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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 149 192
Rank change year-on-year +16 +43 +40
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 638 697 776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.16% 1.60% 1.40%
As % of the General category 3.40% 2.79% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 390 539
10th Percentile £195 £160 £205
25th Percentile £313 £250 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.63% -
75th Percentile £588 £519 £578
90th Percentile £713 £606 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 147 47
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.77 £13.24
25th Percentile £14.51 £13.95 £14.66
Median hourly rate £19.49 £21.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -0.24% -11.16%
75th Percentile £27.50 £38.12 £50.42
90th Percentile £35.00 - £57.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.97 £19.93 £20.99
% change year-on-year +0.23% -5.05% +4.93%

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 18,780 24,967 32,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.52% 57.17% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,832 15,678 22,562
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 2,003 996
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.08 £30.50 £31.96
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -4.57% +38.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.42 £29.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.22% +7.27% +40.36%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +32 547 £463 +5.71% 1,706
UK excluding London +11 418 £375 -6.25% 1,265
London +38 179 £550 +22.22% 608
Work from Home -4 159 £500 +14.22% 630
South East +54 143 £400 +86.05% 454
Midlands +38 79 £363 -9.38% 162
North of England +1 62 £381 -4.09% 312
West Midlands +30 55 £350 -30.00% 85
Scotland -15 50 £413 +11.49% 56
South West +23 38 £500 +5.26% 125
North West +1 35 £354 +1.14% 158
East of England -24 28 £288 -23.33% 137
East Midlands +11 23 £391 -1.14% 71
Yorkshire +11 19 £400 - 107
Wales +2 10 £341 +142.41% 29
North East -1 8 £425 -15.00% 49
Northern Ireland -9 8 £336 -22.70% 25

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 38 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.63%) ArcGIS
2 4 (0.63%) Confluence
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.47%) Moodle
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) CICS
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
4 1 (0.16%) Drupal
4 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 92 (14.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.16%) CATIA
8 1 (0.16%) SPSS
8 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 8 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.78%) Shopify
6 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) HFM
7 1 (0.16%) iTrent
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.16%) Primavera
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (7.21%) Azure
2 35 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.88%) AWS
6 8 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.25%) Google Workspace
6 8 (1.25%) SaaS
7 5 (0.78%) BigCommerce
7 5 (0.78%) Yammer
8 4 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.63%) OCI
9 3 (0.47%) Asana
9 3 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.47%) GCP
10 2 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.31%) Figma
10 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.31%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.31%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.41%) VPN
2 7 (1.10%) Firewall
2 7 (1.10%) Network Security
2 7 (1.10%) Wireless
3 6 (0.94%) DHCP
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
3 6 (0.94%) VLAN
3 6 (0.94%) WAN
4 5 (0.78%) SAN
4 5 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.63%) Skype
6 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.47%) SSH
6 3 (0.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) BGP
7 2 (0.31%) Internet
7 2 (0.31%) MPLS
7 2 (0.31%) OSPF
8 1 (0.16%) FTP
8 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.13%) Power BI
2 18 (2.82%) Tableau
3 13 (2.04%) GIS
4 12 (1.88%) Geospatial Data
4 12 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.41%) Big Data
6 9 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.94%) Metadata
9 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.78%) QGIS
10 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.63%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.47%) Spatial Data
11 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (3.61%) JIRA
2 22 (3.45%) Git
3 19 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.25%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.47%) GoCD
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Appium
7 2 (0.31%) ERwin
7 2 (0.31%) GDB
7 2 (0.31%) Postman
7 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 162 (25.39%) Finance
3 138 (21.63%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.78%) Banking
5 47 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 35 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (5.02%) Investment Banking
