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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 195 228
Rank change year-on-year +64 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 741 803 1,125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 1.38% 1.28%
As % of the General category 2.96% 2.36% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 545 686
10th Percentile £169 £200 £200
25th Percentile £250 £305 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £581
90th Percentile £621 £681 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 46 146
10th Percentile £11.77 £13.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.99 £14.94 £15.90
Median hourly rate £18.35 £23.06 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% -13.79% +43.53%
75th Percentile £38.12 £50.42 £48.75
90th Percentile - £57.75 £55.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £22.69 £24.50
% change year-on-year -20.67% -7.39% +32.43%

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 25,035 33,973 49,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,784 23,569 34,307
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,040 1,416
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.23
90th Percentile £65.35 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +50 611 £450 -5.26% 1,234
UK excluding London +70 501 £405 +1.25% 1,013
Work from Home +57 246 £455 -3.70% 377
London +15 205 £450 -13.04% 299
South East +24 129 £215 -52.22% 215
East of England +38 88 £350 -26.32% 129
Scotland +38 86 £400 +8.47% 66
North of England +31 76 £395 -9.71% 274
South West +19 55 £475 +11.76% 143
Midlands +37 52 £425 +13.33% 185
North West +15 41 £350 -22.22% 153
West Midlands +29 34 £500 +33.33% 110
Yorkshire +33 25 £400 -8.57% 90
East Midlands +21 17 £400 +14.29% 75
Northern Ireland +16 11 £435 +24.29% 8
North East +22 10 £500 +25.00% 36
Wales +18 6 £145 -52.26% 28

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 58 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.24%) Confluence
3 18 (2.43%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.81%) CMS
6 5 (0.67%) CICS
7 4 (0.54%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Moodle
8 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 132 (17.81%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (8.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (2.16%) Photoshop
6 12 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (1.08%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.40%) InDesign
11 2 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.27%) PTC Creo
11 2 (0.27%) 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 (1.35%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Shopify
4 3 (0.40%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.27%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.27%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.27%) Unica
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 76 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (5.13%) Azure
3 17 (2.29%) Azure Stack
4 14 (1.89%) AWS
5 12 (1.62%) Power Platform
6 10 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.08%) Canva
7 8 (1.08%) Slack
7 8 (1.08%) Yammer
8 5 (0.67%) BigCommerce
9 4 (0.54%) OCI
9 4 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.27%) GCP
11 2 (0.27%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.59%) Firewall
2 23 (3.10%) LAN
3 21 (2.83%) BGP
4 13 (1.75%) VPN
5 12 (1.62%) Wireless
6 11 (1.48%) Intranet
7 10 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (1.21%) Structured Cabling
9 8 (1.08%) Internet
9 8 (1.08%) Network Security
10 7 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.81%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.67%) VoIP
13 4 (0.54%) Broadband
13 4 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (0.54%) MPLS
13 4 (0.54%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.54%) WAN
14 3 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.62%) Power BI
2 8 (1.08%) Oracle Database
2 8 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (0.81%) DB2
5 5 (0.67%) OLTP
5 5 (0.67%) Tableau
6 4 (0.54%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.27%) EDMS
8 2 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.27%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.27%) MySQL
9 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.13%) Power Query
9 1 (0.13%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (4.86%) JIRA
2 6 (0.81%) Git
3 4 (0.54%) RStudio
3 4 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 2 (0.27%) 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 (60.19%) Social Skills
2 187 (25.24%) Finance
3 140 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (13.90%) Presentation Skills
5 84 (11.34%) Influencing Skills
6 73 (9.85%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.53%) Legal
8 33 (4.45%) Marketing
9 32 (4.32%) Retail
10 29 (3.91%) Banking
11 25 (3.37%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.02%) Mandarin Language
14 14 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.21%) Advertising
15 9 (1.21%) Electronics
16 8 (1.08%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.08%) Publishing
17 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 108 (14.57%) Analyst
2 73 (9.85%) Project Manager
3 50 (6.75%) Administrator
4 47 (6.34%) Senior
