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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 161 118
Rank change year-on-year +37 -43 +78
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 926 497 857
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.09% 1.70% 1.94%
As % of the General category 3.71% 2.70% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 318 417
10th Percentile £156 £195 £181
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £481 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% +10.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £716 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £413 £400
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.31% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 33 164
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.43 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.67 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.83 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -4.67% -21.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £28.38 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.01 £23.25 £18.13
% change year-on-year -22.53% +28.24% -31.88%

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 24,981 18,392 25,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.26% 62.79% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,554 11,802 16,404
10th Percentile £301 £300 £268
25th Percentile £406 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,554 720 1,846
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.10 £19.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.20 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.46 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.57 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.28% -19.03%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +38 831 £425 -15.00% 727
UK excluding London +21 586 £375 -9.26% 631
London +24 291 £475 -13.64% 189
Work from Home +33 240 £475 -9.52% 281
South East -5 142 £450 +38.46% 212
North of England -3 121 £450 +25.70% 127
East of England +27 99 £200 -56.76% 72
Midlands -20 99 £303 -36.32% 120
South West +11 70 £275 -45.00% 58
West Midlands -29 63 £356 -25.00% 62
Yorkshire -26 55 £440 +16.94% 40
North West -12 52 £453 +31.88% 72
Scotland -4 40 £375 -9.09% 38
East Midlands -9 36 £200 -50.31% 58
North East -4 14 £450 -21.74% 20
Wales -6 12 £213 -48.48% 19
Northern Ireland +4 8 £475 -9.52% 8

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 70 (7.56%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.00%) Confluence
3 14 (1.51%) CMS
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.32%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.32%) WordPress
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Camunda
6 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.11%) SAS
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 183 (19.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (13.07%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (6.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (4.75%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.76%) InDesign
8 6 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.54%) Shopify
4 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.32%) Maximo
4 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.22%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.18%) Azure
2 73 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (2.81%) AWS
6 23 (2.48%) Google Workspace
7 20 (2.16%) SaaS
8 10 (1.08%) GCP
8 10 (1.08%) OCI
9 9 (0.97%) Entra ID
9 9 (0.97%) GitHub
10 7 (0.76%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.54%) BigCommerce
12 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.43%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.43%) Figma
13 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.43%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.27%) VPN
2 14 (1.51%) LAN
3 11 (1.19%) DNS
4 10 (1.08%) Firewall
4 10 (1.08%) Skype
4 10 (1.08%) WAN
5 8 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.76%) DHCP
6 7 (0.76%) Internet
7 6 (0.65%) Network Security
8 5 (0.54%) Intranet
9 4 (0.43%) VLAN
10 3 (0.32%) SAN
10 3 (0.32%) SMS
10 3 (0.32%) VoIP
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) MPLS
11 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.75%) Power BI
2 13 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.86%) Metadata
5 7 (0.76%) GIS
5 7 (0.76%) MySQL
6 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.32%) Power Query
7 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.22%) Big Data
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%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (8.75%) JIRA
2 16 (1.73%) Git
3 12 (1.30%) 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 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.43%) GitLab
8 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
10 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 575 (62.10%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.03%) Finance
3 157 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.37%) Legal
6 55 (5.94%) Marketing
7 51 (5.51%) Banking
8 37 (4.00%) Retail
9 32 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.40%) Electronics
14 12 (1.30%) Advertising
14 12 (1.30%) Billing
15 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.86%) Local Government
16 8 (0.86%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 120 (12.96%) Analyst
2 109 (11.77%) Project Manager
3 62 (6.70%) Senior
4 57 (6.16%) IT Support
5 56 (6.05%) Lead
6 55 (5.94%) Coordinator
7 54 (5.83%) Administrator
8 51 (5.51%) Break Fix Engineer
9 49 (5.29%) Support Officer
10 43 (4.64%) Technical Support
11 40 (4.32%) Junior
12 36 (3.89%) Hardware Engineer
13 34 (3.67%) Consultant
14 33 (3.56%) Business Analyst
15 27 (2.92%) Project Coordinator
15 27 (2.92%) Project Officer
15 27 (2.92%) Senior Manager
15 27 (2.92%) Senior Project Manager
16 25 (2.70%) Project Support Officer
17 23 (2.48%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.62%) HTML
2 14 (1.51%) Spring
3 11 (1.19%) XML
4 10 (1.08%) VML
5 9 (0.97%) CSS
5 9 (0.97%) Middleware
6 8 (0.86%) REST
6 8 (0.86%) WireMock
7 6 (0.65%) ADO
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.54%) JSON
8 5 (0.54%) JWT
9 4 (0.43%) HTML5
9 4 (0.43%) OAuth
10 3 (0.32%) .NET
10 3 (0.32%) Kafka
10 3 (0.32%) Semantic HTML
11 2 (0.22%) CSS3
11 2 (0.22%) Node.js
11 2 (0.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.02%) NHS
4 27 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.40%) Insider Threat
8 13 (1.40%) Social Media
9 12 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.86%) Blog
11 8 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.86%) Tandem
12 7 (0.76%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.07%) Windows
2 28 (3.02%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.48%) Linux
4 8 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
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%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
2 209 (22.57%) Time Management
3 203 (21.92%) Project Management
4 158 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (15.87%) Customer Service
6 127 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (13.28%) Project Delivery
8 121 (13.07%) Agile
9 87 (9.40%) Decision-Making
10 82 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (7.99%) Migration
12 67 (7.24%) Collaborative Working
13 61 (6.59%) Data Protection
13 61 (6.59%) ITIL
14 59 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
15 58 (6.26%) AI
16 57 (6.16%) PRINCE2
17 54 (5.83%) Asset Management
18 53 (5.72%) Workflow
19 51 (5.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.21%) SQL
2 24 (2.59%) Python
3 14 (1.51%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.86%) C#
5 6 (0.65%) Java
5 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.22%) Bash
6 2 (0.22%) Korn
6 2 (0.22%) PHP
6 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.22%) VBA
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.11%) Groovy
7 1 (0.11%) R
7 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 109 (11.77%) Degree
3 106 (11.45%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.67%) PMP
5 31 (3.35%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.51%) APMP
9 14 (1.51%) CTC Cleared
10 11 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.86%) CISSP
12 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.43%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.43%) CISA
13 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 3 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.18%) PMO
2 40 (4.32%) QA
3 33 (3.56%) SLA
4 26 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.27%) GDPR
6 16 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.86%) NIST
10 7 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.65%) SEPA
12 4 (0.43%) GAAP
12 4 (0.43%) GRC
12 4 (0.43%) IFRS
12 4 (0.43%) PSD2
12 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.40%) Docker
3 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.08%) Grafana
3 10 (1.08%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Ansible
5 3 (0.32%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
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%) SCCM
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 257 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.91%) HP
3 58 (6.26%) ServiceNow
4 54 (5.83%) SAP
5 27 (2.92%) Google
5 27 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.70%) Oracle
7 15 (1.62%) Adobe
7 15 (1.62%) Cisco
8 14 (1.51%) Apple
8 14 (1.51%) Dell
9 13 (1.40%) Citrix
10 12 (1.30%) Remedy
11 6 (0.65%) Workday
12 5 (0.54%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.54%) VMware
13 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.43%) Computacenter
13 4 (0.43%) Databricks
13 4 (0.43%) ESRI