Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in London

Influencing Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 204 231
Rank change year-on-year +59 +27 -40
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 418 179 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.33% 1.05%
As % of the General category 3.36% 1.92% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 117 92
10th Percentile £450 £340 £400
25th Percentile £513 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £738 £694 £675
90th Percentile £806 £794 £770
England median daily rate £575 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £28.85 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 £31.49 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £36.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.26% -23.17% -
75th Percentile £76.25 £48.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £57.45 -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £54.51 £38.12
% change year-on-year +62.81% +43.00% +10.49%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,455 9,324 10,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.30% 69.05% 62.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 6,144 6,763
10th Percentile £350 £325 £332
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 186 125
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.75 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% -6.59% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.36 £65.00 £65.61
England median hourly rate £31.31 £25.15 £38.68
% change year-on-year +24.48% -34.97% +40.64%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Influencing Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Central London +18 70 £644 +19.77% 77
West London +12 38 £725 +3.57% 20
South London - 4 £650 - 7
East London - 2 £650 - 5
North London - 1 - - 1
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (3.59%) Confluence
2 9 (2.15%) CMS
3 6 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) CICS
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Actimize
5 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.16%) Azure
2 35 (8.37%) AWS
3 22 (5.26%) SaaS
4 19 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (4.07%) PaaS
5 17 (4.07%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.83%) GitHub
7 10 (2.39%) GCP
8 8 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (1.44%) Serverless
11 5 (1.20%) OCI
11 5 (1.20%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.96%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.63%) Broadband
2 7 (1.67%) Firewall
3 6 (1.44%) WAN
4 5 (1.20%) LAN
5 4 (0.96%) DNS
6 3 (0.72%) DHCP
6 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.72%) NAS
6 3 (0.72%) Network Security
6 3 (0.72%) SAN
7 2 (0.48%) 4G
7 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.48%) HTTP
7 2 (0.48%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.24%) DOCSIS
8 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.24%) MIMO
8 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.11%) Metadata
2 12 (2.87%) Power BI
3 7 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.72%) Db2
4 3 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.72%) Tableau
5 2 (0.48%) Big Data
5 2 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.24%) Looker
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.24%) Parquet
6 1 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (5.50%) JIRA
2 11 (2.63%) Git
3 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.24%) Mocha
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 186 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 152 (36.36%) Finance
3 77 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (16.75%) Public Sector
5 49 (11.72%) Banking
6 36 (8.61%) Marketing
7 26 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (5.02%) Retail
10 20 (4.78%) Legal
10 20 (4.78%) Local Government
11 13 (3.11%) Corporate Banking
12 12 (2.87%) Aviation
12 12 (2.87%) Billing
13 11 (2.63%) Military
14 9 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (2.15%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 82 (19.62%) Architect
2 81 (19.38%) Lead
3 45 (10.77%) Senior
4 30 (7.18%) Analyst
4 30 (7.18%) Project Manager
5 26 (6.22%) Security Architect
6 24 (5.74%) Programme Manager
7 20 (4.78%) Enterprise Architect
8 18 (4.31%) Consultant
8 18 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 17 (4.07%) Business Analyst
9 17 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.35%) Product Manager
11 12 (2.87%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.63%) Product Owner
12 11 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.63%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.39%) Change Manager
13 10 (2.39%) Designer
14 9 (2.15%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.39%) ATL
2 7 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.67%) Terraform
3 6 (1.44%) Middleware
4 5 (1.20%) REST
5 4 (0.96%) SOAP
6 3 (0.72%) CSS
6 3 (0.72%) HTML
6 3 (0.72%) Kafka
6 3 (0.72%) LDAP
6 3 (0.72%) Node.js
6 3 (0.72%) Playwright
7 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.48%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.48%) JSON
7 2 (0.48%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.48%) NumPy
7 2 (0.48%) Pandas
7 2 (0.48%) PySpark
7 2 (0.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.39%) Social Media
7 9 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.20%) PMI
11 4 (0.96%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.96%) NHS
12 3 (0.72%) Life Science
12 3 (0.72%) PKI
12 3 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Linux
1 3 (0.72%) Unix
1 3 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
2 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (53.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 136 (32.54%) Roadmaps
3 128 (30.62%) Decision-Making
4 117 (27.99%) Agile
5 105 (25.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (15.31%) AI
9 60 (14.35%) Analytics
10 44 (10.53%) Business Case
11 43 (10.29%) Programme Delivery
12 42 (10.05%) Strategic Thinking
13 41 (9.81%) Change Management
14 38 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
14 38 (9.09%) Project Management
15 37 (8.85%) Migration
15 37 (8.85%) Workshop Facilitation
16 36 (8.61%) DevOps
17 34 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
17 34 (8.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.66%) Python
2 23 (5.50%) SQL
3 12 (2.87%) Java
4 10 (2.39%) Ruby
5 5 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.72%) R
7 2 (0.48%) Bicep
7 2 (0.48%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.48%) VBA
8 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 84 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.18%) Degree
4 16 (3.83%) PMP
5 15 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.63%) CISSP
7 11 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.67%) CISM
11 4 (0.96%) ISSAP
11 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.96%) SANS
12 3 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.72%) APMG
12 3 (0.72%) CIPD
12 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.72%) CRISC
12 3 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.46%) QA
2 24 (5.74%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (2.87%) GDPR
5 12 (2.87%) PMO
6 10 (2.39%) NIST
7 9 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.67%) GRC
9 5 (1.20%) NCSC
10 3 (0.72%) COREP
10 3 (0.72%) FINREP
10 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.44%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) NFS
3 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.72%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (0.48%) Grafana
3 2 (0.48%) Kibana
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Nessus
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.24%) Rancher
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.42%) Oracle
3 14 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.11%) SAP
4 13 (3.11%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.63%) Databricks
6 4 (0.96%) Google
7 3 (0.72%) Braze
7 3 (0.72%) Cisco
7 3 (0.72%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.72%) Greenplum
7 3 (0.72%) IBM
7 3 (0.72%) Sybase
7 3 (0.72%) VMware
7 3 (0.72%) Workday
7 3 (0.72%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.48%) Adobe
8 2 (0.48%) Foundry
8 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.48%) Pega