Influencing Skills Contracts in the North West

Influencing Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Influencing Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -23
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 29 48 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.04% 1.59% 1.32%
As % of the General category 1.98% 3.03% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 39
10th Percentile £398 £400 £407
25th Percentile £425 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -2.17%
75th Percentile £573 £647 £500
90th Percentile £585 £698 £540
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.68
Median hourly rate £52.78 £40.00 £45.43
Median % change year-on-year +31.95% -11.95% +9.83%
75th Percentile - - £49.22
90th Percentile - - £50.07
England median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +80.88% +23.64%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,468 1,586 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.58% 52.66% 50.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,099 1,403
10th Percentile £300 £312 £230
25th Percentile £392 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £586
90th Percentile £659 £675 £662
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 81 112
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.75 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.47 £23.15 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -0.31% +13.28%
75th Percentile £37.94 £35.00 £50.68
90th Percentile £51.88 £53.35 £64.80
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 the North West

Job postings citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in the North West

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in the North West

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Influencing Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in the North West

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in the North West

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cheshire -2 16 £555 +0.91% 12
Manchester -7 9 £463 -13.95% 32
Cumbria -13 2 - - 3
Lancashire +2 1 - - 5
Influencing Skills
England

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) IaaS
1 2 (6.90%) PaaS
1 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
1 2 (6.90%) SaaS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 20 (68.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (20.69%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Agile Coach
1 6 (20.69%) Data Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Product Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Integration Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Governance Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Project Planner
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Project Planner
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
1 5 (17.24%) Reference Data
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
4 8 (27.59%) Coaching
4 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Waterfall
5 6 (20.69%) Agile Coaching
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) Culture Change
6 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) Data Science
6 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 5 (17.24%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (17.24%) Product Management
6 5 (17.24%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (17.24%) Supply Chain Management
7 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (13.79%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) SAP