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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 131 151
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +36
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 966 632 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.10% 1.60%
As % of the General category 3.49% 3.30% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 323 389
10th Percentile £170 £195 £152
25th Percentile £263 £307 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £513
90th Percentile £638 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 65 150
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.72 £14.84 £13.93
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.83 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -5.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £37.22 £27.21 £38.12
90th Percentile £43.96 £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £19.97 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.36% -7.12% +2.38%

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 27,698 19,134 24,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.43% 63.53% 57.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,710 12,053 15,562
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,885 916 2,005
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.41 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.47 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -12.70% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.03 £72.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.46 £23.10 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.19% -23.00% +17.19%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -4 861 £435 -3.44% 749
UK excluding London -27 571 £400 +6.67% 662
London +29 354 £450 -16.28% 184
Work from Home +36 294 £450 -10.00% 274
North of England -4 137 £425 +15.96% 136
South East -63 124 £450 +12.50% 219
South West +15 90 £310 -0.96% 76
Midlands -49 88 £350 - 147
Yorkshire -9 66 £400 - 37
West Midlands -50 62 £425 +21.43% 62
East of England +3 60 £223 -22.43% 67
North West -15 56 £455 +30.09% 79
Scotland -11 49 £425 +3.03% 18
East Midlands -15 25 £200 -48.85% 85
North East -27 15 £450 +5.88% 21
Northern Ireland +7 14 £313 -7.06% 6
Wales -9 12 £180 -47.15% 10

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 66 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.31%) Confluence
3 21 (2.17%) CMS
4 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.62%) WordPress
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.31%) Drupal
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.10%) Apache
9 1 (0.10%) Camunda
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.10%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 187 (19.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (13.66%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (7.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.41%) InDesign
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.21%) Trello
11 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Magento
2 8 (0.83%) Loan IQ
2 8 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.52%) Shopify
5 4 (0.41%) HFM
6 3 (0.31%) Primavera
7 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.10%) Actimize
8 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 97 (10.04%) Azure
2 79 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 47 (4.87%) AWS
5 36 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (2.38%) SaaS
7 18 (1.86%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.76%) GCP
9 11 (1.14%) OCI
10 10 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (0.93%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.93%) GitHub
11 9 (0.93%) Google Sheets
12 6 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.62%) Slack
13 5 (0.52%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.41%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.76%) LAN
2 12 (1.24%) DNS
2 12 (1.24%) Firewall
2 12 (1.24%) VPN
3 10 (1.04%) Network Security
3 10 (1.04%) WAN
4 8 (0.83%) MPLS
5 7 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.72%) Intranet
5 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.62%) Skype
6 6 (0.62%) VLAN
7 5 (0.52%) DHCP
7 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.41%) SMS
9 3 (0.31%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.31%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.59%) Power BI
2 15 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.83%) Tableau
5 7 (0.72%) GIS
5 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.62%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.31%) Metadata
7 3 (0.31%) MS Access
7 3 (0.31%) MySQL
7 3 (0.31%) Power Query
7 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.21%) Big Data
8 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.21%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 87 (9.01%) JIRA
2 22 (2.28%) Git
3 18 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.93%) JMeter
4 9 (0.93%) JUnit
4 9 (0.93%) Selenium
4 9 (0.93%) WebDriver
5 8 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.52%) GitLab
6 5 (0.52%) Subversion
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.21%) Vite
9 1 (0.10%) Gradle
9 1 (0.10%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) ScriptRunner
General
1 617 (63.87%) Social Skills
2 301 (31.16%) Finance
3 178 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.56%) Legal
5 101 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 61 (6.31%) Retail
7 50 (5.18%) Banking
8 49 (5.07%) Marketing
9 28 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.28%) Local Government
