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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 78 84
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 7 11 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.42% 0.99% 1.36%
As % of the General category 0.71% 1.63% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £413 £352 £263
25th Percentile £451 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.17% +0.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £525 -
90th Percentile £663 £578 £555
England median daily rate £575 £569 £555
% change year-on-year +1.05% +2.52% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.87 £32.50 £34.75
% change year-on-year +19.58% -6.47% -43.50%

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 992 674 1,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.98% 60.83% 61.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 310 527
10th Percentile £185 £255 £208
25th Percentile £311 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +4.60% -4.40%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -5.03% -4.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 110 316
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £24.33 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% +31.51% -6.61%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +11.54% +1.13%

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 January 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 January 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 -14 7 £595 +13.33% 12
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Release Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Finance Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Finance Systems Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Finance Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Copywriting
4 1 (14.29%) Product Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow