Influencing Skills Contracts in London

Influencing Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 227 178
Rank change year-on-year +27 -49 +14
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 209 309 644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.18% 1.67%
As % of the General category 1.87% 1.86% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 221 460
10th Percentile £400 £350 £385
25th Percentile £475 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £875 £913 £800
England median daily rate £575 £575 £534
% change year-on-year - +7.73% +4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £42.88 £29.15
25th Percentile £46.25 £61.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £68.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +102.21% +24.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £40.94
90th Percentile - - £54.78
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +92.19% +30.61%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,147 16,587 23,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.17% 63.31% 60.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,946 12,019 16,736
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 212 294
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.40 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.71 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -15.44% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.44%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 11 May 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
Central London +10 20 £550 -15.38% 23
West London +14 3 £575 +21.05% 15
East London 0 3 £400 -44.83% 1
South London +5 2 £500 - 4
North London - 2 - - 1
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.87%) Confluence
2 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.91%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.44%) Shopify
4 2 (0.96%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.48%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.61%) AWS
1 18 (8.61%) Azure
2 11 (5.26%) SaaS
3 10 (4.78%) PaaS
4 9 (4.31%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.39%) GitHub
6 4 (1.91%) IaaS
7 3 (1.44%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.44%) FinancialForce
7 3 (1.44%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle CX
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) 5G
1 3 (1.44%) LAN
2 2 (0.96%) DMZ
2 2 (0.96%) WAN
3 1 (0.48%) ATM
3 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.48%) WebEx
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.31%) Power BI
2 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.44%) MySQL
4 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.96%) Flink
4 2 (0.96%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Adabas
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.48%) Big Data
5 1 (0.48%) Metadata
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.48%) JIRA
2 6 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.39%) JMeter
3 5 (2.39%) Selenium
4 3 (1.44%) Maven
5 2 (0.96%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.48%) RStudio
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 112 (53.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (40.67%) Finance
3 54 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.75%) Banking
5 20 (9.57%) Marketing
5 20 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.22%) Legal
8 10 (4.78%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.78%) Retail
9 8 (3.83%) Retail Banking
10 7 (3.35%) Back Office
10 7 (3.35%) Local Government
10 7 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.91%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (1.44%) Electronics
14 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (19.14%) Project Manager
2 38 (18.18%) Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Architect
4 25 (11.96%) Business Analyst
5 20 (9.57%) Senior
6 14 (6.70%) Delivery Manager
7 12 (5.74%) Lead
8 11 (5.26%) Programme Manager
8 11 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 11 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (3.35%) Business IT Analyst
10 7 (3.35%) Consultant
10 7 (3.35%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.35%) IT Analyst
10 7 (3.35%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (3.35%) Lean Specialist
11 6 (2.87%) Project Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.87%) Service Design Manager
11 6 (2.87%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) Web Services
2 6 (2.87%) REST
3 5 (2.39%) ADO
4 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.44%) CSS
4 3 (1.44%) J2EE
4 3 (1.44%) jQuery
4 3 (1.44%) JSON
4 3 (1.44%) Sass
4 3 (1.44%) SOAP
4 3 (1.44%) Spring
4 3 (1.44%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.44%) VML
4 3 (1.44%) XML
5 2 (0.96%) Kafka
5 2 (0.96%) Middleware
6 1 (0.48%) Ajax
6 1 (0.48%) EDI
6 1 (0.48%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.91%) Credit Risk
4 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (1.91%) FMCG
4 4 (1.91%) IoT
5 3 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.96%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.96%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.96%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.96%) Solar Power
7 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.48%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.48%) NHS
7 1 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.31%) Linux
2 7 (3.35%) Unix
3 4 (1.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (45.93%) Agile
2 61 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (24.88%) Project Management
5 31 (14.83%) Programme Management
6 30 (14.35%) Roadmaps
7 28 (13.40%) Scrum
8 27 (12.92%) Change Management
8 27 (12.92%) Project Delivery
9 26 (12.44%) Decision-Making
9 26 (12.44%) PRINCE2
10 25 (11.96%) Business Analysis
11 22 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.05%) Business Case
13 19 (9.09%) Kanban
14 18 (8.61%) Service Design
14 18 (8.61%) Waterfall
15 17 (8.13%) Process Improvement
15 17 (8.13%) Risk Management
15 17 (8.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.78%) SQL
2 5 (2.39%) Python
3 3 (1.44%) Java
3 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.96%) Bash
4 2 (0.96%) C++
4 2 (0.96%) VBA
5 1 (0.48%) Natural
5 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.88%) Degree
3 27 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 8 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 7 (3.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.39%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.91%) PMP
9 3 (1.44%) MBA
10 2 (0.96%) CISM
10 2 (0.96%) CISSP
10 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.96%) PhD
11 1 (0.48%) ACCA
11 1 (0.48%) CIMA
11 1 (0.48%) CISA
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) QA
2 12 (5.74%) PMO
3 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.87%) GDPR
5 5 (2.39%) SLA
6 4 (1.91%) Basel III
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) COREP
7 2 (0.96%) FINREP
7 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (3.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.39%) Terraform
3 4 (1.91%) Ansible
3 4 (1.91%) Puppet
4 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.96%) Kibana
4 2 (0.96%) Nagios
4 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (9.57%) Microsoft
1 20 (9.57%) SAP
2 5 (2.39%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.91%) Adobe
3 4 (1.91%) Centrify
3 4 (1.91%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.91%) Databricks
3 4 (1.91%) Dell
3 4 (1.91%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.44%) Google
4 3 (1.44%) Intel
4 3 (1.44%) Qualys
4 3 (1.44%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.96%) CA
5 2 (0.96%) Commvault
5 2 (0.96%) Splunk
5 2 (0.96%) Temenos
5 2 (0.96%) VMware
6 1 (0.48%) Progress