8 22 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.66%) Retail
11 16 (2.51%) Legal
12 13 (2.04%) Marketing
13 12 (1.88%) Front Office
13 12 (1.88%) Local Government
14 9 (1.41%) Law
15 8 (1.25%) Automotive
15 8 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (14.73%) Analyst
2 57 (8.93%) Project Manager
3 31 (4.86%) Administrator
3 31 (4.86%) Lead
4 28 (4.39%) Senior
5 27 (4.23%) Business Analyst
6 25 (3.92%) Data Analyst
7 24 (3.76%) Developer
8 21 (3.29%) Coordinator
9 19 (2.98%) IT Support
10 18 (2.82%) IT Manager
10 18 (2.82%) Service Manager
11 16 (2.51%) Support Officer
12 14 (2.19%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 14 (2.19%) Gen AI Developer
12 14 (2.19%) Python Developer
13 13 (2.04%) Architect
14 12 (1.88%) Consultant
15 11 (1.72%) Change Manager
15 11 (1.72%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.45%) .NET
1 22 (3.45%) React
2 14 (2.19%) Django
2 14 (2.19%) FastAPI
3 9 (1.41%) HTML
3 9 (1.41%) Node.js
4 8 (1.25%) ASP.NET
4 8 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (1.25%) CSS
4 8 (1.25%) Kafka
5 7 (1.10%) HTML5
5 7 (1.10%) LESS
5 7 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.10%) Sass
5 7 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
6 6 (0.94%) gRPC
6 6 (0.94%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (0.78%) VML
8 4 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 24 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 11 (1.72%) PMI
7 10 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.57%) CMDB
7 10 (1.57%) Life Science
7 10 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.10%) NHS
9 7 (1.10%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.78%) Social Media
12 4 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.50%) Windows
2 22 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 20 (3.13%) Linux
4 10 (1.57%) Android
4 10 (1.57%) Unix
5 5 (0.78%) AIX
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (17.87%) Project Management
3 101 (15.83%) Computer Science
4 98 (15.36%) Time Management
5 97 (15.20%) Agile
6 78 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 67 (10.50%) Collaborative Working
8 66 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (9.72%) Change Management
10 56 (8.78%) Data Analysis
10 56 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (7.99%) ITIL
12 47 (7.37%) Migration
13 42 (6.58%) Customer Service
13 42 (6.58%) Decision-Making
13 42 (6.58%) Service Management
14 40 (6.27%) Project Delivery
15 39 (6.11%) DevOps
15 39 (6.11%) PRINCE2
16 37 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 53 (8.31%) SQL
2 42 (6.58%) Python
3 28 (4.39%) Java
4 23 (3.61%) C#
5 22 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.25%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.10%) C++
9 5 (0.78%) VBScript
10 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.47%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.47%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.47%) C
11 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.16%) JCL
12 1 (0.16%) Scala
12 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 98 (15.36%) Degree
2 76 (11.91%) DBS Check
3 72 (11.29%) Security Cleared
4 56 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 27 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.76%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.66%) PMP
8 13 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.78%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.47%) CCNP
13 3 (0.47%) IIBA
13 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.31%) AAT
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.96%) PMO
2 28 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.08%) SLA
4 23 (3.61%) GDPR
4 23 (3.61%) QA
5 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.63%) GRC
7 4 (0.63%) PMBOK
8 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.47%) NIST
8 3 (0.47%) P3O
8 3 (0.47%) PERC
9 2 (0.31%) EMIR
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) WCAG
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (2.82%) Docker
2 14 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) IAG
6 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 19 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.66%) Ansible
3 10 (1.57%) SCCM
4 6 (0.94%) SmoothWall
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.63%) Tivoli
5 4 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (0.31%) Terraform
7 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.80%) SAP
3 23 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.29%) Oracle
4 21 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.82%) VMware
6 15 (2.35%) Google
7 13 (2.04%) Cisco
8 12 (1.88%) IBM
9 8 (1.25%) Databricks
10 7 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.10%) HP
10 7 (1.10%) Remedy
11 6 (0.94%) Adobe
11 6 (0.94%) Citrix
11 6 (0.94%) Veeam
12 5 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.78%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.78%) Workday
13 4 (0.63%) BT
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