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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 160 123
Rank change year-on-year +30 -37 +68
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 923 495 848
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.06% 1.70% 1.92%
As % of the General category 3.67% 2.71% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 313 420
10th Percentile £160 £195 £178
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £535 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £723 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £369 £413 £400
% change year-on-year -10.48% +3.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 33 162
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.43 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £19.83 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -4.67% -21.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £28.38 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.71 £33.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £23.25 £18.13
% change year-on-year -23.80% +28.24% -31.88%

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 25,165 18,276 25,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.21% 62.88% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,671 11,716 16,376
10th Percentile £300 £300 £269
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,561 716 1,854
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.14 £19.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.39 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +11.67% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.62 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.09 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.40% +10.00% -19.03%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +31 830 £425 -15.00% 727
UK excluding London +20 582 £369 -10.48% 631
London +25 295 £475 -13.64% 189
Work from Home +38 236 £475 -9.52% 281
South East -7 141 £450 +38.46% 212
North of England -1 122 £449 +24.07% 127
Midlands -19 97 £300 -36.84% 120
East of England +29 94 £200 -55.56% 72
South West +14 72 £310 -38.10% 58
West Midlands -36 61 £350 -26.32% 62
Yorkshire -18 57 £431 +14.62% 40
North West -6 51 £450 +28.57% 72
Scotland -5 40 £375 -9.09% 38
East Midlands -9 36 £200 -50.31% 58
North East -5 14 £450 -21.74% 20
Wales -5 13 £213 -48.48% 19
Northern Ireland +6 8 £475 +18.75% 8

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 72 (7.80%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.79%) Confluence
3 13 (1.41%) CMS
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.33%) WordPress
6 2 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Camunda
7 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 183 (19.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (6.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (2.28%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.76%) InDesign
8 6 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.08%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.54%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.22%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 84 (9.10%) Azure
2 75 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (2.93%) AWS
6 22 (2.38%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.06%) SaaS
8 10 (1.08%) GCP
8 10 (1.08%) OCI
9 9 (0.98%) GitHub
10 7 (0.76%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.76%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.54%) BigCommerce
12 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.43%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.43%) Figma
13 4 (0.43%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.17%) VPN
2 14 (1.52%) LAN
3 10 (1.08%) DNS
3 10 (1.08%) Firewall
3 10 (1.08%) Skype
3 10 (1.08%) WAN
4 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.65%) DHCP
5 6 (0.65%) Internet
5 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.54%) Intranet
6 5 (0.54%) Network Security
7 4 (0.43%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.33%) SMS
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.09%) Power BI
2 14 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.76%) GIS
4 7 (0.76%) Metadata
5 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.65%) MySQL
5 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.33%) Power Query
6 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.22%) Big Data
7 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (8.67%) JIRA
2 17 (1.84%) Git
3 12 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.98%) JUnit
5 8 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.87%) JMeter
5 8 (0.87%) Selenium
5 8 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.43%) GitLab
8 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 568 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 239 (25.89%) Finance
3 154 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 56 (6.07%) Legal
6 55 (5.96%) Marketing
7 50 (5.42%) Banking
8 37 (4.01%) Retail
9 28 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.52%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.41%) Electronics
14 12 (1.30%) Advertising
14 12 (1.30%) Billing
15 11 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.87%) Local Government
16 8 (0.87%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 120 (13.00%) Analyst
2 107 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 62 (6.72%) Senior
4 56 (6.07%) Administrator
4 56 (6.07%) IT Support
4 56 (6.07%) Lead
5 53 (5.74%) Coordinator
6 52 (5.63%) Support Officer
7 51 (5.53%) Break Fix Engineer
8 42 (4.55%) Technical Support
9 39 (4.23%) Junior
10 36 (3.90%) Hardware Engineer
11 34 (3.68%) Business Analyst
12 33 (3.58%) Consultant
13 30 (3.25%) Project Officer
14 28 (3.03%) Project Support Officer
15 27 (2.93%) Senior Manager
15 27 (2.93%) Senior Project Manager
16 25 (2.71%) Project Coordinator
17 23 (2.49%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.63%) HTML
2 14 (1.52%) Spring
3 11 (1.19%) XML
4 10 (1.08%) CSS
4 10 (1.08%) VML
5 9 (0.98%) Middleware
6 8 (0.87%) REST
6 8 (0.87%) WireMock
7 6 (0.65%) ADO
7 6 (0.65%) JWT
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.54%) HTML5
8 5 (0.54%) JSON
9 4 (0.43%) .NET
9 4 (0.43%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) Kafka
10 3 (0.33%) Node.js
10 3 (0.33%) React
10 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
11 2 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 35 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.03%) NHS
4 26 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.06%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.30%) Social Media
10 11 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.19%) Insider Threat
11 10 (1.08%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.87%) Blog
12 8 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.87%) Tandem
13 7 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
14 6 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.21%) Windows
2 27 (2.93%) Windows 10
3 23 (2.49%) Linux
4 9 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
2 206 (22.32%) Time Management
3 202 (21.89%) Project Management
4 154 (16.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (15.93%) Customer Service
6 127 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 125 (13.54%) Agile
8 124 (13.43%) Project Delivery
9 86 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 83 (8.99%) Decision-Making
11 72 (7.80%) Migration
12 67 (7.26%) Collaborative Working
13 63 (6.83%) ITIL
14 61 (6.61%) PRINCE2
15 60 (6.50%) Data Protection
16 59 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (6.07%) AI
18 53 (5.74%) Asset Management
18 53 (5.74%) Workflow
19 52 (5.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (4.33%) SQL
2 23 (2.49%) Python
3 15 (1.63%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.98%) C#
5 6 (0.65%) Java
5 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.22%) Bash
6 2 (0.22%) Korn
6 2 (0.22%) PHP
6 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.22%) VBA
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.11%) Groovy
7 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 114 (12.35%) Degree
2 113 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 102 (11.05%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.68%) PMP
5 31 (3.36%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.28%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.52%) APMP
10 12 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
11 10 (1.08%) CISSP
12 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.43%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.43%) CISA
13 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.33%) CISM
14 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.43%) PMO
2 41 (4.44%) QA
3 33 (3.58%) SLA
4 27 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.95%) GDPR
6 15 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 6 (0.65%) SEPA
11 5 (0.54%) GRC
12 4 (0.43%) GAAP
12 4 (0.43%) IFRS
12 4 (0.43%) PSD2
12 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.41%) Docker
3 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.08%) Grafana
3 10 (1.08%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Ansible
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 255 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.93%) HP
3 61 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 54 (5.85%) SAP
5 26 (2.82%) Google
5 26 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.71%) Oracle
7 15 (1.63%) Adobe
7 15 (1.63%) Cisco
8 14 (1.52%) Apple
8 14 (1.52%) Dell
9 13 (1.41%) Citrix
10 12 (1.30%) Remedy
11 6 (0.65%) Workday
12 5 (0.54%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.54%) VMware
13 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.43%) Datto
13 4 (0.43%) ESRI
14 3 (0.33%) Databricks