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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 131 103
Rank change year-on-year -63 -28 -5
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 216 282 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 2.07% 2.22%
As % of the General category 2.21% 3.18% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 154 248
10th Percentile £372 £328 £206
25th Percentile £453 £422 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +6.69% -14.08%
75th Percentile £684 £750 £638
90th Percentile £786 £855 £750
England median daily rate £530 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.92% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 19
10th Percentile £45.16 £46.63 £33.65
25th Percentile £51.17 £54.69 £33.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 £68.75 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -19.12% +71.96%
75th Percentile £94.69 £82.19 £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £89.88 £88.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +42.08% +23.05% -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 9,752 8,876 11,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.27% 65.29% 63.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 5,608 8,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 110 253
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.68 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.36 £26.06 £18.79
Median hourly rate £27.61 £38.56 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +34.10% +0.88%
75th Percentile £47.56 £55.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.75 £78.44 £73.73
England median hourly rate £22.85 £30.43 £25.25
% change year-on-year -24.91% +20.51% -8.18%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -16 36 £475 - 39
South London -5 8 £450 +5.88% 4
West London -15 4 £850 +63.46% 11
East London - 1 £500 - 4
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 12 (5.56%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) nginx
2 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.93%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (11.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (2.31%) 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 (4.63%) Endur
2 9 (4.17%) Loan IQ
3 6 (2.78%) SAP EWM
3 6 (2.78%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
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
5 1 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.78%) Azure
2 39 (18.06%) AWS
3 19 (8.80%) SaaS
4 16 (7.41%) GCP
5 15 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (5.56%) GitHub
8 10 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.63%) IaaS
8 10 (4.63%) PaaS
9 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.24%) OCI
11 7 (3.24%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.78%) AWS KMS
12 6 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.72%) Firewall
2 9 (4.17%) DNS
3 8 (3.70%) HTTP
3 8 (3.70%) SMTP
4 6 (2.78%) FTP
4 6 (2.78%) IMAP
4 6 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
4 6 (2.78%) SSH
5 5 (2.31%) Internet
5 5 (2.31%) Network Security
6 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.93%) DMZ
7 2 (0.93%) Intranet
7 2 (0.93%) Junos
7 2 (0.93%) LAN
7 2 (0.93%) SSL
7 2 (0.93%) VPN
7 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.56%) Power BI
2 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.78%) Metadata
3 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.39%) Looker
5 3 (1.39%) Star Schema
5 3 (1.39%) Tableau
6 2 (0.93%) Big Data
6 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.89%) JIRA
2 15 (6.94%) Git
3 11 (5.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.78%) Vagrant
5 4 (1.85%) GitLab
6 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.93%) Snyk
6 2 (0.93%) 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%) Toad
General
1 148 (68.52%) Social Skills
2 74 (34.26%) Finance
3 62 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 26 (12.04%) Banking
6 19 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (7.87%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.56%) Marketing
9 11 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (5.09%) Retail
10 7 (3.24%) Front Office
11 6 (2.78%) Legal
12 5 (2.31%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.39%) Law
13 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.93%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.93%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 53 (24.54%) Analyst
2 37 (17.13%) Architect
3 31 (14.35%) Business Analyst
4 24 (11.11%) Senior
5 16 (7.41%) Consultant
6 14 (6.48%) Cloud Architect
6 14 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.09%) Lead
8 10 (4.63%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.63%) Integration Architect
9 9 (4.17%) Developer
9 9 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) Transformation Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) Change Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Implementation Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) OpenLink Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) OpenLink Business Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.56%) Middleware
2 7 (3.24%) LDAP
3 6 (2.78%) .NET
4 5 (2.31%) VML
5 3 (1.39%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.39%) Playwright
5 3 (1.39%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.39%) REST
5 3 (1.39%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.93%) CSS
6 2 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.93%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.93%) Next.js
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.93%) pytest
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
6 2 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.93%) XML
6 2 (0.93%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.78%) PMI
5 6 (2.78%) Replication
6 5 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.31%) Tandem
7 4 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.39%) FMCG
8 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.93%) Derivative
9 2 (0.93%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.93%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.41%) Windows
2 12 (5.56%) Linux
3 6 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Agile
2 70 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (18.98%) Decision-Making
5 40 (18.52%) Roadmaps
6 38 (17.59%) Project Delivery
7 37 (17.13%) Project Management
8 32 (14.81%) DevOps
8 32 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (14.35%) Business Analysis
10 29 (13.43%) Analytics
11 27 (12.50%) Cloud Security
12 26 (12.04%) Change Management
12 26 (12.04%) Requirements Gathering
12 26 (12.04%) User Stories
13 25 (11.57%) AI
13 25 (11.57%) User Acceptance Testing
14 24 (11.11%) Validation
15 23 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
16 22 (10.19%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.11%) Python
2 23 (10.65%) SQL
3 14 (6.48%) Java
4 8 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.78%) Groovy
6 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.46%) C#
8 1 (0.46%) Korn
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (31.02%) Degree
2 46 (21.30%) Security Cleared
3 34 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.65%) Master's Degree
5 20 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.17%) CISSP
7 9 (4.17%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.24%) SAP Certification
9 6 (2.78%) CISM
9 6 (2.78%) FFIEC
10 5 (2.31%) SANS
10 5 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.39%) CCSP
12 3 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) NIST
2 15 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.48%) PCI DSS
4 13 (6.02%) PMO
5 10 (4.63%) GDPR
5 10 (4.63%) QA
6 9 (4.17%) GRC
7 8 (3.70%) Accessibility
7 8 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.24%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.85%) NCSC
10 3 (1.39%) Basel III
10 3 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.39%) SLA
11 2 (0.93%) COBIT
11 2 (0.93%) GAAP
11 2 (0.93%) IFRS
11 2 (0.93%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.80%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) DFS Replication
2 6 (2.78%) Dovecot
2 6 (2.78%) Postfix
2 6 (2.78%) Squid
3 4 (1.85%) 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 16 (7.41%) Terraform
2 9 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 6 (2.78%) Grafana
3 6 (2.78%) Nessus
3 6 (2.78%) Proxmox
4 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.39%) Ansible
6 2 (0.93%) Control-M
6 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.93%) SCCM
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.46%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 58 (26.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.41%) SAP
3 12 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.63%) Databricks
4 10 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.17%) Google
5 9 (4.17%) Software AG
6 8 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.24%) Cisco
7 7 (3.24%) Oracle
8 6 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (2.31%) Juniper
9 5 (2.31%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.85%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.85%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.85%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.39%) New Relic
11 3 (1.39%) Splunk
11 3 (1.39%) Zscaler