Influencing Skills Jobs in England

Influencing Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 169 206
Rank change year-on-year -78 +37 +30
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 643 1,480 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.32% 1.72% 1.80%
As % of the General category 1.91% 2.91% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 330 529 629
10th Percentile £50,967 £40,988 £39,294
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,373 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,656 £76,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,375 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +5.00%

All General Skills
England

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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,599 50,887 61,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 68.82% 59.24% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16,553 35,691 33,301
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £104,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in England.

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Influencing Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -70 178 £80,000 +11.33% 541
North of England +27 133 £54,793 +4.37% 113
North West +24 114 £54,793 +8.11% 65
South East -56 103 £70,000 +33.86% 141
East of England +44 97 £50,967 -8.21% 28
Midlands -48 90 £67,629 +15.11% 66
West Midlands -42 69 £62,500 -9.60% 41
South West +22 39 £68,525 +14.21% 50
East Midlands +23 20 £68,525 +37.05% 23
Yorkshire +30 18 £85,126 +28.49% 41
North East +25 1 £81,764 +44.22% 8
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.09%) Confluence
3 6 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.16%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (9.80%) AWS
2 57 (8.86%) Azure
3 27 (4.20%) GCP
4 25 (3.89%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.33%) Serverless
6 13 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.02%) SaaS
6 13 (2.02%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.87%) GitHub
8 7 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (0.93%) PaaS
10 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.62%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (0.62%) Figma
11 4 (0.62%) IaaS
11 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.87%) Network Security
2 10 (1.56%) Firewall
3 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.62%) Intranet
4 4 (0.62%) LAN
4 4 (0.62%) VPN
4 4 (0.62%) WAN
5 3 (0.47%) HTTP
5 3 (0.47%) VLAN
6 2 (0.31%) BGP
6 2 (0.31%) DHCP
6 2 (0.31%) DNS
6 2 (0.31%) OSPF
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.16%) IPsec
7 1 (0.16%) MPLS
7 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.04%) Data Lake
1 26 (4.04%) Tableau
2 22 (3.42%) Power BI
3 13 (2.02%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.56%) Metadata
5 7 (1.09%) Data Vault
5 7 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.31%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.07%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.56%) JIRA
3 7 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.47%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 410 (63.76%) Social Skills
2 182 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
3 139 (21.62%) Finance
4 61 (9.49%) Avionics
5 57 (8.86%) Legal
6 54 (8.40%) Law
7 34 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 32 (4.98%) Marketing
8 32 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (4.20%) Banking
11 22 (3.42%) Retail
12 11 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.24%) Local Government
13 8 (1.24%) Military
14 7 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.09%) Publishing
14 7 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 170 (26.44%) Senior
2 140 (21.77%) Analyst
3 130 (20.22%) Lead
4 88 (13.69%) Business Change Analyst
4 88 (13.69%) Change Analyst
5 62 (9.64%) Systems Engineer
6 61 (9.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 56 (8.71%) Architect
8 39 (6.07%) Principal Engineer
8 39 (6.07%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 32 (4.98%) Project Manager
10 22 (3.42%) Senior Manager
11 20 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (2.49%) IT Manager
14 15 (2.33%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.02%) Programme Manager
15 13 (2.02%) Supplier Manager
16 12 (1.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.56%) EDI
2 8 (1.24%) Django
3 7 (1.09%) Kafka
3 7 (1.09%) RESTful
4 4 (0.62%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (0.62%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (0.62%) REST
4 4 (0.62%) SwiftUI
5 3 (0.47%) HTML
5 3 (0.47%) JSON
5 3 (0.47%) OAuth
5 3 (0.47%) Pandas
5 3 (0.47%) SOAP
5 3 (0.47%) XML
5 3 (0.47%) XSLT
6 2 (0.31%) .NET
6 2 (0.31%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.31%) PySpark
6 2 (0.31%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.31%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.60%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.27%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.93%) Social Media
7 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
8 5 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.78%) PMI
9 4 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.62%) NHS
10 3 (0.47%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.47%) FMCG
10 3 (0.47%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.47%) PKI
10 3 (0.47%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.47%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.24%) Windows
2 7 (1.09%) Android
2 7 (1.09%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.62%) Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (25.51%) Collaborative Working
3 153 (23.79%) Agile
4 142 (22.08%) Roadmaps
5 140 (21.77%) Strategic Thinking
6 132 (20.53%) Business Case
6 132 (20.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 128 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 111 (17.26%) Change Management
9 111 (17.26%) Systems Engineering
10 104 (16.17%) Coaching
11 101 (15.71%) Business Analysis
12 100 (15.55%) Workshop Facilitation
13 99 (15.40%) Project Management
14 90 (14.00%) Use Case
15 88 (13.69%) MoSCoW
16 74 (11.51%) Analytics
17 68 (10.58%) Strategic Roadmap
18 65 (10.11%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.84%) Python
2 32 (4.98%) SQL
3 11 (1.71%) R
4 7 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.62%) Bash
5 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.62%) Swift
6 3 (0.47%) C
6 3 (0.47%) Jython
6 3 (0.47%) Perl
7 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.16%) C#
7 1 (0.16%) Groovy
7 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (22.40%) Degree
2 89 (13.84%) CBAP
3 66 (10.26%) HNC
4 61 (9.49%) HND
5 49 (7.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (6.53%) Security Cleared
7 33 (5.13%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.56%) CISSP
8 10 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.09%) MBA
11 6 (0.93%) CCSK
11 6 (0.93%) CISA
12 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.78%) PMP
13 3 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.47%) CCSP
13 3 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.31%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.27%) GDPR
3 19 (2.95%) QA
4 17 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.33%) NIST
6 11 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.40%) PMO
9 8 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.24%) GRC
10 4 (0.62%) Automotive SPICE
10 4 (0.62%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.62%) NCSC
11 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.31%) COBIT
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.93%) Terraform
2 5 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.62%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.47%) CASB
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.16%) Ansible
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.16%) Nagios
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.71%) Google
3 10 (1.56%) Informatica
4 8 (1.24%) Salesforce
5 6 (0.93%) Facebook
5 6 (0.93%) SAP
5 6 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.93%) YouTube
6 5 (0.78%) Oracle
7 4 (0.62%) Adobe
7 4 (0.62%) Guidewire
7 4 (0.62%) Siebel
7 4 (0.62%) VMware
8 3 (0.47%) Databricks
8 3 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.47%) IBM
8 3 (0.47%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.47%) StreamSets
8 3 (0.47%) Symantec
8 3 (0.47%) Zscaler