Influencing Skills Contracts in London

Influencing Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 210 180
Rank change year-on-year +20 -30 +24
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 210 318 653
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 1.22% 1.68%
As % of the General category 1.90% 1.93% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 225 466
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £486 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £640 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +11.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £700
90th Percentile £875 £913 £801
England median daily rate £575 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £35.53 £29.15
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.06 £31.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +83.82% -6.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.56 £40.94
90th Percentile - £71.63 £54.78
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -38.02% +89.23% +27.45%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,025 16,456 23,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.08% 63.25% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,876 11,929 16,992
10th Percentile £336 £380 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 211 300
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.61 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in London

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London -2 19 £550 -15.38% 16
West London +15 3 £575 +21.05% 14
East London -1 3 £400 -44.83% 16
South London +4 2 £500 - 8
North London - 2 - -
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.86%) Confluence
2 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.90%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.95%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.48%) Relativity
5 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.48%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.48%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.48%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.05%) Azure
2 18 (8.57%) AWS
3 12 (5.71%) SaaS
4 10 (4.76%) PaaS
4 10 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.38%) GitHub
6 4 (1.90%) IaaS
7 3 (1.43%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.43%) FinancialForce
7 3 (1.43%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle CX
9 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) 5G
1 3 (1.43%) LAN
2 2 (0.95%) DMZ
2 2 (0.95%) WAN
3 1 (0.48%) ATM
3 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.48%) WebEx
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.76%) Power BI
2 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.90%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.95%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.95%) Flink
5 1 (0.48%) Adabas
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.48%) Big Data
5 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Metadata
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.43%) JIRA
2 6 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.38%) JMeter
3 5 (2.38%) Selenium
4 3 (1.43%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.48%) RStudio
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 112 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 82 (39.05%) Finance
3 49 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.67%) Banking
5 20 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (9.05%) Marketing
7 14 (6.67%) Legal
8 13 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.76%) Retail
10 8 (3.81%) Retail Banking
11 7 (3.33%) Back Office
11 7 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.86%) Local Government
13 4 (1.90%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.95%) Electronics
15 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 34 (16.19%) Analyst
3 28 (13.33%) Architect
4 24 (11.43%) Business Analyst
5 19 (9.05%) Senior
6 18 (8.57%) Lead
7 14 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (5.24%) Programme Manager
8 11 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.81%) Consultant
10 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (3.33%) Business IT Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) Lean Specialist
12 6 (2.86%) Project Delivery Manager
12 6 (2.86%) Service Design Manager
12 6 (2.86%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.33%) Web Services
2 6 (2.86%) REST
3 5 (2.38%) ADO
4 3 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.43%) CSS
4 3 (1.43%) J2EE
4 3 (1.43%) jQuery
4 3 (1.43%) JSON
4 3 (1.43%) Sass
4 3 (1.43%) SOAP
4 3 (1.43%) Spring
4 3 (1.43%) Spring MVC
4 3 (1.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.43%) VML
4 3 (1.43%) XML
5 2 (0.95%) Kafka
5 2 (0.95%) Middleware
6 1 (0.48%) Ajax
6 1 (0.48%) EDI
6 1 (0.48%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.86%) FMCG
4 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.90%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.90%) IoT
6 3 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.95%) Solar Power
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.48%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.29%) Linux
2 7 (3.33%) Unix
3 5 (2.38%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (45.71%) Agile
2 59 (28.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (25.24%) Project Management
4 51 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 30 (14.29%) Programme Management
7 28 (13.33%) Scrum
8 27 (12.86%) Change Management
8 27 (12.86%) Project Delivery
9 26 (12.38%) PRINCE2
10 25 (11.90%) Business Analysis
11 23 (10.95%) Decision-Making
12 21 (10.00%) Business Case
13 19 (9.05%) Kanban
14 18 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (8.57%) Service Design
14 18 (8.57%) Waterfall
15 17 (8.10%) Process Improvement
15 17 (8.10%) Risk Management
15 17 (8.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.24%) SQL
2 5 (2.38%) Python
3 3 (1.43%) Java
3 3 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.95%) Bash
4 2 (0.95%) C++
4 2 (0.95%) VBA
5 1 (0.48%) Natural
5 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (14.29%) Degree
1 30 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 7 (3.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.90%) PMP
8 3 (1.43%) MBA
9 2 (0.95%) CISM
9 2 (0.95%) CISSP
9 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.95%) PhD
10 1 (0.48%) ACCA
10 1 (0.48%) CIMA
10 1 (0.48%) CISA
10 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.67%) QA
2 12 (5.71%) PMO
3 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.86%) GDPR
4 5 (2.38%) SLA
5 4 (1.90%) Basel III
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) COREP
6 2 (0.95%) FINREP
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.38%) Terraform
3 4 (1.90%) Ansible
3 4 (1.90%) Puppet
4 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.95%) Kibana
4 2 (0.95%) Nagios
4 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (11.43%) SAP
2 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.90%) Adobe
4 4 (1.90%) Centrify
4 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
4 4 (1.90%) Databricks
4 4 (1.90%) Dell
4 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.43%) Google
5 3 (1.43%) Intel
5 3 (1.43%) Qualys
5 3 (1.43%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.95%) CA
6 2 (0.95%) Commvault
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle
6 2 (0.95%) Splunk
6 2 (0.95%) Temenos
6 2 (0.95%) VMware