Influencing Skills Contracts in Scotland

Influencing Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 66 88 93
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 50 79 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.33% 2.96% 2.55%
As % of the General category 3.69% 4.43% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 67 69
10th Percentile £363 £245 £313
25th Percentile £386 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +1.17% +9.95%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £710 £653 £578
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +75.71% +29.63%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,355 1,782 2,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 63.23% 66.69% 70.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,270 1,737
10th Percentile £178 £230 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £564 £554 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 47
10th Percentile £12.24 £12.71 £15.04
25th Percentile £14.62 £14.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.84 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -49.67% +113.52%
75th Percentile £46.50 £56.00 £47.60
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.78 £55.30
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Influencing Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +26 30 £450 +2.86% 4
Glasgow -7 10 £525 -8.70% 9
Aberdeen +3 2 £600 +9.09% 2
West Lothian +4 1 £475 - 1
Fife - 1 - -
Influencing Skills
UK

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.00%) CMS
3 2 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (16.00%) Canva
3 8 (16.00%) Slack
4 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) AWS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Intranet
2 2 (4.00%) LAN
2 2 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Metadata
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) SilkCentral
General
1 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (44.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Finance
5 4 (8.00%) Publishing
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Analyst
1 9 (18.00%) Project Manager
1 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Designer
3 7 (14.00%) Content Designer
3 7 (14.00%) Content Manager
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Content Designer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Designer
4 6 (12.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
5 5 (10.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Communications Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Video Editing
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Agile
2 22 (44.00%) Project Management
3 14 (28.00%) User Research
4 13 (26.00%) User Stories
5 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.00%) Coaching
6 10 (20.00%) Scrum
7 8 (16.00%) Change Control
7 8 (16.00%) Copywriting
7 8 (16.00%) DevOps
7 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
7 8 (16.00%) Software Delivery
7 8 (16.00%) Wireframes
8 7 (14.00%) Content Management
8 7 (14.00%) Content Strategy
8 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
8 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (14.00%) Service Design
8 7 (14.00%) Supplier Management
8 7 (14.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) Python
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Bash
2 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.00%) Groovy
2 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) QA
4 2 (4.00%) PMO
5 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Grafana
1 1 (2.00%) Kibana
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Cadence
2 3 (6.00%) Adobe
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Ariba