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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 238 204
Rank change year-on-year +38 -34 -19
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 519 263 430
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.28% 1.08% 1.17%
As % of the General category 2.34% 1.68% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 160 243
10th Percentile £413 £399 £403
25th Percentile £500 £479 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £900 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 62
10th Percentile £27.25 £18.72 £26.82
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.76 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £46.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +83.78% +21.33% -38.02%
75th Percentile £101.67 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £103.75 £87.85 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £46.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year +72.97% +21.33% -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 22,217 15,643 21,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.66% 64.12% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,823 10,163 13,863
10th Percentile £305 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -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 1,459 669 1,783
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.64 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -8.36% -6.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.24 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +63 283 £600 +6.67% 182
North of England -11 79 £475 -5.00% 67
South East -12 64 £593 -2.79% 80
Midlands -50 48 £500 -4.76% 50
North West -19 45 £463 +12.80% 40
West Midlands -38 38 £500 -11.11% 33
Yorkshire -35 29 £525 -2.33% 22
South West -24 27 £600 - 34
East of England -36 10 £588 +16.68% 32
East Midlands -28 9 £520 -0.95% 17
North East -15 5 £500 - 5
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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 14 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.93%) CICS
4 6 (1.16%) 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
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.39%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) InVision
7 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.96%) 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 FAH
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.95%) Azure
2 47 (9.06%) AWS
3 35 (6.74%) Power Platform
4 32 (6.17%) SaaS
5 23 (4.43%) GCP
6 22 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 10 (1.93%) GitHub
9 10 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.73%) PaaS
11 7 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.35%) Figma
12 6 (1.16%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.96%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.96%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.70%) 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%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
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%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.59%) Power BI
2 14 (2.70%) Metadata
3 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.73%) DataStage
4 9 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.54%) Tableau
6 5 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.96%) 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%) DB2
9 1 (0.19%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 40 (7.71%) JIRA
2 21 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.54%) Git
4 5 (0.96%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.19%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 170 (32.76%) Finance
3 91 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (14.07%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.74%) Banking
6 34 (6.55%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (5.39%) Legal
8 24 (4.62%) Retail
9 22 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.66%) Marketing
11 18 (3.47%) Local Government
11 18 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.89%) Law
13 14 (2.70%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.70%) Front Office
13 14 (2.70%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.54%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (18.50%) Architect
2 79 (15.22%) Lead
3 66 (12.72%) Analyst
4 58 (11.18%) Senior
5 50 (9.63%) Business Analyst
6 37 (7.13%) Project Manager
7 30 (5.78%) Programme Manager
8 25 (4.82%) Designer
9 19 (3.66%) Technical Architect
10 18 (3.47%) Consultant
10 18 (3.47%) Enterprise Architect
11 16 (3.08%) Change Manager
11 16 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.50%) CyberArk Architect
12 13 (2.50%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.50%) Security Architect
12 13 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.12%) Lead Architect
14 11 (2.12%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.89%) Middleware
2 14 (2.70%) LDAP
2 14 (2.70%) OpenID
2 14 (2.70%) SAML
3 7 (1.35%) Kafka
3 7 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.96%) Node.js
4 5 (0.96%) REST
4 5 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.96%) SAPUI5
4 5 (0.96%) Spring
5 4 (0.77%) SAP PI
5 4 (0.77%) VML
6 3 (0.58%) Pandas
6 3 (0.58%) React
7 2 (0.39%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.39%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.39%) PySpark
7 2 (0.39%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.55%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.12%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.73%) BYOD
8 9 (1.73%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.73%) NHS
8 9 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.73%) VSAM
9 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.16%) PMI
12 5 (0.96%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.47%) Linux
2 9 (1.73%) AIX
2 9 (1.73%) Solaris
2 9 (1.73%) Unix
3 8 (1.54%) VMS
4 7 (1.35%) Windows
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
1 210 (40.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 163 (31.41%) Agile
3 122 (23.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 103 (19.85%) Decision-Making
5 102 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (18.30%) Roadmaps
7 92 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (15.61%) AI
9 69 (13.29%) Project Management
10 64 (12.33%) DevOps
11 56 (10.79%) Change Management
12 53 (10.21%) CI/CD
13 47 (9.06%) Coaching
13 47 (9.06%) Mentoring
13 47 (9.06%) Project Delivery
14 43 (8.29%) Analytics
14 43 (8.29%) Migration
14 43 (8.29%) Risk Management
15 41 (7.90%) ERP
15 41 (7.90%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 35 (6.74%) Python
2 29 (5.59%) Java
3 21 (4.05%) SQL
4 9 (1.73%) COBOL
4 9 (1.73%) Ruby
5 4 (0.77%) ABAP
5 4 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.77%) R
6 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.39%) VBA
6 2 (0.39%) VBScript
7 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 94 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 67 (12.91%) Degree
4 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.31%) CISSP
5 12 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.93%) PMP
7 7 (1.35%) CISM
7 7 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.77%) CSPO
9 4 (0.77%) IIBA
10 3 (0.58%) APMG
10 3 (0.58%) CBAP
10 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.62%) NIST
3 23 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.43%) QA
4 22 (4.24%) NCSC
5 19 (3.66%) PMO
6 18 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 17 (3.28%) GDPR
8 8 (1.54%) WCAG
9 7 (1.35%) GRC
9 7 (1.35%) SLA
10 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.77%) COREP
11 4 (0.77%) FINREP
11 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.58%) COBIT
12 3 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.58%) IFRS
System Software
1 8 (1.54%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.89%) Terraform
3 4 (0.77%) Rancher
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.19%) Consul
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) logstash
5 1 (0.19%) Nessus
5 1 (0.19%) Packer
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (9.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.78%) SAP
3 27 (5.20%) Oracle
4 19 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.70%) CyberArk
6 13 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.50%) Splunk
7 12 (2.31%) VMware
8 10 (1.93%) IBM
9 9 (1.73%) Google
9 9 (1.73%) Workday
10 6 (1.16%) Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) Ariba
11 5 (0.96%) Avaloq
11 5 (0.96%) GoldenSource
11 5 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.77%) Pega
13 3 (0.58%) Denodo
13 3 (0.58%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.39%) Anaplan