Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Presentation Skills
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 57 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 22 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.38% 2.00% 1.56%
As % of the General category 5.31% 3.34% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £386 £431 £393
25th Percentile £403 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £580 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.26% +22.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £508 - £590
90th Percentile £600 - £642
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £20.65 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.88 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £21.50 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +47.87% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.88 -
90th Percentile - £21.95 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.50 £21.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -23.26% -48.19% -

All General Skills
Birmingham

Presentation 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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 414 419 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.59% 59.86% 47.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 272 249
10th Percentile £243 £200 £283
25th Percentile £393 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £650
90th Percentile £639 £738 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £15.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.69 £14.98
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +15.77% +10.53%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.94 £33.44
90th Percentile - £57.53 £66.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.61 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.69% +19.10% +13.51%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Presentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in Birmingham

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (40.91%) Confluence
1 9 (40.91%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (45.45%) Amazon S3
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon ELB
2 9 (40.91%) AWS KMS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (40.91%) Route 53
2 9 (40.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) DNS
1 9 (40.91%) Firewall
1 9 (40.91%) FTP
1 9 (40.91%) HTTP
1 9 (40.91%) IMAP
1 9 (40.91%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (40.91%) SMTP
1 9 (40.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) JIRA
2 9 (40.91%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) PMO Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) Mustache
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
1 9 (40.91%) Ubuntu
1 9 (40.91%) VMS
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Change Management
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Cloud Security
3 9 (40.91%) Configuration Management
3 9 (40.91%) Patch Management
3 9 (40.91%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Portfolio Management
7 4 (18.18%) Fintech
8 3 (13.64%) Business Case
8 3 (13.64%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 2 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
9 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 2 (9.09%) Ethical Hacking
9 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Groovy
2 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) VB
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) AWS Certification
1 9 (40.91%) Azure Certification
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 9 (40.91%) DFS Replication
2 9 (40.91%) Dovecot
2 9 (40.91%) Postfix
2 9 (40.91%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Grafana
1 9 (40.91%) Nessus
1 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
1 9 (40.91%) Proxmox
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) QRadar
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (40.91%) ServiceNow
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk