Presentation Skills Contracts in the North West

Presentation Skills
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 103 115
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Presentation Skills 27 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.21% 1.02% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.97% 1.87% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 20
10th Percentile £315 £189 £262
25th Percentile £358 £402 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -3.90% +6.94%
75th Percentile £537 £528 £547
90th Percentile £593 £568 £600
England median daily rate £506 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year - +48.20% -12.28%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,369 1,339 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.31% 54.76% 54.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 800 1,040
10th Percentile £270 £300 £255
25th Percentile £380 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £588
90th Percentile £688 £676 £675
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 94 108
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.64 £18.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.95 £26.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +23.86% +32.14%
75th Percentile £51.25 £45.89 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.56 £57.50 £63.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +13.11%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Presentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Presentation Skills in the North West

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the North West over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the North West

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Presentation Skills
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -23 11 £419 -20.24% 13
Lancashire 0 7 £575 - 49
Manchester -1 7 £500 - 67
Merseyside +1 2 £200 -28.76% 8
Presentation Skills
England

Presentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (22.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (7.41%) InVision
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (7.41%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) SaaS
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (7.41%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.70%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) VPN
2 5 (18.52%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.70%) DMZ
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) DWDM
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) IPsec
3 1 (3.70%) L2TP
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Multicast
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Axure RP
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Finance
4 7 (25.93%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (18.52%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
6 4 (14.81%) Publishing
7 3 (11.11%) Banking
8 2 (7.41%) Legal
8 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (3.70%) Marketing
9 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Desktop Support
1 5 (18.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Service Transition Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Transition Manager
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Change and Release Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
1 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) CSS
2 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
1 5 (18.52%) Windows 10
1 5 (18.52%) Windows 8
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
1 5 (18.52%) Windows XP
2 2 (7.41%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) ITIL
3 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (37.04%) Project Delivery
3 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (25.93%) Business Case
4 7 (25.93%) Service Delivery
5 6 (22.22%) Change Management
6 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 5 (18.52%) ITSM
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Proactive Maintenance
6 5 (18.52%) Release Management
6 5 (18.52%) Service Management
6 5 (18.52%) Technical Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Test Management
6 5 (18.52%) Time Management
6 5 (18.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) Perl
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) ACCA
5 1 (3.70%) CCIE
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) CIMA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Canon
2 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Arista
4 1 (3.70%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) McAfee
4 1 (3.70%) OneTrust
4 1 (3.70%) Remedy
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk