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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 165 185
Rank change year-on-year -82 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 487 493 561
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.69% 1.28%
As % of the Applications category 16.76% 20.32% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 275 244
10th Percentile £263 £233 £190
25th Percentile £325 £317 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -9.34% +1.11%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £380
% change year-on-year +0.13% +5.13% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 49 127
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.46
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% +8.20% -62.96%
75th Percentile £27.06 £21.46 £26.50
90th Percentile £37.06 £28.60 £34.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +8.20% -55.28%

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 2,906 2,426 3,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.35% 8.30% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 1,483 1,798
10th Percentile £218 £190 £160
25th Percentile £335 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £557 £540 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 236 621
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.30 £24.62 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% +36.79% -44.62%
75th Percentile £32.63 £45.33 £40.75
90th Percentile £68.45 £74.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.34 £24.40 £16.06
% change year-on-year -20.76% +51.95% -42.97%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -68 437 £450 - 243
UK excluding London -91 244 £400 +0.13% 181
London -53 220 £500 +11.42% 91
Work from Home -40 125 £378 -11.18% 114
South East -22 69 £475 +5.56% 52
North of England -64 68 £396 -4.00% 46
Midlands -47 37 £455 -13.33% 25
Yorkshire -44 36 £340 -16.31% 15
North West -30 30 £450 +2.86% 27
South West -17 24 £310 -31.22% 22
Scotland -24 21 £400 +20.75% 10
West Midlands -59 20 £336 -36.05% 17
East Midlands -25 18 £455 - 8
East of England -66 16 £555 +38.80% 25
Northern Ireland -4 9 £388 -8.82% 3
Wales -5 5 £213 - 7
North East -19 2 £390 -48.00% 6

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
1 101 (20.74%) SharePoint
2 71 (14.58%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 408 (83.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (41.27%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (17.66%) MS Visio
4 61 (12.53%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.82%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.41%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.46%) Loan IQ
2 8 (1.64%) Workday HCM
3 7 (1.44%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.82%) Primavera
6 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.41%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
1 44 (9.03%) Power Platform
2 41 (8.42%) Azure
3 24 (4.93%) AWS
4 19 (3.90%) GitHub
5 15 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.46%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.26%) SaaS
8 10 (2.05%) Figma
9 7 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.23%) Collibra
10 6 (1.23%) Dagster
10 6 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.03%) Canva
11 5 (1.03%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.03%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.03%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.49%) Firewall
2 15 (3.08%) Wireless
3 9 (1.85%) VPN
3 9 (1.85%) WAN
4 8 (1.64%) BGP
4 8 (1.64%) Internet
5 6 (1.23%) LAN
6 4 (0.82%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.82%) MPLS
6 4 (0.82%) Network Security
6 4 (0.82%) OSPF
6 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.82%) SNMP
6 4 (0.82%) TACACS
6 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.62%) FTP
7 3 (0.62%) Softphone
7 3 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.62%) Power BI
2 23 (4.72%) Tableau
3 7 (1.44%) Metadata
4 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.82%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.21%) DB2
8 1 (0.21%) EDMS
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (23.82%) JIRA
2 14 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.67%) Burp Suite
3 13 (2.67%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (2.26%) Git
5 7 (1.44%) Toad
6 6 (1.23%) MLflow
7 4 (0.82%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 259 (53.18%) Social Skills
2 190 (39.01%) Finance
3 103 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (17.66%) Banking
5 62 (12.73%) Organisational Skills
6 58 (11.91%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (7.80%) Legal
7 38 (7.80%) Public Sector
8 32 (6.57%) Marketing
9 21 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.29%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.29%) Retail
11 12 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.05%) Military
14 9 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.64%) Front Office
16 7 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (28.54%) Analyst
2 66 (13.55%) Business Analyst
3 34 (6.98%) Project Manager
4 29 (5.95%) Senior
5 27 (5.54%) PMO Analyst
6 25 (5.13%) Architect
6 25 (5.13%) Consultant
7 22 (4.52%) Lead
8 20 (4.11%) Administrator
9 19 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (3.49%) Coordinator
12 15 (3.08%) PMO Manager
12 15 (3.08%) Tester
13 14 (2.87%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (2.87%) Technical Business Analyst
14 13 (2.67%) Migration Analyst
14 13 (2.67%) Penetration Tester
15 12 (2.46%) Payments Architect
15 12 (2.46%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.23%) NumPy
2 6 (1.23%) Pandas
2 6 (1.23%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.23%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.03%) VML
4 4 (0.82%) ADO
4 4 (0.82%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.82%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.82%) Playwright
4 4 (0.82%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.82%) XML
4 4 (0.82%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) JDO
5 3 (0.62%) REST
5 3 (0.62%) Web Services
5 3 (0.62%) XSLT
6 2 (0.41%) Flutter
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.62%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.54%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.26%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.05%) PMI
7 9 (1.85%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.64%) e-Learning
8 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.44%) Tandem
10 6 (1.23%) Equities
10 6 (1.23%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.23%) Life Science
10 6 (1.23%) NHS
10 6 (1.23%) Social Media
11 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.13%) Windows
2 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
1 119 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (23.82%) Agile
2 116 (23.82%) Project Management
3 105 (21.56%) Project Delivery
4 76 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (13.35%) Decision-Making
5 65 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 59 (12.11%) DevOps
7 58 (11.91%) Migration
8 57 (11.70%) Waterfall
9 52 (10.68%) Business Analysis
10 46 (9.45%) Time Management
11 42 (8.62%) Process Improvement
12 39 (8.01%) Data Analysis
13 38 (7.80%) PRINCE2
13 38 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
14 36 (7.39%) Change Management
14 36 (7.39%) Risk Management
15 35 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.01%) SQL
2 23 (4.72%) Python
3 7 (1.44%) VB
4 6 (1.23%) C#
5 5 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.03%) VBA
6 4 (0.82%) Perl
6 4 (0.82%) PHP
6 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.41%) Java
8 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 139 (28.54%) Degree
2 76 (15.61%) Security Cleared
3 62 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.31%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.70%) PMP
6 15 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.67%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.26%) CREST Certified
8 11 (2.26%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.26%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.05%) CBAP
9 10 (2.05%) IIBA
10 9 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (1.44%) CCIE
12 7 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.44%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (21.15%) PMO
2 26 (5.34%) QA
3 24 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.49%) GDPR
5 13 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.64%) P3O
7 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.03%) MiFID
9 4 (0.82%) SLA
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.21%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) GAAP
12 1 (0.21%) HL7
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.44%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.31%) Ansible
2 13 (2.67%) Nmap
3 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
5 3 (0.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 231 (47.43%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.16%) Oracle
3 21 (4.31%) Adobe
3 21 (4.31%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.90%) SAP
5 15 (3.08%) Google
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.67%) Sonatype
8 12 (2.46%) Cisco
9 9 (1.85%) Remedy
10 8 (1.64%) F5
10 8 (1.64%) Juniper
10 8 (1.64%) Planview
10 8 (1.64%) Workday
11 6 (1.23%) Charles River
11 6 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.23%) Splunk
12 5 (1.03%) Ariba
12 5 (1.03%) Databricks
13 4 (0.82%) FactSet