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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 161 120
Rank change year-on-year +37 -41 +91
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 910 512 861
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 1.68% 1.93%
As % of the General category 3.83% 2.70% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 306 423
10th Percentile £155 £195 £205
25th Percentile £210 £313 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £694 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £400 £370
% change year-on-year -9.38% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 22 132
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.25 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.84 £13.97
Median hourly rate £18.50 £22.27 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +39.19% -40.44%
75th Percentile £24.61 £27.91 £37.25
90th Percentile £35.71 £28.94 £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £23.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year -20.43% +55.00% -48.28%

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 23,752 18,970 26,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.42% 62.15% 58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,841 11,535 16,853
10th Percentile £300 £288 £265
25th Percentile £404 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £648 £650
90th Percentile £735 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,455 616 1,698
10th Percentile £13.65 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.47 £20.49 £15.30
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% -8.77%
75th Percentile £51.53 £57.78 £51.50
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.00 £65.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.44 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.83% +9.77% -

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +45 809 £425 -15.00% 637
UK excluding London +35 588 £363 -9.38% 576
London +14 267 £475 -13.64% 158
Work from Home +29 218 £456 -12.14% 215
South East +34 139 £450 +38.46% 216
North of England -11 105 £449 +25.98% 115
Midlands -1 100 £257 -43.00% 96
East of England +36 94 £273 -45.40% 65
South West +26 87 £210 -58.00% 59
West Midlands -21 65 £350 -22.22% 67
North West -4 52 £438 +35.66% 68
Yorkshire -42 43 £446 +22.19% 34
East Midlands -1 35 £200 -50.31% 29
Scotland -10 35 £388 +3.33% 19
Northern Ireland +11 17 £475 -9.52% 3
Wales -2 15 £219 +21.53% 14
North East -11 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 73 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.07%) Confluence
3 8 (0.88%) CMS
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.66%) SAS
5 4 (0.44%) 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
1 167 (18.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (14.84%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (6.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.32%) 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 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.77%) Loan IQ
2 7 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.44%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.44%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.33%) 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%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 78 (8.57%) Azure
2 64 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 26 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (2.64%) AWS
5 24 (2.64%) Google Workspace
6 15 (1.65%) SaaS
7 10 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 9 (0.99%) GCP
9 8 (0.88%) GitHub
10 5 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.55%) OCI
10 5 (0.55%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.44%) BigCommerce
11 4 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.44%) Smartsheet
12 3 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.33%) Google Drive
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.31%) VPN
2 12 (1.32%) LAN
3 11 (1.21%) DNS
3 11 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.10%) Skype
5 8 (0.88%) WAN
6 7 (0.77%) DHCP
6 7 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.66%) Firewall
7 6 (0.66%) Internet
8 5 (0.55%) Network Security
9 4 (0.44%) VLAN
10 3 (0.33%) Intranet
10 3 (0.33%) VoIP
11 2 (0.22%) MPLS
12 1 (0.11%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.11%) SAN
12 1 (0.11%) SMS
12 1 (0.11%) SNMP
12 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.40%) Power BI
2 7 (0.77%) GIS
2 7 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
3 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (0.66%) Metadata
3 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
4 5 (0.55%) MySQL
4 5 (0.55%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.33%) Star Schema
6 3 (0.33%) Tick Data
7 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.22%) MS Access
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (9.01%) JIRA
2 12 (1.32%) Git
3 9 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.77%) 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
1 568 (62.42%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.48%) Finance
3 141 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.60%) Marketing
6 46 (5.05%) Banking
7 41 (4.51%) Legal
8 33 (3.63%) Retail
9 27 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.65%) Electronics
12 15 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.10%) Billing
17 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 117 (12.86%) Analyst
2 102 (11.21%) Project Manager
3 75 (8.24%) IT Support
4 54 (5.93%) Senior
4 54 (5.93%) Support Officer
5 53 (5.82%) Administrator
6 51 (5.60%) Break Fix Engineer
6 51 (5.60%) Lead
7 50 (5.49%) Coordinator
8 46 (5.05%) Technical Support
9 38 (4.18%) Hardware Engineer
10 35 (3.85%) Junior
11 32 (3.52%) Business Analyst
12 28 (3.08%) Support Engineer
13 27 (2.97%) Consultant
14 26 (2.86%) Project Officer
15 25 (2.75%) Project Support Officer
16 24 (2.64%) Field Engineer
16 24 (2.64%) Senior Manager
16 24 (2.64%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.32%) Spring
2 8 (0.88%) HTML
2 8 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (0.88%) VML
3 6 (0.66%) WireMock
4 5 (0.55%) ADO
4 5 (0.55%) REST
5 4 (0.44%) JSON
5 4 (0.44%) Middleware
5 4 (0.44%) XML
6 3 (0.33%) CSS
6 3 (0.33%) JWT
6 3 (0.33%) OAuth
6 3 (0.33%) 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 75 (8.24%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.73%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.19%) NHS
4 27 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.87%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 12 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.32%) Insider Threat
12 11 (1.21%) Social Media
13 7 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.77%) Tandem
13 7 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
13 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.66%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 86 (9.45%) Windows
2 29 (3.19%) Windows 10
3 24 (2.64%) Linux
4 8 (0.88%) 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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (22.31%) Time Management
3 198 (21.76%) Project Management
4 157 (17.25%) Customer Service
5 137 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 128 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (13.08%) Agile
8 108 (11.87%) Project Delivery
9 84 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (8.02%) Collaborative Working
11 72 (7.91%) Decision-Making
12 70 (7.69%) Migration
13 65 (7.14%) ITIL
14 62 (6.81%) Asset Management
15 61 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
15 61 (6.70%) PRINCE2
16 59 (6.48%) Risk Management
17 51 (5.60%) Data Protection
18 45 (4.95%) Analytics
18 45 (4.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.96%) SQL
2 24 (2.64%) Python
3 11 (1.21%) Java
3 11 (1.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.66%) C#
4 6 (0.66%) PowerShell
4 6 (0.66%) R
5 2 (0.22%) Korn
5 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.11%) Bash
6 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.11%) PHP
6 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 116 (12.75%) Degree
4 30 (3.30%) PMP
5 25 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.87%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.43%) APMP
10 13 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
11 11 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (0.66%) CISSP
13 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.44%) HND
14 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.33%) CISA
15 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.46%) PMO
2 37 (4.07%) SLA
3 31 (3.41%) QA
4 26 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.98%) GDPR
7 12 (1.32%) GRC
8 10 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.10%) Def Stans
9 9 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
9 9 (0.99%) NIST
10 8 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.44%) IFRS
13 4 (0.44%) SEPA
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.10%) Docker
3 5 (0.55%) 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%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 33 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.10%) ServiceCenter
3 9 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.88%) Grafana
5 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.55%) SCCM
7 3 (0.33%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) Terraform
8 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.11%) Packer
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 253 (27.80%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.03%) HP
3 60 (6.59%) SAP
4 49 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.53%) Google
7 22 (2.42%) Oracle
8 16 (1.76%) Citrix
9 14 (1.54%) Adobe
9 14 (1.54%) Dell
10 13 (1.43%) Apple
10 13 (1.43%) Cisco
11 12 (1.32%) Remedy
12 6 (0.66%) Datto
12 6 (0.66%) VMware
12 6 (0.66%) Workday
13 5 (0.55%) Computacenter
14 4 (0.44%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.44%) ESRI
14 4 (0.44%) Sitecore