Organisational Skills Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Organisational Skills
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Organisational Skills in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Organisational Skills over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 101
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 35 40 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 2.32% 1.23%
As % of the General category 2.51% 3.10% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 7
10th Percentile £219 £301 £240
25th Percentile £317 £378 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -9.38% +21.21%
75th Percentile £555 £659 £675
90th Percentile £684 £700 £725
Central London median daily rate £475 £544 £531
% change year-on-year -12.64% +2.35% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.57 - -
25th Percentile £22.67 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £22.83 - £12.50
75th Percentile £23.00 - £13.75
90th Percentile £23.09 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.25 - £12.50

All General Skills
City of London

Organisational 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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,394 1,291 1,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 65.02% 74.88% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 867 876
10th Percentile £356 £330 £357
25th Percentile £462 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £696 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 10
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.85 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.13 £20.18 £18.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -5.38% +56.58%
75th Percentile £39.38 £43.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £63.25 £64.48 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £32.91 £28.33 £33.75
% change year-on-year +16.19% -16.07% +50.00%

Organisational Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Organisational Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Organisational Skills job vacancy trend in the City of London

Organisational Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Organisational Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Organisational Skills

Organisational Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the City of London

Organisational Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Organisational Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Organisational Skills

Organisational Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) Drupal
3 2 (5.71%) WordPress
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.71%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Google Sheets
4 1 (2.86%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Miro
4 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) SSH
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) Mockito
3 2 (5.71%) Postman
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) SoapUI
3 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (51.43%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.57%) Marketing
7 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) German Language
8 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Project Manager
2 3 (8.57%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (8.57%) Senior
3 2 (5.71%) Analyst
3 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) Coordinator
3 2 (5.71%) Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Lead
3 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (5.71%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (5.71%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Test Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (5.71%) ADO
1 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
1 2 (5.71%) HTML
1 2 (5.71%) JPA
1 2 (5.71%) Kafka
1 2 (5.71%) Middleware
1 2 (5.71%) REST
1 2 (5.71%) RESTful
1 2 (5.71%) SOAP
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (5.71%) Web Services
1 2 (5.71%) XBRL
2 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (37.14%) Project Management
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
4 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (17.14%) Waterfall
6 5 (14.29%) Change Management
6 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 5 (14.29%) Project Governance
6 5 (14.29%) Scrum
7 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.43%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.43%) User Experience
8 3 (8.57%) Kanban
8 3 (8.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) Korn
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 5 (14.29%) PMP
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) CISA
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) CRISC
4 1 (2.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Apple
4 2 (5.71%) HubSpot
4 2 (5.71%) IBM
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) SAP