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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 132 146
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +46
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 903 602 711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.09% 1.66%
As % of the General category 3.43% 3.30% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 313 406
10th Percentile £163 £194 £164
25th Percentile £250 £306 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -5.61%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £529
90th Percentile £625 £725 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.64% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 56 147
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £13.50 £13.95
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.67 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -9.18% -17.66%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.98 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.82 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.35 £19.16 £18.35
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.39% -12.56%

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 26,317 18,236 24,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.80% 63.42% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,939 11,561 15,577
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,743 807 1,967
10th Percentile £13.76 £13.50 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.79 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.28 £28.13
% change year-on-year +19.46% -13.69% +2.27%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +2 816 £425 -9.57% 623
UK excluding London -23 556 £400 +6.67% 561
London +14 309 £450 -18.18% 151
Work from Home +24 235 £450 -9.32% 233
North of England -16 117 £425 +9.68% 119
South East -51 116 £450 +18.42% 205
Midlands -32 97 £280 -17.04% 94
South West +25 92 £310 -38.10% 48
East of England +16 77 £200 -50.00% 74
West Midlands -53 60 £350 +9.80% 42
Yorkshire -16 58 £411 +2.81% 47
North West -13 50 £438 +22.21% 65
Scotland -14 40 £400 +6.67% 16
East Midlands -9 36 £200 -48.85% 51
Wales -11 11 £213 -35.83% 11
North East -25 9 £450 - 9
Northern Ireland +6 8 £313 -16.11% 7

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 73 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.54%) Confluence
3 17 (1.88%) CMS
4 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.78%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) Drupal
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 176 (19.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (13.84%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.55%) InDesign
7 5 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.89%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.78%) Magento
4 6 (0.66%) Shopify
5 4 (0.44%) HFM
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.33%) Maximo
6 3 (0.33%) Primavera
6 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) iTrent
8 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (9.97%) Azure
2 81 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 34 (3.77%) AWS
5 32 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.33%) SaaS
7 20 (2.21%) Google Workspace
8 12 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.22%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.22%) GCP
9 11 (1.22%) OCI
10 9 (1.00%) Google Sheets
11 8 (0.89%) GitHub
12 6 (0.66%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.44%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.77%) VPN
2 12 (1.33%) LAN
3 11 (1.22%) DNS
4 9 (1.00%) Firewall
4 9 (1.00%) Skype
5 8 (0.89%) WAN
6 7 (0.78%) Intranet
6 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.66%) DHCP
7 6 (0.66%) Network Security
8 4 (0.44%) SMS
8 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 4 (0.44%) VoIP
9 3 (0.33%) MPLS
9 3 (0.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.65%) Power BI
2 16 (1.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (0.78%) GIS
4 7 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.55%) MySQL
6 5 (0.55%) Tableau
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Metadata
8 3 (0.33%) MS Access
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
9 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (8.31%) JIRA
2 19 (2.10%) Git
3 13 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.00%) JUnit
5 8 (0.89%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.89%) JMeter
5 8 (0.89%) Selenium
5 8 (0.89%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) GitLab
7 4 (0.44%) Subversion
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Vite
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 544 (60.24%) Social Skills
2 253 (28.02%) Finance
3 169 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 63 (6.98%) Legal
6 51 (5.65%) Marketing
7 50 (5.54%) Retail
8 48 (5.32%) Banking
9 28 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.10%) Local Government
13 18 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.77%) Military
15 14 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.11%) Advertising
16 10 (1.11%) Electronics
17 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 124 (13.73%) Analyst
2 112 (12.40%) Project Manager
3 67 (7.42%) Senior
4 62 (6.87%) Administrator
5 55 (6.09%) Support Officer
6 49 (5.43%) Lead
7 46 (5.09%) Coordinator
8 40 (4.43%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.43%) IT Support
9 37 (4.10%) Project Officer
10 36 (3.99%) Project Support Officer
11 34 (3.77%) Technical Support
12 33 (3.65%) Consultant
13 30 (3.32%) Senior Manager
13 30 (3.32%) Senior Project Manager
14 28 (3.10%) Hardware Engineer
15 27 (2.99%) Break Fix Engineer
15 27 (2.99%) Project Coordinator
16 23 (2.55%) Junior
17 22 (2.44%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.99%) HTML
2 17 (1.88%) VML
3 13 (1.44%) CSS
4 11 (1.22%) Spring
4 11 (1.22%) XML
5 10 (1.11%) Middleware
5 10 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.89%) WireMock
7 6 (0.66%) .NET
8 5 (0.55%) HTML5
8 5 (0.55%) JWT
8 5 (0.55%) REST
9 4 (0.44%) JSON
9 4 (0.44%) Kafka
9 4 (0.44%) OAuth
9 4 (0.44%) Web Services
10 3 (0.33%) ADO
10 3 (0.33%) Node.js
10 3 (0.33%) React
10 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 80 (8.86%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.54%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
4 24 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.10%) NHS
6 15 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.22%) Learning Management System
9 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.11%) Insider Threat
10 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (1.00%) Social Media
11 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.78%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.66%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.66%) Tandem
12 6 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 79 (8.75%) Windows
2 23 (2.55%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.33%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.11%) Linux
5 9 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
2 213 (23.59%) Project Management
3 178 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 149 (16.50%) Time Management
5 145 (16.06%) Agile
6 142 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 134 (14.84%) Project Delivery
8 125 (13.84%) Customer Service
9 104 (11.52%) Decision-Making
10 89 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 80 (8.86%) AI
12 71 (7.86%) Migration
13 68 (7.53%) ITIL
14 64 (7.09%) Collaborative Working
14 64 (7.09%) Data Protection
14 64 (7.09%) PRINCE2
15 58 (6.42%) Logistics
15 58 (6.42%) Programme Management
16 57 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (6.31%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.77%) SQL
2 17 (1.88%) Python
3 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
4 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.89%) C#
6 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.55%) Java
8 3 (0.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) PHP
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.11%) COBOL
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.11%) R
10 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 136 (15.06%) Degree
2 109 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 95 (10.52%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.77%) PMP
5 28 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.55%) APMP
10 12 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (0.89%) CISSP
14 7 (0.78%) CIMA
15 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.66%) ACCA
16 5 (0.55%) CSPO
17 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.52%) PMO
2 43 (4.76%) QA
3 34 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.43%) SLA
5 22 (2.44%) GDPR
6 19 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.00%) NIST
9 8 (0.89%) GRC
9 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.78%) IFRS
11 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.66%) SEPA
12 5 (0.55%) GAAP
13 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.44%) PSD2
13 4 (0.44%) WCAG
14 3 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 54 (5.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.44%) Docker
3 3 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Samba
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.11%) Grafana
3 10 (1.11%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.44%) Terraform
6 3 (0.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.22%) OPNET
7 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) WSUS
8 1 (0.11%) Ansible
8 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Packer
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 239 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.53%) ServiceNow
3 57 (6.31%) SAP
4 40 (4.43%) HP
5 35 (3.88%) Oracle
6 32 (3.54%) Google
7 22 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.21%) Cisco
9 16 (1.77%) Adobe
10 15 (1.66%) Apple
11 14 (1.55%) Dell
12 12 (1.33%) Remedy
13 11 (1.22%) Citrix
14 6 (0.66%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.55%) Concur
15 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
16 4 (0.44%) Hyperion
16 4 (0.44%) Tagetik
16 4 (0.44%) Workday