5 38 (5.13%) Lead
5 38 (5.13%) Support Engineer
6 33 (4.45%) Desktop Support
7 28 (3.78%) Desktop Engineer
8 27 (3.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 26 (3.51%) Coordinator
10 20 (2.70%) Business Analyst
11 18 (2.43%) Consultant
11 18 (2.43%) Hardware Engineer
12 16 (2.16%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
13 15 (2.02%) Architect
13 15 (2.02%) Windows Engineer
14 14 (1.89%) Service Analyst
15 13 (1.75%) Support Officer
16 12 (1.62%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (1.62%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.67%) HTML
1 5 (0.67%) VML
2 4 (0.54%) CSS
3 3 (0.40%) Spring
3 3 (0.40%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.40%) XML
4 2 (0.27%) .NET
4 2 (0.27%) LDAP
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.13%) Ajax
5 1 (0.13%) EDI
5 1 (0.13%) Flash
5 1 (0.13%) jQuery
5 1 (0.13%) Kafka
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.13%) POSIX
5 1 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.13%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.13%) XML Schema
5 1 (0.13%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.34%) Driving Licence
2 45 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.43%) Data Centre
4 18 (2.43%) Private Cloud
5 12 (1.62%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.62%) Video Editing
6 11 (1.48%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.35%) NHS
7 10 (1.35%) PMI
8 9 (1.21%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.21%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.08%) Blog
9 8 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.94%) CCTV
10 7 (0.94%) Digital Media
10 7 (0.94%) Photography
10 7 (0.94%) Replication
11 6 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 138 (18.62%) Windows
2 80 (10.80%) Windows 10
3 37 (4.99%) Windows 7
4 35 (4.72%) Apple iOS
5 16 (2.16%) Linux
6 14 (1.89%) Android
7 13 (1.75%) Unix
8 8 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 8 (1.08%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.67%) zOS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (29.69%) Project Management
2 173 (23.35%) Time Management
3 161 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (14.84%) Agile
5 101 (13.63%) Decision-Making
6 97 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 86 (11.61%) Customer Service
8 78 (10.53%) ITIL
9 58 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (7.56%) Business Strategy
11 55 (7.42%) Risk Management
12 54 (7.29%) Project Delivery
13 51 (6.88%) PRINCE2
14 47 (6.34%) Business Development
15 43 (5.80%) Collaborative Working
16 42 (5.67%) Change Management
17 40 (5.40%) Migration
18 34 (4.59%) Programme Management
19 33 (4.45%) Data Protection
19 33 (4.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.64%) Python
2 26 (3.51%) SQL
3 9 (1.21%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.94%) Java
5 6 (0.81%) Perl
5 6 (0.81%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.67%) COBOL
6 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.67%) REXX
7 3 (0.40%) R
8 1 (0.13%) C#
8 1 (0.13%) Dart
8 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.13%) Ruby
8 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.38%) Degree
3 67 (9.04%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.43%) PMP
6 16 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.35%) CISM
9 9 (1.21%) CCNP
9 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.94%) HNC
11 6 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.81%) NVQ Level 3
11 6 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.40%) APMG
13 3 (0.40%) CISSP
13 3 (0.40%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.37%) PMO
2 30 (4.05%) SLA
3 26 (3.51%) QA
4 25 (3.37%) GDPR
5 19 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 11 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.94%) NIST
9 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 55 (7.42%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.10%) Firmware
3 13 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.67%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.54%) NFS
6 4 (0.54%) vSphere
7 3 (0.40%) Docker
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 2 (0.27%) 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 44 (5.94%) SCCM
2 8 (1.08%) VxRail
3 7 (0.94%) Nessus
3 7 (0.94%) SCOM
4 6 (0.81%) Ansible
4 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.67%) WSUS
6 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.40%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.40%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.40%) Terraform
8 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.27%) Netcool
8 2 (0.27%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.13%) AppManager
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 206 (27.80%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.96%) SAP
3 35 (4.72%) HP
4 30 (4.05%) Apple
5 26 (3.51%) Oracle
6 21 (2.83%) Atlassian
7 20 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.43%) Cisco
8 18 (2.43%) VMware
9 16 (2.16%) Adobe
10 14 (1.89%) Dell
11 9 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.08%) Citrix
12 8 (1.08%) ScienceLogic
13 7 (0.94%) Juniper
13 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.81%) Google
15 5 (0.67%) Ariba
15 5 (0.67%) Nokia
15 5 (0.67%) Sitecore