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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 67 39
Rank change year-on-year -35 -28 +46
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 10 12 81
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.47% 1.27% 4.27%
As % of the General category 0.92% 1.99% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 15
10th Percentile £435 £500 £415
25th Percentile £528 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% +2.85% -13.98%
75th Percentile £638 £544 -
90th Percentile £671 £750 £565
England median daily rate £580 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +5.45% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 49
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year - +96.75% -41.35%
England median hourly rate £44.27 £32.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +36.22% -14.74% -38.02%

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 general skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,084 602 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.51% 63.70% 62.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 324 469
10th Percentile £191 £211 £250
25th Percentile £325 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 110 448
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.14 £17.42 £15.39
Median hourly rate £20.09 £41.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -51.30% +8.21% +81.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £68.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.08 £28.18 £29.83
% change year-on-year +6.72% -5.52% -14.79%

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 24 April 2026.

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 24 April 2026. 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 -21 6 £600 -15.79% 12
Cambridgeshire +4 1 £475 -13.64%
Bedfordshire -11 1 £600 +20.00% 2
Norfolk - 1 £550 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £650 - 5
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Programme Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Product Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Supply Chain Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) FHIR
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) VMware