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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 128 100
Rank change year-on-year -51 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 219 277 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.03% 2.22%
As % of the General category 2.31% 3.11% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 145 253
10th Percentile £372 £341 £206
25th Percentile £450 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £638
90th Percentile £780 £868 £750
England median daily rate £530 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +1.44% -0.48% -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 20
10th Percentile £44.05 £37.25 £33.65
25th Percentile £50.72 £38.75 £33.75
Median hourly rate £87.50 £42.50 £84.75
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -49.85% +71.45%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.38 £86.50
90th Percentile - £84.75 £88.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +42.08% +14.38% -38.46%

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 9,476 8,899 11,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.63% 65.08% 63.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,170 5,592 8,509
10th Percentile £350 £327 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £694
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 112 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.94 £18.78
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +26.84% -
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.40 £73.11
England median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.50% -0.96%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -10 40 £473 -0.42% 61
South London +1 9 £450 +5.88% 3
West London -21 3 - - 7
East London - 1 £500 - 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 13 (5.94%) Confluence
2 7 (3.20%) nginx
3 6 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.91%) CMS
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (11.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.02%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Endur
2 9 (4.11%) Loan IQ
3 6 (2.74%) SAP EWM
3 6 (2.74%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.91%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.46%) HFM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.46%) RMDS
5 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.94%) Azure
2 38 (17.35%) AWS
3 19 (8.68%) SaaS
4 17 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.31%) GCP
6 15 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (5.48%) GitHub
8 11 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.02%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.57%) IaaS
9 10 (4.57%) PaaS
10 9 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.20%) Amazon ELB
12 7 (3.20%) AWS KMS
12 7 (3.20%) OCI
12 7 (3.20%) Route 53
12 7 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.05%) Firewall
2 10 (4.57%) DNS
3 9 (4.11%) HTTP
3 9 (4.11%) SMTP
4 7 (3.20%) FTP
4 7 (3.20%) IMAP
4 7 (3.20%) OpenLDAP
4 7 (3.20%) SSH
5 5 (2.28%) Internet
5 5 (2.28%) Network Security
6 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.91%) DMZ
7 2 (0.91%) Intranet
7 2 (0.91%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.91%) Junos
7 2 (0.91%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.91%) SSL
7 2 (0.91%) VPN
7 2 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.39%) Power BI
2 9 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.74%) Metadata
6 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 3 (1.37%) Looker
8 3 (1.37%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.46%) Power Query
10 1 (0.46%) Redis
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (13.70%) JIRA
2 16 (7.31%) Git
3 12 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.20%) Vagrant
5 4 (1.83%) GitLab
6 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.91%) Snyk
6 2 (0.91%) Storybook
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) GCC
7 1 (0.46%) MSI
7 1 (0.46%) Postman
7 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) Subversion
7 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 153 (69.86%) Social Skills
2 78 (35.62%) Finance
3 61 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 25 (11.42%) Banking
6 19 (8.68%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.94%) Marketing
9 10 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (4.57%) Retail
10 7 (3.20%) Front Office
11 6 (2.74%) Legal
12 5 (2.28%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.37%) Law
13 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.91%) Games
14 2 (0.91%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 58 (26.48%) Analyst
2 36 (16.44%) Architect
3 35 (15.98%) Business Analyst
4 24 (10.96%) Senior
5 17 (7.76%) Consultant
6 14 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.94%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Lead
9 10 (4.57%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.57%) Integration Architect
10 9 (4.11%) Developer
10 9 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.11%) Migration Analyst
10 9 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Transformation Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) Endur Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) OpenLink Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) OpenLink Business Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.48%) Middleware
2 8 (3.65%) LDAP
3 6 (2.74%) .NET
4 5 (2.28%) VML
5 3 (1.37%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.37%) CSS
5 3 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.37%) Playwright
5 3 (1.37%) REST
6 2 (0.91%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.91%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.91%) Next.js
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.91%) pytest
6 2 (0.91%) RESTful
6 2 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.91%) XML
6 2 (0.91%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.46%) React
7 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.20%) PMI
5 7 (3.20%) Replication
6 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.28%) Tandem
8 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.91%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.91%) FMCG
10 2 (0.91%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.76%) Windows
2 13 (5.94%) Linux
3 7 (3.20%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (3.20%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.20%) VMS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (38.36%) Agile
2 69 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (30.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (18.26%) Roadmaps
5 39 (17.81%) Decision-Making
5 39 (17.81%) Project Delivery
6 36 (16.44%) Business Analysis
7 35 (15.98%) Project Management
8 33 (15.07%) DevOps
8 33 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (12.79%) User Stories
10 27 (12.33%) Change Management
10 27 (12.33%) Cloud Security
10 27 (12.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 25 (11.42%) Analytics
11 25 (11.42%) Requirements Gathering
12 24 (10.96%) AI
12 24 (10.96%) Validation
13 23 (10.50%) Workshop Facilitation
14 22 (10.05%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.96%) SQL
2 23 (10.50%) Python
3 14 (6.39%) Java
4 9 (4.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.20%) Groovy
6 4 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.46%) C#
8 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.46%) Korn
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (30.14%) Degree
2 45 (20.55%) Security Cleared
3 33 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.50%) Master's Degree
5 20 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.02%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.57%) PMI Certification
8 9 (4.11%) CISSP
9 7 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.20%) SAP Certification
10 6 (2.74%) CISM
10 6 (2.74%) FFIEC
11 5 (2.28%) SANS
11 5 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.83%) CBAP
13 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.22%) NIST
2 15 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.39%) PCI DSS
4 13 (5.94%) PMO
4 13 (5.94%) QA
5 10 (4.57%) GDPR
6 9 (4.11%) GRC
7 8 (3.65%) Data Quality
7 8 (3.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.83%) NCSC
10 3 (1.37%) Basel III
10 3 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.91%) COBIT
11 2 (0.91%) GAAP
11 2 (0.91%) IFRS
11 2 (0.91%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (9.13%) Docker
2 7 (3.20%) DFS Replication
2 7 (3.20%) Dovecot
2 7 (3.20%) Postfix
2 7 (3.20%) Squid
3 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.76%) Terraform
2 10 (4.57%) Prometheus
3 9 (4.11%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.20%) Grafana
4 7 (3.20%) Nessus
4 7 (3.20%) Proxmox
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.37%) Ansible
7 2 (0.91%) Control-M
7 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.91%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.46%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 57 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.31%) SAP
3 13 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.48%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.57%) Databricks
6 9 (4.11%) Google
6 9 (4.11%) Oracle
6 9 (4.11%) Software AG
7 8 (3.65%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.20%) Cisco
8 7 (3.20%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (2.28%) Juniper
9 5 (2.28%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.83%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.83%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.37%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.37%) New Relic
11 3 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.37%) Splunk