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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 134 173
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -3
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,159 676 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.05% 1.39%
As % of the General category 3.94% 3.24% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 336 333
10th Percentile £184 £185 £161
25th Percentile £263 £298 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £412
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.20% -8.48%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £520
90th Percentile £625 £705 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £383
% change year-on-year +7.38% -2.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 89 81
10th Percentile £13.82 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.07 £19.97 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -47.61% +64.17%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.21 -
90th Percentile - £39.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.07 £19.97 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.57% -47.61% +81.31%

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 29,391 20,891 22,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.47% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,419 13,009 14,041
10th Percentile £313 £276 £290
25th Percentile £414 £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 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,139 1,376
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.24 £16.30 £17.08
Median hourly rate £31.53 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £58.12
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.61% -41.45% +52.48%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 1,009 £425 -5.56% 1,499
UK excluding London -8 710 £400 +7.38% 1,333
Work from Home +63 386 £425 -5.56% 478
London +39 383 £450 -12.20% 356
North of England +11 178 £423 +5.63% 320
South East -55 152 £438 +9.38% 408
Midlands -19 118 £375 +15.38% 241
South West +30 113 £305 -27.44% 133
West Midlands -33 78 £425 +30.77% 130
Yorkshire +9 77 £370 -17.78% 116
North West -8 73 £500 +39.66% 159
Scotland +18 64 £425 -5.56% 59
East of England -4 52 £354 +23.04% 144
East Midlands -5 39 £275 +30.33% 110
North East -21 28 £488 +3.17% 51
Northern Ireland +18 24 £225 -37.72% 14
Wales -16 12 - - 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 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.62%) Confluence
3 32 (2.76%) CMS
4 14 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Drupal
6 6 (0.52%) WordPress
7 5 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.086%) Camunda
10 1 (0.086%) CICS
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.086%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.086%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.086%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
Applications
1 228 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (15.01%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.43%) InDesign
9 4 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.26%) Trello
11 1 (0.086%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.086%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.086%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.12%) Magento
2 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.35%) HFM
4 4 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.086%) Actimize
7 1 (0.086%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.086%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.086%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (8.02%) Azure
2 84 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (5.09%) AWS
4 55 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 33 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.07%) SaaS
7 21 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.81%) GCP
8 20 (1.73%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.21%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (0.95%) Google Sheets
11 9 (0.78%) GitHub
11 9 (0.78%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.69%) OCI
13 7 (0.60%) Slack
14 6 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.52%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.52%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.43%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.07%) LAN
2 13 (1.12%) DNS
2 13 (1.12%) Firewall
2 13 (1.12%) WAN
3 12 (1.04%) Network Security
4 8 (0.69%) MPLS
4 8 (0.69%) VPN
5 7 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.60%) VLAN
6 6 (0.52%) DHCP
7 5 (0.43%) Intranet
7 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.35%) Broadband
8 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.35%) VoIP
8 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.26%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.26%) SAN
9 3 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.75%) Power BI
2 18 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.78%) Tableau
5 7 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.35%) Metadata
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%) MS Access
8 2 (0.17%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.086%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.086%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 94 (8.11%) JIRA
2 27 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.07%) Git
4 10 (0.86%) Cucumber
4 10 (0.86%) Selenium
5 9 (0.78%) JMeter
5 9 (0.78%) JUnit
5 9 (0.78%) WebDriver
6 8 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.69%) Subversion
7 7 (0.60%) Gradle
8 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.35%) GitLab
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
11 2 (0.17%) Postman
11 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.17%) Vite
12 1 (0.086%) Hudson
General
1 794 (68.51%) Social Skills
2 398 (34.34%) Finance
