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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 135 160
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +27
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,057 681 633
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.09% 1.53%
As % of the General category 3.66% 3.32% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 347 379
10th Percentile £181 £185 £156
25th Percentile £274 £300 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £412
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +4.41% -11.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £522
90th Percentile £638 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £365 £383
% change year-on-year +9.51% -4.51% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 77 115
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.97 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -27.38% +30.64%
75th Percentile £43.96 £28.42 £38.12
90th Percentile - £42.92 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £19.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -45.29% +74.06%

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 28,900 20,520 23,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.80% 62.89% 57.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,224 12,854 14,870
10th Percentile £313 £279 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £635 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 1,061 1,661
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.65% -27.14% +14.60%
75th Percentile £61.50 £51.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -35.71% +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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +8 936 £439 +0.57% 941
UK excluding London -15 638 £400 +9.51% 740
London +28 367 £450 -14.29% 270
Work from Home +51 340 £450 -4.26% 358
North of England +8 167 £438 +19.37% 177
South East -49 142 £442 +10.56% 250
South West +29 105 £310 -0.96% 69
Midlands -39 94 £350 +7.69% 146
Yorkshire +3 74 £382 -4.50% 51
North West -12 69 £508 +45.07% 100
West Midlands -45 67 £388 +19.23% 76
Scotland -9 54 £425 -5.56% 20
East of England -2 48 £408 +91.76% 85
East Midlands -11 26 £275 +22.22% 69
North East -17 24 £450 +5.88% 28
Northern Ireland +12 18 £313 -13.49% 5
Wales -15 13 - - 9

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 67 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.12%) Confluence
3 27 (2.55%) CMS
4 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.66%) WordPress
6 6 (0.57%) Drupal
7 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.095%) Camunda
9 1 (0.095%) CICS
9 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.095%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.095%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 198 (18.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (7.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.57%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.47%) InDesign
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.28%) Trello
11 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.095%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.095%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.23%) Magento
2 7 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.38%) HFM
5 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.19%) Primavera
7 2 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.19%) TrackWise
8 1 (0.095%) Actimize
8 1 (0.095%) Changepoint
8 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.095%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.095%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.095%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 101 (9.56%) Azure
2 79 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (5.49%) Power Platform
4 55 (5.20%) AWS
5 38 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.37%) SaaS
7 21 (1.99%) GCP
8 19 (1.80%) Google Workspace
9 15 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.14%) OCI
11 11 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.85%) Google Sheets
14 8 (0.76%) GitHub
15 7 (0.66%) OpenShift
15 7 (0.66%) Slack
16 6 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.57%) Serverless
17 5 (0.47%) Google Analytics
17 5 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.27%) LAN
2 13 (1.23%) DNS
3 12 (1.14%) Firewall
3 12 (1.14%) Network Security
3 12 (1.14%) VPN
3 12 (1.14%) WAN
4 8 (0.76%) MPLS
4 8 (0.76%) VLAN
5 7 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (0.66%) DHCP
5 7 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.47%) Skype
6 5 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.38%) Intranet
7 4 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.38%) SMS
7 4 (0.38%) VoIP
8 3 (0.28%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.49%) Power BI
2 16 (1.51%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.85%) Tableau
5 7 (0.66%) GIS
5 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (0.57%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.28%) MS Access
7 3 (0.28%) MySQL
7 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.28%) Power Query
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.19%) Big Data
8 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.19%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.19%) Metadata
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 88 (8.33%) JIRA
2 25 (2.37%) Git
2 25 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 9 (0.85%) Cucumber
3 9 (0.85%) JMeter
3 9 (0.85%) JUnit
3 9 (0.85%) Selenium
3 9 (0.85%) WebDriver
4 8 (0.76%) Subversion
5 5 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.47%) Gradle
6 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.19%) Vite
8 1 (0.095%) Hudson
8 1 (0.095%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.095%) Postman
General
1 694 (65.66%) Social Skills
2 352 (33.30%) Finance
3 201 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.45%) Legal
5 109 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.77%) Marketing
6 61 (5.77%) Retail
7 55 (5.20%) Banking
8 31 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.27%) Local Government
13 22 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 22 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.70%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.51%) Military
16 14 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.14%) Advertising
18 11 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 142 (13.43%) Analyst
2 103 (9.74%) Project Manager
3 76 (7.19%) Administrator
4 70 (6.62%) Lead
5 62 (5.87%) Senior
6 61 (5.77%) Support Officer
7 52 (4.92%) Coordinator
8 46 (4.35%) Project Officer
9 40 (3.78%) Project Support Officer
10 38 (3.60%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.03%) IT Support
12 27 (2.55%) Project Coordinator
13 26 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 25 (2.37%) Junior
15 23 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 23 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
16 22 (2.08%) Support Engineer
17 21 (1.99%) Consultant
18 18 (1.70%) Technical Support
18 18 (1.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.89%) HTML
2 16 (1.51%) CSS
3 15 (1.42%) Spring
4 13 (1.23%) VML
5 12 (1.14%) XML
6 10 (0.95%) Middleware
7 9 (0.85%) Kafka
7 9 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.85%) WireMock
8 8 (0.76%) React
9 7 (0.66%) .NET
9 7 (0.66%) Redux
10 6 (0.57%) REST
10 6 (0.57%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.47%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.38%) JSON
12 4 (0.38%) JWT
13 3 (0.28%) HTML5
13 3 (0.28%) Node.js
13 3 (0.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.46%) Onboarding
2 64 (6.05%) Virtual Team
3 62 (5.87%) Web Conferencing
4 56 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 55 (5.20%) Podcast
6 33 (3.12%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.42%) Driving Licence
10 15 (1.42%) Learning Management System
11 12 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.14%) e-Learning
11 12 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.14%) NHS
12 11 (1.04%) Social Media
13 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.95%) Life Science
14 9 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
15 8 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.04%) Windows
2 19 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.95%) Linux
3 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.095%) Android
6 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.095%) CentOS
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (23.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 199 (18.83%) Project Management
4 190 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 188 (17.79%) Agile
6 147 (13.91%) Project Delivery
7 144 (13.62%) Customer Service
8 133 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 113 (10.69%) Decision-Making
10 103 (9.74%) AI
11 100 (9.46%) Time Management
12 79 (7.47%) ITIL
13 75 (7.10%) PRINCE2
14 69 (6.53%) Migration
15 67 (6.34%) Collaborative Working
15 67 (6.34%) Service Delivery
16 66 (6.24%) DevOps
16 66 (6.24%) Logistics
17 63 (5.96%) Data Protection
17 63 (5.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (4.26%) SQL
2 18 (1.70%) Python
3 14 (1.32%) PowerShell
4 9 (0.85%) Java
5 8 (0.76%) C#
6 7 (0.66%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.28%) Bash
8 3 (0.28%) Korn
9 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.19%) VBA
10 1 (0.095%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.095%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.095%) COBOL
10 1 (0.095%) Groovy
10 1 (0.095%) PHP
10 1 (0.095%) R
10 1 (0.095%) REXX
Qualifications
1 156 (14.76%) Degree
2 132 (12.49%) Security Cleared
3 101 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 70 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (3.31%) PMP
6 31 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.84%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.55%) DBS Check
9 17 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 13 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.04%) CISSP
12 9 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.76%) A+ Certification
14 7 (0.66%) CIMA
14 7 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.57%) ACCA
15 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.47%) CCNA
16 5 (0.47%) CISM
16 5 (0.47%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (10.60%) PMO
2 48 (4.54%) QA
3 39 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.93%) GDPR
5 25 (2.37%) SLA
6 20 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 11 (1.04%) GRC
10 9 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.66%) IFRS
13 6 (0.57%) GAAP
13 6 (0.57%) SEPA
14 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.38%) NCSC
15 4 (0.38%) PSD2
16 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 48 (4.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.095%) Samba
6 1 (0.095%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.04%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 10 (0.95%) Grafana
5 9 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.76%) Terraform
7 5 (0.47%) Ansible
7 5 (0.47%) Control-M
8 4 (0.38%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.28%) Packer
9 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) OPNET
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 1 (0.095%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.095%) Kibana
11 1 (0.095%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.095%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 268 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 47 (4.45%) Oracle
4 43 (4.07%) SAP
5 42 (3.97%) Google
6 25 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.27%) Cisco
8 16 (1.51%) Adobe
9 12 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 10 (0.95%) Apple
11 9 (0.85%) Workday
12 7 (0.66%) Braze
12 7 (0.66%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.66%) VMware
13 6 (0.57%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.47%) Aruba
14 5 (0.47%) Concur
14 5 (0.47%) Databricks
14 5 (0.47%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.47%) Remedy