
2 8 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.21%) GDPR
4 4 (1.77%) Basel III
4 4 (1.77%) SLA
5 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) COREP
6 2 (0.88%) FINREP
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (3.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.21%) Terraform
3 4 (1.77%) Ansible
3 4 (1.77%) Puppet
4 3 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.33%) Kibana
4 3 (1.33%) Nagios
4 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 23 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.29%) SAP
3 4 (1.77%) Adobe
3 4 (1.77%) Centrify
3 4 (1.77%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.77%) Databricks
3 4 (1.77%) Dell
3 4 (1.77%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.77%) VMware
4 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.33%) Commvault
4 3 (1.33%) Google
4 3 (1.33%) Intel
4 3 (1.33%) Qualys
4 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.33%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.33%) Splunk
5 2 (0.88%) Temenos
6 1 (0.44%) Ariba
6 1 (0.44%) Software AG