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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 131 177
Rank change year-on-year +22 +46 -5
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,322 693 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.43% 2.10% 1.40%
As % of the General category 4.37% 3.30% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 342 313
10th Percentile £185 £185 £165
25th Percentile £263 £300 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £414 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% -8.06% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £571 £538
90th Percentile £614 £700 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £373 £400
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.88% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 98 42
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.59 £20.56
Median hourly rate £20.70 £18.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -50.81% +81.09%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.51 -
90th Percentile - £39.43 £46.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.76 £17.98 £38.12
% change year-on-year +15.43% -52.83% +84.82%

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 30,281 20,994 22,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.57% 63.64% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,811 12,998 13,405
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £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 2,436 1,187 1,144
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.66
25th Percentile £16.46 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.40 £38.12
% change year-on-year +40.19% -43.86% +46.76%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +21 1,124 £400 -10.71% 1,398
UK excluding London +8 857 £400 +7.38% 1,220
Work from Home +75 433 £403 -3.99% 402
London +29 389 £450 -8.16% 333
North of England +26 206 £400 -7.51% 273
South East -34 188 £436 +15.56% 376
Midlands -2 147 £389 +21.88% 243
South West +26 114 £288 -26.28% 119
North West -6 95 £483 +17.09% 141
West Midlands -4 93 £425 +36.00% 129
Scotland +20 91 £410 +2.50% 53
Yorkshire +10 77 £365 -13.10% 95
East of England -1 71 £388 -13.89% 135
East Midlands +2 52 £275 -31.25% 114
North East -17 34 £488 +3.17% 43
Northern Ireland +18 30 £258 -28.72% 8
Wales -8 19 - - 36

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 97 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.18%) Confluence
3 30 (2.27%) CMS
4 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.61%) WordPress
6 7 (0.53%) Drupal
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.076%) Apache
10 1 (0.076%) Camunda
10 1 (0.076%) CICS
10 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 297 (22.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (18.08%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (9.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.38%) 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 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.076%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.06%) Magento
2 7 (0.53%) 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 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Shopify
5 3 (0.23%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.15%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.15%) Primavera
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.076%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.076%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.076%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.076%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.076%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 89 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (6.43%) Azure
3 72 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.61%) AWS
5 29 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (1.44%) Google Workspace
8 18 (1.36%) SaaS
9 16 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.13%) Google Sheets
10 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.06%) GCP
12 10 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.61%) Slack
14 7 (0.53%) Canva
14 7 (0.53%) Miro
15 6 (0.45%) GitHub
15 6 (0.45%) Google Analytics
15 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.82%) LAN
2 16 (1.21%) WAN
3 12 (0.91%) Firewall
3 12 (0.91%) Network Security
4 10 (0.76%) DNS
5 9 (0.68%) MPLS
6 7 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (0.38%) Intranet
7 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.38%) VLAN
7 5 (0.38%) VPN
8 4 (0.30%) Broadband
8 4 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.23%) VoIP
9 3 (0.23%) Wireless
10 2 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.37%) Power BI
2 14 (1.06%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.61%) Tableau
6 7 (0.53%) Power Query
7 5 (0.38%) 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 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.15%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.15%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.15%) MySQL
10 2 (0.15%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.076%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.076%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.076%) Looker
Development Applications
1 97 (7.34%) JIRA
2 29 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.59%) Git
4 8 (0.61%) Subversion
5 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.53%) Gradle
5 7 (0.53%) JUnit
6 6 (0.45%) Maven
6 6 (0.45%) Mockito
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) GitLab
9 3 (0.23%) Selenium
9 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.15%) JMeter
10 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 934 (70.65%) Social Skills
2 443 (33.51%) Finance
3 251 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (13.62%) Legal
5 147 (11.12%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.52%) Retail
7 61 (4.61%) Marketing
8 53 (4.01%) Banking
9 44 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.33%) Local Government
10 42 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.66%) Military
15 16 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.13%) Aviation
17 13 (0.98%) Advertising
17 13 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 158 (11.95%) Administrator
2 153 (11.57%) Analyst
3 99 (7.49%) Project Manager
4 82 (6.20%) Coordinator
5 74 (5.60%) Lead
5 74 (5.60%) Support Officer
6 57 (4.31%) Senior
7 51 (3.86%) Project Officer
8 45 (3.40%) Project Support Officer
9 36 (2.72%) Business Analyst
10 33 (2.50%) Project Coordinator
11 29 (2.19%) IT Support
12 27 (2.04%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.04%) Support Engineer
13 25 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (1.82%) Junior
15 22 (1.66%) Developer
15 22 (1.66%) Programme Manager
16 20 (1.51%) PMO Analyst
16 20 (1.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.51%) HTML
2 15 (1.13%) CSS
2 15 (1.13%) REST
3 14 (1.06%) Spring
4 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
4 13 (0.98%) Spring Boot
4 13 (0.98%) VML
5 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (0.83%) XML
6 10 (0.76%) Middleware
7 9 (0.68%) Kafka
7 9 (0.68%) React
7 9 (0.68%) Redux
8 8 (0.61%) Terraform
8 8 (0.61%) Web Services
9 7 (0.53%) SOAP
10 6 (0.45%) .NET
10 6 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.29%) Onboarding
2 119 (9.00%) Virtual Team
3 117 (8.85%) Web Conferencing
4 110 (8.32%) Podcast
5 86 (6.51%) Management Information System
6 43 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.57%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.97%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.29%) Learning Management System
11 16 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.13%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
15 12 (0.91%) Social Media
16 11 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.83%) Blog
16 11 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
17 10 (0.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.67%) Windows
2 16 (1.21%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.76%) Linux
3 10 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.076%) Android
7 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.076%) Unix
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (27.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 281 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
3 245 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 228 (17.25%) Customer Service
5 222 (16.79%) Agile
6 207 (15.66%) Project Management
7 170 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 167 (12.63%) Project Delivery
9 128 (9.68%) Decision-Making
10 114 (8.62%) Time Management
11 112 (8.47%) AI
12 92 (6.96%) PRINCE2
13 89 (6.73%) Service Delivery
14 88 (6.66%) Migration
15 87 (6.58%) ITIL
16 86 (6.51%) Logistics
17 84 (6.35%) Change Management
18 80 (6.05%) Collaborative Working
19 79 (5.98%) Data Protection
20 75 (5.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (3.25%) SQL
2 22 (1.66%) Python
3 19 (1.44%) Java
4 13 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.61%) PL/SQL
5 8 (0.61%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.53%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.23%) R
8 3 (0.23%) VBA
9 2 (0.15%) Bash
9 2 (0.15%) C#
9 2 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.076%) COBOL
10 1 (0.076%) Groovy
10 1 (0.076%) Perl
10 1 (0.076%) PHP
10 1 (0.076%) REXX
Qualifications
1 185 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.56%) Degree
3 142 (10.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 134 (10.14%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.27%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.19%) PMP
9 20 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 11 (0.83%) CISSP
11 10 (0.76%) HNC
12 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.61%) CIPD
13 8 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.53%) CISM
14 7 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.45%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.45%) ACCA
15 6 (0.45%) CIMA
15 6 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (10.74%) PMO
2 64 (4.84%) QA
3 62 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 44 (3.33%) GDPR
5 28 (2.12%) SLA
6 25 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.91%) GRC
9 11 (0.83%) NIST
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.45%) NCSC
11 6 (0.45%) WCAG
12 5 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.38%) COBIT
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) P3O
14 3 (0.23%) COSHH
14 3 (0.23%) GMP
14 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 42 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 8 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.076%) GPFS
6 1 (0.076%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.076%) NFS
6 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.53%) Control-M
4 7 (0.53%) Grafana
4 7 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
6 5 (0.38%) WSUS
7 3 (0.23%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) OPNET
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.076%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.076%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 421 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.61%) SAP
3 52 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.56%) Oracle
5 45 (3.40%) Google
6 31 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.66%) Cisco
8 15 (1.13%) Adobe
9 13 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 11 (0.83%) VMware
10 11 (0.83%) Workday
11 10 (0.76%) Apple
12 8 (0.61%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.53%) Braze
13 7 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.38%) Aruba
14 5 (0.38%) Databricks
14 5 (0.38%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.38%) Xero
15 4 (0.30%) PagerDuty