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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 135 164
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +20
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,057 681 644
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.08% 1.53%
As % of the General category 3.64% 3.30% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 346 381
10th Percentile £178 £185 £152
25th Percentile £273 £300 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £415
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +5.66% -11.70%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £523
90th Percentile £638 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £358 £390
% change year-on-year +11.73% -8.21% -8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 76 120
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.76 £14.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.90 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -11.79% +7.17%
75th Percentile £43.96 £29.16 £38.12
90th Percentile - £43.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.09 £19.97 £28.75
% change year-on-year +0.60% -30.54% +39.39%

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 29,058 20,622 24,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.86% 62.92% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,352 12,928 15,095
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £490
% change year-on-year +6.61% -4.29% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,034 1,060 1,745
10th Percentile £14.02 £13.34 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £26.02 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -23.94% +12.02%
75th Percentile £61.50 £51.83 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.81 £22.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +45.80% -31.95% +27.17%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +2 934 £450 - 804
UK excluding London -21 635 £400 +11.73% 683
London +28 371 £450 -14.29% 205
Work from Home +47 343 £450 -5.26% 296
North of England +13 164 £450 +22.78% 164
South East -59 139 £450 +12.50% 238
South West +25 105 £310 -0.96% 58
Midlands -39 93 £350 +7.69% 137
Yorkshire 0 73 £370 -7.50% 51
North West -21 66 £513 +46.43% 90
West Midlands -52 66 £388 +19.23% 70
Scotland -7 56 £425 -5.56% 18
East of England +3 50 £415 +95.29% 77
East Midlands -12 26 £275 +22.22% 66
North East -16 25 £450 +5.88% 25
Northern Ireland +11 18 £313 -13.49% 4
Wales -13 13 - - 9

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 69 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.31%) Confluence
3 26 (2.46%) CMS
4 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.66%) WordPress
6 6 (0.57%) Drupal
7 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.095%) Camunda
9 1 (0.095%) CICS
9 1 (0.095%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.095%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.095%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 197 (18.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (7.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.38%) InDesign
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.28%) Trello
10 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.095%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.095%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Magento
2 7 (0.66%) Loan IQ
2 7 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.38%) HFM
4 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Primavera
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) TrackWise
7 1 (0.095%) Actimize
7 1 (0.095%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.095%) iTrent
7 1 (0.095%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 101 (9.56%) Azure
2 78 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (5.39%) Power Platform
4 55 (5.20%) AWS
5 37 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.37%) SaaS
7 21 (1.99%) GCP
8 19 (1.80%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.14%) OCI
11 11 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.85%) Google Sheets
14 8 (0.76%) GitHub
15 7 (0.66%) Slack
16 6 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.57%) OpenShift
16 6 (0.57%) Serverless
17 5 (0.47%) Google Analytics
17 5 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.18%) LAN
2 13 (1.23%) DNS
3 12 (1.14%) Firewall
3 12 (1.14%) Network Security
3 12 (1.14%) WAN
4 11 (1.04%) VPN
5 8 (0.76%) MPLS
6 7 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.66%) VLAN
6 7 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.57%) DHCP
8 5 (0.47%) Intranet
8 5 (0.47%) Skype
8 5 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.38%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.39%) Power BI
2 15 (1.42%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.85%) Tableau
5 7 (0.66%) GIS
5 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.57%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.28%) MS Access
7 3 (0.28%) MySQL
7 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.28%) Power Query
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.19%) Big Data
8 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 90 (8.51%) JIRA
2 25 (2.37%) Git
3 24 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 9 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 9 (0.85%) JMeter
4 9 (0.85%) JUnit
4 9 (0.85%) Selenium
4 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
5 8 (0.76%) Subversion
6 5 (0.47%) GitLab
7 4 (0.38%) Gradle
8 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.19%) Vite
10 1 (0.095%) Hudson
10 1 (0.095%) MSI
10 1 (0.095%) Postman
General
1 688 (65.09%) Social Skills
2 347 (32.83%) Finance
3 198 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (11.64%) Legal
5 108 (10.22%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.77%) Retail
7 59 (5.58%) Marketing
