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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 142 146
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 272 386 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.70% 1.89%
As % of the General category 2.40% 3.03% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 272 399
10th Percentile £363 £340 £338
25th Percentile £400 £421 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 15 10
10th Percentile £19.77 £18.04 £16.19
25th Percentile - £46.25 £19.85
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £31.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +95.55% +15.41%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £45.03
90th Percentile - - £48.94
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +75.71% +29.63%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Influencing Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,349 12,747 17,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.34% 56.14% 55.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,401 8,646 11,710
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,716 734 1,037
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.46 £27.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +40.88% +2.74%
75th Percentile £53.19 £60.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £69.63 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £31.92 £22.75
% change year-on-year -6.02% +40.31% +8.08%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 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
East of England +43 78 £500 +8.11% 27
South East -34 51 £425 -22.73% 44
Scotland +11 50 £450 -13.46% 24
North of England +2 44 £525 -12.50% 105
North West -4 28 £525 -4.55% 65
South West -20 27 £600 -0.08% 37
Midlands -16 20 £525 -2.33% 51
Yorkshire -5 15 £525 -14.32% 35
West Midlands -13 15 £700 +30.23% 33
East Midlands +6 5 £418 -13.37% 17
Wales - 3 £1,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 2
North East +11 1 £650 +18.18% 8
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.15%) Confluence
3 8 (2.94%) CMS
4 3 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.74%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.15%) Photoshop
3 6 (2.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.47%) Adobe Captivate
4 4 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.74%) Sketch
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.13%) Azure
2 19 (6.99%) Power Platform
3 18 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.94%) Canva
4 8 (2.94%) Slack
5 6 (2.21%) PaaS
5 6 (2.21%) SaaS
6 5 (1.84%) AWS
6 5 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 4 (1.47%) IaaS
8 3 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.74%) Figma
9 2 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Serverless
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.37%) Miro
10 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.15%) Intranet
2 8 (2.94%) LAN
2 8 (2.94%) WAN
3 3 (1.10%) Internet
4 2 (0.74%) SAN
4 2 (0.74%) SSL
5 1 (0.37%) 4G
5 1 (0.37%) 5G
5 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.68%) Power BI
2 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.84%) Metadata
4 4 (1.47%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.09%) JIRA
2 2 (0.74%) Axure RP
2 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.74%) Git
2 2 (0.74%) JMeter
2 2 (0.74%) Selenium
3 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) SilkCentral
General
1 192 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 103 (37.87%) Finance
3 74 (27.21%) Organisational Skills
4 48 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (14.71%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (6.62%) Marketing
8 17 (6.25%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.78%) Electronics
10 12 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (4.04%) Legal
11 11 (4.04%) Manufacturing
12 10 (3.68%) Banking
13 9 (3.31%) Retail
14 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (2.21%) Korean Language
15 5 (1.84%) Local Government
15 5 (1.84%) Publishing
16 4 (1.47%) Automotive
16 4 (1.47%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 45 (16.54%) Project Manager
2 27 (9.93%) Architect
3 26 (9.56%) Analyst
4 24 (8.82%) Senior
5 21 (7.72%) Lead
6 14 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.78%) Designer
8 12 (4.41%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.04%) Senior Manager
10 10 (3.68%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.31%) Digital Project Manager
11 9 (3.31%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.94%) Agile Coach
12 8 (2.94%) Agile Project Manager
12 8 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
13 7 (2.57%) Azure Architect
13 7 (2.57%) Content Designer
13 7 (2.57%) Content Manager
13 7 (2.57%) Senior Content Designer
13 7 (2.57%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.94%) Middleware
2 3 (1.10%) HTML
2 3 (1.10%) XML
3 2 (0.74%) .NET
3 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.74%) JSON
3 2 (0.74%) Kafka
3 2 (0.74%) RESTful
4 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.37%) REST
4 1 (0.37%) SOAP
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.51%) Virtual Team
3 10 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.94%) Video Editing
6 5 (1.84%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.47%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.47%) Graphic Design
7 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.47%) PMI
8 3 (1.10%) NHS
8 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.10%) Solar Power
9 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.37%) FMCG
10 1 (0.37%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.68%) Linux
2 9 (3.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.74%) VMS
3 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (46.32%) Project Management
2 90 (33.09%) Agile
3 65 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (22.79%) Business Strategy
5 47 (17.28%) Business Development
6 42 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 33 (12.13%) Roadmaps
10 28 (10.29%) Coaching
10 28 (10.29%) PRINCE2
11 27 (9.93%) Change Management
12 25 (9.19%) Waterfall
13 23 (8.46%) Analytics
13 23 (8.46%) Decision-Making
14 22 (8.09%) Risk Management
15 20 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (7.35%) User Experience
16 19 (6.99%) Business Analysis
17 18 (6.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.68%) SQL
2 5 (1.84%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.47%) Python
4 1 (0.37%) Bash
4 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.37%) Groovy
4 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (15.07%) Degree
2 25 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.84%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (1.47%) NVQ Level 4
5 4 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.10%) HND
6 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.10%) PMP
7 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.74%) PgMP
8 1 (0.37%) APMG
8 1 (0.37%) CIPD
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.25%) PMO
2 15 (5.51%) QA
3 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (2.21%) GDPR
5 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.10%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.74%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Grafana
3 1 (0.37%) Kibana
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) QRadar
3 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.56%) SAP
3 9 (3.31%) Adobe
4 7 (2.57%) Databricks
5 6 (2.21%) Cadence
6 5 (1.84%) Oracle
7 4 (1.47%) BT
7 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.74%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Ariba
10 1 (0.37%) Facebook
10 1 (0.37%) NEC
10 1 (0.37%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.37%) Planview
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Sparx
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk
10 1 (0.37%) Workday