Influencing Skills Contracts 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 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 249 197 184
Rank change year-on-year -52 -13 -13
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 252 438 726
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.18% 1.44%
As % of the General category 1.62% 2.02% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 250 491
10th Percentile £400 £406 £350
25th Percentile £500 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +7.98%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £686
90th Percentile £775 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.53% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 63 24
10th Percentile £16.34 £26.91 £43.75
25th Percentile £23.92 - £57.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.12 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -38.02% +108.47%
75th Percentile £78.01 - £65.75
90th Percentile £89.44 £39.82 £72.23
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £38.12 £61.50
% change year-on-year -14.74% -38.02% +132.08%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London -32 137 £565 -5.83% 392
Midlands +31 28 £538 -23.21% 45
North of England +2 26 £500 -9.09% 109
South East +26 25 £610 +6.09% 109
West Midlands +20 20 £575 -17.86% 31
North West +10 18 £410 -26.13% 55
South West +33 17 £600 -4.72% 50
East of England -31 11 £514 +2.85% 29
East Midlands +14 8 £525 +25.60% 13
Yorkshire -2 7 £538 +1.90% 47
North East 0 1 - - 8
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (3.57%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) NetWeaver
2 7 (2.78%) SAP EP
3 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.19%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.78%) SAP CRM
3 5 (1.98%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.79%) Maximo
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.79%) Shopify
6 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.13%) Azure
2 13 (5.16%) AWS
3 12 (4.76%) SaaS
4 10 (3.97%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.38%) GCP
6 6 (2.38%) GitHub
6 6 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (1.98%) IaaS
7 5 (1.98%) PaaS
8 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.59%) Sentry
8 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.79%) Collibra
10 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.79%) Figma
10 2 (0.79%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) WAN
2 3 (1.19%) Firewall
2 3 (1.19%) Internet
2 3 (1.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.79%) BGP
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) MPLS
3 2 (0.79%) OSPF
3 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.37%) Metadata
2 10 (3.97%) Power BI
3 8 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.59%) Redis
5 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.19%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.19%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Big Data
6 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.79%) IDMS
6 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
3 4 (1.59%) ERwin
4 3 (1.19%) GitLab
5 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.79%) CA Gen
5 2 (0.79%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.79%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
General
1 155 (61.51%) Social Skills
2 97 (38.49%) Finance
3 54 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.73%) Marketing
6 18 (7.14%) Legal
6 18 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (6.75%) Banking
8 14 (5.56%) Retail
9 11 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (3.97%) Front Office
10 10 (3.97%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.57%) Automotive
11 9 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.38%) Military
14 5 (1.98%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 45 (17.86%) Architect
2 39 (15.48%) Lead
3 37 (14.68%) Analyst
4 27 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 24 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.14%) Change Manager
6 18 (7.14%) Senior
7 13 (5.16%) Business Manager
8 11 (4.37%) Technical Architect
9 10 (3.97%) Business Change Manager
10 9 (3.57%) Product Manager
10 9 (3.57%) SAP Architect
10 9 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 9 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (3.17%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (2.78%) SAP Technical Architect
13 6 (2.38%) Business Project Manager
13 6 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
13 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
1 7 (2.78%) SAP PI
1 7 (2.78%) SAPUI5
2 5 (1.98%) Node.js
2 5 (1.98%) React
3 4 (1.59%) Django
3 4 (1.59%) Express.js
3 4 (1.59%) REST
4 3 (1.19%) Middleware
4 3 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.79%) VML
6 1 (0.40%) .NET
6 1 (0.40%) EDI
6 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.73%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.57%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.98%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.98%) PMI
5 5 (1.98%) Podcast
5 5 (1.98%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.59%) Learning Management System
6 4 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.59%) Life Science
7 3 (1.19%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.19%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.19%) Social Media
7 3 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.78%) Windows
2 5 (1.98%) Linux
3 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.56%) Agile
2 72 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (26.98%) Project Management
4 59 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (15.87%) Change Management
6 37 (14.68%) Decision-Making
7 36 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (12.30%) Analytics
10 28 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (10.32%) Project Delivery
12 25 (9.92%) Roadmaps
12 25 (9.92%) Scrum
13 24 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
14 22 (8.73%) Business Strategy
15 21 (8.33%) Business Analysis
15 21 (8.33%) ITIL
16 20 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (7.94%) Waterfall
17 18 (7.14%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.95%) SQL
2 11 (4.37%) Python
3 8 (3.17%) Java
4 7 (2.78%) ABAP
5 5 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.59%) R
7 2 (0.79%) COBOL
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (14.68%) Degree
2 36 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 34 (13.49%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.97%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.38%) IIBA
5 6 (2.38%) ISEB
5 6 (2.38%) PMP
6 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.79%) APMP
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.79%) CBAP
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.79%) CISSP
8 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.75%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.75%) QA
2 10 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) PMO
4 7 (2.78%) SLA
5 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
6 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.79%) COBIT
7 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 2 (0.79%) GxP
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.79%) P3O
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) COSO
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (2.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) Grafana
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Kibana
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Nagios
3 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.32%) SAP
3 19 (7.54%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.17%) Oracle
5 7 (2.78%) Ariba
6 6 (2.38%) Cisco
6 6 (2.38%) Databricks
6 6 (2.38%) Google
7 4 (1.59%) DocuSign
7 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.79%) Adobe
8 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.79%) IBM
8 2 (0.79%) Juniper
8 2 (0.79%) Planview
8 2 (0.79%) QAD
8 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.79%) VMware
8 2 (0.79%) Workday