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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 163 184
Rank change year-on-year -81 +21 +25
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 485 493 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.67% 1.26%
As % of the Applications category 16.86% 20.20% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 274 227
10th Percentile £251 £233 £195
25th Percentile £322 £316 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £555 £531 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.13% +6.53% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 54 137
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +8.20% -63.05%
75th Percentile £27.06 £21.46 £26.24
90th Percentile £39.08 £29.16 £34.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £14.84
% change year-on-year +12.01% +9.37% -63.44%

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 2,876 2,440 3,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.21% 8.29% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 1,476 1,729
10th Percentile £224 £190 £161
25th Percentile £340 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £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 326 242 633
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.21 £11.54
25th Percentile £16.28 £15.68 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.40 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +37.71% -54.56%
75th Percentile £32.44 £44.31 £39.92
90th Percentile £67.75 £74.88 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.42 £24.22 £16.06
% change year-on-year -19.84% +50.81% -54.76%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -75 434 £450 +2.86% 233
UK excluding London -91 252 £400 +0.13% 175
London -45 210 £500 +17.43% 89
Work from Home -37 125 £375 -10.71% 100
South East -18 71 £475 +5.56% 61
North of England -62 66 £399 -3.18% 24
Midlands -49 38 £455 -13.33% 35
Yorkshire -60 33 £350 -13.85% 6
North West -48 31 £450 +5.88% 14
South West -12 29 £310 -33.41% 20
Scotland -26 24 £425 +28.30% 8
West Midlands -56 22 £350 -33.43% 28
East Midlands -21 17 £455 - 7
East of England -68 17 £555 +38.80% 27
Northern Ireland -1 8 £369 -13.24% 3
Wales -6 4 £213 - 4
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 97 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 67 (13.81%) Confluence
3 6 (1.24%) 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
1 409 (84.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (42.68%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (16.91%) MS Visio
4 60 (12.37%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.41%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.47%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.44%) Workday HCM
3 6 (1.24%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.82%) Primavera
5 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.41%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.21%) Shopify
7 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 48 (9.90%) Power Platform
2 44 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (8.45%) Azure
4 25 (5.15%) AWS
5 16 (3.30%) GitHub
6 14 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.68%) Figma
8 12 (2.47%) SaaS
9 11 (2.27%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.44%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.24%) Dagster
11 6 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.24%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.03%) Canva
12 5 (1.03%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.03%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.51%) Firewall
2 15 (3.09%) Wireless
3 10 (2.06%) VPN
4 9 (1.86%) WAN
5 8 (1.65%) BGP
5 8 (1.65%) Internet
6 6 (1.24%) LAN
7 4 (0.82%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.82%) MPLS
7 4 (0.82%) Network Security
7 4 (0.82%) OSPF
7 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.82%) SNMP
7 4 (0.82%) TACACS
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.62%) FTP
8 3 (0.62%) Softphone
8 3 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.28%) Power BI
2 21 (4.33%) Tableau
3 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.82%) Metadata
4 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.82%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.41%) Power Query
6 2 (0.41%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) DB2
7 1 (0.21%) EDMS
7 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 112 (23.09%) JIRA
2 13 (2.68%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.68%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.06%) Git
4 10 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.44%) Toad
6 6 (1.24%) MLflow
7 3 (0.62%) 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
1 254 (52.37%) Social Skills
2 185 (38.14%) Finance
3 100 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (16.29%) Banking
5 65 (13.40%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (11.13%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (7.63%) Legal
8 35 (7.22%) Marketing
8 35 (7.22%) Public Sector
9 21 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.09%) Investment Banking
10 15 (3.09%) Retail
11 13 (2.68%) Military
12 12 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.65%) Front Office
17 7 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 132 (27.22%) Analyst
2 63 (12.99%) Business Analyst
3 32 (6.60%) Project Manager
4 29 (5.98%) Senior
5 25 (5.15%) Consultant
6 24 (4.95%) Architect
6 24 (4.95%) PMO Analyst
7 22 (4.54%) Lead
8 19 (3.92%) Administrator
9 18 (3.71%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.51%) Coordinator
11 15 (3.09%) PMO Manager
11 15 (3.09%) Tester
12 14 (2.89%) Support Officer
13 13 (2.68%) Migration Analyst
13 13 (2.68%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.68%) Project Officer
14 12 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.24%) NumPy
2 6 (1.24%) Pandas
2 6 (1.24%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.24%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.03%) VML
4 4 (0.82%) ADO
4 4 (0.82%) JDO
4 4 (0.82%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.82%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.82%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.82%) XML
4 4 (0.82%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) Playwright
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 41 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.95%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.06%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.06%) PMI
8 8 (1.65%) Learning Management System
9 7 (1.44%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.44%) Life Science
9 7 (1.44%) Tandem
10 6 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.24%) Equities
10 6 (1.24%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.24%) NHS
10 6 (1.24%) Social Media
11 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.36%) Windows
2 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (24.54%) Agile
1 119 (24.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (23.92%) Project Management
3 106 (21.86%) Project Delivery
4 76 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (14.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 63 (12.99%) Decision-Making
7 58 (11.96%) Waterfall
8 56 (11.55%) Migration
9 55 (11.34%) DevOps
10 53 (10.93%) Business Analysis
11 46 (9.48%) Time Management
12 39 (8.04%) Data Analysis
12 39 (8.04%) PRINCE2
13 38 (7.84%) Process Improvement
13 38 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
14 37 (7.63%) Risk Management
15 35 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (7.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.04%) SQL
2 21 (4.33%) Python
3 7 (1.44%) VB
4 5 (1.03%) C#
4 5 (1.03%) VBA
5 4 (0.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.82%) Perl
5 4 (0.82%) PHP
5 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.41%) Java
7 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 147 (30.31%) Degree
2 81 (16.70%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.81%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.33%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.71%) PMP
6 16 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.68%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.27%) CREST Certified
8 11 (2.27%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.27%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.06%) CBAP
9 10 (2.06%) IIBA
9 10 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.44%) CCIE
11 7 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.44%) JNCIE
12 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (20.82%) PMO
2 27 (5.57%) QA
3 23 (4.74%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.30%) GDPR
5 14 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.68%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.24%) P3O
9 5 (1.03%) MiFID
9 5 (1.03%) 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
12 1 (0.21%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) GAAP
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
12 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.44%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.71%) Ansible
2 13 (2.68%) Nmap
3 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.82%) SCCM
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 235 (48.45%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.39%) Oracle
3 26 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.74%) Adobe
5 19 (3.92%) SAP
6 16 (3.30%) Google
7 14 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.47%) Cisco
9 10 (2.06%) Sonatype
10 9 (1.86%) Remedy
11 8 (1.65%) F5
11 8 (1.65%) Juniper
11 8 (1.65%) Planview
12 7 (1.44%) Workday
13 6 (1.24%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.24%) Splunk
14 5 (1.03%) Ariba
14 5 (1.03%) Charles River
15 4 (0.82%) Databricks
15 4 (0.82%) Zscaler