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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 138 179
Rank change year-on-year +10 +41 -6
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,143 685 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.08% 1.40%
As % of the General category 3.89% 3.29% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 347 337
10th Percentile £181 £185 £151
25th Percentile £263 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £448 £405
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +10.62% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £515
90th Percentile £625 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £375
% change year-on-year +7.38% -0.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 86 81
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £14.59 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.64 £19.97 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% -47.61% +64.17%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.24 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £19.97 £38.12
% change year-on-year +20.18% -47.61% +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 29,399 20,810 22,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.04% 63.33% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,462 13,011 14,078
10th Percentile £313 £279 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,192 1,115 1,395
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £59.50 £50.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.61% -41.45% +46.90%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +13 1,003 £425 -5.56% 1,510
UK excluding London -10 697 £400 +7.38% 1,273
London +35 385 £450 -14.29% 413
Work from Home +62 371 £425 -8.60% 509
North of England +8 178 £424 +2.73% 304
South East -54 151 £450 +12.50% 402
South West +40 114 £305 -2.48% 122
Midlands -31 111 £375 +15.38% 222
Yorkshire +7 78 £370 -21.69% 112
West Midlands -45 76 £425 +30.77% 130
North West -8 72 £502 +40.08% 144
Scotland +6 60 £425 -8.11% 56
East of England -6 51 £354 +66.47% 143
East Midlands -3 34 £275 +22.22% 92
North East -20 28 £450 -4.76% 53
Northern Ireland +17 22 £225 -37.72% 14
Wales -7 13 - - 38

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 75 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.85%) Confluence
3 30 (2.62%) CMS
4 14 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.61%) Drupal
5 7 (0.61%) WordPress
6 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.087%) Camunda
8 1 (0.087%) CICS
8 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.087%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.087%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.087%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 223 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (14.17%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (8.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (5.07%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.44%) InDesign
9 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.26%) Trello
11 1 (0.087%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.087%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.087%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.14%) Magento
2 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.35%) HFM
3 4 (0.35%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.26%) Primavera
4 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) TrackWise
5 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.087%) Actimize
6 1 (0.087%) Changepoint
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.087%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 98 (8.57%) Azure
2 89 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (5.25%) AWS
4 57 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.19%) SaaS
7 22 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 21 (1.84%) GCP
9 19 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.22%) Entra ID
11 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.96%) Google Sheets
13 10 (0.87%) OCI
14 9 (0.79%) GitHub
14 9 (0.79%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.70%) Slack
16 6 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.52%) Google Analytics
16 6 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.10%) LAN
2 13 (1.14%) DNS
2 13 (1.14%) Firewall
2 13 (1.14%) WAN
3 12 (1.05%) Network Security
4 9 (0.79%) VPN
5 8 (0.70%) MPLS
6 7 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.61%) VLAN
7 6 (0.52%) DHCP
8 5 (0.44%) Intranet
8 5 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.44%) VoIP
9 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.26%) Broadband
10 3 (0.26%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.26%) SAN
10 3 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.99%) Power BI
2 18 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.79%) Tableau
5 7 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.35%) MySQL
6 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.26%) Big Data
7 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.26%) Power Query
8 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.17%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.17%) GIS
8 2 (0.17%) Metadata
8 2 (0.17%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.17%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 97 (8.49%) JIRA
2 27 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.19%) Git
4 9 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.79%) JMeter
4 9 (0.79%) JUnit
4 9 (0.79%) Selenium
4 9 (0.79%) WebDriver
5 8 (0.70%) Subversion
6 7 (0.61%) Gradle
7 5 (0.44%) GitLab
7 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.087%) MSI
10 1 (0.087%) Postman
General
1 772 (67.54%) Social Skills
2 387 (33.86%) Finance