8 54 (5.11%) Banking
9 30 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (2.27%) Local Government
14 22 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.70%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.51%) Military
18 14 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
20 11 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 145 (13.72%) Analyst
2 106 (10.03%) Project Manager
3 75 (7.10%) Administrator
4 71 (6.72%) Lead
5 63 (5.96%) Senior
6 61 (5.77%) Support Officer
7 51 (4.82%) Coordinator
8 43 (4.07%) Project Officer
9 40 (3.78%) Project Support Officer
10 39 (3.69%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.03%) IT Support
12 27 (2.55%) Junior
12 27 (2.55%) Project Coordinator
13 26 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 23 (2.18%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
15 22 (2.08%) Support Engineer
16 21 (1.99%) Consultant
16 21 (1.99%) Technical Support
17 18 (1.70%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.99%) HTML
2 16 (1.51%) CSS
3 14 (1.32%) Spring
4 13 (1.23%) VML
5 12 (1.14%) XML
6 9 (0.85%) Middleware
6 9 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.85%) WireMock
7 8 (0.76%) Kafka
8 7 (0.66%) React
9 6 (0.57%) .NET
9 6 (0.57%) Redux
10 5 (0.47%) REST
10 5 (0.47%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.38%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.38%) JSON
11 4 (0.38%) JWT
11 4 (0.38%) Web Services
12 3 (0.28%) OAuth
12 3 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.56%) Onboarding
2 64 (6.05%) Virtual Team
3 61 (5.77%) Web Conferencing
4 56 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 55 (5.20%) Podcast
6 34 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.32%) Learning Management System
10 14 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.14%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.14%) NHS
13 11 (1.04%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.95%) Life Science
15 9 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
15 9 (0.85%) Social Media
16 8 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.04%) Windows
2 19 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.95%) Linux
3 10 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.095%) Android
6 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.095%) CentOS
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (23.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 201 (19.02%) Project Management
4 190 (17.98%) Agile
5 189 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (14.10%) Project Delivery
7 145 (13.72%) Customer Service
8 136 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 116 (10.97%) Decision-Making
10 103 (9.74%) AI
11 102 (9.65%) Time Management
12 81 (7.66%) ITIL
13 72 (6.81%) Migration
14 71 (6.72%) PRINCE2
15 66 (6.24%) Data Protection
16 65 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
16 65 (6.15%) Logistics
16 65 (6.15%) Service Delivery
17 64 (6.05%) Change Management
17 64 (6.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (4.07%) SQL
2 18 (1.70%) Python
3 14 (1.32%) PowerShell
4 8 (0.76%) C#
4 8 (0.76%) Java
5 7 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.47%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.28%) Bash
7 3 (0.28%) Korn
8 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.19%) VBA
9 1 (0.095%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.095%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.095%) COBOL
9 1 (0.095%) Groovy
9 1 (0.095%) PHP
9 1 (0.095%) R
9 1 (0.095%) REXX
Qualifications
1 156 (14.76%) Degree
2 128 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 70 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.31%) PMP
6 30 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 29 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.46%) DBS Check
9 16 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 14 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.04%) CISSP
12 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.76%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.66%) CIMA
14 7 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.57%) ACCA
15 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.47%) CCNA
16 5 (0.47%) CISM
16 5 (0.47%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (10.41%) PMO
2 47 (4.45%) QA
3 41 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.03%) GDPR
5 27 (2.55%) SLA
6 22 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 11 (1.04%) GRC
10 9 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.66%) IFRS
12 6 (0.57%) GAAP
12 6 (0.57%) SEPA
13 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.38%) NCSC
14 4 (0.38%) PSD2
14 4 (0.38%) WCAG
15 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 48 (4.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.095%) Samba
6 1 (0.095%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.95%) Grafana
5 9 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.76%) Terraform
7 5 (0.47%) Ansible
7 5 (0.47%) ServiceCenter
8 4 (0.38%) Control-M
9 3 (0.28%) Packer
9 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.19%) OPNET
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.095%) Kibana
11 1 (0.095%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.095%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 269 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 44 (4.16%) SAP
4 43 (4.07%) Oracle
5 42 (3.97%) Google
6 26 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.27%) Cisco
8 15 (1.42%) Adobe
9 12 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 11 (1.04%) Apple
11 8 (0.76%) Workday
12 7 (0.66%) Braze
12 7 (0.66%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.66%) VMware
13 6 (0.57%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.57%) Dell
13 6 (0.57%) HP
14 5 (0.47%) Citrix
14 5 (0.47%) Databricks
14 5 (0.47%) DocuSign