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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 207 224
Rank change year-on-year +44 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 770 354 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.29% 1.06%
As % of the General category 3.04% 2.01% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 228 185
10th Percentile £435 £343 £328
25th Percentile £500 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -2.50% -5.71%
75th Percentile £700 £644 £675
90th Percentile £790 £779 £758
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 32
10th Percentile £61.40 £31.49 £34.21
25th Percentile £68.75 £35.60 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £54.51 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +60.52% +43.00% +9.70%
75th Percentile £104.00 £64.38 -
90th Percentile - £80.50 £47.90
UK median hourly rate £86.25 £54.51 £38.12
% change year-on-year +58.23% +43.00% +8.91%

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 25,293 17,615 18,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.44% 64.35% 57.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 11,174 11,895
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,046 987 1,062
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.28 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.19 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.30 £71.48
UK median hourly rate £30.73 £25.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +22.19% -31.10% +32.73%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +55 403 £625 +10.62% 897
South East +22 121 £568 -4.54% 222
North of England -15 112 £515 +9.87% 220
Midlands -25 61 £600 +26.32% 132
Yorkshire -9 55 £515 -4.28% 83
West Midlands -28 51 £625 +8.70% 88
North West -41 47 £525 +17.06% 122
South West -37 34 £553 +0.45% 107
East of England -3 23 £533 -3.18% 84
North East -33 10 £349 - 18
East Midlands -16 9 £500 +39.66% 44
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 (3.25%) Confluence
2 24 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.56%) SAS
4 11 (1.43%) CMS
5 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) CICS
7 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.26%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Revit
7 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.39%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.39%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.39%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.26%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.13%) Actimize
6 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 96 (12.47%) Azure
2 70 (9.09%) AWS
3 47 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 31 (4.03%) SaaS
5 28 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (3.51%) GCP
7 25 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.34%) GitHub
9 17 (2.21%) PaaS
10 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (1.69%) Serverless
11 11 (1.43%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.04%) Entra ID
13 7 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.78%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.78%) OCI
14 6 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.56%) Broadband
2 11 (1.43%) Network Security
3 10 (1.30%) Firewall
4 9 (1.17%) WAN
5 7 (0.91%) LAN
6 6 (0.78%) DNS
7 4 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.52%) VPN
7 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.39%) ATM
8 3 (0.39%) BGP
8 3 (0.39%) DHCP
8 3 (0.39%) MPLS
8 3 (0.39%) NAS
8 3 (0.39%) SAN
8 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.39%) VLAN
8 3 (0.39%) Wireless
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.42%) Metadata
2 33 (4.29%) Power BI
3 14 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.04%) Tableau
6 7 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.91%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.65%) Looker
8 4 (0.52%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (0.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 4 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (0.52%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.39%) Db2
10 2 (0.26%) Big Data
10 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (5.84%) JIRA
2 13 (1.69%) Git
3 7 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.26%) MSBuild
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
6 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.13%) Mocha
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Sinon.JS
General
1 360 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 277 (35.97%) Finance
3 152 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (18.96%) Public Sector
5 69 (8.96%) Banking
6 44 (5.71%) Marketing
7 39 (5.06%) Legal
8 38 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (4.16%) Retail
10 25 (3.25%) Law
11 23 (2.99%) Military
12 20 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.60%) Local Government
13 19 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 16 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.08%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.82%) Billing
17 13 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 154 (20.00%) Lead
2 149 (19.35%) Architect
3 75 (9.74%) Senior
4 71 (9.22%) Analyst
5 56 (7.27%) Project Manager
6 36 (4.68%) Business Analyst
6 36 (4.68%) Consultant
7 28 (3.64%) Programme Manager
8 27 (3.51%) Data Architect
8 27 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
8 27 (3.51%) Security Architect
8 27 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (3.25%) Senior Manager
10 22 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (2.73%) Product Manager
11 21 (2.73%) Technical Architect
12 19 (2.47%) Change Manager
12 19 (2.47%) IT Manager
13 17 (2.21%) Product Owner
14 16 (2.08%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.08%) Terraform
2 11 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (1.17%) ATL
4 8 (1.04%) Kafka
4 8 (1.04%) Middleware
5 7 (0.91%) REST
6 4 (0.52%) LDAP
6 4 (0.52%) Node.js
6 4 (0.52%) React
6 4 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.52%) SOAP
6 4 (0.52%) Spring
7 3 (0.39%) .NET
7 3 (0.39%) CSS
7 3 (0.39%) HTML
7 3 (0.39%) OAuth
7 3 (0.39%) OpenID
7 3 (0.39%) Playwright
7 3 (0.39%) PySpark
7 3 (0.39%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 49 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.21%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.82%) Social Media
12 12 (1.56%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.43%) NHS
14 9 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.91%) Autonomous Agent
17 6 (0.78%) FMCG
17 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
17 6 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.91%) Windows
2 5 (0.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.26%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) AIX
5 1 (0.13%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (49.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 227 (29.48%) Agile
3 221 (28.70%) Decision-Making
4 210 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 197 (25.58%) Roadmaps
6 155 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 114 (14.81%) AI
9 103 (13.38%) Analytics
10 81 (10.52%) Change Management
11 80 (10.39%) Migration
12 74 (9.61%) DevOps
12 74 (9.61%) Risk Management
13 73 (9.48%) Enterprise Architecture
14 71 (9.22%) Strategic Thinking
15 70 (9.09%) Project Management
16 66 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
17 65 (8.44%) ITIL
17 65 (8.44%) Mentoring
18 63 (8.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 41 (5.32%) Python
2 33 (4.29%) SQL
3 26 (3.38%) Java
4 10 (1.30%) Ruby
5 6 (0.78%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.39%) Bicep
7 3 (0.39%) R
7 3 (0.39%) VBA
8 2 (0.26%) ABAP
8 2 (0.26%) C#
8 2 (0.26%) PHP
8 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.26%) VBScript
9 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 185 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 141 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.26%) Degree
4 30 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 25 (3.25%) PMP
6 24 (3.12%) CISSP
7 23 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (2.99%) CISM
8 17 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 10 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.91%) APMG
14 7 (0.91%) CRISC
15 5 (0.65%) CISA
15 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.16%) QA
3 30 (3.90%) PMO
4 24 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.12%) NIST
5 21 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.73%) GDPR
6 19 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (1.95%) GRC
8 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 10 (1.30%) NCSC
9 9 (1.17%) NIST 800
9 9 (1.17%) SLA
10 6 (0.78%) COBIT
11 5 (0.65%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.52%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.39%) COREP
13 3 (0.39%) IFRS
13 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (1.43%) Docker
2 8 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.30%) Ansible
3 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.52%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.39%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.26%) Grafana
6 2 (0.26%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Rancher
6 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Nessus
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.10%) Oracle
3 43 (5.58%) SAP
4 30 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 15 (1.95%) Databricks
5 15 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.82%) Google
7 10 (1.30%) VMware
8 9 (1.17%) Cisco
9 7 (0.91%) Denodo
9 7 (0.91%) Workday
10 6 (0.78%) Ariba
11 5 (0.65%) IBM
11 5 (0.65%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.52%) Adobe
12 4 (0.52%) Foundry
12 4 (0.52%) Pega
13 3 (0.39%) F5
13 3 (0.39%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.39%) Sybase