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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 76 86
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 48 52 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.74% 2.50% 2.22%
As % of the General category 3.66% 3.68% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 29
10th Percentile £415 £399 £325
25th Percentile £439 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +8.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £636 £625
90th Percentile £594 £825 £705
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

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 1,311 1,413 1,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 74.87% 68.03% 63.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 885 1,377
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £765 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 12
10th Percentile £17.02 £13.73 -
25th Percentile £24.00 £17.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% +45.95% -55.95%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.38 £39.08
90th Percentile £67.89 £98.13 £66.11
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% +42.11% -54.22%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Presentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Presentation Skills 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 15 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.58%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (6.25%) CA PPM
2 3 (6.25%) Workday HCM
3 2 (4.17%) HFM
3 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
1 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.08%) Collibra
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Power BI
2 6 (12.50%) Star Schema
3 5 (10.42%) Tableau
4 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) Looker
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (43.75%) Finance
3 15 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (10.42%) Banking
6 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (8.33%) Back Office
7 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Police
8 3 (6.25%) Arabic Language
8 3 (6.25%) Czech Language
9 2 (4.17%) International Banking
10 1 (2.08%) Billing
10 1 (2.08%) Front Office
10 1 (2.08%) Legal
10 1 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Analyst
2 15 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Remote Support Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Solutions Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Communications Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Pandas
1 4 (8.33%) RESTful
1 4 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 4 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.25%) .NET
2 3 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.25%) PMI
3 3 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.08%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 20 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (27.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 12 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (20.83%) Data Analysis
6 10 (20.83%) User Stories
7 9 (18.75%) Project Governance
7 9 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (14.58%) Visualisation
10 6 (12.50%) Backlog Management
10 6 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
10 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 6 (12.50%) Epics
10 6 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
10 6 (12.50%) Product Backlog
10 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 6 (12.50%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) R
4 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.17%) ACCA
4 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) CCNA
5 1 (2.08%) CFA
5 1 (2.08%) CIMA
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) COBIT
2 3 (6.25%) PMO
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
1 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) Databricks
4 3 (6.25%) Broadcom
4 3 (6.25%) Hyperion
4 3 (6.25%) SAP
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.25%) Workday
5 2 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) Tagetik
6 1 (2.08%) Aderant
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Concur
6 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.08%) Dell
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Progress
6 1 (2.08%) VMware