Presentation Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 123 143
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -13
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 218 379 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.71% 1.82% 1.83%
As % of the General category 2.74% 3.33% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 217 293
10th Percentile £331 £260 £263
25th Percentile £414 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £575 £595 £586
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £515 £534
% change year-on-year +0.68% -3.56% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 19
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.56 £13.16
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.91 £23.33
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.83% -42.80% +121.24%
75th Percentile £65.75 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £37.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.83% -29.18% +61.54%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,944 11,365 13,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.23% 54.72% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,491 9,285
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,652 782
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.76 £52.84 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Presentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK excluding London

Presentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +33 50 £525 +1.20% 132
North of England +17 50 £500 -11.50% 190
South East -23 38 £478 -9.05% 308
West Midlands +20 33 £550 +4.76% 59
North West +19 31 £413 -17.50% 96
South West 0 26 £500 +6.61% 96
East of England +7 24 £500 - 85
Yorkshire +10 19 £504 -16.08% 73
East Midlands +16 16 £437 -12.70% 68
Scotland -24 16 £488 +4.84% 47
Wales +8 13 £391 -27.33% 21
Northern Ireland - 3 £291 - 28
North East -5 1 £625 -28.45% 26
Presentation Skills
UK

Presentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (7.34%) Confluence
1 16 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.96%) MS Visio
3 12 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.92%) InVision
6 2 (0.92%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.92%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.46%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.46%) Simulink
7 1 (0.46%) Sketch
7 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Teamcenter
2 7 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.92%) Maximo
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.92%) Primavera
5 2 (0.92%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.46%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.46%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.46%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.50%) Power Platform
2 11 (5.05%) AWS
2 11 (5.05%) Serverless
3 10 (4.59%) Azure
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.29%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.38%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.38%) GitHub
9 3 (1.38%) IaaS
9 3 (1.38%) SaaS
9 3 (1.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) Firewall
1 6 (2.75%) VPN
2 5 (2.29%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.29%) LAN
2 5 (2.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.92%) 3G
4 2 (0.92%) 4G
4 2 (0.92%) 5G
4 2 (0.92%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.92%) GGSN
4 2 (0.92%) LTE
4 2 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.92%) RANAP
4 2 (0.92%) SGSN
4 2 (0.92%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.05%) Power BI
2 8 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.29%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.83%) Big Data
4 4 (1.83%) Metadata
5 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.38%) DB2
5 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.92%) Power Query
6 2 (0.92%) Tableau
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.46%) MySQL
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.05%) JIRA
2 7 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.75%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.75%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.83%) ERwin
4 4 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.38%) GitLab
5 3 (1.38%) Hudson
5 3 (1.38%) JUnit
5 3 (1.38%) Mockito
6 2 (0.92%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.92%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.46%) CMake
7 1 (0.46%) Git
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 169 (77.52%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.82%) Finance
3 52 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.63%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.88%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.13%) Marketing
8 7 (3.21%) Banking
8 7 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.21%) Military
9 5 (2.29%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.29%) Legal
9 5 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.38%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.38%) Local Government
10 3 (1.38%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Automotive
11 2 (0.92%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.92%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 26 (11.93%) Lead
2 25 (11.47%) Architect
3 23 (10.55%) Analyst
4 17 (7.80%) Senior
5 15 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (5.96%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.50%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.21%) Consultant
9 7 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (3.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Developer
11 5 (2.29%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (2.29%) Change Manager
11 5 (2.29%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (2.29%) Desktop Support
11 5 (2.29%) Junior
11 5 (2.29%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.29%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.29%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) Kafka
1 7 (3.21%) Web Services
2 6 (2.75%) RESTful
3 5 (2.29%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (2.29%) CSS
3 5 (2.29%) HTML
3 5 (2.29%) Node.js
4 3 (1.38%) EDI
4 3 (1.38%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.38%) IDoc
4 3 (1.38%) J2EE
4 3 (1.38%) JDBC
4 3 (1.38%) REST
4 3 (1.38%) SOAP
4 3 (1.38%) Spring
4 3 (1.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.38%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (1.38%) XSLT
5 2 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.26%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.96%) Operational Technology
4 10 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.67%) NHS
6 7 (3.21%) PMI
7 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.38%) Blog
9 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.38%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.92%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.92%) SCADA
10 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.88%) Windows
2 10 (4.59%) Linux
3 5 (2.29%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.29%) Windows 8
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (2.29%) Windows XP
4 3 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (36.24%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (26.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (26.15%) Agile
4 45 (20.64%) Project Management
5 32 (14.68%) Project Delivery
6 30 (13.76%) Business Case
6 30 (13.76%) Change Management
6 30 (13.76%) Roadmaps
7 28 (12.84%) Decision-Making
8 26 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.55%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (10.09%) PRINCE2
11 21 (9.63%) Business Analysis
12 20 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (9.17%) Validation
13 19 (8.72%) Analytics
14 18 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (8.26%) Data Management
15 17 (7.80%) Migration
16 16 (7.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.26%) SQL
2 14 (6.42%) Java
2 14 (6.42%) Python
3 13 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.67%) C#
5 7 (3.21%) C++
6 3 (1.38%) ABAP
6 3 (1.38%) Groovy
6 3 (1.38%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.38%) Rust
6 3 (1.38%) VB
7 2 (0.92%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.46%) COBOL
8 1 (0.46%) Perl
8 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.81%) Degree
3 35 (16.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) PMI Certification
5 12 (5.50%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.21%) PhD
8 7 (3.21%) PMP
9 6 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.29%) CISSP
10 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.83%) CCNA
11 4 (1.83%) CISM
12 3 (1.38%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.92%) CEH
13 2 (0.92%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.01%) PMO
2 9 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.75%) QA
4 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.83%) NIST
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.38%) GDPR
6 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.92%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.92%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.46%) ITGC
8 1 (0.46%) NCSC
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (3.67%) Docker
2 6 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.29%) SCCM
2 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.46%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.93%) SAP
3 9 (4.13%) Oracle
4 5 (2.29%) Canon
4 5 (2.29%) Cisco
5 4 (1.83%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.83%) Google
5 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.38%) Dell
6 3 (1.38%) IFS
6 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.92%) Empirix
7 2 (0.92%) NEC
7 2 (0.92%) NetScout
7 2 (0.92%) VMware
8 1 (0.46%) Brio
8 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.46%) Qualys
8 1 (0.46%) Splunk