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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 77 89
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 44 52 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.47% 2.40% 2.18%
As % of the General category 3.38% 3.54% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 22
10th Percentile £400 £237 £381
25th Percentile £419 £383 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -4.44% -1.53%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £634
90th Percentile £770 £850 £708
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.02% -7.64%

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 1,302 1,470 1,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 73.10% 67.87% 64.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 895 1,246
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £799 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £585
% change year-on-year -5.98% - +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +35.42% -52.94%
75th Percentile £51.56 £78.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £64.66 £103.75 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +30.84% -47.03%

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 29 November 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (6.82%) Workday HCM
2 2 (4.55%) HFM
3 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.36%) PaaS
4 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.82%) SaaS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.55%) Google Analytics
7 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.27%) Collibra
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) DHCP
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.27%) Internet
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) SSL
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Star Schema
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.55%) Looker
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
4 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) GitLab
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (65.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (43.18%) Finance
3 14 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.55%) Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Back Office
8 1 (2.27%) Billing
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) French Language
8 1 (2.27%) German Language
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Analyst
2 14 (31.82%) Business Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Consultant
4 7 (15.91%) Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Programme Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Presales Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) .NET
1 4 (9.09%) RESTful
2 3 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.82%) Web Services
3 1 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.27%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 14 (31.82%) Acceptance Criteria
3 12 (27.27%) User Stories
4 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
7 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (15.91%) TOGAF
8 6 (13.64%) Backlog Management
8 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 6 (13.64%) Epics
8 6 (13.64%) Project Governance
8 6 (13.64%) Scrum
8 6 (13.64%) Sprint Review
8 6 (13.64%) Validation
8 6 (13.64%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) Java
2 2 (4.55%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.55%) ACCA
4 2 (4.55%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) CFA
5 1 (2.27%) CIMA
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISM
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) MBA
5 1 (2.27%) OSCP
5 1 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) GDPR
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.82%) COBIT
3 3 (6.82%) NIST
4 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.55%) GRC
4 2 (4.55%) NCSC
4 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.27%) Basel III
5 1 (2.27%) CRD IV
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.27%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.27%) PMO
5 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Salesforce
3 7 (15.91%) Databricks
4 5 (11.36%) Google
5 3 (6.82%) Hyperion
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle
5 3 (6.82%) SAP
5 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.82%) Workday
6 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.55%) Guidewire
6 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
6 2 (4.55%) Tagetik
7 1 (2.27%) F5
7 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.27%) Rapid7