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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 135 178
Rank change year-on-year +30 +43 -9
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,357 696 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.50% 2.13% 1.40%
As % of the General category 4.48% 3.35% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 333 315
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £300 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £620 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £355 £410
% change year-on-year +12.68% -13.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 117 31
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.31 £15.50 £14.07
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.97 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -11.48% -3.42%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.41 £38.12
90th Percentile - £36.50 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £23.78
% change year-on-year +2.78% -24.31% +13.24%

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 30,275 20,755 22,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.71% 63.55% 58.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,736 12,845 13,341
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,554 1,207 1,089
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -28.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £54.36 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.10 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.18% -39.71% +27.27%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +25 1,147 £400 -5.88% 2,342
UK excluding London +14 882 £400 +12.68% 1,738
Work from Home +76 432 £402 +0.59% 769
London +27 389 £450 -6.49% 829
North of England +32 210 £382 -11.68% 419
South East -22 200 £450 +20.00% 487
Midlands +9 152 £375 +17.65% 322
South West +11 111 £275 -14.06% 175
North West 0 99 £460 +22.67% 223
West Midlands +1 97 £425 +33.33% 188
Scotland +31 94 £425 +9.68% 107
Yorkshire +16 79 £365 -17.05% 145
East of England -1 73 £400 -11.11% 166
East Midlands +2 53 £275 -12.00% 133
North East -13 32 £388 -17.99% 55
Northern Ireland +13 29 £290 -19.72% 34
Wales -7 22 - - 46

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
1 101 (7.44%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.32%) Confluence
3 28 (2.06%) CMS
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.59%) WordPress
6 7 (0.52%) Drupal
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.074%) Apache
9 1 (0.074%) CICS
9 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.074%) IIS
Applications
1 306 (22.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (18.57%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (9.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.03%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.29%) InDesign
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.22%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.22%) Revit
11 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.15%) Trello
12 1 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.074%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.03%) Magento
2 7 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) HFM
4 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Primavera
5 3 (0.22%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.074%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.074%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 86 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.26%) Azure
3 70 (5.16%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.50%) AWS
5 29 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.40%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 17 (1.25%) SaaS
9 15 (1.11%) GCP
9 15 (1.11%) Google Sheets
9 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (0.74%) OpenShift
11 9 (0.66%) Miro
12 8 (0.59%) Slack
13 6 (0.44%) Canva
13 6 (0.44%) GitHub
13 6 (0.44%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.44%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.44%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.77%) LAN
2 16 (1.18%) WAN
3 12 (0.88%) Network Security
4 11 (0.81%) Firewall
5 10 (0.74%) DNS
6 9 (0.66%) MPLS
7 7 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (0.37%) Broadband
8 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.37%) VLAN
8 5 (0.37%) VPN
9 4 (0.29%) DHCP
9 4 (0.29%) Intranet
9 4 (0.29%) VoIP
10 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.08%) Power BI
2 12 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 9 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.59%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.59%) Tableau
5 6 (0.44%) Power Query
6 5 (0.37%) Metadata
7 4 (0.29%) MS Access
8 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 1 (0.074%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.074%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.074%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (7.52%) JIRA
2 28 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.47%) Git
4 8 (0.59%) Subversion
5 7 (0.52%) Gradle
5 7 (0.52%) JUnit
6 6 (0.44%) Maven
6 6 (0.44%) Mockito
6 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.29%) Selenium
9 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.15%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 964 (71.04%) Social Skills
2 448 (33.01%) Finance
3 253 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (12.75%) Legal
5 151 (11.13%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.38%) Retail
7 59 (4.35%) Marketing
8 53 (3.91%) Banking
9 48 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 45 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.32%) Local Government
11 34 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.62%) Military
15 19 (1.40%) Aviation
16 15 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 169 (12.45%) Administrator
2 154 (11.35%) Analyst
3 96 (7.07%) Project Manager
4 84 (6.19%) Coordinator
5 81 (5.97%) Support Officer
6 74 (5.45%) Lead
7 55 (4.05%) Project Officer
8 53 (3.91%) Senior
9 50 (3.68%) Project Support Officer
10 35 (2.58%) Business Analyst
11 33 (2.43%) Project Coordinator
12 29 (2.14%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.06%) IT Support
14 27 (1.99%) Support Engineer
15 23 (1.69%) Junior
16 22 (1.62%) Delivery Manager
16 22 (1.62%) Programme Manager
17 21 (1.55%) Developer
18 20 (1.47%) Test Manager
19 19 (1.40%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.18%) HTML
2 15 (1.11%) REST
3 14 (1.03%) Spring
4 13 (0.96%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.96%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.88%) CSS
5 12 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (0.88%) VML
6 10 (0.74%) Kafka
6 10 (0.74%) Middleware
7 8 (0.59%) React
7 8 (0.59%) Redux
7 8 (0.59%) Terraform
7 8 (0.59%) Web Services
8 7 (0.52%) SOAP
9 6 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (0.44%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.44%) JPA
9 6 (0.44%) RESTful
9 6 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.95%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.77%) Virtual Team
3 115 (8.47%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.11%) Podcast
5 90 (6.63%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.58%) Driving Licence
8 32 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 31 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.18%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.11%) Learning Management System
12 14 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.88%) e-Learning
13 12 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.88%) Social Media
14 11 (0.81%) Life Science
14 11 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.74%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.38%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.66%) Linux
3 9 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.074%) Android
7 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.074%) Unix
7 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 292 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 253 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 242 (17.83%) Customer Service
5 212 (15.62%) Agile
6 202 (14.89%) Project Management
7 175 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 168 (12.38%) Project Delivery
9 131 (9.65%) Decision-Making
10 112 (8.25%) AI
10 112 (8.25%) Time Management
11 93 (6.85%) Change Management
12 90 (6.63%) Logistics
13 89 (6.56%) PRINCE2
13 89 (6.56%) Service Delivery
14 87 (6.41%) Collaborative Working
14 87 (6.41%) ITIL
15 84 (6.19%) Migration
16 79 (5.82%) Risk Management
17 77 (5.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 38 (2.80%) SQL
2 22 (1.62%) Python
3 20 (1.47%) Java
4 13 (0.96%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.52%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.22%) R
8 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.22%) VBA
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.074%) C#
10 1 (0.074%) COBOL
10 1 (0.074%) Groovy
10 1 (0.074%) Perl
10 1 (0.074%) PHP
10 1 (0.074%) REXX
Qualifications
1 187 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.31%) Degree
3 140 (10.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 135 (9.95%) SC Cleared
5 47 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 29 (2.14%) PMP
8 28 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 13 (0.96%) HNC
11 12 (0.88%) CISSP
12 9 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.59%) CIPD
14 7 (0.52%) CISM
14 7 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.44%) ACCA
15 6 (0.44%) CIMA
15 6 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 5 (0.37%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (10.39%) PMO
2 63 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.35%) QA
4 42 (3.10%) GDPR
5 27 (1.99%) SLA
6 22 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.96%) GRC
9 11 (0.81%) NIST
10 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.37%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS
14 4 (0.29%) P3O
14 4 (0.29%) WCAG
15 3 (0.22%) COSHH
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 39 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.88%) Docker
3 9 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) GPFS
7 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.52%) Control-M
4 7 (0.52%) Grafana
4 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.44%) Ansible
5 6 (0.44%) SCCM
6 5 (0.37%) WSUS
7 3 (0.22%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.074%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 438 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.86%) SAP
3 47 (3.46%) Oracle
4 46 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.32%) Google
6 27 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.62%) Cisco
8 13 (0.96%) Adobe
8 13 (0.96%) SolarWinds
9 12 (0.88%) VMware
10 11 (0.81%) Workday
11 10 (0.74%) Apple
12 8 (0.59%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.52%) Braze
13 7 (0.52%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.44%) HP
15 5 (0.37%) Aruba
15 5 (0.37%) Databricks
15 5 (0.37%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.37%) Xero