Influencing Skills Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Influencing Skills
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.85% - 3.14%
As % of the General category 1.48% - 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £510 - £662
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £678
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.31%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
South East median daily rate £534 £375 £485
% change year-on-year +42.27% -22.68% -

All General Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 135 84 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 57.69% 64.12% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 62 124
10th Percentile £135 £170 £200
25th Percentile £170 £203 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -10.23% -1.33%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £588
90th Percentile £660 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 3
10th Percentile £12.63 - £15.58
25th Percentile £13.00 £27.00 £20.59
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -3.18% +50.23%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £25.70 - £61.84
South East median hourly rate £20.40 £52.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year -61.14% +3.90% +44.36%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Influencing Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Influencing Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Worthing - 2 £550 -
Influencing Skills
South East

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Change Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Change
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Map
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) APMG
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC