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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 137 179
Rank change year-on-year +17 +42 -10
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,185 684 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.38%
As % of the General category 4.02% 3.28% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 337 330
10th Percentile £184 £185 £163
25th Percentile £263 £288 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £625 £704 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £365 £398
% change year-on-year +9.51% -8.11% -6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 90 76
10th Percentile £13.87 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.80 £14.84 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.11 £19.90 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -47.80% +65.31%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.04 -
90th Percentile - £38.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.90 £38.12
% change year-on-year +50.75% -47.80% +81.52%

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 29,482 20,875 22,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.50% 57.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 12,963 13,968
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,257 1,147 1,334
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.25 £16.88
Median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.25 £58.65
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.06 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +46.79% -41.92% +52.48%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +12 1,027 £423 -0.59% 1,416
UK excluding London -1 733 £400 +9.51% 1,304
Work from Home +68 402 £425 -5.56% 442
London +29 386 £450 -8.86% 314
North of England +11 187 £411 -3.24% 317
South East -51 156 £418 +7.17% 403
Midlands -21 118 £375 +17.65% 240
South West +34 112 £305 -21.86% 122
North West -6 80 £485 +35.47% 167
Yorkshire +2 77 £340 -28.04% 108
West Midlands -28 76 £425 +30.77% 133
Scotland +21 71 £425 -3.52% 49
East of England -3 56 £354 +23.04% 132
East Midlands -3 41 £275 +30.33% 107
North East -15 30 £488 +3.17% 47
Northern Ireland +20 26 £225 -37.72% 31
Wales -19 13 - - 33

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 78 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.29%) Confluence
3 31 (2.62%) CMS
4 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.59%) Drupal
6 6 (0.51%) WordPress
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.084%) Camunda
10 1 (0.084%) CICS
10 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.084%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.084%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.084%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.084%) WebLogic
Applications
1 238 (20.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 183 (15.44%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (8.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.42%) InDesign
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.25%) Trello
11 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.084%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.084%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Magento
2 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.34%) HFM
4 4 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Actimize
7 1 (0.084%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.084%) iTrent
7 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.084%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.084%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 90 (7.59%) Azure
2 85 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (4.98%) Power Platform
4 57 (4.81%) AWS
5 32 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.77%) SaaS
8 19 (1.60%) Google Workspace
9 18 (1.52%) GCP
10 15 (1.27%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (0.93%) Google Sheets
12 9 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.68%) OCI
14 7 (0.59%) GitHub
14 7 (0.59%) Slack
15 6 (0.51%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.51%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.42%) Canva
16 5 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.94%) LAN
2 13 (1.10%) Firewall
2 13 (1.10%) WAN
3 12 (1.01%) Network Security
4 11 (0.93%) DNS
5 8 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (0.51%) VLAN
7 6 (0.51%) VPN
8 5 (0.42%) DHCP
8 5 (0.42%) Intranet
8 5 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.34%) Broadband
9 4 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.34%) VoIP
10 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 3 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.98%) Power BI
2 18 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.68%) Tableau
5 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.42%) Metadata
7 4 (0.34%) MySQL
7 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.25%) Big Data
8 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.25%) Power Query
9 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.17%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.17%) MS Access
9 2 (0.17%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.084%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.084%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 90 (7.59%) JIRA
2 25 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.86%) Git
4 8 (0.68%) Cucumber
4 8 (0.68%) Selenium
4 8 (0.68%) Subversion
5 7 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.59%) Gradle
5 7 (0.59%) JMeter
5 7 (0.59%) JUnit
5 7 (0.59%) WebDriver
6 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.084%) Hudson
10 1 (0.084%) SoapUI
General
1 817 (68.95%) Social Skills
2 416 (35.11%) Finance
3 229 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (13.84%) Legal
