Influencing Skills Contracts in England

Influencing Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 185 165
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 +34
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 414 681 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.41% 1.71%
As % of the General category 1.95% 2.38% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 459 853
10th Percentile £400 £363 £360
25th Percentile £475 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +9.81% +4.39%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £650
90th Percentile £850 £850 £762
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 22 16
10th Percentile £26.82 £41.25 £17.84
25th Percentile - £57.25 £22.40
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +92.19% +25.49%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £37.81
90th Percentile - £74.08 £48.13
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +95.24% +16.84%

All General Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,180 28,636 39,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.25% 59.30% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,654 20,110 27,909
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 931 1,302
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.38
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
% change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in England.

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Influencing Skills in England.

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in England

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Influencing Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +25 207 £610 -4.31% 166
East of England +49 81 £500 +5.26% 26
South East -40 43 £573 +0.44% 47
North of England -34 39 £550 - 79
South West -5 28 £600 -0.08% 40
North West -5 23 £550 - 54
Midlands -9 15 £525 -2.55% 62
Yorkshire -12 15 £525 -12.50% 21
West Midlands -12 13 £700 +30.54% 40
East Midlands +10 2 £418 -18.04% 22
North East +11 1 £650 +60.00% 4
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.97%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.66%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (1.69%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.21%) Adobe Captivate
6 5 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.97%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.72%) Shopify
4 2 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.48%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Relativity
5 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.24%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.24%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (9.42%) Azure
2 25 (6.04%) Power Platform
3 21 (5.07%) AWS
4 17 (4.11%) SaaS
5 16 (3.86%) PaaS
6 8 (1.93%) IaaS
6 8 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 5 (1.21%) GitHub
9 3 (0.72%) BigCommerce
9 3 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.72%) FinancialForce
9 3 (0.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.48%) Figma
10 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.93%) Intranet
2 6 (1.45%) LAN
3 5 (1.21%) WAN
4 4 (0.97%) 5G
4 4 (0.97%) Internet
5 2 (0.48%) DMZ
5 2 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.48%) SAN
5 2 (0.48%) SSL
5 2 (0.48%) WebEx
6 1 (0.24%) 4G
6 1 (0.24%) ATM
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.24%) Firewall
6 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.24%) VSAN
6 1 (0.24%) Wireless
6 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.35%) Power BI
2 9 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.45%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.72%) MySQL
7 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.48%) Flink
7 2 (0.48%) Metadata
7 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Adabas
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.24%) Big Data
8 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (9.66%) JIRA
2 7 (1.69%) JMeter
2 7 (1.69%) Selenium
3 6 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) Maven
5 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.48%) Git
5 2 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) RStudio
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 258 (62.32%) Social Skills
2 182 (43.96%) Finance
3 89 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (17.63%) Organisational Skills
5 40 (9.66%) Banking
6 39 (9.42%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.97%) Marketing
8 30 (7.25%) Public Sector
9 25 (6.04%) Legal
10 22 (5.31%) Telecoms
11 21 (5.07%) Manufacturing
12 20 (4.83%) Retail
13 16 (3.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (3.14%) Electronics
15 12 (2.90%) Local Government
16 11 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (1.93%) Retail Banking
18 7 (1.69%) Back Office
19 5 (1.21%) Multimedia
20 4 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 72 (17.39%) Project Manager
2 52 (12.56%) Analyst
3 49 (11.84%) Architect
4 36 (8.70%) Senior
5 31 (7.49%) Business Analyst
6 28 (6.76%) Lead
7 24 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (4.83%) Senior Manager
9 16 (3.86%) Data Manager
9 16 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
10 14 (3.38%) Enterprise Architect
11 12 (2.90%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.66%) Consultant
12 11 (2.66%) Senior Project Manager
13 10 (2.42%) Designer
14 9 (2.17%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.17%) Data Governance Analyst
14 9 (2.17%) Data Governance Manager
14 9 (2.17%) Governance Manager
15 8 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.17%) Web Services
2 7 (1.69%) REST
3 6 (1.45%) JSON
3 6 (1.45%) XML
4 5 (1.21%) ADO
4 5 (1.21%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.21%) Middleware
5 4 (0.97%) HTML
5 4 (0.97%) Kafka
5 4 (0.97%) SOAP
6 3 (0.72%) CSS
6 3 (0.72%) J2EE
6 3 (0.72%) jQuery
6 3 (0.72%) Sass
6 3 (0.72%) Spring
6 3 (0.72%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.72%) VML
7 2 (0.48%) .NET
7 2 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.45%) Digital Media
6 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (1.45%) Graphic Design
6 6 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.21%) FMCG
7 5 (1.21%) IoT
7 5 (1.21%) PMI
7 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.21%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.21%) Solar Power
8 4 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.97%) NHS
9 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.72%) PKI
9 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.38%) Linux
2 12 (2.90%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Unix
4 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (36.71%) Project Management
2 150 (36.23%) Agile
3 110 (26.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (16.43%) Business Strategy
6 52 (12.56%) Roadmaps
7 50 (12.08%) PRINCE2
8 48 (11.59%) Business Development
8 48 (11.59%) Change Management
8 48 (11.59%) Project Delivery
9 47 (11.35%) Decision-Making
9 47 (11.35%) Programme Management
10 40 (9.66%) Business Analysis
11 38 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (8.94%) Scrum
13 36 (8.70%) Business Case
14 35 (8.45%) Analytics
15 32 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (7.49%) Risk Management
17 29 (7.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.62%) SQL
2 8 (1.93%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.21%) Python
4 3 (0.72%) Java
5 2 (0.48%) Bash
5 2 (0.48%) C++
5 2 (0.48%) VBA
6 1 (0.24%) Natural
6 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (14.73%) Degree
2 55 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.38%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 9 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 7 (1.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 5 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.21%) PMP
9 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.72%) CISSP
9 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.72%) MBA
9 3 (0.72%) NVQ Level 4
9 3 (0.72%) PhD
10 2 (0.48%) CISM
10 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.48%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.56%) QA
2 21 (5.07%) PMO
3 15 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.42%) GDPR
5 6 (1.45%) SLA
6 4 (0.97%) Basel III
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.48%) COREP
8 2 (0.48%) FINREP
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.69%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.21%) Terraform
3 4 (0.97%) Ansible
3 4 (0.97%) Puppet
4 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.48%) Kibana
4 2 (0.48%) Nagios
4 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.87%) SAP
3 13 (3.14%) Adobe
4 8 (1.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle
5 7 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.45%) Databricks
7 5 (1.21%) BT
7 5 (1.21%) VMware
8 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.97%) Centrify
8 4 (0.97%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.97%) Dell
9 3 (0.72%) Google
9 3 (0.72%) Intel
9 3 (0.72%) Qualys
9 3 (0.72%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.72%) Splunk
10 2 (0.48%) CA
10 2 (0.48%) Commvault