Influencing Skills Contracts 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 42 86
Rank change year-on-year -46 +44 +19
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 6 69 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.48% 4.11% 1.52%
As % of the General category 0.84% 7.08% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 18
10th Percentile £410 £423 £401
25th Percentile £500 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £753 £525 £569
90th Percentile £871 £563 £653
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 48 0
Median hourly rate - £38.12 -
England median hourly rate £57.26 £38.12 £50.75
% change year-on-year +50.20% -24.89% +25.53%

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 717 975 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 57.41% 58.04% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 338 613
10th Percentile £195 £218 £208
25th Percentile £340 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £625
90th Percentile £676 £650 £738
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 380 270
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.30 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.45 £40.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +125.73% -9.13%
75th Percentile £66.13 £50.00 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.32 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +27.07% +22.45%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the East of England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the East of England

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 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the East of England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the East of England

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 27 July 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 -29 4 £788 +65.79% 9
Cambridgeshire +4 1 £550 - 10
Suffolk -1 1 £350 - 3
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (16.67%) Billing
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Systems Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Transition Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Emotional Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Planview