Influencing Skills Contracts in Scotland

Influencing Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +21
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 49 100 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.26% 3.65% 2.65%
As % of the General category 3.51% 5.46% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 78 68
10th Percentile £363 £300 £282
25th Percentile £386 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £513 £597 £550
90th Percentile £600 £662 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £566 £530
% change year-on-year -2.83% +6.79% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.80
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate £21.64 - £13.02
75th Percentile - - £13.79
90th Percentile - - £14.24
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +108.47% +11.32%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,398 1,830 2,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.48% 66.79% 71.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,336 1,788
10th Percentile £179 £241 £227
25th Percentile £350 £405 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 40
10th Percentile £12.27 £12.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.72 £18.50 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -31.10% +16.74%
75th Percentile £59.38 £58.75 £47.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Edinburgh +11 23 £450 -5.26% 1
Glasgow -13 12 £500 -9.09% 7
West Lothian -2 3 £475 -
Aberdeen 0 2 £600 +9.09% 3
Perthshire +9 1 £500 +17.65%
Fife 0 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (16.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.16%) CMS
3 2 (4.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Photoshop
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (16.33%) Canva
3 8 (16.33%) Slack
4 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) AWS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.04%) Route 53
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) Intranet
2 2 (4.08%) LAN
2 2 (4.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) SilkCentral
General
1 31 (63.27%) Social Skills
2 20 (40.82%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Publishing
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Project Manager
2 10 (20.41%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Content Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Agile Project Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Business Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) IT Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Designer
6 4 (8.16%) Content Designer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Content Designer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Designer
7 3 (6.12%) Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Communications Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Middleware
2 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Video Editing
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Agile
2 22 (44.90%) Project Management
3 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (24.49%) User Research
5 10 (20.41%) Project Delivery
5 10 (20.41%) User Stories
6 9 (18.37%) Risk Management
6 9 (18.37%) Scrum
7 8 (16.33%) Change Control
7 8 (16.33%) Copywriting
7 8 (16.33%) DevOps
7 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
7 8 (16.33%) Software Delivery
7 8 (16.33%) Wireframes
8 7 (14.29%) Coaching
8 7 (14.29%) Dependency Management
8 7 (14.29%) Supplier Management
9 6 (12.24%) Business Analysis
9 6 (12.24%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (12.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) Bash
1 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (2.04%) Groovy
1 1 (2.04%) Python
1 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) CISM
2 2 (4.08%) CISSP
2 2 (4.08%) PMP
3 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) PMO
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Ansible
1 1 (2.04%) Grafana
1 1 (2.04%) Kibana
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Cadence
3 3 (6.12%) Adobe
4 2 (4.08%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.08%) Qualys
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Ariba