Influencing Skills Contracts in South Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 47 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 1 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.27% 1.97% 2.64%
As % of the General category 0.42% 3.30% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 13
10th Percentile - £532 £522
25th Percentile - £580 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £631 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.79% +2.64% +17.14%
75th Percentile - £678 £688
90th Percentile - £727 £980
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.09% +22.22%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 240 273 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.34% 59.74% 74.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 154 269
10th Percentile £306 £296 £300
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £12.34 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.50 £13.96 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £37.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in South Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in South Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -3 1 £500 -20.79% 7
Influencing Skills
Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall