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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 129 150
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 906 636 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.17% 1.60%
As % of the General category 3.40% 3.41% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 321 391
10th Percentile £165 £195 £160
25th Percentile £256 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% -7.45%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £519
90th Percentile £633 £713 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 64 146
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.51 £13.93
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.49 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -7.18% -4.44%
75th Percentile £33.12 £27.50 £38.12
90th Percentile £43.96 £34.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £19.97 £19.93
% change year-on-year -7.36% +0.23% -5.12%

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 26,686 18,634 24,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.93% 63.44% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,124 11,755 15,662
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 862 2,008
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £67.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £24.34 £28.42
% change year-on-year +25.64% -14.36% +3.35%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -8 813 £425 -8.11% 813
UK excluding London -28 544 £400 +6.67% 705
London +18 325 £450 -18.18% 218
Work from Home +19 262 £475 -5.00% 303
North of England -14 129 £450 +18.03% 155
South East -62 113 £450 +12.50% 214
Midlands -49 88 £328 -9.66% 129
South West +24 86 £310 -38.10% 71
East of England +7 64 £200 -30.43% 84
Yorkshire -11 63 £411 +2.81% 50
West Midlands -51 55 £425 +21.43% 66
North West -20 53 £461 +30.12% 87
Scotland -18 43 £400 - 27
East Midlands -18 32 £200 -48.85% 63
North East -18 13 £450 +5.88% 19
Northern Ireland +7 12 £313 -7.06% 25
Wales -12 11 £180 -47.15% 15

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 67 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.53%) Confluence
3 19 (2.10%) CMS
4 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.66%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.33%) Drupal
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
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
1 172 (18.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (12.80%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.55%) InDesign
7 5 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) 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 9 (0.99%) Magento
1 9 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.66%) Shopify
5 4 (0.44%) HFM
6 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.33%) Primavera
7 2 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.11%) Actimize
8 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.11%) Maximo
8 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (10.04%) Azure
2 76 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 38 (4.19%) AWS
5 36 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.21%) SaaS
7 19 (2.10%) Google Workspace
8 14 (1.55%) GCP
9 11 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.21%) OCI
10 9 (0.99%) GitHub
10 9 (0.99%) Google Sheets
11 8 (0.88%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.66%) BigCommerce
12 6 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.55%) Slack
14 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.21%) VPN
2 9 (0.99%) DNS
2 9 (0.99%) LAN
3 8 (0.88%) Firewall
4 7 (0.77%) Intranet
4 7 (0.77%) Network Security
4 7 (0.77%) Skype
5 5 (0.55%) WAN
5 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.44%) DHCP
6 4 (0.44%) SMS
6 4 (0.44%) VLAN
7 3 (0.33%) MPLS
7 3 (0.33%) SAN
7 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.33%) VoIP
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.63%) Power BI
2 14 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (0.77%) GIS
4 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
5 6 (0.66%) Tableau
6 3 (0.33%) Metadata
6 3 (0.33%) MS Access
6 3 (0.33%) MySQL
6 3 (0.33%) Power Query
6 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.22%) Big Data
7 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (9.05%) JIRA
2 21 (2.32%) Git
3 15 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.99%) JMeter
4 9 (0.99%) JUnit
4 9 (0.99%) Selenium
4 9 (0.99%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.55%) GitLab
7 4 (0.44%) Subversion
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Vite
9 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.11%) Gradle
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 563 (62.14%) Social Skills
2 275 (30.35%) Finance
3 169 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.27%) Legal
6 55 (6.07%) Retail
7 48 (5.30%) Banking
8 47 (5.19%) Marketing
9 28 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.32%) Local Government
11 18 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.77%) Military
14 15 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.10%) Advertising
18 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (13.91%) Analyst
2 108 (11.92%) Project Manager
3 66 (7.28%) Senior
4 62 (6.84%) Administrator
5 54 (5.96%) Lead
6 51 (5.63%) Support Officer
7 49 (5.41%) Coordinator
8 41 (4.53%) Business Analyst
9 37 (4.08%) IT Support
10 36 (3.97%) Project Officer
11 35 (3.86%) Project Support Officer
12 33 (3.64%) Technical Support
13 32 (3.53%) Consultant
14 30 (3.31%) Senior Manager
14 30 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
15 27 (2.98%) Project Coordinator
16 23 (2.54%) Junior
17 22 (2.43%) Support Specialist
18 19 (2.10%) Break Fix Engineer
18 19 (2.10%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.99%) HTML
2 17 (1.88%) VML
3 13 (1.43%) CSS
4 12 (1.32%) Spring
5 11 (1.21%) XML
6 9 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.99%) WireMock
7 8 (0.88%) Middleware
8 6 (0.66%) .NET
9 5 (0.55%) Kafka
9 5 (0.55%) REST
10 4 (0.44%) JSON
10 4 (0.44%) JWT
10 4 (0.44%) React
10 4 (0.44%) Web Services
11 3 (0.33%) HTML5
11 3 (0.33%) Node.js
11 3 (0.33%) OAuth
11 3 (0.33%) Redux
11 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.27%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.20%) Virtual Team
5 27 (2.98%) Web Conferencing
6 25 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.43%) Podcast
9 19 (2.10%) NHS
10 16 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.21%) Learning Management System
13 10 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
14 9 (0.99%) Social Media
15 7 (0.77%) Driving Licence
16 6 (0.66%) Blog
16 6 (0.66%) Hedge funds
16 6 (0.66%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.28%) Windows
2 17 (1.88%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.21%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.99%) Linux
5 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (22.63%) Project Management
3 185 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 147 (16.23%) Agile
5 146 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 134 (14.79%) Project Delivery
7 131 (14.46%) Customer Service
7 131 (14.46%) Time Management
8 101 (11.15%) Decision-Making
9 92 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 82 (9.05%) AI
11 71 (7.84%) ITIL
12 67 (7.40%) Migration
13 65 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
14 60 (6.62%) Logistics
15 58 (6.40%) Data Protection
15 58 (6.40%) PRINCE2
16 56 (6.18%) Programme Management
17 53 (5.85%) DevOps
18 51 (5.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.64%) SQL
2 16 (1.77%) Python
3 13 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.88%) C#
5 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.55%) Java
6 5 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.33%) Bash
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.11%) COBOL
9 1 (0.11%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) PHP
9 1 (0.11%) R
9 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 136 (15.01%) Degree
2 99 (10.93%) Security Cleared
3 86 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (3.53%) PMP
6 26 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.77%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 10 (1.10%) APMP
12 8 (0.88%) CISSP
13 7 (0.77%) CIMA
14 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.66%) ACCA
15 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.55%) CSPO
15 5 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
15 5 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.26%) PMO
2 46 (5.08%) QA
3 35 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.31%) SLA
5 21 (2.32%) GDPR
6 19 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.99%) NIST
9 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.77%) IFRS
11 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.66%) SEPA
12 5 (0.55%) GAAP
13 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.44%) PSD2
13 4 (0.44%) WCAG
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 50 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.55%) Docker
3 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Samba
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 27 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.10%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.88%) ServiceCenter
6 6 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (0.66%) Terraform
7 3 (0.33%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Packer
8 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.22%) OPNET
8 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Control-M
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 229 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 51 (5.63%) SAP
4 37 (4.08%) Oracle
5 34 (3.75%) Google
6 30 (3.31%) HP
7 22 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.99%) Adobe
9 17 (1.88%) Cisco
10 11 (1.21%) Apple
10 11 (1.21%) Dell
11 10 (1.10%) Remedy
12 9 (0.99%) Citrix
13 6 (0.66%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.55%) Braze
14 5 (0.55%) Concur
14 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.55%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.44%) Alteryx
15 4 (0.44%) Tagetik