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 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 244 200
Rank change year-on-year +44 -44 -39
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 433 314 506
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.01% 1.26%
As % of the General category 2.26% 1.70% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 178 342
10th Percentile £358 £324 £363
25th Percentile £423 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £674 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 11
10th Percentile £31.49 £24.63 £13.57
25th Percentile £35.60 £25.26 £22.07
Median hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.69% -5.80% -37.27%
75th Percentile £61.01 £64.73 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £76.80 £37.50
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year +27.69% -5.80% -30.15%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,120 18,465 23,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.63% 59.32% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,115 11,091 16,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £628 £650 £674
90th Percentile £738 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,247 695 1,049
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.88 £17.35 £17.22
Median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% -0.09% +24.47%
75th Percentile £45.23 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £70.16
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £29.50 £30.83
% change year-on-year -18.34% -4.30% +23.30%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +31 202 £625 +7.99% 163
North of England -1 77 £475 -11.13% 60
Midlands -15 56 £458 -26.80% 44
North West -7 50 £450 +9.09% 41
South East +7 49 £534 +42.27% 103
West Midlands -12 43 £463 -26.00% 24
South West +32 34 £557 +66.74% 39
Yorkshire -22 25 £492 -17.31% 15
East Midlands -2 13 £456 +14.72% 20
East of England -15 7 £625 +24.13% 39
North East - 2 £550 - 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 16 (3.70%) Confluence
2 8 (1.85%) Apache
2 8 (1.85%) JBoss
2 8 (1.85%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) SAP EP
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) Blender
6 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.39%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.69%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.46%) HFM
4 2 (0.46%) Primavera
4 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.23%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 67 (15.47%) Azure
2 42 (9.70%) AWS
3 28 (6.47%) GCP
4 21 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 15 (3.46%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.23%) SaaS
8 10 (2.31%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.62%) Matillion
11 5 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) dbt
12 4 (0.92%) IaaS
13 3 (0.69%) Alation
13 3 (0.69%) GitHub
13 3 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.85%) DNS
1 8 (1.85%) Firewall
2 7 (1.62%) DHCP
2 7 (1.62%) WAN
3 6 (1.39%) VLAN
3 6 (1.39%) VPN
4 4 (0.92%) BGP
4 4 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.92%) LAN
4 4 (0.92%) MPLS
4 4 (0.92%) Network Security
4 4 (0.92%) OSPF
4 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.92%) VSAN
5 3 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.69%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.69%) IPv4
5 3 (0.69%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.70%) Power BI
2 8 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.15%) Metadata
4 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
4 5 (1.15%) Tableau
5 4 (0.92%) Big Data
5 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.69%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.23%) DTS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.23%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 31 (7.16%) JIRA
2 9 (2.08%) Git
2 9 (2.08%) Selenium
3 8 (1.85%) Eclipse
3 8 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 8 (1.85%) JUnit
4 6 (1.39%) GitLab
5 5 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 253 (58.43%) Social Skills
2 158 (36.49%) Finance
3 112 (25.87%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 38 (8.78%) Presentation Skills
6 36 (8.31%) Banking
7 20 (4.62%) Marketing
8 17 (3.93%) Retail
9 16 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.77%) Publishing
11 11 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.54%) Legal
12 10 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.08%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.85%) Front Office
15 7 (1.62%) Back Office
15 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.39%) Automotive
17 5 (1.15%) Law
17 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (15.47%) Analyst
2 64 (14.78%) Lead
3 52 (12.01%) Architect
4 50 (11.55%) Business Analyst
5 36 (8.31%) Project Manager
5 36 (8.31%) Senior
6 22 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (4.16%) Change Manager
8 17 (3.93%) Programme Manager
9 12 (2.77%) Consultant
10 11 (2.54%) Transition Manager
11 10 (2.31%) Product Manager
11 10 (2.31%) Product Owner
11 10 (2.31%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.08%) Service Manager
12 9 (2.08%) Service Transition Manager
13 8 (1.85%) Designer
13 8 (1.85%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (1.62%) Business Change Manager
14 7 (1.62%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.77%) XML
2 11 (2.54%) HTML
2 11 (2.54%) REST
3 10 (2.31%) .NET
3 10 (2.31%) Spring
4 9 (2.08%) SailPoint
4 9 (2.08%) SOAP
5 8 (1.85%) EJB
5 8 (1.85%) Hibernate
5 8 (1.85%) HTML5
5 8 (1.85%) J2EE
5 8 (1.85%) J2SE
5 8 (1.85%) JSON
5 8 (1.85%) Play Framework
6 7 (1.62%) Kafka
7 4 (0.92%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.92%) Middleware
8 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.69%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.69%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.15%) Derivative
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.15%) NHS
8 5 (1.15%) PMI
8 5 (1.15%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.92%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.69%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.23%) Windows
2 12 (2.77%) Unix
3 5 (1.15%) Linux
3 5 (1.15%) VMS
4 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (39.49%) Agile
2 165 (38.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 117 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (21.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 80 (18.48%) Decision-Making
7 79 (18.24%) Roadmaps
8 66 (15.24%) Project Management
9 64 (14.78%) Change Management
10 59 (13.63%) Project Delivery
11 56 (12.93%) Scrum
12 46 (10.62%) DevOps
13 44 (10.16%) Risk Management
14 41 (9.47%) Mentoring
15 40 (9.24%) Strategic Thinking
16 38 (8.78%) AI
17 37 (8.55%) Service Design
18 35 (8.08%) Migration
18 35 (8.08%) Waterfall
19 34 (7.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.93%) SQL
2 28 (6.47%) Python
3 24 (5.54%) Java
4 10 (2.31%) Scala
5 9 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.39%) C#
7 5 (1.15%) Bash
8 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 74 (17.09%) Degree
3 66 (15.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.77%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.54%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.31%) PMP
7 9 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.85%) CISSP
8 8 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.15%) CCNP
11 5 (1.15%) ISEB
11 5 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.39%) GDPR
3 15 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.46%) QA
4 12 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.54%) NIST
6 8 (1.85%) PMO
7 7 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.39%) GRC
9 5 (1.15%) ISO 9001
9 5 (1.15%) SLA
10 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.69%) COBIT
11 3 (0.69%) WCAG
12 2 (0.46%) NCSC
13 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (3.23%) Docker
1 14 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.62%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (4.85%) Terraform
2 11 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.85%) Puppet
4 6 (1.39%) Ansible
4 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.39%) SCCM
5 2 (0.46%) Rancher
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Consul
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Packer
6 1 (0.23%) Podman
6 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.39%) SAP
3 20 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.93%) Oracle
4 17 (3.93%) Workday
5 14 (3.23%) VMware
6 10 (2.31%) Ariba
6 10 (2.31%) Google
7 8 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.85%) webMethods
8 7 (1.62%) Citrix
9 6 (1.39%) Cisco
9 6 (1.39%) F5
9 6 (1.39%) IFS
9 6 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.92%) Adobe
11 4 (0.92%) Avaloq
11 4 (0.92%) Databricks
12 3 (0.69%) Meraki