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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 215 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 -3 -25
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 707 348 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.26% 1.15%
As % of the General category 2.80% 1.96% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 229 202
10th Percentile £425 £345 £358
25th Percentile £488 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £645 £687
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £570 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +5.95% -0.46% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 55
10th Percentile £56.08 £21.66 £35.06
25th Percentile £76.25 £35.60 -
Median hourly rate £98.37 £48.01 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +104.91% +25.93% +8.91%
75th Percentile £104.00 £64.69 -
90th Percentile - £81.63 -
UK median hourly rate £97.23 £48.01 £38.12
% change year-on-year +102.54% +25.93% +1.65%

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 25,236 17,763 19,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.38% 64.25% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,042 11,313 12,322
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 961 1,234
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.50 £18.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £70.99
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +32 362 £600 +4.35% 798
South East +22 113 £565 -5.04% 200
North of England -21 104 £514 +14.22% 204
Midlands -22 64 £563 +9.76% 96
West Midlands -18 52 £580 -3.33% 69
Yorkshire -14 49 £520 +1.46% 70
North West -36 45 £523 +18.26% 116
South West -43 27 £558 +1.36% 103
East of England -6 20 £533 -13.06% 80
East Midlands -11 10 £500 +39.66% 27
North East -33 10 £349 - 18
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 24 (3.39%) Confluence
2 20 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) SAS
4 10 (1.41%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.57%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.28%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.28%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Appian
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.42%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.42%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.28%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (11.88%) Azure
2 60 (8.49%) AWS
3 42 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 26 (3.68%) GCP
5 25 (3.54%) SaaS
6 24 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.40%) GitHub
9 14 (1.98%) PaaS
10 11 (1.56%) Serverless
11 10 (1.41%) Snowflake
12 7 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.85%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.85%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.98%) Firewall
2 11 (1.56%) Network Security
3 9 (1.27%) WAN
4 8 (1.13%) LAN
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
6 4 (0.57%) Broadband
6 4 (0.57%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
7 3 (0.42%) ATM
7 3 (0.42%) BGP
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
7 3 (0.42%) MPLS
7 3 (0.42%) NAS
7 3 (0.42%) SAN
7 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) VLAN
7 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.28%) 4G
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.38%) Power BI
2 22 (3.11%) Metadata
3 12 (1.70%) Data Lake
4 11 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.99%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.99%) Pentaho
6 6 (0.85%) Tableau
7 5 (0.71%) Looker
8 4 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.57%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (0.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.42%) DataStage
9 3 (0.42%) Db2
9 3 (0.42%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.28%) Big Data
10 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.28%) GIS
10 2 (0.28%) Power Query
10 2 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (5.80%) JIRA
2 11 (1.56%) Git
3 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.42%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.28%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.28%) MSI
6 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
General
1 326 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 244 (34.51%) Finance
3 135 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (18.67%) Public Sector
5 64 (9.05%) Banking
6 38 (5.37%) Legal
7 36 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (4.95%) Marketing
9 34 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (4.53%) Retail
11 27 (3.82%) Law
12 19 (2.69%) Aerospace
13 18 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (2.55%) Local Government
13 18 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.26%) Military
15 14 (1.98%) Billing
16 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.70%) Corporate Banking
17 12 (1.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (19.09%) Architect
2 129 (18.25%) Lead
3 72 (10.18%) Analyst
4 69 (9.76%) Senior
5 54 (7.64%) Project Manager
6 38 (5.37%) Business Analyst
7 29 (4.10%) Consultant
8 25 (3.54%) Programme Manager
9 24 (3.39%) Enterprise Architect
9 24 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (3.25%) Security Architect
10 23 (3.25%) Senior Manager
11 22 (3.11%) Technical Architect
12 19 (2.69%) Designer
13 17 (2.40%) Change Manager
13 17 (2.40%) IT Manager
13 17 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.26%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.26%) Product Manager
14 16 (2.26%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.98%) Middleware
2 11 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (1.13%) Kafka
4 7 (0.99%) REST
5 4 (0.57%) LDAP
5 4 (0.57%) React
6 3 (0.42%) ATL
6 3 (0.42%) Node.js
6 3 (0.42%) Playwright
6 3 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.42%) SAPUI5
6 3 (0.42%) SOAP
6 3 (0.42%) Spring
7 2 (0.28%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.28%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.28%) NumPy
7 2 (0.28%) OAuth
7 2 (0.28%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.28%) OpenID
7 2 (0.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.63%) Product Ownership
2 44 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.41%) NHS
11 9 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.13%) Social Media
13 7 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
13 7 (0.99%) FMCG
14 6 (0.85%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.27%) Windows
2 7 (0.99%) Linux
3 6 (0.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) AIX
4 3 (0.42%) Solaris
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (45.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 216 (30.55%) Agile
3 188 (26.59%) Decision-Making
4 181 (25.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 163 (23.06%) Roadmaps
6 134 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (14.29%) AI
8 87 (12.31%) Analytics
9 79 (11.17%) Migration
10 78 (11.03%) Change Management
11 69 (9.76%) Strategic Thinking
12 68 (9.62%) DevOps
13 64 (9.05%) ITIL
13 64 (9.05%) Project Management
14 62 (8.77%) Risk Management
15 61 (8.63%) ERP
16 60 (8.49%) Enterprise Architecture
17 58 (8.20%) CI/CD
17 58 (8.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.24%) Python
2 26 (3.68%) Java
3 25 (3.54%) SQL
4 10 (1.41%) Ruby
5 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.42%) Bicep
7 3 (0.42%) COBOL
7 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) ABAP
8 2 (0.28%) PHP
8 2 (0.28%) R
8 2 (0.28%) VBA
8 2 (0.28%) VBScript
9 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 124 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.17%) Degree
4 24 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.97%) CISSP
6 19 (2.69%) CISM
6 19 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.55%) PMP
8 17 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.85%) APMG
13 5 (0.71%) CRISC
13 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.82%) PMO
3 25 (3.54%) QA
4 23 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 22 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.97%) GDPR
7 19 (2.69%) NIST
8 13 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (1.56%) GRC
10 10 (1.41%) SLA
11 9 (1.27%) NCSC
12 7 (0.99%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.71%) COBIT
13 5 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.71%) WCAG
14 4 (0.57%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.57%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.42%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (1.41%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) NFS
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.12%) Terraform
3 10 (1.41%) Ansible
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.28%) Rancher
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.51%) Oracle
3 39 (5.52%) SAP
4 28 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.98%) Google
6 12 (1.70%) Databricks
6 12 (1.70%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.70%) VMware
7 9 (1.27%) Cisco
8 7 (0.99%) Denodo
8 7 (0.99%) IBM
8 7 (0.99%) Workday
9 4 (0.57%) Adobe
9 4 (0.57%) GoldenSource
9 4 (0.57%) Pega
9 4 (0.57%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.42%) Ariba
10 3 (0.42%) Greenplum
10 3 (0.42%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.42%) Sybase