Influencing Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Influencing Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 161 181 165
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 203 336 727
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.34% 1.34% 1.64%
As % of the General category 2.29% 2.29% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 237 538
10th Percentile £391 £400 £354
25th Percentile £433 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +6.13% +6.00%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £646
90th Percentile £750 £746 £739
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 2 7
10th Percentile - £42.50 £13.43
25th Percentile - £46.25 £15.62
Median hourly rate £38.12 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.39% +162.50% -21.57%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £22.40
90th Percentile - £62.50 £27.24
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +11.32%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Influencing Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Influencing Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Influencing Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Influencing Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.46%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.48%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.48%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.99%) Shopify
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.29%) Azure
2 16 (7.88%) AWS
3 14 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 14 (6.90%) SaaS
4 11 (5.42%) PaaS
5 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.46%) Canva
7 5 (2.46%) IaaS
7 5 (2.46%) Slack
8 3 (1.48%) Smartsheet
8 3 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.99%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.99%) GCP
9 2 (0.99%) OCI
9 2 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Serverless
10 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) LAN
1 7 (3.45%) WAN
2 5 (2.46%) Intranet
3 3 (1.48%) 5G
4 2 (0.99%) SAN
5 1 (0.49%) DNS
5 1 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.49%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) NGFW
5 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.42%) Power BI
2 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.49%) Big Data
6 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.49%) Metadata
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (6.40%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) GitLab
2 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.99%) Maven
4 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.49%) RStudio
General
1 135 (66.50%) Social Skills
2 94 (46.31%) Finance
3 58 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.88%) Legal
6 14 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.91%) Marketing
8 11 (5.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.93%) Telecoms
10 9 (4.43%) Manufacturing
10 9 (4.43%) Retail
11 8 (3.94%) Banking
12 7 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.97%) Local Government
15 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (14.29%) Analyst
2 26 (12.81%) Project Manager
3 23 (11.33%) Architect
3 23 (11.33%) Business Analyst
4 13 (6.40%) Lead
5 11 (5.42%) Consultant
5 11 (5.42%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (5.42%) Senior
6 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.45%) Business IT Analyst
7 7 (3.45%) IT Analyst
7 7 (3.45%) IT Business Analyst
7 7 (3.45%) Senior Manager
7 7 (3.45%) Transformation Manager
8 6 (2.96%) Agile Business Analyst
8 6 (2.96%) Data Manager
8 6 (2.96%) Project Delivery Manager
8 6 (2.96%) Service Design Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Agile Project Manager
9 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.96%) Middleware
2 3 (1.48%) JSON
2 3 (1.48%) REST
3 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.99%) CSS
3 2 (0.99%) HTML
3 2 (0.99%) J2EE
3 2 (0.99%) jQuery
3 2 (0.99%) Sass
3 2 (0.99%) Spring
3 2 (0.99%) Spring MVC
3 2 (0.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (0.99%) VML
3 2 (0.99%) Web Services
3 2 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.49%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.46%) Video Editing
4 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.97%) IoT
5 3 (1.48%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.93%) Linux
2 9 (4.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (46.80%) Project Management
2 70 (34.48%) Agile
3 57 (28.08%) Business Strategy
4 47 (23.15%) Business Development
5 46 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (15.27%) Project Delivery
8 26 (12.81%) Scrum
9 25 (12.32%) Roadmaps
10 20 (9.85%) Business Analysis
10 20 (9.85%) Decision-Making
11 19 (9.36%) Change Management
12 16 (7.88%) Analytics
12 16 (7.88%) Kanban
13 15 (7.39%) Process Improvement
13 15 (7.39%) Risk Management
13 15 (7.39%) Waterfall
14 14 (6.90%) PRINCE2
14 14 (6.90%) User Stories
15 13 (6.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.91%) SQL
2 6 (2.96%) Python
3 4 (1.97%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.48%) Bash
5 2 (0.99%) Java
6 1 (0.49%) C++
6 1 (0.49%) Groovy
6 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (11.82%) Degree
2 19 (9.36%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) CISSP
4 4 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.48%) CISM
5 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) MBA
7 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PhD
7 1 (0.49%) PMP
7 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) QA
2 7 (3.45%) PMO
3 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.48%) Kibana
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.99%) Nagios
3 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.99%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.85%) SAP
3 8 (3.94%) Databricks
4 6 (2.96%) Adobe
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle
5 5 (2.46%) BT
5 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.97%) VMware
7 3 (1.48%) Cadence
7 3 (1.48%) Qualys
8 2 (0.99%) Commvault
8 2 (0.99%) Dell
8 2 (0.99%) Google
8 2 (0.99%) Intel
8 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.99%) Splunk
9 1 (0.49%) Ariba
9 1 (0.49%) CA