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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 165 126
Rank change year-on-year +42 -39 +94
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 905 496 847
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 1.63% 1.90%
As % of the General category 3.84% 2.62% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 292 416
10th Percentile £158 £195 £205
25th Percentile £210 £313 £229
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 £700 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 18 123
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.25 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.86 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.50 £22.27 £15.40
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +44.61% -42.39%
75th Percentile £24.55 £27.91 £30.50
90th Percentile £35.71 £30.75 £40.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £24.00 £14.27
% change year-on-year -22.92% +68.24% -48.81%

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 23,589 18,910 26,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.66% 62.08% 58.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,768 11,381 16,900
10th Percentile £298 £284 £266
25th Percentile £404 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,455 595 1,648
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.36 £20.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £29.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +12.80% -4.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £71.80 £75.00 £67.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.73 £27.13 £24.83
% change year-on-year -19.91% +9.26% -0.70%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +47 805 £425 -15.00% 672
UK excluding London +35 589 £375 -6.25% 602
London +16 261 £475 -9.52% 176
Work from Home +7 211 £450 -13.38% 238
South East +36 146 £459 +41.08% 217
North of England -16 103 £450 +28.57% 112
East of England +40 98 £273 -46.42% 73
Midlands -3 96 £278 -35.44% 105
South West +20 85 £210 -61.82% 64
West Midlands -16 58 £356 -20.48% 76
North West +3 56 £438 +34.62% 57
East Midlands +4 38 £200 -50.31% 29
Yorkshire -40 37 £447 +25.03% 40
Scotland -16 32 £375 - 26
Northern Ireland +10 17 £475 -15.56% 4
Wales 0 16 £213 +18.06% 13
North East -7 10 £450 -23.40% 16

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 76 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.31%) Confluence
3 8 (0.88%) CMS
4 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.66%) SAS
6 5 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 168 (18.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (15.14%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (6.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.54%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.44%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.44%) InDesign
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) CATIA
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.77%) 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
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
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%) Workfront
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 72 (7.96%) Azure
2 62 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (4.86%) Power Platform
4 25 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (2.43%) Google Workspace
6 17 (1.88%) AWS
7 13 (1.44%) SaaS
8 9 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 6 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.66%) GitHub
10 5 (0.55%) OCI
10 5 (0.55%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.44%) BigCommerce
11 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.44%) Smartsheet
12 3 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.33%) GCP
12 3 (0.33%) Google Drive
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.21%) VPN
2 12 (1.33%) LAN
3 10 (1.10%) Skype
3 10 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (0.99%) DNS
5 8 (0.88%) WAN
6 7 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.66%) DHCP
7 6 (0.66%) Firewall
7 6 (0.66%) Internet
8 5 (0.55%) Network Security
9 3 (0.33%) Intranet
9 3 (0.33%) VLAN
10 2 (0.22%) MPLS
10 2 (0.22%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) Wireless
11 1 (0.11%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.64%) Power BI
2 7 (0.77%) GIS
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 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
6 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (7.96%) JIRA
2 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.66%) Git
4 3 (0.33%) GitLab
4 3 (0.33%) Maven
4 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) Postman
6 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.11%) JUnit
6 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 570 (62.98%) Social Skills
2 234 (25.86%) Finance
3 142 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 52 (5.75%) Marketing
6 43 (4.75%) Banking
7 41 (4.53%) Retail
8 40 (4.42%) Legal
9 28 (3.09%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 22 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.66%) Electronics
13 15 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.33%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.99%) Billing
17 9 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (13.37%) Analyst
2 103 (11.38%) Project Manager
3 75 (8.29%) IT Support
4 52 (5.75%) Administrator
4 52 (5.75%) Support Officer
5 51 (5.64%) Break Fix Engineer
5 51 (5.64%) Coordinator
5 51 (5.64%) Senior
6 50 (5.52%) Lead
7 45 (4.97%) Technical Support
8 38 (4.20%) Hardware Engineer
9 34 (3.76%) Junior
10 32 (3.54%) Business Analyst
11 27 (2.98%) Support Engineer
12 26 (2.87%) Consultant
13 25 (2.76%) Project Coordinator
14 24 (2.65%) 1st Line Support
14 24 (2.65%) Field Engineer
14 24 (2.65%) Project Officer
14 24 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.88%) HTML
1 8 (0.88%) VML
2 7 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.66%) Spring
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
7 2 (0.22%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.18%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.98%) NHS
4 23 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.33%) Insider Threat
11 10 (1.10%) Social Media
12 7 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.66%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.66%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 86 (9.50%) Windows
2 29 (3.20%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.54%) Linux
4 9 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
2 202 (22.32%) Time Management
3 196 (21.66%) Project Management
4 153 (16.91%) Customer Service
5 135 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 121 (13.37%) Agile
7 118 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (11.49%) Project Delivery
9 85 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 73 (8.07%) Collaborative Working
10 73 (8.07%) Migration
11 70 (7.73%) Decision-Making
12 67 (7.40%) ITIL
13 63 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
14 62 (6.85%) PRINCE2
15 60 (6.63%) Asset Management
15 60 (6.63%) Risk Management
16 52 (5.75%) Data Protection
17 47 (5.19%) Cybersecurity
18 46 (5.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.98%) SQL
2 24 (2.65%) Python
3 11 (1.22%) Java
4 10 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.66%) R
6 5 (0.55%) C#
6 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.11%) Korn
8 1 (0.11%) PHP
8 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 118 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 115 (12.71%) Degree
4 32 (3.54%) PMP
5 25 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.88%) DBS Check
9 15 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.44%) APMP
10 13 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
11 11 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (0.66%) CISSP
13 5 (0.55%) HND
13 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
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 76 (8.40%) PMO
2 36 (3.98%) SLA
3 35 (3.87%) QA
4 27 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.99%) GDPR
7 12 (1.33%) GRC
8 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.10%) Def Stans
9 10 (1.10%) NIST
10 9 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.88%) 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%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.22%) PSD2
16 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) Docker
4 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 31 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.99%) ServiceCenter
3 5 (0.55%) SCCM
4 3 (0.33%) Ansible
4 3 (0.33%) Terraform
5 2 (0.22%) Grafana
5 2 (0.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.11%) Packer
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.11%) SCOM
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 258 (28.51%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.96%) HP
3 62 (6.85%) SAP
4 44 (4.86%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.32%) Oracle
7 20 (2.21%) Google
8 16 (1.77%) Citrix
9 15 (1.66%) Adobe
10 13 (1.44%) Apple
10 13 (1.44%) Cisco
11 12 (1.33%) Dell
11 12 (1.33%) Remedy
12 7 (0.77%) Workday
13 6 (0.66%) Datto
13 6 (0.66%) VMware
14 5 (0.55%) Computacenter
15 4 (0.44%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.44%) ESRI
15 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft