Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Presentation Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 59 55 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.45% 1.34% 1.24%
As % of the General category 2.39% 2.39% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 24 40
10th Percentile £290 £229 £262
25th Percentile £343 £417 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £587
90th Percentile £596 £568 £600
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £28.88 £21.25
25th Percentile - £32.81 £28.75
Median hourly rate - £42.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% +46.55%
75th Percentile - £51.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +52.94% -34.62%

All General Skills
North of England

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 common skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,471 2,304 2,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 60.80% 55.98% 56.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,233 1,890
10th Percentile £240 £294 £255
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £665 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 126 143
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.06 £15.06
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £16.70
Median hourly rate £22.14 £28.25 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +40.76% +4.75%
75th Percentile £47.12 £43.10 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.25 £51.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +17.87% +20.00%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Presentation Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in the North of England

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the North of England

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. 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
Yorkshire -4 33 £370 -26.10% 30
North West -18 21 £492 +9.33% 55
North East -9 5 £520 +15.56% 7
Presentation Skills
England

Presentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (22.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (18.64%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (8.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.69%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
1 8 (13.56%) SaaS
2 5 (8.47%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.39%) Serverless
5 1 (1.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) LAN
2 3 (5.08%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Power BI
2 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.08%) MS Access
5 2 (3.39%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 2 (3.39%) Cognos Report Studio
5 2 (3.39%) Cognos Transformer
5 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.39%) OLAP
5 2 (3.39%) OLAP Cube
5 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
6 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (69.49%) Social Skills
2 39 (66.10%) Finance
3 22 (37.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (22.03%) Banking
5 7 (11.86%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (8.47%) Publishing
7 4 (6.78%) Legal
7 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (5.08%) Marketing
9 2 (3.39%) Billing
10 1 (1.69%) Automotive
10 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.69%) Retail
10 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Analyst
2 8 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 6 (10.17%) Data Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) PMO Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) PMO Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Report Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Service Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Service Transition Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Transition Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Business Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Chief Operating Officer
8 2 (3.39%) Cognos Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Java Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) Kafka
2 2 (3.39%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) .NET
3 1 (1.69%) JMS
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.86%) Mainframe
2 7 (11.86%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Equities
5 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
1 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
1 1 (1.69%) Windows 8
1 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.69%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (28.81%) Agile
4 15 (25.42%) Business Case
5 14 (23.73%) ITIL
5 14 (23.73%) Service Management
6 13 (22.03%) Portfolio Management
7 12 (20.34%) Analytics
7 12 (20.34%) Data Analysis
7 12 (20.34%) Validation
8 11 (18.64%) Project Delivery
9 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.25%) Budgeting
10 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.25%) Cost Management
10 9 (15.25%) Strategic Planning
10 9 (15.25%) Virtual Environments
11 8 (13.56%) Dashboard Development
11 8 (13.56%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) VB
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) CBAP
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) PMO
2 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) GRC
3 1 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Cognos
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) BMC
5 1 (1.69%) Canon
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Remedy
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce