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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 141 170
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +11
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,077 678 617
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.04% 2.07% 1.51%
As % of the General category 3.72% 3.30% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 343 375
10th Percentile £181 £185 £154
25th Percentile £270 £300 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year - +4.94% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £524
90th Percentile £628 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £365 £375
% change year-on-year +9.51% -2.60% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 77 106
10th Percentile £13.76 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £15.07
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.97 £37.31
Median % change year-on-year +22.68% -46.48% +77.24%
75th Percentile £43.96 £28.42 £38.12
90th Percentile - £42.92 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £19.97 £38.12
% change year-on-year +38.96% -47.61% +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 28,964 20,559 23,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.88% 62.90% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,254 12,873 14,752
10th Percentile £313 £280 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.67% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 1,074 1,616
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.36 £13.51
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.26 £16.29
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -27.88% +15.78%
75th Percentile £61.18 £51.73 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.92 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £22.63 £35.36
% change year-on-year +48.03% -36.00% +36.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +7 950 £438 +2.94% 968
UK excluding London -21 652 £400 +9.51% 812
London +30 372 £450 -14.29% 262
Work from Home +55 358 £450 -4.26% 347
North of England +18 166 £438 +16.67% 185
South East -49 144 £450 +12.50% 271
South West +31 109 £310 -0.96% 78
Midlands -35 97 £350 +7.69% 162
Yorkshire +1 72 £382 -4.50% 59
West Midlands -46 70 £425 +30.77% 78
North West -10 68 £508 +45.07% 96
Scotland -2 56 £425 -5.56% 18
East of England -1 49 £400 +88.24% 97
East Midlands -10 26 £275 +22.22% 84
North East -15 26 £450 +5.88% 32
Northern Ireland +14 20 £313 -13.49% 6
Wales -13 14 - - 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 70 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.34%) Confluence
3 27 (2.51%) CMS
4 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.65%) WordPress
6 6 (0.56%) Drupal
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.093%) Camunda
9 1 (0.093%) CICS
9 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.093%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 203 (18.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (12.72%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (7.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.21%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.56%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.46%) InDesign
9 4 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.28%) Trello
11 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.093%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.093%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Magento
2 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.37%) HFM
4 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) Primavera
5 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) TrackWise
7 1 (0.093%) Actimize
7 1 (0.093%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.093%) iTrent
7 1 (0.093%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.093%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.093%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 101 (9.38%) Azure
2 80 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (5.39%) Power Platform
4 57 (5.29%) AWS
5 38 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (2.41%) SaaS
7 21 (1.95%) GCP
8 19 (1.76%) Google Workspace
9 17 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.11%) OCI
11 11 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (0.84%) Google Sheets
13 8 (0.74%) GitHub
14 7 (0.65%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.65%) Slack
15 6 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.56%) Serverless
16 5 (0.46%) Google Analytics
16 5 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.23%) LAN
2 13 (1.21%) DNS
3 12 (1.11%) Firewall
3 12 (1.11%) Network Security
3 12 (1.11%) VPN
3 12 (1.11%) WAN
4 8 (0.74%) MPLS
4 8 (0.74%) VLAN
5 7 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.65%) DHCP
5 7 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.46%) Skype
6 5 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.37%) Intranet
7 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.37%) SMS
7 4 (0.37%) VoIP
8 3 (0.28%) Broadband
8 3 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.39%) Power BI
2 17 (1.58%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (0.93%) Tableau
5 7 (0.65%) GIS
5 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.56%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.28%) MS Access
8 3 (0.28%) MySQL
8 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.28%) Power Query
9 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.19%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.19%) Metadata
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 91 (8.45%) JIRA
2 25 (2.32%) Git
2 25 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 9 (0.84%) Cucumber
3 9 (0.84%) JMeter
3 9 (0.84%) JUnit
3 9 (0.84%) Selenium
3 9 (0.84%) WebDriver
4 8 (0.74%) Subversion
5 5 (0.46%) GitLab
5 5 (0.46%) Gradle
6 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.19%) Vite