3 229 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (13.37%) Legal
5 122 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.61%) Retail
7 60 (5.18%) Marketing
8 59 (5.09%) Banking
9 37 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 31 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.59%) Local Government
13 27 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.38%) Military
17 13 (1.12%) Advertising
17 13 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (11.82%) Analyst
2 102 (8.80%) Administrator
2 102 (8.80%) Project Manager
3 72 (6.21%) Lead
4 62 (5.35%) Support Officer
5 61 (5.26%) Senior
6 56 (4.83%) Coordinator
7 49 (4.23%) Project Officer
8 43 (3.71%) Project Support Officer
9 38 (3.28%) Business Analyst
10 28 (2.42%) IT Manager
11 26 (2.24%) IT Support
12 25 (2.16%) Junior
12 25 (2.16%) Project Coordinator
13 24 (2.07%) Support Engineer
14 22 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (1.73%) PMO Analyst
15 20 (1.73%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.73%) Senior Project Manager
16 19 (1.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.90%) HTML
2 17 (1.47%) CSS
2 17 (1.47%) Spring
3 13 (1.12%) VML
4 12 (1.04%) Kafka
4 12 (1.04%) Middleware
5 11 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (0.95%) XML
6 10 (0.86%) React
7 9 (0.78%) Redux
7 9 (0.78%) REST
7 9 (0.78%) WireMock
8 8 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.60%) Hibernate
10 6 (0.52%) .NET
11 3 (0.26%) HTML5
11 3 (0.26%) JSON
11 3 (0.26%) Node.js
11 3 (0.26%) ODBC
11 3 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.66%) Onboarding
2 95 (8.20%) Virtual Team
2 95 (8.20%) Web Conferencing
3 89 (7.68%) Podcast
4 68 (5.87%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.64%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.21%) Social Media
12 13 (1.12%) Learning Management System
13 12 (1.04%) e-Learning
13 12 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
14 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.86%) Blog
15 10 (0.86%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.56%) Windows
2 17 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.95%) Linux
3 11 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.086%) Android
7 1 (0.086%) CentOS
7 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (24.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 242 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
3 221 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 207 (17.86%) Agile
5 203 (17.52%) Project Management
6 181 (15.62%) Customer Service
7 152 (13.11%) Project Delivery
8 145 (12.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 124 (10.70%) Decision-Making
10 101 (8.71%) AI
10 101 (8.71%) Time Management
11 86 (7.42%) PRINCE2
12 84 (7.25%) Migration
13 78 (6.73%) Service Delivery
14 76 (6.56%) ITIL
15 72 (6.21%) Logistics
16 71 (6.13%) Change Management
16 71 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
16 71 (6.13%) Risk Management
17 67 (5.78%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 44 (3.80%) SQL
2 20 (1.73%) Python
3 14 (1.21%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.12%) Java
5 8 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.35%) C#
8 3 (0.26%) Bash
8 3 (0.26%) Korn
9 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.17%) VBA
10 1 (0.086%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.086%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.086%) COBOL
10 1 (0.086%) Groovy
10 1 (0.086%) PHP
10 1 (0.086%) R
10 1 (0.086%) REXX
10 1 (0.086%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 156 (13.46%) Degree
2 155 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 113 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 108 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.85%) PMP
7 31 (2.67%) PMI Certification
8 28 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.95%) CISSP
11 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.69%) A+ Certification
12 8 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.60%) CISM
13 7 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.52%) ACCA
14 6 (0.52%) CIMA
14 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.43%) CCNA
15 5 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (10.61%) PMO
2 55 (4.75%) QA
3 52 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.19%) GDPR
5 25 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.98%) SLA
7 18 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.95%) GRC
9 10 (0.86%) NIST
10 9 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.52%) WCAG
13 5 (0.43%) GAAP
14 4 (0.35%) IFRS
14 4 (0.35%) NCSC
15 3 (0.26%) COBIT
15 3 (0.26%) GMP
15 3 (0.26%) P3O
15 3 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.29%) Docker
3 5 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.086%) Samba
6 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.64%) Kubernetes
1 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.86%) Grafana
4 9 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.60%) Control-M
5 7 (0.60%) Terraform
6 5 (0.43%) Ansible
7 4 (0.35%) SCCM
7 4 (0.35%) WSUS
8 3 (0.26%) Packer
8 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.17%) OPNET
10 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.086%) Kibana
10 1 (0.086%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.086%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 327 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 55 (4.75%) SAP
4 46 (3.97%) Oracle
5 44 (3.80%) Google
6 26 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.90%) Cisco
8 17 (1.47%) Adobe
9 13 (1.12%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.95%) Workday
11 9 (0.78%) Apple
12 8 (0.69%) VMware
13 7 (0.60%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.60%) Braze
13 7 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.43%) Aruba
14 5 (0.43%) Concur
14 5 (0.43%) Databricks
14 5 (0.43%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.43%) Xero