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 have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 214 243
Rank change year-on-year +53 +29 +45
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 1,819 1,906 2,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 1.81% 1.66%
As % of the General category 3.10% 2.63% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 563 781 1,259
10th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,500 £80,500 £78,003
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £56,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year +0.88% +6.38% -3.43%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,648 72,561 97,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.88% 68.76% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,877 51,120
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 16 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 24 April 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
England +40 1,449 £60,000 -7.69% 360
UK excluding London +8 1,217 £57,000 +0.88% 237
Work from Home +54 830 £56,435 -13.64% 129
London +102 481 £72,500 - 137
South East +61 322 £52,500 -20.05% 60
Midlands -35 215 £60,000 +11.11% 45
Scotland +28 206 £80,000 +19.01% 11
West Midlands -24 178 £70,000 +32.08% 23
North of England -63 167 £52,500 -11.02% 55
South West +18 127 £60,000 +7.14% 34
East of England +74 92 £57,500 +4.55% 28
Wales +55 88 £52,738 +22.46% 8
North West -53 84 £50,685 -7.85% 38
Yorkshire -38 61 £65,000 +6.12% 14
East Midlands -22 36 £50,000 -31.03% 22
North East +23 22 £56,693 +31.84% 4

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
1 171 (9.40%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.93%) Confluence
4 7 (0.38%) Apache
5 3 (0.16%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Drupal
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.055%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 526 (28.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 163 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) CATIA
9 2 (0.11%) NASTRAN
9 2 (0.11%) SPSS
10 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.77%) Workday HCM
2 9 (0.49%) SAP WM
3 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 6 (0.33%) SAP CX
4 6 (0.33%) SAP GTS
4 6 (0.33%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.055%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.055%) iTrent
8 1 (0.055%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (5.17%) AWS
2 92 (5.06%) Azure
3 46 (2.53%) Power Platform
4 33 (1.81%) GCP
5 20 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (0.71%) SaaS
8 11 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 8 (0.44%) Azure AKS
10 8 (0.44%) Azure App Service
10 8 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.44%) PaaS
11 7 (0.38%) GitHub
11 7 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (0.38%) Vertex AI
11 7 (0.38%) WhatsApp
12 6 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.33%) Collibra
12 6 (0.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 449 (24.68%) Broadband
2 11 (0.60%) Firewall
2 11 (0.60%) Network Security
3 10 (0.55%) DNS
4 3 (0.16%) DHCP
5 2 (0.11%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.11%) Intranet
5 2 (0.11%) LAN
5 2 (0.11%) SSL
5 2 (0.11%) VLAN
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.055%) 4G
6 1 (0.055%) 5G
6 1 (0.055%) IKE
6 1 (0.055%) Internet
6 1 (0.055%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (9.40%) Big Data
2 169 (9.29%) NoSQL
3 33 (1.81%) Power BI
4 25 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.88%) Tableau
8 13 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.49%) MySQL
11 8 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.38%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.38%) Looker
13 6 (0.33%) Bigtable
13 6 (0.33%) GIS
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata
14 5 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (0.22%) Flink
Development Applications
1 27 (1.48%) JIRA
2 20 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 15 (0.82%) Git
5 14 (0.77%) Selenium
6 8 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.38%) Postman
8 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.16%) JMeter
9 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.11%) CANoe
10 2 (0.11%) GitLab
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.055%) ERwin
General
1 1,238 (68.06%) Social Skills
2 962 (52.89%) Finance
3 749 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (17.76%) Law
5 305 (16.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (12.70%) Marketing
7 228 (12.53%) Presentation Skills
8 174 (9.57%) Manufacturing
9 123 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
10 90 (4.95%) Public Sector
11 85 (4.67%) Legal
12 80 (4.40%) Retail
13 54 (2.97%) Financial Institution
14 45 (2.47%) Automotive
15 44 (2.42%) Banking
16 42 (2.31%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.15%) Games
18 18 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.71%) Local Government
20 12 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 659 (36.23%) Analyst
2 420 (23.09%) Senior
3 250 (13.74%) Senior Analyst
4 245 (13.47%) Lead
5 143 (7.86%) Software Engineer
6 129 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
7 126 (6.93%) Project Manager
8 120 (6.60%) IT Engineer
9 118 (6.49%) Commercial Analyst
10 116 (6.38%) Graduate
11 115 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
11 115 (6.32%) Graduate IT Engineer
11 115 (6.32%) IT Graduate
12 114 (6.27%) Financial Analyst
13 108 (5.94%) Architect
13 108 (5.94%) Big Data Engineer
13 108 (5.94%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 108 (5.94%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 108 (5.94%) Scala Engineer
13 108 (5.94%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.43%) HTML
2 21 (1.15%) React
3 16 (0.88%) .NET
4 12 (0.66%) CSS
5 10 (0.55%) .NET Core
5 10 (0.55%) Gherkin
5 10 (0.55%) Kafka
5 10 (0.55%) RESTful
6 9 (0.49%) HTML5
6 9 (0.49%) JSON
6 9 (0.49%) YAML
7 8 (0.44%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.44%) ASP.NET
7 8 (0.44%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 8 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (0.44%) Blazor
7 8 (0.44%) Entity Framework
7 8 (0.44%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (0.44%) XML
8 6 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.53%) FMCG
2 86 (4.73%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.31%) IoT
7 28 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 17 (0.93%) Robotics
11 14 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.77%) Cyberattack
11 14 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 14 (0.77%) PMI
11 14 (0.77%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.71%) Social Media
13 11 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.55%) Digital Media
14 10 (0.55%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.21%) Windows
2 18 (0.99%) Android
3 16 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.82%) Linux
5 12 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.22%) DC/OS
7 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) CentOS
8 2 (0.11%) Unix
9 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (50.19%) Agile
2 728 (40.02%) Mentoring
3 600 (32.99%) Decision-Making
4 511 (28.09%) Business Case
4 511 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
5 480 (26.39%) Actionable Insight
6 465 (25.56%) Budgeting
7 453 (24.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 356 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 208 (11.43%) Coaching
10 205 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 193 (10.61%) SDLC
12 188 (10.34%) Project Management
13 181 (9.95%) CI/CD
14 161 (8.85%) Performance Tuning
15 154 (8.47%) Roadmaps
16 142 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 129 (7.09%) Customer Service
17 129 (7.09%) Operational Stability
18 127 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 202 (11.11%) SQL
2 193 (10.61%) Java
3 165 (9.07%) Scala
4 40 (2.20%) SystemVerilog
5 34 (1.87%) Python
6 21 (1.15%) C#
7 20 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.88%) C++
9 15 (0.82%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.33%) C
12 5 (0.27%) Go
12 5 (0.27%) PHP
13 4 (0.22%) VB
14 3 (0.16%) Perl
15 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.11%) R
16 1 (0.055%) Bash
16 1 (0.055%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.055%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 452 (24.85%) CIMA
2 450 (24.74%) ACCA
3 433 (23.80%) Degree
4 133 (7.31%) Security Cleared
5 117 (6.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 64 (3.52%) SC Cleared
7 34 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (1.21%) CISSP
10 21 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 20 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.71%) CRISC
14 11 (0.60%) PMP
15 9 (0.49%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.38%) HNC
17 6 (0.33%) HND
18 5 (0.27%) MBCS
18 5 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.63%) QA
2 32 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.37%) GDPR
4 22 (1.21%) PMO
5 21 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.60%) NCSC
7 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.44%) GRC
9 7 (0.38%) COBIT
9 7 (0.38%) DO-254
9 7 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
10 4 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.22%) SLA
11 3 (0.16%) IFRS
11 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.16%) NIST
11 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.11%) IASME
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (0.88%) Docker
2 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.04%) Functional Safety
3 15 (0.82%) Terraform
4 7 (0.38%) SCOM
5 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.16%) CASB
7 3 (0.16%) Grafana
7 3 (0.16%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) Nessus
7 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.055%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.055%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.055%) Puppet
Vendors
1 608 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 32 (1.76%) SAP
3 30 (1.65%) Cadence
3 30 (1.65%) ServiceNow
3 30 (1.65%) Workday
4 28 (1.54%) Synopsys
5 27 (1.48%) Google
6 22 (1.21%) VMware
7 21 (1.15%) IFS
8 18 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.71%) Oracle
10 9 (0.49%) Adobe
10 9 (0.49%) Databricks
11 7 (0.38%) Minitab
12 4 (0.22%) BT
12 4 (0.22%) CA
12 4 (0.22%) Citrix
12 4 (0.22%) Computacenter
12 4 (0.22%) Teradata
13 3 (0.16%) Symantec