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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 255 194
Rank change year-on-year +50 -61 -34
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 396 303 541
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 0.95% 1.32%
As % of the General category 2.21% 1.61% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 177 370
10th Percentile £350 £319 £371
25th Percentile £415 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £675
90th Percentile £769 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -7.30% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 10
10th Percentile £31.49 £21.49 £13.53
25th Percentile £35.60 £25.26 £21.86
Median hourly rate £49.99 £27.13 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.28% -11.07% -34.23%
75th Percentile £64.69 £33.93 £34.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.37 £35.25
UK median hourly rate £49.99 £28.56 £34.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -17.21% -20.42%

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 17,956 18,798 24,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.82% 59.04% 59.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,376 11,267 16,835
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 774 1,021
10th Percentile £13.79 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.29 £17.44 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +12.15% +20.00%
75th Percentile £44.26 £61.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £72.50 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £31.50 £29.25
% change year-on-year -22.73% +7.69% +17.00%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +44 189 £575 +2.22% 246
North of England +7 78 £476 -11.19% 89
North West +4 52 £469 +10.29% 49
Midlands +2 50 £475 -24.00% 47
West Midlands 0 38 £500 -20.00% 33
South East +1 36 £506 +28.16% 191
South West +25 27 £475 +22.58% 41
Yorkshire -5 25 £509 -16.98% 31
East Midlands -4 12 £456 +14.72% 12
East of England -7 4 £513 -2.38% 30
North East - 1 - - 10
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 10 (2.53%) Confluence
2 4 (1.01%) Apache
2 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.01%) JBoss
2 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.01%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.76%) IIS
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.25%) SAP EP
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Blender
6 1 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 12 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.52%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.76%) Primavera
3 3 (0.76%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.51%) HFM
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.25%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.38%) Azure
2 30 (7.58%) AWS
3 18 (4.55%) GCP
4 16 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.79%) SaaS
6 13 (3.28%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.03%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.78%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.27%) Matillion
11 5 (1.26%) dbt
11 5 (1.26%) GitHub
12 4 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.76%) Alation
13 3 (0.76%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.76%) IaaS
13 3 (0.76%) Smartsheet
14 2 (0.51%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) WAN
2 4 (1.01%) Firewall
2 4 (1.01%) Internet
3 3 (0.76%) DHCP
3 3 (0.76%) DNS
3 3 (0.76%) VLAN
3 3 (0.76%) VPN
4 2 (0.51%) LAN
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
4 2 (0.51%) VSAN
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) Broadband
5 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) OSPF
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.25%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (2.78%) Power BI
2 7 (1.77%) Star Schema
3 5 (1.26%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.01%) Big Data
4 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
4 4 (1.01%) Metadata
4 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.01%) Tableau
5 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.51%) GIS
6 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.25%) DTS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (6.57%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.01%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.01%) Git
3 4 (1.01%) IntelliJ
3 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.01%) JUnit
3 4 (1.01%) Selenium
4 3 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
General
1 227 (57.32%) Social Skills
2 148 (37.37%) Finance
3 98 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 36 (9.09%) Banking
6 31 (7.83%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (6.31%) Marketing
8 19 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.04%) Retail
10 10 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.53%) Legal
11 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.02%) Front Office
12 8 (2.02%) Publishing
13 7 (1.77%) Back Office
13 7 (1.77%) Law
14 6 (1.52%) Automotive
14 6 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (15.40%) Analyst
1 61 (15.40%) Lead
2 48 (12.12%) Architect
3 47 (11.87%) Business Analyst
4 39 (9.85%) Senior
5 35 (8.84%) Project Manager
6 21 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (3.28%) Consultant
8 12 (3.03%) Change Manager
8 12 (3.03%) Senior Manager
9 11 (2.78%) Product Manager
9 11 (2.78%) Product Owner
9 11 (2.78%) Transition Manager
10 10 (2.53%) Programme Manager
11 9 (2.27%) Service Manager
11 9 (2.27%) Service Transition Manager
12 8 (2.02%) Technical Analyst
13 7 (1.77%) Designer
13 7 (1.77%) Governance Manager
14 6 (1.52%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.78%) .NET
2 9 (2.27%) SailPoint
3 8 (2.02%) XML
4 7 (1.77%) REST
5 6 (1.52%) .NET Framework
5 6 (1.52%) HTML
6 5 (1.26%) SOAP
7 4 (1.01%) EJB
7 4 (1.01%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.01%) HTML5
7 4 (1.01%) J2EE
7 4 (1.01%) J2SE
7 4 (1.01%) JSON
7 4 (1.01%) Kafka
7 4 (1.01%) Middleware
7 4 (1.01%) Play Framework
7 4 (1.01%) React
7 4 (1.01%) Spring
8 3 (0.76%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.52%) Derivative
6 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.01%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.01%) Social Media
7 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.76%) NHS
8 3 (0.76%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.76%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.28%) Windows
2 6 (1.52%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (38.13%) Agile
2 133 (33.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (19.19%) Decision-Making
6 71 (17.93%) Roadmaps
7 70 (17.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (16.92%) Project Management
9 55 (13.89%) Project Delivery
10 53 (13.38%) Change Management
11 49 (12.37%) Scrum
12 38 (9.60%) Waterfall
13 36 (9.09%) DevOps
13 36 (9.09%) Service Design
14 35 (8.84%) Risk Management
15 34 (8.59%) Mentoring
16 33 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
17 31 (7.83%) Business Strategy
17 31 (7.83%) Service Management
18 30 (7.58%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.31%) SQL
2 21 (5.30%) Python
3 18 (4.55%) Java
4 9 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.52%) Scala
6 5 (1.26%) Bash
6 5 (1.26%) C#
7 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) ABAP
10 1 (0.25%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.25%) R
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (16.67%) Degree
2 53 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.62%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.78%) PMP
6 10 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.01%) CISSP
10 4 (1.01%) ISEB
10 4 (1.01%) RIBA
10 4 (1.01%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.76%) BC Cleared
11 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.76%) CISM
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.29%) GDPR
2 16 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.79%) QA
4 10 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.02%) NIST
5 8 (2.02%) PMO
6 7 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.26%) GRC
7 5 (1.26%) SLA
8 4 (1.01%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.51%) COBIT
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.77%) Docker
2 7 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.51%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (2.27%) Terraform
2 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.52%) SCCM
4 4 (1.01%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.01%) Puppet
5 3 (0.76%) Grafana
6 2 (0.51%) Ansible
7 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.25%) SCOM
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.58%) SAP
3 17 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.04%) Oracle
5 15 (3.79%) Workday
6 9 (2.27%) Google
7 8 (2.02%) Ariba
7 8 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.77%) IFS
8 7 (1.77%) VMware
9 6 (1.52%) Citrix
10 4 (1.01%) Databricks
10 4 (1.01%) webMethods
11 3 (0.76%) Adobe
11 3 (0.76%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.76%) Murex
12 2 (0.51%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.51%) NetApp
12 2 (0.51%) Planview
566 Influencing Skills jobs in England