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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 189 202
Rank change year-on-year -94 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 407 406 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.46% 1.20%
As % of the Applications category 16.22% 16.75% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 214 176
10th Percentile £198 £238 £216
25th Percentile £305 £319 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £763
UK median daily rate £450 £439 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 52 117
10th Percentile £14.53 £14.84 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £24.16 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% +16.14% -21.14%
75th Percentile £30.00 £28.46 £16.85
90th Percentile £77.60 £35.50 £22.46
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £19.34 £16.23
% change year-on-year +7.29% +19.16% -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 2,509 2,424 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 5.47% 8.74% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 1,385 1,208
10th Percentile £213 £200 £175
25th Percentile £322 £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 £533
90th Percentile £650 £666 £646
UK median daily rate £441 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +3.71% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 316 291
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.13 £12.70
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.54 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +45.04% -28.66%
75th Percentile £39.50 £35.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.38 £57.92 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £22.87 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.55% +30.69% -22.24%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -84 189 £490 +0.81% 360
South East -26 76 £500 +48.15% 116
North of England -85 49 £394 -8.43% 104
Midlands -41 35 £475 +51.76% 59
South West -26 32 £310 -43.73% 63
West Midlands -31 30 £475 +51.76% 41
North West -64 25 £399 -11.98% 49
Yorkshire -55 23 £394 -1.56% 41
East of England -46 17 £509 +30.10% 30
East Midlands -15 5 £490 - 18
North East -39 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 83 (20.39%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.60%) Confluence
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) Moodle
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 356 (87.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (43.49%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (16.46%) Microsoft Project
4 65 (15.97%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.72%) Photoshop
6 6 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.98%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.98%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.25%) InDesign
10 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Magento
2 6 (1.47%) Primavera
3 5 (1.23%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.23%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.98%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.74%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.49%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 65 (15.97%) Power Platform
2 30 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (7.13%) Azure
4 20 (4.91%) AWS
5 12 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (2.95%) SaaS
6 10 (2.46%) Entra ID
6 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (1.97%) OneDrive
8 7 (1.72%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.72%) Smartsheet
9 6 (1.47%) Figma
10 5 (1.23%) GitHub
10 5 (1.23%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.23%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.98%) Google Docs
11 4 (0.98%) Google Sheets
11 4 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) WAN
2 10 (2.46%) LAN
3 8 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.23%) BGP
4 5 (1.23%) MPLS
4 5 (1.23%) SNMP
4 5 (1.23%) TACACS
5 4 (0.98%) RSVP
5 4 (0.98%) VPN
6 3 (0.74%) DHCP
6 3 (0.74%) DNS
6 3 (0.74%) Firewall
6 3 (0.74%) FTP
6 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.49%) Internet
7 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.25%) Intranet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.50%) Power BI
2 11 (2.70%) Power Query
3 6 (1.47%) Tableau
4 3 (0.74%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.25%) DataStage
6 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.25%) GIS
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (16.95%) JIRA
2 13 (3.19%) Git
3 8 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.97%) Subversion
4 4 (0.98%) Selenium
5 3 (0.74%) MLflow
5 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.49%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.49%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.49%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.49%) MSI
6 2 (0.49%) Postman
6 2 (0.49%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.49%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.49%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.49%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.49%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 231 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 172 (42.26%) Finance
3 134 (32.92%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (25.55%) Organisational Skills
5 44 (10.81%) Banking
6 33 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (7.62%) Marketing
8 22 (5.41%) Legal
9 21 (5.16%) Retail
10 17 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.70%) Military
13 10 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.97%) Front Office
15 7 (1.72%) French Language
16 6 (1.47%) Advertising
17 5 (1.23%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 86 (21.13%) Analyst
2 36 (8.85%) Project Manager
3 35 (8.60%) Senior
4 27 (6.63%) Business Analyst
5 24 (5.90%) Administrator
5 24 (5.90%) Consultant
6 21 (5.16%) Coordinator
7 20 (4.91%) PMO Analyst
8 19 (4.67%) Project Officer
9 18 (4.42%) Lead
9 18 (4.42%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.93%) Project Support Officer
11 15 (3.69%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.19%) Architect
12 13 (3.19%) Project Coordinator
12 13 (3.19%) Support Specialist
13 11 (2.70%) PMO Manager
13 11 (2.70%) PMO Planner
13 11 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
14 10 (2.46%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.21%) VML
2 5 (1.23%) .NET
2 5 (1.23%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.23%) OpenConfig
2 5 (1.23%) RESTCONF
2 5 (1.23%) Web Services
2 5 (1.23%) XML
2 5 (1.23%) YANG
3 4 (0.98%) ADO
3 4 (0.98%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.98%) JDO
3 4 (0.98%) Terraform
4 3 (0.74%) HTML
4 3 (0.74%) NumPy
4 3 (0.74%) Pandas
4 3 (0.74%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.74%) Seaborn
4 3 (0.74%) XSLT
5 2 (0.49%) Flutter
5 2 (0.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.86%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.62%) Onboarding
3 27 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.72%) Life Science
7 6 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.47%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.23%) Learning Management System
8 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.23%) Video Editing
9 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.98%) CMDB
9 4 (0.98%) FMCG
9 4 (0.98%) PMI
9 4 (0.98%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.19%) Windows
2 6 (1.47%) Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.98%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (38.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (28.75%) Project Management
3 103 (25.31%) Agile
4 101 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (23.10%) Project Delivery
6 90 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (17.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 59 (14.50%) Waterfall
9 56 (13.76%) Decision-Making
10 48 (11.79%) Data Analysis
11 43 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (10.57%) PRINCE2
12 41 (10.07%) Risk Management
13 40 (9.83%) Analytics
13 40 (9.83%) Business Case
13 40 (9.83%) Change Management
14 38 (9.34%) Portfolio Management
15 35 (8.60%) AI
16 33 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
17 31 (7.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.14%) SQL
2 17 (4.18%) Python
3 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.72%) VBA
4 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.98%) Bicep
6 3 (0.74%) Korn
7 2 (0.49%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) Java
7 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.25%) C#
8 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (28.50%) Degree
2 88 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 54 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.90%) PMI Certification
6 19 (4.67%) PMP
7 11 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.23%) CCIE
10 5 (1.23%) CIPD
10 5 (1.23%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) CAPM
12 3 (0.74%) CISM
12 3 (0.74%) CISSP
12 3 (0.74%) IIBA
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (25.80%) PMO
2 23 (5.65%) QA
3 17 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.21%) GRC
5 8 (1.97%) P3O
6 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.23%) NIST
8 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.74%) GMP
8 3 (0.74%) MiFID
8 3 (0.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.49%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.49%) GDPR
9 2 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.21%) Ansible
2 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.98%) SCCM
4 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 263 (64.62%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.85%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.63%) SAP
4 20 (4.91%) Google
5 14 (3.44%) Oracle
6 13 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.21%) Adobe
7 9 (2.21%) Cisco
8 8 (1.97%) F5
8 8 (1.97%) Planview
8 8 (1.97%) Workday
9 5 (1.23%) Apple
9 5 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.23%) Juniper
10 4 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.98%) Okta
10 4 (0.98%) Qualys
10 4 (0.98%) TOWER Software
10 4 (0.98%) Wrike
10 4 (0.98%) Xactly