Influencing Skills Contracts in the North of England

Influencing Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 109 145
Rank change year-on-year -34 +36 -28
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 39 117 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 1.97% 1.47%
As % of the General category 1.52% 3.59% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 82 84
10th Percentile £428 £400 £334
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £484
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +13.70% +6.32%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £549
90th Percentile £732 £700 £621
England median daily rate £575 £570 £533
% change year-on-year +0.88% +7.04% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile - £31.67 £16.60
25th Percentile - £33.06 £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.78 £35.37 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.22% +72.62% +9.28%
75th Percentile - £37.69 £22.50
90th Percentile - £39.07 £32.75
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +16.83%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,569 3,256 3,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.24% 54.81% 50.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,524 2,244 2,642
10th Percentile £226 £300 £200
25th Percentile £394 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £555
90th Percentile £670 £688 £644
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.01% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 105 187
10th Percentile £12.00 £13.68 £11.21
25th Percentile £13.26 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.76% +33.69% -5.96%
75th Percentile £26.92 £40.90 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £55.94 £49.15
England median hourly rate £27.51 £35.00 £21.08
% change year-on-year -21.41% +66.03% -6.31%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West -2 24 £555 -3.48% 35
Yorkshire -18 14 £525 -4.55% 9
North East +17 1 £650 +18.18% 4
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Photoshop
2 2 (5.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
1 3 (7.69%) IaaS
1 3 (7.69%) PaaS
1 3 (7.69%) SaaS
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) Miro
3 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.56%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Data Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Data Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Lead
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
2 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.26%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Change Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Integration Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Project Planner
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.56%) JSON
1 1 (2.56%) Middleware
1 1 (2.56%) REST
1 1 (2.56%) SOAP
1 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.69%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.13%) CMDB
5 2 (5.13%) Digital Media
5 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
4 8 (20.51%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (20.51%) CRM
4 8 (20.51%) Data Architecture
5 7 (17.95%) Data Design
6 6 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 6 (15.38%) Open Source
6 6 (15.38%) SOA
7 5 (12.82%) Content Management
7 5 (12.82%) Data Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (12.82%) IT Strategy
7 5 (12.82%) User Experience
8 4 (10.26%) Data Strategy
8 4 (10.26%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) PhD
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud