Influencing Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 153 212 251
Rank change year-on-year +59 +39 +25
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 1,864 1,836 2,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 1.81% 1.63%
As % of the General category 3.14% 2.65% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 574 709 1,279
10th Percentile £40,262 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £45,617
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £76,500 £81,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,538 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year +2.80% +3.55% -3.43%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Influencing Skills within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +37 1,489 £62,500 -3.85% 411
UK excluding London -3 1,251 £56,538 +2.80% 255
Work from Home +49 829 £55,000 -8.33% 154
London +106 489 £72,500 -0.97% 160
South East +50 328 £52,500 -20.05% 44
Midlands -27 247 £58,750 +6.82% 54
Scotland +23 206 £49,225 -13.24% 17
West Midlands -15 206 £69,138 +28.78% 34
North of England -81 165 £52,500 -4.55% 69
South West +18 126 £60,000 +20.00% 41
East of England +64 90 £57,500 +4.55% 27
Wales +51 89 £52,738 +22.46% 7
North West -61 84 £50,685 -7.85% 45
Yorkshire -37 59 £67,500 +17.39% 21
East Midlands -19 39 £50,000 -31.03% 20
North East +16 22 £56,693 +31.84% 5

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
1 165 (8.85%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.02%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) SAS
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.054%) Drupal
Applications
1 533 (28.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (10.46%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) SPSS
10 2 (0.11%) CATIA
10 2 (0.11%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.054%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.38%) SAP WM
3 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.21%) SAP CX
4 4 (0.21%) SAP GTS
4 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.054%) iTrent
7 1 (0.054%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (5.15%) AWS
2 93 (4.99%) Azure
3 42 (2.25%) Power Platform
4 27 (1.45%) GCP
5 21 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (0.75%) SaaS
8 11 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (0.48%) PaaS
10 9 (0.48%) PowerApps
11 8 (0.43%) Azure AKS
11 8 (0.43%) Azure App Service
11 8 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.38%) Collibra
12 7 (0.38%) IaaS
12 7 (0.38%) WhatsApp
13 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.21%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 449 (24.09%) Broadband
2 11 (0.59%) Network Security
3 10 (0.54%) DNS
3 10 (0.54%) Firewall
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
4 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.11%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.11%) DHCP
5 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.11%) Intranet
5 2 (0.11%) LAN
5 2 (0.11%) SSL
5 2 (0.11%) VLAN
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.054%) 4G
6 1 (0.054%) 5G
6 1 (0.054%) IKE
6 1 (0.054%) Internet
6 1 (0.054%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.054%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (8.85%) Big Data
2 163 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 29 (1.56%) Power BI
4 27 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.59%) Tableau
8 7 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.38%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.32%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.32%) GIS
9 6 (0.32%) Metadata
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.21%) Flink
11 4 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (1.56%) JIRA
2 17 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 16 (0.86%) Git
4 14 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.75%) Selenium
5 8 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.38%) Postman
7 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.16%) JMeter
8 3 (0.16%) Maven
8 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.11%) CANoe
9 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.054%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,290 (69.21%) Social Skills
2 959 (51.45%) Finance
3 780 (41.85%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (17.54%) Law
5 318 (17.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 235 (12.61%) Marketing
7 228 (12.23%) Presentation Skills
8 178 (9.55%) Manufacturing
9 154 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
10 93 (4.99%) Legal
11 90 (4.83%) Public Sector
12 78 (4.18%) Retail
13 54 (2.90%) Financial Institution
14 45 (2.41%) Automotive
15 43 (2.31%) Aerospace
16 39 (2.09%) Banking
17 21 (1.13%) Games
18 18 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.91%) Telecoms
20 15 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 693 (37.18%) Analyst
2 430 (23.07%) Senior
3 250 (13.41%) Senior Analyst
4 247 (13.25%) Lead
5 143 (7.67%) Software Engineer
6 131 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 129 (6.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 121 (6.49%) IT Engineer
