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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 232 205
Rank change year-on-year +38 -27 -12
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 567 279 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.12% 1.13%
As % of the General category 2.41% 1.74% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 175 246
10th Percentile £413 £353 £381
25th Percentile £485 £453 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £644 £700
90th Percentile £900 £753 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 64
10th Percentile £37.00 £18.72 £21.30
25th Percentile £61.44 £42.88 -
Median hourly rate £86.25 £61.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +40.82% +60.68% -38.02%
75th Percentile £103.44 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.21 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £62.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +36.00% +63.96% -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 23,575 16,000 21,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.69% 64.33% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,351 10,318 13,765
10th Percentile £313 £282 £282
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 770 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.34 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -12.51% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -9.18% -0.07%

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 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 19 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 19 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 +36 303 £631 +9.78% 154
North of England -18 97 £495 +1.02% 57
South East -20 70 £589 -6.28% 100
Midlands -24 51 £500 -11.11% 40
North West -12 49 £463 +11.45% 26
West Midlands -32 42 £528 -12.00% 20
Yorkshire -37 40 £540 +2.76% 25
South West -23 21 £555 -0.05% 23
East of England -23 14 £550 +7.32% 25
East Midlands -13 8 £500 -4.76% 20
North East -28 8 £369 - 7
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 23 (4.06%) Confluence
2 14 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.76%) CICS
4 9 (1.59%) CMS
5 7 (1.23%) SAS
6 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.53%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.53%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) InVision
7 1 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.71%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.53%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (11.46%) Azure
2 58 (10.23%) AWS
3 32 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.29%) SaaS
5 28 (4.94%) GCP
6 16 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.12%) OpenShift
8 12 (2.12%) Serverless
9 11 (1.94%) GitHub
10 9 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (1.41%) PaaS
11 8 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.88%) Figma
13 5 (0.88%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.29%) Firewall
2 5 (0.88%) Network Security
3 4 (0.71%) Intranet
4 3 (0.53%) WAN
5 2 (0.35%) Broadband
5 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.35%) LAN
5 2 (0.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.18%) DNS
6 1 (0.18%) Internet
6 1 (0.18%) IPsec
6 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.18%) MIMO
6 1 (0.18%) MPLS
6 1 (0.18%) OSPF
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) RSVP
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.23%) Power BI
2 14 (2.47%) Metadata
3 9 (1.59%) DataStage
4 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.41%) Tableau
5 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.71%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (0.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.53%) Looker
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.53%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) GIS
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (6.00%) JIRA
2 18 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.23%) Git
4 4 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.35%) MSI
5 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.18%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) Selenium
6 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 275 (48.50%) Social Skills
2 201 (35.45%) Finance
3 107 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (15.52%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.82%) Banking
6 34 (6.00%) Legal
7 24 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.70%) Law
10 20 (3.53%) Retail
11 17 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.82%) Local Government
13 14 (2.47%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.47%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.47%) Marketing
14 13 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.94%) Front Office
17 10 (1.76%) Military
18 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (18.69%) Architect
2 93 (16.40%) Lead
3 71 (12.52%) Analyst
4 64 (11.29%) Senior
5 45 (7.94%) Business Analyst
6 40 (7.05%) Project Manager
7 28 (4.94%) Programme Manager
8 25 (4.41%) Designer
9 22 (3.88%) Enterprise Architect
10 20 (3.53%) Consultant
10 20 (3.53%) Technical Architect
11 17 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (2.65%) Change Manager
12 15 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 15 (2.65%) Security Architect
12 15 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.29%) Business Manager
13 13 (2.29%) Senior Business Analyst
14 12 (2.12%) CyberArk Architect
14 12 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.65%) Middleware
2 13 (2.29%) LDAP
2 13 (2.29%) OpenID
2 13 (2.29%) SAML
3 10 (1.76%) Kafka
4 6 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.06%) REST
5 5 (0.88%) React
6 4 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.71%) SAPUI5
7 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.53%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.53%) JSON
7 3 (0.53%) Node.js
7 3 (0.53%) Pandas
7 3 (0.53%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.53%) Spring
8 2 (0.35%) CSS
8 2 (0.35%) HTML
8 2 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.76%) BYOD
10 10 (1.76%) NHS
11 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.59%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.59%) VSAM
12 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.06%) PMI
14 5 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.65%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) AIX
2 9 (1.59%) Solaris
2 9 (1.59%) Unix
3 8 (1.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.35%) Android
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (41.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 182 (32.10%) Agile
3 131 (23.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 125 (22.05%) Decision-Making
5 105 (18.52%) Roadmaps
6 96 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (12.87%) AI
9 71 (12.52%) DevOps
10 60 (10.58%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.23%) Project Management
12 55 (9.70%) Change Management
13 53 (9.35%) Migration
14 51 (8.99%) Analytics
15 48 (8.47%) Mentoring
16 46 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (8.11%) Project Delivery
17 45 (7.94%) Business Case
18 44 (7.76%) Strategic Thinking
19 43 (7.58%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 33 (5.82%) Python
2 27 (4.76%) Java
3 25 (4.41%) SQL
4 10 (1.76%) Ruby
5 9 (1.59%) COBOL
6 5 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.53%) ABAP
7 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.35%) Bicep
8 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.35%) R
8 2 (0.35%) VBA
8 2 (0.35%) VBScript
9 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 99 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 70 (12.35%) Degree
4 14 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.29%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.12%) PMP
7 11 (1.94%) CISSP
8 6 (1.06%) CISM
8 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.71%) CIPD
10 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.53%) APMG
11 3 (0.53%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.88%) QA
4 21 (3.70%) NIST
5 20 (3.53%) Accessibility
6 19 (3.35%) NCSC
6 19 (3.35%) PMO
7 17 (3.00%) GDPR
8 7 (1.23%) GRC
9 6 (1.06%) SLA
9 6 (1.06%) WCAG
10 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.71%) COREP
10 4 (0.71%) FINREP
10 4 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.53%) COBIT
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.53%) IFRS
11 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (1.59%) Docker
2 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.82%) Terraform
3 4 (0.71%) Ansible
3 4 (0.71%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Rancher
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.18%) logstash
6 1 (0.18%) Nessus
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.11%) Oracle
2 29 (5.11%) SAP
3 20 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.29%) CyberArk
5 12 (2.12%) Splunk
6 11 (1.94%) IBM
6 11 (1.94%) VMware
7 9 (1.59%) Google
8 8 (1.41%) Databricks
9 6 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.88%) GoldenSource
10 5 (0.88%) Workday
11 4 (0.71%) Avaloq
11 4 (0.71%) Pega
11 4 (0.71%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.53%) Ariba
12 3 (0.53%) Cisco
12 3 (0.53%) Informatica
12 3 (0.53%) Zscaler