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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 237 215
Rank change year-on-year +36 -22 -30
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 595 289 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.13% 1.13%
As % of the General category 2.49% 1.77% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 178 238
10th Percentile £413 £354 £373
25th Percentile £475 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £861 £757 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 62
10th Percentile £37.00 £19.91 £19.75
25th Percentile £61.63 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +57.40% -38.02%
75th Percentile £103.13 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £61.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year +38.78% +60.68% -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 23,886 16,328 21,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.92% 64.11% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,492 10,492 13,660
10th Percentile £313 £282 £291
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -2.85% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,707 803 1,802
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.27 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.76 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -15.61% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £54.89
90th Percentile £81.53 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.76
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.40% +3.98%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +40 314 £638 +10.87% 175
North of England -16 96 £485 +1.84% 62
South East -8 80 £568 -9.08% 120
Midlands -21 55 £503 -8.55% 31
North West -25 48 £459 +11.95% 29
West Midlands -27 45 £563 -4.26% 20
Yorkshire -25 41 £529 +0.76% 25
South West -39 22 £547 +9.45% 26
East of England -19 16 £533 +3.90% 23
East Midlands -8 9 £500 +39.66% 11
North East -30 7 £425 - 8
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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 14 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.68%) CICS
4 9 (1.51%) CMS
5 7 (1.18%) SAS
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.50%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.50%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.50%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.50%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Actimize
5 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (12.10%) Azure
2 61 (10.25%) AWS
3 31 (5.21%) Power Platform
3 31 (5.21%) SaaS
4 30 (5.04%) GCP
5 20 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.02%) GitHub
7 12 (2.02%) OpenShift
7 12 (2.02%) Serverless
8 11 (1.85%) PaaS
9 9 (1.51%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.84%) Figma
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.69%) Firewall
2 9 (1.51%) Network Security
3 6 (1.01%) WAN
4 5 (0.84%) DNS
4 5 (0.84%) LAN
4 5 (0.84%) VPN
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
5 3 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.50%) Intranet
5 3 (0.50%) IPsec
5 3 (0.50%) MPLS
5 3 (0.50%) OSPF
5 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.50%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.87%) Power BI
2 15 (2.52%) Metadata
3 9 (1.51%) DataStage
4 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.18%) Tableau
5 5 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.67%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (0.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.50%) Looker
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.50%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.34%) Big Data
8 2 (0.34%) Db2
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (6.39%) JIRA
2 20 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.51%) Git
4 4 (0.67%) GitLab
4 4 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.34%) MSI
5 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.17%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.17%) Selenium
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 293 (49.24%) Social Skills
2 207 (34.79%) Finance
3 114 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.40%) Banking
6 35 (5.88%) Legal
7 24 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (3.70%) Law
8 22 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (3.70%) Retail
9 19 (3.19%) Marketing
10 16 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.18%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.18%) Local Government
12 12 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.85%) Front Office
14 10 (1.68%) Military
15 8 (1.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (19.16%) Architect
2 97 (16.30%) Lead
3 70 (11.76%) Analyst
4 66 (11.09%) Senior
5 47 (7.90%) Project Manager
6 44 (7.39%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.71%) Programme Manager
8 26 (4.37%) Designer
9 23 (3.87%) Enterprise Architect
10 22 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 20 (3.36%) Consultant
12 18 (3.03%) Senior Manager
13 17 (2.86%) Product Manager
14 16 (2.69%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.52%) Change Manager
15 15 (2.52%) Lead Architect
16 13 (2.18%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (2.02%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.69%) Middleware
2 14 (2.35%) LDAP
3 13 (2.18%) OpenID
3 13 (2.18%) SAML
4 10 (1.68%) Kafka
5 6 (1.01%) REST
6 5 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.84%) React
7 4 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.67%) SAPUI5
8 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.50%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.50%) JSON
8 3 (0.50%) Node.js
8 3 (0.50%) Pandas
8 3 (0.50%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.50%) Spring
9 2 (0.34%) CSS
9 2 (0.34%) HTML
9 2 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 27 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.18%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.02%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.68%) BYOD
12 10 (1.68%) Mainframe
12 10 (1.68%) NHS
13 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.51%) VSAM
14 7 (1.18%) PMI
14 7 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.01%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.69%) Linux
2 10 (1.68%) Unix
3 9 (1.51%) AIX
3 9 (1.51%) Solaris
3 9 (1.51%) Windows
4 2 (0.34%) Android
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (41.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 198 (33.28%) Agile
3 148 (24.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 136 (22.86%) Decision-Making
5 116 (19.50%) Roadmaps
6 106 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (13.61%) AI
9 73 (12.27%) DevOps
10 64 (10.76%) CI/CD
10 64 (10.76%) Project Management
11 59 (9.92%) Change Management
12 56 (9.41%) Analytics
13 53 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
13 53 (8.91%) Migration
14 51 (8.57%) Risk Management
15 49 (8.24%) ITIL
15 49 (8.24%) Mentoring
15 49 (8.24%) Project Delivery
16 48 (8.07%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 36 (6.05%) Python
2 27 (4.54%) Java
3 26 (4.37%) SQL
4 10 (1.68%) Ruby
5 9 (1.51%) COBOL
6 6 (1.01%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.50%) ABAP
8 3 (0.50%) Bicep
8 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.34%) R
9 2 (0.34%) VBA
9 2 (0.34%) VBScript
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.61%) Degree
4 16 (2.69%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.18%) PMP
7 12 (2.02%) CISSP
8 11 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.18%) CISM
11 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.67%) CCNP
13 4 (0.67%) CIPD
13 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.87%) NIST
4 22 (3.70%) GDPR
4 22 (3.70%) NCSC
5 20 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.36%) PMO
5 20 (3.36%) QA
6 8 (1.34%) GRC
7 7 (1.18%) SLA
8 6 (1.01%) WCAG
9 5 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.67%) COREP
10 4 (0.67%) FINREP
11 3 (0.50%) COBIT
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (1.68%) Docker
2 6 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) NFS
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.19%) Terraform
3 7 (1.18%) Ansible
4 4 (0.67%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.34%) Rancher
7 1 (0.17%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.04%) Oracle
3 28 (4.71%) SAP
4 21 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.52%) VMware
6 13 (2.18%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.02%) Splunk
8 11 (1.85%) Google
8 11 (1.85%) IBM
9 10 (1.68%) Databricks
10 8 (1.34%) Cisco
11 6 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.84%) GoldenSource
13 4 (0.67%) Avaloq
13 4 (0.67%) Pega
13 4 (0.67%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.67%) Workday
14 3 (0.50%) Ariba
14 3 (0.50%) F5
14 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds