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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 164 121
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 +85
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 918 492 873
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 1.65% 1.95%
As % of the General category 3.78% 2.64% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 309 422
10th Percentile £152 £195 £201
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £641 £703 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £392
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.11% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 32 154
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.09 £11.85
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.70 £13.99
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.92 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +10.64% -33.33%
75th Percentile £24.74 £28.38 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £31.84 £38.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £21.25 £15.40
% change year-on-year -12.94% +37.99% -42.39%

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,278 18,615 26,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 62.56% 58.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,215 11,713 16,724
10th Percentile £300 £290 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,481 657 1,815
10th Percentile £13.57 £15.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.12 £15.35
Median hourly rate £24.03 £29.23 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% +13.69% -19.66%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £27.44 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.88% +9.77% -5.87%

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 job vacancy trend in the UK

Organisational Skills
Daily Rate Trend

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

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 9 March 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.

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

Organisational Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 9 March 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 9 March 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 819 £425 -15.00% 664
UK excluding London +28 591 £375 -6.25% 632
London +30 274 £475 -11.63% 138
Work from Home +23 226 £475 -9.52% 281
South East +13 140 £459 +15.35% 220
North of England -3 112 £450 +26.05% 122
Midlands -8 102 £300 -33.33% 109
East of England +27 90 £210 -56.92% 82
South West +19 88 £225 -55.00% 71
West Midlands -18 68 £356 -20.83% 70
North West -1 51 £453 +34.42% 67
Yorkshire -27 51 £446 +22.19% 38
Scotland -13 37 £410 +9.33% 28
East Midlands -7 34 £200 -50.31% 38
Wales -2 15 £219 +21.53% 19
Northern Ireland +6 12 £600 +14.29% 3
North East -7 10 £450 -23.40% 19

Organisational Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 71 (7.73%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.92%) Confluence
3 13 (1.42%) CMS
4 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) SAS
7 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 171 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (14.60%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (4.36%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.31%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.54%) InDesign
7 5 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) CATIA
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.44%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.44%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.22%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.22%) Workfront
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 81 (8.82%) Azure
2 66 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (4.25%) Power Platform
4 29 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (2.83%) AWS
5 26 (2.83%) Google Workspace
6 18 (1.96%) SaaS
7 11 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.09%) GCP
9 9 (0.98%) GitHub
10 8 (0.87%) OCI
11 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.44%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.29%) VPN
2 12 (1.31%) LAN
3 10 (1.09%) DNS
3 10 (1.09%) Skype
4 8 (0.87%) WAN
4 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.76%) DHCP
5 7 (0.76%) Firewall
5 7 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.65%) Internet
6 6 (0.65%) Network Security
7 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) Intranet
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.22%) SAN
9 2 (0.22%) SMS
10 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.03%) Power BI
2 11 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.76%) GIS
3 7 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (0.65%) Metadata
4 6 (0.65%) MySQL
4 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.33%) Tick Data
7 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.22%) MS Access
7 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (8.93%) JIRA
2 15 (1.63%) Git
3 11 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.98%) JUnit
5 8 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.87%) JMeter
5 8 (0.87%) Selenium
5 8 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Maven
6 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.11%) MSI
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 579 (63.07%) Social Skills
2 240 (26.14%) Finance
3 142 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 54 (5.88%) Marketing
6 49 (5.34%) Banking
7 47 (5.12%) Legal
8 30 (3.27%) Retail
9 29 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.53%) Electronics
14 13 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.31%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.20%) Billing
17 10 (1.09%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.98%) Advertising
18 9 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (12.75%) Analyst
2 102 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 68 (7.41%) IT Support
4 54 (5.88%) Lead
4 54 (5.88%) Senior
5 52 (5.66%) Support Officer
6 51 (5.56%) Administrator
6 51 (5.56%) Break Fix Engineer
6 51 (5.56%) Coordinator
7 43 (4.68%) Technical Support
8 38 (4.14%) Hardware Engineer
9 37 (4.03%) Junior
10 32 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.38%) Consultant
12 29 (3.16%) Support Engineer
13 26 (2.83%) Project Officer
14 25 (2.72%) Project Coordinator
14 25 (2.72%) Project Support Officer
15 23 (2.51%) 1st Line Support
15 23 (2.51%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.63%) Spring
2 10 (1.09%) HTML
3 8 (0.87%) VML
3 8 (0.87%) WireMock
4 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.65%) REST
5 6 (0.65%) XML
6 5 (0.54%) ADO
6 5 (0.54%) CSS
6 5 (0.54%) Middleware
7 4 (0.44%) JSON
8 3 (0.33%) JWT
8 3 (0.33%) Kafka
8 3 (0.33%) OAuth
8 3 (0.33%) SOAP
9 2 (0.22%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.22%) Node.js
9 2 (0.22%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 46 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.16%) NHS
3 29 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 17 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.53%) Social Media
10 13 (1.42%) Insider Threat
11 12 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.31%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.87%) Tandem
13 7 (0.76%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.65%) Blog
14 6 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.59%) Windows
2 28 (3.05%) Windows 10
3 25 (2.72%) Linux
4 8 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Unix
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
1 210 (22.88%) Time Management
2 199 (21.68%) Project Management
3 153 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 143 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 129 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 118 (12.85%) Project Delivery
7 109 (11.87%) Agile
8 82 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 75 (8.17%) Decision-Making
10 74 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
11 69 (7.52%) Migration
12 63 (6.86%) ITIL
13 57 (6.21%) PRINCE2
14 55 (5.99%) Asset Management
15 54 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (5.77%) Data Protection
17 51 (5.56%) Risk Management
18 48 (5.23%) AI
19 46 (5.01%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.70%) SQL
2 21 (2.29%) Python
3 12 (1.31%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.76%) C#
4 7 (0.76%) Java
4 7 (0.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.22%) Bash
5 2 (0.22%) Korn
5 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.11%) PHP
6 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 121 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.87%) Degree
4 32 (3.49%) PMP
5 24 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.18%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.53%) APMP
9 14 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
9 14 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 7 (0.76%) CISSP
12 5 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) HND
13 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.33%) HNC
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.61%) PMO
2 34 (3.70%) QA
3 33 (3.59%) SLA
4 26 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.07%) GDPR
7 13 (1.42%) GRC
8 10 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.09%) NIST
9 9 (0.98%) Def Stans
9 9 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.54%) SEPA
13 4 (0.44%) GAAP
13 4 (0.44%) IFRS
13 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.09%) Grafana
3 10 (1.09%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.44%) SCCM
6 3 (0.33%) Ansible
6 3 (0.33%) Terraform
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 250 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.97%) HP
3 57 (6.21%) SAP
4 52 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.72%) Google
6 23 (2.51%) Oracle
7 22 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.63%) Citrix
9 14 (1.53%) Adobe
9 14 (1.53%) Cisco
9 14 (1.53%) Dell
10 13 (1.42%) Apple
11 12 (1.31%) Remedy
12 6 (0.65%) Datto
12 6 (0.65%) Workday
13 5 (0.54%) Computacenter
13 5 (0.54%) VMware
14 4 (0.44%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.44%) ESRI
14 4 (0.44%) Sitecore