Organisational Skills Contract Job Trends

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 15 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	89	136	190
Rank change year-on-year	+47	+54	-40
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills	1,749	751	480
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	3.17%	2.13%	1.31%
As % of the General category	5.43%	3.37%	2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	696	353	267
10^th Percentile	£180	£177	£185
25^th Percentile	£250	£280	£320
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	£415	£480
Median % change year-on-year	-3.50%	-13.65%	+12.94%
75^th Percentile	£538	£538	£594
90^th Percentile	£625	£675	£675
UK excluding London median daily rate	£380	£375	£403
% change year-on-year	+1.33%	-6.83%	+7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	552	169	27
10^th Percentile	£13.25	£13.00	£13.25
25^th Percentile	£14.04	£15.74	£14.07
Median hourly rate	£17.19	£20.00	£22.56
Median % change year-on-year	-14.08%	-11.35%	-17.21%
75^th Percentile	£43.96	£31.41	£29.38
90^th Percentile	-	£45.80	£51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£18.50	£22.56
% change year-on-year	-8.11%	-18.00%	+7.17%

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 citing general skills.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing general skills	32,193	22,264	21,598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	58.30%	63.05%	59.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	18,665	13,934	12,743
10^th Percentile	£313	£270	£290
25^th Percentile	£420	£400	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£649
90^th Percentile	£738	£738	£750
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£481
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-1.14%	-3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,146	1,444	811
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£13.80	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£15.39	£16.66	£17.10
Median hourly rate	£26.52	£24.09	£29.50
Median % change year-on-year	+10.09%	-18.34%	-4.30%
75^th Percentile	£54.40	£44.84	£55.00
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£68.48	£70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.75	£22.00	£27.13
% change year-on-year	+17.05%	-18.89%	-1.36%

Organisational Skills Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Organisational Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Organisational Skills Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Organisational Skills.

Organisational Skills Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Organisational Skills.

Organisational Skills Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Organisational Skills in the UK

Organisational Skills Top 17 Contract Job 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 15 November 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+55	1,483	£400	-9.60%	1,464
UK excluding London	+37	1,185	£380	+1.33%	1,069
Work from Home	+64	474	£413	-2.94%	553
London	+41	453	£443	-6.84%	429
South East	+5	287	£400	-11.11%	286
North of England	+54	280	£400	-9.09%	250
Midlands	+58	218	£389	+7.17%	201
North West	+25	141	£483	+17.09%	135
West Midlands	+38	137	£447	+23.31%	130
Scotland	+45	121	£425	+13.33%	61
South West	+2	120	£225	-0.55%	111
East of England	+13	110	£369	-33.32%	121
Yorkshire	+42	104	£365	-17.05%	78
East Midlands	+23	80	£217	-27.30%	72
Wales	+6	37	£72	-70.00%	25
North East	-4	35	£400	-15.34%	39
Northern Ireland	+9	26	£203	-42.14%	36

Organisational Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Organisational Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Organisational Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	33.8%	591
2	Stakeholder Management	26.9%	471
3	Problem-Solving	22.8%	398
4	Microsoft Excel	21.2%	371
5	Microsoft Office	19.2%	336
6	Customer Service	19.0%	332
7	Continuous Improvement	17.8%	311
8	Security Cleared	15.2%	265
9	Project Management	13.1%	229
10	Agile	12.4%	217
11	Project Delivery	12.3%	215
12	Stakeholder Engagement	12.1%	212
13	SC Cleared	10.3%	180
14	Degree	10.2%	179
15	PMO	9.1%	160
16	Time Management	8.8%	154
17	BPSS Clearance	8.6%	151
18	Decision-Making	7.8%	136
18	Microsoft PowerPoint	7.8%	136
20	SharePoint	7.7%	135
21	AI	7.3%	127
22	Collaborative Working	6.9%	121
23	JIRA	6.5%	113
24	Change Management	6.2%	108
25	Data Protection	6.1%	106
26	Migration	5.9%	104
26	Risk Management	5.9%	104
28	Service Delivery	5.9%	103
29	Data Entry	5.8%	102
30	Process Improvement	5.7%	100

Organisational Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	71.6%	1,253
2	Finance	30.3%	530
3	Analytical Skills	17.7%	309
4	Legal	10.9%	190
5	Public Sector	8.5%	149
6	Retail	5.0%	87
7	Manufacturing	4.9%	85
8	Marketing	4.4%	77
9	Banking	4.1%	71
10	Documentation Skills	3.6%	63
11	Influencing Skills	3.3%	58
12	Aerospace	3.0%	53
13	Local Government	2.7%	48
14	Inclusion and Diversity	2.7%	47
15	Aviation	2.2%	39
16	Telecoms	2.1%	37
17	Presentation Skills	2.0%	35
18	Advertising	1.5%	27
19	Military	1.3%	22
20	Financial Institution	1.0%	18