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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 235 204
Rank change year-on-year +29 -31 -21
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 524 265 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.10% 1.15%
As % of the General category 2.32% 1.72% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 164 243
10th Percentile £413 £352 £400
25th Percentile £483 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £700
90th Percentile £900 £771 £845
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 64
10th Percentile £35.10 £16.34 £21.30
25th Percentile £49.00 £35.17 -
Median hourly rate £98.62 £62.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +57.78% +63.96% -38.02%
75th Percentile £103.94 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.62 -
UK median hourly rate £97.23 £65.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +49.58% +70.51% -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 22,611 15,439 21,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.26% 64.12% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,839 9,972 13,632
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,554 701 1,818
10th Percentile £14.11 £13.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £28.00 £30.44
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -8.00% -4.65%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.75 £52.35
90th Percentile £80.08 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.67% -7.12%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +40 286 £625 +10.62% 271
North of England -17 94 £485 -2.51% 80
South East -26 58 £600 -3.96% 104
Midlands -28 49 £506 -10.04% 55
North West -15 47 £459 +9.29% 39
West Midlands -34 41 £528 -12.00% 33
Yorkshire -32 40 £529 -5.96% 31
South West -29 21 £547 -3.61% 30
East of England -35 8 £563 +9.76% 23
North East -20 7 £425 - 10
East Midlands -26 7 £500 -4.76% 22
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 22 (4.20%) Confluence
2 10 (1.91%) CICS
2 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.53%) CMS
4 6 (1.15%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.57%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InVision
7 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.57%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.57%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Actimize
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.83%) Azure
2 55 (10.50%) AWS
3 31 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 29 (5.53%) SaaS
5 25 (4.77%) GCP
6 17 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.48%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.29%) Serverless
10 11 (2.10%) GitHub
11 8 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.53%) PaaS
11 8 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.15%) Figma
13 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.95%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.95%) Network Security
3 4 (0.76%) Intranet
4 3 (0.57%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Broadband
5 2 (0.38%) LAN
5 2 (0.38%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) IPsec
6 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.19%) MIMO
6 1 (0.19%) MPLS
6 1 (0.19%) OSPF
6 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.19%) RSVP
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.39%) Power BI
2 13 (2.48%) Metadata
3 9 (1.72%) DataStage
4 8 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.34%) Tableau
6 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 3 (0.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.38%) Big Data
9 2 (0.38%) GIS
9 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (7.44%) JIRA
2 19 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.53%) Git
4 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.38%) MSI
5 2 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 180 (34.35%) Finance
3 95 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (14.12%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.40%) Banking
6 31 (5.92%) Legal
7 24 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.82%) Law
10 19 (3.63%) Retail
11 16 (3.05%) Local Government
12 15 (2.86%) Marketing
12 15 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.67%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.48%) Telecoms
15 11 (2.10%) Front Office
15 11 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (18.51%) Architect
2 92 (17.56%) Lead
3 64 (12.21%) Analyst
4 59 (11.26%) Senior
5 45 (8.59%) Business Analyst
6 39 (7.44%) Project Manager
7 26 (4.96%) Programme Manager
8 23 (4.39%) Designer
9 21 (4.01%) Technical Architect
10 20 (3.82%) Consultant
11 19 (3.63%) Enterprise Architect
12 15 (2.86%) Product Manager
12 15 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.67%) Change Manager
13 14 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.48%) CyberArk Architect
15 12 (2.29%) Lead Architect
15 12 (2.29%) Security Architect
15 12 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.86%) Middleware
2 14 (2.67%) LDAP
2 14 (2.67%) OpenID
2 14 (2.67%) SAML
3 11 (2.10%) Kafka
4 8 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.95%) React
6 4 (0.76%) REST
6 4 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.76%) SAPUI5
7 3 (0.57%) Node.js
7 3 (0.57%) Pandas
7 3 (0.57%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.57%) Spring
8 2 (0.38%) NumPy
8 2 (0.38%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.38%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.19%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.19%) FHIR
9 1 (0.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.11%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.91%) BYOD
10 10 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.72%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.72%) VSAM
12 8 (1.53%) NHS
13 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.15%) PMI
14 6 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.86%) Linux
2 9 (1.72%) AIX
2 9 (1.72%) Solaris
2 9 (1.72%) Unix
3 7 (1.34%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (40.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 170 (32.44%) Agile
3 119 (22.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 103 (19.66%) Decision-Making
5 96 (18.32%) Roadmaps
6 88 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (14.50%) AI
9 69 (13.17%) DevOps
10 61 (11.64%) Project Management
11 59 (11.26%) CI/CD
12 57 (10.88%) Change Management
13 53 (10.11%) Analytics
14 46 (8.78%) Mentoring
15 45 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
16 43 (8.21%) Coaching
16 43 (8.21%) Project Delivery
16 43 (8.21%) Risk Management
17 42 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (8.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (6.49%) Python
2 26 (4.96%) Java
3 24 (4.58%) SQL
4 10 (1.91%) Ruby
5 9 (1.72%) COBOL
6 6 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.57%) ABAP
7 3 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.57%) R
7 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.38%) Bicep
8 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.38%) VBA
8 2 (0.38%) VBScript
9 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 67 (12.79%) Degree
4 13 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.29%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.91%) CISSP
7 10 (1.91%) PMP
8 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.15%) CISM
10 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.76%) IIBA
10 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.57%) CBAP
11 3 (0.57%) CIPD
11 3 (0.57%) PhD
11 3 (0.57%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.39%) NIST
3 22 (4.20%) NCSC
3 22 (4.20%) QA
4 20 (3.82%) PMO
5 19 (3.63%) Accessibility
6 17 (3.24%) GDPR
7 8 (1.53%) GRC
8 7 (1.34%) SLA
9 6 (1.15%) WCAG
10 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.76%) COREP
11 4 (0.76%) FINREP
11 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.57%) IFRS
12 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (1.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.24%) Terraform
3 4 (0.76%) Ansible
3 4 (0.76%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.38%) Rancher
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.19%) Nessus
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.96%) Oracle
3 25 (4.77%) SAP
4 16 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.67%) CyberArk
6 13 (2.48%) Splunk
7 11 (2.10%) IBM
7 11 (2.10%) VMware
8 8 (1.53%) Databricks
8 8 (1.53%) Google
9 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.15%) Workday
11 5 (0.95%) GoldenSource
11 5 (0.95%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.76%) Avaloq
12 4 (0.76%) Pega
13 3 (0.57%) Ariba
13 3 (0.57%) Denodo
13 3 (0.57%) Informatica
13 3 (0.57%) Sitecore