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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 253 209
Rank change year-on-year +63 -44 -34
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 527 239 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 0.97% 1.15%
As % of the General category 2.51% 1.53% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 133 279
10th Percentile £407 £356 £400
25th Percentile £465 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £683
90th Percentile £841 £769 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 44
10th Percentile £25.40 £19.91 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £25.26 £37.22
Median hourly rate £40.73 £32.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% -14.74% -38.02%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £94.11 £87.05 -
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £32.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.32% -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 21,036 15,583 22,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.94% 63.13% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,303 9,978 14,581
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 558 1,673
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.04 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.00 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.43 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +17.02% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.98 £75.08 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.06 £29.52 £25.90
% change year-on-year -18.48% +13.98% -20.32%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +70 258 £625 +11.11% 76
North of England -4 87 £475 -5.00% 59
South East -4 71 £593 +4.49% 79
Midlands -38 62 £490 -18.33% 40
North West +2 54 £464 +42.99% 36
West Midlands -34 48 £439 -26.88% 26
South West +2 30 £625 +4.17% 24
Yorkshire -48 27 £525 -1.78% 19
East Midlands -30 13 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -28 8 £565 +12.61% 16
North East - 6 £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 31 (5.88%) Confluence
2 15 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.52%) Apache
3 8 (1.52%) CICS
3 8 (1.52%) JBoss
3 8 (1.52%) WebLogic
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.38%) SAP EP
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.33%) MS Visio
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%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.57%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.57%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (16.13%) Azure
2 59 (11.20%) AWS
3 33 (6.26%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.69%) GCP
5 27 (5.12%) SaaS
6 26 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.85%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.33%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.14%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.95%) Figma
13 5 (0.95%) GitHub
13 5 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (0.95%) IaaS
13 5 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.23%) Firewall
2 7 (1.33%) DNS
3 5 (0.95%) DHCP
3 5 (0.95%) Network Security
3 5 (0.95%) VPN
4 4 (0.76%) BGP
4 4 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.76%) LAN
4 4 (0.76%) MPLS
4 4 (0.76%) OSPF
4 4 (0.76%) WAN
5 3 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.57%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.57%) IPv4
5 3 (0.57%) IPv6
5 3 (0.57%) VLAN
5 3 (0.57%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.57%) Wireless
5 3 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.88%) Power BI
2 11 (2.09%) Metadata
3 10 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.52%) DataStage
5 8 (1.52%) Tableau
6 6 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.57%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.57%) GIS
9 3 (0.57%) Power Query
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 48 (9.11%) JIRA
2 22 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.09%) Git
4 10 (1.90%) Selenium
5 9 (1.71%) GitLab
6 8 (1.52%) Eclipse
6 8 (1.52%) IntelliJ
6 8 (1.52%) JUnit
7 5 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.38%) MSI
10 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 301 (57.12%) Social Skills
2 155 (29.41%) Finance
3 105 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (13.28%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (6.64%) Banking
7 30 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (4.55%) Retail
9 19 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.04%) Legal
11 14 (2.66%) Local Government
11 14 (2.66%) Marketing
12 13 (2.47%) Front Office
13 11 (2.09%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.90%) Law
15 9 (1.71%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.33%) Publishing
18 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (17.27%) Lead
2 86 (16.32%) Architect
3 75 (14.23%) Analyst
4 57 (10.82%) Business Analyst
4 57 (10.82%) Senior
5 37 (7.02%) Project Manager
6 27 (5.12%) Programme Manager
7 23 (4.36%) Change Manager
8 22 (4.17%) Designer
8 22 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.04%) Product Manager
10 13 (2.47%) CyberArk Architect
10 13 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.28%) Business Manager
12 11 (2.09%) Lead Architect
12 11 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
12 11 (2.09%) Software Engineer
13 10 (1.90%) Enterprise Architect
13 10 (1.90%) Senior Manager
14 9 (1.71%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.23%) Middleware
2 14 (2.66%) OpenID
3 13 (2.47%) LDAP
3 13 (2.47%) REST
3 13 (2.47%) SAML
4 11 (2.09%) Spring
5 10 (1.90%) Kafka
6 9 (1.71%) HTML
6 9 (1.71%) JSON
7 8 (1.52%) EJB
7 8 (1.52%) Hibernate
7 8 (1.52%) HTML5
7 8 (1.52%) J2EE
7 8 (1.52%) J2SE
7 8 (1.52%) Play Framework
7 8 (1.52%) SOAP
7 8 (1.52%) XML
8 7 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.95%) .NET
10 4 (0.76%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 28 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 26 (4.93%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.71%) NHS
9 8 (1.52%) BYOD
9 8 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.52%) VSAM
10 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.14%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.14%) Fixed Income
12 5 (0.95%) Learning Management System
12 5 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.80%) Unix
2 17 (3.23%) Linux
3 15 (2.85%) Windows
4 8 (1.52%) AIX
4 8 (1.52%) Solaris
5 7 (1.33%) VMS
6 3 (0.57%) Android
6 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (38.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 189 (35.86%) Agile
3 143 (27.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 125 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (16.70%) Roadmaps
7 83 (15.75%) Decision-Making
8 75 (14.23%) DevOps
9 74 (14.04%) AI
10 73 (13.85%) Project Management
11 69 (13.09%) Change Management
12 59 (11.20%) Scrum
13 58 (11.01%) Mentoring
14 57 (10.82%) Project Delivery
15 54 (10.25%) CI/CD
16 51 (9.68%) Risk Management
17 48 (9.11%) Coaching
18 45 (8.54%) Strategic Thinking
19 44 (8.35%) Analytics
20 43 (8.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.02%) Python
2 31 (5.88%) SQL
3 26 (4.93%) Java
4 8 (1.52%) COBOL
4 8 (1.52%) Scala
5 7 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.76%) Ruby
7 3 (0.57%) Bash
8 2 (0.38%) ABAP
8 2 (0.38%) C#
8 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.38%) R
8 2 (0.38%) VBScript
9 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 95 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.42%) Degree
4 13 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 12 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.90%) PMP
7 9 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.52%) CISSP
9 6 (1.14%) APMG
9 6 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.95%) CBAP
10 5 (0.95%) IIBA
10 5 (0.95%) ISEB
10 5 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.36%) NIST
3 20 (3.80%) NCSC
4 18 (3.42%) PMO
4 18 (3.42%) QA
5 17 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.85%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.66%) GDPR
8 8 (1.52%) GRC
9 7 (1.33%) WCAG
10 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.76%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.76%) SLA
12 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.57%) COBIT
12 3 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (2.85%) Docker
2 14 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.93%) Terraform
3 8 (1.52%) Puppet
4 6 (1.14%) Ansible
5 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.76%) SCCM
7 3 (0.57%) Rancher
8 1 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Consul
8 1 (0.19%) logstash
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.12%) SAP
3 25 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.98%) VMware
5 20 (3.80%) Oracle
6 17 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.85%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.47%) Splunk
8 13 (2.47%) Workday
9 10 (1.90%) Google
9 10 (1.90%) IBM
10 9 (1.71%) Ariba
11 8 (1.52%) Databricks
11 8 (1.52%) webMethods
12 6 (1.14%) Avaloq
12 6 (1.14%) Cisco
12 6 (1.14%) Citrix
12 6 (1.14%) F5
13 5 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
315 Influencing Skills jobs in England