Influencing Skills Contracts

Influencing Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 184 173
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 500 867 1,501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.47% 1.69%
As % of the General category 1.99% 2.51% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 586 1,059
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 23 21
10th Percentile £22.66 £42.50 £14.55
25th Percentile - £57.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +141.18% -3.77%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £34.50
90th Percentile - £73.15 £47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +207.50% -24.53%

All General Skills
UK

Influencing Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,093 34,536 49,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.14% 58.47% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,826 23,949 34,580
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,938 1,057 1,434
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England -19 430 £585 +1.74% 530
UK excluding London -36 266 £525 -4.55% 317
London +39 213 £609 -2.60% 228
Work from Home +28 202 £531 -5.56% 179
East of England +43 81 £500 -10.11% 36
Scotland -2 50 £480 -4.00% 15
South East -43 46 £573 +2.23% 64
North of England -25 42 £550 - 78
South West +1 30 £630 +4.96% 49
North West -2 24 £555 +0.91% 51
Midlands -12 19 £700 +29.93% 69
Yorkshire -15 17 £528 -4.31% 24
West Midlands -10 14 £700 +30.23% 42
East Midlands +15 4 £418 -6.07% 26
Northern Ireland - 3 £435 - 2
North East +16 1 £650 +60.00% 5
Wales - 1 £1,000 - 9

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.00%) Confluence
3 7 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.00%) CMS
5 4 (0.80%) Apache
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 40 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.20%) Photoshop
4 13 (2.60%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (1.20%) Adobe Captivate
7 6 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.80%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.60%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.40%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (9.80%) Azure
2 31 (6.20%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.20%) AWS
4 18 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.20%) PaaS
5 16 (3.20%) SaaS
6 11 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.60%) Canva
7 8 (1.60%) IaaS
7 8 (1.60%) Slack
8 7 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 6 (1.20%) GitHub
9 6 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.60%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.60%) FinancialForce
10 3 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Serverless
10 3 (0.60%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.20%) Intranet
2 8 (1.60%) LAN
3 7 (1.40%) WAN
4 4 (0.80%) 5G
4 4 (0.80%) Internet
4 4 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
6 2 (0.40%) DMZ
6 2 (0.40%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) SAN
6 2 (0.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.40%) WebEx
7 1 (0.20%) ATM
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.20%) NGFW
7 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.20%) VSAN
7 1 (0.20%) Wireless
7 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.20%) Power BI
2 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.40%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.40%) RDBMS
4 6 (1.20%) Metadata
4 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.20%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.60%) MySQL
7 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.40%) Flink
7 2 (0.40%) Redis
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (8.60%) JIRA
2 8 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.40%) JMeter
3 7 (1.40%) Selenium
4 4 (0.80%) Git
5 3 (0.60%) GitLab
5 3 (0.60%) Maven
6 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.20%) RStudio
7 1 (0.20%) SilkCentral
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 308 (61.60%) Social Skills
2 205 (41.00%) Finance
3 105 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (17.00%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (11.20%) Public Sector
6 45 (9.00%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (8.40%) Banking
8 33 (6.60%) Marketing
9 25 (5.00%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.80%) Legal
11 21 (4.20%) Manufacturing
12 18 (3.60%) Retail
13 15 (3.00%) Local Government
14 13 (2.60%) Electronics
14 13 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.60%) Back Office
16 8 (1.60%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.20%) Multimedia
18 4 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 92 (18.40%) Project Manager
2 64 (12.80%) Analyst
3 60 (12.00%) Architect
4 46 (9.20%) Senior
5 40 (8.00%) Lead
6 36 (7.20%) Business Analyst
7 27 (5.40%) Senior Manager
8 24 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
9 16 (3.20%) Senior Project Manager
10 15 (3.00%) Data Manager
10 15 (3.00%) Designer
11 14 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (2.60%) Consultant
12 13 (2.60%) IT Manager
13 12 (2.40%) Programme Manager
14 10 (2.00%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.00%) Data Architect
15 9 (1.80%) Agile Project Manager
15 9 (1.80%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.80%) REST
1 9 (1.80%) Web Services
2 7 (1.40%) HTML
2 7 (1.40%) Middleware
3 6 (1.20%) CSS
3 6 (1.20%) JSON
3 6 (1.20%) SOAP
4 5 (1.00%) ADO
4 5 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.00%) Spring
4 5 (1.00%) XML
5 4 (0.80%) Kafka
6 3 (0.60%) J2EE
6 3 (0.60%) jQuery
6 3 (0.60%) Sass
6 3 (0.60%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.60%) VML
7 2 (0.40%) Express.js
7 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.40%) Management Information System
1 32 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (2.20%) Virtual Team
4 9 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.60%) Video Editing
6 7 (1.40%) Digital Media
6 7 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.20%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.00%) CMDB
8 5 (1.00%) IoT
8 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.00%) PMI
8 5 (1.00%) Solar Power
9 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.80%) NHS
9 4 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.40%) Linux
2 13 (2.60%) Windows
3 8 (1.60%) Unix
4 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (36.40%) Agile
1 182 (36.40%) Project Management
2 136 (27.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 104 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (14.60%) Business Strategy
5 63 (12.60%) Roadmaps
6 61 (12.20%) Project Delivery
7 60 (12.00%) PRINCE2
8 58 (11.60%) Change Management
8 58 (11.60%) Decision-Making
9 52 (10.40%) Programme Management
10 51 (10.20%) Scrum
11 50 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (9.60%) Business Development
13 45 (9.00%) Business Analysis
14 40 (8.00%) Business Case
15 39 (7.80%) Risk Management
16 37 (7.40%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (7.20%) Analytics
18 33 (6.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.20%) SQL
2 10 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (1.60%) Python
4 5 (1.00%) Java
5 3 (0.60%) Bash
6 2 (0.40%) C++
6 2 (0.40%) VBA
7 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.20%) Groovy
7 1 (0.20%) Natural
7 1 (0.20%) R
7 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (14.00%) Degree
2 68 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 52 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 11 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.00%) PMP
8 7 (1.40%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 7 (1.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 6 (1.20%) CISSP
10 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.80%) CISM
11 4 (0.80%) MBA
12 3 (0.60%) NVQ Level 4
12 3 (0.60%) PhD
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.40%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.60%) QA
2 27 (5.40%) PMO
3 18 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.00%) GDPR
5 5 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.00%) SLA
6 4 (0.80%) Basel III
6 4 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.60%) GRC
7 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) COREP
8 2 (0.40%) FINREP
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (1.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.40%) Terraform
3 6 (1.20%) Ansible
4 5 (1.00%) Kibana
4 5 (1.00%) Puppet
5 4 (0.80%) Grafana
6 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.40%) Nagios
6 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.00%) SAP
3 16 (3.20%) Adobe
4 14 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.60%) Databricks
6 7 (1.40%) Oracle
6 7 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.00%) BT
7 5 (1.00%) Cadence
7 5 (1.00%) Centrify
7 5 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.00%) Qualys
7 5 (1.00%) VMware
8 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.80%) Dell
9 3 (0.60%) Google
9 3 (0.60%) Intel
9 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.60%) Splunk