Influencing Skills Contracts with Work from Home Options

Influencing Skills
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 171 176
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Influencing Skills 211 351 688
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 1.45% 1.56%
As % of the General category 2.45% 2.47% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 245 497
10th Percentile £383 £400 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -2.22% +6.13% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 6
10th Percentile - £42.50 £14.22
25th Percentile - £46.25 £17.26
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +159.43% -21.36%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £22.40
90th Percentile - £63.50 £28.45
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £61.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -38.02% +80.88% +25.93%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,615 14,219 24,287
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.83% 58.66% 54.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 10,044 17,734
10th Percentile £325 £363 £354
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 321 334
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.63 £13.58
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +49.48% +48.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.75 £65.29
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

Influencing Skills
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Influencing Skills trend for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Influencing Skills daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills.

Influencing Skills hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Influencing Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Influencing Skills hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Influencing Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.32%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.37%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.42%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.95%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.95%) Shopify
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Relativity
4 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.47%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.22%) Azure
2 15 (7.11%) SaaS
3 14 (6.64%) AWS
4 11 (5.21%) PaaS
5 10 (4.74%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.37%) Canva
8 5 (2.37%) IaaS
8 5 (2.37%) Slack
9 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.42%) Smartsheet
10 3 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.95%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.95%) BigCommerce
11 2 (0.95%) GCP
11 2 (0.95%) OCI
11 2 (0.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Serverless
12 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.74%) LAN
1 10 (4.74%) WAN
2 5 (2.37%) Intranet
3 3 (1.42%) 5G
4 2 (0.95%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) Firewall
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) NGFW
5 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.79%) Power BI
2 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.95%) Metadata
5 2 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (6.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Maven
3 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) RStudio
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 140 (66.35%) Social Skills
2 99 (46.92%) Finance
3 60 (28.44%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.06%) Legal
6 16 (7.58%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.64%) Marketing
8 12 (5.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (5.21%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.21%) Retail
10 9 (4.27%) Banking
10 9 (4.27%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.90%) Local Government
14 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.47%) Law
15 1 (0.47%) Publishing
15 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (12.32%) Analyst
1 26 (12.32%) Project Manager
2 24 (11.37%) Architect
2 24 (11.37%) Business Analyst
3 17 (8.06%) Lead
4 12 (5.69%) Consultant
5 11 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
6 10 (4.74%) Senior
7 9 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.79%) Azure Architect
8 8 (3.79%) Technical Architect
9 7 (3.32%) Business IT Analyst
9 7 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.32%) IT Analyst
9 7 (3.32%) IT Business Analyst
10 6 (2.84%) Agile Business Analyst
10 6 (2.84%) Data Manager
10 6 (2.84%) Project Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.84%) Service Design Manager
10 6 (2.84%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.27%) Middleware
2 3 (1.42%) JSON
2 3 (1.42%) REST
2 3 (1.42%) XML
3 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.95%) CSS
3 2 (0.95%) HTML
3 2 (0.95%) J2EE
3 2 (0.95%) jQuery
3 2 (0.95%) Sass
3 2 (0.95%) Spring
3 2 (0.95%) Spring MVC
3 2 (0.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (0.95%) VML
3 2 (0.95%) Web Services
4 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.37%) Video Editing
5 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.90%) IoT
6 3 (1.42%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.47%) FMCG
8 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.21%) Linux
1 11 (5.21%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (46.45%) Project Management
2 79 (37.44%) Agile
3 59 (27.96%) Business Strategy
4 48 (22.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (22.27%) Business Development
6 30 (14.22%) Project Delivery
7 29 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (12.80%) Roadmaps
9 25 (11.85%) Scrum
10 22 (10.43%) Business Analysis
11 20 (9.48%) Analytics
11 20 (9.48%) Decision-Making
11 20 (9.48%) Waterfall
12 19 (9.00%) Change Management
13 16 (7.58%) Risk Management
14 15 (7.11%) Kanban
14 15 (7.11%) PRINCE2
14 15 (7.11%) User Stories
15 14 (6.64%) IT Strategy
16 13 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.16%) SQL
2 5 (2.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.90%) Python
4 2 (0.95%) Java
5 1 (0.47%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) C++
5 1 (0.47%) Groovy
5 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (10.90%) Degree
2 16 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.95%) CISSP
5 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) CCSP
6 1 (0.47%) CEH
6 1 (0.47%) CISA
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.47%) CISM
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) GCIA
6 1 (0.47%) GCIH
6 1 (0.47%) HND
6 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.47%) MBA
6 1 (0.47%) PhD
6 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.11%) QA
2 8 (3.79%) PMO
3 6 (2.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (0.95%) vSphere
2 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.95%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.95%) Terraform
2 1 (0.47%) Ansible
2 1 (0.47%) Grafana
2 1 (0.47%) Kibana
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (9.95%) SAP
2 19 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.74%) Databricks
4 9 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.32%) Oracle
6 6 (2.84%) Adobe
7 5 (2.37%) BT
7 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.90%) Cadence
9 2 (0.95%) Dell
9 2 (0.95%) Google
9 2 (0.95%) Intel
9 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.95%) VMware
10 1 (0.47%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.47%) Conga
10 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Zscaler