3 226 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (12.60%) Legal
5 116 (10.15%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.69%) Marketing
7 64 (5.60%) Retail
8 56 (4.90%) Banking
9 35 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.45%) Local Government
11 28 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.40%) Military
16 14 (1.22%) Advertising
16 14 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 138 (12.07%) Analyst
2 102 (8.92%) Project Manager
3 97 (8.49%) Administrator
4 74 (6.47%) Lead
5 63 (5.51%) Support Officer
6 61 (5.34%) Senior
7 50 (4.37%) Coordinator
8 49 (4.29%) Project Officer
9 43 (3.76%) Project Support Officer
10 39 (3.41%) Business Analyst
11 30 (2.62%) IT Support
12 26 (2.27%) IT Manager
13 25 (2.19%) Junior
13 25 (2.19%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.10%) Project Coordinator
15 22 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
16 21 (1.84%) Senior Manager
16 21 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
17 20 (1.75%) Test Manager
18 19 (1.66%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.84%) HTML
2 17 (1.49%) CSS
2 17 (1.49%) Spring
3 13 (1.14%) VML
4 12 (1.05%) XML
5 11 (0.96%) Kafka
5 11 (0.96%) Middleware
6 10 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (0.87%) React
7 9 (0.79%) Redux
7 9 (0.79%) REST
7 9 (0.79%) WireMock
8 8 (0.70%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.61%) .NET
9 7 (0.61%) Hibernate
10 4 (0.35%) JSON
10 4 (0.35%) JWT
11 3 (0.26%) HTML5
11 3 (0.26%) OAuth
11 3 (0.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 111 (9.71%) Onboarding
2 85 (7.44%) Web Conferencing
3 84 (7.35%) Virtual Team
4 78 (6.82%) Podcast
5 63 (5.51%) Management Information System
6 42 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.31%) Social Media
12 14 (1.22%) Learning Management System
12 14 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.14%) e-Learning
14 12 (1.05%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (0.96%) Life Science
15 11 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
16 10 (0.87%) Cloud Native
16 10 (0.87%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.17%) Windows
2 19 (1.66%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.96%) Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.087%) Android
8 1 (0.087%) CentOS
8 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 244 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 216 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 205 (17.94%) Agile
5 203 (17.76%) Project Management
6 172 (15.05%) Customer Service
7 153 (13.39%) Project Delivery
8 146 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 122 (10.67%) Decision-Making
10 106 (9.27%) AI
10 106 (9.27%) Time Management
11 86 (7.52%) PRINCE2
12 81 (7.09%) Migration
13 79 (6.91%) ITIL
14 76 (6.65%) Service Delivery
15 74 (6.47%) Logistics
16 72 (6.30%) Collaborative Working
17 71 (6.21%) Risk Management
18 70 (6.12%) DevOps
19 68 (5.95%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (4.02%) SQL
2 20 (1.75%) Python
3 14 (1.22%) PowerShell
4 12 (1.05%) Java
5 8 (0.70%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.61%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.44%) C#
8 3 (0.26%) Bash
8 3 (0.26%) Korn
9 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.17%) VBA
10 1 (0.087%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.087%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.087%) COBOL
10 1 (0.087%) Groovy
10 1 (0.087%) PHP
10 1 (0.087%) R
10 1 (0.087%) REXX
Qualifications
1 163 (14.26%) Degree
2 151 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 111 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 96 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.97%) PMP
7 31 (2.71%) PMI Certification
8 28 (2.45%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (1.05%) CISSP
11 10 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.70%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.61%) CISM
14 7 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.52%) ACCA
15 6 (0.52%) CIMA
15 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.44%) CCNA
16 5 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (10.59%) PMO
2 54 (4.72%) QA
3 47 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.06%) GDPR
5 26 (2.27%) SLA
6 23 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.96%) GRC
8 11 (0.96%) NIST
9 10 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.52%) GAAP
13 4 (0.35%) IFRS
13 4 (0.35%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) SEPA
13 4 (0.35%) WCAG
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.31%) Docker
3 5 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.087%) Samba
6 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.87%) Grafana
5 9 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.70%) Terraform
7 7 (0.61%) Control-M
8 5 (0.44%) Ansible
9 4 (0.35%) SCCM
9 4 (0.35%) WSUS
10 3 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.26%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.17%) OPNET
12 1 (0.087%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.087%) Kibana
12 1 (0.087%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 312 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.34%) ServiceNow
3 50 (4.37%) SAP
4 47 (4.11%) Oracle
5 46 (4.02%) Google
6 27 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.01%) Cisco
8 17 (1.49%) Adobe
9 13 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.96%) Apple
10 11 (0.96%) Workday
11 8 (0.70%) VMware
12 7 (0.61%) Braze
12 7 (0.61%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.52%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.44%) Aruba
14 5 (0.44%) Concur
14 5 (0.44%) Databricks
14 5 (0.44%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.44%) Xero