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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 166 126
Rank change year-on-year +45 -40 +94
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 875 491 867
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 1.58% 1.92%
As % of the General category 3.80% 2.55% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 286 422
10th Percentile £158 £198 £205
25th Percentile £210 £323 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £550
90th Percentile £659 £694 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £357 £406 £375
% change year-on-year -12.25% +8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 20 120
10th Percentile £13.26 £13.25 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.63 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.50 £21.14 £15.35
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% +37.73% -42.88%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.97 £29.75
90th Percentile £35.71 £30.39 £40.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.34 £20.00 £14.27
% change year-on-year -8.33% +40.20% -53.59%

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 23,001 19,278 26,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.93% 62.00% 58.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,435 11,524 17,165
10th Percentile £290 £281 £265
25th Percentile £401 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £730 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,414 616 1,636
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.80 £29.00 £25.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +13.99% -1.24%
75th Percentile £48.74 £57.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.59 £27.06 £24.50
% change year-on-year -20.24% +10.46% +2.08%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +49 774 £425 -15.00% 791
UK excluding London +40 571 £357 -12.25% 674
London +24 248 £475 -9.52% 235
Work from Home +21 202 £400 -20.00% 300
South East +32 141 £450 +38.46% 238
East of England +44 98 £300 -42.20% 78
North of England -25 96 £445 +26.06% 135
Midlands -1 93 £257 -42.87% 125
South West +29 82 £218 -60.45% 73
West Midlands -13 55 £356 -20.83% 93
North West +1 54 £425 +30.77% 76
East Midlands 0 38 £200 -50.31% 32
Yorkshire -48 34 £443 +21.23% 46
Scotland -9 31 £375 - 25
Northern Ireland +10 17 £475 -15.56% 5
Wales +5 17 £225 -24.05% 18
North East -11 8 £488 -17.02% 14

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 75 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.31%) Confluence
3 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.69%) CMS
4 6 (0.69%) SAS
5 5 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.34%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 166 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (14.97%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (4.91%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.57%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.46%) InDesign
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) CATIA
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.69%) Loan IQ
2 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.46%) Shopify
4 3 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.34%) Maximo
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.23%) Workfront
6 1 (0.11%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 64 (7.31%) Azure
2 56 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (4.91%) Power Platform
4 22 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (2.29%) Google Workspace
6 13 (1.49%) AWS
7 10 (1.14%) SaaS
8 9 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.57%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.46%) BigCommerce
11 4 (0.46%) GitHub
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.46%) Smartsheet
12 3 (0.34%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.34%) Google Drive
12 3 (0.34%) OCI
12 3 (0.34%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.23%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.94%) VPN
2 11 (1.26%) LAN
3 10 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.03%) DNS
5 8 (0.91%) Skype
5 8 (0.91%) WAN
6 7 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.69%) Firewall
7 6 (0.69%) Internet
8 5 (0.57%) DHCP
8 5 (0.57%) Network Security
9 3 (0.34%) Intranet
10 2 (0.23%) MPLS
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) Wireless
11 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.11%) UWB
11 1 (0.11%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.69%) Power BI
2 6 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
2 6 (0.69%) Metadata
3 5 (0.57%) GIS
3 5 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (0.46%) MySQL
4 4 (0.46%) Spatial Data
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.34%) Star Schema
5 3 (0.34%) Tick Data
6 2 (0.23%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.23%) MS Access
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (8.00%) JIRA
2 5 (0.57%) Git
2 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.34%) Maven
3 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.11%) GitLab
4 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.11%) JUnit
4 1 (0.11%) Postman
4 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 551 (62.97%) Social Skills
2 223 (25.49%) Finance
3 140 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 47 (5.37%) Marketing
6 42 (4.80%) Banking
7 41 (4.69%) Retail
8 38 (4.34%) Legal
9 28 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 28 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.71%) Electronics
14 13 (1.49%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.03%) Billing
17 9 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 117 (13.37%) Analyst
2 103 (11.77%) Project Manager
3 73 (8.34%) IT Support
4 52 (5.94%) Senior
5 51 (5.83%) Break Fix Engineer
6 50 (5.71%) Administrator
6 50 (5.71%) Coordinator
7 49 (5.60%) Lead
7 49 (5.60%) Support Officer
8 40 (4.57%) Technical Support
9 38 (4.34%) Hardware Engineer
10 34 (3.89%) Junior
11 30 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 26 (2.97%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.86%) Consultant
13 25 (2.86%) Project Coordinator
14 24 (2.74%) Field Engineer
14 24 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
15 23 (2.63%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.91%) HTML
1 8 (0.91%) VML
2 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.69%) ADO
3 6 (0.69%) Spring
4 4 (0.46%) REST
5 3 (0.34%) CSS
5 3 (0.34%) Middleware
5 3 (0.34%) XML
6 2 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.23%) HTML5
6 2 (0.23%) JSON
6 2 (0.23%) JWT
6 2 (0.23%) OAuth
6 2 (0.23%) SOAP
6 2 (0.23%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.11%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.11%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.77%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.09%) NHS
4 22 (2.51%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.71%) Driving Licence
8 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.37%) Insider Threat
10 11 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.80%) Social Media
12 7 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (0.69%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.69%) LIMS
13 6 (0.69%) Tandem
14 5 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.14%) Windows
2 27 (3.09%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.63%) Linux
4 8 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
2 196 (22.40%) Project Management
3 194 (22.17%) Time Management
4 145 (16.57%) Customer Service
5 128 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 121 (13.83%) Agile
7 107 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (11.31%) Project Delivery
9 80 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (8.34%) Decision-Making
11 71 (8.11%) Migration
12 68 (7.77%) Collaborative Working
13 67 (7.66%) ITIL
14 62 (7.09%) Asset Management
14 62 (7.09%) PRINCE2
15 60 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (6.51%) Risk Management
17 48 (5.49%) Data Protection
18 47 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
19 44 (5.03%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.77%) SQL
2 23 (2.63%) Python
3 11 (1.26%) Java
4 10 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.69%) R
6 5 (0.57%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.46%) C#
8 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) C++
9 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.11%) Korn
9 1 (0.11%) PHP
9 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 117 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 103 (11.77%) Degree
4 31 (3.54%) PMP
5 23 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 21 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.49%) APMP
9 13 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
10 11 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (0.57%) CISSP
11 5 (0.57%) HND
11 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.34%) HNC
13 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (8.69%) PMO
2 33 (3.77%) QA
2 33 (3.77%) SLA
3 26 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.06%) GDPR
5 12 (1.37%) GRC
6 11 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.14%) Def Stans
7 10 (1.14%) NIST
8 9 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.46%) IFRS
12 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.34%) SEPA
13 2 (0.23%) COBIT
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 28 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.80%) ServiceCenter
3 6 (0.69%) SCCM
4 3 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Grafana
5 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.11%) Packer
5 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.11%) SCOM
5 1 (0.11%) Terraform
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 252 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.97%) HP
2 61 (6.97%) SAP
3 39 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 24 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.17%) Oracle
6 17 (1.94%) Google
7 14 (1.60%) Adobe
7 14 (1.60%) Citrix
8 11 (1.26%) Apple
8 11 (1.26%) Cisco
9 10 (1.14%) Dell
9 10 (1.14%) Remedy
10 7 (0.80%) VMware
10 7 (0.80%) Workday
11 6 (0.69%) Datto
12 5 (0.57%) Computacenter
13 4 (0.46%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.46%) ESRI
13 4 (0.46%) Sitecore