Influencing Skills Jobs in Scotland

Influencing Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 120 149
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 -42
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 126 94 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.21% 2.48% 1.71%
As % of the General category 3.30% 3.35% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 66
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,677 £33,488
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,294 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,225 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,644 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,419 £103,541
UK median annual salary £56,075 £62,500 £59,064
% change year-on-year -10.28% +5.82% -2.01%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,813 2,806 3,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 66.92% 73.96% 65.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,519 2,130
10th Percentile £28,650 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,350 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Influencing Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -27 105 £61,250 +0.63% 8
Edinburgh +6 16 £49,225 +14.48% 3
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Highlands - 2 £41,000 -
Aberdeen -7 1 - -
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 93 (73.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.78%) AWS
2 3 (2.38%) Azure
2 3 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (0.79%) GitHub
4 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.79%) Route 53
4 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (73.81%) Big Data
1 93 (73.81%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.79%) GitLab
1 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.79%) JIRA
1 1 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (0.79%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 103 (81.75%) Finance
2 98 (77.78%) Marketing
3 96 (76.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (75.40%) Law
5 32 (25.40%) Financial Institution
6 20 (15.87%) Social Skills
7 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.59%) Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 67 (53.17%) Lead
2 64 (50.79%) Software Engineer
3 63 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Big Data Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Java Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Java Scala Software Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Java Software Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Lead Java Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Scala Engineer
4 61 (48.41%) Scala Software Engineer
5 34 (26.98%) Senior
6 32 (25.40%) Big Data Manager
6 32 (25.40%) Engineering Manager
6 32 (25.40%) Senior Software Engineer
6 32 (25.40%) Software Engineering Manager
7 29 (23.02%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (23.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 29 (23.02%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) AWS CDK
1 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.59%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.79%) Digital Media
3 1 (0.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (0.79%) PMI
3 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (84.13%) Agile
2 96 (76.19%) Software Engineering
3 95 (75.40%) SDLC
4 93 (73.81%) Performance Tuning
5 68 (53.97%) CI/CD
6 63 (50.00%) Operational Stability
7 35 (27.78%) Coaching
8 34 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (26.98%) Technical Leadership
9 33 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
9 33 (26.19%) Continuous Delivery
10 32 (25.40%) Community of Practice
10 32 (25.40%) Machine Learning
10 32 (25.40%) Mentoring
11 31 (24.60%) Tech Ops
12 8 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (4.76%) Analytics
14 5 (3.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (3.97%) Performance Management
15 4 (3.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (75.40%) SQL
2 93 (73.81%) Java
2 93 (73.81%) Scala
3 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.59%) Python
4 1 (0.79%) Bash
4 1 (0.79%) C++
4 1 (0.79%) Groovy
4 1 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (0.79%) ACCA
2 1 (0.79%) CISM
2 1 (0.79%) CISSP
2 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
2 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.59%) ITGC
3 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.79%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Grafana
2 1 (0.79%) Kibana
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Adobe
3 3 (2.38%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.79%) Coverity
4 1 (0.79%) Klocwork
4 1 (0.79%) Thales