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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 227 218
Rank change year-on-year +35 -9 -28
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 636 313 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.15% 1.10%
As % of the General category 2.57% 1.80% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 195 222
10th Percentile £419 £350 £364
25th Percentile £475 £418 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £810 £753 £825
UK median daily rate £565 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +5.12% -2.27% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 60
10th Percentile £46.70 £19.91 £18.91
25th Percentile £71.50 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% +57.40% -38.02%
75th Percentile £103.88 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £86.25 £61.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year +40.82% +60.68% -34.56%

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 24,783 17,415 21,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 63.81% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,939 11,170 13,429
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -3.70% -2.96%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 895 1,709
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.28 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.19% -19.60% +11.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.22 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.42% -17.27% +7.71%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +48 335 £638 +11.84% 333
North of England -28 100 £500 +8.11% 82
South East -17 88 £565 -7.38% 125
Midlands -10 58 £500 -11.11% 54
North West -31 50 £463 +11.11% 48
West Midlands -34 46 £533 -7.39% 31
Yorkshire -28 43 £525 - 27
South West -39 21 £540 +7.90% 68
East of England -13 17 £533 +3.90% 27
East Midlands -8 10 £500 +39.66% 23
North East -28 7 £475 - 7
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 24 (3.77%) Confluence
2 15 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.57%) CICS
3 10 (1.57%) CMS
4 7 (1.10%) SAS
5 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.47%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.47%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.47%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.16%) Primavera
5 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (11.79%) Azure
2 60 (9.43%) AWS
3 29 (4.56%) GCP
3 29 (4.56%) Power Platform
3 29 (4.56%) SaaS
4 19 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (2.20%) GitHub
6 13 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.04%) PaaS
7 12 (1.89%) Serverless
8 11 (1.73%) OpenShift
9 8 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.10%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.94%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.79%) Figma
12 5 (0.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.67%) Firewall
2 10 (1.57%) Network Security
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
3 6 (0.94%) WAN
4 5 (0.79%) LAN
4 5 (0.79%) VPN
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
5 3 (0.47%) Broadband
5 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.47%) IPsec
5 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.47%) MPLS
5 3 (0.47%) OSPF
5 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.47%) VLAN
6 2 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.31%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.30%) Power BI
2 13 (2.04%) Metadata
3 9 (1.42%) DataStage
4 8 (1.26%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.10%) Tableau
6 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.63%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (0.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (0.47%) Db2
8 3 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.47%) Looker
8 3 (0.47%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.47%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.31%) Big Data
9 2 (0.31%) GIS
9 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (6.29%) JIRA
2 21 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.89%) Git
4 5 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.63%) GitLab
6 2 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.31%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.31%) MSI
6 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 313 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 221 (34.75%) Finance
3 125 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (16.82%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.96%) Banking
6 34 (5.35%) Legal
7 26 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.93%) Retail
9 24 (3.77%) Law
9 24 (3.77%) Marketing
10 23 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.20%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.89%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.89%) Local Government
14 11 (1.73%) Billing
14 11 (1.73%) Military
15 10 (1.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 124 (19.50%) Architect
2 106 (16.67%) Lead
3 73 (11.48%) Analyst
4 65 (10.22%) Senior
5 52 (8.18%) Project Manager
6 43 (6.76%) Business Analyst
7 29 (4.56%) Programme Manager
8 28 (4.40%) Designer
9 25 (3.93%) Enterprise Architect
10 22 (3.46%) Consultant
10 22 (3.46%) Technical Architect
11 18 (2.83%) Product Manager
11 18 (2.83%) Senior Manager
12 16 (2.52%) Security Architect
12 16 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.36%) Change Manager
13 15 (2.36%) Lead Architect
13 15 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (2.20%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.04%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.67%) Middleware
2 14 (2.20%) LDAP
3 12 (1.89%) OpenID
3 12 (1.89%) SAML
4 10 (1.57%) Kafka
5 8 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.10%) REST
7 5 (0.79%) React
8 4 (0.63%) Node.js
8 4 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.63%) SAPUI5
9 3 (0.47%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.47%) Bootstrap
9 3 (0.47%) JSON
9 3 (0.47%) Pandas
9 3 (0.47%) SAP PI
9 3 (0.47%) Spring
10 2 (0.31%) .NET
10 2 (0.31%) CSS
10 2 (0.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 47 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 33 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 29 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (3.93%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.73%) BYOD
10 11 (1.73%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.73%) NHS
11 10 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.42%) VSAM
13 8 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.26%) PMI
14 7 (1.10%) FMCG
14 7 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.52%) Linux
2 11 (1.73%) Unix
3 10 (1.57%) Windows
4 9 (1.42%) AIX
4 9 (1.42%) Solaris
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (43.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 210 (33.02%) Agile
3 167 (26.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 148 (23.27%) Decision-Making
5 131 (20.60%) Roadmaps
6 119 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 113 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (13.21%) AI
9 70 (11.01%) Project Management
10 69 (10.85%) Change Management
10 69 (10.85%) DevOps
11 62 (9.75%) CI/CD
12 60 (9.43%) Analytics
12 60 (9.43%) Migration
13 57 (8.96%) ITIL
13 57 (8.96%) Mentoring
14 55 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
15 54 (8.49%) Risk Management
16 53 (8.33%) Project Delivery
17 51 (8.02%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.82%) Python
2 27 (4.25%) Java
2 27 (4.25%) SQL
3 10 (1.57%) Ruby
4 9 (1.42%) COBOL
5 7 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.47%) ABAP
7 3 (0.47%) Bicep
7 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.31%) R
8 2 (0.31%) VBA
8 2 (0.31%) VBScript
9 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 146 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 115 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 78 (12.26%) Degree
4 20 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (3.14%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.52%) PMP
7 14 (2.20%) CISSP
8 13 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.42%) CISM
10 8 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.63%) CRISC
13 4 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.63%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.09%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.62%) NIST
4 22 (3.46%) PMO
5 21 (3.30%) NCSC
5 21 (3.30%) QA
6 19 (2.99%) GDPR
7 9 (1.42%) GRC
7 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.26%) SLA
9 6 (0.94%) WCAG
10 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.63%) COREP
11 4 (0.63%) FINREP
12 3 (0.47%) COBIT
12 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (1.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) NFS
4 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.99%) Terraform
3 9 (1.42%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.31%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.31%) Rancher
7 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.16%) logstash
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.50%) Oracle
3 29 (4.56%) SAP
4 24 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.36%) VMware
6 12 (1.89%) CyberArk
6 12 (1.89%) Google
6 12 (1.89%) Splunk
7 11 (1.73%) Databricks
7 11 (1.73%) IBM
8 8 (1.26%) Cisco
8 8 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.79%) GoldenSource
10 4 (0.63%) Ariba
10 4 (0.63%) Pega
10 4 (0.63%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.63%) Workday
11 3 (0.47%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.47%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.47%) Zscaler