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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 137 181
Rank change year-on-year +23 +44 -13
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,217 688 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.10% 1.38%
As % of the General category 4.12% 3.31% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 338 327
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £300 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £414 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -5.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £530
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 94 68
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.72 £15.01 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -52.78% +65.31%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £40.33 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.73 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +70.72% -52.78% +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 29,505 20,771 22,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.01% 63.48% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,438 12,920 13,838
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
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 £745 £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 2,281 1,174 1,263
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.46 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £16.80
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +27.47%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.90 £70.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.53% -36.74% +34.62%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +18 1,042 £415 -2.35% 1,092
UK excluding London +4 771 £400 +7.38% 931
Work from Home +75 421 £410 -8.78% 332
London +26 376 £450 -5.26% 253
North of England +17 196 £424 +2.73% 232
South East -47 167 £425 +6.25% 237
Midlands -17 123 £389 +24.44% 170
South West +25 107 £305 -21.86% 123
North West -6 90 £484 +35.20% 131
Scotland +30 80 £418 +4.38% 43
West Midlands -34 78 £443 +41.60% 93
Yorkshire +10 74 £365 -17.05% 70
East of England -1 61 £383 +2.00% 113
East Midlands -1 43 £275 -12.00% 77
North East -15 32 £488 +3.17% 33
Northern Ireland +18 29 £258 -30.87% 10
Wales -14 15 - - 29

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 83 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.04%) Confluence
3 31 (2.55%) CMS
4 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.58%) Drupal
6 6 (0.49%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.082%) Apache
10 1 (0.082%) Camunda
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.082%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.082%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 254 (20.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 199 (16.35%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (8.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.07%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.33%) InDesign
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 1 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.082%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.082%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.082%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.07%) Magento
2 8 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) HFM
4 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.082%) iTrent
7 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (6.90%) Azure
3 64 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.35%) AWS
5 30 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (1.48%) Google Workspace
7 18 (1.48%) SaaS
8 15 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.15%) GCP
9 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 12 (0.99%) Google Sheets
11 9 (0.74%) OpenShift
12 8 (0.66%) Slack
13 6 (0.49%) GitHub
13 6 (0.49%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.49%) Miro
14 5 (0.41%) Canva
14 5 (0.41%) OCI
14 5 (0.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.89%) LAN
2 15 (1.23%) WAN
3 11 (0.90%) Firewall
3 11 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) DNS
5 9 (0.74%) MPLS
6 7 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.41%) Intranet
7 5 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.41%) VLAN
7 5 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.33%) Broadband
8 4 (0.33%) DHCP
8 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) SMS
9 3 (0.25%) VoIP
10 2 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.26%) Power BI
2 16 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.66%) Tableau
4 7 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.49%) Power Query
6 5 (0.41%) Metadata
6 5 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
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%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.16%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.16%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.16%) MS Access
9 2 (0.16%) MySQL
9 2 (0.16%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.082%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 89 (7.31%) JIRA
2 24 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.48%) Git
4 8 (0.66%) Subversion
5 7 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.58%) Gradle
6 5 (0.41%) Selenium
6 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.082%) Postman
10 1 (0.082%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 851 (69.93%) Social Skills
2 425 (34.92%) Finance
3 235 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (14.63%) Legal
5 126 (10.35%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.26%) Retail
7 58 (4.77%) Banking
8 56 (4.60%) Marketing
9 43 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (3.12%) Local Government
11 37 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (3.04%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.31%) Military
16 13 (1.07%) Publishing
17 12 (0.99%) Advertising
17 12 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 151 (12.41%) Analyst
2 118 (9.70%) Administrator
3 97 (7.97%) Project Manager
4 68 (5.59%) Support Officer
5 67 (5.51%) Lead
6 63 (5.18%) Coordinator
7 55 (4.52%) Senior
8 51 (4.19%) Project Officer
9 45 (3.70%) Project Support Officer
10 39 (3.20%) Business Analyst
11 28 (2.30%) IT Manager
11 28 (2.30%) IT Support
11 28 (2.30%) Support Engineer
12 26 (2.14%) Project Coordinator
13 24 (1.97%) Junior
14 23 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (1.64%) PMO Analyst
15 20 (1.64%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.64%) Test Manager
16 19 (1.56%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.81%) HTML
2 17 (1.40%) CSS
3 13 (1.07%) VML
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.90%) Spring
4 11 (0.90%) XML
5 10 (0.82%) Kafka
5 10 (0.82%) Middleware
5 10 (0.82%) React
5 10 (0.82%) REST
6 9 (0.74%) Redux
7 8 (0.66%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.58%) Hibernate
9 6 (0.49%) .NET
9 6 (0.49%) Terraform
10 3 (0.25%) ADO
10 3 (0.25%) HTML5
10 3 (0.25%) JWT
10 3 (0.25%) Web Services
10 3 (0.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.19%) Onboarding
2 117 (9.61%) Virtual Team
2 117 (9.61%) Web Conferencing
3 111 (9.12%) Podcast
4 71 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.40%) Learning Management System
10 14 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.07%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
12 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.90%) Social Media
13 11 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.82%) Blog
14 10 (0.82%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.33%) Windows
2 16 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.74%) Linux
4 9 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.16%) Unix
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.082%) Android
7 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (26.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 254 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
3 226 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 213 (17.50%) Agile
5 212 (17.42%) Customer Service
6 198 (16.27%) Project Management
7 159 (13.06%) Project Delivery
8 158 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 123 (10.11%) Decision-Making
10 104 (8.55%) AI
11 95 (7.81%) Time Management
12 86 (7.07%) ITIL
13 85 (6.98%) PRINCE2
14 84 (6.90%) Service Delivery
15 83 (6.82%) Migration
16 81 (6.66%) Change Management
17 77 (6.33%) Collaborative Working
18 75 (6.16%) Logistics
19 73 (6.00%) Data Protection
20 69 (5.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.70%) SQL
2 22 (1.81%) Python
3 14 (1.15%) Java
4 12 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.25%) C#
7 3 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.25%) VBA
8 2 (0.16%) Korn
8 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.082%) Bash
9 1 (0.082%) COBOL
9 1 (0.082%) Groovy
9 1 (0.082%) PHP
9 1 (0.082%) REXX
Qualifications
1 170 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 154 (12.65%) Degree
3 135 (11.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 123 (10.11%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 30 (2.47%) PMP
7 29 (2.38%) DBS Check
8 28 (2.30%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (0.82%) CISSP
11 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.58%) A+ Certification
13 7 (0.58%) CIPD
13 7 (0.58%) CISM
13 7 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.49%) ACCA
14 6 (0.49%) CIMA
14 6 (0.49%) HNC
14 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (10.68%) PMO
2 58 (4.77%) QA
3 57 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.04%) GDPR
5 28 (2.30%) SLA
6 25 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.82%) GRC
9 9 (0.74%) NIST
10 8 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.49%) WCAG
13 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.41%) COBIT
13 5 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) GAAP
14 4 (0.33%) IFRS
15 3 (0.25%) GMP
15 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 44 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.58%) Docker
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.082%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.82%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.58%) Control-M
5 5 (0.41%) Ansible
5 5 (0.41%) SCCM
5 5 (0.41%) WSUS
6 3 (0.25%) Grafana
6 3 (0.25%) Packer
6 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) OPNET
7 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.082%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.082%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 366 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.77%) SAP
3 55 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.53%) Oracle
5 40 (3.29%) Google
6 28 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.73%) Cisco
8 15 (1.23%) Adobe
9 13 (1.07%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.90%) VMware
10 11 (0.90%) Workday
11 10 (0.82%) Apple
12 8 (0.66%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.58%) Braze
13 7 (0.58%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.41%) Aruba
14 5 (0.41%) Concur
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.41%) Xero