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 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 137 185
Rank change year-on-year +20 +48 -10
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,223 682 526
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 2.07% 1.36%
As % of the General category 4.13% 3.26% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 336 314
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £289 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £422 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% -6.17% -
75th Percentile £538 £564 £538
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 92 59
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.72 £15.34 £19.43
Median hourly rate £24.00 £18.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -50.81% +73.47%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £38.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.73 £18.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +70.72% -52.78% +81.65%

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 29,592 20,923 22,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.06% 63.49% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,452 13,016 13,665
10th Percentile £313 £275 £293
25th Percentile £418 £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 £739 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% 0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,301 1,177 1,214
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.93 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £37.04
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -32.10% +34.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.11 £70.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.56 £22.05 £37.28
% change year-on-year +43.11% -40.85% +45.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 1,044 £400 -5.88% 1,316
UK excluding London +7 777 £400 +7.38% 1,174
Work from Home +71 413 £410 -8.89% 420
London +37 377 £450 -5.26% 347
North of England +18 194 £400 -9.09% 270
South East -36 175 £425 +11.84% 369
Midlands -15 121 £389 +26.98% 199
South West +24 104 £300 -23.08% 135
North West -6 87 £484 +17.33% 154
Scotland +30 84 £410 +2.50% 56
West Midlands -18 76 £436 +42.45% 110
Yorkshire +6 75 £365 -17.05% 70
East of England +3 61 £350 -22.22% 121
East Midlands -1 43 £275 -12.00% 89
North East -11 32 £488 +3.17% 52
Northern Ireland +19 29 £258 -30.87% 11
Wales -13 16 - - 38

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 87 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.86%) Confluence
3 30 (2.45%) CMS
4 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.57%) Drupal
6 6 (0.49%) WordPress
7 5 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.082%) Apache
10 1 (0.082%) Camunda
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.082%) Umbraco
Applications
1 259 (21.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 206 (16.84%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (9.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (5.23%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (1.06%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.33%) InDesign
9 3 (0.25%) Trello
10 1 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.082%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.082%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.082%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (1.06%) Magento
2 8 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) HFM
4 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Changepoint
7 1 (0.082%) iTrent
7 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.082%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.082%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 89 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (6.79%) Azure
3 66 (5.40%) Power Platform
4 53 (4.33%) AWS
5 29 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (1.47%) Google Workspace
7 18 (1.47%) SaaS
8 16 (1.31%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (1.06%) GCP
11 12 (0.98%) Google Sheets
12 10 (0.82%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.65%) Slack
14 6 (0.49%) GitHub
14 6 (0.49%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.49%) Miro
15 5 (0.41%) OCI
15 5 (0.41%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.41%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.88%) LAN
2 15 (1.23%) WAN
3 11 (0.90%) Firewall
3 11 (0.90%) Network Security
4 10 (0.82%) DNS
5 9 (0.74%) MPLS
6 7 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.41%) Intranet
7 5 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.41%) VLAN
7 5 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.33%) Broadband
8 4 (0.33%) DHCP
8 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) VoIP
10 2 (0.16%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.40%) Power BI
2 16 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.65%) Tableau
4 7 (0.57%) Power Query
4 7 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.41%) Metadata
6 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.25%) Big Data
7 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.16%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.16%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.16%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.16%) MS Access
8 2 (0.16%) MySQL
8 2 (0.16%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.082%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 87 (7.11%) JIRA
2 24 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.31%) Git
4 8 (0.65%) Subversion
5 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.57%) Gradle
6 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) Selenium
8 3 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.16%) JMeter
9 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.082%) Hudson
10 1 (0.082%) JUnit
10 1 (0.082%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.082%) WebDriver
