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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 151 225
Rank change year-on-year -94 +74 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 124 167 110
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 1.66% 0.85%
As % of the Applications category 16.85% 20.72% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 76 65
10th Percentile £188 £261 £218
25th Percentile £303 £304 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -2.44% -13.68%
75th Percentile £506 £545 £550
90th Percentile £629 £616 £765
UK median daily rate £450 £411 £445
% change year-on-year +9.54% -7.69% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £15.32 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £15.81 £21.02 -
Median hourly rate £17.71 £24.40 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% -60.65% +175.19%
75th Percentile £27.08 £32.05 -
90th Percentile £32.10 £63.40 -
UK median hourly rate £19.75 £19.00 £15.07
% change year-on-year +3.93% +26.09% -26.77%

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 736 806 741
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.45% 8.02% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 457 471
10th Percentile £213 £231 £178
25th Percentile £325 £313 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £556 £538
90th Percentile £625 £649 £638
UK median daily rate £440 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 96 81
10th Percentile £14.55 £9.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.33 £14.20 £21.19
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.04 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -51.02% +71.43%
75th Percentile £41.44 £37.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.45 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £21.72 £22.84 £17.80
% change year-on-year -4.90% +28.31% -22.02%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 22 (17.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 106 (85.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (55.65%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (18.55%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (10.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.61%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.81%) InDesign
6 1 (0.81%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.81%) Trello
6 1 (0.81%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.42%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.61%) Primavera
3 2 (1.61%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.61%) Shopify
4 1 (0.81%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.81%) Magento
4 1 (0.81%) Maximo
4 1 (0.81%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.81%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
1 14 (11.29%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.26%) Azure
3 7 (5.65%) SaaS
4 5 (4.03%) AWS
4 5 (4.03%) OneDrive
5 4 (3.23%) Smartsheet
6 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.61%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.81%) Asana
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.81%) Canva
8 1 (0.81%) Figma
8 1 (0.81%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.81%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) DHCP
1 2 (1.61%) DNS
1 2 (1.61%) Firewall
1 2 (1.61%) LAN
1 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.61%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.61%) WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Power BI
2 4 (3.23%) Power Query
3 2 (1.61%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) eggPlant
2 1 (0.81%) Git
2 1 (0.81%) HP UFT
2 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.81%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (0.81%) Selenium
2 1 (0.81%) SilkTest
2 1 (0.81%) SOAtest
2 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 79 (63.71%) Social Skills
2 47 (37.90%) Finance
3 38 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (17.74%) Organisational Skills
4 22 (17.74%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (12.10%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Legal
6 9 (7.26%) Marketing
6 9 (7.26%) Retail
7 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.84%) Advertising
8 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (4.03%) Arabic Language
9 5 (4.03%) French Language
9 5 (4.03%) Public Speaking
10 3 (2.42%) Aviation
10 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (19.35%) Analyst
2 18 (14.52%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.06%) Senior
4 8 (6.45%) Administrator
4 8 (6.45%) Consultant
4 8 (6.45%) Coordinator
5 7 (5.65%) Support Analyst
6 6 (4.84%) PMO Analyst
6 6 (4.84%) Project Coordinator
6 6 (4.84%) Technical Support
7 5 (4.03%) Clinical Project Manager
7 5 (4.03%) IT Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.03%) IT Support
7 5 (4.03%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Senior PMO
7 5 (4.03%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (4.03%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.23%) JDO
2 2 (1.61%) HTML
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.61%) VML
3 1 (0.81%) .NET
3 1 (0.81%) ADO
3 1 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.81%) FHIR
3 1 (0.81%) Flutter
3 1 (0.81%) React Native
3 1 (0.81%) REST
3 1 (0.81%) SOAP
3 1 (0.81%) Web Services
3 1 (0.81%) XBRL
3 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (11.29%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.03%) Life Science
4 5 (4.03%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.61%) EPoS
5 2 (1.61%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.61%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.61%) PMI
5 2 (1.61%) Tandem
6 1 (0.81%) Animation
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Social Media
6 1 (0.81%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Windows
2 3 (2.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
3 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (33.87%) Project Management
3 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (23.39%) Project Delivery
5 27 (21.77%) Agile
5 27 (21.77%) Decision-Making
6 18 (14.52%) Data Analysis
6 18 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (12.90%) Analytics
7 16 (12.90%) Waterfall
8 13 (10.48%) Business Case
8 13 (10.48%) Customer Service
9 12 (9.68%) Budgeting
9 12 (9.68%) PRINCE2
9 12 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (8.87%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 11 (8.87%) Customer Experience
10 11 (8.87%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.03%) SQL
2 4 (3.23%) Python
3 3 (2.42%) Korn
3 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.61%) VBA
5 1 (0.81%) Bicep
5 1 (0.81%) Java
5 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (43.55%) Degree
2 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) PMI Certification
4 9 (7.26%) PMP
5 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.42%) CIPD
7 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) CISM
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CEH
9 1 (0.81%) CIMA
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) GCFA
9 1 (0.81%) GCIA
9 1 (0.81%) GCIH
9 1 (0.81%) GIAC
9 1 (0.81%) ISSAP
9 1 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.00%) PMO
2 6 (4.84%) QA
3 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.03%) P3O
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.61%) NIST
4 2 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) GRC
5 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) HL7
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) SCCM
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 78 (62.90%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.48%) ServiceNow
3 10 (8.06%) SAP
4 5 (4.03%) Adobe
4 5 (4.03%) Google
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle
4 5 (4.03%) Planview
5 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) F5
6 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.61%) Workday
7 1 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.81%) NEC
7 1 (0.81%) Okta
7 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.81%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) Tenable