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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 162 141
Rank change year-on-year -104 -21 -46
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 200 229 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.72% 1.83%
As % of the General category 1.60% 2.51% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 105 125
10th Percentile £414 £350 £260
25th Percentile £469 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £667
90th Percentile £798 £720 £820
England median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £33.57 £41.67 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £44.77 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £69.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.96% +72.50% -8.80%
75th Percentile £56.63 £95.00 £47.81
90th Percentile £58.75 - £55.13
England median hourly rate £35.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.00% - +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 12,518 9,127 10,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.83% 68.57% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,980 6,007 6,504
10th Percentile £350 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 175 119
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.44 £17.90
25th Percentile £20.14 £24.61 £25.87
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -11.27% +10.94%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £68.23 £68.65
England median hourly rate £29.03 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +15.41% -28.87% +17.87%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -47 16 £638 +27.50% 101
South London -16 6 £576 +7.21% 11
West London - 3 £563 - 23
East London - 2 £775 - 4
North London - 1 £550 -
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 9 (4.50%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) CMS
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.00%) Productboard
6 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.50%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Endur
2 5 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) Findur
3 2 (1.00%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Aligne
4 1 (0.50%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.50%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.50%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.50%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.00%) Azure
2 20 (10.00%) AWS
3 10 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.00%) SaaS
4 8 (4.00%) GCP
4 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.00%) Serverless
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.50%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.00%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (2.00%) GitHub
8 4 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.50%) Figma
9 3 (1.50%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) Network Security
2 4 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (2.00%) Firewall
3 3 (1.50%) Internet
3 3 (1.50%) Wireless
4 2 (1.00%) BGP
4 2 (1.00%) DWDM
4 2 (1.00%) MPLS
4 2 (1.00%) OSPF
4 2 (1.00%) WebEx
4 2 (1.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) FTP
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) IMAP
5 1 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.50%) SMTP
5 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (5.00%) Power BI
2 9 (4.50%) Metadata
3 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.00%) MySQL
4 4 (2.00%) Tableau
5 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.50%) OLAP
7 1 (0.50%) OLTP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (4.50%) JIRA
2 6 (3.00%) Git
3 5 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.00%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.00%) jMock
4 2 (1.00%) JUnit
4 2 (1.00%) Maven
4 2 (1.00%) Mockito
4 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.50%) Mocha
5 1 (0.50%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 136 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 88 (44.00%) Finance
3 61 (30.50%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 24 (12.00%) Banking
6 17 (8.50%) Legal
6 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.00%) Marketing
8 12 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (6.00%) Retail
9 10 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.00%) Front Office
10 6 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.50%) Automotive
11 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.00%) Aeronautics
12 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.50%) Electronics
13 3 (1.50%) Italian Language
14 2 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (15.00%) Analyst
2 28 (14.00%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Lead
4 23 (11.50%) Business Analyst
5 21 (10.50%) Architect
6 18 (9.00%) Project Manager
7 15 (7.50%) Consultant
7 15 (7.50%) Developer
8 9 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.50%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.00%) Salesforce Architect
11 6 (3.00%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.50%) Change Consultant
12 5 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.50%) Content Strategist
12 5 (2.50%) Designer
13 4 (2.00%) IT Manager
13 4 (2.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.00%) REST
2 7 (3.50%) JSON
2 7 (3.50%) Node.js
3 6 (3.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.00%) Kafka
3 6 (3.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.00%) VML
4 5 (2.50%) .NET
4 5 (2.50%) CSS
4 5 (2.50%) HTML
4 5 (2.50%) OAuth
4 5 (2.50%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.50%) SOAP
5 4 (2.00%) CSS3
5 4 (2.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.00%) HTML5
5 4 (2.00%) React
5 4 (2.00%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.00%) Terraform
5 4 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Linux
2 4 (2.00%) Unix
2 4 (2.00%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) CentOS
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (51.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 61 (30.50%) Agile
3 46 (23.00%) Analytics
3 46 (23.00%) Decision-Making
3 46 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (19.00%) Project Delivery
5 34 (17.00%) AI
5 34 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 32 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 30 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 28 (14.00%) Project Management
9 27 (13.50%) Change Management
9 27 (13.50%) Risk Management
10 23 (11.50%) Business Analysis
10 23 (11.50%) DevOps
11 22 (11.00%) Business Case
12 20 (10.00%) Customer Experience
12 20 (10.00%) Data Protection
12 20 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.50%) Python
2 21 (10.50%) SQL
3 12 (6.00%) Java
4 6 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.00%) COBOL
7 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.00%) RPG
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.50%) Bash
8 1 (0.50%) C#
8 1 (0.50%) Go
8 1 (0.50%) Groovy
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (23.50%) Degree
2 21 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.50%) PMI Certification
4 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.00%) PMP
6 8 (4.00%) CISSP
7 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.00%) CISM
9 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.00%) RIBA
10 3 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.50%) CBAP
10 3 (1.50%) CEH
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.50%) PMO
2 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.50%) QA
4 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.00%) ISO 15022
5 4 (2.00%) ISO 20022
5 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.50%) GDPR
6 3 (1.50%) GRC
6 3 (1.50%) NIST
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) PERC
8 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) P3O
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.00%) vSphere
3 3 (1.50%) Postfix
4 2 (1.00%) IAG
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.50%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) Grafana
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Nessus
4 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.50%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.00%) Databricks
4 8 (4.00%) IBM
5 7 (3.50%) SAP
6 6 (3.00%) Oracle
7 5 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.00%) Cisco
8 4 (2.00%) Splunk
9 3 (1.50%) Braze
9 3 (1.50%) Google
9 3 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.50%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Duck Creek
10 2 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.00%) Okta
10 2 (1.00%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.00%) Workday