Hybrid/Remote Microsoft PowerPoint Contract Job Trends

Microsoft PowerPoint
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Microsoft PowerPoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 148 224
Rank change year-on-year -92 +76 -16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 134 170 112
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 1.72% 0.88%
As % of the Applications category 17.56% 21.60% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 76
10th Percentile £191 £276 £219
25th Percentile £308 £315 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £416 £419
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -0.60% -11.84%
75th Percentile £515 £561 £550
90th Percentile £628 £619 £740
UK median daily rate £447 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.67% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 2
10th Percentile £14.72 £16.98 £28.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £21.08 £33.88
Median hourly rate £15.81 £29.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.81% -35.17% +99.73%
75th Percentile £23.90 £62.55 £54.38
90th Percentile £30.00 £63.40 £58.95
UK median hourly rate £17.60 £21.25 £16.23
% change year-on-year -17.16% +30.93% -21.14%

All Software Application Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft PowerPoint falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 763 787 773
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.61% 7.95% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 432 504
10th Percentile £213 £231 £184
25th Percentile £313 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £626 £648 £646
UK median daily rate £437 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 51
10th Percentile £14.52 £6.00 £13.64
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.88 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.18 £24.32 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% -30.51% +36.13%
75th Percentile £34.50 £42.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £23.82 £18.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +32.31% -20.00%

Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft PowerPoint and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft PowerPoint job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Microsoft PowerPoint daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Microsoft PowerPoint hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Microsoft PowerPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 26 (19.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.73%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 114 (85.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (53.73%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (17.91%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (11.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.24%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.75%) InDesign
7 1 (0.75%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.75%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.75%) Trello
7 1 (0.75%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.24%) Primavera
2 3 (2.24%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.75%) Magento
4 1 (0.75%) Maximo
4 1 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.75%) Shopify
4 1 (0.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.69%) Power Platform
2 14 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.21%) Azure
4 6 (4.48%) AWS
4 6 (4.48%) SaaS
5 5 (3.73%) Smartsheet
6 4 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.49%) Figma
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.49%) Miro
8 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.75%) Asana
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.75%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.75%) Canva
9 1 (0.75%) GCP
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) DHCP
1 2 (1.49%) DNS
1 2 (1.49%) Firewall
1 2 (1.49%) LAN
1 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.49%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Internet
2 1 (0.75%) Intranet
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.69%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Power Query
3 2 (1.49%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) eggPlant
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) HP UFT
2 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.75%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (0.75%) Selenium
2 1 (0.75%) SilkTest
2 1 (0.75%) SOAtest
2 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 85 (63.43%) Social Skills
2 53 (39.55%) Finance
3 38 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (22.39%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (14.18%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (11.19%) Banking
7 10 (7.46%) Legal
7 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.22%) Advertising
8 7 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.22%) Marketing
8 7 (5.22%) Retail
9 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.73%) Arabic Language
10 5 (3.73%) French Language
11 4 (2.99%) Aviation
11 4 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.99%) Public Speaking
12 3 (2.24%) Law
13 2 (1.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 23 (17.16%) Analyst
2 19 (14.18%) Project Manager
3 10 (7.46%) Consultant
3 10 (7.46%) Coordinator
3 10 (7.46%) Senior
4 9 (6.72%) Administrator
5 8 (5.97%) Support Analyst
6 7 (5.22%) PMO Analyst
7 6 (4.48%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.48%) Project Coordinator
7 6 (4.48%) Technical Support
8 5 (3.73%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.73%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.73%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (3.73%) IT Support
8 5 (3.73%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (3.73%) Senior PMO
8 5 (3.73%) Service Analyst
8 5 (3.73%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (3.73%) Training Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) JDO
2 2 (1.49%) .NET
2 2 (1.49%) ADO
2 2 (1.49%) HTML
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.75%) FHIR
3 1 (0.75%) Flutter
3 1 (0.75%) React Native
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) SOAP
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) VML
3 1 (0.75%) Web Services
3 1 (0.75%) XBRL
3 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (11.19%) Management Information System
3 10 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.73%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.99%) Life Science
6 3 (2.24%) Blog
6 3 (2.24%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.49%) EPoS
7 2 (1.49%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.49%) Video Editing
8 1 (0.75%) Animation
8 1 (0.75%) CCTV
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.75%) FMCG
8 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) VMS
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (31.34%) Project Management
3 33 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (21.64%) Agile
5 29 (21.64%) Project Delivery
6 28 (20.90%) Decision-Making
7 22 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (12.69%) Data Analysis
9 14 (10.45%) Analytics
9 14 (10.45%) PRINCE2
9 14 (10.45%) Waterfall
9 14 (10.45%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (8.96%) Business Case
10 12 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (8.96%) Change Management
10 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
10 12 (8.96%) Project Governance
11 11 (8.21%) Budgeting
11 11 (8.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.48%) SQL
2 4 (2.99%) Python
3 3 (2.24%) Korn
3 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.49%) VBA
5 1 (0.75%) Bicep
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) Java
5 1 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (38.06%) Degree
2 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.97%) PMI Certification
5 7 (5.22%) PMP
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.99%) CIPD
7 2 (1.49%) CISM
7 2 (1.49%) CISSP
7 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.75%) ACCA
8 1 (0.75%) CIMA
8 1 (0.75%) CISA
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) GIAC
8 1 (0.75%) MBA
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.61%) PMO
2 7 (5.22%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) P3O
4 3 (2.24%) GRC
5 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) GDPR
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) HL7
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.96%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.21%) SAP
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.73%) Planview
5 4 (2.99%) Adobe
5 4 (2.99%) Google
6 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.49%) Databricks
7 2 (1.49%) F5
7 2 (1.49%) Workday
8 1 (0.75%) Ariba
8 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.75%) Okta
8 1 (0.75%) Pega
8 1 (0.75%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.75%) Splunk