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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 202 252
Rank change year-on-year +49 +50 -59
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 902 391 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.39% 0.97%
As % of the General category 3.39% 2.17% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 255 180
10th Percentile £413 £350 £320
25th Percentile £485 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £668
90th Percentile £788 £775 £739
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 7
10th Percentile £46.20 £31.49 £22.74
25th Percentile £62.25 £35.60 £25.26
Median hourly rate £85.00 £54.51 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +55.93% +60.65% +11.25%
75th Percentile £103.25 £65.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.00 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £82.00 £54.51 £31.97
% change year-on-year +50.43% +70.53% -7.35%

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 26,613 18,020 18,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.81% 64.01% 58.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,501 11,462 11,360
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,509 1,070 803
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.74 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.46 £16.45 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.51 £71.28 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £25.00 £32.28
% change year-on-year +9.52% -22.55% +8.50%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +61 469 £625 +8.70% 107
South East +27 142 £568 +13.60% 50
North of England -27 127 £529 +11.08% 45
Midlands -19 76 £575 +21.05% 33
West Midlands -13 66 £580 +10.48% 22
Yorkshire -7 58 £517 +1.67% 17
North West -45 56 £550 +17.33% 25
South West -22 42 £555 +16.84% 30
East of England -7 24 £533 +3.90% 11
North East -22 15 £513 - 3
East Midlands -14 9 £500 +9.65% 11
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 33 (3.66%) Confluence
2 23 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.33%) SAS
4 11 (1.22%) CMS
5 6 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.44%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
8 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.44%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.33%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (10.98%) Azure
2 65 (7.21%) AWS
3 56 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 43 (4.77%) SaaS
5 31 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (3.22%) GCP
8 16 (1.77%) PaaS
9 14 (1.55%) GitHub
10 13 (1.44%) Serverless
11 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (1.00%) Snowflake
14 8 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.89%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.89%) Google Analytics
14 8 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.77%) Network Security
2 15 (1.66%) Broadband
3 10 (1.11%) Firewall
4 8 (0.89%) WAN
5 7 (0.78%) DNS
5 7 (0.78%) LAN
6 4 (0.44%) VPN
6 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.33%) ATM
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) DHCP
7 3 (0.33%) IPv4
7 3 (0.33%) IPv6
7 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.33%) MPLS
7 3 (0.33%) NAS
7 3 (0.33%) SAN
7 3 (0.33%) VLAN
7 3 (0.33%) Wireless
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.99%) Power BI
2 39 (4.32%) Metadata
3 17 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.78%) Looker
6 7 (0.78%) Pentaho
6 7 (0.78%) Tableau
7 5 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (0.44%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (0.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 4 (0.44%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.33%) Db2
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.22%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (6.65%) JIRA
2 8 (0.89%) Git
3 7 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.55%) Selenium
5 4 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.22%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) Mocha
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.11%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) Sinon.JS
General
1 414 (45.90%) Social Skills
2 321 (35.59%) Finance
3 175 (19.40%) Public Sector
4 168 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (8.65%) Banking
6 51 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (5.43%) Marketing
8 45 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (4.21%) Legal
9 38 (4.21%) Military
10 36 (3.99%) Retail
11 25 (2.77%) Local Government
12 23 (2.55%) Law
13 21 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.22%) Aerospace
15 18 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.77%) Aviation
17 14 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (20.07%) Lead
2 158 (17.52%) Architect
3 96 (10.64%) Senior
4 81 (8.98%) Analyst
5 74 (8.20%) Project Manager
6 47 (5.21%) Business Analyst
7 35 (3.88%) Product Manager
8 34 (3.77%) Programme Manager
8 34 (3.77%) Senior Manager
8 34 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.66%) Consultant
10 30 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 27 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
11 27 (2.99%) IT Manager
12 26 (2.88%) Product Owner
13 25 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.66%) Security Architect
15 20 (2.22%) Senior Business Analyst
16 18 (2.00%) Technical Architect
17 17 (1.88%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.00%) Terraform
2 17 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (1.22%) ATL
4 10 (1.11%) SOAP
5 9 (1.00%) Kafka
5 9 (1.00%) Middleware
5 9 (1.00%) REST
5 9 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.67%) SAPUI5
7 5 (0.55%) Playwright
7 5 (0.55%) SAP PI
7 5 (0.55%) Spring
7 5 (0.55%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.55%) Web Services
8 4 (0.44%) .NET
8 4 (0.44%) Node.js
8 4 (0.44%) PySpark
8 4 (0.44%) React
9 3 (0.33%) HTML
9 3 (0.33%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 101 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.88%) Social Media
10 16 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.44%) NHS
13 12 (1.33%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.78%) Autonomous Agent
16 7 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.55%) Windows
2 3 (0.33%) Unix
3 2 (0.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (53.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 272 (30.16%) Agile
3 264 (29.27%) Decision-Making
4 244 (27.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 235 (26.05%) Roadmaps
6 175 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 172 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (16.30%) AI
9 119 (13.19%) Analytics
10 99 (10.98%) Change Management
11 97 (10.75%) Risk Management
12 93 (10.31%) Project Management
13 90 (9.98%) Migration
14 87 (9.65%) Strategic Thinking
15 85 (9.42%) DevOps
16 83 (9.20%) Project Delivery
17 82 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
18 81 (8.98%) Enterprise Architecture
19 78 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
20 73 (8.09%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.21%) SQL
2 35 (3.88%) Python
3 22 (2.44%) Java
4 6 (0.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.44%) ABAP
6 4 (0.44%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.44%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.44%) Ruby
7 3 (0.33%) Bicep
7 3 (0.33%) C#
7 3 (0.33%) R
8 2 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 222 (24.61%) Security Cleared
2 163 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 112 (12.42%) Degree
4 40 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.77%) PMI Certification
5 34 (3.77%) PMP
6 29 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (3.22%) CISSP
7 26 (2.88%) CISM
8 22 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (1.22%) APMG
12 11 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.89%) CRISC
15 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.55%) QA
3 38 (4.21%) PMO
4 30 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 29 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.99%) NIST
7 24 (2.66%) GDPR
8 23 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (2.33%) GRC
10 13 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 12 (1.33%) NCSC
12 10 (1.11%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.78%) SLA
14 6 (0.67%) COBIT
15 5 (0.55%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.44%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.44%) P3O
17 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 2 (0.22%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (1.11%) Docker
2 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) NFS
4 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.11%) Ansible
3 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.33%) Grafana
4 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.22%) Kibana
5 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.43%) SAP
3 48 (5.32%) Oracle
4 33 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.33%) Google
5 21 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.88%) Databricks
7 10 (1.11%) VMware
8 8 (0.89%) Cisco
8 8 (0.89%) Pega
9 7 (0.78%) Denodo
9 7 (0.78%) Planview
9 7 (0.78%) Workday
10 4 (0.44%) Adobe
10 4 (0.44%) Ariba
10 4 (0.44%) Foundry
10 4 (0.44%) IBM
10 4 (0.44%) UiPath
10 4 (0.44%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.33%) Murex