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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 133 179
Rank change year-on-year +10 +46 -7
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,165 687 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.08% 1.40%
As % of the General category 3.97% 3.29% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 344 338
10th Percentile £184 £185 £158
25th Percentile £263 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £439 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +6.07% -8.13%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £520
90th Percentile £625 £713 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £391
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.09% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 89 81
10th Percentile £13.82 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.86 £14.84 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.07 £19.97 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -47.61% +64.17%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.21 -
90th Percentile - £39.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £19.97 £38.12
% change year-on-year +40.21% -47.61% +81.31%

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 29,379 20,909 22,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.43% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,437 13,057 14,049
10th Percentile £313 £279 £290
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 £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.89% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,133 1,375
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £17.04
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +46.79% -41.92% +51.72%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +17 1,016 £425 -5.56% 1,781
UK excluding London -6 718 £400 +6.67% 1,446
Work from Home +56 386 £425 -10.53% 611
London +30 384 £450 -14.29% 549
North of England +13 182 £423 +5.63% 347
South East -55 151 £450 +12.50% 434
Midlands -21 119 £375 +17.65% 245
South West +37 114 £305 -21.86% 156
West Midlands -26 79 £425 +30.77% 133
Yorkshire +7 78 £370 -17.78% 120
North West -11 74 £500 +39.66% 179
Scotland +15 64 £425 -5.56% 71
East of England -3 53 £354 +57.22% 152
East Midlands +7 39 £275 +30.33% 112
North East -18 30 £450 -4.76% 53
Northern Ireland +19 24 £225 -37.72% 23
Wales -8 14 - - 43

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 75 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.78%) Confluence
3 30 (2.58%) CMS
4 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Drupal
5 7 (0.60%) WordPress
6 5 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.086%) Camunda
9 1 (0.086%) CICS
9 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.086%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.086%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.086%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
Applications
1 225 (19.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (14.59%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (7.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.43%) InDesign
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.26%) Trello
11 1 (0.086%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.086%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.086%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.12%) Magento
2 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.34%) HFM
4 4 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.086%) Actimize
7 1 (0.086%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.086%) iTrent
7 1 (0.086%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.086%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.086%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 94 (8.07%) Azure
2 86 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (5.24%) AWS
4 58 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 33 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.06%) SaaS
7 21 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.80%) GCP
8 20 (1.72%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (0.94%) Google Sheets
11 10 (0.86%) GitHub
12 9 (0.77%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.69%) OCI
13 8 (0.69%) Slack
14 7 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.52%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.52%) OneDrive
15 6 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.06%) LAN
2 13 (1.12%) DNS
2 13 (1.12%) Firewall
2 13 (1.12%) WAN
3 12 (1.03%) Network Security
4 8 (0.69%) MPLS
4 8 (0.69%) VPN
5 7 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.60%) VLAN
6 6 (0.52%) DHCP
7 5 (0.43%) Intranet
7 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.43%) VoIP
8 4 (0.34%) Broadband
8 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.26%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.26%) SAN
9 3 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.98%) Power BI
2 18 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.77%) Tableau
5 7 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.34%) MySQL
6 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.26%) Big Data
7 3 (0.26%) Metadata
7 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.26%) Power Query
8 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.17%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.17%) GIS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.17%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.17%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 96 (8.24%) JIRA
2 28 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.15%) Git
4 10 (0.86%) Cucumber
4 10 (0.86%) Selenium
5 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 9 (0.77%) JMeter
5 9 (0.77%) JUnit
5 9 (0.77%) WebDriver
6 8 (0.69%) Subversion
7 7 (0.60%) Gradle
8 5 (0.43%) GitLab
8 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) Vite
