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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 155 119
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +71
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 919 553 810
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 1.88% 1.87%
As % of the General category 3.60% 2.97% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 337 417
10th Percentile £159 £195 £175
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £538
90th Percentile £616 £725 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £357 £400 £415
% change year-on-year -10.75% -3.61% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 37 156
10th Percentile £13.89 £13.05 £11.91
25th Percentile £15.72 £15.26 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £15.84 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -13.68% -29.42%
75th Percentile £24.38 £26.19 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.28 £32.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.09 £19.49 £18.00
% change year-on-year -7.20% +8.29% -28.00%

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 25,517 18,626 25,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.04% 63.21% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,795 11,902 15,982
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,615 782 1,919
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.42 £18.13 £15.41
Median hourly rate £28.25 £28.30 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -0.51% -18.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £26.28 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.42% -2.67% -14.65%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +13 828 £400 -20.00% 684
UK excluding London +10 579 £357 -10.75% 594
London +18 293 £475 -13.64% 168
Work from Home +39 246 £450 -14.29% 242
South East -23 137 £450 +38.46% 175
North of England -7 119 £435 +16.70% 142
Midlands -24 100 £293 -29.35% 107
East of England +23 89 £200 -56.76% 55
South West +9 80 £275 -45.00% 67
West Midlands -38 62 £338 +0.30% 54
Yorkshire -18 60 £400 +1.59% 44
North West -16 49 £438 +25.00% 80
Scotland -11 39 £400 -3.03% 27
East Midlands -11 38 £200 -50.31% 53
Wales -5 12 £213 -35.83% 15
North East -15 10 £450 -21.74% 19
Northern Ireland +4 6 £475 +18.75% 18

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 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.37%) Confluence
3 14 (1.52%) CMS
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.65%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
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
1 185 (20.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (13.06%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (7.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (5.01%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.65%) InDesign
7 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.33%) 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 10 (1.09%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.54%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (9.03%) Azure
3 59 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 32 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (3.05%) AWS
6 20 (2.18%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.07%) SaaS
8 11 (1.20%) GCP
9 10 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.98%) GitHub
10 9 (0.98%) OCI
11 6 (0.65%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.54%) BigCommerce
12 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.54%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.54%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.44%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.07%) VPN
2 12 (1.31%) LAN
3 10 (1.09%) DNS
3 10 (1.09%) Firewall
3 10 (1.09%) Skype
4 8 (0.87%) WAN
4 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.76%) Network Security
6 6 (0.65%) DHCP
6 6 (0.65%) Intranet
7 4 (0.44%) Internet
7 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.33%) SMS
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.20%) Power BI
2 15 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.76%) GIS
5 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.65%) Metadata
5 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.54%) MySQL
6 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (8.49%) JIRA
2 15 (1.63%) Git
3 10 (1.09%) 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 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) GitLab
8 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 554 (60.28%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.22%) Finance
3 158 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.31%) Legal
6 56 (6.09%) Marketing
7 49 (5.33%) Banking
8 42 (4.57%) Retail
9 30 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.63%) Military
13 13 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.20%) Advertising
15 11 (1.20%) Electronics
15 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.20%) Local Government
16 10 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 118 (12.84%) Analyst
2 105 (11.43%) Project Manager
3 63 (6.86%) Senior
4 60 (6.53%) Administrator
5 55 (5.98%) Support Officer
6 52 (5.66%) Coordinator
6 52 (5.66%) Lead
7 51 (5.55%) Break Fix Engineer
8 48 (5.22%) IT Support
9 40 (4.35%) Technical Support
10 37 (4.03%) Junior
11 36 (3.92%) Consultant
12 35 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 35 (3.81%) Hardware Engineer
12 35 (3.81%) Project Officer
13 33 (3.59%) Project Support Officer
14 28 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
15 25 (2.72%) Senior Manager
15 25 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
16 23 (2.50%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.74%) HTML
2 13 (1.41%) VML
3 12 (1.31%) Spring
4 11 (1.20%) CSS
4 11 (1.20%) XML
5 9 (0.98%) Middleware
6 8 (0.87%) WireMock
7 7 (0.76%) REST
8 6 (0.65%) ADO
8 6 (0.65%) JWT
8 6 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.54%) HTML5
9 5 (0.54%) JSON
10 4 (0.44%) OAuth
11 3 (0.33%) .NET
11 3 (0.33%) Kafka
11 3 (0.33%) Node.js
11 3 (0.33%) React
11 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
11 3 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.60%) Onboarding
2 35 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.39%) NHS
6 19 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.31%) Social Media
10 11 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.09%) Insider Threat
12 9 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.87%) Blog
13 8 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.87%) Learning Management System
13 8 (0.87%) Tandem
14 7 (0.76%) e-Learning
15 6 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.38%) Windows
2 24 (2.61%) Windows 10
3 15 (1.63%) Linux
4 10 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
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%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 206 (22.42%) Project Management
3 198 (21.55%) Time Management
4 152 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 139 (15.13%) Customer Service
6 130 (14.15%) Agile
7 129 (14.04%) Project Delivery
8 127 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (9.90%) Decision-Making
10 84 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 71 (7.73%) Migration
12 68 (7.40%) Data Protection
13 66 (7.18%) Collaborative Working
13 66 (7.18%) ITIL
14 62 (6.75%) AI
14 62 (6.75%) PRINCE2
15 61 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (5.88%) Analytics
17 52 (5.66%) Workflow
18 49 (5.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.03%) SQL
2 22 (2.39%) Python
3 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.87%) C#
5 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 5 (0.54%) Java
7 2 (0.22%) Bash
7 2 (0.22%) Korn
7 2 (0.22%) PHP
7 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.22%) VBA
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.11%) Groovy
8 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 124 (13.49%) Degree
2 114 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 103 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.70%) PMP
5 30 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.07%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.52%) APMP
10 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
12 10 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.98%) CISSP
14 5 (0.54%) CSPO
15 4 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.44%) CISA
15 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.33%) CISM
16 3 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.25%) PMO
2 38 (4.13%) QA
3 32 (3.48%) SLA
4 29 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.29%) GDPR
6 19 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 6 (0.65%) SEPA
11 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.44%) GAAP
12 4 (0.44%) IFRS
12 4 (0.44%) PSD2
13 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.41%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Samba
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.09%) Grafana
3 10 (1.09%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
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
Vendors
1 252 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.07%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.96%) HP
4 55 (5.98%) SAP
5 29 (3.16%) Google
6 25 (2.72%) Oracle
7 24 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.74%) Adobe
9 15 (1.63%) Cisco
10 14 (1.52%) Apple
10 14 (1.52%) Dell
11 12 (1.31%) Citrix
11 12 (1.31%) Remedy
12 8 (0.87%) Workday
13 5 (0.54%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.44%) ESRI
15 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.33%) Databricks
15 3 (0.33%) HubSpot
15 3 (0.33%) VMware