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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 246 211
Rank change year-on-year +46 -35 -52
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 457 294 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.01% 1.17%
As % of the General category 2.37% 1.65% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 167 293
10th Percentile £358 £323 £390
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £785 £766 £773
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 8
10th Percentile £28.95 - £19.10
25th Percentile £33.55 £25.26 £29.79
Median hourly rate £40.73 £32.50 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% -6.47% -43.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £35.63
90th Percentile £85.84 £93.40 £45.75
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £32.50 £34.75
% change year-on-year +25.32% -6.47% -43.50%

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 19,304 17,812 22,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.07% 61.26% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 10,778 15,181
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 631 1,002
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.49 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.03 £17.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% -8.45% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +31 218 £600 +5.68% 122
North of England -11 70 £475 -11.63% 76
Midlands -16 63 £450 -26.95% 39
South East +19 59 £529 +2.77% 125
North West -8 46 £475 -5.00% 53
West Midlands -17 46 £450 -26.95% 20
South West +10 30 £613 +11.36% 47
Yorkshire -28 21 £492 -17.31% 19
East Midlands -6 17 £456 +3.64% 18
East of England -19 8 £595 +18.17% 40
North East - 3 £525 - 5
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 18 (3.94%) Confluence
2 10 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.75%) Apache
3 8 (1.75%) JBoss
3 8 (1.75%) WebLogic
4 4 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.44%) SAP EP
7 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 32 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.22%) Blender
6 1 (0.22%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.22%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.53%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.44%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) HFM
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.22%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 76 (16.63%) Azure
2 44 (9.63%) AWS
3 31 (6.78%) GCP
4 24 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 21 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.50%) SaaS
8 15 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.31%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.09%) IaaS
11 5 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) dbt
12 4 (0.88%) Figma
12 4 (0.88%) PaaS
12 4 (0.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.75%) DNS
1 8 (1.75%) Firewall
2 7 (1.53%) DHCP
3 5 (1.09%) Network Security
3 5 (1.09%) VLAN
3 5 (1.09%) VPN
3 5 (1.09%) WAN
4 4 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.88%) VSAN
5 3 (0.66%) BGP
5 3 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.66%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.66%) IPv4
5 3 (0.66%) IPv6
5 3 (0.66%) LAN
5 3 (0.66%) MPLS
5 3 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.66%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.03%) Power BI
2 10 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (1.53%) Metadata
5 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.31%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.31%) Tableau
6 4 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.66%) Big Data
7 3 (0.66%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.66%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.22%) DTS
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (8.97%) JIRA
2 9 (1.97%) Git
2 9 (1.97%) Selenium
3 8 (1.75%) Eclipse
3 8 (1.75%) IntelliJ
3 8 (1.75%) JUnit
4 6 (1.31%) GitLab
4 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 268 (58.64%) Social Skills
2 139 (30.42%) Finance
3 110 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 43 (9.41%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (6.56%) Banking
7 22 (4.81%) Retail
8 21 (4.60%) Marketing
9 18 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.06%) Legal
11 13 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.97%) Front Office
14 8 (1.75%) Publishing
15 6 (1.31%) Automotive
15 6 (1.31%) Back Office
15 6 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.09%) Law
16 5 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (15.54%) Analyst
2 70 (15.32%) Lead
3 59 (12.91%) Architect
4 53 (11.60%) Business Analyst
5 40 (8.75%) Senior
6 34 (7.44%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.60%) Programme Manager
9 20 (4.38%) Change Manager
10 15 (3.28%) Consultant
11 10 (2.19%) Product Owner
11 10 (2.19%) Senior Manager
12 9 (1.97%) Designer
12 9 (1.97%) Product Manager
12 9 (1.97%) Service Manager
13 8 (1.75%) IT Manager
13 8 (1.75%) Transition Manager
14 7 (1.53%) Data Manager
14 7 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (1.53%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.63%) XML
2 11 (2.41%) HTML
2 11 (2.41%) REST
3 10 (2.19%) Spring
4 9 (1.97%) SailPoint
4 9 (1.97%) SOAP
5 8 (1.75%) EJB
5 8 (1.75%) Hibernate
5 8 (1.75%) HTML5
5 8 (1.75%) J2EE
5 8 (1.75%) J2SE
5 8 (1.75%) JSON
5 8 (1.75%) Kafka
5 8 (1.75%) Play Framework
6 7 (1.53%) .NET
7 5 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.88%) Middleware
8 4 (0.88%) PySpark
8 4 (0.88%) VML
9 3 (0.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (1.97%) Data Centre
4 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.75%) NHS
6 7 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.53%) Learning Management System
6 7 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.09%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.09%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.09%) PMI
8 5 (1.09%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.63%) Unix
1 12 (2.63%) Windows
2 6 (1.31%) VMS
3 4 (0.88%) Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (37.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 165 (36.11%) Agile
3 129 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (24.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 108 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (19.26%) Decision-Making
7 81 (17.72%) Roadmaps
8 70 (15.32%) Project Management
9 66 (14.44%) Change Management
10 61 (13.35%) Project Delivery
11 55 (12.04%) Scrum
12 51 (11.16%) DevOps
13 48 (10.50%) AI
14 47 (10.28%) Mentoring
14 47 (10.28%) Risk Management
15 44 (9.63%) Strategic Thinking
16 38 (8.32%) Analytics
16 38 (8.32%) Coaching
17 36 (7.88%) Business Analysis
18 35 (7.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.13%) Python
2 27 (5.91%) SQL
3 26 (5.69%) Java
4 10 (2.19%) Scala
5 9 (1.97%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.31%) C#
7 5 (1.09%) Bash
8 4 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.44%) ABAP
9 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.44%) R
9 2 (0.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 81 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.63%) Degree
3 70 (15.32%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.19%) CISSP
7 9 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.75%) PMP
9 6 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.09%) CISM
10 5 (1.09%) CSPO
10 5 (1.09%) ISEB
10 5 (1.09%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (4.38%) GDPR
3 18 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.06%) NIST
4 14 (3.06%) QA
5 12 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.41%) PMO
7 8 (1.75%) GRC
8 5 (1.09%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.09%) NCSC
8 5 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.09%) SLA
9 3 (0.66%) COBIT
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.66%) WCAG
10 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.84%) Docker
3 9 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.53%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.88%) vSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (5.03%) Terraform
2 12 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.75%) Puppet
4 6 (1.31%) Ansible
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.31%) SCCM
5 2 (0.44%) Rancher
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Consul
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Packer
6 1 (0.22%) Podman
6 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.00%) SAP
3 24 (5.25%) Oracle
3 24 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.16%) Workday
5 16 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.06%) VMware
7 12 (2.63%) Ariba
8 11 (2.41%) Google
9 8 (1.75%) webMethods
10 6 (1.31%) Citrix
10 6 (1.31%) F5
11 5 (1.09%) Cisco
11 5 (1.09%) Databricks
11 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.88%) Adobe
12 4 (0.88%) Avaloq
12 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.88%) IFS
13 3 (0.66%) SolarWinds