5 121 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.49%) Retail
7 61 (5.15%) Banking
8 59 (4.98%) Marketing
9 38 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.78%) Local Government
13 28 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.11%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.35%) Military
17 13 (1.10%) Advertising
17 13 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (12.07%) Analyst
2 107 (9.03%) Administrator
3 101 (8.52%) Project Manager
4 71 (5.99%) Lead
5 64 (5.40%) Support Officer
6 59 (4.98%) Senior
7 58 (4.89%) Coordinator
8 50 (4.22%) Project Officer
9 44 (3.71%) Project Support Officer
10 37 (3.12%) Business Analyst
11 28 (2.36%) IT Manager
11 28 (2.36%) IT Support
12 25 (2.11%) Project Coordinator
12 25 (2.11%) Support Engineer
13 24 (2.03%) Junior
14 21 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
14 21 (1.77%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.69%) PMO Analyst
15 20 (1.69%) Senior Project Manager
16 19 (1.60%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.86%) HTML
2 17 (1.43%) CSS
3 15 (1.27%) Spring
4 13 (1.10%) VML
5 12 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (0.93%) Kafka
6 11 (0.93%) Middleware
6 11 (0.93%) XML
7 10 (0.84%) React
7 10 (0.84%) REST
8 9 (0.76%) Redux
9 8 (0.68%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.59%) Hibernate
10 7 (0.59%) WireMock
11 6 (0.51%) .NET
12 3 (0.25%) HTML5
12 3 (0.25%) Node.js
12 3 (0.25%) ODBC
12 3 (0.25%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 107 (9.03%) Web Conferencing
3 106 (8.95%) Virtual Team
4 100 (8.44%) Podcast
5 72 (6.08%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.95%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 16 (1.35%) Learning Management System
11 15 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.10%) e-Learning
13 13 (1.10%) Social Media
14 12 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
15 11 (0.93%) Cloud Native
15 11 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
16 10 (0.84%) Blog
16 10 (0.84%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.84%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.33%) Windows
2 17 (1.43%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.93%) Linux
4 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 10 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.084%) Android
7 1 (0.084%) CentOS
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (25.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 245 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
3 221 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 207 (17.47%) Agile
5 205 (17.30%) Project Management
6 198 (16.71%) Customer Service
7 150 (12.66%) Project Delivery
8 148 (12.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 124 (10.46%) Decision-Making
10 100 (8.44%) AI
11 99 (8.35%) Time Management
12 86 (7.26%) PRINCE2
13 83 (7.00%) ITIL
13 83 (7.00%) Migration
14 81 (6.84%) Service Delivery
15 74 (6.24%) Collaborative Working
16 73 (6.16%) Change Management
17 72 (6.08%) Logistics
18 70 (5.91%) Risk Management
19 68 (5.74%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 43 (3.63%) SQL
2 19 (1.60%) Python
3 14 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.10%) Java
5 8 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.34%) C#
9 3 (0.25%) Bash
9 3 (0.25%) Korn
9 3 (0.25%) VBA
10 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.084%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.084%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.084%) COBOL
11 1 (0.084%) Groovy
11 1 (0.084%) PHP
11 1 (0.084%) R
11 1 (0.084%) REXX
Qualifications
1 158 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 154 (13.00%) Degree
3 121 (10.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 115 (9.70%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.70%) PMP
7 30 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (0.93%) CISSP
10 9 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.68%) A+ Certification
11 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.59%) CISM
12 7 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.51%) ACCA
13 6 (0.51%) CIMA
13 6 (0.51%) CIPD
13 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (10.55%) PMO
2 56 (4.73%) QA
3 52 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.21%) GDPR
5 26 (2.19%) SLA
6 25 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.93%) GRC
9 10 (0.84%) NIST
10 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.51%) WCAG
12 5 (0.42%) GAAP
13 4 (0.34%) COBIT
13 4 (0.34%) IFRS
13 4 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
14 3 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.01%) Docker
3 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.17%) Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.084%) Samba
6 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (0.59%) Control-M
4 7 (0.59%) Grafana
4 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.51%) Terraform
6 5 (0.42%) Ansible
6 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 5 (0.42%) WSUS
7 3 (0.25%) Packer
7 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) OPNET
9 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.084%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.084%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 342 (28.86%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.81%) SAP
2 57 (4.81%) ServiceNow
3 47 (3.97%) Oracle
4 42 (3.54%) Google
5 28 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.77%) Cisco
7 16 (1.35%) Adobe
8 13 (1.10%) SolarWinds
9 11 (0.93%) Workday
10 10 (0.84%) Apple
10 10 (0.84%) VMware
11 8 (0.68%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.59%) Braze
12 7 (0.59%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.42%) Aruba
13 5 (0.42%) Concur
13 5 (0.42%) Databricks
13 5 (0.42%) DocuSign
13 5 (0.42%) Xero