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 in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 214 179
Rank change year-on-year +13 -35 +19
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 210 307 646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.22% 1.68%
As % of the General category 1.89% 1.93% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 458
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £500 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +7.95% +7.21%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £701
90th Percentile £875 £888 £825
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £28.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £61.25 £31.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +78.57% -4.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £43.13
90th Percentile - - £57.20
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +80.88% +23.64%

All General Skills
London

Influencing Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,086 15,941 23,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.70% 63.38% 60.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,920 11,650 17,094
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 201 275
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £48.13 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.40 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

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 13 June 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 13 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
Central London +5 20 £550 -15.38% 10
East London - 3 £400 - 2
West London +15 2 £588 +23.68% 12
South London +6 1 £500 - 4
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 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) 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 15 (7.14%) 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 16 (7.62%) AWS
3 12 (5.71%) SaaS
4 10 (4.76%) PaaS
5 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.38%) GitHub
7 4 (1.90%) IaaS
8 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.43%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.43%) FinancialForce
8 3 (1.43%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle CX
10 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) 5G
2 2 (0.95%) DMZ
2 2 (0.95%) LAN
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%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.81%) Power BI
2 5 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.90%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.43%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.95%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.95%) Tableau
6 1 (0.48%) Adabas
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.48%) Big Data
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Flink
6 1 (0.48%) Metadata
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (11.43%) JIRA
2 6 (2.86%) Selenium
3 5 (2.38%) JMeter
4 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.90%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.48%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) Gradle
5 1 (0.48%) JUnit
5 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.48%) RStudio
5 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 110 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 87 (41.43%) Finance
3 48 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (15.71%) Banking
5 18 (8.57%) Marketing
5 18 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (7.14%) Legal
6 15 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.24%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.76%) Retail
9 7 (3.33%) Back Office
9 7 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.86%) Retail Banking
11 5 (2.38%) Local Government
11 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.90%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.95%) Electronics
13 2 (0.95%) Police
13 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 33 (15.71%) Analyst
3 29 (13.81%) Architect
4 24 (11.43%) Business Analyst
5 20 (9.52%) Lead
6 16 (7.62%) Senior
7 15 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Programme Manager
10 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (3.81%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.33%) Business IT Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) Consultant
11 7 (3.33%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (3.33%) Lean Specialist
11 7 (3.33%) Project Delivery Manager
12 6 (2.86%) Designer
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%) Middleware
6 1 (0.48%) Ajax
6 1 (0.48%) EDI
6 1 (0.48%) EntireX
6 1 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.38%) FMCG
3 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.90%) Credit Risk
4 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (1.90%) IoT
5 3 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.95%) Solar Power
7 1 (0.48%) Derivative
7 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.81%) Linux
2 7 (3.33%) Unix
3 6 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (47.62%) Agile
2 58 (27.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (24.76%) Project Management
5 36 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 31 (14.76%) Decision-Making
6 31 (14.76%) Project Delivery
7 30 (14.29%) Programme Management
8 29 (13.81%) Scrum
9 28 (13.33%) PRINCE2
10 27 (12.86%) Business Analysis
11 26 (12.38%) Change Management
12 21 (10.00%) Business Case
12 21 (10.00%) Waterfall
13 20 (9.52%) Data Modelling
13 20 (9.52%) Service Design
14 19 (9.05%) Kanban
14 19 (9.05%) SDLC
15 17 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.10%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.71%) SQL
2 4 (1.90%) Java
2 4 (1.90%) Python
3 3 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.95%) C++
4 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.95%) VBA
5 1 (0.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.48%) Natural
5 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Degree
2 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 8 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 7 (3.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.38%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.90%) PMP
10 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.43%) MBA
11 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.95%) PhD
12 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.48%) ISEB
12 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) QA
2 13 (6.19%) 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 6 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.38%) Terraform
3 4 (1.90%) Ansible
3 4 (1.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (12.86%) SAP
2 20 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.90%) Adobe
4 4 (1.90%) Centrify
4 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
4 4 (1.90%) Dell
5 3 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.43%) Databricks
5 3 (1.43%) Google
5 3 (1.43%) Intel
5 3 (1.43%) Oracle
5 3 (1.43%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.95%) CA
6 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.95%) Temenos
7 1 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.48%) Planview
7 1 (0.48%) Qualys
7 1 (0.48%) Workday