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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 232 192
Rank change year-on-year +40 -40 -9
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 531 258 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.05% 1.21%
As % of the General category 2.41% 1.64% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 157 260
10th Percentile £413 £396 £402
25th Percentile £500 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £900 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 63
10th Percentile £24.48 £17.53 £26.91
25th Percentile £34.56 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £44.27 £32.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +36.22% -14.74% -38.02%
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £97.63 £88.64 £39.82
UK median hourly rate £51.54 £32.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +58.58% -14.74% -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 22,056 15,744 21,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.32% 64.03% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,825 10,236 14,068
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,427 671 1,774
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.15 £28.18 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -1.98% -17.86%
75th Percentile £61.21 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.48% -18.80%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +46 283 £625 +10.62% 114
North of England -14 81 £469 +3.08% 44
South East -21 69 £600 -1.64% 73
Midlands -39 49 £500 -4.76% 44
North West -8 48 £463 +12.80% 23
West Midlands -40 39 £500 -9.09% 29
South West -25 31 £613 +2.08% 19
Yorkshire -39 28 £525 +5.00% 18
East of England -41 10 £588 +14.24% 23
East Midlands -32 9 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -14 5 £500 - 4
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 29 (5.46%) Confluence
2 13 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.88%) CICS
4 6 (1.13%) CMS
5 4 (0.75%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.75%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.38%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) InVision
7 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.75%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (12.81%) Azure
2 52 (9.79%) AWS
3 32 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 31 (5.84%) SaaS
5 28 (5.27%) GCP
6 21 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.82%) OpenShift
8 14 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.69%) GitHub
10 9 (1.69%) PaaS
11 7 (1.32%) Figma
12 6 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.13%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (1.13%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.94%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.75%) IaaS
14 4 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.82%) Firewall
2 4 (0.75%) Network Security
3 3 (0.56%) DNS
3 3 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.38%) Broadband
4 2 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.38%) VSAN
4 2 (0.38%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) IPsec
5 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) MIMO
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
5 1 (0.19%) OSPF
5 1 (0.19%) RSVP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.27%) Power BI
2 14 (2.64%) Metadata
3 10 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.69%) DataStage
4 9 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.51%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.51%) Tableau
6 5 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.38%) Big Data
8 2 (0.38%) GIS
8 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.38%) Power Query
8 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.19%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 41 (7.72%) JIRA
2 21 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.88%) Git
4 5 (0.94%) GitLab
5 4 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (0.75%) Selenium
5 4 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.38%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.38%) JUnit
6 2 (0.38%) MSI
7 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 279 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 172 (32.39%) Finance
3 103 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 37 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
6 36 (6.78%) Banking
7 27 (5.08%) Legal
8 25 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (4.52%) Retail
10 19 (3.58%) Local Government
10 19 (3.58%) Marketing
11 18 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.64%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.45%) Front Office
13 13 (2.45%) Law
14 10 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.32%) Publishing
17 6 (1.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (18.27%) Architect
2 78 (14.69%) Lead
3 66 (12.43%) Analyst
4 56 (10.55%) Senior
5 49 (9.23%) Business Analyst
6 37 (6.97%) Project Manager
7 32 (6.03%) Programme Manager
8 24 (4.52%) Designer
9 22 (4.14%) Change Manager
10 19 (3.58%) Technical Architect
11 17 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.01%) Consultant
12 16 (3.01%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (2.45%) CyberArk Architect
13 13 (2.45%) Lead Architect
13 13 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.26%) Business Manager
14 12 (2.26%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
15 11 (2.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.01%) Middleware
2 15 (2.82%) OpenID
3 14 (2.64%) LDAP
3 14 (2.64%) SAML
4 9 (1.69%) Kafka
5 8 (1.51%) REST
6 7 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.13%) Spring
8 5 (0.94%) Node.js
9 4 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.75%) SAP PI
9 4 (0.75%) SAPUI5
9 4 (0.75%) VML
10 3 (0.56%) HTML
10 3 (0.56%) JSON
10 3 (0.56%) Pandas
10 3 (0.56%) PySpark
10 3 (0.56%) React
11 2 (0.38%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.78%) Onboarding
2 35 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.69%) BYOD
8 9 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.69%) NHS
8 9 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.69%) VSAM
9 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.32%) PMI
11 5 (0.94%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.94%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.58%) Linux
2 13 (2.45%) Unix
3 9 (1.69%) AIX
3 9 (1.69%) Solaris
3 9 (1.69%) Windows
4 8 (1.51%) VMS
5 3 (0.56%) Android
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (39.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 167 (31.45%) Agile
3 130 (24.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 119 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (18.64%) Decision-Making
6 96 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 96 (18.08%) Roadmaps
7 82 (15.44%) AI
8 71 (13.37%) Project Management
9 66 (12.43%) Change Management
10 63 (11.86%) DevOps
11 56 (10.55%) CI/CD
12 52 (9.79%) Coaching
13 49 (9.23%) Analytics
13 49 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 48 (9.04%) Project Delivery
15 47 (8.85%) Migration
16 46 (8.66%) Risk Management
17 43 (8.10%) Strategic Thinking
18 42 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 37 (6.97%) Python
2 31 (5.84%) Java
3 23 (4.33%) SQL
4 9 (1.69%) COBOL
4 9 (1.69%) Ruby
5 4 (0.75%) ABAP
5 4 (0.75%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.75%) R
6 3 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.38%) Scala
7 2 (0.38%) VBA
7 2 (0.38%) VBScript
8 1 (0.19%) C#
8 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 100 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 75 (14.12%) Degree
4 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.45%) PMI Certification
5 12 (2.26%) CISSP
6 10 (1.88%) PMP
7 9 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.32%) APMG
8 7 (1.32%) CISM
9 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.75%) CSPO
11 4 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.52%) NIST
3 23 (4.33%) NCSC
4 22 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.14%) QA
5 19 (3.58%) PMO
6 16 (3.01%) Accessibility
7 15 (2.82%) GDPR
8 8 (1.51%) GRC
9 7 (1.32%) SLA
9 7 (1.32%) WCAG
10 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.75%) COREP
11 4 (0.75%) FINREP
11 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.56%) COBIT
12 3 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 10 (1.88%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.58%) Terraform
3 4 (0.75%) Rancher
4 2 (0.38%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.38%) Puppet
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) Consul
5 1 (0.19%) logstash
5 1 (0.19%) Nessus
5 1 (0.19%) Packer
5 1 (0.19%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
5 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.27%) SAP
3 27 (5.08%) Oracle
4 19 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.82%) VMware
6 14 (2.64%) CyberArk
7 13 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.45%) Splunk
8 11 (2.07%) IBM
9 10 (1.88%) Google
9 10 (1.88%) Workday
10 7 (1.32%) Databricks
11 6 (1.13%) Ariba
12 5 (0.94%) Avaloq
12 5 (0.94%) GoldenSource
12 5 (0.94%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.75%) Cisco
13 4 (0.75%) Pega
14 3 (0.56%) Citrix
14 3 (0.56%) Sitecore