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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 128 189
Rank change year-on-year +28 +61 -25
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,474 737 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.23% 1.32%
As % of the General category 4.78% 3.52% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 342 283
10th Percentile £184 £181 £156
25th Percentile £263 £288 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £388
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 144 25
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.02
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.60 £13.52
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.00 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.35% -14.87%
75th Percentile £43.96 £33.50 £30.00
90th Percentile - £48.74 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £18.82 £22.56
% change year-on-year -7.01% -16.58% +7.17%

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 30,829 20,953 22,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.50% 63.27% 58.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,891 13,047 13,125
10th Percentile £313 £275 £280
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £478
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,755 1,251 947
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.51 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +9.24%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.39 £31.31
% change year-on-year +28.56% -31.68% +15.26%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +26 1,255 £403 -5.24% 2,462
UK excluding London +22 980 £400 +6.67% 1,829
Work from Home +75 447 £410 -8.78% 817
London +31 403 £450 -2.39% 799
North of England +40 245 £365 -17.05% 438
South East -7 232 £436 +2.65% 504
Midlands +20 182 £389 +19.54% 318
North West +15 120 £472 +25.73% 240
West Midlands +8 116 £447 +37.54% 171
South West -3 102 £251 +5.79% 193
Scotland +33 99 £425 +6.25% 113
Yorkshire +31 90 £365 -17.05% 143
East of England -6 79 £388 -28.11% 185
East Midlands +19 64 £245 +8.89% 146
North East -10 35 £363 -14.71% 56
Northern Ireland +9 29 £290 -19.72% 47
Wales -3 25 £600 +150.00% 55

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
1 106 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.19%) Confluence
3 30 (2.04%) CMS
4 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.41%) Drupal
7 5 (0.34%) WordPress
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.068%) Apache
9 1 (0.068%) CICS
9 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 325 (22.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 268 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (4.34%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (1.22%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.14%) InDesign
9 2 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.14%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.068%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Magento
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.27%) HFM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
4 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.20%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.14%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.14%) Primavera
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 82 (5.56%) Azure
2 80 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (4.07%) AWS
4 59 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 29 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.49%) Google Workspace
8 19 (1.29%) Google Sheets
9 17 (1.15%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.15%) SaaS
10 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (0.95%) GCP
12 11 (0.75%) Miro
13 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.61%) Slack
15 8 (0.54%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.47%) GitHub
17 6 (0.41%) Google Analytics
17 6 (0.41%) Power Automate
18 5 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.83%) LAN
2 16 (1.09%) WAN
3 11 (0.75%) Network Security
4 9 (0.61%) DNS
4 9 (0.61%) Firewall
4 9 (0.61%) MPLS
5 8 (0.54%) VPN
6 7 (0.47%) Broadband
6 7 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.41%) VLAN
7 6 (0.41%) VoIP
8 5 (0.34%) NAS
8 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.27%) DHCP
9 4 (0.27%) Internet
9 4 (0.27%) Intranet
10 3 (0.20%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.93%) Power BI
2 9 (0.61%) MS Access
2 9 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 8 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.54%) Tableau
4 6 (0.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.34%) Metadata
5 5 (0.34%) Power Query
6 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.14%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.068%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.068%) Db2
9 1 (0.068%) GIS
9 1 (0.068%) OLTP
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.068%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 105 (7.12%) JIRA
2 28 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.22%) Git
4 8 (0.54%) Subversion
5 7 (0.47%) Gradle
5 7 (0.47%) JUnit
6 6 (0.41%) Maven
6 6 (0.41%) Mockito
6 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.14%) GitLab
10 2 (0.14%) JMeter
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,067 (72.39%) Social Skills
2 472 (32.02%) Finance
3 275 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (11.80%) Legal
5 153 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 74 (5.02%) Retail
7 64 (4.34%) Marketing
8 60 (4.07%) Banking
9 58 (3.93%) Manufacturing
10 51 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (3.12%) Local Government
12 44 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (2.24%) Telecoms
15 30 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.83%) Aviation
17 21 (1.42%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.29%) Military
19 18 (1.22%) Advertising
20 17 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (14.04%) Administrator
2 153 (10.38%) Analyst
3 112 (7.60%) Project Manager
4 104 (7.06%) Coordinator
5 80 (5.43%) Lead
6 76 (5.16%) Support Officer
7 49 (3.32%) Senior
8 47 (3.19%) Project Officer
9 42 (2.85%) Project Support Officer
10 37 (2.51%) Project Coordinator
11 34 (2.31%) Business Analyst
12 32 (2.17%) Support Engineer
13 31 (2.10%) IT Support
14 27 (1.83%) IT Manager
15 25 (1.70%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (1.56%) Junior
17 22 (1.49%) Data Administrator
18 21 (1.42%) Programme Manager
19 20 (1.36%) PMO Analyst
20 19 (1.29%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.95%) Spring
2 13 (0.88%) Hibernate
2 13 (0.88%) REST
2 13 (0.88%) Spring Boot
3 12 (0.81%) HTML
3 12 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.75%) Middleware
5 10 (0.68%) Kafka
6 9 (0.61%) CSS
6 9 (0.61%) Terraform
6 9 (0.61%) VML
6 9 (0.61%) XML
7 8 (0.54%) Web Services
8 7 (0.47%) React
8 7 (0.47%) Redux
8 7 (0.47%) SOAP
9 6 (0.41%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (0.41%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.41%) RESTful
9 6 (0.41%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.77%) Onboarding
2 122 (8.28%) Virtual Team
3 117 (7.94%) Management Information System
4 115 (7.80%) Web Conferencing
5 110 (7.46%) Podcast
6 62 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.71%) Driving Licence
8 35 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.09%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.02%) Learning Management System
13 13 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.81%) NHS
14 12 (0.81%) Social Media
14 12 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
15 11 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.68%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.68%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.16%) Windows
2 16 (1.09%) Windows 10
3 12 (0.81%) Linux
4 9 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.41%) macOS
7 4 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) zOS
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.068%) Solaris
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (27.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 327 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (18.66%) Customer Service
4 266 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 214 (14.52%) Agile
6 212 (14.38%) Project Management
7 185 (12.55%) Project Delivery
8 184 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 131 (8.89%) Decision-Making
10 127 (8.62%) Time Management
11 115 (7.80%) AI
12 98 (6.65%) Service Delivery
13 97 (6.58%) Change Management
14 95 (6.45%) Logistics
15 93 (6.31%) ITIL
16 91 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
16 91 (6.17%) Risk Management
17 89 (6.04%) Data Protection
18 85 (5.77%) Migration
19 84 (5.70%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 36 (2.44%) SQL
2 20 (1.36%) Java
3 18 (1.22%) Python
4 12 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.14%) Bash
8 2 (0.14%) Korn
8 2 (0.14%) R
8 2 (0.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.068%) C#
9 1 (0.068%) COBOL
9 1 (0.068%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.068%) Perl
9 1 (0.068%) REXX
Qualifications
1 207 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.13%) Degree
3 142 (9.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 142 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 52 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.19%) DBS Check
6 31 (2.10%) PMP
7 29 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 15 (1.02%) HNC
8 15 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (0.81%) CISSP
10 9 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.54%) CIPD
12 7 (0.47%) A+ Certification
12 7 (0.47%) HP APS
12 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.41%) ACCA
13 6 (0.41%) CIMA
13 6 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (9.91%) PMO
2 67 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.41%) QA
4 47 (3.19%) GDPR
5 37 (2.51%) SLA
6 26 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.02%) GRC
9 13 (0.88%) NIST
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.41%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) COBIT
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.27%) P3O
14 4 (0.27%) WCAG
15 3 (0.20%) GMP
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 42 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.75%) Docker
3 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.068%) GPFS
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
7 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.68%) SCCM
4 9 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.47%) Control-M
5 7 (0.47%) Grafana
5 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.41%) Ansible
7 5 (0.34%) WSUS
8 3 (0.20%) Packer
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) OPNET
10 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.068%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.068%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 484 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.22%) SAP
3 51 (3.46%) Google
4 50 (3.39%) Oracle
5 41 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.63%) Cisco
8 12 (0.81%) Adobe
8 12 (0.81%) SolarWinds
8 12 (0.81%) VMware
9 10 (0.68%) Workday
10 9 (0.61%) Apple
10 9 (0.61%) HP
11 8 (0.54%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.47%) Braze
12 7 (0.47%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.41%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.34%) Aruba
14 5 (0.34%) Databricks
14 5 (0.34%) Xero