Organisational Skills Contracts

Organisational Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Organisational Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Organisational Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 131 192
Rank change year-on-year -18 +61 +35
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 571 778 821
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.95% 1.78% 1.38%
As % of the General category 3.09% 3.06% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 418 562
10th Percentile £195 £175 £203
25th Percentile £313 £250 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £532 £588
90th Percentile £731 £613 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 153 43
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.82 £13.19
25th Percentile £15.16 £13.99 £15.13
Median hourly rate £15.87 £18.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -26.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £26.74 £38.12 £51.28
90th Percentile £33.75 - £58.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.16 £18.00 £24.11
% change year-on-year +6.42% -25.34% -7.27%

All General Skills
UK

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Organisational Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Organisational Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Organisational Skills.

Daily rate trend for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Organisational Skills.

Hourly rate trend for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Organisational Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 488 £500 +14.29% 1,165
UK excluding London -16 340 £388 -3.13% 799
London +19 197 £575 +27.78% 429
Work from Home -35 150 £525 +16.67% 434
South East +7 109 £313 +45.35% 179
Midlands +31 63 £414 -8.00% 157
North of England +11 52 £358 +2.29% 209
Scotland -18 52 £413 -0.60% 37
West Midlands +26 45 £350 -30.00% 105
South West +20 31 £500 +5.26% 101
North West -5 24 £344 -1.86% 124
Yorkshire +17 22 £394 +63.21% 68
East of England -19 20 £450 +60.71% 86
East Midlands +8 15 £403 -5.29% 49
Wales +9 10 £331 +128.39% 32
North East -4 6 £575 +15.00% 19
Northern Ireland -16 3 £400 -8.05% 10

Organisational Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.88%) Confluence
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.18%) CICS
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Drupal
4 1 (0.18%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 89 (15.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (8.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.18%) CATIA
7 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.88%) Shopify
4 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.18%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.18%) iTrent
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Primavera
7 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 47 (8.23%) Azure
2 31 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 11 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.75%) Yammer
6 9 (1.58%) Google Workspace
7 8 (1.40%) AWS
8 6 (1.05%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.88%) BigCommerce
9 5 (0.88%) SaaS
10 4 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.70%) GCP
10 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.53%) OCI
12 2 (0.35%) Figma
12 2 (0.35%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.35%) Miro
12 2 (0.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.58%) VPN
2 7 (1.23%) Network Security
3 6 (1.05%) Wireless
4 5 (0.88%) DHCP
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 4 (0.70%) Firewall
5 4 (0.70%) SAN
5 4 (0.70%) Skype
6 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.53%) SSH
6 3 (0.53%) SSL
6 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.53%) VLAN
6 3 (0.53%) WAN
7 2 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Intranet
8 1 (0.18%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.33%) Power BI
2 15 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.45%) Tableau
4 9 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (0.88%) GIS
9 4 (0.70%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.53%) Metadata
10 3 (0.53%) MS Access
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 24 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.15%) JIRA
3 16 (2.80%) Git
4 12 (2.10%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.40%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.53%) GoCD
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.53%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) Appium
7 2 (0.35%) ERwin
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 347 (60.77%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.39%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (23.82%) Finance
4 52 (9.11%) Banking
5 46 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 35 (6.13%) Investment Banking
7 32 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.98%) Legal
9 16 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.80%) Local Government
9 16 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.63%) Marketing
11 13 (2.28%) Retail
12 12 (2.10%) Front Office
13 11 (1.93%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.58%) Law
16 8 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.23%) Automotive
18 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 85 (14.89%) Analyst
2 56 (9.81%) Project Manager
3 32 (5.60%) Senior
4 28 (4.90%) Lead
5 26 (4.55%) Developer
6 21 (3.68%) Business Analyst
7 19 (3.33%) Administrator
7 19 (3.33%) Python Developer
8 18 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 18 (3.15%) Gen AI Developer
9 16 (2.80%) Data Analyst
9 16 (2.80%) Service Manager
10 15 (2.63%) Architect
10 15 (2.63%) Coordinator
11 14 (2.45%) Consultant
12 13 (2.28%) Support Officer
13 12 (2.10%) Change Manager
13 12 (2.10%) IT Manager
14 11 (1.93%) Change Analyst
15 9 (1.58%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.90%) .NET
2 26 (4.55%) React
3 18 (3.15%) Django
3 18 (3.15%) FastAPI
4 10 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (1.58%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.58%) Node.js
6 8 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (1.40%) CSS
6 8 (1.40%) HTML
7 7 (1.23%) HTML5
7 7 (1.23%) Kafka
7 7 (1.23%) LESS
7 7 (1.23%) Sass
7 7 (1.23%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (1.05%) gRPC
8 6 (1.05%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (0.88%) PySpark
9 5 (0.88%) VML
10 4 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.98%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.98%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.10%) PMI
6 9 (1.58%) CMDB
7 8 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.40%) Life Science
7 8 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.23%) NHS
8 7 (1.23%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.05%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.88%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.81%) Windows
2 22 (3.85%) Linux
3 16 (2.80%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.58%) Unix
5 8 (1.40%) Android
6 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.88%) AIX
8 4 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE
9 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
2 121 (21.19%) Project Management
3 110 (19.26%) Agile
4 96 (16.81%) Time Management
5 78 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (12.61%) Collaborative Working
7 71 (12.43%) Computer Science
8 67 (11.73%) Change Management
8 67 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (9.63%) DevOps
10 51 (8.93%) Data Analysis
11 47 (8.23%) Decision-Making
12 45 (7.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 44 (7.71%) ITIL
14 42 (7.36%) Project Planning
14 42 (7.36%) Service Management
15 38 (6.65%) CI/CD
15 38 (6.65%) Project Delivery
16 34 (5.95%) PRINCE2
17 33 (5.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.51%) SQL
2 41 (7.18%) Python
3 28 (4.90%) C#
3 28 (4.90%) Java
4 26 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.93%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.23%) C++
8 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.53%) ActionScript
10 3 (0.53%) ActionScript 2.0
10 3 (0.53%) C
10 3 (0.53%) VBScript
11 2 (0.35%) R
12 1 (0.18%) ABAP
12 1 (0.18%) Bash
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (15.59%) Degree
2 65 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 52 (9.11%) DBS Check
4 50 (8.76%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.10%) PMP
9 9 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.88%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.53%) AAT
13 3 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.53%) MAPM
13 3 (0.53%) MRICS
14 2 (0.35%) IIBA
14 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.95%) PMO
2 26 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.55%) GDPR
2 26 (4.55%) SLA
3 23 (4.03%) QA
4 12 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.70%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.53%) GRC
7 3 (0.53%) P3O
7 3 (0.53%) PERC
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.35%) EMIR
8 2 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.35%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (4.38%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
6 1 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.85%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) SCCM
4 5 (0.88%) SmoothWall
5 4 (0.70%) Tivoli
5 4 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (0.53%) Terraform
7 2 (0.35%) CASB
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) Rancher
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.25%) SAP
3 25 (4.38%) Oracle
4 20 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.15%) Google
6 17 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.98%) VMware
7 11 (1.93%) Cisco
7 11 (1.93%) IBM
8 7 (1.23%) Remedy
9 6 (1.05%) Adobe
9 6 (1.05%) HP
10 5 (0.88%) Citrix
10 5 (0.88%) Databricks
10 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.88%) Veeam
11 4 (0.70%) BMC
11 4 (0.70%) BT
11 4 (0.70%) Workday