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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 163 143
Rank change year-on-year -103 -20 -48
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 197 233 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.74% 1.83%
As % of the General category 1.58% 2.54% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 108 125
10th Percentile £413 £344 £260
25th Percentile £469 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £639 £667
90th Percentile £798 £725 £820
England median daily rate £525 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +0.72% +4.25% -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% -24.09%
75th Percentile £56.63 £95.00 £47.81
90th Percentile £58.75 - £55.13
England median hourly rate £36.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.85% - +50.53%

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 12,507 9,186 10,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.88% 68.58% 62.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,970 6,041 6,540
10th Percentile £350 £329 £330
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 £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 174 120
10th Percentile £15.88 £18.06 £17.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.65 £25.62
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -9.93% +8.46%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £68.67 £68.33
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% +16.67%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -49 17 £638 +27.50% 86
South London -15 6 £576 +7.21% 9
West London - 3 £563 - 22
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 10 (5.08%) Confluence
2 6 (3.05%) CMS
3 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 19 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.52%) Productboard
6 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.51%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (3.55%) Endur
2 5 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.02%) Findur
3 2 (1.02%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Aligne
4 1 (0.51%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.51%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.51%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.51%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.74%) Azure
2 19 (9.64%) AWS
3 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.08%) SaaS
5 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.55%) GCP
6 7 (3.55%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.05%) Serverless
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.54%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.03%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (2.03%) GitHub
9 4 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.52%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) Network Security
2 4 (2.03%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (2.03%) Firewall
3 3 (1.52%) Internet
3 3 (1.52%) Wireless
4 2 (1.02%) BGP
4 2 (1.02%) DWDM
4 2 (1.02%) MPLS
4 2 (1.02%) OSPF
4 2 (1.02%) WebEx
4 2 (1.02%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) FTP
5 1 (0.51%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) IMAP
5 1 (0.51%) SMTP
5 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.51%) SSH
5 1 (0.51%) SSL
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.09%) Power BI
2 11 (5.58%) Metadata
3 10 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.03%) MySQL
5 4 (2.03%) Tableau
6 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.02%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.02%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.51%) OLAP
8 1 (0.51%) OLTP
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (4.57%) JIRA
2 6 (3.05%) Git
3 5 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.02%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) jMock
4 2 (1.02%) JUnit
4 2 (1.02%) Maven
4 2 (1.02%) Mockito
4 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) Mocha
5 1 (0.51%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 134 (68.02%) Social Skills
2 85 (43.15%) Finance
3 62 (31.47%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.18%) Banking
4 24 (12.18%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (8.63%) Legal
5 17 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.61%) Marketing
7 12 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.09%) Retail
8 10 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.05%) Front Office
9 6 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.54%) Automotive
11 4 (2.03%) Aeronautics
11 4 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.52%) Electronics
12 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
13 2 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (14.21%) Analyst
2 27 (13.71%) Lead
2 27 (13.71%) Senior
3 23 (11.68%) Architect
4 20 (10.15%) Business Analyst
5 18 (9.14%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.11%) Consultant
6 14 (7.11%) Developer
7 8 (4.06%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.55%) Salesforce Architect
8 7 (3.55%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (3.05%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.54%) Change Consultant
10 5 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.54%) Content Strategist
11 4 (2.03%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.03%) Azure Developer
11 4 (2.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.08%) REST
2 7 (3.55%) JSON
2 7 (3.55%) Node.js
3 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.05%) Kafka
3 6 (3.05%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.05%) VML
4 5 (2.54%) .NET
4 5 (2.54%) CSS
4 5 (2.54%) HTML
4 5 (2.54%) OAuth
4 5 (2.54%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.54%) SOAP
5 4 (2.03%) ADO
5 4 (2.03%) CSS3
5 4 (2.03%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.03%) HTML5
5 4 (2.03%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.03%) Terraform
5 4 (2.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.06%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.54%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Linux
2 4 (2.03%) Unix
2 4 (2.03%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.51%) CentOS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (52.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (29.95%) Agile
3 48 (24.37%) Analytics
4 46 (23.35%) Decision-Making
5 45 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.78%) Project Delivery
7 35 (17.77%) AI
8 34 (17.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 33 (16.75%) Roadmaps
10 31 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (15.23%) Workshop Facilitation
12 28 (14.21%) Project Management
13 27 (13.71%) Change Management
13 27 (13.71%) Risk Management
14 23 (11.68%) DevOps
15 22 (11.17%) Business Analysis
15 22 (11.17%) Strategic Thinking
16 21 (10.66%) Business Case
17 20 (10.15%) Customer Experience
17 20 (10.15%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.17%) Python
2 20 (10.15%) SQL
3 12 (6.09%) Java
4 6 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.02%) COBOL
7 2 (1.02%) RPG
8 1 (0.51%) ABAP
8 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.51%) Bash
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.51%) Go
8 1 (0.51%) Groovy
8 1 (0.51%) R
8 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (24.87%) Degree
2 20 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.61%) PMI Certification
3 15 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.11%) PMP
5 8 (4.06%) CISSP
6 7 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.03%) CISM
8 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.03%) RIBA
9 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.52%) CEH
10 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.02%) PhD
10 2 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) PMO
2 12 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.08%) QA
4 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.03%) ISO 15022
5 4 (2.03%) ISO 20022
5 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.52%) GDPR
6 3 (1.52%) GRC
6 3 (1.52%) NIST
7 2 (1.02%) NCSC
7 2 (1.02%) PERC
8 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.51%) P3O
8 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.03%) vSphere
3 3 (1.52%) Postfix
4 2 (1.02%) IAG
4 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.03%) Grafana
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Nessus
4 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.11%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.09%) Databricks
4 8 (4.06%) IBM
4 8 (4.06%) Oracle
5 6 (3.05%) SAP
6 5 (2.54%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco
7 4 (2.03%) Splunk
8 3 (1.52%) Braze
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.02%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.02%) Okta
9 2 (1.02%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud