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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 167 125
Rank change year-on-year +45 -42 +92
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 916 512 844
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 1.66% 1.91%
As % of the General category 3.84% 2.68% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 303 413
10th Percentile £156 £195 £205
25th Percentile £210 £318 £230
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 £650 £698 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £413 £375
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 20 125
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.25 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.89 £13.46
Median hourly rate £18.50 £22.39 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +45.17% -42.31%
75th Percentile £24.49 £28.38 £32.50
90th Percentile £35.71 £30.39 £40.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.34 £24.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -23.60% +60.00% -46.17%

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 23,869 19,117 25,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.63% 62.06% 58.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,927 11,591 16,674
10th Percentile £300 £285 £265
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,472 605 1,651
10th Percentile £13.64 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.36 £20.12 £15.16
Median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £52.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +8.50% -

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +53 815 £425 -15.00% 671
UK excluding London +42 598 £368 -10.91% 605
London +5 263 £475 -11.63% 166
Work from Home +18 215 £453 -12.88% 234
South East +33 145 £459 +41.08% 223
North of England -28 105 £449 +27.05% 113
Midlands -7 102 £278 -38.17% 106
East of England +38 98 £273 -46.42% 76
South West +24 86 £210 -61.82% 61
West Midlands -22 65 £350 -22.22% 78
North West +2 54 £425 +31.78% 62
Yorkshire -44 41 £447 +22.47% 37
East Midlands +1 37 £200 -50.31% 28
Scotland -15 33 £375 - 24
Northern Ireland +11 17 £475 -15.56% 1
Wales 0 16 £213 +18.06% 14
North East -9 10 £450 -23.40% 15

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 (8.19%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.04%) Confluence
3 8 (0.87%) CMS
3 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.66%) SAS
5 5 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 166 (18.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (6.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (4.59%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.51%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.42%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.44%) InDesign
7 4 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.33%) Maximo
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.22%) Primavera
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Workfront
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 78 (8.52%) Azure
2 63 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (4.80%) Power Platform
4 25 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (2.51%) AWS
5 23 (2.51%) Google Workspace
6 14 (1.53%) SaaS
7 10 (1.09%) Entra ID
8 9 (0.98%) GCP
9 8 (0.87%) GitHub
10 6 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.55%) OCI
11 5 (0.55%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.44%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.44%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.18%) VPN
2 12 (1.31%) LAN
3 10 (1.09%) DNS
3 10 (1.09%) Skype
3 10 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.87%) WAN
5 7 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.66%) DHCP
6 6 (0.66%) Firewall
6 6 (0.66%) Internet
7 5 (0.55%) Network Security
8 3 (0.33%) Intranet
8 3 (0.33%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) Wireless
10 1 (0.11%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.59%) Power BI
2 7 (0.76%) GIS
3 6 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
3 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (0.66%) Metadata
3 6 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
4 4 (0.44%) MySQL
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (0.44%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.33%) Star Schema
5 3 (0.33%) Tick Data
6 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (0.22%) MS Access
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 80 (8.73%) JIRA
2 12 (1.31%) Git
3 9 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.76%) JUnit
5 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.66%) JMeter
5 6 (0.66%) Selenium
5 6 (0.66%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.33%) Maven
6 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 571 (62.34%) Social Skills
2 236 (25.76%) Finance
3 145 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.57%) Marketing
6 45 (4.91%) Banking
7 41 (4.48%) Legal
8 39 (4.26%) Retail
9 28 (3.06%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.64%) Electronics
13 14 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.98%) Billing
17 9 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 123 (13.43%) Analyst
2 105 (11.46%) Project Manager
3 75 (8.19%) IT Support
4 53 (5.79%) Administrator
4 53 (5.79%) Senior
4 53 (5.79%) Support Officer
5 52 (5.68%) Lead
6 51 (5.57%) Break Fix Engineer
7 50 (5.46%) Coordinator
8 45 (4.91%) Technical Support
9 38 (4.15%) Hardware Engineer
10 34 (3.71%) Junior
11 32 (3.49%) Business Analyst
12 27 (2.95%) Consultant
12 27 (2.95%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.73%) Project Coordinator
13 25 (2.73%) Project Officer
14 24 (2.62%) 1st Line Support
14 24 (2.62%) Field Engineer
14 24 (2.62%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.31%) Spring
2 8 (0.87%) HTML
2 8 (0.87%) VML
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.66%) WireMock
5 5 (0.55%) ADO
5 5 (0.55%) REST
6 4 (0.44%) JSON
6 4 (0.44%) Middleware
6 4 (0.44%) XML
7 3 (0.33%) CSS
7 3 (0.33%) JWT
7 3 (0.33%) OAuth
7 3 (0.33%) SOAP
8 2 (0.22%) .NET
8 2 (0.22%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.22%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.22%) HTML5
8 2 (0.22%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.08%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.06%) NHS
4 27 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.53%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.31%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.31%) Insider Threat
11 10 (1.09%) Social Media
12 8 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
13 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.66%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.66%) LIMS
14 6 (0.66%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.83%) Windows
2 30 (3.28%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.51%) Linux
4 9 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (22.16%) Time Management
3 199 (21.72%) Project Management
4 155 (16.92%) Customer Service
5 138 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 124 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 122 (13.32%) Agile
8 108 (11.79%) Project Delivery
9 86 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (7.97%) Collaborative Working
10 73 (7.97%) Migration
11 70 (7.64%) Decision-Making
12 67 (7.31%) ITIL
13 63 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (6.88%) PRINCE2
14 61 (6.66%) Asset Management
14 61 (6.66%) Risk Management
15 52 (5.68%) Data Protection
16 47 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (5.02%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.04%) SQL
2 24 (2.62%) Python
3 11 (1.20%) Java
3 11 (1.20%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.66%) R
5 5 (0.55%) C#
5 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.11%) Korn
7 1 (0.11%) PHP
7 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 115 (12.55%) Degree
4 31 (3.38%) PMP
5 25 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.40%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.86%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.42%) APMP
9 13 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
10 11 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (0.66%) CISSP
12 5 (0.55%) HND
12 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.33%) CISA
14 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.62%) PMO
2 36 (3.93%) SLA
3 33 (3.60%) QA
4 27 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.97%) GDPR
7 12 (1.31%) GRC
8 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.09%) Def Stans
9 10 (1.09%) NIST
10 9 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.44%) IFRS
15 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
15 3 (0.33%) SEPA
16 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.98%) Docker
3 6 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.98%) ServiceCenter
3 8 (0.87%) Grafana
3 8 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.55%) SCCM
6 3 (0.33%) Ansible
6 3 (0.33%) 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%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 255 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.88%) HP
3 62 (6.77%) SAP
4 47 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.29%) Google
6 21 (2.29%) Oracle
7 17 (1.86%) Citrix
8 14 (1.53%) Adobe
9 13 (1.42%) Apple
9 13 (1.42%) Cisco
10 12 (1.31%) Dell
10 12 (1.31%) Remedy
11 6 (0.66%) Datto
11 6 (0.66%) VMware
11 6 (0.66%) Workday
12 5 (0.55%) Computacenter
13 4 (0.44%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.44%) ESRI
13 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft