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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 179 218
Rank change year-on-year -118 +39 -32
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 456 519 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.57% 1.16%
As % of the Applications category 15.92% 18.33% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 268 200
10th Percentile £205 £240 £219
25th Percentile £305 £313 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £557 £600
90th Percentile £638 £639 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £417
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.07% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 60 117
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £20.75 £19.34 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% +19.16% -21.14%
75th Percentile £30.00 £32.05 £16.85
90th Percentile £54.10 £37.88 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -7.16% +16.14% -21.14%

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 2,865 2,831 2,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 8.59% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,594 1,428
10th Percentile £210 £200 £168
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £555 £545 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 363 317
10th Percentile £13.49 £13.65 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.03 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.90 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +30.86% -22.29%
75th Percentile £35.78 £34.57 £36.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £56.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.41 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -11.77% +35.55% -24.51%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -94 405 £450 - 393
UK excluding London -78 245 £400 +6.67% 296
London -76 186 £488 +0.35% 173
Work from Home -80 129 £430 +3.30% 126
South East -25 78 £500 +48.15% 90
North of England -86 49 £394 -8.43% 76
Midlands -44 34 £475 +51.76% 41
South West -28 32 £310 -43.73% 43
Scotland -32 31 £400 +23.37% 16
West Midlands -38 29 £475 +51.76% 27
North West -54 25 £399 -11.98% 32
Yorkshire -56 23 £394 -1.56% 32
East of England -39 17 £509 +30.10% 15
East Midlands -14 5 £490 - 14
Wales -20 3 £450 +46.34% 8
Northern Ireland -19 2 £369 -22.37% 11
North East -38 1 - - 12

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 94 (20.61%) SharePoint
2 37 (8.11%) Confluence
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Moodle
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 400 (87.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (44.30%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (16.23%) Microsoft Project
4 69 (15.13%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.54%) Photoshop
7 6 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.88%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.88%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.22%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.75%) Magento
2 7 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.32%) Primavera
4 5 (1.10%) SAP MM
4 5 (1.10%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.66%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.44%) Shopify
7 2 (0.44%) Workfront
8 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.22%) Maximo
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 42 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (7.68%) Azure
4 20 (4.39%) AWS
5 18 (3.95%) SaaS
6 13 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.41%) Figma
7 11 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 11 (2.41%) OneDrive
8 10 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.54%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.54%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.32%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.32%) Lucidchart
11 5 (1.10%) GitHub
11 5 (1.10%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.88%) GCP
12 4 (0.88%) Google Docs
12 4 (0.88%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.41%) WAN
2 10 (2.19%) LAN
3 8 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.10%) BGP
4 5 (1.10%) MPLS
4 5 (1.10%) SNMP
4 5 (1.10%) TACACS
5 4 (0.88%) RSVP
5 4 (0.88%) VPN
6 3 (0.66%) DHCP
6 3 (0.66%) DNS
6 3 (0.66%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) FTP
6 3 (0.66%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.44%) Intranet
7 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.47%) Power BI
2 11 (2.41%) Power Query
3 8 (1.75%) Tableau
4 4 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.66%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.22%) DataStage
7 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.22%) GIS
7 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 72 (15.79%) JIRA
2 13 (2.85%) Git
3 8 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.75%) Subversion
4 4 (0.88%) Selenium
5 3 (0.66%) MLflow
5 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.44%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.44%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.44%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.44%) MSI
6 2 (0.44%) Postman
6 2 (0.44%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.44%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.44%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.44%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.44%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 257 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 189 (41.45%) Finance
3 150 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (24.34%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (11.18%) Banking
6 39 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.24%) Marketing
8 27 (5.92%) Legal
9 21 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 21 (4.61%) Retail
10 17 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.85%) Military
13 12 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.41%) Investment Banking
15 10 (2.19%) Advertising
15 10 (2.19%) Front Office
15 10 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.54%) French Language
Job Titles
1 103 (22.59%) Analyst
2 45 (9.87%) Project Manager
3 37 (8.11%) Senior
4 31 (6.80%) Business Analyst
5 26 (5.70%) Administrator
6 25 (5.48%) Consultant
7 24 (5.26%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.82%) Coordinator
9 21 (4.61%) Project Officer
10 20 (4.39%) Support Officer
11 18 (3.95%) Project Support Officer
12 17 (3.73%) Lead
13 16 (3.51%) IT Analyst
14 15 (3.29%) Architect
14 15 (3.29%) Senior Manager
15 14 (3.07%) Project Coordinator
15 14 (3.07%) Support Specialist
16 13 (2.85%) PMO Manager
17 12 (2.63%) PMO Planner
17 12 (2.63%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.97%) VML
2 5 (1.10%) .NET
2 5 (1.10%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.10%) OpenConfig
2 5 (1.10%) RESTCONF
2 5 (1.10%) Web Services
2 5 (1.10%) XML
2 5 (1.10%) YANG
3 4 (0.88%) ADO
3 4 (0.88%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.88%) JDO
3 4 (0.88%) Terraform
4 3 (0.66%) Flutter
4 3 (0.66%) NumPy
4 3 (0.66%) Pandas
4 3 (0.66%) React Native
4 3 (0.66%) REST
4 3 (0.66%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.66%) Seaborn
4 3 (0.66%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.68%) Onboarding
2 32 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 32 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.41%) Life Science
6 8 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.32%) Graphic Design
8 6 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.10%) Learning Management System
9 5 (1.10%) Video Editing
10 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.88%) FMCG
10 4 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.17%) Windows
2 7 (1.54%) Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (37.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 125 (27.41%) Project Management
3 122 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (24.12%) Agile
5 102 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 99 (21.71%) Project Delivery
7 82 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 62 (13.60%) Decision-Making
9 59 (12.94%) Waterfall
10 52 (11.40%) Data Analysis
11 50 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (10.31%) PRINCE2
13 44 (9.65%) AI
13 44 (9.65%) Risk Management
14 43 (9.43%) Analytics
15 42 (9.21%) Change Management
16 41 (8.99%) Business Case
17 38 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
18 36 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
19 32 (7.02%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.92%) SQL
2 19 (4.17%) Python
3 7 (1.54%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.54%) VBA
4 5 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.88%) Bicep
6 3 (0.66%) Korn
7 2 (0.44%) C++
7 2 (0.44%) Java
7 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.22%) C#
8 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 125 (27.41%) Degree
2 97 (21.27%) Security Cleared
3 60 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 19 (4.17%) PMP
7 11 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.10%) CCIE
10 5 (1.10%) CIPD
10 5 (1.10%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.66%) CAPM
11 3 (0.66%) CISM
11 3 (0.66%) CISSP
11 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.66%) IIBA
11 3 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (25.88%) PMO
2 23 (5.04%) QA
3 17 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.97%) GRC
4 9 (1.97%) P3O
5 8 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.10%) NIST
8 4 (0.88%) MiFID
8 4 (0.88%) SLA
9 3 (0.66%) GMP
10 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.44%) GDPR
10 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.97%) Ansible
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.88%) SCCM
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 297 (65.13%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.99%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.58%) SAP
4 21 (4.61%) Google
5 18 (3.95%) Oracle
6 15 (3.29%) Adobe
7 14 (3.07%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.97%) Cisco
9 8 (1.75%) F5
9 8 (1.75%) Planview
9 8 (1.75%) Workday
10 5 (1.10%) Apple
10 5 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.10%) Juniper
11 4 (0.88%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.88%) Qualys
11 4 (0.88%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.88%) Splunk
11 4 (0.88%) TOWER Software
11 4 (0.88%) Wrike