Influencing Skills Contracts

Influencing Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 181 167
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 +35
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 497 812 1,482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.45% 1.69%
As % of the General category 2.01% 2.48% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 556 1,019
10th Percentile £385 £350 £360
25th Percentile £432 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +4.43%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £811 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 19 18
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.31 £18.31
25th Percentile - £52.50 £22.86
Median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +80.88% +26.11%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £45.03
90th Percentile - - £49.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £31.45
% change year-on-year -38.02% +95.55% +17.57%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the UK

Influencing Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -21 423 £585 +1.74% 468
UK excluding London -25 263 £500 -9.09% 278
Work from Home +18 211 £540 -4.00% 205
London +22 209 £613 -2.00% 205
East of England +39 78 £500 +8.11% 36
Scotland +9 51 £450 -12.62% 16
North of England -10 44 £528 -8.46% 85
South East -48 43 £625 +13.64% 50
North West +4 28 £538 -2.27% 56
South West -21 28 £600 -0.08% 29
Midlands -12 18 £525 -2.33% 60
Yorkshire +3 15 £525 -12.50% 23
West Midlands -12 15 £700 +30.23% 40
East Midlands +7 3 £418 -13.37% 20
Wales - 2 £1,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 2
North East +11 1 £650 +60.00% 8

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 26 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.02%) Confluence
3 8 (1.61%) CMS
4 7 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.22%) Photoshop
4 13 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (1.21%) Adobe Captivate
7 6 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.80%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.60%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.40%) Temenos Globus
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Relativity
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.20%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (10.87%) Azure
2 27 (5.43%) Power Platform
3 21 (4.23%) AWS
3 21 (4.23%) SaaS
4 20 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.22%) PaaS
6 11 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.61%) Canva
7 8 (1.61%) IaaS
7 8 (1.61%) Slack
8 7 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 6 (1.21%) GitHub
9 6 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.60%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.60%) FinancialForce
10 3 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.40%) Figma
11 2 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.22%) Intranet
2 10 (2.01%) LAN
2 10 (2.01%) WAN
3 4 (0.80%) 5G
3 4 (0.80%) Internet
4 2 (0.40%) DMZ
4 2 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.40%) SAN
4 2 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) 4G
5 1 (0.20%) ATM
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) NGFW
5 1 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.20%) WebEx
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.62%) Power BI
2 8 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.61%) SAP HANA
2 8 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.41%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.21%) Metadata
5 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.60%) MySQL
7 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.40%) Tableau
8 1 (0.20%) Adabas
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.20%) Flink
8 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (8.65%) JIRA
2 7 (1.41%) JMeter
2 7 (1.41%) Selenium
3 6 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.60%) Git
4 3 (0.60%) Maven
5 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.20%) GitLab
6 1 (0.20%) RStudio
6 1 (0.20%) SilkCentral
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 306 (61.57%) Social Skills
2 195 (39.24%) Finance
3 89 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (16.90%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (11.27%) Public Sector
6 44 (8.85%) Banking
6 44 (8.85%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (6.84%) Marketing
8 30 (6.04%) Legal
9 23 (4.63%) Manufacturing
10 22 (4.43%) Telecoms
11 21 (4.23%) Retail
12 17 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (2.62%) Local Government
15 12 (2.41%) Electronics
16 8 (1.61%) Retail Banking
17 7 (1.41%) Back Office
18 6 (1.21%) Multimedia
18 6 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (18.31%) Project Manager
2 61 (12.27%) Analyst
3 53 (10.66%) Architect
4 46 (9.26%) Lead
5 42 (8.45%) Senior
6 40 (8.05%) Business Analyst
7 24 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (3.82%) Designer
8 19 (3.82%) Senior Manager
9 16 (3.22%) Consultant
9 16 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
10 14 (2.82%) Data Manager
10 14 (2.82%) Enterprise Architect
11 13 (2.62%) IT Manager
11 13 (2.62%) Programme Manager
11 13 (2.62%) Senior Project Manager
12 11 (2.21%) Agile Project Manager
13 9 (1.81%) Azure Architect
13 9 (1.81%) Content Designer
13 9 (1.81%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.01%) Middleware
2 8 (1.61%) REST
2 8 (1.61%) Web Services
3 7 (1.41%) XML
4 6 (1.21%) JSON
5 5 (1.01%) ADO
5 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.01%) HTML
5 5 (1.01%) SOAP
6 4 (0.80%) CSS
6 4 (0.80%) Spring
7 3 (0.60%) J2EE
7 3 (0.60%) jQuery
7 3 (0.60%) Kafka
7 3 (0.60%) Sass
7 3 (0.60%) Spring MVC
7 3 (0.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (0.60%) VML
8 2 (0.40%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.01%) Public Cloud
5 9 (1.81%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.61%) Video Editing
7 7 (1.41%) Digital Media
8 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.21%) FMCG
8 6 (1.21%) Graphic Design
8 6 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.01%) IoT
9 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.01%) PMI
9 5 (1.01%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.01%) Solar Power
10 4 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.62%) Linux
2 15 (3.02%) Windows
3 8 (1.61%) Unix
4 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (40.44%) Agile
2 185 (37.22%) Project Management
3 129 (25.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 92 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (14.69%) Roadmaps
6 72 (14.49%) Business Strategy
7 61 (12.27%) Project Delivery
8 60 (12.07%) PRINCE2
9 57 (11.47%) Decision-Making
10 56 (11.27%) Change Management
11 52 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (10.46%) Scrum
12 51 (10.26%) Business Analysis
13 48 (9.66%) Business Development
14 47 (9.46%) Programme Management
15 43 (8.65%) Analytics
15 43 (8.65%) Waterfall
16 42 (8.45%) Risk Management
17 36 (7.24%) Business Case
18 33 (6.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.83%) SQL
2 10 (2.01%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.41%) Python
4 4 (0.80%) Java
5 2 (0.40%) C++
5 2 (0.40%) VBA
6 1 (0.20%) Bash
6 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.20%) Groovy
6 1 (0.20%) Natural
6 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (13.48%) Degree
2 58 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 47 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 12 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.41%) PMP
8 7 (1.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 7 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 5 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.80%) NVQ Level 4
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.60%) MBA
11 3 (0.60%) PhD
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) HND
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.24%) QA
2 25 (5.03%) PMO
3 13 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.62%) GDPR
4 7 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.21%) SLA
6 4 (0.80%) Basel III
7 3 (0.60%) GRC
8 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.40%) COREP
8 2 (0.40%) FINREP
8 2 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (1.21%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.41%) Terraform
3 6 (1.21%) Ansible
4 5 (1.01%) Puppet
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.07%) SAP
3 15 (3.02%) Adobe
3 15 (3.02%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.41%) Oracle
5 10 (2.01%) Databricks
6 8 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.21%) Cadence
8 5 (1.01%) BT
8 5 (1.01%) Centrify
8 5 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.80%) Dell
10 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.60%) Google
10 3 (0.60%) Intel
10 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.40%) Ariba
11 2 (0.40%) CA
11 2 (0.40%) Temenos
11 2 (0.40%) VMware
526 Influencing Skills jobs Nationwide