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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 156 152
Rank change year-on-year -110 -4 -62
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 190 242 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.83% 1.83%
As % of the General category 1.55% 2.64% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 114 136
10th Percentile £425 £334 £215
25th Percentile £469 £419 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £688 £634 £638
90th Percentile £825 £743 £775
England median daily rate £525 £516 £500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £33.57 - £36.25
25th Percentile £38.75 £46.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -4.00% +44.05%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.75 - £68.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.85% - +52.94%

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 12,246 9,154 10,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.06% 69.03% 62.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,799 6,069 6,862
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 187 133
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.24 £18.03
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -10.96% +14.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.88 £64.85 £65.03
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -41 25 £638 +15.91% 61
South London -20 5 £503 -16.25% 5
West London -16 3 £563 +12.22% 31
East London - 3 £638 - 5
North London - 2 £544 -
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 8 (4.21%) Confluence
1 8 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.16%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 20 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (7.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.11%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Endur
2 5 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Findur
3 2 (1.05%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (1.05%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.53%) Aligne
4 1 (0.53%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.53%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.53%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.53%) Shopify
4 1 (0.53%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.21%) Azure
2 17 (8.95%) AWS
3 9 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.21%) GCP
5 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.68%) SaaS
6 6 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.63%) Serverless
8 4 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.58%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.58%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (1.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.58%) Figma
9 3 (1.58%) Route 53
9 3 (1.58%) Salesforce Einstein
9 3 (1.58%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) Network Security
2 4 (2.11%) Firewall
3 3 (1.58%) Internet
4 2 (1.05%) BGP
4 2 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.05%) DWDM
4 2 (1.05%) MPLS
4 2 (1.05%) OSPF
4 2 (1.05%) WebEx
4 2 (1.05%) Wireless
4 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) FTP
5 1 (0.53%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) IMAP
5 1 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.53%) SMTP
5 1 (0.53%) SSH
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.74%) Metadata
1 9 (4.74%) Power BI
2 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.11%) Tableau
5 3 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.58%) MySQL
5 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.53%) OLTP
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.74%) JIRA
2 6 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.05%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.05%) jMock
4 2 (1.05%) JUnit
4 2 (1.05%) Maven
4 2 (1.05%) Mockito
4 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.53%) Mocha
5 1 (0.53%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 135 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 86 (45.26%) Finance
3 57 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.11%) Banking
4 23 (12.11%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (8.42%) Legal
5 16 (8.42%) Retail
6 15 (7.89%) Marketing
7 14 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (5.79%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.21%) Front Office
11 6 (3.16%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.16%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.63%) Automotive
13 4 (2.11%) Aeronautics
13 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.58%) Advertising
14 3 (1.58%) Electronics
14 3 (1.58%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 40 (21.05%) Analyst
2 36 (18.95%) Business Analyst
3 34 (17.89%) Senior
4 22 (11.58%) Lead
5 16 (8.42%) Developer
6 15 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 14 (7.37%) Architect
8 13 (6.84%) Consultant
8 13 (6.84%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (3.68%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.16%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.63%) Change Consultant
12 5 (2.63%) Content Strategist
12 5 (2.63%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.63%) Designer
12 5 (2.63%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
13 4 (2.11%) Finance Business Analyst
13 4 (2.11%) OpenLink Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.74%) REST
2 8 (4.21%) VML
3 7 (3.68%) JSON
4 6 (3.16%) Node.js
4 6 (3.16%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.63%) Kafka
5 5 (2.63%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.63%) SOAP
5 5 (2.63%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.11%) .NET
6 4 (2.11%) CSS
6 4 (2.11%) HTML
6 4 (2.11%) OAuth
6 4 (2.11%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.58%) CSS3
7 3 (1.58%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.58%) PySpark
7 3 (1.58%) React
7 3 (1.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.68%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.68%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.16%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.63%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.11%) PMI
6 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.58%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.74%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Unix
2 4 (2.11%) Windows
3 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.53%) CentOS
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (46.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (32.63%) Agile
3 44 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (22.63%) Analytics
5 38 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 37 (19.47%) Project Delivery
7 35 (18.42%) Workshop Facilitation
8 29 (15.26%) Business Analysis
9 28 (14.74%) AI
10 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (13.16%) Project Management
12 24 (12.63%) Change Management
12 24 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (12.63%) User Acceptance Testing
13 23 (12.11%) Risk Management
13 23 (12.11%) Roadmaps
14 22 (11.58%) Business Case
14 22 (11.58%) DevOps
15 20 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
15 20 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.63%) Python
2 22 (11.58%) SQL
3 12 (6.32%) Java
4 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.05%) R
7 2 (1.05%) VBA
8 1 (0.53%) ABAP
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) COBOL
8 1 (0.53%) Groovy
8 1 (0.53%) RPG
8 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (22.63%) Degree
2 17 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.32%) PMI Certification
3 12 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.74%) PMP
5 8 (4.21%) CISSP
5 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.63%) CSPO
6 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.11%) CISM
7 4 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.11%) RIBA
8 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.58%) CBAP
8 3 (1.58%) CEH
9 2 (1.05%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.42%) PMO
2 11 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.21%) QA
4 6 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.63%) GDPR
6 4 (2.11%) ISO 15022
6 4 (2.11%) ISO 20022
6 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.11%) NIST
7 3 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.58%) GRC
8 2 (1.05%) NCSC
8 2 (1.05%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.05%) PERC
9 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.53%) P3O
9 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Postfix
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.53%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.53%) Squid
4 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Grafana
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Kibana
3 1 (0.53%) Nessus
3 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.53%) Puppet
3 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.84%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.74%) SAP
4 8 (4.21%) Databricks
5 7 (3.68%) IBM
6 6 (3.16%) Oracle
6 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.11%) Splunk
8 3 (1.58%) Adobe
8 3 (1.58%) Braze
8 3 (1.58%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.58%) Google
8 3 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.58%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.05%) Brandwatch
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.05%) NetBase
9 2 (1.05%) Workday