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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 183 213
Rank change year-on-year -118 +30 -38
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 368 418 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.50% 1.17%
As % of the Applications category 14.97% 17.14% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 212 168
10th Percentile £194 £233 £213
25th Percentile £305 £302 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £433
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -2.31% -11.51%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £636 £649 £750
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.51% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 57 122
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.60 £11.71
25th Percentile £16.85 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.85 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% +25.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £27.83 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.33 £35.50 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £23.64 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year +25.38% +25.67% -30.23%

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 2,458 2,439 2,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 5.42% 8.78% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 1,390 1,209
10th Percentile £213 £200 £170
25th Percentile £325 £295 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £523
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
UK median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 325 373
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.84 £14.84
Median hourly rate £23.81 £23.45 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +37.94% -32.00%
75th Percentile £39.50 £38.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.75 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.68 £22.63 £17.80
% change year-on-year +0.22% +27.13% -28.80%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -85 175 £496 +10.22% 144
South East -44 64 £481 +42.44% 83
North of England -101 40 £392 -2.06% 51
Midlands -39 34 £481 +60.33% 30
South West -28 30 £310 -43.08% 30
West Midlands -51 30 £478 +59.33% 20
North West -59 22 £380 -15.56% 30
Yorkshire -68 18 £398 -0.50% 19
East of England -46 17 £509 +71.96% 22
East Midlands -16 4 £490 - 10
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 63 (17.12%) SharePoint
2 34 (9.24%) Confluence
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Moodle
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 322 (87.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (46.20%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (18.21%) MS Visio
4 60 (16.30%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.63%) Photoshop
7 5 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.27%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.27%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Magento
2 6 (1.63%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.36%) Loan IQ
3 5 (1.36%) Primavera
4 4 (1.09%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.82%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.54%) Shopify
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.86%) Power Platform
2 26 (7.07%) Azure
3 24 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (5.98%) AWS
5 12 (3.26%) SaaS
6 8 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 7 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.90%) GitHub
8 6 (1.63%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.63%) Lucidchart
8 6 (1.63%) Smartsheet
9 5 (1.36%) Figma
9 5 (1.36%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.09%) Dagster
10 4 (1.09%) Google Docs
10 4 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.99%) WAN
2 9 (2.45%) LAN
2 9 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.63%) BGP
4 6 (1.63%) MPLS
4 6 (1.63%) SNMP
4 6 (1.63%) TACACS
5 5 (1.36%) Internet
6 4 (1.09%) Firewall
6 4 (1.09%) RSVP
6 4 (1.09%) VPN
7 3 (0.82%) DHCP
7 3 (0.82%) DNS
7 3 (0.82%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.54%) FTP
8 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.27%) Intranet
9 1 (0.27%) Network Security
9 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.77%) Power BI
2 7 (1.90%) Power Query
3 5 (1.36%) Tableau
4 3 (0.82%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.54%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.27%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.27%) DataStage
6 1 (0.27%) Db2
6 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.27%) GIS
6 1 (0.27%) Metadata
6 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (17.93%) JIRA
2 13 (3.53%) Git
3 10 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.17%) Subversion
5 4 (1.09%) MLflow
6 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.54%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.54%) MSI
7 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.27%) Selenium
8 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 206 (55.98%) Social Skills
2 146 (39.67%) Finance
3 108 (29.35%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (21.20%) Organisational Skills
5 38 (10.33%) Banking
6 32 (8.70%) Marketing
7 29 (7.88%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (6.52%) Legal
9 23 (6.25%) Retail
10 18 (4.89%) Public Sector
11 13 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.53%) Investment Banking
12 11 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.99%) Military
13 10 (2.72%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.90%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.90%) French Language
15 7 (1.90%) Front Office
16 5 (1.36%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 72 (19.57%) Analyst
2 39 (10.60%) Project Manager
3 35 (9.51%) Senior
4 29 (7.88%) Business Analyst
5 21 (5.71%) Coordinator
6 19 (5.16%) Consultant
7 18 (4.89%) PMO Analyst
7 18 (4.89%) Project Officer
8 16 (4.35%) Lead
8 16 (4.35%) Support Officer
9 15 (4.08%) Project Support Officer
10 14 (3.80%) Administrator
10 14 (3.80%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.53%) Project Coordinator
12 12 (3.26%) IT Analyst
13 11 (2.99%) Architect
13 11 (2.99%) Service Manager
14 10 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
15 9 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.45%) VML
2 6 (1.63%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.63%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.63%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.63%) YANG
3 4 (1.09%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.09%) JDO
3 4 (1.09%) NumPy
3 4 (1.09%) Pandas
3 4 (1.09%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.09%) Seaborn
4 3 (0.82%) REST
4 3 (0.82%) XML
5 2 (0.54%) .NET
5 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.54%) ADO
5 2 (0.54%) HTML
5 2 (0.54%) React Native
5 2 (0.54%) Web Services
5 2 (0.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (6.79%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.90%) Life Science
8 6 (1.63%) Graphic Design
8 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.36%) PMI
9 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.09%) CMDB
10 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.09%) Social Media
10 4 (1.09%) Video Editing
10 4 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.80%) Windows
2 4 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.09%) Linux
2 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.09%) Windows 10
2 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 106 (28.80%) Project Management
3 87 (23.64%) Agile
4 85 (23.10%) Project Delivery
5 80 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (16.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 54 (14.67%) Decision-Making
9 51 (13.86%) Waterfall
10 39 (10.60%) Analytics
10 39 (10.60%) PRINCE2
11 38 (10.33%) Data Analysis
12 33 (8.97%) Business Case
12 33 (8.97%) Change Management
13 32 (8.70%) AI
13 32 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (8.70%) Portfolio Management
14 31 (8.42%) Risk Management
15 27 (7.34%) Business Analysis
16 25 (6.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.07%) SQL
2 21 (5.71%) Python
3 7 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.09%) Bicep
5 4 (1.09%) VB
5 4 (1.09%) VBA
6 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.54%) C++
7 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.27%) C#
8 1 (0.27%) Java
8 1 (0.27%) Korn
8 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (31.79%) Degree
2 72 (19.57%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.07%) PMI Certification
5 23 (6.25%) PMP
6 18 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.63%) CCIE
11 6 (1.63%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.82%) CISM
13 3 (0.82%) CISSP
14 2 (0.54%) CISA
14 2 (0.54%) GCIH
14 2 (0.54%) GIAC
14 2 (0.54%) MBA
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (23.37%) PMO
2 17 (4.62%) QA
3 14 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.90%) P3O
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) MiFID
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GMP
7 3 (0.82%) GRC
7 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.82%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (1.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (2.99%) Ansible
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.09%) SCCM
2 4 (1.09%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Nmap
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 224 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.24%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.71%) SAP
4 19 (5.16%) Google
5 14 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.26%) Oracle
7 11 (2.99%) Adobe
8 10 (2.72%) Cisco
9 9 (2.45%) F5
9 9 (2.45%) Workday
10 7 (1.90%) Planview
11 6 (1.63%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.63%) Juniper
12 5 (1.36%) Apple
12 5 (1.36%) Splunk
13 4 (1.09%) HubSpot
13 4 (1.09%) Qualys
13 4 (1.09%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.09%) TOWER Software
13 4 (1.09%) Wrike