Organisational Skills Contracts in the West Midlands

Organisational Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Organisational Skills in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Organisational Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 76 110
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 +25
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 46 35 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.42% 1.80% 1.22%
As % of the General category 5.47% 3.18% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 18
10th Percentile £106 £298 £291
25th Percentile £163 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -34.78%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £438
90th Percentile £538 £658 £441
England median daily rate £500 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £10.97 £20.76
25th Percentile £12.25 £11.03 £21.17
Median hourly rate £12.50 £11.54 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -47.77% +84.13%
75th Percentile £12.75 £12.49 £22.78
90th Percentile - £13.34 £23.04
England median hourly rate £15.84 £21.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.57% -20.75% +8.16%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 841 1,101 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.53% 56.55% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 758 972
10th Percentile £185 £263 £237
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 42
10th Percentile - £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £28.18 £39.34 £26.82
90th Percentile £33.91 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Organisational Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Organisational Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Organisational Skills in the West Midlands

Organisational Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Organisational Skills in the West Midlands

Organisational Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the West Midlands

Organisational Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Organisational Skills in the West Midlands

Organisational Skills
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +13 17 £195 -60.00% 35
Warwickshire +12 15 £450 -21.74% 17
Coventry - 6 £475 - 7
Staffordshire -2 3 £190 -36.24% 24
Shropshire - 2 £136 - 11
Walsall - 2 £350 -
Herefordshire - 1 £225 - 1
Organisational Skills
England

Organisational Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.17%) IBM Notes
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) Azure
1 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 31 (67.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Law
4 4 (8.70%) Legal
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.17%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Project Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Administrator
2 6 (13.04%) Analyst
3 4 (8.70%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (8.70%) GDPR Project Manager
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Support Officer
4 3 (6.52%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Data Entry Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Data Steward
4 3 (6.52%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Unix Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (4.35%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Unix Support
5 2 (4.35%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) AIX
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Unix
2 4 (8.70%) Android
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
2 8 (17.39%) ITIL
3 6 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 5 (10.87%) Data Entry
4 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
5 4 (8.70%) Agile
5 4 (8.70%) Storage Management
6 3 (6.52%) CRM
6 3 (6.52%) Migration
6 3 (6.52%) OpenUP
6 3 (6.52%) Project Management
6 3 (6.52%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.35%) Data Protection
7 2 (4.35%) Issue Tracking
7 2 (4.35%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.35%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
2 5 (10.87%) PMO
3 4 (8.70%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) QA
5 1 (2.17%) GRC
5 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.17%) NCSC
5 1 (2.17%) NIST
5 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Tivoli
1 4 (8.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) IBM
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Lotus
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce