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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 210 248
Rank change year-on-year +50 +38 +29
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 1,862 1,877 2,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.81% 1.63%
As % of the General category 3.15% 2.65% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 574 740 1,273
10th Percentile £40,262 £39,294 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,473 £48,410 £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 £82,050 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year +3.64% +3.55% -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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £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 £101,250 £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 3 May 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +40 1,486 £62,500 -3.85% 370
UK excluding London +3 1,254 £57,000 +3.64% 231
Work from Home +58 830 £55,000 -15.38% 136
London +97 485 £71,858 -4.19% 146
South East +55 328 £52,500 -19.64% 50
Midlands -24 246 £60,000 +9.59% 51
Scotland +14 207 £64,613 -0.60% 11
West Midlands -19 207 £70,000 +31.15% 31
North of England -79 166 £52,500 -4.55% 56
South West +21 126 £60,000 +9.09% 33
East of England +64 92 £57,500 +4.55% 26
Wales +49 89 £52,738 +22.46% 7
North West -57 85 £50,685 -7.85% 36
Yorkshire -42 59 £67,500 +13.90% 16
East Midlands -12 38 £50,000 -31.03% 19
North East +14 22 £56,693 +31.84% 6

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
1 167 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.97%) Confluence
4 4 (0.21%) SAS
5 2 (0.11%) Apache
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.054%) Drupal
Applications
1 532 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (10.47%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.054%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
2 7 (0.38%) SAP WM
3 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.21%) SAP CX
4 4 (0.21%) SAP GTS
4 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.054%) iTrent
7 1 (0.054%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (5.16%) AWS
2 95 (5.10%) Azure
3 44 (2.36%) Power Platform
4 29 (1.56%) GCP
5 21 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (0.75%) SaaS
7 11 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (0.48%) PaaS
8 9 (0.48%) PowerApps
9 8 (0.43%) Azure AKS
9 8 (0.43%) Azure App Service
9 8 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.38%) IaaS
10 7 (0.38%) WhatsApp
11 6 (0.32%) Collibra
12 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.21%) BrowserStack
13 4 (0.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 449 (24.11%) Broadband
2 11 (0.59%) DNS
2 11 (0.59%) Network Security
3 10 (0.54%) Firewall
4 3 (0.16%) DHCP
4 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
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
6 1 (0.054%) 4G
6 1 (0.054%) 5G
6 1 (0.054%) IKE
6 1 (0.054%) Internet
6 1 (0.054%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.054%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (8.97%) Big Data
2 165 (8.86%) NoSQL
3 31 (1.66%) Power BI
4 28 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.64%) Tableau
8 8 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.43%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.38%) Data Mining
10 6 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.32%) GIS
10 6 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.27%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.27%) Metadata
11 5 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (0.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (1.50%) JIRA
2 17 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 16 (0.86%) Git
3 16 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.75%) Selenium
5 8 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.38%) Postman
7 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.16%) JMeter
8 3 (0.16%) Maven
8 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.11%) CANoe
9 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.054%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.054%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,285 (69.01%) Social Skills
2 963 (51.72%) Finance
3 779 (41.84%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (17.56%) Law
5 316 (16.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (12.67%) Marketing
7 227 (12.19%) Presentation Skills
8 175 (9.40%) Manufacturing
9 154 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
10 91 (4.89%) Legal
11 90 (4.83%) Public Sector
12 79 (4.24%) Retail
13 54 (2.90%) Financial Institution
14 45 (2.42%) Automotive
15 42 (2.26%) Aerospace
15 42 (2.26%) Banking
16 21 (1.13%) Games
17 18 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 688 (36.95%) Analyst
2 427 (22.93%) Senior
3 250 (13.43%) Senior Analyst
4 247 (13.27%) Lead
5 144 (7.73%) Software Engineer
6 132 (7.09%) Project Manager
7 130 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
