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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 132 155
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 996 661 678
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.08% 1.57%
As % of the General category 3.50% 3.29% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 339 384
10th Percentile £170 £189 £147
25th Percentile £263 £306 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £405
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +8.02% -14.74%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £516
90th Percentile £650 £713 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 70 147
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.72 £14.59 £13.58
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -13.92% -0.24%
75th Percentile £37.50 £27.04 £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% +2.53%

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 28,461 20,078 24,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.66% 63.09% 57.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,041 12,609 15,456
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £489
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.48% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 1,003 1,943
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.47 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.05 £16.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +6.57%
75th Percentile £60.41 £52.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +39.13% -26.40% +20.42%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 0 887 £430 -4.44% 978
UK excluding London -27 592 £400 +6.67% 789
London +18 356 £450 -14.29% 301
Work from Home +32 304 £450 -6.25% 367
North of England -3 141 £425 +13.33% 194
South East -57 134 £450 +12.50% 250
South West +31 100 £310 -0.96% 83
Midlands -45 87 £350 +7.69% 148
Yorkshire -4 69 £382 -4.50% 50
West Midlands -51 62 £388 +19.23% 76
East of England -2 58 £293 +1.74% 82
North West -21 55 £474 +35.45% 120
Scotland -17 49 £425 +6.25% 26
East Midlands -15 24 £275 -10.71% 71
North East -26 17 £450 +5.88% 27
Northern Ireland +10 14 £313 -7.06% 18
Wales -16 12 £148 -57.86% 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 68 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.31%) Confluence
3 24 (2.41%) CMS
4 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.70%) WordPress
6 5 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.50%) Drupal
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.10%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.10%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 197 (19.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (13.55%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (7.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.31%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.40%) InDesign
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Magento
2 8 (0.80%) Loan IQ
2 8 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.40%) HFM
4 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Primavera
5 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.10%) Actimize
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.10%) iTrent
7 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 101 (10.14%) Azure
2 81 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 52 (5.22%) AWS
5 35 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.41%) SaaS
7 20 (2.01%) GCP
8 18 (1.81%) Google Workspace
9 12 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.20%) OCI
10 10 (1.00%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.90%) GitHub
11 9 (0.90%) Google Sheets
12 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.70%) Slack
14 6 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.50%) Serverless
15 5 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (0.40%) Amazon S3
16 4 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.91%) LAN
2 13 (1.31%) DNS
3 12 (1.20%) Firewall
3 12 (1.20%) Network Security
4 11 (1.10%) VPN
4 11 (1.10%) WAN
5 8 (0.80%) MPLS
6 7 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.70%) VLAN
6 7 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.60%) DHCP
7 6 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.50%) Intranet
8 5 (0.50%) Skype
8 5 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
9 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.40%) SMS
10 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.72%) Power BI
2 15 (1.51%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.80%) Tableau
5 7 (0.70%) GIS
5 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.60%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.30%) Metadata
7 3 (0.30%) MS Access
7 3 (0.30%) MySQL
7 3 (0.30%) Power Query
7 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.20%) Big Data
8 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.20%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 86 (8.63%) JIRA
2 23 (2.31%) Git
3 20 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.90%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.90%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.90%) JMeter
4 9 (0.90%) JUnit
4 9 (0.90%) Selenium
4 9 (0.90%) WebDriver
5 6 (0.60%) Subversion
6 5 (0.50%) GitLab
7 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.20%) Vite
9 1 (0.10%) Hudson
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) MSI
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 635 (63.76%) Social Skills
