Influencing Skills Jobs in Scotland

Influencing Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Influencing Skills in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 124 126 171
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 -75
Permanent jobs citing Influencing Skills 172 91 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.51% 2.13% 1.51%
As % of the General category 3.70% 2.84% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 58
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,473 £33,341
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,294 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,225 £46,565 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -6.40% -4.78%
75th Percentile £79,806 £72,865 £72,188
90th Percentile £101,550 £87,419 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £59,064
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.82% -1.56%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,643 3,205 3,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.89% 74.85% 62.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,543 2,008
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,144 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,800
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Influencing Skills in Scotland

Influencing Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -14 156 £42,500 -34.62% 9
Edinburgh -3 10 £49,225 +18.11% 4
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Highlands - 2 £41,000 -
Aberdeen -14 1 - - 2
Dunbartonshire - 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
1 136 (79.07%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.91%) AWS
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (0.58%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (0.58%) GCP
2 1 (0.58%) GitHub
2 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
2 1 (0.58%) Route 53
2 1 (0.58%) Serverless
2 1 (0.58%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (79.07%) Big Data
1 136 (79.07%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
2 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.58%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 155 (90.12%) Finance
2 149 (86.63%) Marketing
3 148 (86.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (85.47%) Law
5 46 (26.74%) Financial Institution
6 25 (14.53%) Social Skills
7 11 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.91%) Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (60.47%) Lead
2 101 (58.72%) Software Engineer
3 100 (58.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Big Data Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Java Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Java Scala Software Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Lead Java Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Scala Engineer
4 90 (52.33%) Scala Software Engineer
5 46 (26.74%) Big Data Manager
5 46 (26.74%) Engineering Manager
5 46 (26.74%) Senior
5 46 (26.74%) Software Engineering Manager
6 45 (26.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 42 (24.42%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 42 (24.42%) Senior Java Engineer
7 42 (24.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.65%) React
2 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.58%) JSON
2 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
2 1 (0.58%) Digital Media
2 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (0.58%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (89.53%) Agile
2 147 (85.47%) Software Engineering
3 146 (84.88%) SDLC
4 136 (79.07%) Performance Tuning
5 106 (61.63%) CI/CD
6 100 (58.14%) Operational Stability
7 56 (32.56%) Community of Practice
8 55 (31.98%) Continuous Delivery
9 54 (31.40%) Artificial Intelligence
10 52 (30.23%) Machine Learning
11 50 (29.07%) Technical Leadership
12 47 (27.33%) Coaching
12 47 (27.33%) Mentoring
12 47 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (25.58%) Tech Ops
14 10 (5.81%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (5.23%) Creative Thinking
15 9 (5.23%) User Experience
15 9 (5.23%) Visualisation
16 8 (4.65%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 144 (83.72%) Java
2 139 (80.81%) SQL
3 136 (79.07%) Scala
4 11 (6.40%) Python
5 8 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.58%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) C++
7 1 (0.58%) Groovy
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) CISM
3 1 (0.58%) CISSP
3 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.58%) HNC
3 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.58%) Basel III
1 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (0.58%) GDPR
1 1 (0.58%) IEC 61508
1 1 (0.58%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.58%) Ansible
2 1 (0.58%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.58%) Grafana
2 1 (0.58%) Kibana
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe
2 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
2 1 (0.58%) Coverity
2 1 (0.58%) Google
2 1 (0.58%) Klocwork
2 1 (0.58%) Thales