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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 133 148
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 904 614 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.11% 1.62%
As % of the General category 3.43% 3.33% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 317 397
10th Percentile £163 £194 £163
25th Percentile £250 £306 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -5.15%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £525
90th Percentile £625 £725 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £382 £375 £403
% change year-on-year +1.87% -6.83% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 57 146
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £13.50 £13.93
Median hourly rate £18.17 £16.67 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -19.89% -6.13%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.51 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.43 £33.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.25 £19.49 £18.35
% change year-on-year -11.50% +6.23% -12.56%

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 26,337 18,442 24,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.81% 63.30% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,946 11,681 15,547
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 823 1,981
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.50 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -6.87% -7.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.34 £28.34
% change year-on-year +19.43% -14.10% +3.04%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 819 £425 -8.11% 888
UK excluding London -25 556 £382 +1.87% 729
London +20 311 £450 -16.28% 270
Work from Home +12 237 £450 -8.63% 358
North of England -17 119 £425 +9.68% 145
South East -62 114 £450 +18.42% 239
Midlands -29 98 £280 -17.04% 127
South West +28 93 £310 -34.84% 69
East of England +13 76 £200 -50.00% 91
Yorkshire -19 60 £411 +2.81% 51
West Midlands -50 60 £350 +9.80% 71
North West -24 50 £438 +22.21% 84
Scotland -13 39 £400 +6.67% 27
East Midlands -10 37 £200 -48.85% 55
Wales -10 11 £213 -35.83% 18
North East -24 9 £450 - 12
Northern Ireland +5 8 £313 +4.17% 27

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 72 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.65%) Confluence
3 18 (1.99%) CMS
4 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.66%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) Drupal
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
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
1 177 (19.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (13.94%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.31%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.88%) 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 10 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.88%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.77%) Magento
5 6 (0.66%) Shopify
6 4 (0.44%) HFM
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.33%) Maximo
7 3 (0.33%) Primavera
7 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.11%) Actimize
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 90 (9.96%) Azure
2 81 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 35 (3.87%) AWS
5 31 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (2.32%) SaaS
7 20 (2.21%) Google Workspace
8 12 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (1.33%) GCP
9 11 (1.22%) OCI
10 10 (1.11%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.00%) GitHub
11 9 (1.00%) Google Sheets
12 6 (0.66%) BigCommerce
12 6 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.44%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.66%) VPN
2 10 (1.11%) DNS
2 10 (1.11%) LAN
3 9 (1.00%) Skype
4 8 (0.88%) Firewall
5 7 (0.77%) Intranet
5 7 (0.77%) Network Security
5 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.66%) WAN
7 5 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.44%) SMS
8 4 (0.44%) VLAN
9 3 (0.33%) MPLS
9 3 (0.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.33%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.64%) Power BI
2 15 (1.66%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.44%) 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
6 5 (0.55%) Tableau
7 4 (0.44%) MySQL
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Metadata
8 3 (0.33%) MS Access
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
9 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 78 (8.63%) JIRA
2 19 (2.10%) Git
3 14 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.00%) Cucumber
4 9 (1.00%) JMeter
4 9 (1.00%) JUnit
4 9 (1.00%) Selenium
4 9 (1.00%) 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%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 546 (60.40%) Social Skills
2 255 (28.21%) Finance
3 169 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.08%) Legal
6 51 (5.64%) Marketing
6 51 (5.64%) Retail
7 48 (5.31%) Banking
8 28 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.21%) Local Government
12 18 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.66%) Military
15 13 (1.44%) 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
1 122 (13.50%) Analyst
2 111 (12.28%) Project Manager
3 66 (7.30%) Senior
4 62 (6.86%) Administrator
5 55 (6.08%) Support Officer
6 50 (5.53%) Lead
7 47 (5.20%) Coordinator
8 40 (4.42%) Business Analyst
8 40 (4.42%) IT Support
9 37 (4.09%) Project Officer
10 36 (3.98%) Project Support Officer
11 34 (3.76%) Technical Support
12 33 (3.65%) Consultant
13 30 (3.32%) Senior Manager
13 30 (3.32%) Senior Project Manager
14 28 (3.10%) Hardware Engineer
15 27 (2.99%) Break Fix Engineer
15 27 (2.99%) Project Coordinator
16 23 (2.54%) Junior
17 22 (2.43%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.88%) HTML
1 17 (1.88%) VML
2 12 (1.33%) CSS
3 11 (1.22%) Spring
3 11 (1.22%) XML
4 10 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (1.00%) Middleware
5 9 (1.00%) WireMock
6 6 (0.66%) .NET
7 5 (0.55%) REST
8 4 (0.44%) JSON
8 4 (0.44%) JWT
8 4 (0.44%) Kafka
8 4 (0.44%) Web Services
9 3 (0.33%) HTML5
9 3 (0.33%) Node.js
9 3 (0.33%) OAuth
9 3 (0.33%) React
9 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.07%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 24 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.10%) NHS
6 15 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.22%) Learning Management System
9 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.11%) Insider Threat
10 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (1.00%) Social Media
11 7 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.77%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.66%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (8.63%) Windows
2 22 (2.43%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.33%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.22%) Linux
5 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
2 213 (23.56%) Project Management
3 178 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 147 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 147 (16.26%) Time Management
5 146 (16.15%) Agile
6 133 (14.71%) Project Delivery
7 124 (13.72%) Customer Service
8 104 (11.50%) Decision-Making
9 89 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 81 (8.96%) AI
11 72 (7.96%) Migration
12 69 (7.63%) ITIL
13 64 (7.08%) Collaborative Working
13 64 (7.08%) Data Protection
13 64 (7.08%) PRINCE2
14 58 (6.42%) Logistics
14 58 (6.42%) Programme Management
15 57 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
15 57 (6.31%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.65%) SQL
2 17 (1.88%) Python
3 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.88%) C#
5 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.44%) Java
8 3 (0.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.11%) COBOL
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) PHP
10 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.11%) R
10 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 137 (15.15%) Degree
2 109 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 95 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.76%) PMP
5 28 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.55%) APMP
10 12 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (0.88%) CISSP
14 7 (0.77%) CIMA
15 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.66%) ACCA
16 5 (0.55%) CSPO
17 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.29%) PMO
2 44 (4.87%) QA
3 34 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.43%) SLA
5 22 (2.43%) GDPR
6 19 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.00%) NIST
9 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.77%) IFRS
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%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 52 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.55%) Docker
3 3 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Samba
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.22%) Grafana
4 10 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.11%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (0.44%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) OPNET
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 241 (26.66%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.53%) ServiceNow
3 58 (6.42%) SAP
4 40 (4.42%) HP
5 34 (3.76%) Oracle
6 32 (3.54%) Google
7 21 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.10%) Cisco
9 17 (1.88%) Adobe
10 14 (1.55%) Apple
10 14 (1.55%) Dell
11 12 (1.33%) Remedy
12 11 (1.22%) Citrix
13 6 (0.66%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.55%) Concur
14 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
15 4 (0.44%) Hyperion
15 4 (0.44%) SolarWinds
15 4 (0.44%) Workday