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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 162 117
Rank change year-on-year +41 -45 +93
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 929 514 876
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 1.70% 1.96%
As % of the General category 3.86% 2.73% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 312 433
10th Percentile £155 £195 £201
25th Percentile £210 £313 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £639 £699 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 27 138
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.18 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.55 £13.99
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £16.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +23.99% -43.13%
75th Percentile £24.58 £27.44 £37.90
90th Percentile £35.71 £29.48 £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £21.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year -12.94% +41.67% -51.20%

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 24,044 18,821 26,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.09% 62.35% 58.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,040 11,584 16,840
10th Percentile £300 £287 £265
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £495
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.54% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,472 626 1,751
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £20.27 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +15.38% -15.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.04% +10.00% -3.85%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +44 827 £425 -15.00% 801
UK excluding London +33 602 £375 -6.25% 718
London +12 272 £475 -13.64% 191
Work from Home +21 224 £466 -10.48% 344
South East +15 140 £463 +16.42% 262
North of England -11 112 £450 +26.40% 144
Midlands -6 104 £300 -33.33% 113
East of England +29 94 £246 -49.54% 84
South West +22 91 £218 -56.50% 71
West Midlands -16 69 £356 -20.83% 74
North West -8 53 £453 +36.86% 91
Yorkshire -38 49 £446 +22.19% 37
East Midlands -6 35 £200 -50.31% 39
Scotland -11 35 £400 +6.67% 35
Northern Ireland +9 15 £475 -9.52% 6
Wales -1 15 £219 +21.53% 22
North East -6 10 £450 -23.40% 18

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 72 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.09%) Confluence
3 10 (1.08%) CMS
4 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.43%) SAS
6 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.32%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 169 (18.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (14.75%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (6.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (4.52%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (2.37%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.29%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.54%) InDesign
7 5 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.75%) Loan IQ
2 7 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.32%) Maximo
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.22%) Workfront
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 83 (8.93%) Azure
2 65 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 29 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (2.80%) AWS
6 25 (2.69%) Google Workspace
7 17 (1.83%) SaaS
8 11 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.18%) GCP
9 9 (0.97%) GitHub
10 8 (0.86%) OCI
11 6 (0.65%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.43%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.43%) Smartsheet
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.26%) VPN
2 12 (1.29%) LAN
3 10 (1.08%) DNS
3 10 (1.08%) Skype
4 9 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.86%) WAN
6 7 (0.75%) DHCP
6 7 (0.75%) Firewall
6 7 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.65%) Internet
7 6 (0.65%) Network Security
8 4 (0.43%) VLAN
9 3 (0.32%) Intranet
9 3 (0.32%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) MPLS
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.22%) SAN
10 2 (0.22%) SMS
11 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.52%) Power BI
2 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.75%) GIS
4 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (0.65%) Metadata
4 6 (0.65%) MySQL
4 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
5 5 (0.54%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.32%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (0.22%) MS Access
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (8.83%) JIRA
2 14 (1.51%) Git
3 10 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.97%) JUnit
5 8 (0.86%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.86%) JMeter
5 8 (0.86%) Selenium
5 8 (0.86%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) Maven
6 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.11%) MSI
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 580 (62.43%) Social Skills
2 244 (26.26%) Finance
3 140 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.38%) Marketing
6 46 (4.95%) Banking
7 45 (4.84%) Legal
8 32 (3.44%) Retail
9 27 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.51%) Electronics
12 14 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.08%) Billing
16 9 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.75%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 116 (12.49%) Analyst
2 106 (11.41%) Project Manager
3 74 (7.97%) IT Support
4 56 (6.03%) Lead
5 55 (5.92%) Support Officer
6 54 (5.81%) Senior
7 53 (5.71%) Administrator
7 53 (5.71%) Coordinator
8 51 (5.49%) Break Fix Engineer
9 46 (4.95%) Technical Support
10 38 (4.09%) Hardware Engineer
11 37 (3.98%) Junior
12 31 (3.34%) Business Analyst
12 31 (3.34%) Consultant
13 29 (3.12%) Support Engineer
14 26 (2.80%) Project Officer
15 25 (2.69%) Project Coordinator
15 25 (2.69%) Project Support Officer
16 23 (2.48%) 1st Line Support
16 23 (2.48%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.51%) Spring
2 9 (0.97%) HTML
3 8 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (0.86%) VML
3 8 (0.86%) WireMock
4 5 (0.54%) ADO
4 5 (0.54%) Middleware
4 5 (0.54%) REST
4 5 (0.54%) XML
5 4 (0.43%) CSS
5 4 (0.43%) JSON
6 3 (0.32%) JWT
6 3 (0.32%) OAuth
6 3 (0.32%) SOAP
7 2 (0.22%) .NET
7 2 (0.22%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.22%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.22%) HTML5
7 2 (0.22%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 80 (8.61%) Onboarding
2 45 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.12%) NHS
4 27 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 13 (1.40%) Insider Threat
11 12 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.29%) Social Media
12 7 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.75%) Tandem
13 6 (0.65%) LIMS
13 6 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (9.26%) Windows
2 28 (3.01%) Windows 10
3 25 (2.69%) Linux
4 8 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
2 208 (22.39%) Time Management
3 202 (21.74%) Project Management
4 156 (16.79%) Customer Service
5 143 (15.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 132 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 116 (12.49%) Agile
8 113 (12.16%) Project Delivery
9 85 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 75 (8.07%) Decision-Making
11 74 (7.97%) Collaborative Working
12 67 (7.21%) Migration
13 65 (7.00%) ITIL
14 61 (6.57%) PRINCE2
15 60 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
16 59 (6.35%) Asset Management
16 59 (6.35%) Risk Management
17 55 (5.92%) Data Protection
18 48 (5.17%) AI
19 46 (4.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (3.77%) SQL
2 23 (2.48%) Python
3 11 (1.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.97%) Java
5 7 (0.75%) C#
5 7 (0.75%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.43%) R
7 2 (0.22%) Bash
7 2 (0.22%) Korn
7 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.11%) PHP
8 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 123 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 112 (12.06%) Degree
4 33 (3.55%) PMP
5 24 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.58%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.15%) DBS Check
8 18 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.51%) APMP
10 14 (1.51%) CTC Cleared
11 12 (1.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (0.75%) CISSP
13 5 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.43%) HND
14 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.32%) HNC
15 3 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.04%) PMO
2 36 (3.88%) SLA
3 33 (3.55%) QA
4 27 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.05%) GDPR
7 14 (1.51%) GRC
8 10 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.08%) Def Stans
8 10 (1.08%) NIST
9 9 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.75%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.54%) SEPA
13 4 (0.43%) IFRS
14 3 (0.32%) GAAP
14 3 (0.32%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.32%) PSD2
14 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.29%) Docker
3 5 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) Samba
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.08%) Grafana
3 10 (1.08%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.43%) SCCM
6 3 (0.32%) Ansible
6 3 (0.32%) Terraform
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 251 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.89%) HP
3 59 (6.35%) SAP
4 52 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.58%) Google
5 24 (2.58%) Oracle
6 22 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.72%) Citrix
8 14 (1.51%) Adobe
8 14 (1.51%) Cisco
8 14 (1.51%) Dell
9 13 (1.40%) Apple
10 12 (1.29%) Remedy
11 6 (0.65%) Datto
11 6 (0.65%) Workday
12 5 (0.54%) Computacenter
12 5 (0.54%) VMware
13 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.43%) ESRI
13 4 (0.43%) Sitecore