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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 134 185
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 -17
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,184 681 533
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.37%
As % of the General category 4.02% 3.27% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 337 330
10th Percentile £185 £185 £163
25th Percentile £263 £288 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £625 £704 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £358 £398
% change year-on-year +11.73% -9.94% -6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 89 75
10th Percentile £13.87 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.80 £14.84 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.11 £19.83 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -47.98% +65.31%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.21 -
90th Percentile - £41.96 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +51.29% -47.98% +81.52%

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 29,481 20,839 22,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.04% 63.50% 57.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,497 12,935 13,967
10th Percentile £313 £275 £292
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,152 1,327
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -33.94% +38.44%
75th Percentile £56.30 £50.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.13 £71.48 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +44.53% -41.92% +52.48%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +19 1,024 £425 - 1,614
UK excluding London -2 732 £400 +11.73% 1,395
Work from Home +62 400 £425 -5.56% 523
London +30 384 £450 -8.63% 451
North of England +12 187 £411 -3.24% 325
South East -54 157 £425 +8.97% 439
Midlands -17 116 £375 +20.00% 256
South West +29 110 £310 -19.08% 145
North West -13 80 £485 +32.33% 176
Yorkshire +10 77 £358 -20.44% 107
West Midlands -37 74 £425 +33.33% 135
Scotland +25 72 £425 +2.29% 64
East of England -6 57 £350 +21.74% 128
East Midlands -1 41 £275 +22.22% 121
North East -14 30 £488 +3.17% 48
Northern Ireland +22 26 £225 -37.72% 24
Wales -16 13 - - 41

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 78 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.96%) Confluence
3 31 (2.62%) CMS
4 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.59%) Drupal
6 6 (0.51%) WordPress
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.084%) Camunda
10 1 (0.084%) CICS
10 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.084%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.084%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.084%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
Applications
1 239 (20.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 184 (15.54%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.42%) InDesign
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.25%) Trello
11 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.084%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.084%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Magento
2 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.34%) HFM
4 4 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Actimize
7 1 (0.084%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 86 (7.26%) Azure
2 85 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.48%) AWS
5 32 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.77%) SaaS
8 19 (1.60%) Google Workspace
9 15 (1.27%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (1.18%) GCP
11 11 (0.93%) Google Sheets
12 9 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.68%) OCI
14 7 (0.59%) Slack
15 6 (0.51%) GitHub
15 6 (0.51%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.51%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.42%) Canva
16 5 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.94%) LAN
2 13 (1.10%) Firewall
2 13 (1.10%) WAN
3 12 (1.01%) Network Security
4 11 (0.93%) DNS
5 8 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (0.51%) VLAN
7 6 (0.51%) VPN
8 5 (0.42%) DHCP
8 5 (0.42%) Intranet
8 5 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.34%) Broadband
9 4 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 3 (0.25%) SMS
10 3 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.15%) Power BI
2 18 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.68%) Tableau
4 7 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.42%) Metadata
6 4 (0.34%) MySQL
6 4 (0.34%) Power Query
6 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.25%) Big Data
7 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.17%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.17%) MS Access
8 2 (0.17%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.084%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.084%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 86 (7.26%) JIRA
2 24 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.52%) Git
4 8 (0.68%) Subversion
5 7 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.59%) Gradle
6 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.34%) Selenium
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) JMeter
8 3 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.084%) Hudson
10 1 (0.084%) SoapUI
General
1 819 (69.17%) Social Skills
2 414 (34.97%) Finance
3 229 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (13.85%) Legal
5 124 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 63 (5.32%) Retail
7 59 (4.98%) Banking
8 58 (4.90%) Marketing
9 39 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
10 36 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.87%) Local Government
