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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 132 178
Rank change year-on-year +29 +46 -7
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,373 697 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.50% 2.13% 1.40%
As % of the General category 4.48% 3.36% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 334 309
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £288 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -10.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £618 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £355 £405
% change year-on-year +12.68% -12.35% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 118 27
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.50 £13.58
Median hourly rate £19.03 £19.97 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -11.48% -6.00%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.05 £38.12
90th Percentile - £36.13 £51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.66 £18.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year +9.22% -20.21% +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 requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,644 20,748 21,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.86% 63.46% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,940 12,852 13,090
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 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,203 1,057
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £25.11 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.48% -28.26% +27.27%
75th Percentile £54.45 £47.12 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.04% -39.23% +27.27%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +33 1,162 £400 -5.88% 2,548
UK excluding London +13 895 £400 +12.68% 1,906
Work from Home +72 435 £402 +0.50% 849
London +30 392 £450 -5.26% 814
North of England +22 212 £379 -12.49% 473
South East -18 204 £449 +19.67% 511
Midlands +12 155 £375 +17.65% 366
South West +10 111 £275 -14.06% 187
West Midlands +10 100 £414 +29.73% 203
North West -1 99 £460 +22.67% 255
Scotland +39 94 £425 +9.68% 115
Yorkshire +10 81 £365 -17.05% 163
East of England -1 76 £400 -17.95% 185
East Midlands -2 53 £275 -12.00% 162
North East -10 32 £388 -17.99% 59
Northern Ireland +13 29 £290 -19.72% 33
Wales -6 23 - - 54

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
1 103 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.28%) Confluence
3 28 (2.04%) CMS
4 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.58%) WordPress
6 7 (0.51%) Drupal
7 6 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.073%) Apache
9 1 (0.073%) CICS
9 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.073%) IIS
Applications
1 308 (22.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 256 (18.65%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (9.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.29%) InDesign
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.22%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.22%) Revit
11 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.15%) Trello
12 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.073%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.02%) Magento
2 7 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) HFM
4 4 (0.29%) 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 (0.073%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.19%) Azure
3 71 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.44%) AWS
5 29 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.38%) Google Workspace
8 18 (1.31%) SaaS
9 17 (1.24%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.09%) GCP
10 15 (1.09%) Google Sheets
10 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (0.73%) OpenShift
12 9 (0.66%) Miro
13 8 (0.58%) Slack
14 6 (0.44%) Canva
14 6 (0.44%) GitHub
14 6 (0.44%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.44%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.44%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.82%) LAN
2 16 (1.17%) WAN
3 12 (0.87%) Network Security
4 11 (0.80%) Firewall
5 10 (0.73%) DNS
6 9 (0.66%) MPLS
7 7 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.44%) VPN
9 5 (0.36%) Broadband
9 5 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.36%) VLAN
10 4 (0.29%) DHCP
10 4 (0.29%) Intranet
10 4 (0.29%) VoIP
11 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.22%) NAS
11 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.10%) Power BI
2 12 (0.87%) Relational Database
3 9 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.58%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.58%) Tableau
5 6 (0.44%) Power Query
6 5 (0.36%) Metadata
7 4 (0.29%) MS Access
8 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 1 (0.073%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.073%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.073%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 102 (7.43%) JIRA
2 28 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.46%) Git
4 8 (0.58%) Subversion
5 7 (0.51%) Gradle
5 7 (0.51%) JUnit
6 6 (0.44%) Maven
6 6 (0.44%) Mockito
6 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.29%) Selenium
9 3 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) GitLab
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.15%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 976 (71.09%) Social Skills
2 455 (33.14%) Finance
3 254 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (12.60%) Legal
5 152 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.32%) Retail
7 60 (4.37%) Marketing
8 54 (3.93%) Banking
9 48 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 46 (3.35%) Local Government
