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 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 133 101
Rank change year-on-year -44 -32 +11
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 214 289 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 1.93% 2.37%
As % of the General category 2.23% 3.00% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 261
10th Percentile £344 £349 £201
25th Percentile £425 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £638
90th Percentile £790 £850 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile £52.09 £37.25 £33.17
25th Percentile £70.84 £38.75 £40.06
Median hourly rate £88.75 £42.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.82% -50.00% +54.55%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.38 £86.50
90th Percentile - £84.75 £88.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £59.43
% change year-on-year - +9.37% -8.57%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,589 9,647 11,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.36% 64.45% 64.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,236 6,138 8,561
10th Percentile £348 £325 £344
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 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 119 162
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.51
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £34.62
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +1.11% +2.08%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £78.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -13.04% +34.69%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -19 37 £475 -13.64% 103
South London +3 11 £463 +21.71% 18
West London -17 1 - - 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 17 (7.94%) Confluence
2 10 (4.67%) nginx
3 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (11.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Endur
2 6 (2.80%) SAP EWM
2 6 (2.80%) SAP WM
3 4 (1.87%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.47%) HFM
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.47%) RMDS
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.47%) Shopify
5 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.83%) Azure
2 30 (14.02%) AWS
3 19 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (5.14%) GCP
7 10 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (4.67%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (4.67%) AWS KMS
7 10 (4.67%) Route 53
7 10 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (4.21%) SaaS
9 8 (3.74%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.27%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.87%) OCI
12 4 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.75%) Firewall
2 14 (6.54%) DNS
3 12 (5.61%) HTTP
3 12 (5.61%) SMTP
4 10 (4.67%) FTP
4 10 (4.67%) IMAP
4 10 (4.67%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (4.67%) SSH
5 5 (2.34%) Internet
5 5 (2.34%) Network Security
6 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.40%) VPN
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.93%) DHCP
8 2 (0.93%) DMZ
8 2 (0.93%) Intranet
8 2 (0.93%) Junos
8 2 (0.93%) SSL
8 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.07%) Power BI
3 10 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.27%) Redis
4 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.80%) Tableau
6 4 (1.87%) Metadata
7 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.40%) Looker
7 3 (1.40%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
9 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.47%) MySQL
9 1 (0.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (12.62%) JIRA
2 13 (6.07%) Git
3 12 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.67%) Vagrant
5 7 (3.27%) webpack
6 2 (0.93%) Postman
6 2 (0.93%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) GCC
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) JMeter
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) MSI
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.47%) Subversion
7 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 159 (74.30%) Social Skills
2 88 (41.12%) Finance
3 52 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.15%) Banking
5 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 21 (9.81%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (6.54%) Marketing
7 14 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.74%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.80%) Front Office
9 6 (2.80%) Retail
10 5 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.87%) Games
11 4 (1.87%) Legal
12 3 (1.40%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.93%) Advertising
13 2 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (23.36%) Analyst
2 32 (14.95%) Architect
3 30 (14.02%) Business Analyst
4 22 (10.28%) Consultant
5 21 (9.81%) Senior
6 15 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (4.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (3.74%) Endur Business Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) Implementation Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) OpenLink Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.14%) LDAP
2 8 (3.74%) HTML
2 8 (3.74%) HTML5
3 7 (3.27%) Bootstrap
3 7 (3.27%) CSS
3 7 (3.27%) jQuery
3 7 (3.27%) Memcached
3 7 (3.27%) Middleware
3 7 (3.27%) React
4 3 (1.40%) .NET
4 3 (1.40%) REST
4 3 (1.40%) RESTful
5 2 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.93%) SOAP
5 2 (0.93%) Spring
5 2 (0.93%) Web Services
6 1 (0.47%) Playwright
6 1 (0.47%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.47%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.14%) Replication
4 10 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.21%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.34%) PMI
8 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.93%) FMCG
10 2 (0.93%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.54%) Windows
2 11 (5.14%) Linux
3 10 (4.67%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (4.67%) Ubuntu
3 10 (4.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.18%) Agile
2 56 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (23.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (21.96%) Roadmaps
5 41 (19.16%) Decision-Making
6 36 (16.82%) Business Analysis
7 31 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 29 (13.55%) Change Management
8 29 (13.55%) Project Management
9 28 (13.08%) Project Delivery
10 27 (12.62%) DevOps
11 26 (12.15%) Analytics
12 25 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (10.28%) Cloud Security
14 21 (9.81%) Business Case
14 21 (9.81%) Requirements Gathering
14 21 (9.81%) User Stories
15 19 (8.88%) Migration
15 19 (8.88%) Validation
16 18 (8.41%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.62%) SQL
2 22 (10.28%) Python
3 16 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.67%) Groovy
5 7 (3.27%) Java
6 3 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) Go
8 1 (0.47%) Korn
8 1 (0.47%) R
8 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (28.97%) Degree
2 36 (16.82%) Security Cleared
3 27 (12.62%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.61%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.14%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.67%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.27%) SAP Certification
8 6 (2.80%) FFIEC
9 5 (2.34%) CISSP
9 5 (2.34%) PMP
10 4 (1.87%) CISM
10 4 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.40%) CBAP
11 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.93%) CCNP
12 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.93%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.48%) QA
2 15 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.54%) NIST
4 12 (5.61%) PMO
5 10 (4.67%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.21%) GRC
7 7 (3.27%) Data Quality
7 7 (3.27%) GDPR
8 6 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.40%) COBIT
10 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.40%) NCSC
11 2 (0.93%) Basel III
11 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.47%) CRD IV
12 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (6.54%) Docker
2 10 (4.67%) DFS Replication
2 10 (4.67%) Dovecot
2 10 (4.67%) Postfix
2 10 (4.67%) Squid
3 8 (3.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (6.54%) Terraform
2 10 (4.67%) Grafana
2 10 (4.67%) Nessus
2 10 (4.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (4.67%) Proxmox
3 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.93%) SCCM
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.47%) Ansible
5 1 (0.47%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 49 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.94%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.01%) Oracle
4 14 (6.54%) Salesforce
5 13 (6.07%) SAP
6 10 (4.67%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (3.27%) Databricks
7 7 (3.27%) Google
8 6 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.80%) Software AG
9 5 (2.34%) Cisco
10 4 (1.87%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.87%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.87%) Workday
11 3 (1.40%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.40%) Juniper
11 3 (1.40%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.40%) Splunk
12 2 (0.93%) Hyperion
12 2 (0.93%) Remedy