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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 164 177
Rank change year-on-year -51 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 431 402 508
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.62% 1.33%
As % of the Applications category 16.69% 19.96% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 221 240
10th Percentile £268 £209 £174
25th Percentile £346 £313 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £607
90th Percentile £625 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £450 £404 £475
% change year-on-year +11.52% -15.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 35 105
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -2.58% -50.27%
75th Percentile £25.67 £21.46 £26.50
90th Percentile £37.03 £23.90 £33.09
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £16.66
% change year-on-year +10.91% -2.58% -50.27%

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 2,583 2,014 3,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.14% 8.14% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,208 1,703
10th Percentile £206 £178 £158
25th Percentile £325 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £656 £650 £662
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 197 589
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.69 £16.36 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £27.13 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +42.76% -52.50%
75th Percentile £27.44 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £19.38
% change year-on-year -24.40% +35.92% -48.33%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -21 213 £500 +11.11% 55
North of England -47 78 £396 +16.47% 35
South East -13 62 £475 +5.56% 58
Midlands -44 45 £455 -13.33% 30
Yorkshire -48 39 £340 +49.45% 11
North West -22 37 £450 +25.00% 22
West Midlands -52 27 £318 -39.52% 18
East Midlands -16 19 £455 +2.25% 12
East of England -68 15 £363 -9.26% 14
South West -28 14 £548 +21.67% 20
North East -18 2 £390 -42.22% 3
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 (20.65%) SharePoint
2 71 (16.47%) Confluence
3 3 (0.70%) CMS
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 366 (84.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 169 (39.21%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (20.19%) MS Visio
4 49 (11.37%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (2.78%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.62%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.39%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.70%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) Primavera
4 3 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.70%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.46%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.23%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (9.05%) Azure
3 28 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 22 (5.10%) AWS
5 18 (4.18%) GitHub
6 11 (2.55%) Snowflake
7 10 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.62%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.16%) Canva
9 5 (1.16%) OpenShift
10 4 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.93%) Collibra
10 4 (0.93%) Figma
10 4 (0.93%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.93%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.70%) GCP
11 3 (0.70%) Miro
11 3 (0.70%) SaaS
11 3 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.94%) Firewall
2 15 (3.48%) WAN
2 15 (3.48%) Wireless
3 12 (2.78%) LAN
4 10 (2.32%) VPN
5 9 (2.09%) Internet
6 8 (1.86%) BGP
7 5 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.93%) BIG-IP
8 4 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (0.93%) MPLS
8 4 (0.93%) Network Security
8 4 (0.93%) OSPF
8 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.93%) SNMP
8 4 (0.93%) TACACS
8 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.70%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.03%) Power BI
2 22 (5.10%) Tableau
3 6 (1.39%) Metadata
4 5 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.93%) MS Access
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.93%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.23%) Big Data
8 1 (0.23%) DB2
8 1 (0.23%) EDMS
8 1 (0.23%) Impala
Development Applications
1 109 (25.29%) JIRA
2 17 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (3.02%) Burp Suite
4 13 (3.02%) Metasploit
5 7 (1.62%) Toad
6 6 (1.39%) Git
7 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 250 (58.00%) Social Skills
2 178 (41.30%) Finance
3 90 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (19.03%) Banking
5 55 (12.76%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (10.67%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (8.12%) Public Sector
8 30 (6.96%) Legal
9 25 (5.80%) Marketing
10 18 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 11 (2.55%) Retail
12 11 (2.55%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.32%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.39%) Electronics
14 6 (1.39%) International Banking
15 5 (1.16%) Billing
15 5 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 134 (31.09%) Analyst
2 66 (15.31%) Business Analyst
3 27 (6.26%) Project Manager
4 26 (6.03%) Architect
5 25 (5.80%) Senior
6 24 (5.57%) PMO Analyst
7 23 (5.34%) Administrator
8 22 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (4.87%) Technical Analyst
10 20 (4.64%) Consultant
11 19 (4.41%) Lead
11 19 (4.41%) Technical Business Analyst
12 16 (3.71%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.48%) Coordinator
13 15 (3.48%) PMO Manager
13 15 (3.48%) Tester
14 13 (3.02%) Migration Analyst
14 13 (3.02%) Penetration Tester
15 12 (2.78%) Payments Architect
15 12 (2.78%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.93%) NETCONF
2 4 (0.93%) OpenConfig
2 4 (0.93%) Playwright
2 4 (0.93%) RESTCONF
2 4 (0.93%) VML
2 4 (0.93%) YANG
3 3 (0.70%) ADO
3 3 (0.70%) XML
4 2 (0.46%) NumPy
4 2 (0.46%) Pandas
4 2 (0.46%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.46%) Seaborn
4 2 (0.46%) Web Services
4 2 (0.46%) XSLT
5 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.23%) JWT
5 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.23%) React
5 1 (0.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.10%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.55%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.09%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.62%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.62%) PMI
8 7 (1.62%) Tandem
9 6 (1.39%) Social Media
10 5 (1.16%) Equities
10 5 (1.16%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.16%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.16%) NHS
11 4 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.93%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.80%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.93%) Unix
2 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (26.68%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (24.36%) Project Management
3 100 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 99 (22.97%) Project Delivery
5 95 (22.04%) Agile
6 64 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (14.39%) DevOps
8 57 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 54 (12.53%) Migration
10 49 (11.37%) Decision-Making
10 49 (11.37%) Time Management
11 48 (11.14%) Business Analysis
11 48 (11.14%) Waterfall
12 44 (10.21%) Process Improvement
13 35 (8.12%) Regulatory Compliance
13 35 (8.12%) Risk Management
14 33 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
15 32 (7.42%) Change Management
15 32 (7.42%) PRINCE2
16 31 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.12%) SQL
2 20 (4.64%) Python
3 6 (1.39%) C#
4 5 (1.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.16%) VB
5 4 (0.93%) Perl
5 4 (0.93%) PHP
5 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.93%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.70%) VBA
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 111 (25.75%) Degree
2 70 (16.24%) Security Cleared
3 57 (13.23%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.71%) PMP
5 15 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.02%) CHECK Team Member
7 11 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.55%) CREST Certified
7 11 (2.55%) Cyber Scheme
7 11 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.55%) Postgraduate
8 9 (2.09%) CBAP
8 9 (2.09%) IIBA
9 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.62%) CCIE
10 7 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.62%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.16%) CISSP
11 5 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (22.27%) PMO
2 25 (5.80%) QA
3 22 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.94%) GDPR
5 14 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.39%) P3O
8 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.93%) SLA
9 3 (0.70%) GRC
9 3 (0.70%) MiFID
10 2 (0.46%) COBIT
10 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.23%) FATCA
11 1 (0.23%) GAAP
11 1 (0.23%) GAMP
11 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (5.57%) Ansible
2 13 (3.02%) Nmap
3 10 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.16%) SCCM
5 4 (0.93%) Terraform
6 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 209 (48.49%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.03%) Oracle
3 18 (4.18%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.94%) SAP
5 16 (3.71%) Sonatype
6 15 (3.48%) Cisco
7 12 (2.78%) Adobe
8 11 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.09%) Google
10 8 (1.86%) F5
10 8 (1.86%) Juniper
11 7 (1.62%) Planview
11 7 (1.62%) Remedy
12 6 (1.39%) Charles River
12 6 (1.39%) Splunk
12 6 (1.39%) Workday
13 5 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.16%) Databricks
14 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.93%) Fortinet