9 1 (0.093%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.093%) Postman
9 1 (0.093%) ScriptRunner
General
1 717 (66.57%) Social Skills
2 369 (34.26%) Finance
3 205 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (12.35%) Legal
5 109 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.66%) Marketing
6 61 (5.66%) Retail
7 55 (5.11%) Banking
8 32 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.23%) Local Government
12 23 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.76%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.49%) Military
15 13 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.11%) Advertising
16 12 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 144 (13.37%) Analyst
2 103 (9.56%) Project Manager
3 75 (6.96%) Administrator
4 70 (6.50%) Lead
5 61 (5.66%) Support Officer
6 60 (5.57%) Senior
7 53 (4.92%) Coordinator
8 46 (4.27%) Project Officer
9 40 (3.71%) Project Support Officer
10 38 (3.53%) Business Analyst
11 32 (2.97%) IT Support
12 28 (2.60%) Project Coordinator
13 26 (2.41%) IT Manager
14 23 (2.14%) Junior
14 23 (2.14%) Support Engineer
15 22 (2.04%) Senior Manager
15 22 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
16 20 (1.86%) Consultant
17 19 (1.76%) PMO Analyst
17 19 (1.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.86%) HTML
2 16 (1.49%) CSS
3 15 (1.39%) Spring
4 13 (1.21%) VML
5 12 (1.11%) XML
6 11 (1.02%) Middleware
7 10 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.84%) Kafka
8 9 (0.84%) WireMock
9 8 (0.74%) React
10 7 (0.65%) .NET
10 7 (0.65%) Redux
10 7 (0.65%) REST
11 6 (0.56%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.46%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.37%) JSON
13 4 (0.37%) JWT
14 3 (0.28%) HTML5
14 3 (0.28%) Node.js
14 3 (0.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 74 (6.87%) Virtual Team
3 73 (6.78%) Web Conferencing
4 66 (6.13%) Podcast
5 58 (5.39%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.30%) Learning Management System
11 12 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.02%) Social Media
13 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.93%) Life Science
14 9 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
14 9 (0.84%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 84 (7.80%) Windows
2 19 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.93%) Linux
5 9 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.093%) Android
7 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.093%) CentOS
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (18.57%) Project Management
4 194 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 193 (17.92%) Agile
6 153 (14.21%) Customer Service
7 148 (13.74%) Project Delivery
8 132 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 118 (10.96%) Decision-Making
10 104 (9.66%) AI
11 99 (9.19%) Time Management
12 79 (7.34%) ITIL
13 77 (7.15%) PRINCE2
14 71 (6.59%) Migration
15 69 (6.41%) Collaborative Working
16 68 (6.31%) DevOps
16 68 (6.31%) Service Delivery
17 67 (6.22%) Logistics
18 66 (6.13%) Risk Management
19 65 (6.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (4.27%) SQL
2 18 (1.67%) Python
3 14 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 9 (0.84%) Java
5 8 (0.74%) C#
6 7 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.28%) Bash
8 3 (0.28%) Korn
9 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.19%) VBA
10 1 (0.093%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.093%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.093%) COBOL
10 1 (0.093%) Groovy
10 1 (0.093%) PHP
10 1 (0.093%) R
10 1 (0.093%) REXX
Qualifications
1 159 (14.76%) Degree
2 138 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 103 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 81 (7.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.16%) PMP
6 30 (2.79%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.60%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.02%) CISSP
11 9 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.74%) A+ Certification
13 7 (0.65%) CIMA
13 7 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.56%) ACCA
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.46%) CCNA
15 5 (0.46%) CISM
15 5 (0.46%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (10.40%) PMO
2 50 (4.64%) QA
3 40 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.97%) GDPR
5 27 (2.51%) SLA
6 21 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.11%) NIST
9 11 (1.02%) GRC
10 9 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.65%) IFRS
13 6 (0.56%) GAAP
13 6 (0.56%) SEPA
14 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.37%) NCSC
15 4 (0.37%) PSD2
16 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.39%) Docker
3 5 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.093%) Samba
6 1 (0.093%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.93%) Grafana
5 9 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.74%) Terraform
7 5 (0.46%) Ansible
7 5 (0.46%) Control-M
8 4 (0.37%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.28%) Packer
9 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) OPNET
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.093%) Kibana
11 1 (0.093%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.093%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 65 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 48 (4.46%) Oracle
4 45 (4.18%) SAP
5 42 (3.90%) Google
6 25 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.23%) Cisco
8 16 (1.49%) Adobe
9 12 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 10 (0.93%) Apple
10 10 (0.93%) Workday
11 8 (0.74%) VMware
12 7 (0.65%) Braze
12 7 (0.65%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.56%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.46%) Aruba
14 5 (0.46%) Concur
14 5 (0.46%) Databricks
14 5 (0.46%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.46%) Remedy