11 45 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.60%) Military
16 19 (1.38%) Aviation
17 15 (1.09%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (1.02%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 170 (12.38%) Administrator
2 156 (11.36%) Analyst
3 100 (7.28%) Project Manager
4 86 (6.26%) Coordinator
5 82 (5.97%) Support Officer
6 75 (5.46%) Lead
7 56 (4.08%) Project Officer
8 54 (3.93%) Senior
9 51 (3.71%) Project Support Officer
10 36 (2.62%) Business Analyst
11 34 (2.48%) Project Coordinator
12 29 (2.11%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.04%) IT Support
13 28 (2.04%) Support Engineer
14 23 (1.68%) Junior
15 22 (1.60%) Delivery Manager
15 22 (1.60%) Programme Manager
16 21 (1.53%) Developer
17 20 (1.46%) PMO Analyst
17 20 (1.46%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.17%) HTML
2 15 (1.09%) REST
3 14 (1.02%) Spring
4 13 (0.95%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 12 (0.87%) CSS
5 12 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (0.87%) VML
6 10 (0.73%) Kafka
6 10 (0.73%) Middleware
7 8 (0.58%) React
7 8 (0.58%) Redux
7 8 (0.58%) Terraform
7 8 (0.58%) Web Services
8 7 (0.51%) SOAP
9 6 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (0.44%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.44%) JPA
9 6 (0.44%) RESTful
9 6 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.83%) Onboarding
2 119 (8.67%) Virtual Team
3 115 (8.38%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.01%) Podcast
5 92 (6.70%) Management Information System
6 48 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (2.69%) Driving Licence
8 32 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 31 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.09%) Learning Management System
12 14 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.87%) e-Learning
13 12 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.87%) Social Media
14 11 (0.80%) Life Science
14 11 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
15 10 (0.73%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.39%) Windows
2 16 (1.17%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.66%) Linux
3 9 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) Android
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.073%) Unix
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (27.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 297 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
3 254 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 247 (17.99%) Customer Service
5 215 (15.66%) Agile
6 207 (15.08%) Project Management
7 178 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 171 (12.45%) Project Delivery
9 132 (9.61%) Decision-Making
10 114 (8.30%) AI
10 114 (8.30%) Time Management
11 95 (6.92%) Change Management
12 91 (6.63%) Service Delivery
13 90 (6.55%) Logistics
14 89 (6.48%) Collaborative Working
14 89 (6.48%) PRINCE2
15 88 (6.41%) ITIL
16 85 (6.19%) Migration
17 82 (5.97%) Risk Management
18 79 (5.75%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 38 (2.77%) SQL
2 22 (1.60%) Python
3 20 (1.46%) Java
4 13 (0.95%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
6 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.22%) R
8 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.22%) VBA
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.073%) C#
10 1 (0.073%) COBOL
10 1 (0.073%) Groovy
10 1 (0.073%) Perl
10 1 (0.073%) PHP
10 1 (0.073%) REXX
Qualifications
1 187 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 168 (12.24%) Degree
3 140 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 135 (9.83%) SC Cleared
5 47 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.69%) DBS Check
7 29 (2.11%) PMP
8 28 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 13 (0.95%) HNC
11 12 (0.87%) CISSP
12 9 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.58%) CIPD
14 7 (0.51%) CISM
14 7 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.44%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.44%) CIMA
15 6 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.42%) PMO
2 64 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.30%) QA
4 43 (3.13%) GDPR
5 28 (2.04%) SLA
6 24 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.95%) GRC
9 11 (0.80%) NIST
10 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.36%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS
14 4 (0.29%) P3O
14 4 (0.29%) WCAG
15 3 (0.22%) COSHH
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 19650
15 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 41 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.87%) Docker
3 9 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.073%) GPFS
7 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.073%) NFS
7 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 10 (0.73%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.51%) Control-M
4 7 (0.51%) Grafana
4 7 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.51%) SCCM
5 6 (0.44%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) WSUS
7 3 (0.22%) Packer
7 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
9 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.073%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 444 (32.34%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.81%) SAP
3 47 (3.42%) Oracle
4 46 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.28%) Google
6 27 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.60%) Cisco
8 14 (1.02%) Adobe
9 13 (0.95%) SolarWinds
10 12 (0.87%) VMware
11 11 (0.80%) Workday
12 10 (0.73%) Apple
13 8 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.51%) Braze
14 7 (0.51%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.44%) HP
16 5 (0.36%) Aruba
16 5 (0.36%) Databricks
16 5 (0.36%) HubSpot
16 5 (0.36%) Xero