Microsoft PowerPoint Contract Job Trends

Microsoft PowerPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft PowerPoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 172 176
Rank change year-on-year -40 +4 +45
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 498 468 614
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.49% 1.38%
As % of the Applications category 17.47% 19.86% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 262 342
10th Percentile £276 £210 £191
25th Percentile £340 £315 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +6.15%
75th Percentile £549 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £400 £452
% change year-on-year +10.14% -11.52% +14.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 53 75
10th Percentile £14.25 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -30.94% +18.21%
75th Percentile £29.06 £21.46 £27.78
90th Percentile £36.17 £30.33 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £20.84
% change year-on-year -1.42% -22.12% +10.73%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft PowerPoint falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,851 2,357 3,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 7.49% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 1,379 2,065
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -9.90%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 200 476
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.62 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.10 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +26.19% -32.84%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £42.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.73 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year -30.19% +27.59% -35.60%

Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft PowerPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft PowerPoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 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
England -50 434 £461 -0.27% 263
UK excluding London -48 252 £440 +10.14% 229
London -7 223 £500 +2.25% 73
Work from Home -11 132 £445 -1.77% 109
North of England -34 76 £439 +82.05% 40
South East -7 54 £475 +5.56% 76
Midlands -31 41 £455 -13.33% 51
North West -8 38 £450 +29.31% 15
Yorkshire -38 36 £340 +56.55% 21
Scotland -7 32 £325 -10.34% 12
West Midlands -33 23 £322 -38.67% 36
East Midlands -10 19 £460 +3.37% 15
South West -26 17 £548 +17.81% 20
East of England -56 17 £391 -21.75% 30
Northern Ireland +5 11 £475 +9.83% 3
Wales +7 9 £260 -63.89% 6
North East -17 2 £390 -48.00% 4

Microsoft PowerPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 114 (22.89%) SharePoint
2 73 (14.66%) Confluence
3 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.81%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 431 (86.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (38.35%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (19.68%) MS Visio
4 56 (11.24%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (1.00%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.80%) InDesign
9 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.00%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.80%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.40%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.20%) Primavera
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 53 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (9.84%) Azure
3 41 (8.23%) Power Platform
4 22 (4.42%) GitHub
5 18 (3.61%) AWS
6 14 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.61%) OneDrive
8 11 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.61%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.41%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.00%) Viva Engage
12 4 (0.80%) Canva
12 4 (0.80%) Figma
12 4 (0.80%) Miro
12 4 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.82%) Firewall
2 17 (3.41%) Wireless
3 16 (3.21%) LAN
4 14 (2.81%) WAN
5 10 (2.01%) VPN
6 9 (1.81%) Skype
7 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.20%) BGP
9 5 (1.00%) Internet
9 5 (1.00%) MPLS
10 4 (0.80%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.80%) Network Security
10 4 (0.80%) OSPF
10 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (0.60%) Softphone
11 3 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.83%) Power BI
2 31 (6.22%) Tableau
3 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.20%) Metadata
5 4 (0.80%) MS Access
5 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.80%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.40%) DB2
7 2 (0.40%) EDMS
7 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.40%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (22.09%) JIRA
2 17 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (2.41%) Burp Suite
4 12 (2.41%) Metasploit
5 6 (1.20%) Toad
6 5 (1.00%) ClearCase
7 4 (0.80%) Git
8 3 (0.60%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 282 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 208 (41.77%) Finance
3 101 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (17.07%) Banking
5 61 (12.25%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (10.44%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (8.63%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.62%) Legal
9 27 (5.42%) Marketing
10 17 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.01%) Retail
15 8 (1.61%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.41%) Billing
17 6 (1.20%) Front Office
17 6 (1.20%) International Banking
17 6 (1.20%) Law
17 6 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 166 (33.33%) Analyst
2 69 (13.86%) Business Analyst
3 41 (8.23%) Project Manager
4 30 (6.02%) Architect
4 30 (6.02%) Senior
5 27 (5.42%) PMO Analyst
6 26 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.62%) Administrator
8 22 (4.42%) Consultant
9 21 (4.22%) Technical Analyst
10 19 (3.82%) Lead
11 18 (3.61%) Technical Business Analyst
12 16 (3.21%) PMO Manager
12 16 (3.21%) Support Analyst
13 14 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.61%) Report Analyst
14 13 (2.61%) Tester
15 12 (2.41%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.41%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.80%) ADO
2 4 (0.80%) VML
3 3 (0.60%) Playwright
4 2 (0.40%) CSS
4 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.40%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.40%) HTML
4 2 (0.40%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.40%) Node.js
4 2 (0.40%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.40%) React
4 2 (0.40%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.40%) RESTful
4 2 (0.40%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.20%) Web Services
5 1 (0.20%) XML
5 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.61%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.61%) PMI
8 7 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.41%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.41%) NHS
9 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.20%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.20%) Social Media
9 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.00%) Tandem
11 4 (0.80%) Equities
11 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.02%) Windows
2 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.00%) Linux
4 4 (0.80%) Unix
4 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (25.10%) Project Management
3 120 (24.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 111 (22.29%) Agile
5 103 (20.68%) Project Delivery
6 69 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (13.25%) DevOps
8 63 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (12.45%) Migration
10 61 (12.25%) Decision-Making
11 57 (11.45%) Time Management
12 50 (10.04%) Process Improvement
13 48 (9.64%) Waterfall
14 45 (9.04%) Business Analysis
14 45 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (8.63%) Risk Management
16 40 (8.03%) PRINCE2
17 38 (7.63%) Analytics
18 37 (7.43%) Regulatory Compliance
19 36 (7.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.04%) SQL
2 20 (4.02%) Python
3 8 (1.61%) Java
4 7 (1.41%) R
4 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
5 6 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.00%) C
6 5 (1.00%) C#
7 4 (0.80%) Perl
7 4 (0.80%) PHP
7 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.80%) VB
7 4 (0.80%) VBA
8 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.20%) C++
9 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 130 (26.10%) Degree
2 65 (13.05%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.21%) PMP
6 12 (2.41%) CHECK Team Member
7 11 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.01%) CBAP
8 10 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.01%) CREST Certified
8 10 (2.01%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (2.01%) IIBA
8 10 (2.01%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.20%) CCNP
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
12 5 (1.00%) CCIE
12 5 (1.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (22.09%) PMO
2 25 (5.02%) QA
3 24 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.41%) GDPR
4 17 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.20%) P3O
7 5 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) GRC
8 3 (0.60%) MiFID
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) COBIT
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.20%) GAAP
10 1 (0.20%) GAMP
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 23 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.60%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (4.22%) Ansible
2 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.81%) SCCM
4 12 (2.41%) Nmap
5 4 (0.80%) Terraform
6 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 231 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.83%) Oracle
3 24 (4.82%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.42%) SAP
5 15 (3.01%) Cisco
5 15 (3.01%) Sonatype
6 13 (2.61%) Adobe
7 11 (2.21%) Planview
7 11 (2.21%) Remedy
8 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.41%) Google
10 6 (1.20%) F5
10 6 (1.20%) Juniper
11 5 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.00%) NetApp
11 5 (1.00%) Splunk
12 4 (0.80%) Arista
12 4 (0.80%) Workday
12 4 (0.80%) Zscaler