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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 134 174
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 -4
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,215 693 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 2.12% 1.38%
As % of the General category 4.11% 3.33% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 339 326
10th Percentile £185 £185 £164
25th Percentile £263 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -6.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £530
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £358 £400
% change year-on-year +11.73% -10.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 96 68
10th Percentile £13.67 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.73 £15.34 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.74 £18.58 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% -51.27% +65.31%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.73 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +70.72% -52.78% +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 29,532 20,815 22,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.00% 63.55% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,433 12,939 13,813
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
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 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,275 1,181 1,258
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.46 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.06 £16.17 £16.82
Median hourly rate £31.46 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.09% -28.87% +26.38%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.33 £69.65 £70.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.96 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.37% -36.74% +34.62%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +15 1,039 £405 -4.71% 1,414
UK excluding London +1 769 £400 +11.73% 1,139
Work from Home +64 418 £410 -8.78% 457
London +27 376 £450 -5.26% 401
North of England +24 194 £423 +2.42% 278
South East -40 170 £425 +6.25% 285
Midlands -23 119 £375 +22.45% 197
South West +27 107 £305 -21.86% 158
North West -5 89 £485 +35.47% 162
Scotland +32 81 £418 +7.74% 57
West Midlands -27 74 £425 +38.78% 105
Yorkshire -1 73 £365 -17.05% 82
East of England -2 61 £383 +2.00% 133
East Midlands -1 43 £275 -12.00% 92
North East -16 32 £488 +3.17% 37
Northern Ireland +16 29 £258 -30.87% 22
Wales -14 15 - - 35

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 85 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.88%) Confluence
3 31 (2.55%) CMS
4 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.58%) Drupal
6 6 (0.49%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.082%) Apache
10 1 (0.082%) Camunda
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.082%) Umbraco
Applications
1 258 (21.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (16.71%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (5.27%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.07%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.33%) InDesign
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 1 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.082%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.082%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.082%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.07%) Magento
2 8 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) HFM
4 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.082%) iTrent
7 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (6.75%) Azure
3 63 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 51 (4.20%) AWS
5 30 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (1.48%) Google Workspace
7 18 (1.48%) SaaS
8 15 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 12 (0.99%) GCP
10 12 (0.99%) Google Sheets
11 9 (0.74%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.66%) Slack
13 6 (0.49%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.49%) Miro
14 5 (0.41%) Canva
14 5 (0.41%) GitHub
14 5 (0.41%) OCI
14 5 (0.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.89%) LAN
2 15 (1.23%) WAN
3 11 (0.91%) Firewall
3 11 (0.91%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) DNS
5 9 (0.74%) MPLS
6 7 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.41%) Intranet
7 5 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.41%) VLAN
7 5 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.33%) Broadband
8 4 (0.33%) DHCP
8 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) VoIP
10 2 (0.16%) Internet
10 2 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.19%) Power BI
2 16 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.66%) Tableau
4 7 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.49%) Power Query
6 5 (0.41%) Metadata
7 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.25%) Big Data
8 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.16%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.16%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.16%) MS Access
9 2 (0.16%) MySQL
9 2 (0.16%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.082%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 88 (7.24%) JIRA
2 23 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.32%) Git
4 8 (0.66%) Subversion
5 7 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.58%) Gradle
6 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) Selenium
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.16%) JMeter
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.082%) Hudson
10 1 (0.082%) JUnit
10 1 (0.082%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.082%) WebDriver
