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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 132 171
Rank change year-on-year +24 +39 +3
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,328 696 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.44% 2.14% 1.42%
As % of the General category 4.39% 3.37% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 334 317
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £293 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -10.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £550
90th Percentile £615 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £358 £405
% change year-on-year +11.73% -11.60% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 110 37
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.84 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.88 £19.99 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% -33.38% +28.42%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.41 £38.12
90th Percentile - £38.88 £48.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.11 £19.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +18.51% -48.85% +81.65%

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 30,249 20,664 22,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.59% 63.67% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,774 12,794 13,287
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,472 1,190 1,117
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.28
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.54% +35.56%
75th Percentile £54.06 £48.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.39 £37.28
% change year-on-year +40.25% -42.62% +43.38%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +18 1,125 £400 -5.88% 2,296
UK excluding London +6 858 £400 +11.73% 1,685
Work from Home +72 435 £410 +2.62% 752
London +26 391 £450 -5.26% 822
North of England +26 205 £380 -7.88% 391
South East -29 190 £450 +19.21% 498
Midlands +3 148 £389 +24.32% 315
South West +6 111 £288 -24.84% 160
North West +2 95 £460 +22.67% 217
Scotland +44 94 £410 +2.50% 99
West Midlands -8 94 £425 +38.78% 177
Yorkshire +21 77 £365 -8.75% 126
East of England -7 70 £388 -13.89% 175
East Midlands +5 52 £275 -31.25% 137
North East -10 33 £450 -4.76% 54
Northern Ireland +15 29 £290 -19.72% 29
Wales -9 20 - - 42

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 97 (7.30%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.31%) Confluence
3 29 (2.18%) CMS
4 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.60%) WordPress
6 7 (0.53%) Drupal
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.075%) Apache
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) CICS
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 293 (22.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 241 (18.15%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (4.97%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.30%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Magento
2 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) HFM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) Primavera
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.075%) iTrent
7 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.075%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.40%) Azure
3 70 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.67%) AWS
5 30 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.43%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.28%) SaaS
9 16 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.13%) GCP
10 15 (1.13%) Google Sheets
10 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.60%) Miro
12 8 (0.60%) Slack
13 7 (0.53%) Canva
14 6 (0.45%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.45%) Smartsheet
15 5 (0.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.88%) LAN
2 17 (1.28%) WAN
3 12 (0.90%) Firewall
3 12 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.75%) DNS
5 9 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.38%) VLAN
7 5 (0.38%) VPN
8 4 (0.30%) Broadband
8 4 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.23%) Intranet
9 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.23%) VoIP
9 3 (0.23%) Wireless
10 2 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.20%) Power BI
2 12 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 10 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.60%) Tableau
6 7 (0.53%) Power Query
7 5 (0.38%) Metadata
8 4 (0.30%) MS Access
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 2 (0.15%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.075%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.075%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (7.53%) JIRA
2 28 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.58%) Git
4 8 (0.60%) Subversion
5 7 (0.53%) Gradle
5 7 (0.53%) JUnit
6 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.45%) Maven
6 6 (0.45%) Mockito
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 937 (70.56%) Social Skills
2 445 (33.51%) Finance
3 246 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (13.18%) Legal
5 147 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.42%) Retail
7 59 (4.44%) Marketing
8 53 (3.99%) Banking
9 45 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (3.31%) Manufacturing
11 43 (3.24%) Local Government
12 33 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.66%) Military
16 16 (1.20%) Aviation
16 16 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (11.97%) Administrator
2 156 (11.75%) Analyst
3 100 (7.53%) Project Manager
4 80 (6.02%) Coordinator
5 76 (5.72%) Lead
6 75 (5.65%) Support Officer
7 56 (4.22%) Senior
8 51 (3.84%) Project Officer
9 46 (3.46%) Project Support Officer
10 36 (2.71%) Business Analyst
11 33 (2.48%) Project Coordinator
12 30 (2.26%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.11%) IT Support
14 27 (2.03%) Support Engineer
15 25 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (1.73%) Junior
17 22 (1.66%) Developer
18 21 (1.58%) Programme Manager
19 20 (1.51%) PMO Analyst
19 20 (1.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.36%) HTML
2 15 (1.13%) REST
3 14 (1.05%) CSS
3 14 (1.05%) Spring
4 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.98%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.90%) VML
6 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.68%) Kafka
7 9 (0.68%) Middleware
7 9 (0.68%) React
7 9 (0.68%) Redux
8 8 (0.60%) Terraform
8 8 (0.60%) Web Services
9 7 (0.53%) SOAP
10 6 (0.45%) .NET
10 6 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.32%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.96%) Virtual Team
3 115 (8.66%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.28%) Podcast
5 88 (6.63%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (2.11%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.28%) Learning Management System
11 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.05%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.90%) Social Media
14 11 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.75%) Blog
15 10 (0.75%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.50%) Windows
2 16 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.68%) Linux
5 7 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
7 2 (0.15%) zOS
8 1 (0.075%) Android
8 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.075%) Unix
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (27.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 289 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 231 (17.39%) Customer Service
5 219 (16.49%) Agile
6 209 (15.74%) Project Management
7 171 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 166 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 129 (9.71%) Decision-Making
10 113 (8.51%) AI
11 111 (8.36%) Time Management
12 91 (6.85%) PRINCE2
13 89 (6.70%) Change Management
13 89 (6.70%) Service Delivery
14 88 (6.63%) ITIL
15 86 (6.48%) Logistics
16 83 (6.25%) Migration
17 80 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
18 77 (5.80%) Data Protection
18 77 (5.80%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (3.01%) SQL
2 21 (1.58%) Python
3 19 (1.43%) Java
4 14 (1.05%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 8 (0.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.30%) VBA
8 3 (0.23%) R
8 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) C#
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.075%) COBOL
10 1 (0.075%) Groovy
10 1 (0.075%) Perl
10 1 (0.075%) PHP
10 1 (0.075%) REXX
Qualifications
1 184 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.50%) Degree
3 141 (10.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 134 (10.09%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.18%) PMP
9 20 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.83%) CISSP
10 11 (0.83%) HNC
11 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIPD
12 8 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.53%) CISM
13 7 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) ACCA
14 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.38%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.77%) PMO
2 63 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.67%) QA
4 43 (3.24%) GDPR
5 26 (1.96%) SLA
6 23 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.83%) NIST
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.45%) NCSC
12 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.38%) COBIT
12 5 (0.38%) WCAG
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) P3O
14 3 (0.23%) COSHH
14 3 (0.23%) GMP
14 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 39 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 9 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.075%) GPFS
7 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.075%) NFS
7 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.53%) Control-M
4 7 (0.53%) Grafana
4 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
5 6 (0.45%) SCCM
6 5 (0.38%) WSUS
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.075%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 421 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.67%) SAP
3 50 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.54%) Oracle
5 45 (3.39%) Google
6 29 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.66%) Cisco
8 14 (1.05%) Adobe
9 13 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 12 (0.90%) VMware
11 11 (0.83%) Workday
12 10 (0.75%) Apple
13 8 (0.60%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.53%) Braze
14 7 (0.53%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.38%) Aruba
15 5 (0.38%) Databricks
15 5 (0.38%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.38%) Xero
16 4 (0.30%) Civica