Influencing Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Influencing Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 182 166
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +30
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 202 342 713
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.36% 1.37% 1.61%
As % of the General category 2.30% 2.34% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 238 530
10th Percentile £394 £412 £360
25th Percentile £433 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +7.01% +7.00%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £530
% change year-on-year -3.51% +7.55% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 7
10th Percentile - £42.50 £13.43
25th Percentile - £46.25 £15.62
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +175.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £22.40
90th Percentile - £63.50 £27.24
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +95.24% +16.84%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,765 14,605 24,117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.87% 58.46% 54.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,754 10,285 17,533
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 330 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.89
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.05% +41.03%
75th Percentile £53.19 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.40
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -11.29% +53.22% -1.38%

Influencing Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Influencing Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Influencing Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Influencing Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.48%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.49%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.99%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.85%) Azure
2 16 (7.92%) AWS
3 14 (6.93%) Power Platform
3 14 (6.93%) SaaS
4 11 (5.45%) PaaS
5 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.48%) Canva
7 5 (2.48%) IaaS
7 5 (2.48%) Slack
8 3 (1.49%) Smartsheet
8 3 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.99%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.99%) GCP
9 2 (0.99%) OCI
9 2 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Serverless
10 1 (0.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) LAN
1 7 (3.47%) WAN
2 5 (2.48%) Intranet
3 3 (1.49%) 5G
4 2 (0.99%) SAN
5 1 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) Internet
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) NGFW
5 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.45%) Power BI
2 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.99%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.44%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) GitLab
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.99%) Maven
4 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.50%) RStudio
General
1 136 (67.33%) Social Skills
2 94 (46.53%) Finance
3 59 (29.21%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.92%) Legal
6 13 (6.44%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.94%) Marketing
8 11 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 9 (4.46%) Manufacturing
10 9 (4.46%) Retail
11 8 (3.96%) Banking
12 7 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.98%) Local Government
15 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (13.86%) Analyst
2 27 (13.37%) Project Manager
3 23 (11.39%) Business Analyst
4 22 (10.89%) Architect
5 13 (6.44%) Lead
6 11 (5.45%) Consultant
6 11 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (4.95%) Senior
7 10 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.47%) Business IT Analyst
8 7 (3.47%) IT Analyst
8 7 (3.47%) IT Business Analyst
9 6 (2.97%) Agile Business Analyst
9 6 (2.97%) Agile Project Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Data Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Project Delivery Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Senior Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Service Design Manager
9 6 (2.97%) Transformation Manager
10 5 (2.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.97%) Middleware
2 3 (1.49%) JSON
2 3 (1.49%) REST
3 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.99%) CSS
3 2 (0.99%) HTML
3 2 (0.99%) J2EE
3 2 (0.99%) jQuery
3 2 (0.99%) Sass
3 2 (0.99%) Spring
3 2 (0.99%) Spring MVC
3 2 (0.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (0.99%) VML
3 2 (0.99%) Web Services
3 2 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
1 9 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
2 5 (2.48%) Video Editing
3 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (1.98%) IoT
4 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.50%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.50%) NHS
6 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Linux
2 9 (4.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (47.52%) Project Management
2 70 (34.65%) Agile
3 57 (28.22%) Business Strategy
4 47 (23.27%) Business Development
5 45 (22.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (15.84%) Project Delivery
7 25 (12.38%) Scrum
8 23 (11.39%) Roadmaps
9 20 (9.90%) Business Analysis
10 18 (8.91%) Change Management
10 18 (8.91%) Decision-Making
11 16 (7.92%) Analytics
11 16 (7.92%) Kanban
11 16 (7.92%) Risk Management
12 15 (7.43%) Waterfall
13 14 (6.93%) PRINCE2
13 14 (6.93%) Process Improvement
13 14 (6.93%) User Stories
14 13 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.94%) SQL
2 6 (2.97%) Python
3 4 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.49%) Bash
5 2 (0.99%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) C++
6 1 (0.50%) Groovy
6 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (11.39%) Degree
2 18 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.98%) CISSP
4 4 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) CISM
5 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) MBA
7 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) CCSP
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PhD
7 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) QA
2 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.97%) PMO
3 4 (1.98%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.49%) SLA
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.49%) Kibana
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.99%) Nagios
3 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.99%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.41%) SAP
3 8 (3.96%) Databricks
4 6 (2.97%) Adobe
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle
5 5 (2.48%) BT
5 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.98%) VMware
7 3 (1.49%) Cadence
7 3 (1.49%) Qualys
8 2 (0.99%) Commvault
8 2 (0.99%) Dell
8 2 (0.99%) Google
8 2 (0.99%) Intel
8 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.99%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.99%) Splunk
9 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud