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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 249 197
Rank change year-on-year +49 -52 -34
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 428 309 521
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.00% 1.30%
As % of the General category 2.29% 1.69% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 178 353
10th Percentile £353 £324 £363
25th Percentile £420 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -
75th Percentile £674 £675 £678
90th Percentile £783 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile £31.49 £22.74 £13.57
25th Percentile £35.60 £25.26 £22.07
Median hourly rate £41.50 £33.93 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.31% -1.65% -33.90%
75th Percentile £61.01 £75.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £82.20 £37.50
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £31.97 £34.50
% change year-on-year +29.83% -7.35% -25.60%

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 18,718 18,291 23,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.59% 59.30% 59.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,851 10,975 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 £634 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,202 691 1,033
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +3.71% +19.89%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.98 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £24.34 £29.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.49% -1.67% +20.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +36 200 £625 +8.70% 285
North of England +6 79 £475 -11.05% 98
Midlands -4 56 £458 -26.80% 79
North West +7 51 £450 +5.88% 69
South East +7 48 £564 +50.47% 259
West Midlands -15 43 £463 -26.00% 36
South West +27 28 £538 +38.71% 63
Yorkshire -9 26 £492 -17.31% 21
East Midlands -2 13 £456 +14.72% 38
East of England -14 6 £625 +19.05% 44
North East - 2 £550 - 8
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 8 (1.87%) Apache
2 8 (1.87%) JBoss
2 8 (1.87%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.70%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) 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 30 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Blender
7 1 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 11 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.40%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.70%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.47%) HFM
4 2 (0.47%) Primavera
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
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 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 68 (15.89%) Azure
2 42 (9.81%) AWS
3 29 (6.78%) GCP
4 20 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.50%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.50%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.27%) SaaS
7 10 (2.34%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.64%) Matillion
10 5 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.93%) dbt
11 4 (0.93%) GitHub
11 4 (0.93%) IaaS
12 3 (0.70%) Alation
12 3 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.70%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.87%) DNS
1 8 (1.87%) Firewall
2 7 (1.64%) DHCP
2 7 (1.64%) WAN
3 6 (1.40%) VLAN
3 6 (1.40%) VPN
4 4 (0.93%) BGP
4 4 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.93%) LAN
4 4 (0.93%) MPLS
4 4 (0.93%) Network Security
4 4 (0.93%) OSPF
4 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.93%) VSAN
5 3 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.70%) EIGRP
5 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.70%) IPv4
5 3 (0.70%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.50%) Power BI
2 8 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (1.87%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.40%) Star Schema
4 5 (1.17%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.17%) Metadata
4 5 (1.17%) Tableau
5 4 (0.93%) Big Data
5 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.70%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.47%) 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 32 (7.48%) JIRA
2 9 (2.10%) Git
2 9 (2.10%) Selenium
3 8 (1.87%) Eclipse
3 8 (1.87%) IntelliJ
3 8 (1.87%) JUnit
4 5 (1.17%) GitLab
4 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 246 (57.48%) Social Skills
2 156 (36.45%) Finance
3 116 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.41%) Banking
6 34 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.67%) Marketing
8 17 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.97%) Retail
9 12 (2.80%) Publishing
10 11 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.34%) Legal
11 10 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.10%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.87%) Front Office
14 7 (1.64%) Back Office
14 7 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.40%) Automotive
16 5 (1.17%) Law
17 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 64 (14.95%) Analyst
2 63 (14.72%) Lead
3 53 (12.38%) Architect
4 47 (10.98%) Business Analyst
5 36 (8.41%) Project Manager
6 35 (8.18%) Senior
7 24 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.74%) Change Manager
8 16 (3.74%) Programme Manager
9 12 (2.80%) Consultant
9 12 (2.80%) Senior Manager
10 11 (2.57%) Transition Manager
11 10 (2.34%) Product Manager
11 10 (2.34%) Product Owner
12 9 (2.10%) Service Manager
12 9 (2.10%) Service Transition Manager
13 8 (1.87%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (1.64%) Business Change Manager
14 7 (1.64%) Business Manager
14 7 (1.64%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.80%) .NET
1 12 (2.80%) XML
2 11 (2.57%) REST
3 10 (2.34%) HTML
3 10 (2.34%) Spring
4 9 (2.10%) SailPoint
4 9 (2.10%) SOAP
5 8 (1.87%) EJB
5 8 (1.87%) Hibernate
5 8 (1.87%) HTML5
5 8 (1.87%) J2EE
5 8 (1.87%) J2SE
5 8 (1.87%) JSON
5 8 (1.87%) Play Framework
6 7 (1.64%) Kafka
7 6 (1.40%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.93%) Middleware
9 3 (0.70%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.70%) MSMQ
9 3 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.05%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.04%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.17%) Derivative
8 5 (1.17%) PMI
8 5 (1.17%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.93%) NHS
9 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.70%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.27%) Windows
2 12 (2.80%) Unix
3 5 (1.17%) Linux
4 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (39.25%) Agile
2 158 (36.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 113 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (20.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 80 (18.69%) Decision-Making
7 79 (18.46%) Roadmaps
8 67 (15.65%) Project Management
9 62 (14.49%) Change Management
10 59 (13.79%) Project Delivery
11 56 (13.08%) Scrum
12 45 (10.51%) DevOps
13 44 (10.28%) Risk Management
14 42 (9.81%) Strategic Thinking
15 41 (9.58%) Mentoring
16 36 (8.41%) Service Design
16 36 (8.41%) Waterfall
17 34 (7.94%) AI
17 34 (7.94%) Business Strategy
17 34 (7.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.01%) SQL
2 28 (6.54%) Python
3 24 (5.61%) Java
4 10 (2.34%) Scala
5 9 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.40%) C#
7 5 (1.17%) Bash
8 3 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) ABAP
10 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (17.29%) Degree
2 68 (15.89%) Security Cleared
3 59 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.57%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.57%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.34%) PMP
7 9 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.64%) CISSP
9 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.17%) CCNP
11 5 (1.17%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.93%) APMG
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.44%) GDPR
3 15 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.04%) QA
5 11 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.57%) NIST
6 9 (2.10%) PMO
7 7 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.40%) GRC
9 5 (1.17%) ISO 9001
9 5 (1.17%) SLA
10 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.47%) COBIT
11 2 (0.47%) NCSC
11 2 (0.47%) WCAG
12 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (3.27%) Docker
2 13 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.93%) vSphere
6 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (4.91%) Terraform
2 8 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.87%) Puppet
3 7 (1.64%) Ansible
3 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.40%) SCCM
5 2 (0.47%) Rancher
5 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
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%) SCOM
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.01%) SAP
3 20 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.97%) Oracle
4 17 (3.97%) Workday
5 13 (3.04%) VMware
6 10 (2.34%) Ariba
6 10 (2.34%) Google
7 8 (1.87%) Citrix
7 8 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.87%) webMethods
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco
9 6 (1.40%) F5
9 6 (1.40%) IFS
9 6 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.93%) Avaloq
11 4 (0.93%) Databricks
12 3 (0.70%) Meraki
12 3 (0.70%) SolarWinds