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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 233 215
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 -28
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 587 283 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.13% 1.14%
As % of the General category 2.46% 1.75% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 175 244
10th Percentile £413 £353 £369
25th Percentile £475 £436 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £641 £700
90th Percentile £850 £753 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £548 £550
% change year-on-year +4.93% -0.36% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 64
10th Percentile £37.00 £18.72 £21.30
25th Percentile £61.63 £42.88 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £61.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% +60.68% -38.02%
75th Percentile £103.13 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.21 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £62.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +36.00% +63.96% -38.02%

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 23,836 16,141 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.89% 64.30% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,503 10,399 13,692
10th Percentile £313 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 774 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.58 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -13.38% +15.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.89 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.36% -12.70% +5.00%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +40 312 £625 +8.70% 175
North of England -24 96 £485 -1.02% 61
South East -12 77 £589 -6.28% 120
Midlands -22 53 £500 -9.09% 31
North West -17 48 £459 +10.60% 30
West Midlands -26 43 £550 -6.38% 20
Yorkshire -32 40 £540 +2.76% 25
South West -46 22 £547 +4.24% 23
East of England -19 16 £533 +3.90% 21
East Midlands -12 9 £500 +39.66% 11
North East -28 8 £369 - 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 (4.09%) Confluence
2 14 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.70%) CICS
4 9 (1.53%) CMS
5 7 (1.19%) SAS
6 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.51%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.51%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Actimize
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (11.75%) Azure
2 60 (10.22%) AWS
3 32 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.11%) SaaS
5 29 (4.94%) GCP
6 18 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.04%) GitHub
8 12 (2.04%) OpenShift
8 12 (2.04%) Serverless
9 10 (1.70%) PaaS
10 9 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.85%) Figma
14 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.56%) Firewall
2 6 (1.02%) Network Security
2 6 (1.02%) WAN
3 5 (0.85%) LAN
3 5 (0.85%) VPN
4 4 (0.68%) DNS
4 4 (0.68%) Intranet
5 3 (0.51%) BGP
5 3 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.51%) IPsec
5 3 (0.51%) MPLS
5 3 (0.51%) OSPF
5 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.51%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) Broadband
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.34%) HTTP
6 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.09%) Power BI
2 14 (2.39%) Metadata
3 9 (1.53%) DataStage
4 8 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.19%) Tableau
6 6 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.68%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (0.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.51%) Looker
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.51%) Pentaho
10 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.34%) Big Data
10 2 (0.34%) GIS
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (6.13%) JIRA
2 19 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.36%) Git
4 4 (0.68%) GitLab
5 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.34%) MSI
6 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 288 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 201 (34.24%) Finance
3 112 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (15.67%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.35%) Banking
6 36 (6.13%) Legal
7 24 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.75%) Law
9 22 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.58%) Retail
11 16 (2.73%) Marketing
11 16 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.39%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.39%) Local Government
13 12 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.87%) Front Office
15 10 (1.70%) Military
16 8 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (19.08%) Architect
2 96 (16.35%) Lead
3 72 (12.27%) Analyst
4 68 (11.58%) Senior
5 46 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 46 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 28 (4.77%) Programme Manager
7 26 (4.43%) Designer
8 23 (3.92%) Technical Architect
9 22 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
10 20 (3.41%) Consultant
11 18 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (2.90%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.73%) Product Manager
13 16 (2.73%) Security Architect
14 15 (2.56%) Change Manager
15 14 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.21%) Lead Architect
17 12 (2.04%) Business Manager
17 12 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.56%) Middleware
2 13 (2.21%) LDAP
2 13 (2.21%) OpenID
2 13 (2.21%) SAML
3 10 (1.70%) Kafka
4 6 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.02%) REST
5 5 (0.85%) React
6 4 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.68%) SAPUI5
7 3 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.51%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.51%) JSON
7 3 (0.51%) Node.js
7 3 (0.51%) Pandas
7 3 (0.51%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.51%) Spring
8 2 (0.34%) NumPy
8 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 27 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.70%) BYOD
10 10 (1.70%) NHS
11 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.53%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.53%) VSAM
12 7 (1.19%) PMI
12 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.02%) FMCG
14 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.73%) Linux
2 9 (1.53%) AIX
2 9 (1.53%) Solaris
2 9 (1.53%) Unix
3 8 (1.36%) Windows
4 2 (0.34%) Android
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (41.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 193 (32.88%) Agile
3 141 (24.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 134 (22.83%) Decision-Making
5 113 (19.25%) Roadmaps
6 101 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 101 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (13.46%) AI
8 72 (12.27%) DevOps
9 64 (10.90%) CI/CD
10 61 (10.39%) Project Management
11 57 (9.71%) Change Management
12 54 (9.20%) Analytics
12 54 (9.20%) Migration
13 49 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
13 49 (8.35%) ITIL
13 49 (8.35%) Mentoring
13 49 (8.35%) Project Delivery
14 46 (7.84%) Business Case
14 46 (7.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 36 (6.13%) Python
2 28 (4.77%) Java
3 26 (4.43%) SQL
4 11 (1.87%) Ruby
5 9 (1.53%) COBOL
6 5 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.51%) ABAP
7 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.34%) Bicep
8 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.34%) R
8 2 (0.34%) VBA
8 2 (0.34%) VBScript
9 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 108 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.61%) Degree
4 16 (2.73%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.39%) PMP
7 13 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.04%) CISSP
9 9 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.19%) CISM
11 6 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.68%) CIPD
13 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
14 3 (0.51%) CCNP
14 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.92%) NIST
4 22 (3.75%) GDPR
4 22 (3.75%) NCSC
5 21 (3.58%) QA
6 20 (3.41%) Accessibility
6 20 (3.41%) PMO
7 8 (1.36%) GRC
8 6 (1.02%) SLA
8 6 (1.02%) WCAG
9 5 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.68%) COREP
10 4 (0.68%) FINREP
11 3 (0.51%) COBIT
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) IFRS
11 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (1.70%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.07%) Terraform
3 6 (1.02%) Ansible
4 4 (0.68%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.34%) Rancher
7 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.28%) Oracle
3 29 (4.94%) SAP
4 21 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.56%) VMware
6 13 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.04%) Splunk
8 11 (1.87%) Google
8 11 (1.87%) IBM
9 9 (1.53%) Databricks
10 6 (1.02%) Cisco
10 6 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.85%) GoldenSource
11 5 (0.85%) Workday
12 4 (0.68%) Avaloq
12 4 (0.68%) Pega
12 4 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.51%) Denodo
13 3 (0.51%) F5
13 3 (0.51%) SolarWinds