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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 138 137
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +50
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 890 602 730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.06% 1.72%
As % of the General category 3.45% 3.27% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 329 417
10th Percentile £163 £193 £163
25th Percentile £213 £308 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £534
90th Percentile £625 £725 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £375 £415
% change year-on-year -0.27% -9.64% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 50 149
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £13.84 £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 £25.58 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.75 -
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 25,779 18,437 24,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.54% 63.21% 58.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,722 11,709 15,577
10th Percentile £310 £285 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +2.63% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 797 1,928
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.95 £15.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £59.50 £56.00 £52.57
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £66.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.96 £24.62 £28.00
% change year-on-year +13.55% -12.06% -3.45%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -2 809 £400 -15.79% 773
UK excluding London -15 550 £374 -0.27% 656
London +26 299 £459 -16.59% 204
Work from Home +13 231 £450 -9.32% 298
North of England -12 118 £425 +20.06% 148
South East -60 114 £450 +38.46% 238
Midlands -38 99 £275 -21.43% 98
South West +16 88 £310 -38.10% 50
East of England +21 80 £200 -55.56% 82
West Midlands -44 62 £350 - 43
Yorkshire -21 59 £400 +3.23% 53
North West -20 50 £438 +25.00% 86
East Midlands -12 36 £200 -48.85% 53
Scotland -21 35 £400 -3.03% 22
Wales -11 11 £213 -35.83% 12
North East -21 9 £450 - 10
Northern Ireland -1 6 £500 +34.23% 16

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 69 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.37%) Confluence
3 15 (1.69%) CMS
4 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.79%) WordPress
6 3 (0.34%) Drupal
6 3 (0.34%) 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (13.60%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.56%) InDesign
7 5 (0.56%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.34%) 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 (1.12%) Loan IQ
2 9 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) Shopify
4 5 (0.56%) Magento
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.34%) HFM
5 3 (0.34%) Maximo
5 3 (0.34%) Primavera
5 3 (0.34%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 90 (10.11%) Azure
2 80 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (6.18%) Power Platform
4 32 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (3.48%) AWS
6 21 (2.36%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.13%) SaaS
8 12 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.24%) GCP
9 11 (1.24%) OCI
10 9 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 8 (0.90%) GitHub
12 7 (0.79%) Google Sheets
13 6 (0.67%) BigCommerce
14 5 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.45%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.45%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.80%) VPN
2 11 (1.24%) LAN
3 10 (1.12%) DNS
3 10 (1.12%) Firewall
4 9 (1.01%) Skype
5 8 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.79%) WAN
7 6 (0.67%) DHCP
7 6 (0.67%) Intranet
8 5 (0.56%) Network Security
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) VLAN
10 3 (0.34%) SAN
10 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.34%) VoIP
11 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) NAS
12 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.96%) Power BI
2 16 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.79%) 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 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.34%) Power Query
8 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) MS Access
9 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (8.31%) JIRA
2 19 (2.13%) Git
3 13 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.01%) JUnit
5 8 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.90%) JMeter
5 8 (0.90%) Selenium
5 8 (0.90%) 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
1 526 (59.10%) Social Skills
2 238 (26.74%) Finance
3 158 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.08%) Legal
6 48 (5.39%) Marketing
7 47 (5.28%) Retail
8 45 (5.06%) Banking
9 30 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.80%) Military
14 15 (1.69%) Local Government
15 13 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 10 (1.12%) Advertising
17 10 (1.12%) Electronics
17 10 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (1.01%) Police
Job Titles
1 116 (13.03%) Analyst
2 113 (12.70%) Project Manager
3 65 (7.30%) Senior
4 60 (6.74%) Administrator
5 53 (5.96%) Support Officer
6 48 (5.39%) Lead
7 45 (5.06%) Coordinator
8 44 (4.94%) Break Fix Engineer
9 40 (4.49%) IT Support
10 36 (4.04%) Business Analyst
10 36 (4.04%) Project Officer
11 35 (3.93%) Hardware Engineer
11 35 (3.93%) Project Support Officer
11 35 (3.93%) Technical Support
12 33 (3.71%) Consultant
13 30 (3.37%) Senior Manager
13 30 (3.37%) Senior Project Manager
14 29 (3.26%) Junior
15 27 (3.03%) Project Coordinator
16 24 (2.70%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.91%) VML
2 16 (1.80%) HTML
3 11 (1.24%) Spring
4 10 (1.12%) CSS
4 10 (1.12%) Middleware
4 10 (1.12%) XML
5 9 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.90%) WireMock
7 6 (0.67%) .NET
8 5 (0.56%) HTML5
8 5 (0.56%) JWT
8 5 (0.56%) REST
9 4 (0.45%) ADO
9 4 (0.45%) JSON
9 4 (0.45%) Kafka
9 4 (0.45%) OAuth
9 4 (0.45%) Web Services
10 3 (0.34%) React
10 3 (0.34%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.34%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.87%) Onboarding
2 39 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.13%) NHS
7 15 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.24%) Learning Management System
8 11 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.12%) e-Learning
10 9 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (1.01%) Insider Threat
10 9 (1.01%) Social Media
11 8 (0.90%) Tandem
12 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.67%) Blog
13 6 (0.67%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.43%) Windows
2 21 (2.36%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.12%) Linux
5 7 (0.79%) 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
1 219 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (24.04%) Project Management
3 171 (19.21%) Time Management
4 163 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 144 (16.18%) Agile
6 135 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 132 (14.83%) Project Delivery
8 130 (14.61%) Customer Service
9 102 (11.46%) Decision-Making
10 84 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (8.31%) AI
12 70 (7.87%) Migration
13 66 (7.42%) ITIL
14 65 (7.30%) Collaborative Working
15 64 (7.19%) PRINCE2
16 62 (6.97%) Data Protection
17 59 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
18 57 (6.40%) Programme Management
19 56 (6.29%) Waterfall
20 52 (5.84%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (3.48%) SQL
2 16 (1.80%) Python
3 10 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.90%) C#
4 8 (0.90%) PowerShell
5 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
6 5 (0.56%) Java
7 3 (0.34%) 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 (14.61%) Degree
2 109 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 95 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.82%) PMP
5 28 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 25 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.02%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.57%) APMP
10 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (0.90%) CISSP
14 6 (0.67%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.56%) CIMA
15 5 (0.56%) CSPO
16 4 (0.45%) ACCA
16 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.11%) PMO
2 39 (4.38%) QA
3 31 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.15%) SLA
5 20 (2.25%) GDPR
6 19 (2.13%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.79%) NIST
9 6 (0.67%) GRC
9 6 (0.67%) IFRS
9 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.67%) SEPA
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.45%) GAAP
11 4 (0.45%) PSD2
11 4 (0.45%) WCAG
12 3 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 50 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.46%) 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 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.12%) Grafana
3 10 (1.12%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.34%) 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%) HP ALM
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%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 238 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 57 (6.40%) HP
4 56 (6.29%) SAP
5 31 (3.48%) Google
5 31 (3.48%) Oracle
6 19 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.91%) Cisco
8 16 (1.80%) Adobe
9 15 (1.69%) Apple
10 14 (1.57%) Dell
11 11 (1.24%) Citrix
11 11 (1.24%) Remedy
12 6 (0.67%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.56%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.56%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.45%) Concur
14 4 (0.45%) Databricks
14 4 (0.45%) Workday
15 3 (0.34%) HubSpot