Influencing Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 135 140
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 257 464 580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.97% 1.89%
As % of the General category 2.30% 3.49% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 319 419
10th Percentile £363 £355 £313
25th Percentile £438 £438 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £588
90th Percentile £775 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 17 10
10th Percentile £22.15 £47.50 £11.72
25th Percentile - £57.25 £15.08
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +190.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £27.16
90th Percentile - - £34.35
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +11.32%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,166 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.40% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,357 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
East of England +35 80 £500 -4.76% 28
Scotland -4 47 £475 -5.00% 17
South East -52 45 £570 +1.79% 45
North of England -27 41 £550 - 70
South West -4 29 £660 +10.00% 40
North West -3 24 £555 +0.91% 46
Yorkshire -9 16 £525 -4.76% 21
Midlands -13 16 £525 -2.55% 55
West Midlands -8 13 £700 +30.23% 35
East Midlands +14 3 £418 -6.07% 20
Northern Ireland - 3 £435 -
North East +15 1 £650 +60.00% 5
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 7
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) CMS
4 3 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
Applications
1 20 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (5.45%) Photoshop
4 8 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.95%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.56%) Adobe Captivate
7 4 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.67%) Azure
2 21 (8.17%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.11%) Canva
4 8 (3.11%) Slack
5 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.33%) PaaS
6 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.95%) SaaS
7 4 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) AWS
7 4 (1.56%) IaaS
8 3 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.78%) Figma
9 2 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Serverless
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.45%) Intranet
2 5 (1.95%) LAN
2 5 (1.95%) WAN
3 3 (1.17%) Internet
4 2 (0.78%) SAN
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) 4G
5 1 (0.39%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) VSAN
5 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.28%) Power BI
2 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.56%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.17%) Metadata
4 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Axure RP
2 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.78%) Git
2 2 (0.78%) JMeter
2 2 (0.78%) Selenium
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) SilkCentral
General
1 178 (69.26%) Social Skills
2 107 (41.63%) Finance
3 75 (29.18%) Organisational Skills
4 43 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (14.01%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (7.39%) Telecoms
8 15 (5.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (5.06%) Marketing
10 11 (4.28%) Legal
11 10 (3.89%) Electronics
11 10 (3.89%) Manufacturing
12 8 (3.11%) Retail
13 7 (2.72%) Banking
14 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.95%) Local Government
16 4 (1.56%) Automotive
16 4 (1.56%) Mandarin Language
16 4 (1.56%) Multimedia
17 3 (1.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (15.95%) Project Manager
2 27 (10.51%) Architect
3 26 (10.12%) Senior
4 23 (8.95%) Analyst
5 22 (8.56%) Lead
6 15 (5.84%) Senior Manager
7 14 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.67%) Data Manager
8 12 (4.67%) IT Manager
9 10 (3.89%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.89%) Designer
9 10 (3.89%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (3.11%) Data Governance Analyst
10 8 (3.11%) Data Governance Manager
10 8 (3.11%) Governance Manager
11 7 (2.72%) Agile Project Manager
11 7 (2.72%) Content Manager
11 7 (2.72%) SAP Analyst
12 6 (2.33%) Consultant
12 6 (2.33%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.95%) Middleware
2 3 (1.17%) HTML
3 2 (0.78%) .NET
3 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.78%) JSON
3 2 (0.78%) Kafka
3 2 (0.78%) RESTful
4 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.39%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.39%) REST
4 1 (0.39%) SOAP
4 1 (0.39%) Web Services
4 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.95%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.28%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.28%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.11%) Video Editing
4 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.56%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.56%) Graphic Design
7 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.56%) PMI
8 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.17%) NHS
8 3 (1.17%) PKI
8 3 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.17%) Solar Power
9 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.50%) Windows
2 8 (3.11%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) VMS
3 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (46.69%) Project Management
2 76 (29.57%) Agile
3 64 (24.90%) Business Strategy
4 63 (24.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (18.29%) Business Development
6 40 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.06%) Roadmaps
8 28 (10.89%) Decision-Making
8 28 (10.89%) PRINCE2
8 28 (10.89%) Project Delivery
9 25 (9.73%) Change Management
9 25 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.56%) Risk Management
11 20 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (7.78%) Programme Management
12 19 (7.39%) Business Analysis
12 19 (7.39%) Scrum
13 18 (7.00%) Analytics
14 17 (6.61%) Coaching
14 17 (6.61%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.33%) SQL
2 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.17%) Python
3 1 (0.39%) Bash
3 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (15.18%) Degree
2 28 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.33%) PMP
5 5 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.17%) CISSP
7 3 (1.17%) NVQ Level 4
7 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.78%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.78%) PgMP
9 1 (0.39%) APMG
9 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) QA
2 12 (4.67%) PMO
3 9 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
3 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Grafana
3 1 (0.39%) Kibana
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.39%) QRadar
3 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.89%) SAP
3 10 (3.89%) Adobe
4 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.95%) BT
5 5 (1.95%) Cadence
5 5 (1.95%) Oracle
6 4 (1.56%) Databricks
7 3 (1.17%) VMware
8 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.78%) Qualys
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.39%) Facebook
9 1 (0.39%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.39%) Planview
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.39%) Sparx
9 1 (0.39%) Splunk
9 1 (0.39%) Workday