Influencing Skills Jobs in the North of England

Influencing Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 232 162
Rank change year-on-year +25 -70 +6
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 134 164 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.16% 0.94% 2.26%
As % of the General category 1.64% 1.69% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67 118 132
10th Percentile £47,231 £39,500 £38,000
25th Percentile - £40,988 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -4.55% -
75th Percentile - £71,250 £76,316
90th Percentile £87,833 £84,964 £87,492
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,147 9,723 12,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.53% 55.58% 70.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,937 7,358 5,154
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,180
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -8.97% +4.36%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in the North of England

Influencing Skills
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +24 114 £54,793 +8.11% 48
Yorkshire +28 19 £85,253 +28.68% 38
North East +30 1 £81,764 +44.22% 9
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SAS
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.21%) AWS
2 8 (5.97%) Azure
3 7 (5.22%) GitHub
4 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.73%) GCP
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.73%) Snowflake
5 4 (2.99%) PaaS
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (2.24%) IaaS
6 3 (2.24%) SaaS
6 3 (2.24%) Serverless
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.49%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.75%) dbt
8 1 (0.75%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Firewall
1 4 (2.99%) HTTP
1 4 (2.99%) LAN
1 4 (2.99%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.99%) VPN
1 4 (2.99%) WAN
2 2 (1.49%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) VoIP
3 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) Tableau
2 6 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.99%) Metadata
3 4 (2.99%) Power BI
4 3 (2.24%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Power Query
5 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.75%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.99%) JIRA
2 4 (2.99%) Spinnaker
General
1 97 (72.39%) Social Skills
2 61 (45.52%) Avionics
3 29 (21.64%) Finance
4 13 (9.70%) Banking
5 7 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.48%) Law
7 5 (3.73%) Legal
8 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Automotive
10 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (64.18%) Senior
2 61 (45.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 61 (45.52%) Systems Engineer
3 15 (11.19%) Lead
4 11 (8.21%) Architect
5 6 (4.48%) Analyst
5 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (3.73%) Lead Architect
6 5 (3.73%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 4 (2.99%) Cloud Specialist
7 4 (2.99%) IT Manager
7 4 (2.99%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.24%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) Senior IT Manager
8 3 (2.24%) Senior IT Project Manager
8 3 (2.24%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) HTML
1 4 (2.99%) SOAP
1 4 (2.99%) XML
1 4 (2.99%) XSLT
2 3 (2.24%) Kafka
2 3 (2.24%) OAuth
3 2 (1.49%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.75%) ADO
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.75%) Blazor
4 1 (0.75%) Pandas
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.24%) PMI
4 3 (2.24%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) CMDB
6 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.75%) Clustering
6 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Windows
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (47.76%) Collaborative Working
1 64 (47.76%) Customer Requirements
2 63 (47.01%) Coaching
3 62 (46.27%) Systems Engineering
4 61 (45.52%) Cryptography
4 61 (45.52%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 29 (21.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (16.42%) Agile
7 17 (12.69%) Roadmaps
8 12 (8.96%) Business Strategy
8 12 (8.96%) Mentoring
8 12 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (8.21%) Project Management
10 10 (7.46%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (7.46%) Product Backlog
10 10 (7.46%) TOGAF
11 9 (6.72%) Architecture Roadmap
11 9 (6.72%) DevOps
11 9 (6.72%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (6.72%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.21%) SQL
2 7 (5.22%) Python
3 5 (3.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.99%) Bash
4 4 (2.99%) C
4 4 (2.99%) Jython
4 4 (2.99%) Perl
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (47.76%) Degree
2 61 (45.52%) HNC
2 61 (45.52%) HND
3 16 (11.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.24%) MBA
4 3 (2.24%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) CISA
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) MCSD
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.73%) GDPR
2 5 (3.73%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.49%) NCSC
5 2 (1.49%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) QA
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.73%) Google
3 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.99%) VMware
4 3 (2.24%) Informatica
4 3 (2.24%) SAP
5 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.75%) StreamSets