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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +57
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 908 603 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.10% 1.67%
As % of the General category 3.46% 3.32% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 315 407
10th Percentile £163 £195 £165
25th Percentile £250 £310 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% -5.61%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £532
90th Percentile £625 £725 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £415
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.64% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 56 148
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £13.50 £13.97
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.67 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -9.18% -17.66%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.98 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.82 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.35 £19.16 £18.24
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.02% -13.08%

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 26,273 18,154 24,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.80% 63.36% 57.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,928 11,519 15,575
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.60% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,739 792 1,958
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.34 £28.25
% change year-on-year +19.17% -13.86% +2.36%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +2 821 £425 -10.05% 709
UK excluding London -22 559 £400 +6.67% 614
London +23 310 £450 -18.18% 187
Work from Home +11 239 £450 -9.32% 270
North of England -17 119 £438 +12.90% 134
South East -56 117 £450 +18.42% 208
Midlands -36 98 £275 -21.43% 107
South West +27 91 £310 -38.10% 53
East of England +14 77 £200 -50.00% 81
West Midlands -54 61 £350 +7.69% 53
Yorkshire -19 59 £423 +5.63% 47
North West -17 51 £450 +25.70% 78
Scotland -13 40 £400 +6.67% 18
East Midlands -9 36 £200 -48.85% 53
Wales -15 11 £213 -35.83% 13
North East -26 9 £450 - 11
Northern Ireland +6 8 £313 -16.11% 12

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 72 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.52%) Confluence
3 16 (1.76%) CMS
4 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.77%) 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%) CICS
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
1 178 (19.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (13.88%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.99%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.55%) InDesign
7 5 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.33%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.77%) Magento
4 6 (0.66%) Shopify
5 4 (0.44%) HFM
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.33%) Maximo
6 3 (0.33%) Primavera
6 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.11%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (10.24%) Azure
2 81 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 34 (3.74%) AWS
4 34 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (2.31%) SaaS
6 20 (2.20%) Google Workspace
7 13 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.21%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.21%) GCP
8 11 (1.21%) OCI
9 9 (0.99%) Google Sheets
10 8 (0.88%) GitHub
11 6 (0.66%) BigCommerce
12 5 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.44%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.76%) VPN
2 12 (1.32%) LAN
3 11 (1.21%) DNS
4 9 (0.99%) Firewall
4 9 (0.99%) Skype
5 8 (0.88%) WAN
6 7 (0.77%) Intranet
6 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.66%) DHCP
7 6 (0.66%) Network Security
8 4 (0.44%) SMS
8 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 4 (0.44%) VoIP
9 3 (0.33%) MPLS
9 3 (0.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.84%) Power BI
2 17 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (0.77%) GIS
4 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.66%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.55%) MySQL
6 5 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.55%) Tableau
7 4 (0.44%) Metadata
8 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.33%) MS Access
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (8.37%) JIRA
2 20 (2.20%) Git
3 13 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.99%) JUnit
5 8 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.88%) JMeter
5 8 (0.88%) Selenium
5 8 (0.88%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) GitLab
7 4 (0.44%) Subversion
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.22%) Vite
9 1 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.11%) Maven
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 549 (60.46%) Social Skills
2 253 (27.86%) Finance
3 171 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.16%) Legal
6 50 (5.51%) Marketing
7 49 (5.40%) Retail
8 48 (5.29%) Banking
9 28 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.09%) Local Government
12 17 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.76%) Military
14 14 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.10%) Advertising
15 10 (1.10%) Electronics
16 9 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (13.88%) Analyst
2 112 (12.33%) Project Manager
3 67 (7.38%) Senior
4 62 (6.83%) Administrator
5 55 (6.06%) Support Officer
6 49 (5.40%) Lead
7 46 (5.07%) Coordinator
8 41 (4.52%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.41%) IT Support
10 37 (4.07%) Project Officer
11 36 (3.96%) Project Support Officer
12 34 (3.74%) Consultant
12 34 (3.74%) Technical Support
13 30 (3.30%) Senior Manager
13 30 (3.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 28 (3.08%) Hardware Engineer
15 27 (2.97%) Break Fix Engineer
15 27 (2.97%) Project Coordinator
16 23 (2.53%) Junior
17 22 (2.42%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.87%) HTML
1 17 (1.87%) VML
2 12 (1.32%) CSS
3 11 (1.21%) Spring
3 11 (1.21%) XML
4 10 (1.10%) Middleware
4 10 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (0.88%) WireMock
6 6 (0.66%) .NET
7 5 (0.55%) HTML5
7 5 (0.55%) JWT
7 5 (0.55%) REST
8 4 (0.44%) ADO
8 4 (0.44%) JSON
8 4 (0.44%) Kafka
8 4 (0.44%) OAuth
8 4 (0.44%) Web Services
9 3 (0.33%) Node.js
9 3 (0.33%) React
9 3 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.09%) NHS
7 15 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.21%) Learning Management System
10 10 (1.10%) e-Learning
10 10 (1.10%) Insider Threat
11 9 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (0.99%) Social Media
12 7 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.77%) Driving Licence
12 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.66%) Blog
13 6 (0.66%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.81%) Windows
2 23 (2.53%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.32%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.10%) Linux
5 9 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (23.57%) Project Management
3 179 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 151 (16.63%) Time Management
5 148 (16.30%) Agile
6 144 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 135 (14.87%) Project Delivery
8 125 (13.77%) Customer Service
9 104 (11.45%) Decision-Making
10 88 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 80 (8.81%) AI
12 72 (7.93%) Migration
13 69 (7.60%) ITIL
14 65 (7.16%) Collaborative Working
15 64 (7.05%) Data Protection
15 64 (7.05%) PRINCE2
16 59 (6.50%) Business Intelligence
17 58 (6.39%) Logistics
17 58 (6.39%) Programme Management
18 57 (6.28%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 35 (3.85%) SQL
2 17 (1.87%) Python
3 11 (1.21%) PowerShell
4 9 (0.99%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.88%) C#
6 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.55%) Java
8 3 (0.33%) Bash
9 2 (0.22%) Korn
9 2 (0.22%) PHP
9 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.22%) VBA
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.11%) COBOL
10 1 (0.11%) Groovy
10 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.11%) R
10 1 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 139 (15.31%) Degree
2 111 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.74%) PMP
5 28 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.98%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.54%) APMP
10 12 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (0.88%) CISSP
14 7 (0.77%) CIMA
15 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.66%) ACCA
16 5 (0.55%) CSPO
17 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.46%) PMO
2 43 (4.74%) QA
3 34 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.41%) SLA
5 22 (2.42%) GDPR
6 19 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 19 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.99%) NIST
8 8 (0.88%) GRC
8 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.77%) IFRS
10 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.66%) SEPA
11 5 (0.55%) GAAP
12 4 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.44%) PSD2
12 4 (0.44%) WCAG
13 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 54 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.43%) Docker
3 3 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) Samba
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.10%) Grafana
3 10 (1.10%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.55%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) Ansible
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) OPNET
6 2 (0.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 240 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.50%) ServiceNow
3 58 (6.39%) SAP
4 40 (4.41%) HP
5 35 (3.85%) Oracle
6 32 (3.52%) Google
7 22 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.20%) Cisco
9 15 (1.65%) Adobe
9 15 (1.65%) Apple
10 14 (1.54%) Dell
11 12 (1.32%) Remedy
12 11 (1.21%) Citrix
13 6 (0.66%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.55%) Concur
14 5 (0.55%) DocuSign
15 4 (0.44%) Databricks
15 4 (0.44%) Tagetik
15 4 (0.44%) Workday