Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Influencing Skills
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 13 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.04% 3.07% 0.51%
As % of the General category 3.06% 4.58% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile £266 £291 £507
25th Percentile £420 £300 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £350 £535
Median % change year-on-year +27.71% -34.58% +3.88%
75th Percentile £500 £511 £553
90th Percentile £525 £586 £563
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £613
% change year-on-year -5.00% -18.37% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +69.23% - -

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 425 306 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 66.72% 67.11% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 170 182
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% -3.61% +15.28%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £673 £675 £613
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 28
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £16.38
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.25 £17.60
Median hourly rate £23.50 £24.09 £25.03
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -3.74% +58.89%
75th Percentile £37.72 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £57.55 £83.45 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £27.13 £24.05
% change year-on-year +9.12% +12.79% +20.25%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Influencing Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Cheshire

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -17 8 £438 -
Chester - 3 £500 -
Influencing Skills
North West

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Local Government
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Publishing
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Governance Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Change Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Coach
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Java Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Java Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) ERP
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) BC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow