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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.44% 0.60% 0.95%
As % of the General category 2.44% 1.27% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £464 - £456
25th Percentile £523 £413 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -26.09% -
75th Percentile £616 £491 £634
90th Percentile £666 £524 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £478 £600
% change year-on-year +7.33% -20.42% +4.35%

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 450 395 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.06% 47.19% 60.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 231 548
10th Percentile £235 £350 £346
25th Percentile £375 £444 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £652 £650 £722
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -7.00% -5.66% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 17
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -18.75% -3.74%
75th Percentile £81.25 £18.27 £21.31
90th Percentile - £40.00 £25.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +5 9 £575 +35.29% 13
Bradford - 1 £450 - 2
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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Asana
1 2 (18.18%) Smartsheet
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Legal
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
5 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) IT Manager
1 3 (27.27%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Commercial Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Content Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Information Governance Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Information Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Procurement Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Testing Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (36.36%) Business Case
4 4 (36.36%) PRINCE2
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
6 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) UX Design
7 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (9.09%) Scorecard
7 1 (9.09%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Wrike
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP