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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 89 77
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +61
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 37 30 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.02% 1.54% 2.21%
As % of the General category 2.98% 2.26% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 23
10th Percentile £233 £200 £330
25th Percentile £319 £482 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +27.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £656 £656 £559
90th Percentile £695 £743 £646
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £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 1,242 1,325 1,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 67.87% 67.88% 65.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 808 1,139
10th Percentile £340 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -2.54%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £793 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.58% +1.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile £20.18 £12.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.62 £18.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -12.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £42.65 £47.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £51.25 £73.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £33.75 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.64% +26.17% -37.79%

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 5 January 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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (8.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (8.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
1 3 (8.11%) SaaS
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Power BI
1 3 (8.11%) Star Schema
2 2 (5.41%) Tick Data
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Maven
2 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 26 (70.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Finance
3 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (2.70%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Finance Business Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Junior
4 3 (8.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Business Finance Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Fidessa Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Junior Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Release Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Equities
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.70%) PMI
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.70%) Video Editing
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Agile
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
2 7 (18.92%) Project Management
3 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.22%) Time Management
3 6 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (13.51%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
4 5 (13.51%) Project Governance
4 5 (13.51%) User Stories
5 4 (10.81%) Business Analysis
5 4 (10.81%) Business Strategy
5 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.11%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) ACCA
3 1 (2.70%) APMP
3 1 (2.70%) CCNA
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
3 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PMO
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Basel III
3 1 (2.70%) CRD IV
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Packer
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) Solace
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.70%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.70%) Marketo
3 1 (2.70%) Progress
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Tagetik
3 1 (2.70%) VMware