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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 132 185
Rank change year-on-year +32 +53 -21
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,444 728 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.20% 1.36%
As % of the General category 4.69% 3.47% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 341 294
10th Percentile £184 £185 £164
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 £556 £550
90th Percentile £624 £700 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 132 24
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £12.98
25th Percentile £14.29 £15.58 £13.45
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.99 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -11.30% -6.47%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.93 £29.06
90th Percentile - £44.38 £52.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year +2.78% -20.21% +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 30,811 20,994 22,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.17% 63.35% 58.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,953 13,037 13,174
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
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 £743 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,677 1,229 1,005
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.51 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.26 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -28.36% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.80 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £21.39 £33.00
% change year-on-year +33.24% -35.18% +25.71%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +26 1,229 £400 -5.88% 2,687
UK excluding London +18 952 £400 +7.38% 2,102
Work from Home +69 449 £402 +0.50% 1,020
London +36 402 £450 -5.26% 879
North of England +35 230 £369 -14.68% 489
South East -9 226 £449 +12.19% 548
Midlands +19 174 £402 +28.76% 380
West Midlands +10 113 £447 +43.04% 197
North West +5 110 £472 +14.30% 248
South West +2 110 £251 -2.43% 211
Scotland +35 97 £425 +3.66% 163
Yorkshire +22 87 £365 -13.10% 180
East of England -2 75 £388 -28.11% 199
East Midlands +9 59 £275 -12.00% 183
North East -16 33 £325 -31.22% 63
Northern Ireland +12 29 £290 -19.72% 63
Wales -5 24 £600 +126.42% 75

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
1 106 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 46 (3.19%) Confluence
3 30 (2.08%) CMS
4 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.48%) Drupal
6 7 (0.48%) WordPress
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.069%) Apache
8 1 (0.069%) CICS
8 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 321 (22.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 269 (18.63%) Microsoft Office
3 132 (9.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (4.43%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (1.11%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.35%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.14%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (1.04%) Magento
2 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.28%) HFM
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.28%) Shopify
5 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) Primavera
6 3 (0.21%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.14%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.069%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (5.82%) Azure
3 65 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.29%) AWS
5 28 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (1.45%) Google Workspace
7 17 (1.18%) Entra ID
7 17 (1.18%) SaaS
8 16 (1.11%) Google Sheets
9 15 (1.04%) GCP
9 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (0.69%) Miro
10 10 (0.69%) OpenShift
11 8 (0.55%) Slack
12 7 (0.48%) GitHub
12 7 (0.48%) Google Analytics
12 7 (0.48%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.42%) Canva
13 6 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.73%) LAN
2 15 (1.04%) WAN
3 13 (0.90%) Network Security
4 9 (0.62%) DNS
4 9 (0.62%) Firewall
4 9 (0.62%) MPLS
5 7 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 6 (0.42%) Broadband
6 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.35%) VLAN
7 5 (0.35%) VoIP
8 4 (0.28%) DHCP
8 4 (0.28%) Intranet
8 4 (0.28%) NAS
8 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.21%) Internet
9 3 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.43%) Power BI
2 12 (0.83%) Relational Database
3 9 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.55%) Tableau
5 7 (0.48%) MS Access
5 7 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.35%) Power Query
7 4 (0.28%) Metadata
7 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.14%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.14%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.069%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.069%) Big Data
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 104 (7.20%) JIRA
2 28 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.25%) Git
4 8 (0.55%) Subversion
5 7 (0.48%) Gradle
5 7 (0.48%) JUnit
6 6 (0.42%) Maven
6 6 (0.42%) Mockito
6 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.28%) Selenium
9 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.21%) 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 1,038 (71.88%) Social Skills
2 469 (32.48%) Finance
3 273 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (12.12%) Legal
5 155 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.06%) Retail
7 64 (4.43%) Marketing
8 59 (4.09%) Banking
9 54 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 48 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (3.25%) Local Government
12 44 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.66%) Aviation
16 19 (1.32%) Military
17 18 (1.25%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.18%) Investment Banking
19 16 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 196 (13.57%) Administrator
2 156 (10.80%) Analyst
3 108 (7.48%) Project Manager
4 98 (6.79%) Coordinator
5 80 (5.54%) Support Officer
6 78 (5.40%) Lead
7 52 (3.60%) Project Officer
8 51 (3.53%) Senior
9 47 (3.25%) Project Support Officer
10 37 (2.56%) Project Coordinator
11 36 (2.49%) Business Analyst
12 30 (2.08%) IT Support
12 30 (2.08%) Support Engineer
13 29 (2.01%) IT Manager
14 23 (1.59%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (1.59%) Junior
14 23 (1.59%) Programme Manager
15 22 (1.52%) Data Administrator
16 20 (1.39%) PMO Analyst
16 20 (1.39%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.97%) HTML
1 14 (0.97%) Spring
2 13 (0.90%) Hibernate
2 13 (0.90%) REST
2 13 (0.90%) Spring Boot
3 12 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.76%) Middleware
4 11 (0.76%) VML
5 10 (0.69%) CSS
5 10 (0.69%) Kafka
6 9 (0.62%) Terraform
7 8 (0.55%) Web Services
7 8 (0.55%) XML
8 7 (0.48%) React
8 7 (0.48%) Redux
8 7 (0.48%) SOAP
9 6 (0.42%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.42%) JPA
9 6 (0.42%) RESTful
9 6 (0.42%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.70%) Onboarding
2 122 (8.45%) Virtual Team
3 115 (7.96%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (7.62%) Podcast
5 107 (7.41%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (2.77%) Driving Licence
8 33 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (2.15%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.11%) Learning Management System
11 14 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
12 13 (0.90%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.83%) NHS
13 12 (0.83%) Social Media
14 11 (0.76%) e-Learning
14 11 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.76%) Life Science
14 11 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.99%) Windows
2 15 (1.04%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.69%) Linux
4 7 (0.48%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Android
7 2 (0.14%) VMS
7 2 (0.14%) zOS
8 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.069%) Unix
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (27.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 319 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 265 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 264 (18.28%) Customer Service
5 217 (15.03%) Agile
6 215 (14.89%) Project Management
7 185 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 179 (12.40%) Project Delivery
9 131 (9.07%) Decision-Making
10 124 (8.59%) Time Management
11 119 (8.24%) AI
12 98 (6.79%) Change Management
13 96 (6.65%) Service Delivery
14 95 (6.58%) Logistics
15 94 (6.51%) ITIL
16 89 (6.16%) Risk Management
17 88 (6.09%) PRINCE2
18 87 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
18 87 (6.02%) Migration
19 86 (5.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 37 (2.56%) SQL
2 20 (1.39%) Java
3 18 (1.25%) Python
4 12 (0.83%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.14%) Bash
8 2 (0.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.14%) Korn
8 2 (0.14%) R
8 2 (0.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.069%) COBOL
9 1 (0.069%) Perl
9 1 (0.069%) REXX
Qualifications
1 201 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.70%) Degree
3 143 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 139 (9.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 44 (3.05%) DBS Check
7 31 (2.15%) PMP
8 28 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 18 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 14 (0.97%) HNC
11 12 (0.83%) CISSP
12 9 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.55%) CIPD
13 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 6 (0.42%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.42%) ACCA
15 6 (0.42%) CIMA
15 6 (0.42%) HP APS
15 6 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (10.04%) PMO
2 68 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.36%) QA
4 46 (3.19%) GDPR
5 35 (2.42%) SLA
6 26 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.11%) GRC
9 14 (0.97%) NIST
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.42%) NCSC
13 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.35%) COBIT
14 4 (0.28%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.28%) P3O
14 4 (0.28%) WCAG
15 3 (0.21%) COSHH
15 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 42 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.83%) Docker
3 9 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.069%) GPFS
7 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.069%) NFS
7 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.69%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.55%) SCCM
5 7 (0.48%) Control-M
5 7 (0.48%) Grafana
5 7 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.42%) Ansible
7 4 (0.28%) WSUS
8 3 (0.21%) Packer
8 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) OPNET
10 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.069%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.069%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 474 (32.83%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.19%) SAP
3 50 (3.46%) Google
3 50 (3.46%) Oracle
4 44 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 28 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 22 (1.52%) Cisco
7 14 (0.97%) Adobe
8 12 (0.83%) SolarWinds
8 12 (0.83%) VMware
9 11 (0.76%) Workday
10 9 (0.62%) Apple
11 8 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.55%) HP
12 7 (0.48%) Braze
12 7 (0.48%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.42%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.35%) Aruba
14 5 (0.35%) Databricks
14 5 (0.35%) Xero