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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 69 87
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 42 57 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.45% 2.69% 2.33%
As % of the General category 3.29% 3.95% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 27
10th Percentile £420 £262 £342
25th Percentile £444 £436 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% -0.86%
75th Percentile £550 £635 £648
90th Percentile £654 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £500 £538 £529
% change year-on-year -6.98% +1.65% -8.04%

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 common skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,278 1,444 1,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 74.52% 68.08% 64.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 878 1,295
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -3.54% +3.99%
75th Percentile £675 £689 £709
90th Percentile £775 £804 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile £16.79 £13.18 -
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.75 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.83 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.17% +136.84% -54.22%
75th Percentile £42.94 £82.19 £42.32
90th Percentile £64.66 £109.38 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% +55.56% -44.44%

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 17 October 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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (7.14%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.76%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 4 (9.52%) PaaS
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) AWS
5 2 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Akamai
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.38%) IaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Star Schema
2 6 (14.29%) Power BI
3 5 (11.90%) Tableau
4 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.76%) Looker
5 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Metadata
5 1 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) GitLab
1 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (54.76%) Finance
3 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (30.95%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.14%) Banking
7 3 (7.14%) Police
8 2 (4.76%) Back Office
9 1 (2.38%) Billing
9 1 (2.38%) Front Office
9 1 (2.38%) Legal
9 1 (2.38%) Marketing
9 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Analyst
2 17 (40.48%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Consultant
4 6 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Finance Business Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 3 (7.14%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) RESTful
2 3 (7.14%) .NET
2 3 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (7.14%) Pandas
2 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
2 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 3 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.38%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) CCTV
3 1 (2.38%) CMDB
3 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.38%) HP Storage
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) PMI
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Acceptance Criteria
3 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.95%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (30.95%) User Stories
4 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
6 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 9 (21.43%) Project Governance
7 7 (16.67%) Backlog Management
7 7 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
7 7 (16.67%) Epics
7 7 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
7 7 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 7 (16.67%) Scrum
7 7 (16.67%) Sprint Review
7 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) R
4 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.38%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) ACCA
3 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) CFA
4 1 (2.38%) CIMA
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) COBIT
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) Basel III
4 1 (2.38%) CRD IV
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (2.38%) PMO
4 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
1 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 5 (11.90%) Databricks
4 4 (9.52%) Google
5 3 (7.14%) Hyperion
5 3 (7.14%) Oracle
5 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.14%) Workday
6 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) Tagetik
7 1 (2.38%) Aderant
7 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.38%) Dell
7 1 (2.38%) F5
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) HP
7 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto