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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 131 152
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +45
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 907 629 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.15% 1.60%
As % of the General category 3.40% 3.39% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 318 390
10th Percentile £164 £195 £160
25th Percentile £250 £309 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% -6.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £520
90th Percentile £625 £725 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 63 146
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.70 £14.17 £13.93
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -8.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £33.03 £27.45 £38.12
90th Percentile £43.96 £34.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £19.90 £19.93
% change year-on-year -7.04% -0.13% -5.12%

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 26,689 18,532 24,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.92% 63.32% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,153 11,676 15,599
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,779 854 1,999
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.47 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.46 £28.08 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.06% -6.42% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.35 £53.99 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £24.50 £28.42
% change year-on-year +24.82% -13.79% +3.35%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -10 815 £425 -9.57% 812
UK excluding London -31 552 £400 +6.67% 705
London +29 317 £450 -18.18% 218
Work from Home +12 258 £463 -7.50% 317
North of England -12 128 £450 +18.03% 141
South East -61 113 £450 +12.50% 228
Midlands -35 92 £280 -20.00% 139
South West +17 88 £310 -38.10% 60
East of England +13 69 £200 -44.83% 82
Yorkshire -12 63 £411 +2.81% 52
West Midlands -56 58 £350 - 64
North West -23 52 £461 +28.66% 74
Scotland -15 41 £400 - 32
East Midlands -14 33 £200 -48.85% 75
North East -22 13 £450 - 16
Northern Ireland +10 12 £313 +4.17% 21
Wales -11 11 £180 -45.65% 17

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 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.53%) Confluence
3 18 (1.98%) CMS
4 11 (1.21%) 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
1 172 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (7.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.99%) 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 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Loan IQ
2 8 (0.88%) Magento
3 7 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.66%) Shopify
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.44%) HFM
7 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.33%) Primavera
7 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.22%) Maximo
8 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (10.03%) Azure
2 77 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (5.51%) Power Platform
4 36 (3.97%) AWS
5 34 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.21%) Google Workspace
6 20 (2.21%) SaaS
7 13 (1.43%) GCP
8 11 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.21%) OCI
9 9 (0.99%) GitHub
9 9 (0.99%) Google Sheets
10 8 (0.88%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.66%) BigCommerce
11 6 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.55%) Slack
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.33%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.21%) VPN
2 9 (0.99%) DNS
2 9 (0.99%) LAN
3 8 (0.88%) Firewall
4 7 (0.77%) Intranet
4 7 (0.77%) Network Security
4 7 (0.77%) Skype
5 5 (0.55%) WAN
5 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.44%) DHCP
6 4 (0.44%) SMS
6 4 (0.44%) VLAN
7 3 (0.33%) MPLS
7 3 (0.33%) SAN
7 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.33%) VoIP
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.51%) Power BI
2 15 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.43%) 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
5 6 (0.66%) Tableau
6 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.33%) Metadata
7 3 (0.33%) MS Access
7 3 (0.33%) MySQL
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 79 (8.71%) JIRA
2 20 (2.21%) Git
3 15 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.99%) JMeter
4 9 (0.99%) JUnit
4 9 (0.99%) Selenium
4 9 (0.99%) 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%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.11%) Gradle
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 565 (62.29%) Social Skills
2 272 (29.99%) Finance
3 169 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.26%) Legal
6 53 (5.84%) Retail
7 47 (5.18%) Banking
8 46 (5.07%) Marketing
9 28 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.09%) Local Government
11 18 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.65%) Military
13 15 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.10%) Advertising
17 9 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.99%) Police
Job Titles
1 124 (13.67%) Analyst
2 110 (12.13%) Project Manager
3 66 (7.28%) Senior
4 60 (6.62%) Administrator
5 52 (5.73%) Lead
5 52 (5.73%) Support Officer
6 48 (5.29%) Coordinator
7 41 (4.52%) Business Analyst
8 39 (4.30%) IT Support
9 36 (3.97%) Project Officer
10 35 (3.86%) Project Support Officer
11 34 (3.75%) Technical Support
12 33 (3.64%) Consultant
13 30 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 30 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
14 27 (2.98%) Project Coordinator
15 23 (2.54%) Junior
16 22 (2.43%) Support Specialist
17 19 (2.09%) Break Fix Engineer
17 19 (2.09%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.87%) HTML
1 17 (1.87%) VML
2 12 (1.32%) CSS
2 12 (1.32%) Spring
3 11 (1.21%) XML
4 9 (0.99%) Middleware
4 9 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (0.99%) WireMock
5 6 (0.66%) .NET
6 5 (0.55%) Kafka
6 5 (0.55%) REST
7 4 (0.44%) JSON
7 4 (0.44%) JWT
7 4 (0.44%) React
7 4 (0.44%) Web Services
8 3 (0.33%) HTML5
8 3 (0.33%) OAuth
8 3 (0.33%) Redux
8 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.04%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.20%) Virtual Team
5 27 (2.98%) Web Conferencing
6 25 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.43%) Podcast
9 19 (2.09%) NHS
10 15 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.21%) Learning Management System
13 10 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
14 9 (0.99%) Social Media
15 8 (0.88%) Insider Threat
16 7 (0.77%) Driving Licence
17 6 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.38%) Windows
2 17 (1.87%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.21%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.10%) Linux
5 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
2 209 (23.04%) Project Management
3 183 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 151 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 147 (16.21%) Agile
6 134 (14.77%) Project Delivery
6 134 (14.77%) Time Management
7 133 (14.66%) Customer Service
8 100 (11.03%) Decision-Making
9 92 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 80 (8.82%) AI
11 70 (7.72%) ITIL
12 67 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
13 65 (7.17%) Migration
14 61 (6.73%) Data Protection
15 59 (6.50%) Logistics
15 59 (6.50%) PRINCE2
16 54 (5.95%) Waterfall
17 53 (5.84%) Programme Management
18 51 (5.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.75%) SQL
2 16 (1.76%) Python
3 12 (1.32%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.88%) C#
5 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.55%) Java
8 3 (0.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
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%) R
10 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 133 (14.66%) Degree
2 101 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 88 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.75%) PMP
5 33 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (3.09%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.87%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (1.10%) APMP
11 8 (0.88%) CISSP
12 7 (0.77%) CIMA
12 7 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
13 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.66%) ACCA
14 5 (0.55%) CSPO
14 5 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.14%) PMO
2 45 (4.96%) QA
3 34 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.53%) SLA
5 22 (2.43%) GDPR
6 19 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.99%) 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%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 51 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.22%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Samba
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 27 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.10%) Grafana
3 10 (1.10%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.55%) Terraform
6 4 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.22%) Ansible
7 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.22%) OPNET
7 2 (0.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 235 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.50%) ServiceNow
3 52 (5.73%) SAP
4 37 (4.08%) Oracle
5 34 (3.75%) Google
6 32 (3.53%) HP
7 21 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.87%) Adobe
8 17 (1.87%) Cisco
9 13 (1.43%) Apple
9 13 (1.43%) Dell
10 10 (1.10%) Remedy
11 9 (0.99%) Citrix
12 6 (0.66%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.55%) Concur
13 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.44%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.44%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.44%) Tagetik
14 4 (0.44%) Workday