Influencing Skills Contracts in the South West

Influencing Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 125 115
Rank change year-on-year +30 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 17 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 0.91% 1.45%
As % of the General category 1.76% 1.79% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 31
10th Percentile £463 £458 £290
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £660 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £658
90th Percentile £775 - £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £44.88 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £46.56 £57.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £51.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.10% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £54.06 £65.75
90th Percentile - £54.63 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £38.12 £61.50
% change year-on-year +57.40% -38.02% +92.19%

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 968 1,619 1,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.28% 50.86% 48.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 966 1,274
10th Percentile £215 £214 £275
25th Percentile £397 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +9.27%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £635
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 270 117
10th Percentile £15.83 £13.69 £17.40
25th Percentile £25.94 £23.63 £36.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -22.68% +41.89%
75th Percentile £68.38 £70.18 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £86.65
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.57% -5.38% +51.16%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the South West

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the South West

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the South West

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the South West

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
Bristol +12 7 £488 -2.50% 24
Somerset - 7 £620 - 6
Wiltshire +30 1 - - 4
Gloucestershire +16 1 £950 +72.73% 14
Dorset - 1 £700 - 2
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Matillion
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) BGP
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
2 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Metadata
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Military
5 1 (5.88%) Electronics
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Director
4 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) Project Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (35.29%) Budget Management
2 6 (35.29%) Business Case
2 6 (35.29%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) Supplier Management
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (29.41%) Data Management
3 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
3 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 5 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Business Development
4 4 (23.53%) Business Strategy
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
4 4 (23.53%) Data Governance Strategy
4 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Culture Change
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 2 (11.76%) CCIE
5 2 (11.76%) CCNP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.76%) JNCIE
5 2 (11.76%) JNCIP
5 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (11.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
1 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Juniper
1 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) IFS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle