Influencing Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 167 135
Rank change year-on-year -42 -32 +4
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 138 255 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.26% 1.88%
As % of the General category 1.72% 2.31% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 128 297
10th Percentile £367 £363 £354
25th Percentile £466 £433 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 62 16
10th Percentile £35.95 £22.15 £46.25
25th Percentile £60.00 - £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £38.12 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.51% -38.02% +174.55%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £65.75
90th Percentile £86.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £38.12 £61.50
% change year-on-year +70.51% -38.02% +95.24%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,040 11,023 13,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.47% 54.40% 56.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,933 6,299 8,906
10th Percentile £210 £206 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £652 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,642 748
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £15.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £24.50 £28.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.59% +52.63%
75th Percentile £53.94 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.97 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £30.00 £33.60
% change year-on-year -8.58% -10.72% +49.68%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK excluding London

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +8 29 £500 -9.09% 103
Scotland -12 28 £480 +0.95% 26
South East +35 27 £616 +7.64% 132
Midlands +24 25 £525 - 56
North West +4 19 £450 -18.18% 60
West Midlands +16 18 £563 -19.64% 34
South West +30 17 £600 +0.08% 50
Yorkshire +8 9 £563 +7.14% 35
East of England -37 9 £513 +2.50% 29
East Midlands +14 7 £525 +25.60% 22
Wales +4 3 £613 -38.75% 5
North East -1 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 7
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (6.52%) Confluence
2 7 (5.07%) NetWeaver
2 7 (5.07%) SAP EP
3 4 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.45%) Maximo
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.72%) Primavera
3 1 (0.72%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.49%) Azure
2 12 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.80%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (4.35%) SaaS
5 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.62%) IaaS
5 5 (3.62%) PaaS
6 4 (2.90%) AWS
7 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.17%) GCP
7 3 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.17%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.45%) Matillion
8 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.72%) Figma
9 1 (0.72%) GitHub
9 1 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) WAN
2 2 (1.45%) BGP
2 2 (1.45%) Firewall
2 2 (1.45%) LAN
2 2 (1.45%) MPLS
2 2 (1.45%) OSPF
2 2 (1.45%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.45%) VLAN
2 2 (1.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.72%) Internet
3 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) Power BI
2 5 (3.62%) Metadata
3 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.45%) IDMS
4 2 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.72%) Big Data
5 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.45%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.72%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.72%) ERwin
3 1 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 83 (60.14%) Social Skills
2 44 (31.88%) Finance
3 30 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (15.94%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.07%) Automotive
6 7 (5.07%) Legal
7 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.62%) Marketing
8 5 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Law
9 3 (2.17%) Military
10 2 (1.45%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.45%) Billing
10 2 (1.45%) Electronics
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (18.12%) Architect
2 24 (17.39%) Lead
3 16 (11.59%) Analyst
4 14 (10.14%) Project Manager
4 14 (10.14%) Senior
5 11 (7.97%) Technical Architect
6 10 (7.25%) Change Manager
7 9 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.07%) SAP Architect
8 7 (5.07%) SAP Technical Architect
8 7 (5.07%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.62%) Business Change Manager
9 5 (3.62%) Business Manager
10 4 (2.90%) Product Manager
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Architect
11 3 (2.17%) IT Manager
11 3 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.17%) Training Manager
12 2 (1.45%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) SAP Fiori
1 7 (5.07%) SAP PI
1 7 (5.07%) SAPUI5
2 2 (1.45%) Middleware
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.72%) ADO
3 1 (0.72%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.72%) LDAP
3 1 (0.72%) Playwright
3 1 (0.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.62%) e-Learning
3 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.90%) Learning Management System
5 3 (2.17%) Life Science
5 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.45%) PMI
6 2 (1.45%) Podcast
6 2 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.45%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.07%) Windows
2 5 (3.62%) Linux
3 4 (2.90%) Unix
4 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.51%) Agile
2 38 (27.54%) Project Management
3 36 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (22.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (21.74%) Change Management
6 28 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (15.94%) Roadmaps
8 20 (14.49%) Risk Management
9 18 (13.04%) Decision-Making
9 18 (13.04%) Waterfall
10 17 (12.32%) Project Delivery
11 16 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (11.59%) Strategic Thinking
12 15 (10.87%) Supplier Management
13 14 (10.14%) Budget Management
13 14 (10.14%) Business Case
14 13 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (9.42%) Mentoring
15 12 (8.70%) ERP
15 12 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.80%) Java
2 7 (5.07%) ABAP
3 5 (3.62%) SQL
4 3 (2.17%) Python
5 2 (1.45%) COBOL
6 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (18.84%) Degree
2 19 (13.77%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.35%) ISEB
4 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.90%) IIBA
5 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.17%) PMP
7 2 (1.45%) ACCA
7 2 (1.45%) CCIE
7 2 (1.45%) CCNP
7 2 (1.45%) CIMA
7 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.45%) CISM
7 2 (1.45%) CISSP
7 2 (1.45%) MBA
7 2 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (2.90%) SLA
5 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.17%) PMO
6 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) IFRS
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.45%) RACF
2 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.72%) Ansible
1 1 (0.72%) Grafana
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.72%) SCOM
1 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
1 15 (10.87%) SAP
2 7 (5.07%) Ariba
3 5 (3.62%) Oracle
4 4 (2.90%) Cisco
4 4 (2.90%) Databricks
5 3 (2.17%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.17%) IBM
6 2 (1.45%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.45%) Google
6 2 (1.45%) Juniper
6 2 (1.45%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.45%) Qualys
7 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.72%) IFS
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Workday