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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 145 126
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +68
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 916 570 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.94% 1.81%
As % of the General category 3.57% 3.07% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 338 417
10th Percentile £160 £195 £175
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £530
90th Percentile £625 £725 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £391 £400
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 40 153
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £11.82
25th Percentile £15.72 £15.16 £13.99
Median hourly rate £18.50 £15.87 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.57% -13.51% -23.89%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.74 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.57 £33.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.13 £19.16 £18.00
% change year-on-year -5.35% +6.42% -25.34%

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 25,635 18,544 25,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.57% 63.17% 58.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,828 11,863 15,921
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £496
% change year-on-year - -4.23% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 796 1,927
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.67 £18.13 £15.48
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.17 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -2.88% -17.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.64 £25.43 £27.51
% change year-on-year +0.81% -7.55% -9.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +14 825 £400 -20.00% 610
UK excluding London -3 570 £358 -8.57% 550
London +16 297 £475 -15.56% 147
Work from Home +37 244 £438 -16.67% 227
South East -37 131 £450 +38.46% 174
North of England -15 116 £436 +21.79% 131
Midlands -34 99 £293 -29.35% 89
East of England +22 87 £200 -56.76% 44
South West +12 84 £310 -38.10% 70
West Midlands -44 62 £338 -3.57% 39
Yorkshire -22 60 £400 +1.59% 39
North West -10 47 £438 +27.37% 74
Scotland -16 38 £400 -3.03% 15
East Midlands -14 37 £200 -50.31% 50
Wales -9 12 £213 -35.83% 19
North East -16 9 £450 -21.74% 19
Northern Ireland +8 6 £475 +18.75% 18

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 70 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.28%) Confluence
3 15 (1.64%) CMS
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.76%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) Drupal
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 189 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (7.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (4.91%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (2.18%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.66%) InDesign
7 6 (0.66%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.33%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.55%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 86 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (9.28%) Azure
3 63 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 34 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (2.95%) AWS
6 20 (2.18%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.07%) SaaS
8 11 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.20%) GCP
9 9 (0.98%) GitHub
9 9 (0.98%) OCI
10 6 (0.66%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.66%) Google Analytics
11 5 (0.55%) BigCommerce
11 5 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.44%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.44%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.86%) VPN
2 10 (1.09%) DNS
2 10 (1.09%) LAN
2 10 (1.09%) Skype
3 9 (0.98%) Firewall
4 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.76%) Network Security
6 6 (0.66%) DHCP
6 6 (0.66%) Intranet
6 6 (0.66%) WAN
7 4 (0.44%) SMS
7 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) Internet
8 3 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) NAS
10 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.66%) Power BI
2 15 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.76%) GIS
5 6 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.55%) MySQL
7 4 (0.44%) Metadata
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) Big Data
9 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (8.52%) JIRA
2 15 (1.64%) Git
3 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.98%) JUnit
5 8 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.87%) JMeter
5 8 (0.87%) Selenium
5 8 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) GitLab
8 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 546 (59.61%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.31%) Finance
3 167 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 60 (6.55%) Legal
6 57 (6.22%) Marketing
7 46 (5.02%) Banking
8 41 (4.48%) Retail
9 30 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.86%) Military
14 12 (1.31%) Local Government
15 11 (1.20%) Advertising
15 11 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.20%) Electronics
15 11 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.09%) Billing
16 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (13.10%) Analyst
2 104 (11.35%) Project Manager
3 64 (6.99%) Administrator
4 63 (6.88%) Senior
5 55 (6.00%) Support Officer
6 51 (5.57%) Break Fix Engineer
6 51 (5.57%) Coordinator
7 50 (5.46%) Lead
8 45 (4.91%) IT Support
9 39 (4.26%) Technical Support
10 37 (4.04%) Junior
11 36 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 36 (3.93%) Consultant
12 35 (3.82%) Hardware Engineer
13 34 (3.71%) Project Officer
14 33 (3.60%) Project Support Officer
15 28 (3.06%) Project Coordinator
16 25 (2.73%) Senior Manager
16 25 (2.73%) Senior Project Manager
17 23 (2.51%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.86%) HTML
2 13 (1.42%) VML
3 12 (1.31%) Spring
4 11 (1.20%) CSS
4 11 (1.20%) XML
5 9 (0.98%) Middleware
6 8 (0.87%) WireMock
7 7 (0.76%) REST
8 6 (0.66%) ADO
8 6 (0.66%) JWT
8 6 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.55%) HTML5
9 5 (0.55%) JSON
9 5 (0.55%) OAuth
10 4 (0.44%) Web Services
11 3 (0.33%) .NET
11 3 (0.33%) Kafka
11 3 (0.33%) Node.js
11 3 (0.33%) React
11 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.19%) Onboarding
2 38 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.29%) NHS
6 20 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.97%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.31%) Social Media
10 10 (1.09%) Driving Licence
11 9 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.98%) Insider Threat
11 9 (0.98%) Learning Management System
11 9 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.87%) Blog
12 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
12 8 (0.87%) Tandem
13 7 (0.76%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.86%) Windows
2 22 (2.40%) Windows 10
3 14 (1.53%) Linux
4 10 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
2 210 (22.93%) Project Management
3 197 (21.51%) Time Management
4 154 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 136 (14.85%) Customer Service
6 135 (14.74%) Agile
7 132 (14.41%) Project Delivery
8 131 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (10.26%) Decision-Making
10 88 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 69 (7.53%) Migration
12 68 (7.42%) Data Protection
13 67 (7.31%) Collaborative Working
14 65 (7.10%) AI
15 64 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
15 64 (6.99%) ITIL
16 63 (6.88%) PRINCE2
17 57 (6.22%) Analytics
18 51 (5.57%) Workflow
19 50 (5.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.93%) SQL
2 23 (2.51%) Python
3 16 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.87%) C#
5 7 (0.76%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.55%) Java
8 2 (0.22%) Bash
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) PHP
8 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.11%) Groovy
9 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (13.86%) Degree
2 113 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 101 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.82%) PMP
5 30 (3.28%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.97%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.53%) APMP
10 13 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 10 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
13 9 (0.98%) CISSP
14 5 (0.55%) CSPO
15 4 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 4 (0.44%) CISA
15 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.33%) CISM
16 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.50%) PMO
2 41 (4.48%) QA
3 32 (3.49%) SLA
4 29 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.29%) GDPR
6 20 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 19 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.76%) NIST
9 6 (0.66%) GRC
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.66%) SEPA
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.55%) IFRS
11 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.44%) GAAP
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) WCAG
12 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 47 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.42%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Samba
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.09%) Grafana
3 10 (1.09%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 253 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.10%) HP
2 65 (7.10%) ServiceNow
3 56 (6.11%) SAP
4 31 (3.38%) Google
5 25 (2.73%) Oracle
6 23 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.75%) Adobe
8 15 (1.64%) Cisco
9 14 (1.53%) Apple
9 14 (1.53%) Dell
10 12 (1.31%) Citrix
10 12 (1.31%) Remedy
11 7 (0.76%) Workday
12 6 (0.66%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.55%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.44%) ESRI
15 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
15 3 (0.33%) Databricks
15 3 (0.33%) VMware