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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 226 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 -14 -19
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 664 314 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.15% 1.14%
As % of the General category 2.67% 1.80% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 198 225
10th Percentile £425 £350 £363
25th Percentile £475 £416 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £700 £645 £700
90th Percentile £806 £766 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £546 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -0.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 60
10th Percentile £61.55 £19.91 £25.95
25th Percentile £83.00 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £97.23 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +62.05% +57.40% -38.02%
75th Percentile £104.00 £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £92.37 £61.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year +50.80% +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 24,906 17,450 20,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.29% 63.67% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,971 11,168 13,243
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.03% -2.91%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,825 903 1,579
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.27 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -24.91% +16.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.22 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £26.02 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.08% -23.94% +12.02%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +47 350 £631 +9.78% 196
North of England -22 104 £500 +2.04% 68
South East -9 93 £565 -7.38% 101
Midlands -10 59 £511 -9.24% 41
North West -33 49 £463 +6.32% 33
West Midlands -29 47 £575 - 25
Yorkshire -22 46 £515 -1.90% 29
South West -46 23 £520 -1.00% 25
East of England -6 18 £541 +8.25% 26
East Midlands -7 10 £500 +39.66% 16
North East -28 9 £425 - 6
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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 17 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.51%) CICS
3 10 (1.51%) CMS
4 7 (1.05%) SAS
5 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.45%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.45%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Appian
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.45%) SAP CRM
3 3 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.20%) Azure
2 61 (9.19%) AWS
3 30 (4.52%) Power Platform
3 30 (4.52%) SaaS
4 28 (4.22%) GCP
5 23 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.56%) GitHub
7 15 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.96%) PaaS
9 11 (1.66%) Serverless
10 10 (1.51%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (1.20%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.75%) Figma
13 5 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.71%) Firewall
2 10 (1.51%) Network Security
3 6 (0.90%) DNS
3 6 (0.90%) WAN
4 5 (0.75%) LAN
4 5 (0.75%) VPN
5 4 (0.60%) Broadband
5 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.45%) BGP
6 3 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.45%) DHCP
6 3 (0.45%) IPsec
6 3 (0.45%) MPLS
6 3 (0.45%) NAS
6 3 (0.45%) OSPF
6 3 (0.45%) SAN
6 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.45%) VLAN
6 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.30%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.31%) Power BI
2 14 (2.11%) Metadata
3 9 (1.36%) DataStage
4 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.05%) Tableau
6 4 (0.60%) Db2
6 4 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.60%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (0.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.45%) Looker
7 3 (0.45%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Power Query
8 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (6.17%) JIRA
2 19 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.81%) Git
4 5 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.45%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
7 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 329 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 233 (35.09%) Finance
3 128 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (17.62%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.89%) Banking
6 35 (5.27%) Legal
7 27 (4.07%) Marketing
7 27 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (4.07%) Retail
8 24 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.46%) Law
10 19 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.41%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.96%) Billing
12 13 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.81%) Local Government
13 12 (1.81%) Military
14 11 (1.66%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (18.83%) Architect
2 117 (17.62%) Lead
3 73 (10.99%) Analyst
4 65 (9.79%) Senior
5 54 (8.13%) Project Manager
6 43 (6.48%) Business Analyst
7 29 (4.37%) Programme Manager
8 28 (4.22%) Designer
9 26 (3.92%) Enterprise Architect
10 24 (3.61%) Consultant
11 22 (3.31%) Technical Architect
12 19 (2.86%) Product Manager
12 19 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 16 (2.41%) Lead Architect
14 16 (2.41%) Security Architect
14 16 (2.41%) User Researcher
15 15 (2.26%) Change Manager
15 15 (2.26%) IT Manager
15 15 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.71%) Middleware
2 14 (2.11%) LDAP
3 11 (1.66%) OpenID
3 11 (1.66%) SAML
4 9 (1.36%) Kafka
4 9 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.90%) REST
6 5 (0.75%) React
7 4 (0.60%) Node.js
7 4 (0.60%) Playwright
7 4 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.60%) SAPUI5
8 3 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.45%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.45%) JSON
8 3 (0.45%) Pandas
8 3 (0.45%) SAP PI
8 3 (0.45%) Spring
9 2 (0.30%) HTML
9 2 (0.30%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 45 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 29 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.81%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.66%) BYOD
10 11 (1.66%) NHS
11 10 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.36%) VSAM
13 8 (1.20%) PMI
14 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.05%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.26%) Linux
2 12 (1.81%) Unix
3 10 (1.51%) Windows
4 9 (1.36%) AIX
4 9 (1.36%) Solaris
5 2 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (44.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 217 (32.68%) Agile
3 174 (26.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 159 (23.95%) Decision-Making
5 142 (21.39%) Roadmaps
6 126 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (13.40%) AI
9 73 (10.99%) Change Management
10 72 (10.84%) Project Management
11 71 (10.69%) DevOps
12 67 (10.09%) Analytics
13 66 (9.94%) Migration
14 63 (9.49%) CI/CD
15 60 (9.04%) Mentoring
16 57 (8.58%) ITIL
17 56 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
18 55 (8.28%) Scrum
19 54 (8.13%) Programme Delivery
19 54 (8.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.57%) Python
2 28 (4.22%) SQL
3 26 (3.92%) Java
4 10 (1.51%) Ruby
5 9 (1.36%) COBOL
6 6 (0.90%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.45%) ABAP
8 3 (0.45%) Bicep
8 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) R
9 2 (0.30%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) VBScript
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 152 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 120 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.90%) Degree
4 22 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 21 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.71%) PMP
7 17 (2.56%) CISSP
8 13 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.81%) CISM
10 11 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.75%) CRISC
15 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.60%) CISA
15 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.77%) QA
4 24 (3.61%) PMO
5 23 (3.46%) NIST
6 21 (3.16%) GDPR
7 20 (3.01%) NCSC
8 10 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 9 (1.36%) GRC
10 8 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.20%) SLA
11 7 (1.05%) WCAG
12 5 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.60%) COREP
13 4 (0.60%) FINREP
14 3 (0.45%) COBIT
14 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (1.36%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) NFS
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.71%) Terraform
3 9 (1.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Kustomize
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Rancher
7 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.87%) Oracle
3 33 (4.97%) SAP
4 23 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.26%) VMware
6 12 (1.81%) Databricks
6 12 (1.81%) Google
7 11 (1.66%) IBM
7 11 (1.66%) Splunk
8 10 (1.51%) CyberArk
9 8 (1.20%) Cisco
9 8 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.75%) GoldenSource
10 5 (0.75%) Workday
11 4 (0.60%) Ariba
11 4 (0.60%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.45%) F5
12 3 (0.45%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.45%) Sybase