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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 232 201
Rank change year-on-year +48 -31 +6
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 218 152 231
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.00% 1.22%
As % of the General category 2.27% 1.56% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 82 152
10th Percentile £360 £361 £401
25th Percentile £469 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -1.26% -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £668 £675
90th Percentile £800 £770 £786
England median daily rate £550 £575 £555
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.60% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £28.52 - -
25th Percentile £30.43 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £95.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.85% +58.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £34.08 - £65.00
90th Percentile £38.75 - -
England median hourly rate £40.73 £32.50 £34.75
% change year-on-year +25.32% -6.47% -43.50%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,610 9,716 12,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.92% 64.17% 64.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,273 6,201 8,807
10th Percentile £335 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 116 164
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.52
25th Percentile £19.79 £24.33 £21.44
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £76.70 £75.88
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.40 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.70% -7.88% +32.00%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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
Central London +16 40 £600 -4.00% 9
West London -11 10 £625 -37.50% 6
South London - 2 £513 - 3
North London - 1 £600 -
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 9 (4.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.75%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.21%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.46%) Endur
4 1 (0.46%) HFM
4 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.46%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.46%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 36 (16.51%) Azure
2 17 (7.80%) AWS
3 16 (7.34%) GCP
4 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.13%) SaaS
6 5 (2.29%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.83%) IaaS
8 3 (1.38%) dbt
8 3 (1.38%) GitHub
8 3 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.92%) Miro
9 2 (0.92%) OCI
9 2 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.38%) DHCP
2 3 (1.38%) DNS
2 3 (1.38%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) VLAN
3 2 (0.92%) VPN
3 2 (0.92%) VSAN
3 2 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.46%) Internet
4 1 (0.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.13%) Power BI
2 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.29%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.29%) Metadata
4 4 (1.83%) Tableau
5 3 (1.38%) Big Data
5 3 (1.38%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.46%) DTS
7 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.46%) Power Query
7 1 (0.46%) Redis
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.63%) JIRA
2 5 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.83%) GitLab
3 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.46%) Git
General
1 120 (55.05%) Social Skills
2 80 (36.70%) Finance
3 51 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.09%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (7.80%) Banking
7 11 (5.05%) Marketing
7 11 (5.05%) Retail
8 10 (4.59%) Legal
9 9 (4.13%) Front Office
10 8 (3.67%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.75%) Back Office
12 5 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.83%) Publishing
14 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.38%) Local Government
14 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 42 (19.27%) Analyst
2 36 (16.51%) Lead
3 34 (15.60%) Business Analyst
4 30 (13.76%) Architect
5 19 (8.72%) Senior
6 12 (5.50%) Change Manager
6 12 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.59%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.67%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Product Manager
10 6 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.75%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.29%) Consultant
11 5 (2.29%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
12 4 (1.83%) Credit Analyst
12 4 (1.83%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) Kafka
2 6 (2.75%) .NET
3 4 (1.83%) Middleware
3 4 (1.83%) PySpark
3 4 (1.83%) XML
4 3 (1.38%) Node.js
4 3 (1.38%) React
5 2 (0.92%) ADO
5 2 (0.92%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.92%) OpenID
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.92%) REST
5 2 (0.92%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.92%) Spring
6 1 (0.46%) D3.js
6 1 (0.46%) Express.js
6 1 (0.46%) HTML
6 1 (0.46%) LDAP
6 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.21%) NHS
3 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.29%) PMI
4 5 (2.29%) Reinsurance
4 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.83%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.38%) Derivative
6 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.92%) LIMS
7 2 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Unix
1 4 (1.83%) Windows
2 3 (1.38%) Linux
3 2 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (34.86%) Agile
2 75 (34.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (23.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 49 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (21.56%) Decision-Making
6 46 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (18.35%) Roadmaps
8 31 (14.22%) Project Management
9 28 (12.84%) DevOps
10 27 (12.39%) Project Delivery
11 26 (11.93%) Scrum
12 25 (11.47%) Change Management
13 24 (11.01%) Migration
14 23 (10.55%) Risk Management
15 21 (9.63%) AI
15 21 (9.63%) Business Analysis
16 19 (8.72%) Analytics
16 19 (8.72%) CI/CD
17 18 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
18 17 (7.80%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.55%) Python
2 13 (5.96%) SQL
3 11 (5.05%) Java
4 5 (2.29%) C#
5 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.92%) Ruby
7 2 (0.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.46%) Bash
8 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) Go
8 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (16.06%) Degree
2 28 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 25 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.83%) ISEB
7 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.83%) PMP
8 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.38%) CBAP
8 3 (1.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 3 (1.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.92%) APMP
9 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.92%) CISSP
10 1 (0.46%) CCDP
10 1 (0.46%) CCNP
10 1 (0.46%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.67%) NIST
3 8 (3.67%) PMO
4 7 (3.21%) GRC
4 7 (3.21%) QA
5 5 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.83%) SLA
7 3 (1.38%) GDPR
7 3 (1.38%) NCSC
8 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.46%) MiFID
9 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.92%) vSphere
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (8.26%) Terraform
2 7 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.92%) Rancher
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Consul
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Packer
4 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.72%) SAP
3 12 (5.50%) Workday
4 11 (5.05%) Oracle
5 8 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.29%) Google
7 5 (2.29%) VMware
8 4 (1.83%) Ariba
8 4 (1.83%) Avaloq
8 4 (1.83%) Databricks
8 4 (1.83%) IFS
9 3 (1.38%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.38%) Murex
10 2 (0.92%) Brio
10 2 (0.92%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.92%) NetApp
10 2 (0.92%) Qualtrics
10 2 (0.92%) UiPath
11 1 (0.46%) Zscaler