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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 134 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +51 -12
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,198 676 531
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.06% 1.36%
As % of the General category 4.06% 3.25% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 335 328
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £436
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -6.48% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £526
90th Percentile £625 £700 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 87 72
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.87 £14.67 £19.96
Median hourly rate £27.75 £19.83 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +39.94% -47.98% +65.31%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.86 -
90th Percentile - £42.92 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.10 £19.49 £38.12
% change year-on-year +59.55% -48.87% +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 29,473 20,824 22,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.03% 63.53% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 12,952 13,943
10th Percentile £313 £275 £294
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 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,149 1,317
10th Percentile £13.94 £13.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.20 £16.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £56.21 £50.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.38 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £35.36
% change year-on-year +46.79% -37.39% +41.44%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +15 1,031 £425 - 1,406
UK excluding London +5 752 £400 +7.38% 1,277
Work from Home +71 410 £425 -5.56% 430
London +38 378 £450 -6.49% 316
North of England +20 194 £425 - 310
South East -46 162 £425 +6.25% 388
Midlands -18 118 £375 +20.00% 238
South West +26 110 £310 -19.08% 132
North West +1 86 £485 +32.33% 164
Scotland +26 76 £425 +6.25% 51
Yorkshire +10 76 £367 -16.70% 100
West Midlands -28 76 £443 +41.60% 138
East of England +6 57 £350 -3.45% 130
East Midlands -4 41 £275 -12.00% 100
North East -10 32 £488 +3.17% 52
Northern Ireland +19 28 £225 -39.60% 13
Wales -17 14 - - 37

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 80 (6.68%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.84%) Confluence
3 32 (2.67%) CMS
4 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.58%) Drupal
6 6 (0.50%) WordPress
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.083%) Camunda
10 1 (0.083%) CICS
10 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.083%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.083%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.083%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.083%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 242 (20.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 187 (15.61%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (5.01%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.09%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.42%) InDesign
9 4 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.25%) Trello
11 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.083%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.083%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.083%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.09%) Magento
2 7 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) HFM
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
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 (0.083%) Actimize
7 1 (0.083%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.083%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.083%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.083%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 88 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
2 86 (7.18%) Azure
3 63 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 52 (4.34%) AWS
5 32 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.75%) SaaS
8 18 (1.50%) Google Workspace
9 15 (1.25%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (1.17%) GCP
11 11 (0.92%) Google Sheets
12 9 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.67%) OCI
14 7 (0.58%) Slack
15 6 (0.50%) GitHub
15 6 (0.50%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.50%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.42%) Miro
16 5 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.00%) LAN
2 14 (1.17%) WAN
3 12 (1.00%) Firewall
3 12 (1.00%) Network Security
4 11 (0.92%) DNS
5 9 (0.75%) MPLS
6 7 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (0.50%) VLAN
7 6 (0.50%) 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 (0.33%) Broadband
9 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.25%) SMS
10 3 (0.25%) VoIP
10 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.26%) Power BI
2 17 (1.42%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.67%) Tableau
4 7 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.42%) Metadata
7 4 (0.33%) Power Query
7 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.25%) Big Data
8 3 (0.25%) MySQL
8 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
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 (0.083%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.083%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 85 (7.10%) JIRA
2 24 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.50%) Git
4 8 (0.67%) Subversion
5 7 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.58%) Gradle
6 5 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.33%) JMeter
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) JUnit
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.083%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.083%) MSI
