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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 135 175
Rank change year-on-year +29 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,343 704 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.46% 2.14% 1.43%
As % of the General category 4.41% 3.36% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 337 318
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £290 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £549
90th Percentile £614 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £357 £405
% change year-on-year +12.20% -11.98% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 113 34
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £12.98
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £20.38 £20.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -23.81% +11.70%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.41 £38.12
90th Percentile - £38.00 £49.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -35.00% +42.86%

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 30,471 20,950 22,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.75% 63.60% 57.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,899 12,987 13,281
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
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 £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 2,504 1,199 1,107
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £48.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £21.39 £35.36
% change year-on-year +42.59% -39.51% +34.70%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +17 1,137 £400 -5.88% 2,162
UK excluding London +5 869 £400 +12.20% 1,632
Work from Home +88 437 £412 +2.93% 654
London +23 392 £450 -5.26% 710
North of England +22 204 £381 -10.35% 386
South East -27 197 £450 +19.21% 480
Midlands +6 148 £389 +21.88% 310
South West +13 113 £288 -10.16% 150
Scotland +37 95 £410 +2.50% 85
North West +3 95 £460 +11.52% 214
West Midlands -9 94 £425 +36.00% 170
Yorkshire +8 76 £365 -8.75% 122
East of England -7 72 £388 -13.89% 177
East Midlands +12 52 £275 -31.25% 139
North East -12 33 £450 -4.76% 54
Northern Ireland +15 29 £290 -19.72% 24
Wales -10 20 - - 42

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 98 (7.30%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.35%) Confluence
3 29 (2.16%) CMS
4 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.60%) WordPress
6 7 (0.52%) Drupal
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.074%) Apache
10 1 (0.074%) Camunda
10 1 (0.074%) CICS
10 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 296 (22.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 245 (18.24%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (9.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.45%) 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 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.074%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.04%) Magento
2 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Primavera
5 3 (0.22%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.074%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.074%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.074%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 89 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
2 86 (6.40%) Azure
3 70 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.54%) AWS
5 31 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.41%) Google Workspace
8 17 (1.27%) Entra ID
8 17 (1.27%) SaaS
9 15 (1.12%) GCP
9 15 (1.12%) Google Sheets
9 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (0.74%) OpenShift
11 8 (0.60%) Miro
11 8 (0.60%) Slack
12 7 (0.52%) Canva
13 6 (0.45%) GitHub
13 6 (0.45%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.86%) LAN
2 17 (1.27%) WAN
3 12 (0.89%) Firewall
3 12 (0.89%) Network Security
4 10 (0.74%) DNS
5 9 (0.67%) MPLS
6 7 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.37%) VLAN
7 5 (0.37%) VPN
8 4 (0.30%) Broadband
8 4 (0.30%) DHCP
8 4 (0.30%) Intranet
9 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.22%) VoIP
9 3 (0.22%) Wireless
10 2 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.14%) Power BI
2 12 (0.89%) Relational Database
3 10 (0.74%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.60%) Tableau
6 7 (0.52%) Power Query
7 5 (0.37%) 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 (0.22%) 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 (0.074%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.074%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (7.59%) JIRA
2 28 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.56%) Git
4 8 (0.60%) Subversion
5 7 (0.52%) Gradle
5 7 (0.52%) JUnit
6 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.45%) Maven
6 6 (0.45%) Mockito
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.22%) GitLab
9 3 (0.22%) Selenium
10 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 950 (70.74%) Social Skills
2 446 (33.21%) Finance
3 250 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (13.03%) Legal
5 151 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.36%) Retail
7 60 (4.47%) Marketing
8 53 (3.95%) Banking
9 47 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 44 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (3.28%) Local Government
12 33 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 33 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.64%) Military
15 16 (1.19%) Aviation
15 16 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.04%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 162 (12.06%) Administrator
2 158 (11.76%) Analyst
3 100 (7.45%) Project Manager
4 80 (5.96%) Coordinator
5 78 (5.81%) Support Officer
6 76 (5.66%) Lead
7 58 (4.32%) Senior
8 53 (3.95%) Project Officer
9 48 (3.57%) Project Support Officer
10 37 (2.76%) Business Analyst
11 33 (2.46%) Project Coordinator
12 30 (2.23%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.08%) IT Support
14 27 (2.01%) Support Engineer
15 25 (1.86%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (1.71%) Junior
17 22 (1.64%) Developer
18 21 (1.56%) Programme Manager
19 20 (1.49%) PMO Analyst
19 20 (1.49%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.34%) HTML
2 15 (1.12%) REST
3 14 (1.04%) CSS
3 14 (1.04%) Spring
4 13 (0.97%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.97%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.89%) VML
6 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.67%) Kafka
7 9 (0.67%) Middleware
7 9 (0.67%) React
7 9 (0.67%) Redux
8 8 (0.60%) Terraform
8 8 (0.60%) Web Services
9 7 (0.52%) SOAP
10 6 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) JPA
10 6 (0.45%) RESTful
10 6 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.86%) Virtual Team
3 115 (8.56%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.19%) Podcast
5 89 (6.63%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 32 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (2.23%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.27%) Learning Management System
11 16 (1.19%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.04%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.89%) Social Media
14 11 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.74%) Blog
15 10 (0.74%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.58%) Windows
2 16 (1.19%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.67%) Linux
5 7 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
7 2 (0.15%) zOS
8 1 (0.074%) Android
8 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.074%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 289 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 235 (17.50%) Customer Service
5 221 (16.46%) Agile
6 209 (15.56%) Project Management
7 175 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 171 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 131 (9.75%) Decision-Making
10 114 (8.49%) AI
11 112 (8.34%) Time Management
12 92 (6.85%) Change Management
12 92 (6.85%) PRINCE2
13 89 (6.63%) Logistics
13 89 (6.63%) Service Delivery
14 88 (6.55%) ITIL
15 84 (6.25%) Migration
16 81 (6.03%) Collaborative Working
17 79 (5.88%) Data Protection
17 79 (5.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (2.98%) SQL
2 21 (1.56%) Python
3 19 (1.41%) Java
4 14 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 8 (0.60%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.30%) VBA
8 3 (0.22%) R
8 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) C#
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.074%) COBOL
10 1 (0.074%) Groovy
10 1 (0.074%) Perl
10 1 (0.074%) PHP
10 1 (0.074%) REXX
Qualifications
1 188 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.43%) Degree
3 141 (10.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 136 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.16%) PMP
9 20 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.82%) CISSP
10 11 (0.82%) HNC
11 9 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIPD
12 8 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.52%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.45%) ACCA
14 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.37%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (10.72%) PMO
2 63 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.62%) QA
4 43 (3.20%) GDPR
5 27 (2.01%) SLA
6 23 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.89%) GRC
9 11 (0.82%) NIST
10 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.45%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.37%) COBIT
13 5 (0.37%) WCAG
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) P3O
15 3 (0.22%) COSHH
15 3 (0.22%) GMP
15 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 40 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) GPFS
7 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.52%) Control-M
4 7 (0.52%) Grafana
4 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
5 6 (0.45%) SCCM
6 5 (0.37%) WSUS
7 3 (0.22%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.074%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.074%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 430 (32.02%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.62%) SAP
3 50 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.50%) Oracle
5 45 (3.35%) Google
6 29 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.64%) Cisco
8 14 (1.04%) Adobe
9 13 (0.97%) SolarWinds
10 12 (0.89%) VMware
11 11 (0.82%) Workday
12 10 (0.74%) Apple
13 8 (0.60%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.52%) Braze
14 7 (0.52%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.37%) Aruba
15 5 (0.37%) Databricks
15 5 (0.37%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.37%) Xero
16 4 (0.30%) Civica