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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 129 99
Rank change year-on-year -57 -30 +2
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 226 268 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.99% 2.28%
As % of the General category 2.28% 3.04% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 148 259
10th Percentile £383 £321 £201
25th Percentile £450 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £644
90th Percentile £783 £862 £750
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 19
10th Percentile £45.16 - £33.65
25th Percentile £51.17 - £33.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 £95.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.76% +93.80%
75th Percentile £94.69 - £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £88.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.75 £39.84
% change year-on-year +16.59% +39.93% -38.71%

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 9,927 8,819 11,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.90% 65.40% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,477 5,594 8,308
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 112 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £27.19 £19.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +30.61% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.38 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.72 £73.72
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.48% +17.12% -10.34%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -22 36 £473 -0.42% 49
South London -4 11 £450 +5.88% 2
West London -18 4 £850 +63.46% 10
East London - 2 £500 - 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 14 (6.19%) Confluence
2 8 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (10.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.42%) Endur
2 9 (3.98%) Loan IQ
3 6 (2.65%) SAP EWM
3 6 (2.65%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.88%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.44%) HFM
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.44%) RMDS
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.44%) Shopify
5 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 62 (27.43%) Azure
2 42 (18.58%) AWS
3 19 (8.41%) SaaS
4 16 (7.08%) GCP
4 16 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (5.75%) Amazon S3
6 13 (5.75%) GitHub
7 11 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.87%) IaaS
7 11 (4.87%) PaaS
8 9 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.54%) Amazon ELB
9 8 (3.54%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.54%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.85%) Firewall
2 7 (3.10%) DNS
3 6 (2.65%) HTTP
3 6 (2.65%) SMTP
4 5 (2.21%) Internet
4 5 (2.21%) Network Security
5 4 (1.77%) FTP
5 4 (1.77%) IMAP
5 4 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.77%) SSH
5 4 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.33%) Intranet
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.88%) DMZ
7 2 (0.88%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.88%) Junos
7 2 (0.88%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 2 (0.88%) VPN
7 2 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.31%) Power BI
2 10 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.65%) Metadata
4 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.33%) Looker
5 3 (1.33%) Star Schema
5 3 (1.33%) Tableau
6 2 (0.88%) Big Data
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (14.16%) JIRA
2 17 (7.52%) Git
3 10 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.21%) GitLab
5 4 (1.77%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.88%) Snyk
6 2 (0.88%) Storybook
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) GCC
7 1 (0.44%) MSI
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 151 (66.81%) Social Skills
2 75 (33.19%) Finance
3 63 (27.88%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.95%) Banking
4 27 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.41%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (7.52%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (6.64%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (5.75%) Marketing
9 11 (4.87%) Retail
10 7 (3.10%) Front Office
10 7 (3.10%) Legal
11 4 (1.77%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.33%) Law
13 2 (0.88%) Aviation
13 2 (0.88%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 55 (24.34%) Analyst
2 39 (17.26%) Architect
3 32 (14.16%) Business Analyst
4 24 (10.62%) Senior
5 18 (7.96%) Consultant
6 15 (6.64%) Cloud Architect
7 14 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.87%) Integration Architect
8 11 (4.87%) Lead
9 10 (4.42%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.98%) Developer
10 9 (3.98%) Migration Analyst
10 9 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.54%) Transformation Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) Change Manager
12 7 (3.10%) Endur Business Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) Implementation Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) OpenLink Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) OpenLink Business Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.31%) Middleware
2 6 (2.65%) .NET
3 5 (2.21%) LDAP
3 5 (2.21%) VML
4 4 (1.77%) AWS CDK
4 4 (1.77%) PyTorch
4 4 (1.77%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.33%) Playwright
5 3 (1.33%) REST
6 2 (0.88%) CSS
6 2 (0.88%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.88%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.88%) Next.js
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.88%) pytest
6 2 (0.88%) RESTful
6 2 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (0.88%) XML
6 2 (0.88%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.65%) PMI
6 5 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.21%) Tandem
7 4 (1.77%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.77%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.77%) Replication
8 3 (1.33%) FMCG
8 3 (1.33%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.88%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Windows
2 11 (4.87%) Linux
3 5 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.77%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.77%) VMS
5 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (38.50%) Agile
2 69 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (29.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (18.58%) Decision-Making
4 42 (18.58%) Project Delivery
5 40 (17.70%) Roadmaps
6 39 (17.26%) Project Management
7 34 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (14.16%) Change Management
8 32 (14.16%) DevOps
9 31 (13.72%) Analytics
9 31 (13.72%) Business Analysis
10 26 (11.50%) AI
10 26 (11.50%) Cloud Security
10 26 (11.50%) User Stories
11 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.06%) Requirements Gathering
12 24 (10.62%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (10.62%) Validation
13 23 (10.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.62%) Python
2 21 (9.29%) SQL
3 14 (6.19%) Java
4 6 (2.65%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.77%) Groovy
6 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.44%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Korn
8 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (29.20%) Degree
2 49 (21.68%) Security Cleared
3 37 (16.37%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.18%) Master's Degree
5 20 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.98%) CISSP
6 9 (3.98%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.10%) SAP Certification
8 6 (2.65%) CISM
8 6 (2.65%) FFIEC
8 6 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.21%) SANS
10 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.33%) CBAP
11 3 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.96%) NIST
2 15 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.19%) PCI DSS
4 12 (5.31%) PMO
5 10 (4.42%) GDPR
5 10 (4.42%) QA
6 9 (3.98%) GRC
7 8 (3.54%) Accessibility
7 8 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (3.10%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.77%) NCSC
10 3 (1.33%) Basel III
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.33%) SLA
11 2 (0.88%) COBIT
11 2 (0.88%) GAAP
11 2 (0.88%) IFRS
11 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.96%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.77%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.77%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.77%) Postfix
3 4 (1.77%) Squid
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.64%) Terraform
2 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.77%) Grafana
4 4 (1.77%) Nessus
4 4 (1.77%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.33%) Ansible
6 2 (0.88%) Control-M
6 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.88%) Puppet
6 2 (0.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 62 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.52%) SAP
3 14 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.31%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.42%) Databricks
6 9 (3.98%) Google
6 9 (3.98%) Software AG
7 8 (3.54%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.10%) Cisco
8 7 (3.10%) Oracle
9 5 (2.21%) Juniper
9 5 (2.21%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.77%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.77%) Citrix
10 4 (1.77%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.33%) VMware
11 3 (1.33%) Zscaler