Influencing Skills Contracts

Influencing Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies. 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 201 183 181
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 513 871 1,463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.46% 1.65%
As % of the General category 2.03% 2.49% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 588 1,022
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £454 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +7.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £821 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 25 22
10th Percentile £23.17 £45.00 £14.72
25th Percentile - £57.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +132.08% -0.86%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £39.61 £71.30 £46.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +207.50% -24.53%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -5 442 £575 - 375
UK excluding London -27 265 £525 -4.55% 241
London +29 226 £600 -4.00% 145
Work from Home +31 205 £525 -6.46% 134
East of England +49 81 £500 -16.67% 30
Scotland -2 51 £490 -3.21% 9
South East -36 43 £575 +4.55% 59
North of England -35 42 £555 +0.68% 59
South West -2 30 £630 +4.96% 31
North West -20 25 £555 -8.45% 40
Midlands -17 20 £613 +13.43% 47
Yorkshire -18 16 £530 -3.64% 16
West Midlands -5 14 £700 +30.23% 26
East Midlands +15 5 £418 -6.07% 21
Northern Ireland - 3 £435 - 2
North East +19 1 £650 +60.00% 5
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 8

Influencing 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 22 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.92%) Confluence
3 7 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 4 (0.78%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 40 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.12%) Photoshop
4 12 (2.34%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (1.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 6 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.78%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.39%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (9.55%) Azure
2 31 (6.04%) AWS
3 30 (5.85%) Power Platform
4 18 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.92%) PaaS
6 14 (2.73%) SaaS
7 13 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.56%) Canva
8 8 (1.56%) Slack
9 7 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.36%) IaaS
10 6 (1.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) GitHub
10 6 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.78%) Serverless
12 3 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.58%) FinancialForce
12 3 (0.58%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.58%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.12%) Intranet
2 8 (1.56%) LAN
3 7 (1.36%) WAN
4 5 (0.97%) Internet
5 4 (0.78%) 5G
5 4 (0.78%) DNS
5 4 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.58%) Firewall
7 2 (0.39%) 4G
7 2 (0.39%) DMZ
7 2 (0.39%) SAN
7 2 (0.39%) SSL
7 2 (0.39%) WebEx
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.19%) Network Security
8 1 (0.19%) NGFW
8 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.19%) VSAN
8 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.90%) Power BI
2 13 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.36%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.17%) Metadata
5 6 (1.17%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.58%) MySQL
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.39%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.39%) Flink
7 2 (0.39%) Redis
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.19%) Big Data
8 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (7.99%) JIRA
2 10 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.36%) JMeter
3 7 (1.36%) Selenium
4 4 (0.78%) Git
4 4 (0.78%) GitLab
5 3 (0.58%) Maven
6 2 (0.39%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.19%) RStudio
7 1 (0.19%) SilkCentral
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 316 (61.60%) Social Skills
2 206 (40.16%) Finance
3 112 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (16.76%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (11.31%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.97%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (7.99%) Banking
8 32 (6.24%) Marketing
9 27 (5.26%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.68%) Legal
11 22 (4.29%) Manufacturing
12 16 (3.12%) Retail
13 15 (2.92%) Local Government
14 13 (2.53%) Electronics
14 13 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.56%) Back Office
16 8 (1.56%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.17%) Multimedia
18 4 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (18.13%) Project Manager
2 66 (12.87%) Analyst
3 63 (12.28%) Architect
4 48 (9.36%) Senior
5 41 (7.99%) Lead
6 36 (7.02%) Business Analyst
7 27 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 25 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
9 16 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
10 15 (2.92%) Data Manager
10 15 (2.92%) Designer
11 14 (2.73%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.34%) Programme Manager
14 11 (2.14%) Consultant
14 11 (2.14%) Data Analyst
15 10 (1.95%) Data Architect
15 10 (1.95%) ITIL Manager
16 9 (1.75%) Agile Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.75%) REST
1 9 (1.75%) Web Services
2 8 (1.56%) HTML
3 7 (1.36%) CSS
3 7 (1.36%) Middleware
4 6 (1.17%) JSON
4 6 (1.17%) SOAP
5 5 (0.97%) ADO
5 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.97%) Spring
5 5 (0.97%) XML
6 4 (0.78%) Kafka
6 4 (0.78%) RESTful
7 3 (0.58%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.58%) J2EE
7 3 (0.58%) jQuery
7 3 (0.58%) Sass
7 3 (0.58%) Spring MVC
7 3 (0.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (0.58%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 31 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 8 (1.56%) Video Editing
6 7 (1.36%) Digital Media
6 7 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.17%) Graphic Design
8 5 (0.97%) CMDB
8 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.97%) IoT
8 5 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.97%) PKI
8 5 (0.97%) PMI
8 5 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.78%) NHS
9 4 (0.78%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.70%) Linux
2 14 (2.73%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Unix
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (36.06%) Agile
2 181 (35.28%) Project Management
3 144 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 112 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (14.42%) Business Strategy
6 65 (12.67%) Roadmaps
7 64 (12.48%) Decision-Making
8 62 (12.09%) Project Delivery
9 60 (11.70%) Change Management
10 58 (11.31%) PRINCE2
11 57 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (10.33%) Programme Management
13 49 (9.55%) Scrum
14 48 (9.36%) Business Development
15 46 (8.97%) Business Analysis
16 40 (7.80%) Business Case
17 37 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (7.02%) Risk Management
19 35 (6.82%) DevOps
20 34 (6.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.53%) SQL
2 11 (2.14%) JavaScript
3 10 (1.95%) Python
4 7 (1.36%) Java
5 4 (0.78%) Bash
6 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.39%) VBA
7 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.19%) Groovy
7 1 (0.19%) Natural
7 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.45%) Degree
3 67 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 11 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.95%) PMP
8 7 (1.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 7 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.97%) CISSP
9 5 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.78%) CISM
11 3 (0.58%) NVQ Level 4
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.39%) MBA
12 2 (0.39%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.85%) QA
2 29 (5.65%) PMO
3 19 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.95%) GDPR
5 7 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.97%) SLA
7 4 (0.78%) Basel III
7 4 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.39%) COREP
9 2 (0.39%) FINREP
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (1.95%) Docker
2 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.36%) Terraform
3 6 (1.17%) Ansible
3 6 (1.17%) Kibana
4 5 (0.97%) Grafana
4 5 (0.97%) Puppet
5 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.58%) Nagios
5 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 57 (11.11%) SAP
3 16 (3.12%) Adobe
4 13 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.56%) Databricks
6 7 (1.36%) VMware
7 6 (1.17%) BT
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.97%) Cadence
8 5 (0.97%) Centrify
8 5 (0.97%) CyberArk
8 5 (0.97%) Oracle
8 5 (0.97%) Qualys
9 4 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.78%) Dell
10 3 (0.58%) Commvault
10 3 (0.58%) Google
10 3 (0.58%) Intel
10 3 (0.58%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.58%) Splunk