Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends in London

Presentation Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 138 98
Rank change year-on-year -54 -40 +5
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 227 258 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 2.04% 2.35%
As % of the General category 2.19% 3.05% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 158 259
10th Percentile £384 £310 £158
25th Percentile £450 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.74% -14.00%
75th Percentile £714 £703 £648
90th Percentile £800 £850 £753
England median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 23
10th Percentile £51.61 - £33.65
25th Percentile £57.44 - £41.88
Median hourly rate £81.00 £95.00 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +12.43% +109.00%
75th Percentile £94.69 - £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £88.50
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -1.92% +40.54% -28.85%

All General Skills
London

Presentation Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,380 8,454 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.25% 66.84% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,754 5,700 8,208
10th Percentile £350 £332 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 135 250
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.72 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +16.05% -7.20%
75th Percentile £49.06 £55.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.04 £73.88
England median hourly rate £25.38 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +16.17% -25.71%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Presentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in London

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in London over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in London

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Presentation Skills in London over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in London

Presentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presentation Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London -16 39 £531 +11.84% 69
South London -14 7 £450 -9.55% 1
West London -17 4 £850 +69.15% 7
East London - 3 £500 - 6
North London +2 1 £538 +16.22% 3
Presentation Skills
England

Presentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 12 (5.29%) Confluence
2 9 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (13.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (11.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Loan IQ
2 10 (4.41%) Endur
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Shopify
3 2 (0.88%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.88%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.44%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.55%) Azure
2 38 (16.74%) AWS
3 19 (8.37%) SaaS
4 14 (6.17%) GitHub
4 14 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.73%) GCP
6 12 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.85%) IaaS
7 11 (4.85%) PaaS
8 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.08%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.08%) OCI
10 7 (3.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (2.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.41%) Firewall
2 5 (2.20%) Network Security
3 3 (1.32%) Intranet
4 2 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.88%) DMZ
4 2 (0.88%) Internet
4 2 (0.88%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.88%) Junos
4 2 (0.88%) LAN
4 2 (0.88%) NAS
4 2 (0.88%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.88%) SAN
4 2 (0.88%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.88%) WAN
4 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.41%) Power BI
2 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.64%) Metadata
4 2 (0.88%) Big Data
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) Looker
5 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (14.10%) JIRA
2 15 (6.61%) Git
3 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.88%) Snyk
5 2 (0.88%) Storybook
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.44%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 158 (69.60%) Social Skills
2 80 (35.24%) Finance
3 65 (28.63%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (14.10%) Banking
5 28 (12.33%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (8.37%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (7.05%) Marketing
9 12 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (5.29%) Retail
10 9 (3.96%) Front Office
10 9 (3.96%) Legal
11 7 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.20%) Advertising
13 4 (1.76%) Aviation
13 4 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.32%) Law
15 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 61 (26.87%) Analyst
2 39 (17.18%) Business Analyst
3 36 (15.86%) Architect
4 27 (11.89%) Senior
5 15 (6.61%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.17%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (5.73%) Lead
7 13 (5.73%) Migration Analyst
8 12 (5.29%) Transformation Analyst
9 11 (4.85%) Consultant
9 11 (4.85%) Integration Architect
9 11 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (4.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.96%) Developer
12 8 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.08%) Change Manager
13 7 (3.08%) Data Scientist
13 7 (3.08%) Senior Business Analyst
14 6 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.64%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.29%) Middleware
2 8 (3.52%) .NET
3 6 (2.64%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.64%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.20%) VML
5 4 (1.76%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.76%) REST
6 3 (1.32%) EDI
6 3 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.32%) Playwright
7 2 (0.88%) CSS
7 2 (0.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.88%) LDAP
7 2 (0.88%) Next.js
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.88%) pytest
7 2 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (0.88%) XML
7 2 (0.88%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.41%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.08%) Tandem
6 6 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.64%) PMI
6 6 (2.64%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.76%) Derivative
7 4 (1.76%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.32%) FMCG
8 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.73%) Windows
2 6 (2.64%) Linux
3 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.17%) Agile
2 73 (32.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 63 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.70%) Project Delivery
5 45 (19.82%) Decision-Making
6 42 (18.50%) Roadmaps
7 38 (16.74%) Project Management
8 34 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 33 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (14.10%) Analytics
11 31 (13.66%) Business Analysis
11 31 (13.66%) DevOps
12 29 (12.78%) AI
13 28 (12.33%) Migration
13 28 (12.33%) User Stories
13 28 (12.33%) Waterfall
14 27 (11.89%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (11.89%) Workshop Facilitation
15 26 (11.45%) Change Management
16 25 (11.01%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.81%) Python
2 16 (7.05%) Java
3 15 (6.61%) SQL
4 3 (1.32%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (23.79%) Degree
2 43 (18.94%) Security Cleared
3 31 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.13%) Master's Degree
5 20 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.96%) CISSP
6 9 (3.96%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.64%) CISM
8 6 (2.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.20%) PMP
9 5 (2.20%) SANS
10 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.32%) CCNP
10 3 (1.32%) CCSP
10 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.17%) GDPR
1 14 (6.17%) NIST
2 13 (5.73%) PMO
3 11 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.52%) QA
6 5 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.76%) GRC
7 4 (1.76%) NCSC
7 4 (1.76%) SLA
8 3 (1.32%) Basel III
8 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.88%) HL7
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 13 (5.73%) Docker
2 7 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.96%) Kubernetes
1 9 (3.96%) Terraform
2 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) Control-M
4 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.37%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.29%) SAP
4 11 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.41%) Google
6 9 (3.96%) Databricks
6 9 (3.96%) Software AG
7 8 (3.52%) Cisco
7 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.64%) Juniper
8 6 (2.64%) Oracle
9 5 (2.20%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.76%) Citrix
10 4 (1.76%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.76%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.32%) Adobe
11 3 (1.32%) Ariba
11 3 (1.32%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.32%) Informatica
11 3 (1.32%) Workday