Influencing Skills Contracts in Edinburgh

Influencing Skills
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 49 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 15 23 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.40% 2.82% 3.61%
As % of the General category 3.11% 3.77% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 35
10th Percentile £235 £384 £152
25th Percentile £431 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £594
90th Percentile £668 £678 £649
Scotland median daily rate £479 £490 £506
% change year-on-year -2.24% -3.21% +17.73%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 482 610 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.12% 74.85% 72.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 688
10th Percentile £199 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 7
10th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +64.63% -46.85%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £31.34
90th Percentile £52.90 £67.23 £51.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Edinburgh

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Edinburgh

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Edinburgh

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) User Research
4 4 (26.67%) User Stories
5 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (20.00%) Dependency Management
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) R
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft