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 advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 132 167
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 -67
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 205 87 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.06% 1.88% 1.50%
As % of the General category 4.22% 2.50% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 49
10th Percentile £38,325 £34,876 £32,920
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,294 £39,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,225 £51,650 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +9.89% -21.67%
75th Percentile £92,813 £68,714 £62,500
90th Percentile £103,949 £73,644 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All General Skills
Scotland

Influencing Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,855 3,475 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.40% 75.28% 61.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 1,671 1,933
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -11 188 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Edinburgh +12 12 £80,000 +91.95% 2
Aberdeen -9 2 - - 3
Highlands - 2 £41,000 - 1
Dunbartonshire - 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
1 161 (78.54%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.20%) AWS
2 2 (0.98%) GCP
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (0.49%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (0.49%) OpenShift
3 1 (0.49%) Route 53
3 1 (0.49%) Serverless
3 1 (0.49%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (78.54%) Big Data
1 161 (78.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.49%) GitLab
2 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 190 (92.68%) Finance
2 183 (89.27%) Marketing
3 182 (88.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 181 (88.29%) Law
5 53 (25.85%) Financial Institution
6 32 (15.61%) Social Skills
7 19 (9.27%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.41%) Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (64.88%) Lead
2 129 (62.93%) Software Engineer
3 128 (62.44%) Lead Software Engineer
4 108 (52.68%) Big Data Engineer
4 108 (52.68%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 108 (52.68%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 108 (52.68%) Scala Engineer
4 108 (52.68%) Scala Software Engineer
5 96 (46.83%) Java Engineer
5 96 (46.83%) Java Scala Software Engineer
5 96 (46.83%) Java Software Engineer
5 96 (46.83%) Lead Java Engineer
6 55 (26.83%) Senior
7 54 (26.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 53 (25.85%) Big Data Manager
8 53 (25.85%) Engineering Manager
8 53 (25.85%) Software Engineering Manager
9 51 (24.88%) Senior Big Data Engineer
9 51 (24.88%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 51 (24.88%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.29%) React
2 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.49%) JSON
2 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.80%) Cloud Native
2 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
3 1 (0.49%) Digital Media
3 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (91.22%) Agile
2 182 (88.78%) Software Engineering
3 180 (87.80%) SDLC
4 161 (78.54%) Performance Tuning
5 130 (63.41%) CI/CD
6 127 (61.95%) Operational Stability
7 74 (36.10%) Community of Practice
8 73 (35.61%) Artificial Intelligence
9 71 (34.63%) Continuous Delivery
10 70 (34.15%) Machine Learning
11 60 (29.27%) Technical Leadership
12 56 (27.32%) Mentoring
13 55 (26.83%) Coaching
13 55 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (25.85%) Tech Ops
15 19 (9.27%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (9.27%) User Experience
15 19 (9.27%) Visualisation
16 17 (8.29%) UX Design
16 17 (8.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 178 (86.83%) Java
2 164 (80.00%) SQL
3 161 (78.54%) Scala
4 19 (9.27%) Python
5 17 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.49%) Bash
7 1 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (2.44%) Degree
2 2 (0.98%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.49%) ACCA
3 1 (0.49%) CISM
3 1 (0.49%) CISSP
3 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.49%) HNC
3 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.49%) Basel III
1 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.49%) GDPR
1 1 (0.49%) IEC 61508
1 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (0.49%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.98%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Ansible
2 1 (0.49%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.49%) Grafana
2 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.98%) Google
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe
3 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.49%) CA
3 1 (0.49%) Coverity
3 1 (0.49%) Klocwork
3 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.49%) Thales