Influencing Skills Contracts in England

Influencing Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 178 172
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 450 742 1,206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.21% 1.46% 1.69%
As % of the General category 2.07% 2.45% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 497 862
10th Percentile £402 £350 £368
25th Percentile £477 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +8.49% +3.16%
75th Percentile £700 £679 £650
90th Percentile £850 £843 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 26 20
10th Percentile £26.91 £35.37 £16.64
25th Percentile - £57.25 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +16.83%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £37.81
90th Percentile £39.82 £70.38 £47.63
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +132.08% -0.86%

All General Skills
England

Influencing Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,747 30,254 40,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.38% 56.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,055 21,129 28,004
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,772 1,020 1,337
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.49 £14.62
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.32 £57.93
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £21.84
% change year-on-year -18.57% +60.27% -2.94%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in England.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in England.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +32 230 £600 -4.00% 140
East of England +46 81 £500 -13.98% 27
South East -40 46 £570 +8.57% 52
North of England -38 41 £550 - 55
South West -1 32 £660 +14.78% 31
North West -20 25 £555 -9.39% 38
Midlands -8 20 £613 +14.22% 47
Yorkshire -18 15 £528 -4.09% 14
West Midlands -3 14 £700 +29.93% 24
East Midlands +19 5 £418 +12.97% 23
North East +21 1 £650 +60.00% 4
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.33%) Confluence
2 14 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (1.56%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.11%) Adobe Captivate
6 5 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.44%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (8.67%) Azure
2 28 (6.22%) AWS
3 25 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 15 (3.33%) PaaS
5 14 (3.11%) SaaS
6 8 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.56%) IaaS
7 7 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 5 (1.11%) GitHub
9 3 (0.67%) BigCommerce
9 3 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.67%) FinancialForce
9 3 (0.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.44%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.44%) Figma
11 1 (0.22%) GCP
11 1 (0.22%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.78%) Intranet
2 7 (1.56%) Internet
3 6 (1.33%) DNS
3 6 (1.33%) LAN
4 5 (1.11%) WAN
5 4 (0.89%) 5G
5 4 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.44%) 4G
6 2 (0.44%) DMZ
6 2 (0.44%) Firewall
6 2 (0.44%) SAN
6 2 (0.44%) SSL
6 2 (0.44%) VSAN
6 2 (0.44%) WebEx
7 1 (0.22%) ATM
7 1 (0.22%) DHCP
7 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
7 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.78%) Power BI
2 16 (3.56%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.78%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.33%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.89%) Metadata
7 3 (0.67%) MySQL
7 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.44%) Flink
8 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Adabas
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.22%) Big Data
9 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.22%) GIS
9 1 (0.22%) MS Access
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (8.67%) JIRA
2 8 (1.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.56%) JMeter
3 7 (1.56%) Selenium
4 3 (0.67%) GitLab
4 3 (0.67%) Maven
5 2 (0.44%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.44%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.22%) RStudio
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 278 (61.78%) Social Skills
2 191 (42.44%) Finance
3 109 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 41 (9.11%) Presentation Skills
6 40 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 38 (8.44%) Banking
8 33 (7.33%) Marketing
9 26 (5.78%) Telecoms
10 24 (5.33%) Legal
11 23 (5.11%) Manufacturing
12 16 (3.56%) Retail
13 14 (3.11%) Electronics
14 13 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (2.67%) Local Government
16 11 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (1.78%) Retail Banking
18 7 (1.56%) Back Office
19 5 (1.11%) Multimedia
20 4 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 74 (16.44%) Project Manager
2 62 (13.78%) Architect
3 55 (12.22%) Analyst
4 39 (8.67%) Senior
5 29 (6.44%) Business Analyst
6 28 (6.22%) Lead
7 26 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.89%) Senior Manager
9 16 (3.56%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (3.33%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
12 12 (2.67%) Programme Manager
13 11 (2.44%) Senior Project Manager
14 10 (2.22%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.22%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.22%) Designer
14 10 (2.22%) ITIL Manager
14 10 (2.22%) Service Manager
15 9 (2.00%) Data Governance Manager
15 9 (2.00%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.00%) Web Services
2 7 (1.56%) REST
2 7 (1.56%) RESTful
3 6 (1.33%) JSON
4 5 (1.11%) ADO
4 5 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.11%) Middleware
4 5 (1.11%) XML
5 4 (0.89%) HTML
5 4 (0.89%) Kafka
5 4 (0.89%) SOAP
6 3 (0.67%) CSS
6 3 (0.67%) J2EE
6 3 (0.67%) jQuery
6 3 (0.67%) Sass
6 3 (0.67%) Spring
6 3 (0.67%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.67%) VML
7 2 (0.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.89%) Management Information System
2 30 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.33%) Digital Media
6 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (1.33%) Graphic Design
6 6 (1.33%) PKI
6 6 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.11%) CMDB
7 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.11%) IoT
7 5 (1.11%) PMI
7 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.89%) FMCG
8 4 (0.89%) NHS
8 4 (0.89%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.00%) Linux
2 13 (2.89%) Windows
3 7 (1.56%) Unix
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (34.44%) Agile
2 153 (34.00%) Project Management
3 124 (27.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (15.56%) Business Strategy
6 62 (13.78%) Decision-Making
7 56 (12.44%) Change Management
8 54 (12.00%) Programme Management
8 54 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 52 (11.56%) Project Delivery
10 51 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (10.89%) PRINCE2
12 48 (10.67%) Business Development
13 43 (9.56%) Business Analysis
14 38 (8.44%) Scrum
15 37 (8.22%) Business Case
16 35 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (7.11%) ITIL
18 31 (6.89%) Analytics
19 29 (6.44%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.22%) Python
1 10 (2.22%) SQL
2 8 (1.78%) Java
3 7 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.67%) Bash
5 2 (0.44%) VBA
6 1 (0.22%) Natural
6 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 62 (13.78%) Degree
4 19 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 10 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.78%) PMP
9 7 (1.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 7 (1.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.67%) NVQ Level 4
12 2 (0.44%) CISM
12 2 (0.44%) CISSP
12 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.44%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) PMO
1 27 (6.00%) QA
2 17 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.22%) GDPR
4 5 (1.11%) SLA
5 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.67%) Basel III
6 3 (0.67%) GRC
6 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) COREP
7 2 (0.44%) FINREP
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.11%) Terraform
3 4 (0.89%) Ansible
3 4 (0.89%) Puppet
4 3 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.67%) Kibana
4 3 (0.67%) Nagios
4 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 57 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.89%) SAP
3 16 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.89%) Adobe
5 8 (1.78%) VMware
6 6 (1.33%) BT
6 6 (1.33%) Databricks
6 6 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.89%) Centrify
8 4 (0.89%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.89%) Dell
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle
9 3 (0.67%) Commvault
9 3 (0.67%) Google
9 3 (0.67%) Intel
9 3 (0.67%) Qualys
9 3 (0.67%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.67%) Splunk
10 2 (0.44%) Planview