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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 232 211
Rank change year-on-year +49 -21 -20
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 672 311 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.14% 1.16%
As % of the General category 2.71% 1.79% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 199 222
10th Percentile £417 £350 £363
25th Percentile £474 £411 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £700 £641 £700
90th Percentile £800 £763 £823
UK median daily rate £564 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 60
10th Percentile £61.70 £19.91 £25.95
25th Percentile £85.00 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £99.50 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +65.83% +57.40% -38.02%
75th Percentile £104.00 £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £98.37 £61.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year +60.60% +60.68% -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 24,783 17,367 20,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.24% 63.62% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,882 11,099 13,036
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £756 £775
UK median daily rate £524 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,811 903 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.04 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% -27.37% +19.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.14 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £25.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.65% -27.14% +14.60%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +50 349 £625 +8.70% 308
North of England -21 107 £500 +2.04% 104
South East +10 100 £565 -5.04% 128
Midlands -17 57 £506 -5.86% 67
North West -27 51 £463 +6.32% 54
Yorkshire -20 47 £520 -0.95% 41
West Midlands -25 45 £575 - 42
South West -41 24 £520 +6.62% 34
East of England -9 19 £533 +6.50% 30
East Midlands -7 10 £500 +39.66% 25
North East -28 9 £425 - 9
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 23 (3.42%) Confluence
2 18 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.64%) CMS
4 10 (1.49%) CICS
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.45%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.45%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.60%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.45%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.30%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.05%) Azure
2 61 (9.08%) AWS
3 31 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.46%) SaaS
5 28 (4.17%) GCP
6 23 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.68%) GitHub
8 16 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (1.93%) PaaS
10 10 (1.49%) Serverless
10 10 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (1.19%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.74%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.74%) IaaS
13 5 (0.74%) OCI
13 5 (0.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.83%) Firewall
2 10 (1.49%) Network Security
3 7 (1.04%) WAN
4 6 (0.89%) DNS
4 6 (0.89%) LAN
5 5 (0.74%) VPN
6 4 (0.60%) Broadband
6 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.45%) BGP
7 3 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.45%) DHCP
7 3 (0.45%) IPsec
7 3 (0.45%) MPLS
7 3 (0.45%) NAS
7 3 (0.45%) OSPF
7 3 (0.45%) SAN
7 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
7 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.27%) Power BI
2 14 (2.08%) Metadata
3 9 (1.34%) DataStage
4 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.04%) Tableau
6 4 (0.60%) Db2
6 4 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (0.60%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.60%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (0.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.45%) Looker
7 3 (0.45%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) GIS
8 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (6.10%) JIRA
2 15 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.79%) Git
4 5 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.45%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.30%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
7 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 329 (48.96%) Social Skills
2 229 (34.08%) Finance
3 130 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (17.71%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.08%) Banking
6 35 (5.21%) Legal
7 29 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (4.17%) Marketing
9 27 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (4.02%) Retail
10 24 (3.57%) Law
11 19 (2.83%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.93%) Billing
12 13 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.93%) Local Government
13 12 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.79%) Military
14 11 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (18.75%) Architect
2 119 (17.71%) Lead
3 73 (10.86%) Analyst
4 67 (9.97%) Senior
5 54 (8.04%) Project Manager
6 42 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.17%) Designer
7 28 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 28 (4.17%) Programme Manager
8 25 (3.72%) Consultant
9 22 (3.27%) Technical Architect
10 20 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (2.83%) Security Architect
12 18 (2.68%) Product Manager
12 18 (2.68%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.38%) User Researcher
14 15 (2.23%) IT Manager
14 15 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.08%) Change Manager
15 14 (2.08%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.98%) Middleware
2 9 (1.34%) Kafka
2 9 (1.34%) LDAP
2 9 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.04%) REST
4 6 (0.89%) OpenID
4 6 (0.89%) SAML
5 5 (0.74%) React
6 4 (0.60%) Node.js
6 4 (0.60%) Playwright
6 4 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (0.60%) SAPUI5
7 3 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.45%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.45%) JSON
7 3 (0.45%) Pandas
7 3 (0.45%) SAP PI
7 3 (0.45%) SOAP
7 3 (0.45%) Spring
8 2 (0.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.87%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.79%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.64%) BYOD
11 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.64%) NHS
12 10 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.34%) VSAM
14 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.04%) FMCG
14 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.38%) Linux
2 12 (1.79%) Unix
3 11 (1.64%) Windows
4 9 (1.34%) AIX
4 9 (1.34%) Solaris
5 2 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (43.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (31.85%) Agile
3 172 (25.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 161 (23.96%) Decision-Making
5 149 (22.17%) Roadmaps
6 127 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (13.39%) AI
9 73 (10.86%) Project Management
10 71 (10.57%) Change Management
11 70 (10.42%) Analytics
12 68 (10.12%) DevOps
12 68 (10.12%) Migration
13 59 (8.78%) CI/CD
13 59 (8.78%) Mentoring
14 58 (8.63%) ITIL
15 56 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
15 56 (8.33%) Risk Management
16 55 (8.18%) ERP
16 55 (8.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.51%) Python
2 27 (4.02%) SQL
3 26 (3.87%) Java
4 10 (1.49%) Ruby
5 9 (1.34%) COBOL
6 6 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.45%) ABAP
8 3 (0.45%) Bicep
8 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) R
9 2 (0.30%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) VBScript
10 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 122 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.76%) Degree
4 22 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.68%) CISSP
7 18 (2.68%) PMP
8 14 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.93%) CISM
10 11 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.74%) CRISC
14 4 (0.60%) CISA
14 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.87%) PMO
3 25 (3.72%) QA
4 22 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (3.13%) GDPR
5 21 (3.13%) NIST
6 15 (2.23%) NCSC
7 11 (1.64%) GRC
7 11 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (1.19%) SLA
9 7 (1.04%) WCAG
10 5 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.60%) COREP
11 4 (0.60%) FINREP
12 3 (0.45%) COBIT
12 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.45%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (1.49%) Docker
2 8 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) NFS
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.68%) Terraform
3 9 (1.34%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Kustomize
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.30%) Rancher
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.80%) Oracle
3 37 (5.51%) SAP
4 24 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.38%) VMware
6 12 (1.79%) Databricks
7 11 (1.64%) Google
7 11 (1.64%) IBM
8 9 (1.34%) Cisco
8 9 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.89%) Splunk
10 5 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.74%) GoldenSource
10 5 (0.74%) Workday
11 4 (0.60%) Ariba
11 4 (0.60%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.45%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.45%) Greenplum
12 3 (0.45%) Sybase