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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 139 136
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +51
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 897 599 727
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.06% 1.71%
As % of the General category 3.47% 3.25% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 324 416
10th Percentile £163 £188 £163
25th Percentile £213 £307 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £535
90th Percentile £625 £725 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 £415
% change year-on-year - -9.64% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 52 149
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.51 £13.99
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.67 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -9.18% -20.97%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.27 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £18.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -1.14% -0.72% -21.92%

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 25,839 18,404 24,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.55% 63.23% 58.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,748 11,685 15,587
10th Percentile £311 £285 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 799 1,924
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.89 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -8.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.25 £52.78
90th Percentile £79.90 £75.00 £66.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year +18.37% -13.27% -2.59%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +4 814 £400 -14.89% 737
UK excluding London -24 554 £375 - 648
London +22 302 £466 -15.36% 183
Work from Home +13 229 £450 -8.63% 265
North of England -18 119 £425 +20.06% 151
South East -50 116 £450 +38.46% 230
Midlands -37 98 £263 -25.00% 97
South West +23 89 £310 -38.10% 47
East of England +24 79 £200 -55.56% 86
West Midlands -50 61 £325 -3.70% 50
Yorkshire -15 59 £400 +1.59% 54
North West -17 51 £438 +27.37% 86
Scotland -13 37 £400 -3.03% 23
East Midlands -10 36 £200 -48.85% 45
Wales -9 11 £213 -35.83% 12
North East -21 9 £450 - 12
Northern Ireland 0 6 £500 +34.23% 12

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 68 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.34%) Confluence
3 15 (1.67%) CMS
4 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.78%) WordPress
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%) 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
1 178 (19.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (13.38%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.57%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.56%) InDesign
7 5 (0.56%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.33%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.11%) Loan IQ
2 9 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) Magento
3 6 (0.67%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) HFM
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) iTrent
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (10.03%) Azure
2 80 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.68%) AWS
5 32 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.34%) Google Workspace
7 20 (2.23%) SaaS
8 12 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.23%) GCP
9 11 (1.23%) OCI
10 9 (1.00%) Entra ID
11 8 (0.89%) GitHub
11 8 (0.89%) Google Sheets
12 6 (0.67%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.45%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.78%) VPN
2 11 (1.23%) LAN
3 10 (1.11%) DNS
4 9 (1.00%) Firewall
4 9 (1.00%) Skype
5 7 (0.78%) WAN
5 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.67%) DHCP
6 6 (0.67%) Intranet
7 5 (0.56%) Network Security
8 4 (0.45%) SMS
8 4 (0.45%) VLAN
9 3 (0.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.33%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) Internet
11 1 (0.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.91%) Power BI
2 16 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.78%) GIS
5 6 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.67%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.56%) MySQL
6 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.45%) Metadata
8 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.33%) MS Access
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.33%) Tableau
9 2 (0.22%) Big Data
9 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 76 (8.47%) JIRA
2 19 (2.12%) Git
3 13 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.00%) JUnit
5 8 (0.89%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.89%) JMeter
5 8 (0.89%) Selenium
5 8 (0.89%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.45%) GitLab
7 4 (0.45%) Subversion
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Vite
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) MSI
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 530 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 243 (27.09%) Finance
3 164 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.13%) Legal
6 48 (5.35%) Marketing
7 47 (5.24%) Retail
8 45 (5.02%) Banking
9 30 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.78%) Military
14 15 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.67%) Local Government
15 12 (1.34%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.11%) Advertising
16 10 (1.11%) Electronics
16 10 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 120 (13.38%) Analyst
2 112 (12.49%) Project Manager
3 65 (7.25%) Senior
4 61 (6.80%) Administrator
5 53 (5.91%) Support Officer
6 48 (5.35%) Lead
7 45 (5.02%) Coordinator
8 44 (4.91%) Break Fix Engineer
9 39 (4.35%) IT Support
10 38 (4.24%) Business Analyst
11 36 (4.01%) Project Officer
12 35 (3.90%) Hardware Engineer
12 35 (3.90%) Project Support Officer
13 34 (3.79%) Technical Support
14 33 (3.68%) Consultant
15 31 (3.46%) Junior
16 30 (3.34%) Senior Manager
16 30 (3.34%) Senior Project Manager
17 27 (3.01%) Project Coordinator
18 24 (2.68%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.90%) VML
2 16 (1.78%) HTML
3 11 (1.23%) Spring
3 11 (1.23%) XML
4 10 (1.11%) CSS
4 10 (1.11%) Middleware
4 10 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.89%) WireMock
6 6 (0.67%) .NET
7 5 (0.56%) HTML5
7 5 (0.56%) JWT
7 5 (0.56%) REST
8 4 (0.45%) ADO
8 4 (0.45%) JSON
8 4 (0.45%) Kafka
8 4 (0.45%) OAuth
8 4 (0.45%) Web Services
9 3 (0.33%) Node.js
9 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.03%) Onboarding
2 39 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.12%) NHS
7 15 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.23%) Learning Management System
9 11 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (1.00%) Insider Threat
11 9 (1.00%) Social Media
12 8 (0.89%) Tandem
13 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.67%) Driving Licence
14 6 (0.67%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.36%) Windows
2 22 (2.45%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.11%) Linux
5 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (23.86%) Project Management
3 170 (18.95%) Time Management
4 166 (18.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 143 (15.94%) Agile
6 137 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 132 (14.72%) Project Delivery
8 129 (14.38%) Customer Service
9 102 (11.37%) Decision-Making
10 84 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (8.25%) AI
12 71 (7.92%) Migration
13 65 (7.25%) ITIL
14 64 (7.13%) Collaborative Working
15 63 (7.02%) PRINCE2
16 62 (6.91%) Data Protection
17 59 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
18 57 (6.35%) Programme Management
19 56 (6.24%) Waterfall
20 53 (5.91%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 32 (3.57%) SQL
2 16 (1.78%) Python
3 10 (1.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.89%) C#
4 8 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
6 5 (0.56%) Java
7 3 (0.33%) Bash
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) PHP
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%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (14.49%) Degree
2 111 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.79%) PMP
5 28 (3.12%) PMI Certification
6 25 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.56%) APMP
10 12 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (0.89%) CISSP
14 6 (0.67%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.67%) CIMA
15 5 (0.56%) ACCA
15 5 (0.56%) CSPO
16 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 3 (0.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.03%) PMO
2 40 (4.46%) QA
3 31 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.01%) SLA
5 19 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.12%) GDPR
6 18 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.00%) NIST
8 8 (0.89%) GRC
9 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.67%) IFRS
10 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.67%) SEPA
11 5 (0.56%) GAAP
12 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.45%) PSD2
12 4 (0.45%) WCAG
13 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 50 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.22%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Samba
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.11%) Grafana
3 10 (1.11%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) OPNET
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 237 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.47%) ServiceNow
3 57 (6.35%) HP
4 56 (6.24%) SAP
5 34 (3.79%) Oracle
6 32 (3.57%) Google
7 20 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.90%) Cisco
9 16 (1.78%) Adobe
10 15 (1.67%) Apple
11 14 (1.56%) Dell
12 11 (1.23%) Citrix
12 11 (1.23%) Remedy
13 6 (0.67%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.56%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.56%) DocuSign
15 4 (0.45%) Concur
15 4 (0.45%) Databricks
15 4 (0.45%) Workday
16 3 (0.33%) HubSpot