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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 153 187
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 659 680 784
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.07% 1.57% 1.39%
As % of the General category 3.28% 2.75% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 384 532
10th Percentile £189 £147 £214
25th Percentile £306 £216 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £403 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% -15.26% -
75th Percentile £586 £516 £575
90th Percentile £713 £601 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 £425
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 147 54
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.77 £12.44
25th Percentile £14.59 £13.58 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.08 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% - -19.23%
75th Percentile £27.04 £38.12 £47.69
90th Percentile £35.00 - £56.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.97 £21.50 £20.28
% change year-on-year -7.12% +6.02% -9.46%

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 20,082 24,740 33,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.14% 57.08% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,597 15,481 22,828
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.35% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 994 1,941 1,059
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% +4.68% +27.12%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £68.75 £71.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £25.95
% change year-on-year -26.98% +21.39% +29.75%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +33 562 £450 +8.43% 3,639
UK excluding London +12 418 £375 - 2,408
London +65 198 £525 +16.67% 1,448
Work from Home -21 164 £480 +9.59% 1,227
South East +61 147 £400 +86.05% 580
Midlands +25 78 £325 -18.75% 388
North of England -11 63 £375 -5.06% 682
West Midlands +24 54 £325 -33.33% 226
Scotland -15 53 £413 +16.20% 131
North West -6 33 £350 - 372
East of England -24 31 £288 -23.33% 298
South West +14 27 £313 -34.21% 257
East Midlands +8 24 £308 -22.12% 159
Yorkshire +3 24 £400 -0.62% 235
Wales +6 11 £350 +149.11% 71
Northern Ireland -16 8 £336 +2.28% 45
North East -5 6 £425 -15.00% 78

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 39 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.21%) Confluence
3 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.61%) CMS
3 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Moodle
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) CICS
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 101 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (12.59%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (7.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (4.70%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) SPSS
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 8 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.91%) Shopify
5 5 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.15%) HFM
8 1 (0.15%) iTrent
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.15%) Primavera
8 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (7.44%) Azure
2 35 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (3.79%) Power Platform
4 13 (1.97%) AWS
4 13 (1.97%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.21%) SaaS
6 7 (1.06%) Google Workspace
7 5 (0.76%) BigCommerce
7 5 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.76%) Yammer
8 4 (0.61%) Asana
8 4 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.61%) OCI
9 3 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.30%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.30%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.06%) DHCP
1 7 (1.06%) DNS
1 7 (1.06%) VLAN
1 7 (1.06%) WAN
1 7 (1.06%) Wireless
2 6 (0.91%) Firewall
2 6 (0.91%) VPN
3 5 (0.76%) Network Security
3 5 (0.76%) SAN
3 5 (0.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.46%) SSH
4 3 (0.46%) SSL
5 2 (0.30%) BGP
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) LAN
5 2 (0.30%) MPLS
5 2 (0.30%) OSPF
5 2 (0.30%) Skype
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.49%) Power BI
2 18 (2.73%) Tableau
3 13 (1.97%) GIS
4 12 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
4 12 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.21%) Big Data
7 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.91%) Metadata
8 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.76%) QGIS
9 4 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (4.86%) JIRA
2 23 (3.49%) Git
3 17 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.21%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.46%) GoCD
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.30%) Appium
7 2 (0.30%) GDB
7 2 (0.30%) Postman
7 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) ERwin
8 1 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 414 (62.82%) Social Skills
2 177 (26.86%) Finance
3 130 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.89%) Banking
5 45 (6.83%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (4.25%) Investment Banking
8 22 (3.34%) Retail
9 21 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.28%) Legal
12 15 (2.28%) Marketing
13 12 (1.82%) Front Office
14 11 (1.67%) Local Government
15 10 (1.52%) Law
16 9 (1.37%) Automotive
17 8 (1.21%) Retail Banking
18 7 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (15.93%) Analyst
2 64 (9.71%) Project Manager
3 37 (5.61%) Administrator
4 31 (4.70%) Lead
5 30 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 28 (4.25%) Senior
7 25 (3.79%) Coordinator
7 25 (3.79%) Data Analyst
8 24 (3.64%) IT Support
9 21 (3.19%) Developer
10 20 (3.03%) IT Manager
11 16 (2.43%) Support Officer
12 13 (1.97%) Consultant
12 13 (1.97%) Junior
12 13 (1.97%) Security Manager
13 12 (1.82%) Architect
13 12 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (1.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 11 (1.67%) Project Coordinator
14 11 (1.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.88%) .NET
1 19 (2.88%) React
2 11 (1.67%) Django
2 11 (1.67%) FastAPI
3 10 (1.52%) HTML
4 9 (1.37%) CSS
4 9 (1.37%) Node.js
5 8 (1.21%) ASP.NET
5 8 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
5 8 (1.21%) Kafka
6 7 (1.06%) HTML5
6 7 (1.06%) LESS
6 7 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.06%) Sass
6 7 (1.06%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (0.91%) gRPC
7 6 (0.91%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (0.76%) VML
9 4 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.12%) Virtual Team
5 11 (1.67%) CMDB
5 11 (1.67%) PMI
6 10 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.52%) Life Science
6 10 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.06%) NHS
8 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.91%) Social Media
10 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.02%) Windows
2 21 (3.19%) Windows 10
3 17 (2.58%) Linux
4 10 (1.52%) Android
4 10 (1.52%) Unix
5 5 (0.76%) AIX
5 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (18.06%) Project Management
3 102 (15.48%) Computer Science
4 99 (15.02%) Agile
5 98 (14.87%) Time Management
6 84 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 68 (10.32%) Change Management
8 62 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 53 (8.04%) Collaborative Working
11 50 (7.59%) Data Analysis
12 49 (7.44%) Migration
13 47 (7.13%) Customer Service
14 44 (6.68%) Project Delivery
15 42 (6.37%) PRINCE2
16 41 (6.22%) Decision-Making
17 39 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (5.92%) Project Planning
18 38 (5.77%) Asset Management
18 38 (5.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.44%) SQL
2 39 (5.92%) Python
3 25 (3.79%) Java
4 20 (3.03%) C#
5 19 (2.88%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.06%) C++
9 6 (0.91%) VBScript
10 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.46%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.46%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.46%) C
11 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.15%) JCL
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (15.17%) Degree
2 76 (11.53%) DBS Check
3 61 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 48 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 27 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.10%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.19%) PMP
7 17 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.76%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.46%) CCNP
13 3 (0.46%) IIBA
13 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.30%) CIPD
14 2 (0.30%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.77%) PMO
2 30 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.79%) QA
4 22 (3.34%) GDPR
5 17 (2.58%) SLA
6 7 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.76%) GRC
8 4 (0.61%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.46%) NIST
9 3 (0.46%) P3O
9 3 (0.46%) PERC
10 2 (0.30%) EMIR
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.12%) Docker
3 7 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) IAG
6 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.12%) Ansible
3 10 (1.52%) SCCM
4 6 (0.91%) SmoothWall
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.61%) Tivoli
5 4 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (0.30%) Terraform
7 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 161 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.92%) SAP
3 25 (3.79%) Oracle
4 24 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.28%) VMware
6 13 (1.97%) Google
7 11 (1.67%) IBM
8 9 (1.37%) Cisco
9 8 (1.21%) Databricks
10 7 (1.06%) Adobe
11 6 (0.91%) Workday
12 5 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.76%) BMC
12 5 (0.76%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.76%) HP
12 5 (0.76%) Remedy
12 5 (0.76%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.61%) BT
13 4 (0.61%) Veeam