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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 230 209
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 -22
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 517 265 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 1.09% 1.13%
As % of the General category 2.34% 1.70% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 164 236
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £900 £771 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 62
10th Percentile £28.23 £17.53 £26.82
25th Percentile £37.00 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% +57.40% -38.02%
75th Percentile £102.81 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £103.98 £88.64 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +41.67% +57.40% -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 22,074 15,601 21,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.38% 64.17% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,667 10,126 13,790
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 667 1,786
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.98 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +50 282 £600 +6.67% 152
North of England -18 82 £475 -5.00% 75
South East -20 63 £600 -2.64% 72
Midlands -32 49 £500 -4.76% 47
North West -12 46 £463 +2.78% 41
West Midlands -44 39 £500 -9.09% 31
Yorkshire -31 31 £525 -6.67% 27
South West -24 25 £585 -2.50% 31
East Midlands -31 9 £520 -0.95% 16
East of England -31 8 £570 +13.21% 23
North East -14 5 £500 - 7
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 25 (4.84%) Confluence
2 14 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.93%) CICS
4 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 4 (0.77%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.77%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) InVision
6 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.77%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.58%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.58%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.99%) Azure
2 46 (8.90%) AWS
3 35 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 32 (6.19%) SaaS
5 22 (4.26%) GCP
6 21 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.51%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.93%) GitHub
9 10 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.74%) PaaS
11 6 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.16%) Figma
11 6 (1.16%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.97%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.77%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.71%) Firewall
2 4 (0.77%) Intranet
3 2 (0.39%) Broadband
3 2 (0.39%) Network Security
3 2 (0.39%) VPN
3 2 (0.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.19%) BGP
4 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) IPsec
4 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.19%) LAN
4 1 (0.19%) MIMO
4 1 (0.19%) MPLS
4 1 (0.19%) Multicast
4 1 (0.19%) OSPF
4 1 (0.19%) RSVP
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.42%) Power BI
2 14 (2.71%) Metadata
3 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.74%) DataStage
4 9 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.55%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.55%) Tableau
6 5 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.58%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) GIS
8 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.39%) Power Query
8 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.19%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 38 (7.35%) JIRA
2 20 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.35%) Git
4 5 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.39%) MSI
5 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 259 (50.10%) Social Skills
2 171 (33.08%) Finance
3 90 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.93%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.77%) Banking
6 32 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (5.61%) Legal
8 22 (4.26%) Retail
9 21 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.68%) Marketing
11 18 (3.48%) Local Government
12 17 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.90%) Law
14 14 (2.71%) Telecoms
15 13 (2.51%) Financial Institution
15 13 (2.51%) Front Office
16 9 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.35%) Aviation
17 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (18.96%) Architect
2 78 (15.09%) Lead
3 67 (12.96%) Analyst
4 59 (11.41%) Senior
5 51 (9.86%) Business Analyst
6 39 (7.54%) Project Manager
7 26 (5.03%) Programme Manager
8 23 (4.45%) Designer
9 19 (3.68%) Consultant
9 19 (3.68%) Enterprise Architect
9 19 (3.68%) Technical Architect
10 16 (3.09%) Change Manager
10 16 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.71%) Product Manager
11 14 (2.71%) Security Architect
11 14 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.51%) CyberArk Architect
12 13 (2.51%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.32%) Senior Business Analyst
14 11 (2.13%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.90%) Middleware
2 14 (2.71%) LDAP
2 14 (2.71%) OpenID
2 14 (2.71%) SAML
3 7 (1.35%) Kafka
3 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.97%) REST
4 5 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.97%) SAPUI5
5 4 (0.77%) SAP PI
5 4 (0.77%) VML
6 3 (0.58%) Node.js
6 3 (0.58%) Pandas
6 3 (0.58%) React
6 3 (0.58%) Spring
7 2 (0.39%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.39%) NumPy
7 2 (0.39%) PySpark
7 2 (0.39%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.96%) Onboarding
2 35 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.48%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.32%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.74%) BYOD
10 9 (1.74%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.74%) VSAM
11 8 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.55%) NHS
12 7 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.16%) PMI
14 5 (0.97%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.90%) Linux
2 9 (1.74%) AIX
2 9 (1.74%) Solaris
2 9 (1.74%) Unix
3 7 (1.35%) Windows
4 6 (1.16%) VMS
5 3 (0.58%) Android
5 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (40.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 159 (30.75%) Agile
3 123 (23.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 102 (19.73%) Decision-Making
5 96 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (18.57%) Roadmaps
6 91 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (15.47%) AI
8 68 (13.15%) Project Management
9 65 (12.57%) DevOps
10 57 (11.03%) Change Management
11 52 (10.06%) CI/CD
12 49 (9.48%) Project Delivery
13 47 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 46 (8.90%) Coaching
15 44 (8.51%) Analytics
16 43 (8.32%) Risk Management
17 41 (7.93%) Migration
17 41 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
18 40 (7.74%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 34 (6.58%) Python
2 27 (5.22%) Java
3 21 (4.06%) SQL
4 9 (1.74%) COBOL
4 9 (1.74%) Ruby
5 5 (0.97%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.77%) ABAP
6 4 (0.77%) R
7 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.39%) VBA
8 2 (0.39%) VBScript
9 1 (0.19%) Bicep
9 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 91 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.77%) Degree
4 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.32%) CISSP
5 12 (2.32%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.93%) PMP
7 7 (1.35%) CISM
7 7 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.77%) CSPO
9 4 (0.77%) IIBA
10 3 (0.58%) APMG
10 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.58%) CBAP
10 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.64%) NIST
3 23 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.45%) QA
4 22 (4.26%) NCSC
5 20 (3.87%) PMO
6 17 (3.29%) Accessibility
6 17 (3.29%) GDPR
7 7 (1.35%) GRC
7 7 (1.35%) SLA
8 6 (1.16%) WCAG
9 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.77%) COREP
10 4 (0.77%) FINREP
10 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.58%) COBIT
11 3 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.58%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
1 5 (0.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.39%) Rancher
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) logstash
4 1 (0.19%) Nessus
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.00%) SAP
3 26 (5.03%) Oracle
4 19 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.71%) CyberArk
6 13 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.51%) Splunk
7 11 (2.13%) VMware
8 10 (1.93%) IBM
9 8 (1.55%) Google
9 8 (1.55%) Workday
10 6 (1.16%) Databricks
11 5 (0.97%) Ariba
11 5 (0.97%) GoldenSource
11 5 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.77%) Avaloq
12 4 (0.77%) Pega
13 3 (0.58%) Denodo
13 3 (0.58%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.39%) Qualys