Influencing Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Influencing Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 92 120 90
Rank change year-on-year +28 -30 +15
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 10 25 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.93% 2.12%
As % of the General category 1.04% 1.68% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 44
10th Percentile - £325 £323
25th Percentile £513 £448 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £440
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +42.05% -20.72%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £555
90th Percentile - £975 £650
South East median daily rate £610 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.62 - -
25th Percentile £36.70 - -
Median hourly rate £53.48 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +231.76% - -
75th Percentile £70.27 - -
90th Percentile £80.34 - -
South East median hourly rate £53.48 £18.35 -
% change year-on-year +191.44% - -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the Thames Valley

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 8 - - 34
Buckinghamshire +12 1 - - 7
Oxfordshire +5 1 £525 - 7
Influencing Skills
South East

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) PaaS
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Agriculture
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) HR Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Payroll Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 2 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Escalation Management
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) People Management
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Economics
6 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware