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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 138 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 +52 -19
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,224 679 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 2.07% 1.37%
As % of the General category 4.14% 3.27% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 336 314
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £289 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £422 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% -6.17% -
75th Percentile £538 £564 £538
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 91 57
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.72 £15.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £24.00 £19.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -48.85% +81.09%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £38.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.73 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +70.72% -52.78% +81.78%

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 29,578 20,791 22,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.13% 63.49% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,440 12,926 13,659
10th Percentile £313 £275 £292
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
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 £744 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.71% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,300 1,170 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.87 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.84 £70.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £22.06 £36.08
% change year-on-year +44.72% -38.86% +39.05%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +16 1,046 £400 -5.88% 1,891
UK excluding London +10 778 £400 +7.38% 1,564
Work from Home +75 417 £406 -9.69% 653
London +29 377 £450 -5.26% 584
North of England +25 194 £400 -9.09% 355
South East -35 176 £425 +11.84% 458
Midlands -19 120 £375 +22.45% 267
South West +28 106 £300 -23.08% 174
North West -10 87 £484 +17.33% 208
Scotland +29 83 £410 +2.50% 84
Yorkshire +15 75 £365 -17.05% 98
West Midlands -25 75 £425 +38.78% 145
East of England -2 61 £350 -22.22% 167
East Midlands -1 43 £275 -12.00% 122
North East -18 32 £488 +3.17% 55
Northern Ireland +20 29 £258 -30.87% 40
Wales -13 16 - - 45

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 88 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.86%) Confluence
3 29 (2.37%) CMS
4 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.57%) Drupal
6 6 (0.49%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.082%) Apache
10 1 (0.082%) Camunda
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 256 (20.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (16.91%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (9.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (5.07%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.33%) InDesign
10 3 (0.25%) Trello
11 1 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.082%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.082%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.082%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.06%) Magento
2 7 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) HFM
4 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Shopify
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.16%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.082%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 89 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (6.78%) Azure
3 67 (5.47%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.33%) AWS
5 29 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (1.47%) Google Workspace
7 18 (1.47%) SaaS
8 16 (1.31%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (1.06%) GCP
11 12 (0.98%) Google Sheets
12 10 (0.82%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.65%) Slack
14 6 (0.49%) GitHub
14 6 (0.49%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.49%) Miro
14 6 (0.49%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.41%) Canva
15 5 (0.41%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.88%) LAN
2 15 (1.23%) WAN
3 11 (0.90%) Firewall
3 11 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) DNS
5 9 (0.74%) MPLS
6 7 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.41%) Intranet
7 5 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.41%) VLAN
7 5 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.33%) Broadband
8 4 (0.33%) DHCP
8 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) VoIP
10 2 (0.16%) SDH
10 2 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.39%) Power BI
2 16 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.65%) Tableau
4 7 (0.57%) Power Query
4 7 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.41%) Metadata
6 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.25%) Big Data
7 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.16%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.16%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.16%) MS Access
8 2 (0.16%) MySQL
8 2 (0.16%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 86 (7.03%) JIRA
2 24 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.31%) Git
4 8 (0.65%) Subversion
5 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.57%) Gradle
6 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) Selenium
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.16%) JMeter
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.082%) Hudson
10 1 (0.082%) JUnit
10 1 (0.082%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.082%) WebDriver
General
1 856 (69.93%) Social Skills