8 121 (6.50%) IT Engineer
9 120 (6.44%) Product Analyst
9 120 (6.44%) Sales Analyst
10 118 (6.34%) Commercial Analyst
11 116 (6.23%) Graduate
12 115 (6.18%) Automation Engineer
12 115 (6.18%) Graduate IT Engineer
12 115 (6.18%) IT Graduate
13 114 (6.12%) Financial Analyst
14 108 (5.80%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 108 (5.80%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 108 (5.80%) Scala Engineer
14 108 (5.80%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.45%) HTML
2 21 (1.13%) React
3 17 (0.91%) .NET
4 13 (0.70%) CSS
5 10 (0.54%) .NET Core
5 10 (0.54%) Gherkin
5 10 (0.54%) RESTful
6 9 (0.48%) .NET Framework
6 9 (0.48%) ASP.NET
6 9 (0.48%) HTML5
6 9 (0.48%) JSON
6 9 (0.48%) YAML
7 8 (0.43%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 8 (0.43%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (0.43%) Blazor
7 8 (0.43%) Entity Framework
7 8 (0.43%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (0.43%) XML
8 6 (0.32%) EDI
8 6 (0.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 138 (7.41%) FMCG
2 86 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.26%) IoT
5 42 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 15 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 15 (0.81%) Robotics
10 14 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (0.75%) Cyberattack
10 14 (0.75%) PMI
10 14 (0.75%) Social Media
11 13 (0.70%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.54%) Digital Media
13 10 (0.54%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.29%) Windows
2 16 (0.86%) Android
3 15 (0.81%) Linux
4 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.21%) DC/OS
5 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) CentOS
7 2 (0.11%) Unix
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (48.98%) Agile
2 733 (39.37%) Mentoring
3 602 (32.33%) Decision-Making
4 549 (29.48%) Problem-Solving
5 512 (27.50%) Business Case
6 480 (25.78%) Actionable Insight
7 465 (24.97%) Budgeting
8 453 (24.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 385 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 208 (11.17%) Coaching
11 206 (11.06%) Software Engineering
12 196 (10.53%) Project Management
12 196 (10.53%) SDLC
13 178 (9.56%) CI/CD
14 161 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
15 159 (8.54%) Customer Service
16 157 (8.43%) Customer Requirements
17 149 (8.00%) Roadmaps
18 147 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 131 (7.04%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 209 (11.22%) SQL
2 195 (10.47%) Java
3 165 (8.86%) Scala
4 40 (2.15%) SystemVerilog
5 37 (1.99%) Python
6 21 (1.13%) C#
7 20 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.86%) C++
8 16 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.38%) C
11 5 (0.27%) Go
11 5 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.21%) PHP
12 4 (0.21%) VB
13 3 (0.16%) Perl
13 3 (0.16%) VBA
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.11%) R
15 1 (0.054%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 463 (24.87%) Degree
2 452 (24.27%) CIMA
3 450 (24.17%) ACCA
4 132 (7.09%) Security Cleared
5 117 (6.28%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 65 (3.49%) SC Cleared
7 35 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (1.18%) CISSP
10 21 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 19 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.70%) CRISC
13 11 (0.59%) PMP
14 10 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.38%) HNC
16 6 (0.32%) HND
16 6 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 5 (0.27%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.54%) QA
2 31 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.34%) GDPR
3 25 (1.34%) PMO
4 22 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.59%) NCSC
6 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) GRC
8 7 (0.38%) COBIT
8 7 (0.38%) DO-254
8 7 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
9 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) NIST
10 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.11%) IASME
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (0.86%) Docker
2 9 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.02%) Functional Safety
3 12 (0.64%) SCOM
4 10 (0.54%) Terraform
5 6 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
8 3 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.16%) CASB
8 3 (0.16%) Grafana
8 3 (0.16%) Nessus
8 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.054%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 609 (32.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.66%) Cadence
3 30 (1.61%) SAP
3 30 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 28 (1.50%) Synopsys
5 27 (1.45%) Workday
6 23 (1.24%) Google
7 22 (1.18%) VMware
8 21 (1.13%) IFS
8 21 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.70%) Oracle
10 12 (0.64%) Databricks
11 9 (0.48%) Adobe
12 7 (0.38%) Minitab
13 4 (0.21%) BT
13 4 (0.21%) CA
13 4 (0.21%) Citrix
13 4 (0.21%) Computacenter
13 4 (0.21%) Teradata
14 3 (0.16%) Qualys