Influencing Skills Contracts in West Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in West 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 59 71 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 3 6 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.55% 0.60% 2.39%
As % of the General category 0.92% 1.09% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile £576 - £453
25th Percentile £597 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -13.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £672 £549 £600
90th Percentile £689 £557 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.09% +22.22%

All General Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 325 548 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.31% 54.85% 60.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 314 702
10th Percentile £260 £265 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £677 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 44 9
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%
75th Percentile £36.22 £15.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £91.13 £15.25 £70.00
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in West Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in West Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in West Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in West Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds +1 3 £638 +34.21% 15
Influencing Skills
Yorkshire

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Content Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) PMO