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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 81 98
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 38 39 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.70% 2.23% 1.29%
As % of the General category 2.68% 2.99% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 10
10th Percentile £231 £272 £128
25th Percentile £341 £314 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £495 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -3.88% +4.04%
75th Percentile £564 £644 £663
90th Percentile £711 £710 £688
Central London median daily rate £475 £531 £463
% change year-on-year -10.59% +14.86% -6.57%
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 £22.83 - £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 1,418 1,306 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 63.33% 74.76% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 869 885
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £773 £813
Central London median daily rate £570 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 9
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.96 £13.45
25th Percentile £19.13 £23.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +5.56% +42.11%
75th Percentile £39.38 £63.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £70.21 £103.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +5.35% +9.68% +63.16%

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 24 September 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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) CMS
3 2 (5.26%) Drupal
3 2 (5.26%) WordPress
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (5.26%) Google Analytics
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Google Sheets
3 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.63%) Miro
3 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) SSH
1 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
3 2 (5.26%) Maven
3 2 (5.26%) Mockito
3 2 (5.26%) Postman
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) SoapUI
3 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (50.00%) Finance
3 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.16%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 3 (7.89%) Analyst
2 3 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (7.89%) Programme Manager
2 3 (7.89%) Senior
3 2 (5.26%) Coordinator
3 2 (5.26%) Information Security Officer
3 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Lead
3 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (5.26%) Security Officer
3 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (5.26%) ADO
1 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.26%) Hibernate
1 2 (5.26%) HTML
1 2 (5.26%) JPA
1 2 (5.26%) Kafka
1 2 (5.26%) Middleware
1 2 (5.26%) REST
1 2 (5.26%) RESTful
1 2 (5.26%) SOAP
1 2 (5.26%) Spring
1 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (5.26%) Web Services
1 2 (5.26%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Educational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) FMCG
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (36.84%) Project Management
3 13 (34.21%) Agile
4 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 6 (15.79%) Scrum
5 6 (15.79%) Waterfall
6 5 (13.16%) Change Management
6 5 (13.16%) Project Governance
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (13.16%) User Experience
7 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.53%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.89%) Code Quality
8 3 (7.89%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (5.26%) Python
2 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.63%) Korn
3 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 4 (10.53%) PMP
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) CISM
4 2 (5.26%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CISA
5 1 (2.63%) CRISC
5 1 (2.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) PMO
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Grafana
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.63%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Apple
4 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.63%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.63%) SAP