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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 132 188
Rank change year-on-year +32 +56 -27
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,469 737 508
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.22% 1.34%
As % of the General category 4.78% 3.51% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 345 287
10th Percentile £184 £185 £163
25th Percentile £263 £300 £270
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 £625 £698 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 141 25
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.02
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.60 £13.52
Median hourly rate £18.09 £20.00 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% -11.35% -6.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £33.50 £30.00
90th Percentile - £45.80 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £18.41 £22.56
% change year-on-year -4.94% -18.40% +7.43%

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 30,744 20,991 22,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.41% 63.29% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,856 13,060 13,158
10th Percentile £313 £275 £280
25th Percentile £420 £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 £740 £738 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,727 1,245 961
10th Percentile £13.47 £13.51 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.35 £31.97
% change year-on-year +28.84% -33.23% +21.79%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +29 1,249 £400 -5.88% 2,532
UK excluding London +24 974 £400 +7.38% 1,828
Work from Home +71 447 £410 +2.50% 831
London +27 403 £450 -5.26% 857
North of England +45 243 £369 -16.14% 439
South East -10 228 £425 +6.25% 502
Midlands +23 179 £402 +23.69% 329
North West +12 117 £472 +14.30% 235
West Midlands +8 114 £447 +37.54% 188
South West +3 105 £275 +15.79% 193
Scotland +35 99 £418 +4.38% 111
Yorkshire +28 91 £365 -17.05% 146
East of England -4 79 £388 -26.19% 180
East Midlands +9 63 £260 +15.56% 140
North East -11 35 £363 -14.71% 59
Northern Ireland +12 29 £290 -19.72% 47
Wales -4 25 £600 +101.68% 53

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
1 103 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.13%) Confluence
3 30 (2.04%) CMS
4 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.41%) Drupal
7 5 (0.34%) WordPress
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.068%) Apache
9 1 (0.068%) CICS
9 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 322 (21.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 269 (18.31%) Microsoft Office
3 129 (8.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (1.09%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.14%) InDesign
9 2 (0.14%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.14%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.068%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Magento
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.27%) HFM
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
4 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.20%) Primavera
5 3 (0.20%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.14%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.068%) FastStats
7 1 (0.068%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 84 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (5.58%) Azure
3 62 (4.22%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.15%) AWS
5 29 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (1.50%) Google Workspace
7 18 (1.23%) Google Sheets
8 17 (1.16%) Entra ID
8 17 (1.16%) SaaS
9 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (0.95%) GCP
11 11 (0.75%) Miro
12 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
13 9 (0.61%) Slack
14 8 (0.54%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.48%) GitHub
16 6 (0.41%) Google Analytics
16 6 (0.41%) Power Automate
17 5 (0.34%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.84%) LAN
2 16 (1.09%) WAN
3 12 (0.82%) Network Security
4 9 (0.61%) DNS
4 9 (0.61%) Firewall
4 9 (0.61%) MPLS
5 8 (0.54%) VPN
6 7 (0.48%) Broadband
6 7 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.41%) VLAN
7 6 (0.41%) VoIP
8 5 (0.34%) NAS
8 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.27%) DHCP
9 4 (0.27%) Internet
9 4 (0.27%) Intranet
10 3 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.15%) Power BI
2 10 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 8 (0.54%) MS Access
3 8 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.54%) Tableau
4 6 (0.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.34%) Metadata
5 5 (0.34%) Power Query
6 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.14%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.068%) Big Data
9 1 (0.068%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.068%) Db2
9 1 (0.068%) GIS
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 104 (7.08%) JIRA
2 28 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.23%) Git
4 8 (0.54%) Subversion
5 7 (0.48%) Gradle
5 7 (0.48%) JUnit
6 6 (0.41%) Maven
6 6 (0.41%) Mockito
6 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.14%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.14%) GitLab
10 2 (0.14%) JMeter
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,063 (72.36%) Social Skills
2 472 (32.13%) Finance
3 271 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (11.84%) Legal
5 155 (10.55%) Public Sector
6 74 (5.04%) Retail
7 64 (4.36%) Marketing
8 59 (4.02%) Banking
9 56 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (3.06%) Local Government
12 44 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 31 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.70%) Aviation
17 20 (1.36%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.29%) Military
19 17 (1.16%) Advertising
19 17 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 203 (13.82%) Administrator
2 156 (10.62%) Analyst
3 110 (7.49%) Project Manager
4 102 (6.94%) Coordinator
5 80 (5.45%) Lead
6 79 (5.38%) Support Officer
7 50 (3.40%) Project Officer
8 49 (3.34%) Senior
9 45 (3.06%) Project Support Officer
10 37 (2.52%) Project Coordinator
11 35 (2.38%) Business Analyst
12 32 (2.18%) Support Engineer
13 31 (2.11%) IT Support
14 28 (1.91%) IT Manager
15 26 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (1.57%) Data Administrator
17 22 (1.50%) Junior
17 22 (1.50%) Programme Manager
18 20 (1.36%) PMO Analyst
19 19 (1.29%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.95%) Spring
2 13 (0.88%) Hibernate
2 13 (0.88%) REST
2 13 (0.88%) Spring Boot
3 12 (0.82%) HTML
3 12 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (0.68%) Kafka
4 10 (0.68%) Middleware
4 10 (0.68%) VML
5 9 (0.61%) CSS
5 9 (0.61%) Terraform
5 9 (0.61%) XML
6 8 (0.54%) Web Services
7 7 (0.48%) React
7 7 (0.48%) Redux
7 7 (0.48%) SOAP
8 6 (0.41%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (0.41%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.41%) JPA
8 6 (0.41%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.80%) Onboarding
2 122 (8.30%) Virtual Team
3 115 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 115 (7.83%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (7.49%) Podcast
5 60 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (2.72%) Driving Licence
7 35 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 31 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.09%) Learning Management System
11 13 (0.88%) Operational Technology
12 12 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
12 12 (0.82%) NHS
12 12 (0.82%) Social Media
12 12 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.68%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.17%) Windows
2 16 (1.09%) Windows 10
3 12 (0.82%) Linux
4 9 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) zOS
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.068%) Solaris
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 324 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (18.72%) Customer Service
4 266 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 216 (14.70%) Agile
6 214 (14.57%) Project Management
7 185 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 183 (12.46%) Project Delivery
9 132 (8.99%) Decision-Making
10 128 (8.71%) Time Management
11 116 (7.90%) AI
12 98 (6.67%) Change Management
12 98 (6.67%) Service Delivery
13 95 (6.47%) Logistics
14 94 (6.40%) ITIL
15 92 (6.26%) Risk Management
16 90 (6.13%) Data Protection
17 89 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
18 87 (5.92%) PRINCE2
19 85 (5.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (2.45%) SQL
2 20 (1.36%) Java
3 18 (1.23%) Python
4 12 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.14%) Bash
8 2 (0.14%) Korn
8 2 (0.14%) R
8 2 (0.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.068%) C#
9 1 (0.068%) COBOL
9 1 (0.068%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.068%) Perl
9 1 (0.068%) REXX
Qualifications
1 203 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.30%) Degree
3 143 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 141 (9.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 46 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 31 (2.11%) PMP
8 29 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 14 (0.95%) HNC
11 12 (0.82%) CISSP
12 9 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.54%) CIPD
14 7 (0.48%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.48%) HP APS
14 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 6 (0.41%) ACCA
15 6 (0.41%) CIMA
15 6 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (9.87%) PMO
2 66 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.36%) QA
4 46 (3.13%) GDPR
5 37 (2.52%) SLA
6 28 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.09%) GRC
9 14 (0.95%) NIST
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.41%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) COBIT
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.27%) P3O
14 4 (0.27%) WCAG
15 3 (0.20%) GMP
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 43 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.75%) Docker
3 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.068%) GPFS
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
7 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.68%) SCCM
4 9 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.48%) Control-M
5 7 (0.48%) Grafana
5 7 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.41%) Ansible
7 5 (0.34%) WSUS
8 3 (0.20%) Packer
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) OPNET
10 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.068%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.068%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 481 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.17%) SAP
3 51 (3.47%) Google
4 49 (3.34%) Oracle
5 43 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.63%) Cisco
8 12 (0.82%) Adobe
8 12 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 12 (0.82%) VMware
9 10 (0.68%) Workday
10 9 (0.61%) Apple
10 9 (0.61%) HP
11 8 (0.54%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.48%) Braze
12 7 (0.48%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.41%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.34%) Aruba
14 5 (0.34%) Databricks
14 5 (0.34%) Xero