9 120 (6.44%) Product Analyst
9 120 (6.44%) Sales Analyst
10 118 (6.33%) Commercial Analyst
11 116 (6.22%) Graduate
12 115 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
12 115 (6.17%) Graduate IT Engineer
12 115 (6.17%) IT Graduate
13 114 (6.12%) Financial Analyst
14 108 (5.79%) Big Data Engineer
14 108 (5.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 108 (5.79%) Scala Engineer
14 108 (5.79%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.45%) HTML
2 21 (1.13%) React
3 17 (0.91%) .NET
4 13 (0.70%) CSS
5 10 (0.54%) .NET Core
5 10 (0.54%) Gherkin
5 10 (0.54%) RESTful
6 9 (0.48%) .NET Framework
6 9 (0.48%) ASP.NET
6 9 (0.48%) HTML5
6 9 (0.48%) JSON
6 9 (0.48%) YAML
7 8 (0.43%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 8 (0.43%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (0.43%) Blazor
7 8 (0.43%) Entity Framework
7 8 (0.43%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (0.43%) XML
8 6 (0.32%) EDI
9 5 (0.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.46%) FMCG
2 87 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.25%) IoT
7 30 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.07%) Driving Licence
10 15 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 14 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.75%) Cyberattack
11 14 (0.75%) PMI
11 14 (0.75%) Robotics
11 14 (0.75%) Social Media
12 13 (0.70%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.54%) Digital Media
14 10 (0.54%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.29%) Windows
2 15 (0.80%) Linux
3 14 (0.75%) Android
3 14 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.21%) DC/OS
5 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) CentOS
7 2 (0.11%) Unix
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (48.66%) Agile
2 735 (39.43%) Mentoring
3 607 (32.56%) Decision-Making
4 550 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
5 512 (27.47%) Business Case
6 480 (25.75%) Actionable Insight
7 465 (24.95%) Budgeting
8 453 (24.30%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 384 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 208 (11.16%) Coaching
11 205 (11.00%) Software Engineering
12 199 (10.68%) Project Management
13 197 (10.57%) SDLC
14 173 (9.28%) CI/CD
15 161 (8.64%) Performance Tuning
16 160 (8.58%) Customer Service
17 156 (8.37%) Customer Requirements
18 148 (7.94%) Roadmaps
19 144 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 131 (7.03%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 214 (11.48%) SQL
2 196 (10.52%) Java
3 165 (8.85%) Scala
4 40 (2.15%) SystemVerilog
5 39 (2.09%) Python
6 21 (1.13%) C#
7 20 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.86%) C++
8 16 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.38%) C
11 5 (0.27%) Go
11 5 (0.27%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.27%) VBA
12 4 (0.21%) PHP
12 4 (0.21%) VB
13 3 (0.16%) Perl
13 3 (0.16%) R
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.054%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 469 (25.16%) Degree
2 452 (24.25%) CIMA
3 450 (24.14%) ACCA
4 133 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 117 (6.28%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 65 (3.49%) SC Cleared
7 35 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (1.18%) CISSP
9 22 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.70%) CRISC
14 11 (0.59%) PMP
15 10 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.43%) HNC
17 7 (0.38%) HND
17 7 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 5 (0.27%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.59%) QA
2 32 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.39%) PMO
4 25 (1.34%) GDPR
5 23 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.59%) NCSC
7 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 9 (0.48%) GRC
9 7 (0.38%) COBIT
9 7 (0.38%) DO-254
9 7 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
10 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.21%) NIST
10 4 (0.21%) SLA
11 2 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.11%) IASME
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (0.86%) Docker
2 9 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 1 (0.054%) IAG
5 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.02%) Functional Safety
3 13 (0.70%) SCOM
4 7 (0.38%) Terraform
5 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 3 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.16%) CASB
8 3 (0.16%) Grafana
8 3 (0.16%) Nessus
8 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.054%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 607 (32.56%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.66%) Cadence
3 30 (1.61%) SAP
3 30 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 28 (1.50%) Synopsys
5 27 (1.45%) Workday
6 22 (1.18%) VMware
7 21 (1.13%) Google
7 21 (1.13%) IFS
7 21 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 13 (0.70%) Databricks
8 13 (0.70%) Oracle
9 9 (0.48%) Adobe
10 7 (0.38%) Minitab
11 4 (0.21%) BT
11 4 (0.21%) CA
11 4 (0.21%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.21%) Teradata
12 3 (0.16%) Qualys
12 3 (0.16%) Sitecore