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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 201 247
Rank change year-on-year +56 +46 -46
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 886 386 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.38% 0.98%
As % of the General category 3.38% 2.16% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 250 182
10th Percentile £419 £350 £321
25th Percentile £495 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £673
90th Percentile £785 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 7
10th Percentile £46.20 £31.49 £22.74
25th Percentile £62.25 £35.60 £25.26
Median hourly rate £85.00 £54.51 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +55.93% +60.65% +11.25%
75th Percentile £103.25 £65.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £85.00 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £82.00 £54.51 £31.97
% change year-on-year +50.43% +70.53% -7.35%

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 26,186 17,847 18,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.61% 63.94% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,232 11,332 11,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,452 1,069 816
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.68 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.68 £70.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.14
% change year-on-year +10.00% -22.22% +8.95%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +60 457 £630 +9.57% 538
South East +28 139 £568 +13.60% 121
North of England -18 125 £525 +8.53% 133
Midlands -6 79 £575 +22.34% 74
West Midlands -11 69 £595 +13.33% 49
Yorkshire +2 57 £514 +1.08% 49
North West -38 56 £550 +15.79% 76
South West -16 42 £555 +16.84% 48
East of England -3 24 £533 +3.90% 43
North East -26 14 £425 - 8
East Midlands -13 9 £500 +23.92% 25
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 32 (3.61%) Confluence
2 22 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.58%) SAS
4 11 (1.24%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.45%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.45%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.23%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.45%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.34%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.34%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 98 (11.06%) Azure
2 67 (7.56%) AWS
3 57 (6.43%) Power Platform
4 42 (4.74%) SaaS
5 31 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (3.16%) GCP
8 15 (1.69%) PaaS
9 14 (1.58%) GitHub
10 13 (1.47%) Serverless
11 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.90%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (0.90%) Google Analytics
13 8 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.79%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.69%) Broadband
1 15 (1.69%) Network Security
2 9 (1.02%) Firewall
2 9 (1.02%) WAN
3 7 (0.79%) DNS
3 7 (0.79%) LAN
4 4 (0.45%) VPN
4 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.34%) ATM
5 3 (0.34%) BGP
5 3 (0.34%) DHCP
5 3 (0.34%) IPv4
5 3 (0.34%) IPv6
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.34%) MPLS
5 3 (0.34%) NAS
5 3 (0.34%) SAN
5 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.34%) VLAN
5 3 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.19%) Power BI
2 40 (4.51%) Metadata
3 19 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.02%) Pentaho
7 7 (0.79%) Looker
7 7 (0.79%) Tableau
8 5 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.45%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 4 (0.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (0.45%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.34%) Db2
10 3 (0.34%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.23%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.66%) JIRA
2 8 (0.90%) Git
3 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) Selenium
5 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.11%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) Mocha
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.11%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) Sinon.JS
General
1 406 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 311 (35.10%) Finance
3 173 (19.53%) Public Sector
4 159 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (8.69%) Banking
6 51 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (5.53%) Marketing
8 44 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (4.18%) Legal
10 36 (4.06%) Military
10 36 (4.06%) Retail
11 24 (2.71%) Local Government
12 22 (2.48%) Law
13 21 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.26%) Aerospace
15 18 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.81%) Aviation
16 16 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (20.54%) Lead
2 159 (17.95%) Architect
3 91 (10.27%) Senior
4 79 (8.92%) Analyst
5 69 (7.79%) Project Manager
6 46 (5.19%) Business Analyst
7 34 (3.84%) Product Manager
7 34 (3.84%) Programme Manager
8 33 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.61%) Consultant
9 32 (3.61%) Data Architect
10 30 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 27 (3.05%) Enterprise Architect
11 27 (3.05%) IT Manager
12 25 (2.82%) Product Owner
12 25 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 23 (2.60%) Security Architect
14 20 (2.26%) Senior Business Analyst
15 18 (2.03%) Change Manager
15 18 (2.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.03%) Terraform
2 16 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (1.24%) ATL
4 10 (1.13%) SOAP
5 9 (1.02%) Kafka
5 9 (1.02%) Middleware
5 9 (1.02%) REST
5 9 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.68%) SAPUI5
7 5 (0.56%) Playwright
7 5 (0.56%) SAP PI
7 5 (0.56%) Web Services
8 4 (0.45%) .NET
8 4 (0.45%) Node.js
8 4 (0.45%) React
8 4 (0.45%) Spring
8 4 (0.45%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.34%) CSS
9 3 (0.34%) HTML
9 3 (0.34%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.87%) Cloud Native
3 34 (3.84%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.92%) Social Media
10 16 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.47%) NHS
13 12 (1.35%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.02%) Autonomous Agent
15 8 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.90%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) FMCG
16 7 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.58%) Windows
2 3 (0.34%) Unix
3 2 (0.23%) Linux
4 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (52.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 270 (30.47%) Agile
3 258 (29.12%) Decision-Making
4 243 (27.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 229 (25.85%) Roadmaps
6 170 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 167 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (16.25%) AI
9 118 (13.32%) Analytics
10 100 (11.29%) Change Management
11 94 (10.61%) Risk Management
12 92 (10.38%) Project Management
13 88 (9.93%) Migration
14 87 (9.82%) DevOps
15 84 (9.48%) Strategic Thinking
16 80 (9.03%) Enterprise Architecture
17 79 (8.92%) Workshop Facilitation
18 77 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
18 77 (8.69%) Project Delivery
19 73 (8.24%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 44 (4.97%) SQL
2 33 (3.72%) Python
3 23 (2.60%) Java
4 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
5 5 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.45%) ABAP
6 4 (0.45%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.45%) Ruby
7 3 (0.34%) Bicep
7 3 (0.34%) C#
7 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.23%) PHP
8 2 (0.23%) R
9 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 218 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 162 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 111 (12.53%) Degree
4 37 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.84%) PMI Certification
5 34 (3.84%) PMP
6 28 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (3.16%) CISSP
7 25 (2.82%) CISM
8 22 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (1.35%) APMG
11 12 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.90%) CRISC
15 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.63%) QA
3 37 (4.18%) PMO
4 30 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 29 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.93%) NIST
7 24 (2.71%) GDPR
8 22 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (2.37%) GRC
10 14 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 12 (1.35%) NCSC
12 10 (1.13%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.79%) SLA
14 6 (0.68%) COBIT
15 5 (0.56%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.45%) Def Stans
17 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 3 (0.34%) P3O
18 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.13%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) NFS
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.13%) Ansible
3 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.34%) Grafana
4 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.23%) Kibana
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 94 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.42%) SAP
3 46 (5.19%) Oracle
4 33 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.26%) Google
7 16 (1.81%) Databricks
8 9 (1.02%) Cisco
8 9 (1.02%) Denodo
9 8 (0.90%) Pega
9 8 (0.90%) VMware
10 7 (0.79%) Planview
10 7 (0.79%) Workday
11 5 (0.56%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.45%) Adobe
12 4 (0.45%) Ariba
12 4 (0.45%) Foundry
12 4 (0.45%) IBM
12 4 (0.45%) UiPath
13 3 (0.34%) Sparx
961 Influencing Skills jobs in England