13 17 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.66%) Military
14 16 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.04%) Advertising
16 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (14.18%) Analyst
2 111 (11.49%) Project Manager
3 70 (7.25%) Administrator
4 64 (6.63%) Senior
5 62 (6.42%) Lead
6 58 (6.00%) Support Officer
7 47 (4.87%) Coordinator
8 45 (4.66%) Project Officer
9 42 (4.35%) Project Support Officer
10 40 (4.14%) Business Analyst
11 36 (3.73%) IT Support
12 31 (3.21%) Technical Support
13 28 (2.90%) Consultant
13 28 (2.90%) Senior Manager
13 28 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
14 25 (2.59%) Project Coordinator
15 24 (2.48%) Junior
16 22 (2.28%) Support Specialist
17 20 (2.07%) IT Manager
18 19 (1.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.07%) HTML
2 17 (1.76%) VML
3 15 (1.55%) CSS
4 12 (1.24%) Spring
4 12 (1.24%) XML
5 9 (0.93%) Middleware
5 9 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (0.93%) WireMock
6 6 (0.62%) .NET
7 5 (0.52%) Kafka
7 5 (0.52%) REST
8 4 (0.41%) JSON
8 4 (0.41%) JWT
8 4 (0.41%) React
8 4 (0.41%) Web Services
9 3 (0.31%) HTML5
9 3 (0.31%) OAuth
9 3 (0.31%) Redux
9 3 (0.31%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.31%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 50 (5.18%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.24%) Virtual Team
4 38 (3.93%) Web Conferencing
5 37 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 33 (3.42%) Podcast
7 25 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.86%) NHS
10 13 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.14%) Learning Management System
12 10 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.04%) e-Learning
13 9 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
13 9 (0.93%) Social Media
14 8 (0.83%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.62%) Blog
15 6 (0.62%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.28%) Windows
2 17 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.93%) Linux
5 8 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.10%) CentOS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
1 214 (22.15%) Project Management
2 211 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 170 (17.60%) Agile
4 164 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 141 (14.60%) Project Delivery
6 138 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 119 (12.32%) Time Management
8 112 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 108 (11.18%) Decision-Making
10 94 (9.73%) AI
11 77 (7.97%) ITIL
12 69 (7.14%) PRINCE2
13 67 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
14 65 (6.73%) Migration
15 63 (6.52%) Data Protection
16 60 (6.21%) Logistics
17 58 (6.00%) DevOps
18 54 (5.59%) Programme Management
18 54 (5.59%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (3.62%) SQL
2 18 (1.86%) Python
3 14 (1.45%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.83%) C#
5 7 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.52%) Java
6 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.31%) Bash
8 2 (0.21%) Korn
8 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.21%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.21%) VBA
9 1 (0.10%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.10%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.10%) COBOL
9 1 (0.10%) Groovy
9 1 (0.10%) PHP
9 1 (0.10%) R
9 1 (0.10%) REXX
Qualifications
1 146 (15.11%) Degree
2 103 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 83 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 44 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.42%) PMP
6 26 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (0.83%) A+ Certification
9 8 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.83%) CISSP
10 7 (0.72%) APMP
10 7 (0.72%) CIMA
10 7 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (0.62%) ACCA
12 5 (0.52%) CSPO
12 5 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.46%) PMO
2 48 (4.97%) QA
3 39 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.11%) SLA
5 26 (2.69%) GDPR
6 18 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.04%) NIST
8 9 (0.93%) GRC
9 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.72%) IFRS
11 6 (0.62%) GAAP
11 6 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.62%) SEPA
12 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) PSD2
12 4 (0.41%) WCAG
13 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 52 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.45%) Docker
3 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Samba
6 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.04%) Grafana
3 10 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.83%) ServiceCenter
5 8 (0.83%) Terraform
6 5 (0.52%) Ansible
7 3 (0.31%) Packer
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.21%) OPNET
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.10%) Control-M
9 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.10%) Kibana
9 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.10%) SCCM
9 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 254 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 48 (4.97%) SAP
4 39 (4.04%) Oracle
5 37 (3.83%) Google
6 24 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.38%) Cisco
8 19 (1.97%) HP
9 18 (1.86%) Adobe
10 11 (1.14%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.04%) Apple
11 10 (1.04%) Dell
12 8 (0.83%) Remedy
13 7 (0.72%) Braze
13 7 (0.72%) Citrix
13 7 (0.72%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.62%) VMware
15 5 (0.52%) Aruba
15 5 (0.52%) Concur
15 5 (0.52%) Workday