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 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 180 146
Rank change year-on-year +49 -34 +70
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 816 495 784
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.20% 1.47% 1.80%
As % of the General category 3.61% 2.40% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 290 408
10th Percentile £163 £190 £205
25th Percentile £238 £350 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £579 £550
90th Percentile £669 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £425 £365
% change year-on-year -14.71% +16.44% -9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 26 66
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.69 £14.69 £14.88
Median hourly rate £18.85 £21.14 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% -22.44% -7.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £28.85 £45.88
90th Percentile £44.18 £42.88 £58.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £24.00 £17.17
% change year-on-year -22.92% +39.78% -52.63%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,593 20,642 25,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.05% 61.13% 59.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,130 12,332 17,111
10th Percentile £275 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,447 706 1,065
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.50 £27.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% -17.27% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.99 £30.66
% change year-on-year -15.35% -15.24% +42.35%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +50 712 £400 -20.00% 1,053
UK excluding London +40 534 £363 -14.71% 892
London +21 222 £475 -13.64% 320
Work from Home +7 180 £400 -20.00% 500
South East +38 145 £388 +10.71% 288
North of England -11 88 £445 +21.92% 184
Midlands -5 82 £300 -27.54% 140
South West +41 79 £218 -60.45% 113
East of England +32 78 £425 -15.00% 102
West Midlands -10 50 £325 -13.33% 71
North West 0 49 £453 +34.22% 94
East Midlands +4 32 £205 -50.48% 65
Scotland -2 32 £400 -5.88% 65
Yorkshire -36 32 £440 +20.55% 72
Northern Ireland +8 18 £350 -33.33% 8
Wales +4 16 £225 -24.05% 18
North East -5 7 £520 -11.49% 21

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 74 (9.07%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.92%) Confluence
3 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.98%) CMS
5 6 (0.74%) SAS
6 5 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 163 (19.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (17.03%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.49%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.25%) Trello
9 1 (0.12%) CATIA
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.37%) Maximo
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.25%) Workfront
5 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 50 (6.13%) Azure
1 50 (6.13%) Power Platform
2 44 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (2.33%) Google Workspace
4 18 (2.21%) AWS
5 14 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (1.23%) SaaS
7 9 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.61%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.49%) Figma
10 4 (0.49%) Lucidchart
10 4 (0.49%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.49%) Viva Engage
11 3 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.37%) GitHub
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.37%) OCI
11 3 (0.37%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.96%) VPN
2 10 (1.23%) DNS
2 10 (1.23%) Firewall
2 10 (1.23%) LAN
2 10 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.98%) WAN
3 8 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (0.86%) DHCP
5 6 (0.74%) Internet
5 6 (0.74%) Wireless
6 5 (0.61%) Network Security
6 5 (0.61%) Skype
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.25%) MPLS
7 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
8 1 (0.12%) SNMP
8 1 (0.12%) UWB
8 1 (0.12%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.76%) Power BI
2 7 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (0.86%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.74%) Metadata
4 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.49%) MySQL
5 4 (0.49%) Star Schema
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.25%) EDMS
7 2 (0.25%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.25%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (9.19%) JIRA
2 6 (0.74%) Git
3 5 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.25%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) JUnit
6 1 (0.12%) Postman
6 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.12%) Subversion
6 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 532 (65.20%) Social Skills
2 212 (25.98%) Finance
3 140 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 48 (5.88%) Marketing
6 40 (4.90%) Banking
7 37 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 37 (4.53%) Retail
8 30 (3.68%) Legal
9 26 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.84%) Electronics
14 14 (1.72%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.35%) Billing
17 10 (1.23%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 114 (13.97%) Analyst
2 87 (10.66%) Project Manager
3 70 (8.58%) IT Support
4 53 (6.50%) Administrator
5 42 (5.15%) Break Fix Engineer
5 42 (5.15%) Coordinator
6 37 (4.53%) Senior
6 37 (4.53%) Support Officer
7 36 (4.41%) Lead
8 31 (3.80%) Support Engineer
9 30 (3.68%) Junior
10 29 (3.55%) Hardware Engineer
11 28 (3.43%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.43%) Technical Support
12 22 (2.70%) 1st Line Support
13 21 (2.57%) Field Engineer
13 21 (2.57%) Support Technician
14 20 (2.45%) IT Engineer
15 19 (2.33%) Field Hardware Engineer
16 18 (2.21%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.98%) HTML
2 7 (0.86%) ADO
3 5 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (0.61%) Spring
4 4 (0.49%) CSS
4 4 (0.49%) REST
5 3 (0.37%) Middleware
5 3 (0.37%) XML
6 2 (0.25%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.25%) HTML5
6 2 (0.25%) JSON
6 2 (0.25%) JWT
6 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.25%) OAuth
6 2 (0.25%) SOAP
6 2 (0.25%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.12%) PySpark
7 1 (0.12%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 22 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 22 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.57%) Mobile App
5 16 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 15 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.84%) Security Posture
7 13 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.59%) NHS
8 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (0.98%) Insider Threat
10 8 (0.98%) Social Media
11 7 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.86%) Life Science
11 7 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.74%) CMDB
12 6 (0.74%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.58%) Windows
2 24 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.82%) Linux
4 9 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
2 168 (20.59%) Time Management
3 162 (19.85%) Project Management
4 125 (15.32%) Agile
5 119 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 117 (14.34%) Customer Service
7 87 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (9.31%) Project Delivery
9 72 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (8.70%) Migration
11 66 (8.09%) Asset Management
12 64 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
13 63 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
14 59 (7.23%) Decision-Making
14 59 (7.23%) PRINCE2
15 56 (6.86%) ITIL
16 55 (6.74%) Risk Management
17 46 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (5.27%) Service Delivery
19 42 (5.15%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (4.17%) SQL
2 25 (3.06%) Python
3 11 (1.35%) Java
4 10 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.74%) R
6 5 (0.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) C#
8 1 (0.12%) C++
8 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.12%) Jython
8 1 (0.12%) Korn
8 1 (0.12%) PHP
8 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 127 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 102 (12.50%) Degree
4 25 (3.06%) PMP
5 21 (2.57%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.35%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
13 7 (0.86%) HND
14 6 (0.74%) APMP
14 6 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.61%) CISSP
15 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.49%) A+ Certification
16 4 (0.49%) HNC
16 4 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.97%) PMO
2 29 (3.55%) QA
3 26 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.06%) GDPR
4 25 (3.06%) SLA
5 16 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.23%) Def Stans
7 10 (1.23%) GRC
8 9 (1.10%) NIST
9 7 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.37%) P3O
13 2 (0.25%) COBIT
13 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.25%) PMBOK
14 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 27 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.37%) Firmware
4 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.12%) Docker
6 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.74%) SCCM
3 5 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.25%) ServiceCenter
4 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.12%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.12%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.12%) Packer
5 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
5 1 (0.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 235 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.37%) SAP
3 47 (5.76%) HP
4 42 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.33%) Oracle
7 18 (2.21%) Google
8 14 (1.72%) Cisco
9 11 (1.35%) Adobe
10 10 (1.23%) Citrix
11 8 (0.98%) Datto
11 8 (0.98%) Workday
12 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.86%) VMware
13 6 (0.74%) Apple
13 6 (0.74%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.74%) Remedy
14 5 (0.61%) Databricks
15 4 (0.49%) CheckPoint
15 4 (0.49%) Dell