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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 162 122
Rank change year-on-year +34 -40 +79
Contract jobs citing Organisational Skills 920 513 839
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 1.75% 1.91%
As % of the General category 3.64% 2.78% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 322 422
10th Percentile £160 £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 £528 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £724 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £414 £415
% change year-on-year -12.44% -0.24% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 34 162
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.20 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.58 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -10.70% -21.84%
75th Percentile £24.44 £27.91 £38.12
90th Percentile £35.36 £33.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £21.25 £18.13
% change year-on-year -17.65% +17.21% -31.88%

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 25,287 18,421 25,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.91% 63.00% 58.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,739 11,798 16,205
10th Percentile £303 £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 £624 £643 £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 1,575 734 1,865
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.78 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.51 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +10.52% -25.03%
75th Percentile £59.00 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.24 £25.22
% change year-on-year -8.21% +8.02% -19.36%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +27 832 £415 -17.00% 727
UK excluding London +10 582 £363 -12.44% 631
London +13 293 £475 -13.64% 189
Work from Home +42 242 £475 -9.52% 281
South East -10 141 £450 +38.46% 212
North of England -8 123 £449 +24.07% 127
Midlands -20 102 £300 -36.84% 120
East of England +29 92 £200 -55.56% 72
South West +16 72 £310 -38.10% 58
West Midlands -27 65 £350 -26.32% 62
Yorkshire -15 58 £431 +14.62% 40
North West -12 51 £450 +28.57% 72
Scotland -7 39 £375 -9.09% 38
East Midlands -7 37 £200 -50.31% 58
North East -6 14 £450 -21.74% 20
Wales -9 11 £213 -48.48% 19
Northern Ireland +1 7 £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 72 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.80%) Confluence
3 13 (1.41%) CMS
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.43%) 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%) 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
1 181 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (4.78%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.76%) InDesign
8 6 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 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%) 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%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) iTrent
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 84 (9.13%) Azure
2 78 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (2.93%) 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 7 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 7 (0.76%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
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%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.17%) VPN
2 13 (1.41%) LAN
3 10 (1.09%) DNS
3 10 (1.09%) Firewall
3 10 (1.09%) Skype
4 9 (0.98%) WAN
5 8 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.65%) DHCP
6 6 (0.65%) Internet
6 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.54%) Intranet
7 5 (0.54%) Network Security
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 50 (5.43%) 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%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.22%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.22%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 78 (8.48%) JIRA
2 17 (1.85%) Git
3 12 (1.30%) 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
1 567 (61.63%) Social Skills
2 239 (25.98%) Finance
3 155 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.20%) Legal
6 56 (6.09%) Marketing
7 49 (5.33%) Banking
8 39 (4.24%) Retail
9 28 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.41%) Electronics
12 13 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.30%) Advertising
13 12 (1.30%) Billing
14 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.98%) Military
16 8 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (13.15%) Analyst
2 105 (11.41%) Project Manager
3 61 (6.63%) Senior
4 58 (6.30%) Administrator
5 55 (5.98%) Coordinator
6 54 (5.87%) IT Support
6 54 (5.87%) Lead
7 52 (5.65%) Support Officer
8 51 (5.54%) Break Fix Engineer
9 42 (4.57%) Technical Support
10 39 (4.24%) Junior
11 36 (3.91%) Hardware Engineer
12 35 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 34 (3.70%) Consultant
14 31 (3.37%) Project Officer
15 29 (3.15%) Project Support Officer
16 27 (2.93%) Project Coordinator
17 25 (2.72%) Senior Manager
17 25 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
18 22 (2.39%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.63%) HTML
2 14 (1.52%) Spring
3 11 (1.20%) CSS
3 11 (1.20%) VML
3 11 (1.20%) XML
4 9 (0.98%) Middleware
5 8 (0.87%) REST
5 8 (0.87%) WireMock
6 6 (0.65%) ADO
6 6 (0.65%) JWT
6 6 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.54%) HTML5
7 5 (0.54%) JSON
8 4 (0.43%) .NET
8 4 (0.43%) OAuth
9 3 (0.33%) Kafka
9 3 (0.33%) Node.js
9 3 (0.33%) React
9 3 (0.33%) Semantic HTML
10 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.24%) Onboarding
2 34 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 27 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 26 (2.83%) NHS
4 26 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.41%) Social Media
9 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.09%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.09%) Insider Threat
10 10 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.87%) Blog
12 8 (0.87%) Tandem
13 7 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.65%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.13%) Windows
2 27 (2.93%) Windows 10
3 21 (2.28%) Linux
4 9 (0.98%) 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
1 216 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 202 (21.96%) Time Management
3 199 (21.63%) Project Management
4 151 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 146 (15.87%) Customer Service
6 127 (13.80%) Agile
6 127 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (13.37%) Project Delivery
8 85 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 84 (9.13%) Decision-Making
10 72 (7.83%) Migration
11 63 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
11 63 (6.85%) ITIL
12 61 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
12 61 (6.63%) Data Protection
13 57 (6.20%) AI
13 57 (6.20%) PRINCE2
14 53 (5.76%) Asset Management
14 53 (5.76%) Workflow
15 52 (5.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (4.46%) SQL
2 23 (2.50%) Python
3 16 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 9 (0.98%) C#
5 6 (0.65%) Java
5 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.22%) Bash
6 2 (0.22%) Korn
6 2 (0.22%) PHP
6 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.22%) VBA
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.11%) Groovy
7 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (12.28%) Degree
2 112 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 102 (11.09%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.70%) PMP
5 29 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.17%) DBS Check
8 16 (1.74%) 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 5 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 4 (0.43%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.43%) CISA
14 4 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.33%) CISM
15 3 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (9.35%) PMO
2 40 (4.35%) QA
3 33 (3.59%) SLA
4 30 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.07%) GDPR
6 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.65%) NIST
10 6 (0.65%) SEPA
11 5 (0.54%) GRC
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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (4.89%) 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 32 (3.48%) 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%) Ansible
5 3 (0.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.22%) WSUS
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
1 251 (27.28%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.96%) HP
3 62 (6.74%) ServiceNow
4 55 (5.98%) SAP
5 27 (2.93%) Google
5 27 (2.93%) Oracle
6 26 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.63%) Adobe
7 15 (1.63%) Cisco
8 14 (1.52%) Apple
8 14 (1.52%) Dell
9 13 (1.41%) Citrix
10 12 (1.30%) Remedy
11 5 (0.54%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.54%) VMware
11 5 (0.54%) Workday
12 4 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.43%) Datto
12 4 (0.43%) ESRI
13 3 (0.33%) Computacenter