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 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 72 75
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +32
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 36 46 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.87% 2.52% 2.47%
As % of the General category 2.81% 3.76% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 30
10th Percentile £325 £328 £424
25th Percentile £413 £356 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% -1.05%
75th Percentile £569 £597 £672
90th Percentile £750 £853 £716
Central London median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.45% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 - -
75th Percentile £52.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 - -

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 1,279 1,223 1,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.48% 66.94% 64.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 730 1,111
10th Percentile £350 £348 £338
25th Percentile £448 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £800 £794 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 12
10th Percentile £20.18 - £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 - £19.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -8.33% -42.51%
75th Percentile £42.65 £27.88 £47.63
90th Percentile £52.80 £31.40 £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -19.66% +32.65% -41.32%

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 13 February 2026.

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:

Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.78%) HFM
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.56%) Figma
5 2 (5.56%) Google Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) IaaS
5 2 (5.56%) PaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) OCI
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) SSL
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
1 3 (8.33%) Star Schema
2 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.56%) Looker
2 2 (5.56%) Tableau
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Back Office
8 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.78%) French Language
8 1 (2.78%) German Language
8 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Business Finance Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (2.78%) GraphX
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) NetworkX
1 1 (2.78%) PySpark
1 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) RESTful
1 1 (2.78%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.78%) Spring
1 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile
2 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (27.78%) User Stories
3 8 (22.22%) Backlog Management
4 7 (19.44%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (16.67%) AI
5 6 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Analytics
6 5 (13.89%) Business Strategy
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
6 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (13.89%) Validation
7 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 4 (11.11%) Project Governance
7 4 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Java
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) CISSP
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CBAP
4 2 (5.56%) CISM
4 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CRISC
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) MBA
5 1 (2.78%) OSCP
5 1 (2.78%) SANS
5 1 (2.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (2.78%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) GRC
3 2 (5.56%) NCSC
3 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.56%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) Basel III
4 1 (2.78%) CRD IV
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.78%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Databricks
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.56%) Guidewire
5 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.78%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.78%) Tagetik