Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Influencing Skills
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 88 82
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 5 4 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 0.29% 1.65%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.54% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile £363 £305 £330
25th Percentile £381 £383 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +9.09% -3.75%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £503
90th Percentile £638 £598 £581
England median daily rate £516 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -4.35% +4.55%

All General Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 842 739 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 60.14% 54.30% 59.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 286 577
10th Percentile £170 £247 £200
25th Percentile £350 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -7.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 164 290
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.03 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.38 £18.64 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +5.21% -10.55%
75th Percentile £62.56 £55.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year -23.66% +9.17% +16.69%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in the East of England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the East of England

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Hertfordshire -3 4 £550 +4.76% 24
Suffolk - 1 £350 - 4
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Billing
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Systems Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Finance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Transition Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transition Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Product Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Planview