Organisational Skills Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Organisational Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Organisational Skills in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Organisational Skills over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 118 87
Rank change year-on-year +24 -31 +12
Permanent jobs citing Organisational Skills 1,175 844 1,972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.78% 2.91% 2.87%
As % of the General category 3.80% 4.08% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 800 452 1,389
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,550 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% -18.07%
75th Percentile £48,813 £57,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £63,750
UK median annual salary £38,000 £42,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +20.00% -22.22%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Organisational Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,899 20,664 39,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.79% 71.30% 57.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,808 9,444 26,334
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,600
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Organisational Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Organisational Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Organisational Skills job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Organisational Skills
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Organisational Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Organisational Skills

Organisational Skills
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Organisational Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Organisational Skills in the UK excluding London

Organisational Skills
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Organisational Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +36 306 £39,000 -7.14% 230
North of England -6 303 £37,500 - 144
Midlands +11 174 £36,500 -23.16% 89
North West +2 162 £37,500 -11.64% 87
East of England +15 134 £32,500 +11.11% 75
South West -14 131 £42,500 +34.92% 47
Yorkshire -21 112 £37,500 +25.00% 47
West Midlands -8 93 £44,772 -5.74% 40
East Midlands -11 79 £35,000 -15.15% 47
Scotland +15 72 £32,500 -9.72% 22
Northern Ireland -1 41 £32,500 +25.00% 13
North East -17 29 £45,500 +17.42% 11
Wales -2 28 £28,500 - 13
Organisational Skills
UK

Organisational Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 66 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.79%) CMS
4 14 (1.19%) WordPress
5 11 (0.94%) Confluence
6 9 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) Gentran
8 2 (0.17%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.085%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 157 (13.36%) Microsoft Office
2 156 (13.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.51%) Trello
8 4 (0.34%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.17%) ArchiCAD
10 2 (0.17%) InDesign
10 2 (0.17%) Revit
11 1 (0.085%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.085%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.085%) Elementor
11 1 (0.085%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.51%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.085%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 161 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
2 132 (11.23%) Azure
3 61 (5.19%) Entra ID
4 53 (4.51%) Google Workspace
5 48 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 47 (4.00%) SaaS
7 26 (2.21%) AWS
8 14 (1.19%) Google Analytics
9 8 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.60%) Asana
10 7 (0.60%) Canva
10 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (0.60%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.60%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.51%) ChatGPT
12 5 (0.43%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.43%) GCP
13 4 (0.34%) IaaS
13 4 (0.34%) PaaS
14 3 (0.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.51%) DNS
2 49 (4.17%) Firewall
3 45 (3.83%) Broadband
4 42 (3.57%) DHCP
5 29 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 28 (2.38%) VPN
7 26 (2.21%) WAN
8 25 (2.13%) LAN
9 24 (2.04%) TCP/IP
10 23 (1.96%) VoIP
11 19 (1.62%) VLAN
12 16 (1.36%) Wireless
13 14 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
14 9 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (0.68%) iSCSI
15 8 (0.68%) SAN
16 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.51%) Network Security
18 5 (0.43%) WLAN
18 5 (0.43%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.09%) Power BI
2 26 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.02%) GIS
5 10 (0.85%) MySQL
6 8 (0.68%) Metadata
7 4 (0.34%) Tableau
8 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.26%) Power Query
8 3 (0.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.17%) DB2
9 2 (0.17%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.17%) Parquet
9 2 (0.17%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.085%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (1.87%) JIRA
2 10 (0.85%) Git
3 4 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.26%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.085%) Bitbucket
General
1 805 (68.51%) Social Skills
2 300 (25.53%) Finance
3 144 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (12.00%) Legal
5 106 (9.02%) Marketing
6 58 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 53 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 53 (4.51%) Retail
8 49 (4.17%) Games
9 42 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (2.89%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.30%) Electronics
12 25 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.79%) Law
14 18 (1.53%) Advertising
15 17 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.19%) German Language
17 12 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.02%) Military
18 11 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 133 (11.32%) IT Support
2 110 (9.36%) Analyst
3 84 (7.15%) Support Engineer
4 77 (6.55%) Senior
5 70 (5.96%) Administrator
6 62 (5.28%) IT Engineer
7 58 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 54 (4.60%) Consultant
9 51 (4.34%) Support Technician
10 46 (3.91%) Coordinator
11 45 (3.83%) Security Manager
12 43 (3.66%) Account Manager
13 41 (3.49%) Recruitment Consultant
14 38 (3.23%) Lead
15 36 (3.06%) Infrastructure Manager
16 35 (2.98%) Support Analyst
17 34 (2.89%) IT Analyst
18 33 (2.81%) Project Manager
19 31 (2.64%) IT Manager
19 31 (2.64%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.40%) REST
1 40 (3.40%) SOAP
2 38 (3.23%) OAuth
3 36 (3.06%) GraphQL
4 35 (2.98%) LDAP
4 35 (2.98%) OpenID
4 35 (2.98%) SAML
5 15 (1.28%) HTML
6 13 (1.11%) CSS
7 10 (0.85%) JSON
8 6 (0.51%) XML
9 4 (0.34%) .NET
9 4 (0.34%) Node.js
10 2 (0.17%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.17%) EDI
10 2 (0.17%) Kafka
10 2 (0.17%) ODBC
10 2 (0.17%) PySpark
10 2 (0.17%) Spring
10 2 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 147 (12.51%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (8.17%) Web Conferencing
3 95 (8.09%) Onboarding
4 91 (7.74%) Driving Licence
5 85 (7.23%) Podcast
6 81 (6.89%) Virtual Team
7 75 (6.38%) Management Information System
8 38 (3.23%) Cyberattack
9 36 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
10 35 (2.98%) Social Media
11 18 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.53%) EPoS
12 13 (1.11%) CCTV
12 13 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.02%) NHS
14 11 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.77%) FMCG
16 9 (0.77%) Replication
17 8 (0.68%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 109 (9.28%) Windows
2 58 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 27 (2.30%) Windows 10
4 24 (2.04%) Linux
5 16 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (1.28%) Android
7 11 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.94%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.60%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.43%) CentOS
11 5 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.26%) Unix
13 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.085%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.085%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
2 270 (22.98%) Customer Service
3 202 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (13.28%) CRM
5 129 (10.98%) Project Management
6 122 (10.38%) Time Management
7 111 (9.45%) Mentoring
8 104 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
9 100 (8.51%) Decision-Making
10 95 (8.09%) Service Delivery
11 82 (6.98%) Logistics
12 81 (6.89%) B2B
13 76 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 75 (6.38%) ITIL
15 73 (6.21%) Roadmaps
16 72 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
16 72 (6.13%) Project Delivery
17 65 (5.53%) Agile
18 64 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
18 64 (5.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (4.51%) PowerShell
2 49 (4.17%) Bash
3 39 (3.32%) SQL
4 36 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 35 (2.98%) Python
6 9 (0.77%) C
6 9 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.68%) Java
8 6 (0.51%) C#
8 6 (0.51%) C++
8 6 (0.51%) Korn
8 6 (0.51%) VBA
9 4 (0.34%) VB
10 2 (0.17%) Scala
10 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.085%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.085%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (14.38%) Degree
2 84 (7.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 83 (7.06%) DBS Check
4 56 (4.77%) Security Cleared
5 33 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 23 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.70%) A+ Certification
8 15 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 14 (1.19%) HNC
10 12 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.68%) CIPD
12 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (0.60%) ACCA
14 6 (0.51%) CRISC
15 5 (0.43%) PhD
16 4 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.36%) NIST
2 56 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (4.34%) QA
4 50 (4.26%) NCSC
5 47 (4.00%) GDPR
6 37 (3.15%) Data Quality
7 26 (2.21%) PMO
8 25 (2.13%) SLA
9 24 (2.04%) ISO 9001
10 23 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (1.79%) GRC
12 16 (1.36%) Accessibility
13 15 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (1.28%) SOC 2
14 12 (1.02%) SOC 3
15 11 (0.94%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.51%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 138 (11.74%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 19 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.19%) Docker
5 8 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.43%) Firmware
8 4 (0.34%) XenApp
9 2 (0.17%) Samba
10 1 (0.085%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.085%) KVM
10 1 (0.085%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
2 10 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.77%) SCCM
4 7 (0.60%) Autotask
5 6 (0.51%) Terraform
6 5 (0.43%) SmoothWall
7 4 (0.34%) Backup Exec
7 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.26%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.17%) Ansible
9 2 (0.17%) Control-M
9 2 (0.17%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.085%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.085%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 332 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 39 (3.32%) Google
3 28 (2.38%) Cisco
4 27 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.21%) HubSpot
6 22 (1.87%) SAP
6 22 (1.87%) VMware
7 21 (1.79%) Dell
8 18 (1.53%) Oracle
9 14 (1.19%) Meraki
9 14 (1.19%) Sage
10 13 (1.11%) HP
11 11 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.94%) Xero
12 10 (0.85%) Adobe
12 10 (0.85%) Workday
13 7 (0.60%) ESET
13 7 (0.60%) NEC
13 7 (0.60%) Pardot
13 7 (0.60%) ServiceNow