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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 191 209
Rank change year-on-year -93 +18 -21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 400 409 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.48% 1.19%
As % of the Applications category 16.01% 16.90% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 214 172
10th Percentile £196 £250 £213
25th Percentile £305 £319 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 54 120
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.11 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +22.60% +16.14% -21.93%
75th Percentile £31.56 £27.91 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.00 £35.50 £26.15
UK median hourly rate £17.85 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.29% +16.14% -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 2,498 2,420 2,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 5.46% 8.77% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,376 1,200
10th Percentile £213 £200 £175
25th Percentile £320 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £409
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.98% -3.82%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £536
90th Percentile £646 £651 £644
UK median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 329 309
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.00 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £14.56
Median hourly rate £22.63 £23.10 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +42.33% -29.65%
75th Percentile £39.27 £36.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £60.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £20.29 £22.63 £17.25
% change year-on-year -10.35% +31.19% -23.81%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -85 186 £494 +4.00% 348
South East -15 76 £500 +48.15% 117
North of England -90 47 £394 -1.56% 103
Midlands -49 34 £475 +51.76% 58
South West -29 32 £310 -43.73% 62
West Midlands -44 29 £475 +51.76% 39
North West -54 24 £399 -11.39% 49
Yorkshire -60 23 £394 -1.56% 43
East of England -47 16 £509 +30.10% 30
East Midlands -16 5 £490 - 19
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 81 (20.25%) SharePoint
2 34 (8.50%) Confluence
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Moodle
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 351 (87.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (43.50%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (16.50%) Microsoft Project
4 63 (15.75%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.50%) Photoshop
7 4 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.75%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.00%) Magento
2 5 (1.25%) Primavera
2 5 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.25%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.00%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.00%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.75%) TrackWise
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.50%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 64 (16.00%) Power Platform
2 29 (7.25%) Azure
2 29 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (5.00%) AWS
4 12 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.00%) SaaS
5 10 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 7 (1.75%) Google Workspace
7 7 (1.75%) Smartsheet
8 5 (1.25%) Figma
8 5 (1.25%) GitHub
8 5 (1.25%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.25%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.00%) GCP
9 4 (1.00%) Google Docs
9 4 (1.00%) Google Sheets
9 4 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.75%) WAN
2 10 (2.50%) LAN
3 8 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.25%) BGP
4 5 (1.25%) MPLS
4 5 (1.25%) SNMP
4 5 (1.25%) TACACS
5 4 (1.00%) RSVP
5 4 (1.00%) VPN
6 3 (0.75%) DHCP
6 3 (0.75%) DNS
6 3 (0.75%) Firewall
6 3 (0.75%) FTP
6 3 (0.75%) Internet
6 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.25%) Intranet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.50%) Power BI
2 10 (2.50%) Power Query
3 6 (1.50%) Tableau
4 3 (0.75%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.50%) 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 68 (17.00%) JIRA
2 13 (3.25%) Git
3 8 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.00%) Subversion
4 4 (1.00%) Selenium
5 3 (0.75%) MLflow
5 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.50%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.50%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.50%) MSI
6 2 (0.50%) Postman
6 2 (0.50%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.50%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.50%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.50%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.50%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 228 (57.00%) Social Skills
2 169 (42.25%) Finance
3 132 (33.00%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (25.50%) Organisational Skills
5 44 (11.00%) Banking
6 32 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (7.75%) Marketing
8 21 (5.25%) Legal
8 21 (5.25%) Retail
9 17 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.75%) Military
13 10 (2.50%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.25%) Manufacturing
15 8 (2.00%) Front Office
16 7 (1.75%) French Language
17 6 (1.50%) Advertising
18 5 (1.25%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 82 (20.50%) Analyst
2 36 (9.00%) Project Manager
3 35 (8.75%) Senior
4 27 (6.75%) Business Analyst
5 24 (6.00%) Administrator
5 24 (6.00%) Consultant
6 21 (5.25%) Coordinator
7 19 (4.75%) PMO Analyst
7 19 (4.75%) Project Officer
8 18 (4.50%) Lead
8 18 (4.50%) Support Officer
9 16 (4.00%) Project Support Officer
10 15 (3.75%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.25%) Architect
11 13 (3.25%) Project Coordinator
11 13 (3.25%) Support Specialist
12 11 (2.75%) PMO Manager
12 11 (2.75%) PMO Planner
12 11 (2.75%) Senior Project Manager
13 9 (2.25%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.25%) VML
2 5 (1.25%) .NET
2 5 (1.25%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.25%) OpenConfig
2 5 (1.25%) RESTCONF
2 5 (1.25%) Web Services
2 5 (1.25%) XML
2 5 (1.25%) YANG
3 4 (1.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.00%) JDO
3 4 (1.00%) Terraform
4 3 (0.75%) ADO
4 3 (0.75%) HTML
4 3 (0.75%) NumPy
4 3 (0.75%) Pandas
4 3 (0.75%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.75%) Seaborn
4 3 (0.75%) XSLT
5 2 (0.50%) Playwright
5 2 (0.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.50%) Management Information System
1 30 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 26 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.75%) Life Science
6 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.25%) Graphic Design
7 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.25%) Learning Management System
7 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.00%) CMDB
8 4 (1.00%) FMCG
8 4 (1.00%) PMI
8 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.00%) Video Editing
8 4 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.25%) Windows
2 6 (1.50%) Linux
3 4 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (38.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (28.50%) Project Management
3 101 (25.25%) Agile
3 101 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (23.00%) Project Delivery
5 88 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (17.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 58 (14.50%) Waterfall
8 55 (13.75%) Decision-Making
9 46 (11.50%) Data Analysis
10 43 (10.75%) PRINCE2
11 42 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (10.00%) Business Case
13 39 (9.75%) Analytics
13 39 (9.75%) Change Management
13 39 (9.75%) Risk Management
14 38 (9.50%) Portfolio Management
15 35 (8.75%) AI
16 32 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
17 31 (7.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.25%) SQL
2 17 (4.25%) Python
3 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.75%) VBA
4 5 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.00%) Bicep
6 3 (0.75%) Korn
7 2 (0.50%) C++
7 2 (0.50%) Java
7 2 (0.50%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.25%) C#
8 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 115 (28.75%) Degree
2 86 (21.50%) Security Cleared
3 52 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.00%) PMI Certification
6 19 (4.75%) PMP
7 11 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.25%) CCIE
10 5 (1.25%) CIPD
10 5 (1.25%) JNCIE
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) CAPM
12 3 (0.75%) CISM
12 3 (0.75%) CISSP
12 3 (0.75%) IIBA
13 2 (0.50%) CISA
13 2 (0.50%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (25.75%) PMO
2 21 (5.25%) QA
3 17 (4.25%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.25%) GRC
5 8 (2.00%) P3O
6 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.25%) NIST
8 3 (0.75%) GMP
8 3 (0.75%) MiFID
8 3 (0.75%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.50%) NCSC
9 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.25%) Ansible
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 258 (64.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.00%) ServiceNow
3 26 (6.50%) SAP
4 20 (5.00%) Google
5 14 (3.50%) Oracle
6 13 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.25%) Adobe
7 9 (2.25%) Cisco
8 8 (2.00%) F5
8 8 (2.00%) Planview
8 8 (2.00%) Workday
9 5 (1.25%) Apple
9 5 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.25%) Juniper
10 4 (1.00%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.00%) Okta
10 4 (1.00%) Qualys
10 4 (1.00%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) TOWER Software
10 4 (1.00%) Wrike