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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 136 178
Rank change year-on-year +31 +42 -10
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,328 692 539
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.43% 2.10% 1.40%
As % of the General category 4.37% 3.29% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 343 315
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £300 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.33% +3.87%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £538
90th Percentile £613 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 99 41
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.67 £20.50
Median hourly rate £20.70 £19.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -48.85% +81.09%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £39.20 £47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +19.44% -52.78% +84.82%

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 30,363 21,028 22,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.61% 63.69% 57.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,843 13,030 13,503
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
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 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,194 1,147
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £53.87 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.19% -42.93% +44.51%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +21 1,125 £400 -7.51% 1,626
UK excluding London +8 861 £400 +7.38% 1,382
Work from Home +74 435 £406 +1.59% 448
London +25 389 £450 -8.16% 426
North of England +23 205 £388 -8.82% 292
South East -26 190 £449 +18.87% 415
Midlands +3 148 £389 +21.88% 274
South West +18 113 £288 -26.28% 143
North West +4 95 £483 +28.80% 147
Scotland +43 93 £410 +2.50% 64
West Midlands -7 93 £425 +36.00% 147
Yorkshire +11 76 £365 -13.10% 102
East of England -6 71 £388 -13.89% 155
East Midlands +6 53 £275 -31.25% 127
North East -16 34 £488 +3.17% 49
Northern Ireland +17 30 £258 -28.72% 20
Wales -10 20 - - 43

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 97 (7.30%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.24%) Confluence
3 30 (2.26%) CMS
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.60%) WordPress
6 7 (0.53%) Drupal
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.075%) Apache
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) CICS
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 295 (22.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (18.00%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (9.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.30%) InDesign
10 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Magento
2 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) HFM
4 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) Primavera
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.075%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.075%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.075%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.075%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 88 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.40%) Azure
3 71 (5.35%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.59%) AWS
5 29 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.43%) Google Workspace
8 18 (1.36%) SaaS
9 16 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.13%) Google Sheets
10 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.05%) GCP
12 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.60%) Slack
14 7 (0.53%) Canva
14 7 (0.53%) Miro
15 6 (0.45%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.45%) Smartsheet
16 5 (0.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.81%) LAN
2 16 (1.20%) WAN
3 12 (0.90%) Firewall
3 12 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.75%) DNS
5 9 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.38%) VLAN
7 5 (0.38%) VPN
8 4 (0.30%) Broadband
8 4 (0.30%) DHCP
8 4 (0.30%) Intranet
9 3 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.23%) VoIP
9 3 (0.23%) Wireless
10 2 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.27%) Power BI
2 12 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 11 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.60%) Tableau
6 7 (0.53%) Power Query
7 5 (0.38%) Metadata
8 4 (0.30%) MS Access
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 2 (0.15%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.075%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.075%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (7.38%) JIRA
2 28 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.58%) Git
4 8 (0.60%) Subversion
5 7 (0.53%) Gradle
5 7 (0.53%) JUnit
6 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.45%) Maven
6 6 (0.45%) Mockito
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 941 (70.86%) Social Skills
2 442 (33.28%) Finance
3 248 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (13.40%) Legal
5 149 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.42%) Retail
7 61 (4.59%) Marketing
8 53 (3.99%) Banking
9 45 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (3.31%) Local Government
11 43 (3.24%) Manufacturing
12 42 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.66%) Military
17 16 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 15 (1.13%) Aviation
19 13 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 13 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (12.05%) Administrator
2 153 (11.52%) Analyst
3 102 (7.68%) Project Manager
4 83 (6.25%) Coordinator
5 74 (5.57%) Lead
6 73 (5.50%) Support Officer
7 57 (4.29%) Senior
8 51 (3.84%) Project Officer
9 45 (3.39%) Project Support Officer
10 36 (2.71%) Business Analyst
11 33 (2.48%) Project Coordinator
12 29 (2.18%) IT Manager
13 27 (2.03%) IT Support
13 27 (2.03%) Support Engineer
14 25 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
15 23 (1.73%) Junior
16 22 (1.66%) Developer
17 21 (1.58%) Programme Manager
18 20 (1.51%) PMO Analyst
18 20 (1.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.51%) HTML
2 15 (1.13%) CSS
2 15 (1.13%) REST
3 14 (1.05%) Spring
4 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.98%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.90%) VML
6 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.68%) Kafka
7 9 (0.68%) Middleware
7 9 (0.68%) React
7 9 (0.68%) Redux
8 8 (0.60%) Terraform
8 8 (0.60%) Web Services
8 8 (0.60%) XML
9 7 (0.53%) SOAP
10 6 (0.45%) .NET
10 6 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.32%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.96%) Virtual Team
3 117 (8.81%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.28%) Podcast
5 87 (6.55%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (2.11%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.28%) Learning Management System
11 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.13%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
13 14 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.98%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.90%) Social Media
16 11 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.83%) Blog
16 11 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
17 10 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.65%) Windows
2 16 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.75%) Linux
3 10 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.075%) Android
7 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.075%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (27.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 282 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
3 246 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 230 (17.32%) Customer Service
5 220 (16.57%) Agile
6 208 (15.66%) Project Management
7 170 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 167 (12.58%) Project Delivery
9 129 (9.71%) Decision-Making
10 113 (8.51%) AI
11 111 (8.36%) Time Management
12 92 (6.93%) PRINCE2
13 88 (6.63%) Service Delivery
14 87 (6.55%) Logistics
15 86 (6.48%) Change Management
15 86 (6.48%) ITIL
16 84 (6.33%) Migration
17 82 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
18 79 (5.95%) Data Protection
19 75 (5.65%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (3.01%) SQL
2 22 (1.66%) Python
3 19 (1.43%) Java
4 13 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 8 (0.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.23%) R
8 3 (0.23%) VBA
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) C#
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.075%) COBOL
10 1 (0.075%) Groovy
10 1 (0.075%) Perl
10 1 (0.075%) PHP
10 1 (0.075%) REXX
Qualifications
1 184 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.42%) Degree
3 142 (10.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 133 (10.02%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.18%) PMP
9 20 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.83%) CISSP
10 11 (0.83%) HNC
11 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIPD
12 8 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.53%) CISM
13 7 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) ACCA
14 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.77%) PMO
2 63 (4.74%) QA
3 62 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 45 (3.39%) GDPR
5 26 (1.96%) SLA
6 25 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.83%) NIST
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.45%) NCSC
11 6 (0.45%) WCAG
12 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.38%) COBIT
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) P3O
14 3 (0.23%) COSHH
14 3 (0.23%) GMP
14 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 42 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 8 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.075%) GPFS
6 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.075%) NFS
6 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.53%) Control-M
4 7 (0.53%) Grafana
4 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
6 5 (0.38%) WSUS
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.075%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 417 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.59%) SAP
3 51 (3.84%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.54%) Oracle
5 45 (3.39%) Google
6 30 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.66%) Cisco
8 14 (1.05%) Adobe
9 13 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.83%) VMware
10 11 (0.83%) Workday
11 10 (0.75%) Apple
12 8 (0.60%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.53%) Braze
13 7 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.38%) Aruba
14 5 (0.38%) Databricks
14 5 (0.38%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.38%) Xero
15 4 (0.30%) PagerDuty