Influencing Skills Job Trends in Bolton

Influencing Skills
Manchester > Bolton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies in Bolton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 1.28% - 1.09%
As % of the General category 1.69% - 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £95,000 £50,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +90.00% -15.25% -1.67%

All General Skills
Bolton

Influencing Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 59 87 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 75.64% 86.14% 80.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36 63 50
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,243 £25,900
25th Percentile £32,875 £30,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.99% +0.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,125 £77,500 £73,725
Manchester median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,652
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.59% -7.91%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Influencing Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Influencing Skills job vacancy trend in Bolton

Influencing Skills
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Influencing Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk