Influencing Skills Contracts in Sheffield

Influencing Skills
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 6 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.63% 1.73% 2.82%
As % of the General category 2.38% 2.77% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £402 £521 £534
25th Percentile £405 £553 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £615
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -0.41% +23.00%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £700
90th Percentile £545 £644 £1,038
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £613 £615
% change year-on-year -18.37% -0.41% +23.00%

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 252 253 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.48% 62.62% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 129 217
10th Percentile £277 £377 £363
25th Percentile £382 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £700
90th Percentile £646 £623 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -13.73% +55.73%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 - £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Sheffield

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Sheffield

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Sheffield over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Sheffield

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Portfolio Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Portfolio Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (16.67%) Burndown Charts
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) RIBA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM