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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 136 179
Rank change year-on-year +32 +43 -12
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,329 694 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.44% 2.10% 1.40%
As % of the General category 4.38% 3.30% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 340 316
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £298 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +3.87%
75th Percentile £538 £557 £538
90th Percentile £609 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £358 £400
% change year-on-year +10.34% -10.50% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 104 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.84 £19.31
Median hourly rate £20.88 £19.97 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.54% -47.61% +81.09%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.94 -
90th Percentile - £39.63 £47.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.31% -52.78% +81.78%

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 30,354 21,013 22,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.64% 63.65% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,834 13,015 13,481
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,461 1,201 1,144
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.59
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £53.87 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.25% -42.96% +44.23%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +14 1,126 £400 -5.88% 1,651
UK excluding London +8 862 £395 +10.34% 1,396
Work from Home +77 434 £406 +1.59% 449
London +27 389 £450 -7.69% 440
North of England +22 207 £381 -10.35% 294
South East -27 191 £436 +16.33% 422
Midlands +2 148 £389 +24.32% 271
South West +20 112 £288 -24.84% 143
North West +3 96 £472 +25.73% 145
Scotland +36 93 £410 +2.50% 69
West Midlands -8 93 £425 +38.78% 146
Yorkshire +10 78 £365 -13.10% 107
East of England +5 70 £388 -13.89% 160
East Midlands +2 53 £275 -31.25% 125
North East -16 33 £450 -4.76% 48
Northern Ireland +17 30 £258 -28.72% 20
Wales -13 20 - - 42

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 96 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.31%) Confluence
3 30 (2.26%) CMS
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.60%) WordPress
6 7 (0.53%) Drupal
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.075%) Apache
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) CICS
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 293 (22.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (17.98%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (4.97%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.30%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Magento
2 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) HFM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) Primavera
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.075%) iTrent
7 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.075%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.40%) Azure
3 71 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.59%) AWS
5 29 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.43%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.28%) SaaS
9 16 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.13%) Google Sheets
10 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.05%) GCP
12 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.60%) Miro
13 8 (0.60%) Slack
14 7 (0.53%) Canva
15 6 (0.45%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.45%) Smartsheet
16 5 (0.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.81%) LAN
2 16 (1.20%) WAN
3 12 (0.90%) Firewall
3 12 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.75%) DNS
5 9 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.38%) VLAN
7 5 (0.38%) VPN
8 4 (0.30%) Broadband
8 4 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.23%) Intranet
9 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.23%) VoIP
9 3 (0.23%) Wireless
10 2 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.27%) Power BI
2 12 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 10 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.60%) Tableau
6 7 (0.53%) Power Query
7 5 (0.38%) Metadata
8 4 (0.30%) MS Access
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 2 (0.15%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.075%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.075%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (7.52%) JIRA
2 28 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.58%) Git
4 8 (0.60%) Subversion
5 7 (0.53%) Gradle
5 7 (0.53%) JUnit
6 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.45%) Maven
6 6 (0.45%) Mockito
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 940 (70.73%) Social Skills
2 445 (33.48%) Finance
3 246 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (13.24%) Legal
5 149 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.42%) Retail
7 60 (4.51%) Marketing
8 53 (3.99%) Banking
9 45 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (3.24%) Local Government
10 43 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.66%) Military
15 16 (1.20%) Aviation
15 16 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 160 (12.04%) Administrator
2 155 (11.66%) Analyst
3 102 (7.67%) Project Manager
4 83 (6.25%) Coordinator
5 74 (5.57%) Lead
5 74 (5.57%) Support Officer
6 57 (4.29%) Senior
7 52 (3.91%) Project Officer
8 46 (3.46%) Project Support Officer
9 36 (2.71%) Business Analyst
10 34 (2.56%) Project Coordinator
11 29 (2.18%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.03%) IT Support
12 27 (2.03%) Support Engineer
13 25 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (1.73%) Junior
15 22 (1.66%) Developer
15 22 (1.66%) Programme Manager
16 20 (1.50%) PMO Analyst
16 20 (1.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.43%) HTML
2 15 (1.13%) CSS
2 15 (1.13%) REST
3 14 (1.05%) Spring
4 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.98%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.90%) VML
6 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.68%) Kafka
7 9 (0.68%) Middleware
7 9 (0.68%) React
7 9 (0.68%) Redux
8 8 (0.60%) Terraform
8 8 (0.60%) Web Services
9 7 (0.53%) SOAP
9 7 (0.53%) XML
10 6 (0.45%) .NET
10 6 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.31%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.95%) Virtual Team
3 115 (8.65%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.28%) Podcast
5 87 (6.55%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (2.11%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.28%) Learning Management System
11 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.13%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
13 14 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.90%) Social Media
16 11 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
17 10 (0.75%) Blog
17 10 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.72%) Windows
2 16 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.75%) Linux
3 10 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.075%) Android
7 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.075%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (27.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 283 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
3 246 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 230 (17.31%) Customer Service
5 220 (16.55%) Agile
6 208 (15.65%) Project Management
7 169 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 166 (12.49%) Project Delivery
9 129 (9.71%) Decision-Making
10 115 (8.65%) AI
11 111 (8.35%) Time Management
12 92 (6.92%) PRINCE2
13 89 (6.70%) Change Management
14 88 (6.62%) ITIL
14 88 (6.62%) Service Delivery
15 86 (6.47%) Logistics
16 84 (6.32%) Migration
17 81 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
18 78 (5.87%) Data Protection
19 75 (5.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (2.93%) SQL
2 22 (1.66%) Python
3 19 (1.43%) Java
4 14 (1.05%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 8 (0.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.23%) R
7 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.23%) VBA
8 2 (0.15%) Bash
8 2 (0.15%) C#
8 2 (0.15%) Korn
9 1 (0.075%) COBOL
9 1 (0.075%) Groovy
9 1 (0.075%) Perl
9 1 (0.075%) PHP
9 1 (0.075%) REXX
Qualifications
1 184 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.49%) Degree
3 142 (10.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 133 (10.01%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.41%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.18%) PMP
9 20 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.83%) CISSP
10 11 (0.83%) HNC
11 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIPD
12 8 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.53%) CISM
13 7 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) ACCA
14 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.76%) PMO
2 63 (4.74%) QA
3 62 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.24%) GDPR
5 26 (1.96%) SLA
6 23 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.83%) NIST
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.45%) NCSC
12 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.38%) COBIT
12 5 (0.38%) WCAG
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) P3O
14 3 (0.23%) COSHH
14 3 (0.23%) GMP
14 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 42 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 8 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.075%) GPFS
6 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.075%) NFS
6 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.53%) Control-M
4 7 (0.53%) Grafana
4 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
5 6 (0.45%) SCCM
6 5 (0.38%) WSUS
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.075%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 417 (31.38%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.59%) SAP
3 52 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.54%) Oracle
5 45 (3.39%) Google
6 29 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.66%) Cisco
8 14 (1.05%) Adobe
9 13 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.83%) VMware
10 11 (0.83%) Workday
11 10 (0.75%) Apple
12 8 (0.60%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.53%) Braze
13 7 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.38%) Aruba
14 5 (0.38%) Databricks
14 5 (0.38%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.38%) Xero
15 4 (0.30%) Civica