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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 158 122
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +76
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 920 523 838
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.79% 1.91%
As % of the General category 3.61% 2.84% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 328 423
10th Percentile £159 £195 £183
25th Percentile £210 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +8.45% -2.67%
75th Percentile £535 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £725 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £413 £415
% change year-on-year -13.21% -0.60% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 34 158
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.20 £11.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.58 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +1.24% -31.05%
75th Percentile £24.02 £27.91 £38.12
90th Percentile £34.80 £33.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £21.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +18.06% -32.37%

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 25,456 18,409 25,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.62% 63.00% 58.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,818 11,792 16,203
10th Percentile £304 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,587 748 1,887
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.42 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £26.61 £28.88 £26.73
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +8.02% -23.63%
75th Percentile £59.00 £57.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £25.28
% change year-on-year -7.41% +6.82% -17.51%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +36 830 £400 -20.00% 727
UK excluding London +14 580 £358 -13.21% 631
London +12 294 £475 -13.64% 189
Work from Home +30 244 £456 -13.14% 281
South East -15 142 £450 +38.46% 212
North of England -2 119 £449 +22.88% 127
Midlands -23 98 £293 -36.76% 120
East of England +28 90 £200 -55.56% 72
South West +13 77 £292 -41.55% 58
West Midlands -38 61 £350 -26.32% 62
Yorkshire -15 57 £400 +6.31% 40
North West 0 50 £453 +27.97% 72
Scotland -4 40 £400 -5.88% 38
East Midlands -15 37 £200 -50.31% 58
North East -10 12 £488 -15.22% 20
Wales -8 11 £213 -35.83% 19
Northern Ireland +2 6 £475 +18.75% 8

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 71 (7.72%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.70%) Confluence
3 14 (1.52%) CMS
4 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.54%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 182 (19.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (13.15%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (5.11%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.76%) InDesign
7 7 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.33%) Trello
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Loan IQ
1 10 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.54%) Shopify
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Maximo
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
4 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) iTrent
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 86 (9.35%) Azure
2 84 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (3.15%) AWS
6 21 (2.28%) Google Workspace
7 19 (2.07%) SaaS
8 11 (1.20%) GCP
9 10 (1.09%) OCI
10 9 (0.98%) GitHub
11 8 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.76%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.54%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.43%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.43%) Figma
14 4 (0.43%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.17%) VPN
2 12 (1.30%) LAN
3 10 (1.09%) DNS
3 10 (1.09%) Firewall
3 10 (1.09%) Skype
4 8 (0.87%) WAN
4 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.76%) Network Security
6 6 (0.65%) DHCP
7 5 (0.54%) Internet
7 5 (0.54%) Intranet
7 5 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.43%) VLAN
9 3 (0.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) SMS
9 3 (0.33%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) NAS
11 1 (0.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.65%) Power BI
2 15 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.76%) GIS
4 7 (0.76%) Metadata
5 6 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (0.65%) Spatial Data
6 5 (0.54%) MySQL
7 4 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.33%) Power Query
8 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) Big Data
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.22%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.22%) Tableau
9 2 (0.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 79 (8.59%) JIRA
2 15 (1.63%) Git
3 10 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.98%) JUnit
5 8 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.87%) JMeter
5 8 (0.87%) Selenium
5 8 (0.87%) WebDriver
6 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.43%) GitLab
8 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Maven
9 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
General
1 559 (60.76%) Social Skills
2 242 (26.30%) Finance
3 157 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.30%) Legal
6 57 (6.20%) Marketing
7 49 (5.33%) Banking
8 42 (4.57%) Retail
9 28 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.41%) Electronics
12 13 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.30%) Advertising
13 12 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.20%) Billing
14 11 (1.20%) Military
15 10 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 118 (12.83%) Analyst
2 107 (11.63%) Project Manager
3 62 (6.74%) Senior
4 57 (6.20%) Administrator
5 56 (6.09%) Support Officer
6 53 (5.76%) Lead
7 51 (5.54%) Break Fix Engineer
7 51 (5.54%) Coordinator
7 51 (5.54%) IT Support
8 41 (4.46%) Technical Support
9 38 (4.13%) Junior
10 36 (3.91%) Hardware Engineer
11 35 (3.80%) Consultant
11 35 (3.80%) Project Officer
12 34 (3.70%) Business Analyst
13 33 (3.59%) Project Support Officer
14 27 (2.93%) Project Coordinator
15 25 (2.72%) Senior Manager
15 25 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
16 22 (2.39%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.74%) HTML
2 12 (1.30%) Spring
2 12 (1.30%) VML
3 11 (1.20%) CSS
4 10 (1.09%) Middleware
4 10 (1.09%) XML
5 8 (0.87%) WireMock
6 7 (0.76%) REST
7 6 (0.65%) ADO
7 6 (0.65%) JWT
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.54%) HTML5
8 5 (0.54%) JSON
9 4 (0.43%) .NET
9 4 (0.43%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) Kafka
10 3 (0.33%) Node.js
10 3 (0.33%) React
10 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
11 2 (0.22%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 82 (8.91%) Onboarding
2 33 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 26 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.61%) NHS
6 18 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.52%) Social Media
9 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.09%) Insider Threat
10 10 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 9 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.98%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.87%) Blog
12 8 (0.87%) Tandem
13 6 (0.65%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.65%) Learning Management System
13 6 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.02%) Windows
2 25 (2.72%) Windows 10
3 18 (1.96%) Linux
4 10 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
2 204 (22.17%) Project Management
3 200 (21.74%) Time Management
4 152 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 145 (15.76%) Customer Service
6 129 (14.02%) Agile
7 128 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (13.59%) Project Delivery
9 88 (9.57%) Decision-Making
10 85 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 73 (7.93%) Migration
12 66 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
13 65 (7.07%) Data Protection
13 65 (7.07%) ITIL
14 62 (6.74%) PRINCE2
15 61 (6.63%) AI
16 60 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
17 53 (5.76%) Analytics
18 52 (5.65%) Workflow
19 51 (5.54%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.91%) SQL
2 23 (2.50%) Python
3 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.98%) C#
5 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.43%) Java
7 2 (0.22%) Bash
7 2 (0.22%) Korn
7 2 (0.22%) PHP
7 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.22%) VBA
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.11%) Groovy
8 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (13.15%) Degree
2 112 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 103 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.80%) PMP
5 29 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.07%) DBS Check
8 17 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.52%) APMP
10 12 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.98%) CISSP
13 8 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.43%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.43%) CISA
14 4 (0.43%) CSPO
14 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.13%) PMO
2 40 (4.35%) QA
3 32 (3.48%) SLA
4 31 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.28%) GDPR
6 19 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 6 (0.65%) SEPA
11 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.43%) GAAP
12 4 (0.43%) IFRS
12 4 (0.43%) PSD2
13 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.52%) Docker
3 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Samba
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 33 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.09%) Grafana
3 10 (1.09%) ServiceCenter
4 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.11%) SCOM
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 255 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.07%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.96%) HP
4 56 (6.09%) SAP
5 28 (3.04%) Google
6 26 (2.83%) Oracle
7 25 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.85%) Adobe
9 15 (1.63%) Cisco
10 14 (1.52%) Apple
10 14 (1.52%) Dell
11 13 (1.41%) Citrix
12 12 (1.30%) Remedy
13 6 (0.65%) Workday
14 5 (0.54%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.54%) VMware
15 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.43%) ESRI
16 3 (0.33%) Databricks
16 3 (0.33%) HubSpot