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 have cited Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 194 232
Rank change year-on-year +68 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 785 829 1,155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.39% 1.30%
As % of the General category 3.11% 2.37% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 567 711
10th Percentile £175 £203 £200
25th Percentile £250 £303 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £578
90th Percentile £613 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £425
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 44 153
10th Percentile £11.82 £13.20 £13.29
25th Percentile £13.99 £14.69 £15.90
Median hourly rate £18.35 £24.11 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% -12.33% +43.70%
75th Percentile £38.12 £50.85 £47.44
90th Percentile - £58.26 £54.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £24.11 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.34% -7.27% +40.54%

All General Skills
UK

Organisational Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +69 657 £438 -7.89% 1,017
UK excluding London +73 531 £400 - 814
Work from Home +82 284 £450 -5.26% 357
London +17 220 £450 -13.25% 280
South East +60 169 £215 -49.41% 208
Scotland +33 85 £415 +10.67% 63
East of England +45 83 £260 -48.00% 91
North of England +24 70 £350 -24.32% 197
South West +21 56 £475 +13.77% 115
Midlands +29 53 £450 +20.00% 142
North West +5 40 £350 -30.00% 108
West Midlands +36 35 £500 +33.33% 80
Yorkshire +17 20 £241 -44.86% 68
East Midlands +18 17 £425 +21.43% 62
Northern Ireland +17 11 £435 +24.29% 10
North East +27 10 £500 +25.00% 25
Wales +15 6 £145 -52.26% 22

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 56 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.06%) Confluence
3 18 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
4 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.89%) CMS
6 5 (0.64%) CICS
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 138 (17.58%) Microsoft Office
2 115 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (7.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (2.04%) Photoshop
6 11 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (1.02%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.38%) InDesign
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.25%) PTC Creo
11 2 (0.25%) Windchill
12 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.27%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (0.76%) Shopify
3 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Unica
5 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 79 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (5.22%) PaaS
3 40 (5.10%) Azure
3 40 (5.10%) SaaS
4 39 (4.97%) IaaS
5 17 (2.17%) Azure Stack
6 15 (1.91%) AWS
7 13 (1.66%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.02%) Canva
9 8 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.02%) Slack
9 8 (1.02%) Yammer
10 6 (0.76%) BigCommerce
11 4 (0.51%) OCI
11 4 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.38%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.38%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.48%) Broadband
2 39 (4.97%) 5G
3 34 (4.33%) Firewall
4 25 (3.18%) LAN
5 21 (2.68%) BGP
6 13 (1.66%) VPN
7 12 (1.53%) Wireless
8 10 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (1.15%) Structured Cabling
10 8 (1.02%) Internet
10 8 (1.02%) Intranet
10 8 (1.02%) Network Security
11 7 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.76%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.64%) VoIP
14 4 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (0.51%) MPLS
14 4 (0.51%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.66%) Power BI
2 9 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
4 6 (0.76%) DB2
4 6 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (0.76%) Tableau
5 5 (0.64%) OLTP
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Discoverer
8 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.25%) EDMS
8 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.25%) MySQL
8 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.13%) IDMS
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (4.97%) JIRA
2 6 (0.76%) Git
3 4 (0.51%) RStudio
3 4 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.13%) Subversion
5 1 (0.13%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 446 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 185 (23.57%) Finance
3 138 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (12.61%) Presentation Skills
5 86 (10.96%) Influencing Skills
6 73 (9.30%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.22%) Law
8 40 (5.10%) Legal
9 35 (4.46%) Retail
10 33 (4.20%) Banking
10 33 (4.20%) Marketing
11 24 (3.06%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
14 13 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.27%) Advertising
16 9 (1.15%) Electronics
16 9 (1.15%) Publishing
17 8 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 108 (13.76%) Analyst
2 78 (9.94%) Project Manager
3 49 (6.24%) Administrator
4 47 (5.99%) Senior
5 39 (4.97%) Penetration Tester
5 39 (4.97%) Security Penetration Tester
5 39 (4.97%) Security Specialist
5 39 (4.97%) Security Tester
5 39 (4.97%) Tester
5 39 (4.97%) Testing Specialist
6 38 (4.84%) Support Engineer
7 34 (4.33%) Desktop Support
7 34 (4.33%) Lead
8 29 (3.69%) Desktop Engineer
9 28 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 25 (3.18%) Coordinator
11 20 (2.55%) Consultant
11 20 (2.55%) Hardware Engineer
12 19 (2.42%) Business Analyst
13 18 (2.29%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.97%) Web Services
2 6 (0.76%) HTML
3 5 (0.64%) VML
4 4 (0.51%) CSS
5 3 (0.38%) .NET
5 3 (0.38%) Spring
5 3 (0.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.38%) XML
6 2 (0.25%) LDAP
7 1 (0.13%) Ajax
7 1 (0.13%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.13%) EDI
7 1 (0.13%) Flash
7 1 (0.13%) FpML
7 1 (0.13%) JAXB
7 1 (0.13%) jQuery
7 1 (0.13%) POSIX
7 1 (0.13%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.13%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.13%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.50%) Driving Licence
2 47 (5.99%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (5.22%) Mobile App
4 37 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.29%) Private Cloud
6 16 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.53%) Video Editing
8 11 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.27%) PMI
9 10 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.15%) NHS
10 9 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.02%) Blog
12 7 (0.89%) CCTV
12 7 (0.89%) Digital Media
12 7 (0.89%) Photography
12 7 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 146 (18.60%) Windows
2 86 (10.96%) Windows 10
3 41 (5.22%) Windows 7
4 37 (4.71%) Apple iOS
5 16 (2.04%) Android
5 16 (2.04%) Linux
6 13 (1.66%) Unix
7 8 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.64%) zOS
9 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (29.55%) Project Management
2 174 (22.17%) Time Management
3 169 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
4 133 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (14.65%) Agile
6 99 (12.61%) Decision-Making
7 93 (11.85%) Customer Service
8 86 (10.96%) ITIL
9 61 (7.77%) Project Delivery
10 57 (7.26%) Business Strategy
10 57 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (7.13%) Risk Management
12 54 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (6.62%) PRINCE2
14 47 (5.99%) Business Development
15 43 (5.48%) Change Management
15 43 (5.48%) Collaborative Working
16 40 (5.10%) Security Testing
17 39 (4.97%) OWASP
17 39 (4.97%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.44%) Python
2 26 (3.31%) SQL
3 10 (1.27%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.89%) Java
4 7 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.76%) Perl
6 5 (0.64%) COBOL
6 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.64%) REXX
7 2 (0.25%) C#
7 2 (0.25%) R
8 1 (0.13%) Dart
8 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.03%) Degree
3 69 (8.79%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.15%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.97%) CREST Certified
5 39 (4.97%) GIAC
5 39 (4.97%) GPEN
5 39 (4.97%) OSCP
5 39 (4.97%) SANS
6 18 (2.29%) PMP
7 16 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.15%) CCNP
10 9 (1.15%) CISM
11 7 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.89%) HNC
12 6 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.76%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.28%) PMO
2 62 (7.90%) GDPR
3 39 (4.97%) NCSC
3 39 (4.97%) PCI DSS
4 33 (4.20%) SLA
5 25 (3.18%) QA
6 19 (2.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 11 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.76%) NIST
10 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) P3O
13 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 60 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.18%) Firmware
3 13 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.76%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.51%) NFS
6 4 (0.51%) vSphere
7 3 (0.38%) Docker
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.25%) HDFS
8 2 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.13%) GPFS
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (6.24%) SCCM
2 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.02%) VxRail
3 7 (0.89%) Nessus
3 7 (0.89%) SCOM
4 6 (0.76%) Ansible
4 6 (0.76%) WSUS
5 4 (0.51%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.38%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (0.38%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.38%) Terraform
7 2 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.25%) Netcool
7 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 215 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.13%) SAP
3 39 (4.97%) Virgin Media
4 38 (4.84%) HP
5 30 (3.82%) Apple
6 25 (3.18%) Oracle
7 22 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 18 (2.29%) Cisco
9 18 (2.29%) VMware
10 17 (2.17%) Adobe
11 14 (1.78%) Dell
12 11 (1.40%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.27%) Citrix
14 8 (1.02%) ScienceLogic
15 7 (0.89%) Google
15 7 (0.89%) Juniper
15 7 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.76%) Sitecore
17 5 (0.64%) Nokia