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 1 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	86	135	187
Rank change year-on-year	+49	+52	-32
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills	1,711	733	482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	3.13%	2.14%	1.32%
As % of the General category	5.37%	3.39%	2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted	682	342	268
10^th Percentile	£180	£185	£166
25^th Percentile	£251	£300	£306
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	£424	£463
Median % change year-on-year	-5.60%	-8.38%	+8.82%
75^th Percentile	£538	£550	£560
90^th Percentile	£625	£681	£667
UK excluding London median daily rate	£390	£380	£400
% change year-on-year	+2.63%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	543	160	27
10^th Percentile	£13.25	£13.00	£13.10
25^th Percentile	£14.05	£15.66	£13.58
Median hourly rate	£17.42	£20.00	£22.56
Median % change year-on-year	-12.90%	-11.35%	-16.44%
75^th Percentile	£43.96	£31.41	£29.38
90^th Percentile	-	£51.00	£51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£18.85	£22.56
% change year-on-year	-9.79%	-16.47%	+7.17%

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 citing general skills.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing general skills	31,886	21,652	21,533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	58.29%	63.08%	58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted	18,451	13,512	12,695
10^th Percentile	£313	£275	£281
25^th Percentile	£420	£400	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£644
90^th Percentile	£738	£738	£750
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£480
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-1.04%	-4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,112	1,344	818
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£13.71	£14.73
25^th Percentile	£15.39	£16.40	£16.94
Median hourly rate	£26.28	£25.00	£29.75
Median % change year-on-year	+5.11%	-15.97%	-0.83%
75^th Percentile	£53.75	£43.84	£57.44
90^th Percentile	£77.50	£67.43	£70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.75	£21.58	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+19.35%	-21.55%	+1.85%

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 Daily Rate Trend

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 1 November 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.

Organisational Skills Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills over the 6 months to 1 November 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 1 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+49	1,451	£400	-10.61%	871
UK excluding London	+35	1,154	£390	+2.63%	768
Work from Home	+79	478	£416	-7.67%	283
London	+47	452	£450	-2.39%	240
South East	+7	279	£400	-14.89%	232
North of England	+48	277	£381	-13.35%	147
Midlands	+40	215	£389	+5.36%	144
North West	+27	138	£483	+17.09%	82
West Midlands	+36	133	£447	+19.20%	81
Scotland	+50	119	£425	+9.68%	40
South West	+1	115	£225	-1.10%	77
Yorkshire	+32	103	£365	-17.05%	44
East of England	+13	100	£375	-27.04%	97
East Midlands	+26	80	£217	-3.56%	63
North East	-6	36	£363	-23.28%	23
Wales	+7	34	£72	-70.00%	27
Northern Ireland	+12	29	£290	-19.72%	17

Organisational Skills Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Organisational Skills also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Organisational Skills.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	33.9%	580
2	Stakeholder Management	26.2%	449
3	Problem-Solving	22.4%	383
4	Microsoft Excel	21.2%	362
5	Microsoft Office	19.3%	330
6	Customer Service	19.1%	326
7	Continuous Improvement	17.8%	305
8	Security Cleared	14.6%	249
9	Project Management	13.3%	227
10	Agile	13.0%	222
11	Stakeholder Engagement	12.2%	209
12	Project Delivery	12.1%	207
13	Degree	10.6%	182
14	SC Cleared	9.9%	170
15	PMO	9.1%	156
16	Time Management	8.8%	151
17	BPSS Clearance	8.7%	149
18	Decision-Making	8.1%	139
19	Microsoft PowerPoint	7.9%	135
20	SharePoint	7.4%	127
21	AI	7.1%	122
22	Collaborative Working	6.9%	118
23	JIRA	6.6%	113
24	Change Management	6.4%	109
25	Data Protection	6.1%	105
26	Migration	6.1%	104
26	Risk Management	6.1%	104
26	Service Delivery	6.1%	104
29	Logistics	5.8%	99
30	Data Entry	5.7%	97

Organisational Skills Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	71.7%	1,227
2	Finance	30.5%	521
3	Analytical Skills	18.2%	311
4	Legal	10.9%	187
5	Public Sector	8.9%	153
6	Retail	5.1%	88
7	Manufacturing	4.6%	78
8	Marketing	4.4%	75
9	Banking	4.3%	74
10	Documentation Skills	3.4%	59
11	Influencing Skills	3.2%	55
12	Local Government	2.9%	50
13	Aerospace	2.7%	47
14	Inclusion and Diversity	2.7%	46
15	Aviation	2.3%	40
16	Telecoms	2.1%	36
17	Presentation Skills	1.9%	33
18	Advertising	1.5%	25
19	Financial Institution	1.1%	19
19	Investment Banking	1.1%	19