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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 136 158
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,027 670 673
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.06% 1.57%
As % of the General category 3.57% 3.28% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 344 389
10th Percentile £178 £187 £149
25th Percentile £270 £306 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £520
90th Percentile £638 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £391
% change year-on-year +7.38% -4.61% -8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 70 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.59 £13.99
Median hourly rate £20.09 £18.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -15.92% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.24 £38.12
90th Percentile - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.85 £19.97 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.61% -7.12% +2.53%

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 28,784 20,447 24,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.71% 63.01% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,221 12,834 15,299
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 1,047 1,882
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.31 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £26.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.53% -19.44% +7.71%
75th Percentile £62.94 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.24 £70.06 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.63 £32.12
% change year-on-year +45.82% -29.53% +23.52%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +1 911 £450 - 1,049
UK excluding London -24 614 £400 +7.38% 926
London +33 364 £450 -14.29% 272
Work from Home +30 326 £450 -5.26% 521
North of England +6 155 £450 +20.00% 217
South East -56 139 £450 +12.50% 302
South West +32 103 £310 -0.96% 75
Midlands -42 89 £350 +7.69% 173
Yorkshire -6 71 £382 -4.50% 66
North West -15 63 £508 +45.07% 122
West Midlands -56 63 £350 +7.69% 89
Scotland -8 53 £425 -3.52% 48
East of England -2 50 £415 +84.44% 93
East Midlands -11 25 £275 -10.71% 83
North East -23 21 £450 +5.88% 32
Northern Ireland +10 16 £313 -7.06% 22
Wales -11 12 - - 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 69 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.41%) Confluence
3 25 (2.43%) CMS
4 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.68%) WordPress
6 5 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.49%) Drupal
7 2 (0.19%) Apache
7 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.097%) Camunda
8 1 (0.097%) CICS
8 1 (0.097%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.097%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.097%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 197 (19.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (12.85%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.39%) InDesign
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.29%) Trello
10 1 (0.097%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.097%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.097%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Magento
2 8 (0.78%) Loan IQ
2 8 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.39%) HFM
4 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Primavera
6 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.097%) Actimize
7 1 (0.097%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.097%) TrackWise
7 1 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 101 (9.83%) Azure
2 78 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (5.55%) Power Platform
4 54 (5.26%) AWS
5 37 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.34%) SaaS
7 21 (2.04%) GCP
8 18 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 13 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.17%) OCI
11 11 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 9 (0.88%) Google Sheets
12 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (0.78%) GitHub
14 7 (0.68%) Slack
15 6 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.58%) OpenShift
15 6 (0.58%) Serverless
16 5 (0.49%) Google Analytics
16 5 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.04%) LAN
2 13 (1.27%) DNS
3 12 (1.17%) Firewall
3 12 (1.17%) Network Security
4 11 (1.07%) VPN
4 11 (1.07%) WAN
5 8 (0.78%) MPLS
6 7 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.68%) VLAN
6 7 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.58%) DHCP
8 5 (0.49%) Intranet
8 5 (0.49%) Skype
8 5 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.39%) SMS
10 3 (0.29%) Broadband
10 3 (0.29%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.55%) Power BI
2 15 (1.46%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.88%) Tableau
5 7 (0.68%) GIS
5 7 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.58%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.29%) MS Access
7 3 (0.29%) MySQL
7 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.29%) Power Query
7 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.19%) Big Data
8 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.19%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 89 (8.67%) JIRA
2 24 (2.34%) Git
3 23 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.88%) JMeter
4 9 (0.88%) JUnit
4 9 (0.88%) Selenium
4 9 (0.88%) WebDriver
5 7 (0.68%) Subversion
6 5 (0.49%) GitLab
7 4 (0.39%) Gradle
8 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.19%) Vite
10 1 (0.097%) Hudson
10 1 (0.097%) MSI
10 1 (0.097%) Postman
General
1 664 (64.65%) Social Skills
2 332 (32.33%) Finance
3 195 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.81%) Legal
5 103 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.84%) Retail
7 57 (5.55%) Marketing
8 54 (5.26%) Banking
9 32 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.04%) Local Government
13 21 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.95%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.75%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.56%) Military
17 12 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.07%) Billing
Job Titles
1 144 (14.02%) Analyst
2 105 (10.22%) Project Manager
3 73 (7.11%) Administrator
4 66 (6.43%) Lead
5 63 (6.13%) Senior
6 62 (6.04%) Support Officer
7 52 (5.06%) Coordinator
8 44 (4.28%) Project Officer
9 41 (3.99%) Project Support Officer
10 40 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 33 (3.21%) IT Support
12 28 (2.73%) Project Coordinator
13 25 (2.43%) Junior
14 24 (2.34%) IT Manager
14 24 (2.34%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
15 23 (2.24%) Technical Support
16 22 (2.14%) Consultant
16 22 (2.14%) Support Engineer
17 19 (1.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.95%) HTML
2 15 (1.46%) CSS
3 14 (1.36%) Spring
4 13 (1.27%) VML
5 12 (1.17%) XML
6 9 (0.88%) Middleware
6 9 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.88%) WireMock
7 8 (0.78%) Kafka
8 7 (0.68%) React
9 6 (0.58%) .NET
9 6 (0.58%) Redux
10 5 (0.49%) REST
10 5 (0.49%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.39%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.39%) JSON
11 4 (0.39%) JWT
11 4 (0.39%) Web Services
12 3 (0.29%) OAuth
12 3 (0.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 99 (9.64%) Onboarding
2 54 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 52 (5.06%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.87%) Web Conferencing
5 44 (4.28%) Podcast
6 34 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.36%) Learning Management System
10 14 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.07%) Driving Licence
12 11 (1.07%) e-Learning
12 11 (1.07%) NHS
13 10 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
14 9 (0.88%) Social Media
15 8 (0.78%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.28%) Windows
2 18 (1.75%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.97%) Linux
3 10 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
6 1 (0.097%) Android
6 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) CentOS
6 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 218 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
3 205 (19.96%) Project Management
4 186 (18.11%) Agile
5 184 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 146 (14.22%) Project Delivery
7 136 (13.24%) Customer Service
8 131 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 115 (11.20%) Decision-Making
10 105 (10.22%) Time Management
11 103 (10.03%) AI
12 80 (7.79%) ITIL
13 70 (6.82%) Migration
14 68 (6.62%) PRINCE2
15 65 (6.33%) Logistics
16 64 (6.23%) Collaborative Working
16 64 (6.23%) Data Protection
17 63 (6.13%) Risk Management
18 62 (6.04%) DevOps
19 61 (5.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (4.09%) SQL
2 17 (1.66%) Python
3 14 (1.36%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.78%) C#
4 8 (0.78%) Java
5 7 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.29%) Bash
8 2 (0.19%) Korn
8 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.19%) VBA
9 1 (0.097%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.097%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.097%) COBOL
9 1 (0.097%) Groovy
9 1 (0.097%) PHP
9 1 (0.097%) R
9 1 (0.097%) REXX
Qualifications
1 153 (14.90%) Degree
2 123 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 94 (9.15%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.12%) PMP
6 29 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 23 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 16 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 15 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.07%) CISSP
12 8 (0.78%) A+ Certification
12 8 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.68%) CIMA
13 7 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.58%) ACCA
15 5 (0.49%) CISM
15 5 (0.49%) CSPO
15 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.39%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (10.71%) PMO
2 45 (4.38%) QA
3 42 (4.09%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.02%) GDPR
5 28 (2.73%) SLA
6 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.07%) GRC
8 11 (1.07%) NIST
9 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.68%) IFRS
11 6 (0.58%) GAAP
11 6 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.58%) SEPA
12 4 (0.39%) NCSC
12 4 (0.39%) PSD2
12 4 (0.39%) WCAG
13 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 50 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.46%) Docker
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.097%) Samba
6 1 (0.097%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.07%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.97%) Grafana
5 9 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.78%) Terraform
7 5 (0.49%) Ansible
7 5 (0.49%) ServiceCenter
8 4 (0.39%) Control-M
9 3 (0.29%) Packer
9 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.19%) OPNET
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.097%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.097%) Kibana
11 1 (0.097%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.097%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.097%) WSUS
Vendors
1 268 (26.10%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 45 (4.38%) SAP
4 43 (4.19%) Oracle
5 40 (3.89%) Google
6 26 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.24%) Cisco
8 15 (1.46%) Adobe
9 11 (1.07%) SolarWinds
10 10 (0.97%) Apple
11 8 (0.78%) Workday
12 7 (0.68%) Braze
12 7 (0.68%) HP
12 7 (0.68%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.58%) Dell
13 6 (0.58%) VMware
14 5 (0.49%) Aruba
14 5 (0.49%) Citrix
14 5 (0.49%) Remedy