Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Influencing Skills
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 6.67% - -
As % of the General category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
West London median daily rate £700 £588 £675
% change year-on-year +19.15% -12.96% +27.36%

All General Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4 5 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 26.67% 25.00% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 23
10th Percentile £168 £310 £363
25th Percentile £191 £325 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £559 £373 £559
90th Percentile £599 £386 £666
West London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.57%
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £33.45 £27.84 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.13% -57.17% +234.45%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Influencing Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks