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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 134 184
Rank change year-on-year +20 +50 -15
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,253 679 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.32% 2.09% 1.38%
As % of the General category 4.20% 3.28% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 335 312
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £289 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £539
90th Percentile £617 £695 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £415
% change year-on-year +7.38% -10.24% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 93 47
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £12.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.08 £18.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +28.22% -52.78% +73.47%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £40.55 £41.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +66.67% -52.78% +81.65%

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 29,820 20,685 21,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.26% 63.59% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 12,817 13,410
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 2,319 1,170 1,158
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.76 £16.08 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.73 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.19% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.46 £21.47 £38.12
% change year-on-year +46.56% -43.69% +46.90%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +15 1,063 £400 -5.88% 1,634
UK excluding London +12 799 £400 +7.38% 1,390
Work from Home +80 422 £410 -6.71% 504
London +20 380 £450 -5.26% 458
North of England +21 198 £400 -7.51% 312
South East -34 177 £436 +15.56% 422
Midlands -10 130 £403 +34.25% 255
South West +29 107 £300 -23.08% 142
North West -12 88 £484 +17.33% 173
Scotland +21 87 £418 +4.38% 64
West Midlands -15 83 £436 +45.42% 148
Yorkshire +10 78 £365 -13.10% 91
East of England -4 61 £350 -22.22% 145
East Midlands -5 45 £275 -12.00% 107
North East -12 32 £488 +3.17% 54
Northern Ireland +20 29 £258 -30.87% 35
Wales -14 17 - - 38

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 90 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.19%) Confluence
3 29 (2.31%) CMS
4 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.56%) Drupal
6 6 (0.48%) WordPress
7 5 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.080%) Apache
10 1 (0.080%) Camunda
10 1 (0.080%) CICS
10 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.080%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 265 (21.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 217 (17.32%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.32%) InDesign
10 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.16%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.16%) Revit
10 2 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.080%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (1.04%) Magento
2 7 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.32%) HFM
4 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.24%) Shopify
5 3 (0.24%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.16%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.080%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.080%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.080%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (6.70%) Azure
3 70 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 59 (4.71%) AWS
5 29 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (1.44%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.36%) SaaS
9 16 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.12%) GCP
12 12 (0.96%) Google Sheets
13 10 (0.80%) OpenShift
14 8 (0.64%) Slack
15 7 (0.56%) Miro
16 6 (0.48%) GitHub
16 6 (0.48%) Google Analytics
16 6 (0.48%) Power Automate
17 5 (0.40%) OneDrive
17 5 (0.40%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.84%) LAN
2 15 (1.20%) WAN
3 12 (0.96%) Network Security
4 11 (0.88%) Firewall
5 10 (0.80%) DNS
6 9 (0.72%) MPLS
7 7 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (0.40%) Intranet
8 5 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.40%) VLAN
8 5 (0.40%) VPN
9 4 (0.32%) Broadband
9 4 (0.32%) DHCP
9 4 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.24%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.24%) VoIP
11 2 (0.16%) SDH
11 2 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.51%) Power BI
2 14 (1.12%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 8 (0.64%) Tableau
5 7 (0.56%) Power Query
6 6 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.40%) Metadata
8 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.16%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.16%) MS Access
10 2 (0.16%) MySQL
10 2 (0.16%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.080%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.080%) OLTP
11 1 (0.080%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (7.26%) JIRA
2 27 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.52%) Git
4 8 (0.64%) Subversion
5 7 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.56%) Gradle
6 5 (0.40%) JUnit
6 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.32%) Maven
7 4 (0.32%) Mockito
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.24%) GitLab
8 3 (0.24%) Selenium
8 3 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.16%) JMeter
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 879 (70.15%) Social Skills
2 435 (34.72%) Finance
3 242 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (14.05%) Legal
5 142 (11.33%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.27%) Retail
7 57 (4.55%) Marketing
8 53 (4.23%) Banking
9 44 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.51%) Local Government
10 41 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 32 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.60%) Military
16 17 (1.36%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.04%) Aviation
17 13 (1.04%) Publishing
18 12 (0.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 152 (12.13%) Analyst
2 127 (10.14%) Administrator
3 98 (7.82%) Project Manager
4 71 (5.67%) Coordinator
4 71 (5.67%) Lead
4 71 (5.67%) Support Officer
5 55 (4.39%) Senior
6 51 (4.07%) Project Officer
7 45 (3.59%) Project Support Officer
8 37 (2.95%) Business Analyst
9 30 (2.39%) Project Coordinator
10 29 (2.31%) IT Support
11 27 (2.15%) IT Manager
11 27 (2.15%) Support Engineer
12 24 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (1.92%) Junior
13 22 (1.76%) Programme Manager
14 21 (1.68%) Test Manager
15 20 (1.60%) Developer
15 20 (1.60%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.60%) HTML
2 15 (1.20%) CSS
3 13 (1.04%) REST
3 13 (1.04%) VML
4 12 (0.96%) Spring
5 11 (0.88%) Hibernate
5 11 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (0.88%) Spring Boot
6 10 (0.80%) Middleware
7 9 (0.72%) Kafka
7 9 (0.72%) React
7 9 (0.72%) Redux
7 9 (0.72%) XML
8 7 (0.56%) Terraform
9 6 (0.48%) .NET
9 6 (0.48%) Web Services
10 5 (0.40%) SOAP
11 4 (0.32%) ADO
11 4 (0.32%) JPA
11 4 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 127 (10.14%) Onboarding
2 119 (9.50%) Virtual Team
3 115 (9.18%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.78%) Podcast
5 75 (5.99%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.71%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.76%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.36%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.12%) e-Learning
11 14 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
13 11 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.80%) Blog
14 10 (0.80%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.91%) Windows
2 16 (1.28%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.80%) Linux
3 10 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 2 (0.16%) zOS
7 1 (0.080%) Android
7 1 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.080%) Unix
7 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (27.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 265 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
3 228 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 218 (17.40%) Agile
5 216 (17.24%) Customer Service
6 202 (16.12%) Project Management
7 166 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 164 (13.09%) Project Delivery
9 122 (9.74%) Decision-Making
10 108 (8.62%) AI
11 93 (7.42%) Time Management
12 90 (7.18%) PRINCE2
13 87 (6.94%) ITIL
13 87 (6.94%) Service Delivery
14 84 (6.70%) Change Management
15 83 (6.62%) Migration
16 77 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
17 76 (6.07%) Logistics
18 74 (5.91%) Data Protection
18 74 (5.91%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (3.43%) SQL
2 22 (1.76%) Python
3 17 (1.36%) Java
4 13 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.64%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.48%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.24%) R
8 3 (0.24%) VBA
9 2 (0.16%) Bash
9 2 (0.16%) C#
9 2 (0.16%) Korn
10 1 (0.080%) COBOL
10 1 (0.080%) Groovy
10 1 (0.080%) Perl
10 1 (0.080%) PHP
10 1 (0.080%) REXX
Qualifications
1 177 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 162 (12.93%) Degree
3 136 (10.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 127 (10.14%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 28 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.23%) PMP
8 20 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (0.88%) CISSP
10 10 (0.80%) HNC
11 9 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.64%) CIPD
12 8 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.56%) CISM
13 7 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.48%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.48%) ACCA
14 6 (0.48%) CIMA
14 6 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.01%) PMO
2 61 (4.87%) QA
3 58 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.95%) GDPR
5 28 (2.23%) SLA
6 25 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.96%) GRC
9 10 (0.80%) NIST
10 7 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.48%) WCAG
12 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.40%) COBIT
12 5 (0.40%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) IFRS
14 3 (0.24%) GMP
14 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.24%) P3O
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 42 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.72%) Docker
3 8 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.080%) GPFS
6 1 (0.080%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.080%) NFS
6 1 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.56%) Control-M
5 6 (0.48%) Ansible
6 5 (0.40%) Grafana
6 5 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.40%) SCCM
6 5 (0.40%) WSUS
7 3 (0.24%) Packer
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) OPNET
8 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.080%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.080%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.080%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 388 (30.97%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.71%) SAP
3 52 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 44 (3.51%) Oracle
5 41 (3.27%) Google
6 29 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.76%) Cisco
8 15 (1.20%) Adobe
9 13 (1.04%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.88%) VMware
10 11 (0.88%) Workday
11 10 (0.80%) Apple
12 8 (0.64%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.56%) Braze
13 7 (0.56%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.40%) Aruba
14 5 (0.40%) Databricks
14 5 (0.40%) Xero
15 4 (0.32%) Civica
15 4 (0.32%) Concur