Influencing Skills Contracts in Manchester

Influencing Skills
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 90
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 6 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.53% 1.48%
As % of the General category 1.15% 1.09% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 24
10th Percentile £250 £500 £374
25th Percentile £319 £506 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +1.15% +17.06%
75th Percentile £506 £723 £628
90th Percentile £518 £798 £675
North West median daily rate £410 £555 £606
% change year-on-year -26.13% -8.45% +24.36%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 524 731 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.59% 48.19% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 477 647
10th Percentile £250 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £659
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 62 39
10th Percentile - £12.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £21.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -13.10% +38.89%
75th Percentile £40.31 £31.50 £37.30
90th Percentile £72.75 £59.75 £45.05
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Manchester

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Manchester

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Manchester

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in Manchester

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Transition Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blog
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Design
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ACCA
2 1 (16.67%) APMG
2 1 (16.67%) CIMA
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft