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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 123 149
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -33
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 44 93 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.96% 1.67% 1.35%
As % of the General category 1.73% 2.99% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 64 72
10th Percentile £399 £405 £357
25th Percentile £425 £467 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +12.19% +5.15%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £550
90th Percentile £653 £700 £671
England median daily rate £575 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £18.07
25th Percentile - - £20.70
Median hourly rate £52.78 £40.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +31.95% +78.57% +16.36%
75th Percentile - - £45.03
90th Percentile - - £46.52
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +89.23% +27.45%

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 2,538 3,112 3,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 55.09% 55.73% 50.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,130 2,584
10th Percentile £265 £300 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £509 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +7.11% +6.98%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £564
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 95 185
10th Percentile £12.10 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £13.30 £16.85 £14.64
Median hourly rate £16.06 £23.15 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% +20.29% +5.92%
75th Percentile £34.21 £35.02 £34.09
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.20 £55.43
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.89
% change year-on-year -6.25% +46.17% -0.49%

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 21 May 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 21 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
North West +9 28 £538 -2.27% 50
Yorkshire -10 15 £525 -10.26% 24
North East +9 1 £650 +60.00% 6
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 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (4.55%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) IaaS
2 3 (6.82%) PaaS
2 3 (6.82%) SaaS
3 2 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) AWS
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Miro
4 1 (2.27%) OCI
4 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 4 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Marketing
8 2 (4.55%) Multimedia
9 1 (2.27%) Publishing
9 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Data Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Analyst
2 5 (11.36%) Lead
2 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) Agile Coach
3 4 (9.09%) Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Integration Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Designer
5 2 (4.55%) Governance Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Project Planner
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.27%) JSON
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
1 1 (2.27%) REST
1 1 (2.27%) SOAP
1 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Digital Media
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 17 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.64%) Coaching
7 6 (13.64%) ETL
8 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.36%) Data Architecture
8 5 (11.36%) Data Engineering
8 5 (11.36%) Data Science
8 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (11.36%) IT Strategy
8 5 (11.36%) Matrix Organization
8 5 (11.36%) Product Management
8 5 (11.36%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (11.36%) Project Management
8 5 (11.36%) Supply Chain Management
9 4 (9.09%) Business Analysis
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.27%) PhD
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GDPR
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) Adobe
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud