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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 214 210
Rank change year-on-year -66 -4 -37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 448 376 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.34% 1.22%
As % of the Applications category 16.64% 15.63% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 203 194
10th Percentile £238 £231 £207
25th Percentile £326 £308 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £597
90th Percentile £638 £634 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £441 £450
% change year-on-year +7.80% -2.08% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 38 89
10th Percentile £14.16 £14.84 £14.97
25th Percentile £15.44 £15.60 £15.62
Median hourly rate £20.50 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +16.14% -21.14%
75th Percentile £29.86 £31.69 £16.85
90th Percentile £41.75 £42.64 £30.08
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £22.84 £16.23
% change year-on-year -23.38% +40.73% -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 2,693 2,406 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 5.75% 8.55% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,373 1,218
10th Percentile £205 £188 £171
25th Percentile £313 £294 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £541 £537
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £436 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.59% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 314 229
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.33 £14.97
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £18.24 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +19.08% -23.08%
75th Percentile £34.25 £35.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £62.17 £60.51
UK median hourly rate £17.69 £23.28 £20.12
% change year-on-year -24.00% +15.70% -21.75%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -78 207 £488 -1.02% 169
South East +5 99 £500 +81.82% 54
North of England -72 61 £425 +30.85% 28
Midlands -51 36 £475 +54.98% 11
North West -53 30 £500 +69.49% 19
Yorkshire -34 29 £400 +7.38% 7
West Midlands -48 29 £461 +59.88% 6
East of England -34 19 £417 +11.20% 14
South West -40 18 £360 -34.55% 19
East Midlands -15 7 £490 +8.14% 5
North East -41 2 - - 2
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
1 107 (23.88%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.14%) Confluence
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.45%) CMS
5 2 (0.45%) Moodle
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 381 (85.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (35.04%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (17.41%) MS Visio
4 63 (14.06%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.90%) Photoshop
6 12 (2.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.89%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.89%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.22%) CATIA
9 1 (0.22%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.22%) InDesign
9 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.22%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.22%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Magento
2 6 (1.34%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.89%) Eloqua
4 4 (0.89%) Primavera
4 4 (0.89%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.89%) Workfront
5 3 (0.67%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.45%) Shopify
7 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.22%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.39%) Power Platform
2 41 (9.15%) Azure
3 36 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.02%) AWS
6 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 16 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.57%) SaaS
8 13 (2.90%) Lucidchart
9 11 (2.46%) Figma
10 9 (2.01%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.79%) Miro
11 8 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.56%) Smartsheet
13 5 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.12%) GCP
13 5 (1.12%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.89%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.89%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.23%) LAN
1 10 (2.23%) WAN
2 7 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.12%) DNS
3 5 (1.12%) FTP
4 4 (0.89%) BGP
4 4 (0.89%) Internet
4 4 (0.89%) MPLS
4 4 (0.89%) SNMP
4 4 (0.89%) TACACS
5 3 (0.67%) DHCP
5 3 (0.67%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.67%) Firewall
5 3 (0.67%) RSVP
5 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.67%) VPN
6 2 (0.45%) Network Security
6 2 (0.45%) VoIP
6 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.71%) Power BI
2 11 (2.46%) Power Query
3 4 (0.89%) Tableau
4 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.45%) DTS
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.45%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) DataStage
6 1 (0.22%) GIS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (13.39%) JIRA
2 10 (2.23%) Git
3 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.79%) Subversion
4 4 (0.89%) Selenium
5 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.45%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.45%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.45%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.45%) MSI
6 2 (0.45%) Postman
6 2 (0.45%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.45%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.45%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.45%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 269 (60.04%) Social Skills
2 173 (38.62%) Finance
3 141 (31.47%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (26.79%) Organisational Skills
5 44 (9.82%) Banking
6 39 (8.71%) Marketing
7 31 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (5.58%) Retail
9 23 (5.13%) Manufacturing
10 22 (4.91%) Legal
10 22 (4.91%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.46%) French Language
14 10 (2.23%) Front Office
15 9 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.56%) Advertising
16 7 (1.56%) Aviation
17 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (17.86%) Analyst
2 41 (9.15%) Project Manager
3 34 (7.59%) Senior
4 33 (7.37%) Administrator
5 30 (6.70%) Coordinator
6 26 (5.80%) Consultant
7 24 (5.36%) Lead
8 23 (5.13%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.69%) PMO Analyst
10 20 (4.46%) Architect
11 15 (3.35%) PMO Planner
11 15 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.13%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (2.90%) Project Officer
13 13 (2.90%) Support Specialist
14 12 (2.68%) Support Officer
15 11 (2.46%) PMO Manager
15 11 (2.46%) Senior Project Manager
16 10 (2.23%) Junior
16 10 (2.23%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.79%) VML
2 7 (1.56%) .NET
2 7 (1.56%) REST
2 7 (1.56%) Terraform
2 7 (1.56%) Web Services
2 7 (1.56%) XML
3 5 (1.12%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (1.12%) XSLT
4 4 (0.89%) Flutter
4 4 (0.89%) Middleware
4 4 (0.89%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.89%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.89%) React Native
4 4 (0.89%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.89%) YANG
5 3 (0.67%) ADO
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.45%) HTML
6 2 (0.45%) Playwright
6 2 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.93%) Onboarding
2 36 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.23%) Graphic Design
7 9 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
8 8 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.79%) Video Editing
8 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.56%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.56%) Life Science
10 6 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.34%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.12%) CMDB
12 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.90%) Windows
2 7 (1.56%) Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.89%) macOS
5 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (41.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 124 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (25.45%) Project Management
4 103 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (20.98%) Agile
6 86 (19.20%) Project Delivery
7 80 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 68 (15.18%) Decision-Making
9 54 (12.05%) Waterfall
10 53 (11.83%) AI
11 49 (10.94%) Data Analysis
12 46 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (10.04%) Analytics
14 42 (9.38%) Business Case
15 39 (8.71%) DevOps
15 39 (8.71%) Project Governance
15 39 (8.71%) Risk Management
16 36 (8.04%) Change Management
16 36 (8.04%) PRINCE2
17 32 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.46%) SQL
2 16 (3.57%) Python
3 8 (1.79%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.56%) Bicep
5 5 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.12%) VBA
6 4 (0.89%) Korn
7 2 (0.45%) C++
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 106 (23.66%) Degree
2 91 (20.31%) Security Cleared
3 49 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.91%) PMI Certification
6 18 (4.02%) PMP
7 7 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.12%) CIPD
8 5 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.89%) CCIE
9 4 (0.89%) CISM
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
9 4 (0.89%) JNCIE
9 4 (0.89%) MBA
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.67%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (25.67%) PMO
2 25 (5.58%) QA
3 15 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.46%) GRC
5 8 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.56%) NIST
6 7 (1.56%) P3O
7 4 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.67%) COSHH
8 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.67%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.67%) GMP
8 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.01%) Ansible
1 9 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 299 (66.74%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.37%) SAP
2 33 (7.37%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 18 (4.02%) Google
5 15 (3.35%) Oracle
6 12 (2.68%) Adobe
7 9 (2.01%) Cisco
7 9 (2.01%) Workday
8 7 (1.56%) F5
9 5 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.12%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.12%) Marketo
9 5 (1.12%) Okta
9 5 (1.12%) Planview
9 5 (1.12%) Qualys
9 5 (1.12%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.12%) Splunk
9 5 (1.12%) Tenable
10 4 (0.89%) Fortinet