Influencing Skills Contracts in Scotland

Influencing Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 80 78 77
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +37
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 51 97 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.31% 3.40% 2.73%
As % of the General category 3.56% 5.17% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 74 69
10th Percentile £363 £317 £239
25th Percentile £401 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £506 £430
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +17.73% -8.99%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £600 £669 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £566 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +7.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.80
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate £21.64 - £13.02
75th Percentile - - £13.79
90th Percentile - - £14.24
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +132.08% -0.86%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +18 23 £450 -5.26% 1
Glasgow -19 13 £511 -4.71% 2
West Lothian +3 3 £475 -
Aberdeen 0 2 £600 +9.09% 2
Perthshire +11 1 £500 +17.65%
Fife 0 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (15.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) CMS
3 2 (3.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Photoshop
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (19.61%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) Canva
3 8 (15.69%) Slack
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.88%) AWS
7 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.88%) Serverless
8 2 (3.92%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Intranet
2 2 (3.92%) LAN
2 2 (3.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.92%) Metadata
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) SilkCentral
General
1 30 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 19 (37.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.69%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Finance
5 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Publishing
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 10 (19.61%) Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Lead
4 7 (13.73%) Content Manager
4 7 (13.73%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) IT Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Designer
7 4 (7.84%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (7.84%) Content Designer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Content Designer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Designer
8 3 (5.88%) Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.92%) CSS
2 2 (3.92%) HTML
2 2 (3.92%) Middleware
2 2 (3.92%) React
3 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Video Editing
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) Agile
2 22 (43.14%) Project Management
3 14 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.61%) Project Delivery
4 10 (19.61%) Roadmaps
4 10 (19.61%) User Research
4 10 (19.61%) User Stories
5 9 (17.65%) Coaching
6 8 (15.69%) Copywriting
6 8 (15.69%) Scrum
6 8 (15.69%) User Experience
6 8 (15.69%) Wireframes
7 7 (13.73%) Change Control
7 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
7 7 (13.73%) Service Design
8 6 (11.76%) DevOps
8 6 (11.76%) Impact Assessments
8 6 (11.76%) Software Delivery
8 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
2 1 (1.96%) Bash
2 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (1.96%) Groovy
2 1 (1.96%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) CISM
2 2 (3.92%) CISSP
2 2 (3.92%) PMP
3 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
1 4 (7.84%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) PMO
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Kibana
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Cadence
3 3 (5.88%) Adobe
4 2 (3.92%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.92%) Qualys
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) Ariba