Influencing Skills Jobs

Influencing Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 155 208
Rank change year-on-year -66 +53 +37
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 708 1,857 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.89% 1.83%
As % of the General category 2.01% 3.16% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 348 571 757
10th Percentile £50,420 £40,988 £41,063
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £49,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,875 £76,500 £81,750
90th Percentile £105,375 £90,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +1.79% +5.44%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Influencing Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -55 614 £62,500 - 598
UK excluding London -36 500 £55,000 -3.51% 287
London -74 175 £80,000 +10.34% 340
Work from Home -146 143 £71,991 +27.56% 218
North of England +36 120 £54,793 +4.37% 75
North West +44 103 £54,793 +8.11% 48
East of England +57 98 £50,967 -11.36% 21
South East -56 93 £65,000 +23.81% 65
Midlands -46 89 £65,064 +8.44% 45
West Midlands -47 69 £62,500 -10.71% 33
Scotland +16 54 £70,000 -12.50% 26
South West +33 36 £68,525 +14.21% 46
East Midlands +31 19 £68,525 +37.05% 12
Yorkshire +27 17 £85,253 +28.68% 22
Wales -32 5 £70,000 +32.73% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 7
Isle of Man - 1 £31,000 - 2

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.99%) Confluence
4 3 (0.42%) CMS
4 3 (0.42%) SAS
5 2 (0.28%) Drupal
5 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.42%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.28%) SPSS
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (0.42%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (11.58%) AWS
2 50 (7.06%) Azure
3 26 (3.67%) GCP
4 25 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.54%) Snowflake
6 17 (2.40%) Serverless
7 16 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.84%) SaaS
9 11 (1.55%) GitHub
10 9 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.99%) PaaS
13 6 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.71%) Entra ID
15 4 (0.56%) IaaS
15 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.55%) Firewall
2 8 (1.13%) Network Security
3 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.71%) LAN
4 5 (0.71%) VPN
4 5 (0.71%) WAN
5 4 (0.56%) HTTP
5 4 (0.56%) Intranet
6 3 (0.42%) VLAN
7 2 (0.28%) BGP
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) DNS
7 2 (0.28%) OSPF
8 1 (0.14%) FTP
8 1 (0.14%) Internet
8 1 (0.14%) MPLS
8 1 (0.14%) VoIP
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) Wireless
8 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.93%) Tableau
2 22 (3.11%) Power BI
3 19 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 14 (1.98%) Metadata
6 10 (1.41%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.71%) MS Access
8 3 (0.42%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.42%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.28%) Power Query
9 2 (0.28%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.14%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (5.51%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.41%) JIRA
3 8 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.28%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 448 (63.28%) Social Skills
2 199 (28.11%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (24.58%) Finance
4 56 (7.91%) Legal
5 50 (7.06%) Marketing
6 41 (5.79%) Avionics
6 41 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (5.51%) Law
9 37 (5.23%) Banking
10 36 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (3.67%) Retail
13 12 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.27%) Local Government
14 9 (1.27%) Publishing
14 9 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.99%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 155 (21.89%) Analyst
2 151 (21.33%) Senior
3 139 (19.63%) Lead
4 88 (12.43%) Business Change Analyst
4 88 (12.43%) Change Analyst
5 66 (9.32%) Architect
6 42 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
7 41 (5.79%) Project Manager
7 41 (5.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 39 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
8 39 (5.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 25 (3.53%) Senior Manager
9 25 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (3.25%) Enterprise Architect
11 22 (3.11%) Audit Manager
12 21 (2.97%) IT Manager
13 17 (2.40%) Data Analyst
13 17 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.12%) Lead Architect
14 15 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.84%) EDI
2 10 (1.41%) Kafka
3 9 (1.27%) JSON
3 9 (1.27%) RESTful
4 8 (1.13%) Django
5 6 (0.85%) HTML
6 4 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (0.56%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (0.56%) REST
6 4 (0.56%) SOAP
6 4 (0.56%) SwiftUI
6 4 (0.56%) XML
6 4 (0.56%) XSLT
7 3 (0.42%) OAuth
7 3 (0.42%) Pandas
7 3 (0.42%) React
7 3 (0.42%) Web Services
8 2 (0.28%) .NET
8 2 (0.28%) CSS
8 2 (0.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 13 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.41%) Social Media
6 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
8 7 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.71%) PMI
11 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.56%) Data Fabric
11 4 (0.56%) NHS
11 4 (0.56%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.42%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.42%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.69%) Windows
2 7 (0.99%) Android
2 7 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.71%) Linux
3 5 (0.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
2 177 (25.00%) Agile
3 158 (22.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 155 (21.89%) Roadmaps
5 150 (21.19%) Strategic Thinking
6 144 (20.34%) Collaborative Working
7 139 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 135 (19.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 133 (18.79%) Business Case
10 120 (16.95%) Project Management
11 119 (16.81%) Change Management
12 105 (14.83%) Coaching
13 103 (14.55%) Business Analysis
14 99 (13.98%) Workshop Facilitation
15 93 (13.14%) Systems Engineering
16 90 (12.71%) Use Case
17 88 (12.43%) MoSCoW
18 85 (12.01%) Analytics
19 80 (11.30%) Risk Management
20 73 (10.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (7.49%) Python
2 48 (6.78%) SQL
3 16 (2.26%) JavaScript
4 11 (1.55%) R
5 5 (0.71%) Bash
6 4 (0.56%) C
6 4 (0.56%) Jython
6 4 (0.56%) Perl
6 4 (0.56%) Swift
7 3 (0.42%) Java
7 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.28%) PHP
8 2 (0.28%) Scala
9 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.14%) C#
9 1 (0.14%) Groovy
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (18.93%) Degree
2 89 (12.57%) CBAP
3 52 (7.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 46 (6.50%) HNC
5 44 (6.21%) Security Cleared
6 41 (5.79%) HND
7 32 (4.52%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.98%) CISSP
9 12 (1.69%) CISA
10 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.41%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.99%) MBA
14 6 (0.85%) CCSK
15 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.71%) PMP
16 4 (0.56%) CISM
17 3 (0.42%) CCSP
17 3 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
17 3 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.10%) GDPR
3 24 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 18 (2.54%) QA
5 15 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.98%) NIST
7 13 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.84%) PMO
8 10 (1.41%) GRC
8 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
11 4 (0.56%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.42%) COBIT
12 3 (0.42%) ITGC
13 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.14%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 6 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (0.99%) Terraform
2 5 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.56%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.42%) CASB
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.14%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Nagios
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.84%) Google
2 13 (1.84%) Informatica
3 9 (1.27%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.27%) Symantec
4 8 (1.13%) Oracle
4 8 (1.13%) SAP
4 8 (1.13%) YouTube
5 7 (0.99%) Facebook
5 7 (0.99%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.85%) Carbon Black
7 5 (0.71%) Adobe
7 5 (0.71%) VMware
8 4 (0.56%) Broadcom
8 4 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.56%) IBM
8 4 (0.56%) StreamSets
9 3 (0.42%) Databricks
9 3 (0.42%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.42%) Optimizely