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 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 142 102
Rank change year-on-year -42 -40 -3
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 229 262 407
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.95% 2.25%
As % of the General category 2.27% 2.97% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 148 255
10th Percentile £382 £310 £165
25th Percentile £449 £407 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £644
90th Percentile £787 £853 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 19
10th Percentile £45.16 - £33.65
25th Percentile £51.17 - £33.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 £95.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.76% +93.80%
75th Percentile £94.69 - £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £88.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +68.10% -42.80%

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 10,086 8,830 11,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.67% 65.59% 63.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,583 5,668 8,241
10th Percentile £350 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 118 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.42 £26.56 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.55 £37.81 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% +31.50% -1.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.60
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.47% +18.48% -13.33%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -8 34 £457 -1.77% 50
South London -8 10 £450 +5.88% 2
West London -15 4 £850 +63.46% 9
East London - 2 £500 - 5
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 14 (6.11%) Confluence
2 8 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.31%) nginx
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (10.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (10.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Endur
1 10 (4.37%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.75%) SAP EWM
2 4 (1.75%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) 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%) RMDS
4 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.76%) Azure
2 39 (17.03%) AWS
3 20 (8.73%) SaaS
4 15 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.55%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.68%) GCP
5 13 (5.68%) GitHub
6 12 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.80%) IaaS
7 11 (4.80%) PaaS
8 10 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.37%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.49%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.06%) AWS KMS
11 7 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.73%) Firewall
2 6 (2.62%) DNS
3 5 (2.18%) HTTP
3 5 (2.18%) Internet
3 5 (2.18%) Network Security
3 5 (2.18%) SMTP
4 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.31%) FTP
5 3 (1.31%) IMAP
5 3 (1.31%) Intranet
5 3 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.31%) SSH
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.87%) DMZ
6 2 (0.87%) Junos
6 2 (0.87%) LAN
6 2 (0.87%) SSL
6 2 (0.87%) VPN
6 2 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.80%) Power BI
2 9 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.62%) Metadata
4 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Big Data
6 2 (0.87%) Looker
6 2 (0.87%) Tableau
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (13.97%) JIRA
2 16 (6.99%) Git
3 8 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.18%) GitLab
5 3 (1.31%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.87%) Snyk
6 2 (0.87%) Storybook
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) GCC
7 1 (0.44%) MSI
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 157 (68.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (33.62%) Finance
3 62 (27.07%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.23%) Banking
4 28 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (7.42%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (6.99%) Marketing
8 11 (4.80%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Front Office
9 8 (3.49%) Legal
10 4 (1.75%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Advertising
11 3 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (23.58%) Analyst
2 39 (17.03%) Architect
3 32 (13.97%) Business Analyst
4 24 (10.48%) Senior
5 18 (7.86%) Consultant
6 15 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.11%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.80%) Integration Architect
8 11 (4.80%) Lead
9 10 (4.37%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.37%) Migration Analyst
10 9 (3.93%) Developer
10 9 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (3.93%) Transformation Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) Change Manager
11 7 (3.06%) Endur Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) Endur Business Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) Implementation Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) OpenLink Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.24%) Middleware
2 7 (3.06%) .NET
3 5 (2.18%) LDAP
3 5 (2.18%) VML
4 4 (1.75%) AWS CDK
4 4 (1.75%) PyTorch
4 4 (1.75%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.31%) Playwright
5 3 (1.31%) REST
6 2 (0.87%) CSS
6 2 (0.87%) EDI
6 2 (0.87%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.87%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.87%) Next.js
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.87%) pytest
6 2 (0.87%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.87%) XML
6 2 (0.87%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.37%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.62%) Tandem
5 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.18%) PMI
6 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.31%) FMCG
7 3 (1.31%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Replication
7 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.87%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.86%) Windows
2 10 (4.37%) Linux
3 4 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.31%) VMS
4 3 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (38.86%) Agile
2 71 (31.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 67 (29.26%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (19.65%) Decision-Making
5 43 (18.78%) Project Delivery
6 42 (18.34%) Project Management
6 42 (18.34%) Roadmaps
7 34 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (14.41%) Change Management
9 31 (13.54%) DevOps
10 30 (13.10%) Analytics
11 29 (12.66%) Business Analysis
12 28 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.79%) Requirements Gathering
14 26 (11.35%) AI
14 26 (11.35%) Validation
15 25 (10.92%) Cloud Security
15 25 (10.92%) Migration
15 25 (10.92%) Risk Management
15 25 (10.92%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.61%) Python
2 20 (8.73%) SQL
3 14 (6.11%) Java
4 5 (2.18%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.31%) Groovy
6 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.44%) C#
7 1 (0.44%) C++
7 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (27.51%) Degree
2 46 (20.09%) Security Cleared
3 34 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.04%) Master's Degree
5 20 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.93%) CISSP
6 9 (3.93%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.62%) CISM
8 6 (2.62%) FFIEC
8 6 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.18%) PMP
9 5 (2.18%) SANS
9 5 (2.18%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.31%) CCSP
10 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.86%) NIST
2 15 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.11%) PCI DSS
4 13 (5.68%) PMO
5 11 (4.80%) GDPR
6 10 (4.37%) QA
7 9 (3.93%) Data Quality
7 9 (3.93%) GRC
8 8 (3.49%) Accessibility
8 8 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.75%) NCSC
10 3 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.31%) Basel III
10 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.31%) SLA
11 2 (0.87%) COBIT
11 2 (0.87%) GAAP
11 2 (0.87%) IFRS
11 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.99%) Docker
2 7 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.31%) DFS Replication
3 3 (1.31%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.31%) Postfix
3 3 (1.31%) Squid
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (6.11%) Terraform
2 9 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.62%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.31%) Grafana
4 3 (1.31%) Nessus
4 3 (1.31%) Proxmox
5 2 (0.87%) Control-M
5 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.11%) Salesforce
2 14 (6.11%) SAP
3 13 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.93%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.93%) Software AG
5 8 (3.49%) Cisco
5 8 (3.49%) Databricks
5 8 (3.49%) Google
6 7 (3.06%) Oracle
7 6 (2.62%) Juniper
8 5 (2.18%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.75%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.75%) Citrix
9 4 (1.75%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.31%) Informatica
10 3 (1.31%) New Relic
10 3 (1.31%) VMware
10 3 (1.31%) Zscaler