General
1 833 (69.53%) Social Skills
2 419 (34.97%) Finance
3 231 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (14.69%) Legal
5 125 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 63 (5.26%) Retail
7 58 (4.84%) Banking
7 58 (4.84%) Marketing
8 41 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (3.09%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.01%) Local Government
11 33 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.34%) Military
15 13 (1.09%) Advertising
15 13 (1.09%) Publishing
16 12 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (12.10%) Analyst
2 108 (9.02%) Administrator
3 101 (8.43%) Project Manager
4 69 (5.76%) Lead
5 65 (5.43%) Support Officer
6 59 (4.92%) Coordinator
7 57 (4.76%) Senior
8 50 (4.17%) Project Officer
9 44 (3.67%) Project Support Officer
10 38 (3.17%) Business Analyst
11 29 (2.42%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.25%) IT Support
13 26 (2.17%) Support Engineer
14 25 (2.09%) Project Coordinator
15 24 (2.00%) Junior
16 21 (1.75%) Delivery Manager
16 21 (1.75%) Senior Manager
17 20 (1.67%) PMO Analyst
17 20 (1.67%) Senior Project Manager
17 20 (1.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.84%) HTML
2 17 (1.42%) CSS
3 13 (1.09%) VML
4 11 (0.92%) Kafka
4 11 (0.92%) Middleware
4 11 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.92%) Spring
4 11 (0.92%) XML
5 10 (0.83%) React
5 10 (0.83%) REST
6 9 (0.75%) Redux
7 8 (0.67%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.58%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.50%) .NET
9 6 (0.50%) Terraform
10 3 (0.25%) JWT
10 3 (0.25%) ODBC
10 3 (0.25%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.25%) Web Services
10 3 (0.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.10%) Onboarding
2 118 (9.85%) Web Conferencing
3 117 (9.77%) Virtual Team
4 111 (9.27%) Podcast
5 68 (5.68%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 22 (1.84%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.34%) Learning Management System
10 14 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.09%) e-Learning
12 12 (1.00%) Freedom of Information
12 12 (1.00%) Social Media
13 11 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.83%) Blog
14 10 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.83%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.43%) Windows
2 16 (1.34%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.83%) Linux
3 10 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.083%) Android
7 1 (0.083%) CentOS
7 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (25.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 246 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
3 218 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 210 (17.53%) Agile
5 206 (17.20%) Customer Service
6 201 (16.78%) Project Management
7 154 (12.85%) Project Delivery
8 150 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 124 (10.35%) Decision-Making
10 103 (8.60%) AI
11 97 (8.10%) Time Management
12 85 (7.10%) PRINCE2
13 84 (7.01%) ITIL
14 82 (6.84%) Migration
14 82 (6.84%) Service Delivery
15 78 (6.51%) Change Management
16 76 (6.34%) Collaborative Working
17 74 (6.18%) Logistics
18 71 (5.93%) Data Protection
19 69 (5.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (3.59%) SQL
2 21 (1.75%) Python
3 14 (1.17%) Java
4 13 (1.09%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.25%) C#
7 3 (0.25%) VBA
8 2 (0.17%) Bash
8 2 (0.17%) Korn
8 2 (0.17%) R
8 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.083%) COBOL
9 1 (0.083%) Groovy
9 1 (0.083%) PHP
9 1 (0.083%) REXX
Qualifications
1 162 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 156 (13.02%) Degree
3 133 (11.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 118 (9.85%) SC Cleared
5 41 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.67%) PMP
7 30 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (0.92%) CISSP
10 9 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.67%) A+ Certification
11 8 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.58%) CISM
12 7 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.50%) ACCA
13 6 (0.50%) CIMA
13 6 (0.50%) CIPD
13 6 (0.50%) HNC
13 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (10.52%) PMO
2 58 (4.84%) QA
3 52 (4.34%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.09%) GDPR
5 27 (2.25%) SLA
6 25 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.92%) GRC
9 10 (0.83%) NIST
10 9 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.50%) WCAG
12 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.42%) COBIT
12 5 (0.42%) NCSC
13 4 (0.33%) GAAP
13 4 (0.33%) IFRS
14 3 (0.25%) GMP
14 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.58%) Docker
2 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.083%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.083%) Samba
5 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 7 (0.58%) Control-M
4 5 (0.42%) Ansible
4 5 (0.42%) SCCM
4 5 (0.42%) WSUS
5 3 (0.25%) Grafana
5 3 (0.25%) Packer
5 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.17%) OPNET
7 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.083%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.083%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 348 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.67%) SAP
3 55 (4.59%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.84%) Oracle
5 41 (3.42%) Google
6 28 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.84%) Cisco
8 16 (1.34%) Adobe
9 13 (1.09%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.92%) Workday
11 10 (0.83%) Apple
11 10 (0.83%) VMware
12 8 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.58%) Braze
13 7 (0.58%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.42%) Aruba
14 5 (0.42%) Concur
14 5 (0.42%) Databricks
14 5 (0.42%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.42%) Xero