Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in England

Influencing Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 197 247
Rank change year-on-year +45 +50 -50
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 877 390 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 1.40% 0.97%
As % of the General category 3.34% 2.18% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 254 180
10th Percentile £419 £350 £325
25th Percentile £492 £415 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £691 £638 £670
90th Percentile £788 £771 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.76% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 7
10th Percentile £60.63 £31.49 £22.74
25th Percentile £62.50 £35.60 £25.26
Median hourly rate £85.00 £54.51 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +55.93% +60.65% -1.65%
75th Percentile £103.63 £65.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.00 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £83.50 £54.51 £31.97
% change year-on-year +53.18% +70.53% -7.35%

All General Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,286 17,862 18,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.47% 63.91% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,330 11,337 11,341
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,048 851
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £16.29 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -29.15% +19.33%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.19 £61.52
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £25.08 £33.52
% change year-on-year +11.07% -25.19% +21.89%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
London +59 456 £630 +9.57% 875
South East +27 134 £568 +13.60% 282
North of England -24 124 £524 +8.32% 222
Midlands -11 80 £575 +23.66% 156
West Midlands -14 70 £580 +10.48% 103
Yorkshire -5 57 £515 +0.39% 80
North West -30 56 £550 +17.33% 129
South West -33 40 £550 +10.00% 87
East of England -5 24 £533 -3.18% 80
North East -27 13 £400 - 13
East Midlands -19 9 £500 +38.89% 53
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 32 (3.65%) Confluence
2 23 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.60%) SAS
4 13 (1.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.46%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.46%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.46%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.34%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.34%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (11.29%) Azure
2 68 (7.75%) AWS
3 57 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 43 (4.90%) SaaS
5 31 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (3.31%) GCP
7 28 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (1.71%) PaaS
9 14 (1.60%) GitHub
10 13 (1.48%) Serverless
11 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.03%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.91%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (0.91%) Google Analytics
13 8 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.80%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.71%) Broadband
1 15 (1.71%) Network Security
2 9 (1.03%) Firewall
2 9 (1.03%) WAN
3 7 (0.80%) DNS
3 7 (0.80%) LAN
4 4 (0.46%) VPN
4 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.34%) ATM
5 3 (0.34%) BGP
5 3 (0.34%) DHCP
5 3 (0.34%) IPv4
5 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.34%) MPLS
5 3 (0.34%) NAS
5 3 (0.34%) SAN
5 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.34%) VLAN
5 3 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.25%) Power BI
2 40 (4.56%) Metadata
3 19 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.03%) Pentaho
7 7 (0.80%) Looker
7 7 (0.80%) Tableau
8 5 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.46%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 4 (0.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (0.46%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.34%) Db2
10 3 (0.34%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.23%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (6.61%) JIRA
2 8 (0.91%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
4 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) Mocha
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.11%) Sinon.JS
General
1 399 (45.50%) Social Skills
2 308 (35.12%) Finance
3 168 (19.16%) Public Sector
4 160 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (8.78%) Banking
6 50 (5.70%) Marketing
6 50 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
7 44 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (4.45%) Legal
9 37 (4.22%) Retail
10 32 (3.65%) Military
11 23 (2.62%) Local Government
12 22 (2.51%) Law
13 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.28%) Aerospace
15 18 (2.05%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.82%) Aviation
16 16 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (19.84%) Lead
2 157 (17.90%) Architect
3 93 (10.60%) Senior
4 81 (9.24%) Analyst
5 66 (7.53%) Project Manager
6 48 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 36 (4.10%) Programme Manager
8 34 (3.88%) Consultant
8 34 (3.88%) Product Manager
9 33 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 32 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 30 (3.42%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
12 26 (2.96%) Product Owner
12 26 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
13 25 (2.85%) IT Manager
14 24 (2.74%) Security Architect
15 21 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
16 18 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.05%) Terraform
2 15 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (1.25%) ATL
4 10 (1.14%) Kafka
4 10 (1.14%) SOAP
5 9 (1.03%) Middleware
5 9 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
6 8 (0.91%) REST
7 6 (0.68%) SAPUI5
8 5 (0.57%) SAP PI
8 5 (0.57%) Web Services
9 4 (0.46%) .NET
9 4 (0.46%) Node.js
9 4 (0.46%) Playwright
9 4 (0.46%) React
9 4 (0.46%) Spring
9 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.34%) CSS
10 3 (0.34%) LDAP
10 3 (0.34%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.94%) Social Media
11 16 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.71%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.48%) NHS
14 11 (1.25%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
16 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 7 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (0.80%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.60%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Linux
4 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (52.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 268 (30.56%) Agile
3 258 (29.42%) Decision-Making
4 235 (26.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 233 (26.57%) Roadmaps
6 170 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 168 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (16.42%) AI
9 118 (13.45%) Analytics
10 97 (11.06%) Change Management
11 95 (10.83%) Risk Management
12 90 (10.26%) Project Management
13 87 (9.92%) DevOps
13 87 (9.92%) Migration
14 81 (9.24%) Strategic Thinking
15 78 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
16 77 (8.78%) Enterprise Architecture
17 76 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
18 73 (8.32%) Business Case
18 73 (8.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.02%) SQL
2 33 (3.76%) Python
3 23 (2.62%) Java
4 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
5 5 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.46%) ABAP
6 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.46%) Ruby
7 3 (0.34%) Bicep
7 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.23%) C#
8 2 (0.23%) PHP
8 2 (0.23%) R
9 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 214 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 160 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 110 (12.54%) Degree
4 35 (3.99%) DV Cleared
4 35 (3.99%) PMP
5 34 (3.88%) PMI Certification
6 29 (3.31%) CISSP
7 28 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.96%) CISM
9 22 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.14%) APMG
15 9 (1.03%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.91%) CRISC
17 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.56%) QA
3 35 (3.99%) PMO
4 29 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (3.19%) Accessibility
6 27 (3.08%) NIST
7 24 (2.74%) GDPR
8 21 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 21 (2.39%) GRC
9 13 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 12 (1.37%) NCSC
11 10 (1.14%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.80%) SLA
13 6 (0.68%) COBIT
14 5 (0.57%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.46%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.34%) IFRS
16 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 3 (0.34%) P3O
16 3 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.14%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) NFS
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.14%) Ansible
3 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.34%) Grafana
4 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.23%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.36%) SAP
3 45 (5.13%) Oracle
4 31 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.28%) Google
7 16 (1.82%) Databricks
8 9 (1.03%) Cisco
8 9 (1.03%) Denodo
8 9 (1.03%) Pega
9 8 (0.91%) VMware
10 7 (0.80%) Workday
11 6 (0.68%) Planview
12 5 (0.57%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.46%) Adobe
13 4 (0.46%) Ariba
13 4 (0.46%) IBM
13 4 (0.46%) UiPath
14 3 (0.34%) Murex
14 3 (0.34%) Sybase