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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 129 99
Rank change year-on-year -61 -30 +3
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 205 270 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.93% 2.33%
As % of the General category 2.19% 2.99% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 138 247
10th Percentile £382 £349 £201
25th Percentile £425 £450 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £574 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +9.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £649
90th Percentile £787 £850 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 21
10th Percentile £52.09 £37.25 £33.65
25th Percentile £70.84 £38.75 £33.75
Median hourly rate £88.75 £42.50 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -49.70% +53.64%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.38 £86.50
90th Percentile - £84.75 £87.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £49.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year +32.65% +11.72% -32.52%

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 9,380 9,029 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.50% 64.69% 64.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,114 5,726 8,283
10th Percentile £343 £325 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 110 186
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.26 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.65 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +16.67% +10.09%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.60 £78.40 £74.38
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £30.49
% change year-on-year -23.33% -1.60% +18.58%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -20 37 £484 -7.90% 53
South London +1 10 £463 +21.71% 10
West London -15 3 - - 6
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 13 (6.34%) Confluence
2 9 (4.39%) nginx
3 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Endur
2 6 (2.93%) SAP EWM
2 6 (2.93%) SAP WM
3 4 (1.95%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.98%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.49%) HFM
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.49%) RMDS
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.39%) Azure
2 35 (17.07%) AWS
3 15 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.34%) Amazon S3
4 13 (6.34%) SaaS
5 12 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (5.85%) GCP
6 11 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.39%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (4.39%) AWS KMS
7 9 (4.39%) Route 53
7 9 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.41%) GitHub
10 6 (2.93%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.73%) Firewall
2 12 (5.85%) DNS
3 11 (5.37%) HTTP
3 11 (5.37%) SMTP
4 9 (4.39%) FTP
4 9 (4.39%) IMAP
4 9 (4.39%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (4.39%) SSH
5 5 (2.44%) Internet
5 5 (2.44%) Network Security
6 4 (1.95%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.98%) DMZ
7 2 (0.98%) Intranet
7 2 (0.98%) Junos
7 2 (0.98%) LAN
7 2 (0.98%) SSL
7 2 (0.98%) VPN
7 2 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.34%) Power BI
3 11 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.44%) Redis
6 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.95%) Metadata
7 4 (1.95%) Tableau
8 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.46%) Looker
8 3 (1.46%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.49%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.49%) Power Query
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.17%) JIRA
2 14 (6.83%) Git
3 13 (6.34%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.39%) Vagrant
5 5 (2.44%) webpack
6 3 (1.46%) GitLab
7 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.98%) Snyk
7 2 (0.98%) Storybook
8 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.49%) GCC
8 1 (0.49%) MSI
8 1 (0.49%) Postman
8 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Subversion
8 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 150 (73.17%) Social Skills
2 76 (37.07%) Finance
3 53 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.68%) Banking
5 25 (12.20%) Public Sector
6 18 (8.78%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.85%) Marketing
9 9 (4.39%) Retail
10 7 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.93%) Front Office
12 5 (2.44%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.46%) Games
14 3 (1.46%) Legal
14 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.98%) Advertising
15 2 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.98%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (25.37%) Analyst
2 33 (16.10%) Business Analyst
3 31 (15.12%) Architect
4 22 (10.73%) Senior
5 18 (8.78%) Consultant
6 14 (6.83%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.37%) Lead
8 10 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.90%) Endur Analyst
10 8 (3.90%) Endur Business Analyst
10 8 (3.90%) OpenLink Analyst
10 8 (3.90%) OpenLink Business Analyst
10 8 (3.90%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.37%) Middleware
2 10 (4.88%) LDAP
3 7 (3.41%) CSS
4 6 (2.93%) HTML
4 6 (2.93%) HTML5
5 5 (2.44%) Bootstrap
5 5 (2.44%) jQuery
5 5 (2.44%) Memcached
5 5 (2.44%) React
6 4 (1.95%) VML
7 3 (1.46%) Playwright
7 3 (1.46%) REST
8 2 (0.98%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.98%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.98%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.98%) Next.js
8 2 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.98%) pytest
8 2 (0.98%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.39%) Replication
5 7 (3.41%) PMI
6 6 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.93%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.98%) Derivative
10 2 (0.98%) FMCG
10 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.29%) Windows
2 14 (6.83%) Linux
3 9 (4.39%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (4.39%) Ubuntu
3 9 (4.39%) VMS
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.51%) Agile
2 61 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (27.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (21.95%) Roadmaps
5 38 (18.54%) Business Analysis
5 38 (18.54%) Decision-Making
6 32 (15.61%) Project Delivery
7 31 (15.12%) DevOps
8 30 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (13.66%) Project Management
10 26 (12.68%) Change Management
10 26 (12.68%) User Stories
11 24 (11.71%) Analytics
12 23 (11.22%) Requirements Gathering
12 23 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (10.24%) Cloud Security
13 21 (10.24%) Validation
13 21 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (9.76%) Scrum
15 19 (9.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.22%) SQL
2 21 (10.24%) Python
3 14 (6.83%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.88%) Java
5 9 (4.39%) Groovy
6 3 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.49%) C#
8 1 (0.49%) Korn
8 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (30.24%) Degree
2 40 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 31 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.27%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.85%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.88%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.41%) SAP Certification
9 6 (2.93%) CISSP
9 6 (2.93%) FFIEC
10 5 (2.44%) CBAP
10 5 (2.44%) CISM
11 4 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.46%) CCNP
12 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.46%) PMP
12 3 (1.46%) SANS
13 2 (0.98%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (7.32%) QA
2 14 (6.83%) NIST
3 12 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.85%) PMO
4 10 (4.88%) PCI DSS
5 9 (4.39%) GRC
6 8 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.44%) GDPR
9 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.46%) Basel III
10 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.46%) NCSC
11 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.98%) COBIT
11 2 (0.98%) GAAP
11 2 (0.98%) IFRS
11 2 (0.98%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (8.29%) Docker
2 9 (4.39%) DFS Replication
2 9 (4.39%) Dovecot
2 9 (4.39%) Postfix
2 9 (4.39%) Squid
3 7 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.32%) Terraform
2 11 (5.37%) Prometheus
3 9 (4.39%) Grafana
3 9 (4.39%) Nessus
3 9 (4.39%) Proxmox
4 4 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.46%) Ansible
6 2 (0.98%) Control-M
6 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.98%) Puppet
6 2 (0.98%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.49%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 46 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.32%) SAP
3 14 (6.83%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.34%) Oracle
4 13 (6.34%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.39%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.90%) Software AG
7 7 (3.41%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.93%) Cisco
8 6 (2.93%) Databricks
9 5 (2.44%) Google
9 5 (2.44%) Workday
10 4 (1.95%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.95%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.95%) Juniper
10 4 (1.95%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.46%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.46%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.46%) Splunk
12 2 (0.98%) Informatica