Microsoft PowerPoint Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft PowerPoint
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft PowerPoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 197 213
Rank change year-on-year -83 +16 -30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 417 397 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Applications category 16.73% 16.68% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 211 173
10th Percentile £201 £250 £214
25th Percentile £305 £319 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £650 £770
UK median daily rate £439 £440 £450
% change year-on-year -0.34% -2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 48 111
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £23.64 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% +16.14% -21.14%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.51 £16.85
90th Percentile £72.90 £42.64 £19.25
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £21.13 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.33% +30.16% -21.14%

All Software Application Skills
England

Microsoft PowerPoint falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,492 2,380 2,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 5.46% 8.74% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,354 1,194
10th Percentile £213 £200 £175
25th Percentile £320 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +4.94% -4.71%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £531
90th Percentile £647 £666 £645
UK median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 305 270
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.11 £13.83
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £16.44
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +52.07% -30.04%
75th Percentile £38.44 £36.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.38 £60.47 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £19.41 £24.31 £17.50
% change year-on-year -20.16% +38.91% -22.33%

Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft PowerPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft PowerPoint job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in England

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in England

Microsoft PowerPoint
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint within the England region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -91 191 £488 +1.48% 393
South East -25 82 £500 +48.15% 113
North of England -92 50 £400 -6.98% 99
Midlands -41 35 £475 +51.76% 64
South West -34 32 £310 -43.73% 59
West Midlands -41 29 £475 +51.76% 42
North West -52 26 £415 -7.78% 52
Yorkshire -53 23 £394 -1.56% 33
East of England -37 17 £509 +30.10% 29
East Midlands -20 6 £490 - 22
North East -38 1 - - 15
Microsoft PowerPoint
UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 89 (21.34%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.39%) Confluence
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Moodle
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 361 (86.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 181 (43.41%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (16.31%) MS Visio
4 67 (16.07%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.16%) Photoshop
6 7 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.96%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.96%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.24%) InDesign
10 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.24%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.92%) Magento
2 6 (1.44%) Primavera
2 6 (1.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.20%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.72%) TrackWise
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.48%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 68 (16.31%) Power Platform
2 31 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (7.19%) Azure
4 19 (4.56%) AWS
5 13 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.88%) SaaS
7 11 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (1.92%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.92%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.92%) Smartsheet
10 7 (1.68%) Figma
11 6 (1.44%) Lucidchart
11 6 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.20%) GitHub
12 5 (1.20%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.20%) Google Docs
12 5 (1.20%) Google Sheets
13 4 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.96%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.40%) LAN
1 10 (2.40%) WAN
2 8 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.96%) BGP
4 4 (0.96%) FTP
4 4 (0.96%) MPLS
4 4 (0.96%) RSVP
4 4 (0.96%) SNMP
4 4 (0.96%) TACACS
4 4 (0.96%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.72%) Firewall
5 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.48%) Internet
6 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.24%) Intranet
7 1 (0.24%) Network Security
7 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.63%) Power BI
2 12 (2.88%) Power Query
3 6 (1.44%) Tableau
4 3 (0.72%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.72%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.24%) DataStage
6 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.24%) GIS
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (16.07%) JIRA
2 13 (3.12%) Git
3 8 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.92%) Subversion
4 4 (0.96%) Selenium
5 3 (0.72%) MLflow
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.48%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.48%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.48%) MSI
6 2 (0.48%) Postman
6 2 (0.48%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.48%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.48%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.48%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 235 (56.35%) Social Skills
2 176 (42.21%) Finance
3 138 (33.09%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (26.14%) Organisational Skills
5 43 (10.31%) Banking
6 32 (7.67%) Marketing
7 30 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (5.52%) Retail
9 22 (5.28%) Legal
10 18 (4.32%) Public Sector
11 17 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.88%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.64%) Military
15 10 (2.40%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.92%) Front Office
16 8 (1.92%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.68%) Advertising
17 7 (1.68%) French Language
18 5 (1.20%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 85 (20.38%) Analyst
2 38 (9.11%) Project Manager
3 35 (8.39%) Senior
4 26 (6.24%) Business Analyst
5 25 (6.00%) Administrator
6 24 (5.76%) Consultant
6 24 (5.76%) Coordinator
7 20 (4.80%) PMO Analyst
8 19 (4.56%) Project Officer
9 18 (4.32%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.84%) Lead
10 16 (3.84%) Project Support Officer
11 15 (3.60%) Project Coordinator
11 15 (3.60%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.36%) Support Specialist
13 13 (3.12%) Architect
14 12 (2.88%) PMO Planner
15 11 (2.64%) Senior Project Manager
16 10 (2.40%) Data Analyst
16 10 (2.40%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.16%) VML
2 6 (1.44%) Web Services
2 6 (1.44%) XML
3 5 (1.20%) .NET
4 4 (0.96%) ADO
4 4 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.96%) JDO
4 4 (0.96%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.96%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.96%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.96%) Terraform
4 4 (0.96%) XSLT
4 4 (0.96%) YANG
5 3 (0.72%) HTML
5 3 (0.72%) NumPy
5 3 (0.72%) Pandas
5 3 (0.72%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.72%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.48%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.15%) Onboarding
2 33 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 26 (6.24%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.68%) Graphic Design
6 7 (1.68%) Life Science
7 6 (1.44%) Learning Management System
7 6 (1.44%) Video Editing
7 6 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.96%) CMDB
9 4 (0.96%) FMCG
9 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) PMI
9 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.36%) Windows
2 6 (1.44%) Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.96%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (39.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 119 (28.54%) Project Management
3 104 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (24.70%) Agile
5 92 (22.06%) Project Delivery
6 90 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (17.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 58 (13.91%) Waterfall
9 57 (13.67%) Decision-Making
10 48 (11.51%) Data Analysis
11 44 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (10.55%) PRINCE2
12 42 (10.07%) Analytics
13 41 (9.83%) Risk Management
14 39 (9.35%) Change Management
15 38 (9.11%) Business Case
16 37 (8.87%) AI
16 37 (8.87%) Portfolio Management
17 34 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
18 33 (7.91%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.76%) SQL
2 16 (3.84%) Python
3 7 (1.68%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.68%) VBA
4 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.96%) Bicep
6 3 (0.72%) Korn
7 2 (0.48%) C++
7 2 (0.48%) Java
7 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.24%) C#
8 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 114 (27.34%) Degree
2 90 (21.58%) Security Cleared
3 55 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.71%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.52%) PMI Certification
6 18 (4.32%) PMP
7 12 (2.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.20%) CIPD
10 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.96%) CCIE
11 4 (0.96%) IIBA
11 4 (0.96%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.72%) CAPM
12 3 (0.72%) CISM
12 3 (0.72%) CISSP
13 2 (0.48%) CISA
13 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (26.38%) PMO
2 23 (5.52%) QA
3 16 (3.84%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.40%) GRC
5 8 (1.92%) P3O
6 6 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.20%) NIST
8 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.72%) GMP
9 3 (0.72%) MiFID
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.48%) GDPR
10 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.48%) NCSC
10 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.92%) Ansible
2 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.96%) SCCM
4 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 271 (64.99%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.35%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.47%) SAP
4 22 (5.28%) Google
5 14 (3.36%) Oracle
5 14 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.16%) Adobe
6 9 (2.16%) Workday
7 8 (1.92%) Cisco
7 8 (1.92%) Planview
8 7 (1.68%) F5
9 5 (1.20%) Apple
10 4 (0.96%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.96%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.96%) Juniper
10 4 (0.96%) Qualys
10 4 (0.96%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.96%) Splunk
10 4 (0.96%) TOWER Software
10 4 (0.96%) Wrike