Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Presentation Skills
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 73 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +41
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 38 48 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.06% 2.36% 2.40%
As % of the General category 3.00% 3.48% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 29
10th Percentile £406 £333 £416
25th Percentile £420 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% -3.72%
75th Percentile £571 £675 £647
90th Percentile £760 £852 £719
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -3.93%

All General Skills
City of London

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,267 1,378 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 68.82% 67.78% 64.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 843 1,145
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £793 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile £20.18 £12.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.62 £18.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -12.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £45.08 £47.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £59.75 £73.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £33.75 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.64% +26.17% -37.79%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in the City of London

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the City of London

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) HFM
1 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) GCP
4 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) Google Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) IaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
3 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.26%) Looker
3 2 (5.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (65.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 12 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (23.68%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.89%) Banking
7 3 (7.89%) Marketing
8 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Back Office
9 1 (2.63%) Billing
9 1 (2.63%) French Language
9 1 (2.63%) German Language
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Analyst
2 12 (31.58%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Consultant
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Programme Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Business Finance Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Presales Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) .NET
1 2 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.63%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) Spring
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) PMI
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) User Stories
3 11 (28.95%) Acceptance Criteria
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
5 7 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Backlog Management
6 6 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (15.79%) Validation
6 6 (15.79%) Wireframes
7 5 (13.16%) AI
7 5 (13.16%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.16%) Business Strategy
7 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.16%) Process Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) TOGAF
8 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) Java
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) CISSP
5 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) ACCA
6 1 (2.63%) CBAP
6 1 (2.63%) CFA
6 1 (2.63%) CIMA
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) MBA
6 1 (2.63%) OSCP
6 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) SANS
6 1 (2.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (2.63%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) NIST
4 2 (5.26%) GRC
4 2 (5.26%) NCSC
4 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.63%) Basel III
5 1 (2.63%) COBIT
5 1 (2.63%) CRD IV
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.63%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.63%) PMO
5 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Salesforce
3 5 (13.16%) Databricks
3 5 (13.16%) Google
4 3 (7.89%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.26%) Guidewire
5 2 (5.26%) Hyperion
5 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) F5
6 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.63%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.63%) Tagetik
6 1 (2.63%) Workday