2 428 (34.97%) Finance
3 236 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (14.22%) Legal
5 132 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.31%) Retail
7 56 (4.58%) Marketing
8 55 (4.49%) Banking
9 42 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (3.27%) Local Government
11 38 (3.10%) Manufacturing
12 37 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.47%) Military
17 16 (1.31%) Investment Banking
18 13 (1.06%) Publishing
19 12 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 150 (12.25%) Analyst
2 120 (9.80%) Administrator
3 94 (7.68%) Project Manager
4 70 (5.72%) Support Officer
5 67 (5.47%) Coordinator
6 65 (5.31%) Lead
7 54 (4.41%) Senior
8 51 (4.17%) Project Officer
9 45 (3.68%) Project Support Officer
10 38 (3.10%) Business Analyst
11 28 (2.29%) IT Support
11 28 (2.29%) Project Coordinator
12 27 (2.21%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.21%) Support Engineer
13 24 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (1.88%) Junior
15 20 (1.63%) PMO Analyst
15 20 (1.63%) Programme Manager
15 20 (1.63%) Test Manager
16 19 (1.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.72%) HTML
2 16 (1.31%) CSS
3 13 (1.06%) VML
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.82%) Kafka
5 10 (0.82%) Middleware
5 10 (0.82%) React
5 10 (0.82%) REST
5 10 (0.82%) XML
6 9 (0.74%) Redux
6 9 (0.74%) Spring
7 8 (0.65%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.57%) Hibernate
8 7 (0.57%) Terraform
9 6 (0.49%) .NET
10 4 (0.33%) ADO
11 3 (0.25%) HTML5
11 3 (0.25%) Node.js
11 3 (0.25%) ODBC
11 3 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.89%) Onboarding
2 117 (9.56%) Virtual Team
3 116 (9.48%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.99%) Podcast
5 71 (5.80%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.80%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.39%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.06%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
13 11 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.82%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.74%) FMCG
15 9 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.29%) Windows
2 16 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.82%) Linux
3 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.082%) Android
6 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.082%) Unix
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 258 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 217 (17.73%) Customer Service
5 212 (17.32%) Agile
6 200 (16.34%) Project Management
7 163 (13.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 158 (12.91%) Project Delivery
9 119 (9.72%) Decision-Making
10 105 (8.58%) AI
11 94 (7.68%) Time Management
12 88 (7.19%) PRINCE2
13 87 (7.11%) ITIL
13 87 (7.11%) Service Delivery
14 82 (6.70%) Change Management
15 81 (6.62%) Migration
16 78 (6.37%) Collaborative Working
17 75 (6.13%) Logistics
18 74 (6.05%) Data Protection
19 71 (5.80%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.68%) SQL
2 23 (1.88%) Python
3 14 (1.14%) Java
4 13 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.25%) VBA
8 2 (0.16%) Bash
8 2 (0.16%) C#
8 2 (0.16%) Korn
8 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.082%) COBOL
9 1 (0.082%) Groovy
9 1 (0.082%) Perl
9 1 (0.082%) PHP
9 1 (0.082%) REXX
Qualifications
1 172 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 158 (12.91%) Degree
3 135 (11.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 122 (9.97%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 30 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 28 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.29%) PMP
8 20 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (0.82%) CISSP
10 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.74%) HNC
11 8 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.57%) A+ Certification
12 7 (0.57%) CIPD
12 7 (0.57%) CISM
12 7 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.49%) ACCA
13 6 (0.49%) CIMA
13 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.87%) PMO
2 58 (4.74%) QA
3 55 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.94%) GDPR
5 28 (2.29%) SLA
6 25 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.82%) GRC
9 9 (0.74%) NIST
10 8 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.49%) WCAG
13 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.41%) COBIT
13 5 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) IFRS
15 3 (0.25%) GAAP
15 3 (0.25%) GMP
15 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 45 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.49%) Docker
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.082%) GPFS
6 1 (0.082%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.082%) NFS
6 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.57%) Control-M
5 6 (0.49%) Ansible
6 5 (0.41%) SCCM
6 5 (0.41%) WSUS
7 3 (0.25%) Packer
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) OPNET
8 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.082%) Grafana
9 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.082%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 378 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.66%) SAP
3 52 (4.25%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.51%) Oracle
5 41 (3.35%) Google
6 28 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.72%) Cisco
8 15 (1.23%) Adobe
9 13 (1.06%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.90%) VMware
10 11 (0.90%) Workday
11 10 (0.82%) Apple
12 8 (0.65%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.57%) Braze
13 7 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.41%) Aruba
14 5 (0.41%) Concur
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.41%) Xero