12 34 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.11%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.35%) Military
17 13 (1.10%) Advertising
17 13 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 146 (12.33%) Analyst
2 108 (9.12%) Administrator
3 101 (8.53%) Project Manager
4 69 (5.83%) Lead
5 64 (5.41%) Support Officer
6 58 (4.90%) Coordinator
6 58 (4.90%) Senior
7 50 (4.22%) Project Officer
8 44 (3.72%) Project Support Officer
9 38 (3.21%) Business Analyst
10 28 (2.36%) IT Manager
10 28 (2.36%) IT Support
11 25 (2.11%) Project Coordinator
11 25 (2.11%) Support Engineer
12 24 (2.03%) Junior
13 21 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (1.77%) Senior Manager
14 20 (1.69%) PMO Analyst
14 20 (1.69%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (1.60%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.86%) HTML
2 17 (1.44%) CSS
3 13 (1.10%) VML
4 12 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (0.93%) Kafka
5 11 (0.93%) Middleware
5 11 (0.93%) Spring
5 11 (0.93%) XML
6 10 (0.84%) React
6 10 (0.84%) REST
7 9 (0.76%) Redux
8 8 (0.68%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.59%) Hibernate
10 6 (0.51%) .NET
11 3 (0.25%) HTML5
11 3 (0.25%) Node.js
11 3 (0.25%) ODBC
11 3 (0.25%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.25%) Web Services
11 3 (0.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.22%) Onboarding
2 107 (9.04%) Web Conferencing
3 106 (8.95%) Virtual Team
4 100 (8.45%) Podcast
5 72 (6.08%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 19 (1.60%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.35%) Learning Management System
10 15 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.10%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.10%) Social Media
12 12 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
13 11 (0.93%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.84%) Blog
14 10 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.84%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.33%) Windows
2 16 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.93%) Linux
4 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.084%) Android
8 1 (0.084%) CentOS
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (25.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 245 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 217 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 209 (17.65%) Agile
5 202 (17.06%) Project Management
6 197 (16.64%) Customer Service
7 151 (12.75%) Project Delivery
8 149 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 124 (10.47%) Decision-Making
10 101 (8.53%) AI
11 98 (8.28%) Time Management
12 85 (7.18%) PRINCE2
13 84 (7.09%) ITIL
14 83 (7.01%) Migration
15 82 (6.93%) Service Delivery
16 77 (6.50%) Change Management
17 76 (6.42%) Collaborative Working
18 72 (6.08%) Logistics
19 70 (5.91%) Data Protection
19 70 (5.91%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (3.72%) SQL
2 20 (1.69%) Python
3 14 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.10%) Java
5 8 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.34%) C#
9 3 (0.25%) Bash
9 3 (0.25%) Korn
9 3 (0.25%) VBA
10 2 (0.17%) R
10 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.084%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.084%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.084%) COBOL
11 1 (0.084%) Groovy
11 1 (0.084%) PHP
11 1 (0.084%) REXX
Qualifications
1 156 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 154 (13.01%) Degree
3 122 (10.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 113 (9.54%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.70%) PMP
7 30 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (0.93%) CISSP
10 9 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.68%) A+ Certification
11 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.59%) CISM
12 7 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.51%) ACCA
13 6 (0.51%) CIMA
13 6 (0.51%) CIPD
13 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (10.56%) PMO
2 56 (4.73%) QA
3 54 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.21%) GDPR
5 26 (2.20%) SLA
6 25 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.93%) GRC
9 10 (0.84%) NIST
10 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.51%) WCAG
12 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.42%) GAAP
13 4 (0.34%) COBIT
13 4 (0.34%) IFRS
13 4 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) GMP
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
14 3 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.68%) Docker
3 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.17%) Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.084%) Samba
6 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (0.59%) Control-M
5 6 (0.51%) Terraform
6 5 (0.42%) Ansible
6 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 5 (0.42%) WSUS
7 3 (0.25%) Grafana
7 3 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) OPNET
9 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.084%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.084%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 344 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.81%) SAP
2 57 (4.81%) ServiceNow
3 47 (3.97%) Oracle
4 42 (3.55%) Google
5 28 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.77%) Cisco
7 16 (1.35%) Adobe
8 13 (1.10%) SolarWinds
9 11 (0.93%) Workday
10 10 (0.84%) Apple
10 10 (0.84%) VMware
11 8 (0.68%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.59%) Braze
12 7 (0.59%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.42%) Aruba
13 5 (0.42%) Concur
13 5 (0.42%) Databricks
13 5 (0.42%) DocuSign
13 5 (0.42%) Xero