2 311 (31.22%) Finance
3 187 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (10.24%) Legal
5 98 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.82%) Retail
7 54 (5.42%) Marketing
8 49 (4.92%) Banking
9 31 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.11%) Local Government
14 20 (2.01%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.61%) Military
17 11 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 142 (14.26%) Analyst
2 107 (10.74%) Project Manager
3 71 (7.13%) Administrator
4 63 (6.33%) Senior
4 63 (6.33%) Support Officer
5 57 (5.72%) Lead
6 52 (5.22%) Coordinator
7 47 (4.72%) Project Officer
8 44 (4.42%) Project Support Officer
9 39 (3.92%) Business Analyst
10 36 (3.61%) IT Support
11 30 (3.01%) Technical Support
12 29 (2.91%) Project Coordinator
13 26 (2.61%) Senior Manager
13 26 (2.61%) Senior Project Manager
14 24 (2.41%) Consultant
15 23 (2.31%) Junior
16 22 (2.21%) IT Manager
16 22 (2.21%) Support Specialist
17 21 (2.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.01%) HTML
2 15 (1.51%) CSS
2 15 (1.51%) VML
3 12 (1.20%) Spring
3 12 (1.20%) XML
4 9 (0.90%) Middleware
4 9 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (0.90%) WireMock
5 6 (0.60%) .NET
6 5 (0.50%) Kafka
6 5 (0.50%) REST
7 4 (0.40%) JSON
7 4 (0.40%) JWT
7 4 (0.40%) React
7 4 (0.40%) Web Services
8 3 (0.30%) HTML5
8 3 (0.30%) OAuth
8 3 (0.30%) Redux
8 3 (0.30%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.30%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.74%) Onboarding
2 52 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 41 (4.12%) Virtual Team
4 39 (3.92%) Web Conferencing
5 34 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 33 (3.31%) Podcast
7 26 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.51%) NHS
11 14 (1.41%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.10%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.00%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
14 9 (0.90%) Social Media
15 7 (0.70%) Hedge funds
16 6 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 87 (8.73%) Windows
2 18 (1.81%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.00%) Linux
5 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.20%) 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
1 222 (22.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 216 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
3 211 (21.18%) Project Management
4 177 (17.77%) Agile
5 172 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 147 (14.76%) Project Delivery
7 131 (13.15%) Customer Service
8 121 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 112 (11.24%) Time Management
10 109 (10.94%) Decision-Making
11 102 (10.24%) AI
12 79 (7.93%) ITIL
13 70 (7.03%) Migration
14 66 (6.63%) Data Protection
14 66 (6.63%) PRINCE2
15 64 (6.43%) Collaborative Working
16 61 (6.12%) Logistics
17 59 (5.92%) DevOps
18 57 (5.72%) Risk Management
19 56 (5.62%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 37 (3.71%) SQL
2 18 (1.81%) Python
3 14 (1.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.80%) C#
5 7 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.50%) Java
6 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.30%) Bash
8 2 (0.20%) Korn
8 2 (0.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.20%) 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
1 151 (15.16%) Degree
2 111 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 87 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (3.01%) PMP
6 27 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 8 (0.80%) A+ Certification
10 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.80%) CISSP
11 7 (0.70%) CIMA
11 7 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (0.60%) ACCA
13 5 (0.50%) CSPO
13 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.40%) AAT
14 4 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (10.84%) PMO
2 48 (4.82%) QA
3 40 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.01%) GDPR
4 30 (3.01%) SLA
5 20 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.10%) NIST
8 10 (1.00%) GRC
9 8 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.70%) IFRS
11 6 (0.60%) GAAP
11 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.60%) SEPA
12 4 (0.40%) NCSC
12 4 (0.40%) PSD2
12 4 (0.40%) WCAG
13 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 53 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.51%) Docker
3 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.20%) 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 31 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (1.00%) Grafana
5 9 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.80%) Terraform
7 7 (0.70%) ServiceCenter
8 5 (0.50%) Ansible
9 3 (0.30%) Packer
9 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.20%) OPNET
10 2 (0.20%) SCCM
11 1 (0.10%) Control-M
11 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.10%) Kibana
11 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 268 (26.91%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.22%) ServiceNow
3 47 (4.72%) SAP
4 40 (4.02%) Oracle
5 39 (3.92%) Google
6 26 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.31%) Cisco
8 17 (1.71%) Adobe
9 12 (1.20%) HP
10 11 (1.10%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.00%) Apple
12 9 (0.90%) Dell
13 7 (0.70%) Braze
13 7 (0.70%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.70%) Workday
14 6 (0.60%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.60%) Citrix
14 6 (0.60%) VMware
15 5 (0.50%) Aruba
15 5 (0.50%) Remedy