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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 250 221
Rank change year-on-year +61 -29 -54
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 491 262 407
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.01% 1.08%
As % of the General category 2.44% 1.62% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 139 283
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £675
90th Percentile £856 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £556 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +2.21% -1.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 15
10th Percentile £31.49 - £15.75
25th Percentile £34.57 £25.26 £24.63
Median hourly rate £38.87 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -7.14% -43.09%
75th Percentile £52.98 £75.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.64 £52.78
UK median hourly rate £38.87 £32.50 £34.75
% change year-on-year +19.58% -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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 20,146 16,219 22,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.47% 62.58% 58.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,809 9,843 14,703
10th Percentile £294 £297 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,258 516 1,495
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.55 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.57 £19.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.92 £30.41 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +20.42% -8.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £59.06 £52.78
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £67.33
UK median hourly rate £22.83 £29.00 £25.22
% change year-on-year -21.28% +15.01% -3.02%

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 11 February 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 February 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 February 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 +59 237 £625 +10.08% 105
North of England -9 81 £475 -10.29% 49
South East 0 74 £595 +16.10% 84
Midlands -41 55 £465 -22.95% 35
North West 0 51 £469 +34.00% 28
West Midlands -38 40 £438 -27.92% 24
South West -8 24 £627 +4.42% 26
Yorkshire -41 24 £563 -0.44% 17
East Midlands -18 15 £483 -8.10% 11
East of England -24 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 27 (5.50%) Confluence
2 11 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.63%) Apache
3 8 (1.63%) JBoss
3 8 (1.63%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.22%) CICS
5 4 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.61%) CMS
6 3 (0.61%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.61%) SAP EP
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.41%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) InVision
7 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.61%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.61%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.61%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) HFM
4 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 83 (16.90%) Azure
2 58 (11.81%) AWS
3 32 (6.52%) GCP
4 29 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.68%) SaaS
7 15 (3.05%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.22%) GitHub
11 6 (1.22%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.02%) IaaS
12 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.81%) dbt
13 4 (0.81%) Figma
13 4 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.81%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.65%) Firewall
2 7 (1.43%) DNS
3 5 (1.02%) DHCP
3 5 (1.02%) Network Security
4 4 (0.81%) BGP
4 4 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.81%) MPLS
4 4 (0.81%) OSPF
4 4 (0.81%) VPN
5 3 (0.61%) Broadband
5 3 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.61%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
5 3 (0.61%) IPv4
5 3 (0.61%) IPv6
5 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.61%) VLAN
5 3 (0.61%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.70%) Power BI
2 11 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (2.24%) Metadata
3 9 (1.83%) MongoDB
3 9 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.63%) Tableau
5 6 (1.22%) DataStage
6 5 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.61%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.61%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.96%) JIRA
2 19 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.24%) Git
4 10 (2.04%) Selenium
5 8 (1.63%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.63%) GitLab
5 8 (1.63%) IntelliJ
5 8 (1.63%) JUnit
6 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 283 (57.64%) Social Skills
2 155 (31.57%) Finance
3 98 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.74%) Presentation Skills
6 28 (5.70%) Banking
6 28 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.89%) Retail
8 19 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.05%) Marketing
10 13 (2.65%) Local Government
11 12 (2.44%) Legal
12 11 (2.24%) Front Office
13 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.43%) Publishing
15 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.02%) Law
16 4 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (17.52%) Lead
2 83 (16.90%) Architect
3 72 (14.66%) Analyst
4 55 (11.20%) Business Analyst
5 48 (9.78%) Senior
6 33 (6.72%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.48%) Programme Manager
9 20 (4.07%) Change Manager
10 17 (3.46%) Product Manager
11 16 (3.26%) Designer
12 13 (2.65%) CyberArk Architect
13 11 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.04%) Business Manager
14 10 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (2.04%) Lead Architect
15 9 (1.83%) Delivery Manager
15 9 (1.83%) Senior Business Analyst
15 9 (1.83%) Software Engineer
15 9 (1.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.85%) OpenID
2 13 (2.65%) LDAP
2 13 (2.65%) SAML
3 12 (2.44%) REST
4 10 (2.04%) Kafka
4 10 (2.04%) Middleware
4 10 (2.04%) Spring
5 9 (1.83%) HTML
5 9 (1.83%) JSON
5 9 (1.83%) SOAP
6 8 (1.63%) EJB
6 8 (1.63%) Hibernate
6 8 (1.63%) HTML5
6 8 (1.63%) J2EE
6 8 (1.63%) J2SE
6 8 (1.63%) Play Framework
6 8 (1.63%) XML
7 7 (1.43%) .NET
7 7 (1.43%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.98%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.30%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.63%) NHS
8 7 (1.43%) Learning Management System
9 6 (1.22%) BYOD
9 6 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.22%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.22%) VSAM
10 5 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.02%) PMI
10 5 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.67%) Unix
2 14 (2.85%) Linux
3 13 (2.65%) Windows
4 6 (1.22%) AIX
4 6 (1.22%) Solaris
4 6 (1.22%) VMS
5 4 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.61%) Android
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (38.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 177 (36.05%) Agile
3 135 (27.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 125 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (18.94%) Roadmaps
7 76 (15.48%) DevOps
8 74 (15.07%) Decision-Making
9 73 (14.87%) Project Management
10 64 (13.03%) Change Management
10 64 (13.03%) Scrum
11 63 (12.83%) AI
12 55 (11.20%) Project Delivery
13 49 (9.98%) Mentoring
14 46 (9.37%) CI/CD
15 45 (9.16%) Analytics
16 44 (8.96%) Enterprise Architecture
16 44 (8.96%) Strategic Thinking
17 43 (8.76%) Risk Management
18 41 (8.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.72%) Python
2 28 (5.70%) SQL
3 27 (5.50%) Java
4 8 (1.63%) Scala
5 6 (1.22%) COBOL
5 6 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.81%) Bash
7 4 (0.81%) C#
7 4 (0.81%) Ruby
8 3 (0.61%) ABAP
9 2 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.26%) Degree
4 14 (2.85%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.24%) PMP
7 9 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.63%) CISSP
8 8 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.22%) CBAP
10 6 (1.22%) ISEB
11 5 (1.02%) APMG
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.02%) CSPO
11 5 (1.02%) IIBA
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.48%) NIST
3 20 (4.07%) QA
4 18 (3.67%) GDPR
4 18 (3.67%) NCSC
5 15 (3.05%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.65%) PMO
7 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.83%) GRC
9 6 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 9001
10 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.02%) WCAG
11 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.41%) COBIT
13 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.41%) SLA
14 1 (0.20%) GAAP
14 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.65%) Docker
3 5 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.89%) Terraform
3 8 (1.63%) Puppet
4 6 (1.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.81%) SCCM
6 2 (0.41%) Rancher
7 1 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.20%) Consul
7 1 (0.20%) logstash
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Podman
7 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.11%) SAP
3 21 (4.28%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.07%) Oracle
5 19 (3.87%) VMware
6 18 (3.67%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.05%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.65%) Splunk
8 13 (2.65%) Workday
9 11 (2.24%) Google
10 10 (2.04%) Ariba
11 8 (1.63%) IBM
11 8 (1.63%) webMethods
12 7 (1.43%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.43%) Databricks
13 6 (1.22%) Cisco
13 6 (1.22%) Citrix
13 6 (1.22%) F5
14 5 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.02%) Palo Alto
264 Influencing Skills jobs in England