11 1 (0.086%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 792 (67.98%) Social Skills
2 401 (34.42%) Finance
3 228 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (13.39%) Legal
5 119 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.58%) Marketing
6 65 (5.58%) Retail
7 57 (4.89%) Banking
8 37 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.49%) Local Government
10 29 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.37%) Military
15 13 (1.12%) Advertising
15 13 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (11.85%) Analyst
2 104 (8.93%) Administrator
2 104 (8.93%) Project Manager
3 74 (6.35%) Lead
4 63 (5.41%) Support Officer
5 62 (5.32%) Senior
6 50 (4.29%) Coordinator
7 49 (4.21%) Project Officer
8 43 (3.69%) Project Support Officer
9 39 (3.35%) Business Analyst
10 28 (2.40%) IT Manager
11 27 (2.32%) IT Support
12 25 (2.15%) Junior
13 24 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
13 24 (2.06%) Project Coordinator
13 24 (2.06%) Support Engineer
14 21 (1.80%) Senior Manager
14 21 (1.80%) Senior Project Manager
15 20 (1.72%) Test Manager
16 19 (1.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.89%) HTML
2 17 (1.46%) CSS
2 17 (1.46%) Spring
3 13 (1.12%) VML
4 12 (1.03%) Kafka
4 12 (1.03%) Middleware
4 12 (1.03%) XML
5 11 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (0.86%) React
6 10 (0.86%) REST
7 9 (0.77%) Redux
7 9 (0.77%) WireMock
8 8 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.60%) .NET
9 7 (0.60%) Hibernate
10 4 (0.34%) JSON
10 4 (0.34%) JWT
11 3 (0.26%) HTML5
11 3 (0.26%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.61%) Onboarding
2 96 (8.24%) Web Conferencing
3 95 (8.15%) Virtual Team
4 89 (7.64%) Podcast
5 69 (5.92%) Management Information System
6 42 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.63%) Driving Licence
10 16 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.29%) Learning Management System
11 15 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.29%) Social Media
12 13 (1.12%) e-Learning
13 12 (1.03%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.94%) Cloud Native
14 11 (0.94%) Freedom of Information
14 11 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.86%) Blog
15 10 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.70%) Windows
2 18 (1.55%) Windows 10
3 12 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.94%) Linux
5 9 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.086%) Android
8 1 (0.086%) CentOS
8 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (24.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 243 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
3 221 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 209 (17.94%) Agile
5 205 (17.60%) Project Management
6 181 (15.54%) Customer Service
7 154 (13.22%) Project Delivery
8 147 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 124 (10.64%) Decision-Making
10 105 (9.01%) Time Management
11 104 (8.93%) AI
12 86 (7.38%) PRINCE2
13 82 (7.04%) Migration
14 77 (6.61%) ITIL
15 75 (6.44%) Service Delivery
16 73 (6.27%) Logistics
16 73 (6.27%) Risk Management
17 72 (6.18%) Collaborative Working
18 69 (5.92%) Change Management
19 68 (5.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.86%) SQL
2 21 (1.80%) Python
3 14 (1.20%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.12%) Java
5 8 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.34%) C#
8 3 (0.26%) Bash
8 3 (0.26%) Korn
9 2 (0.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.17%) VBA
10 1 (0.086%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.086%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.086%) COBOL
10 1 (0.086%) Groovy
10 1 (0.086%) PHP
10 1 (0.086%) R
10 1 (0.086%) REXX
Qualifications
1 160 (13.73%) Degree
2 156 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 115 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 108 (9.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.83%) PMP
7 31 (2.66%) PMI Certification
8 30 (2.58%) DBS Check
9 19 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (1.03%) CISSP
11 9 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.69%) A+ Certification
12 8 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.60%) CISM
13 7 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.52%) ACCA
14 6 (0.52%) CIMA
14 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.43%) CCNA
15 5 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (10.47%) PMO
2 55 (4.72%) QA
3 48 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.18%) GDPR
5 25 (2.15%) SLA
6 23 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.94%) GRC
8 11 (0.94%) NIST
9 10 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.43%) GAAP
13 4 (0.34%) IFRS
13 4 (0.34%) NCSC
13 4 (0.34%) WCAG
14 3 (0.26%) COBIT
14 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.26%) P3O
14 3 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.37%) Docker
3 5 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.086%) Samba
6 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.86%) Grafana
5 9 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.69%) Terraform
7 7 (0.60%) Control-M
8 5 (0.43%) Ansible
9 4 (0.34%) SCCM
9 4 (0.34%) WSUS
10 3 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.17%) OPNET
11 2 (0.17%) ServiceCenter
12 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.086%) Kibana
12 1 (0.086%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 325 (27.90%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.06%) ServiceNow
3 54 (4.64%) SAP
4 47 (4.03%) Oracle
5 44 (3.78%) Google
6 27 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.89%) Cisco
8 17 (1.46%) Adobe
9 13 (1.12%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.94%) Workday
11 10 (0.86%) Apple
12 8 (0.69%) VMware
13 7 (0.60%) Braze
13 7 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.52%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.43%) Aruba
15 5 (0.43%) Concur
15 5 (0.43%) Databricks
15 5 (0.43%) DocuSign
15 5 (0.43%) Xero