General
1 854 (69.83%) Social Skills
2 426 (34.83%) Finance
3 238 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (14.31%) Legal
5 131 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.23%) Retail
7 56 (4.58%) Banking
7 56 (4.58%) Marketing
8 42 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (3.27%) Local Government
10 38 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.39%) Military
16 13 (1.06%) Publishing
17 12 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 152 (12.43%) Analyst
2 120 (9.81%) Administrator
3 94 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 69 (5.64%) Support Officer
5 66 (5.40%) Coordinator
6 65 (5.31%) Lead
7 55 (4.50%) Senior
8 51 (4.17%) Project Officer
9 45 (3.68%) Project Support Officer
10 38 (3.11%) Business Analyst
11 28 (2.29%) Project Coordinator
12 27 (2.21%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.21%) IT Support
12 27 (2.21%) Support Engineer
13 24 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (1.88%) Junior
15 20 (1.64%) PMO Analyst
15 20 (1.64%) Programme Manager
15 20 (1.64%) Senior Manager
15 20 (1.64%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.72%) HTML
2 16 (1.31%) CSS
3 13 (1.06%) VML
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.82%) Kafka
5 10 (0.82%) Middleware
5 10 (0.82%) React
5 10 (0.82%) REST
5 10 (0.82%) XML
6 9 (0.74%) Redux
6 9 (0.74%) Spring
7 8 (0.65%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.57%) Hibernate
8 7 (0.57%) Terraform
9 6 (0.49%) .NET
10 4 (0.33%) ADO
11 3 (0.25%) HTML5
11 3 (0.25%) JWT
11 3 (0.25%) Node.js
11 3 (0.25%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.81%) Onboarding
2 117 (9.57%) Virtual Team
3 116 (9.48%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.99%) Podcast
5 70 (5.72%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.80%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.39%) Learning Management System
11 14 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.06%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.82%) Blog
15 10 (0.82%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.82%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 77 (6.30%) Windows
2 16 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.82%) Linux
3 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 10 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.082%) Android
6 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.082%) Unix
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (26.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 257 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 216 (17.66%) Customer Service
5 213 (17.42%) Agile
6 199 (16.27%) Project Management
7 161 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 159 (13.00%) Project Delivery
9 120 (9.81%) Decision-Making
10 103 (8.42%) AI
11 96 (7.85%) Time Management
12 88 (7.20%) PRINCE2
13 87 (7.11%) ITIL
14 86 (7.03%) Service Delivery
15 84 (6.87%) Migration
16 82 (6.70%) Change Management
17 77 (6.30%) Collaborative Working
18 75 (6.13%) Logistics
19 74 (6.05%) Data Protection
20 71 (5.81%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.68%) SQL
2 23 (1.88%) Python
3 14 (1.14%) Java
4 13 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.25%) R
7 3 (0.25%) VBA
8 2 (0.16%) Bash
8 2 (0.16%) C#
8 2 (0.16%) Korn
8 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.082%) COBOL
9 1 (0.082%) Groovy
9 1 (0.082%) Perl
9 1 (0.082%) PHP
9 1 (0.082%) REXX
Qualifications
1 171 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.84%) Degree
3 135 (11.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 121 (9.89%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 30 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 27 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.21%) PMP
8 20 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (0.82%) CISSP
10 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.74%) HNC
11 8 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.57%) A+ Certification
12 7 (0.57%) CIPD
12 7 (0.57%) CISM
12 7 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.49%) ACCA
13 6 (0.49%) CIMA
13 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.96%) PMO
2 57 (4.66%) QA
3 56 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.94%) GDPR
5 28 (2.29%) SLA
6 25 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.82%) GRC
9 9 (0.74%) NIST
10 8 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.49%) WCAG
13 5 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.41%) COBIT
13 5 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) IFRS
15 3 (0.25%) GAAP
15 3 (0.25%) GMP
15 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 3 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 45 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.49%) Docker
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.082%) GPFS
6 1 (0.082%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.082%) NFS
6 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.57%) Control-M
5 6 (0.49%) Ansible
6 5 (0.41%) SCCM
6 5 (0.41%) WSUS
7 3 (0.25%) Packer
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) OPNET
8 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.082%) Grafana
9 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.082%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 376 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.74%) SAP
3 52 (4.25%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.52%) Oracle
5 41 (3.35%) Google
6 28 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.72%) Cisco
8 15 (1.23%) Adobe
9 13 (1.06%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.90%) VMware
10 11 (0.90%) Workday
11 10 (0.82%) Apple
12 8 (0.65%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.57%) Braze
13 7 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.41%) Aruba
14 5 (0.41%) Concur
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) DocuSign
14 5 (0.41%) Xero