General
1 851 (70.04%) Social Skills
2 424 (34.90%) Finance
3 234 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (14.65%) Legal
5 125 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 63 (5.19%) Retail
7 57 (4.69%) Marketing
8 56 (4.61%) Banking
9 42 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (3.13%) Local Government
10 38 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 37 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.32%) Military
16 13 (1.07%) Publishing
17 12 (0.99%) Advertising
17 12 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (12.26%) Analyst
2 119 (9.79%) Administrator
3 95 (7.82%) Project Manager
4 67 (5.51%) Coordinator
4 67 (5.51%) Support Officer
5 65 (5.35%) Lead
6 55 (4.53%) Senior
7 51 (4.20%) Project Officer
8 45 (3.70%) Project Support Officer
9 38 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 28 (2.30%) Project Coordinator
10 28 (2.30%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.22%) IT Manager
11 27 (2.22%) IT Support
12 23 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (1.89%) Junior
13 20 (1.65%) Programme Manager
13 20 (1.65%) Senior Manager
13 20 (1.65%) Test Manager
14 19 (1.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.81%) HTML
2 17 (1.40%) CSS
3 13 (1.07%) VML
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.91%) XML
5 10 (0.82%) Kafka
5 10 (0.82%) Middleware
5 10 (0.82%) React
5 10 (0.82%) REST
6 9 (0.74%) Redux
6 9 (0.74%) Spring
7 8 (0.66%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.58%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.49%) .NET
9 6 (0.49%) Terraform
10 3 (0.25%) ADO
10 3 (0.25%) HTML5
10 3 (0.25%) Node.js
10 3 (0.25%) ODBC
10 3 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 117 (9.63%) Virtual Team
3 116 (9.55%) Web Conferencing
4 111 (9.14%) Podcast
5 70 (5.76%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.81%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.40%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.07%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.91%) Social Media
14 11 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.82%) Blog
15 10 (0.82%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.82%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.26%) Windows
2 16 (1.32%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.74%) Linux
4 9 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.082%) Android
7 1 (0.082%) Unix
7 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 255 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 213 (17.53%) Customer Service
5 212 (17.45%) Agile
6 199 (16.38%) Project Management
7 160 (13.17%) Project Delivery
8 159 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 121 (9.96%) Decision-Making
10 103 (8.48%) AI
11 96 (7.90%) Time Management
12 86 (7.08%) ITIL
12 86 (7.08%) PRINCE2
13 85 (7.00%) Service Delivery
14 84 (6.91%) Migration
15 82 (6.75%) Change Management
16 77 (6.34%) Collaborative Working
17 75 (6.17%) Logistics
18 73 (6.01%) Data Protection
19 71 (5.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (3.62%) SQL
2 22 (1.81%) Python
3 14 (1.15%) Java
4 12 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.25%) C#
7 3 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.25%) VBA
8 2 (0.16%) Korn
8 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.082%) Bash
9 1 (0.082%) COBOL
9 1 (0.082%) Groovy
9 1 (0.082%) PHP
9 1 (0.082%) REXX
Qualifications
1 168 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.92%) Degree
3 136 (11.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 120 (9.88%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.30%) DBS Check
6 28 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.30%) PMP
7 20 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (0.82%) CISSP
9 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.58%) A+ Certification
11 7 (0.58%) CIPD
11 7 (0.58%) CISM
11 7 (0.58%) HNC
11 7 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.49%) ACCA
12 6 (0.49%) CIMA
12 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.78%) PMO
2 57 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 57 (4.69%) QA
3 37 (3.05%) GDPR
4 28 (2.30%) SLA
5 25 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.82%) GRC
8 9 (0.74%) NIST
9 8 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.49%) WCAG
12 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.41%) COBIT
12 5 (0.41%) NCSC
13 4 (0.33%) IFRS
14 3 (0.25%) GAAP
14 3 (0.25%) GMP
14 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 44 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.41%) Docker
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.082%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 8 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.58%) Control-M
5 5 (0.41%) Ansible
5 5 (0.41%) SCCM
5 5 (0.41%) WSUS
6 3 (0.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) OPNET
7 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.082%) Grafana
8 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.082%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 371 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.86%) SAP
3 54 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.54%) Oracle
5 40 (3.29%) Google
6 28 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.73%) Cisco
8 15 (1.23%) Adobe
9 13 (1.07%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.91%) VMware
10 11 (0.91%) Workday
11 10 (0.82%) Apple
12 8 (0.66%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.58%) Braze
13 7 (0.58%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.41%) Aruba
14 5 (0.41%) Concur
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.41%) Xero