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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 180 180
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 +41
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 497 464 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.46% 1.35%
As % of the Applications category 17.54% 19.88% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 257 343
10th Percentile £271 £219 £182
25th Percentile £325 £315 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +7.34%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £720 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +7.95% -11.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 57 64
10th Percentile £14.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -27.22% +12.17%
75th Percentile £27.83 £21.46 £28.30
90th Percentile £34.72 £30.85 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £21.10
% change year-on-year -1.42% -23.08% +6.14%

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 2,833 2,334 3,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.49% 7.36% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 1,372 2,025
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £649 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +19.38% +1.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 205 405
10th Percentile £12.82 - £12.13
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £25.79 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% +19.18% -30.80%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £42.64
90th Percentile £62.22 £73.50 £54.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £26.42 £21.23
% change year-on-year -28.08% +24.46% -34.19%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -21 432 £460 -1.08% 290
UK excluding London -56 249 £431 +7.95% 258
London -9 224 £500 +2.04% 77
Work from Home +3 135 £439 -4.72% 108
North of England -30 75 £383 +17.33% 52
South East -18 54 £475 +5.56% 92
Midlands -28 42 £448 -14.64% 42
Yorkshire -33 37 £319 +46.88% 26
North West -13 36 £450 +5.88% 20
Scotland -13 30 £375 - 13
West Midlands -38 24 £308 -41.43% 25
East Midlands -6 19 £460 +3.37% 17
East of England -57 17 £391 -7.89% 37
South West -21 16 £495 +10.00% 19
Northern Ireland +5 12 £475 - 5
Wales +5 10 £260 -63.89% 8
North East -17 2 £390 -48.00% 7

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
1 116 (23.34%) SharePoint
2 72 (14.49%) Confluence
3 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.81%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 435 (87.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (38.03%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (20.52%) MS Visio
4 54 (10.87%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.01%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.80%) InDesign
8 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Loan IQ
1 7 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.40%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (9.66%) Azure
3 47 (9.46%) Power Platform
4 18 (3.62%) GitHub
5 16 (3.22%) AWS
6 14 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.62%) OneDrive
8 11 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.41%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.21%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (1.01%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.01%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.01%) SaaS
11 5 (1.01%) Viva Engage
12 4 (0.80%) Miro
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Slack
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.02%) Firewall
2 17 (3.42%) LAN
2 17 (3.42%) Wireless
3 15 (3.02%) WAN
4 11 (2.21%) VPN
5 9 (1.81%) Skype
6 7 (1.41%) BGP
6 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.01%) BIG-IP
7 5 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (1.01%) MPLS
7 5 (1.01%) Network Security
7 5 (1.01%) OSPF
7 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.80%) Internet
8 4 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (0.60%) Softphone
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.05%) Power BI
2 31 (6.24%) Tableau
3 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.21%) Metadata
5 4 (0.80%) MS Access
5 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.80%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.60%) DB2
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.60%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.40%) EDMS
7 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 109 (21.93%) JIRA
2 14 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.41%) Burp Suite
3 12 (2.41%) Metasploit
4 11 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.01%) ClearCase
5 5 (1.01%) Toad
6 4 (0.80%) Git
7 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 287 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 206 (41.45%) Finance
3 107 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (15.90%) Banking
5 62 (12.47%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (8.45%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.63%) Legal
9 27 (5.43%) Marketing
10 16 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.21%) Retail
15 9 (1.81%) Billing
16 8 (1.61%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.41%) Front Office
18 6 (1.21%) International Banking
18 6 (1.21%) Law
19 5 (1.01%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (33.60%) Analyst
2 66 (13.28%) Business Analyst
3 43 (8.65%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.24%) Architect
4 31 (6.24%) Senior
5 27 (5.43%) PMO Analyst
5 27 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (5.03%) Administrator
7 24 (4.83%) Technical Analyst
8 21 (4.23%) Technical Business Analyst
9 20 (4.02%) Consultant
10 18 (3.62%) Lead
11 17 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.22%) Report Analyst
12 16 (3.22%) Support Analyst
13 14 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.82%) PMO Manager
14 13 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.62%) Tester
15 12 (2.41%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.80%) ADO
2 4 (0.80%) VML
3 3 (0.60%) CSS
3 3 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.60%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.60%) HTML
3 3 (0.60%) Node.js
3 3 (0.60%) Playwright
3 3 (0.60%) React
3 3 (0.60%) RESTful
4 2 (0.40%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.40%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.40%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.40%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.20%) Pandas
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.20%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.65%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
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 (1.21%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.01%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.01%) Social Media
10 5 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.04%) Windows
2 6 (1.21%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.01%) 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
1 129 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
1 129 (25.96%) Project Management
2 121 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (22.33%) Agile
4 103 (20.72%) Project Delivery
5 73 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (12.68%) DevOps
7 60 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 56 (11.27%) Migration
9 55 (11.07%) Time Management
10 53 (10.66%) Decision-Making
11 51 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (9.66%) Process Improvement
13 47 (9.46%) Waterfall
14 42 (8.45%) Business Analysis
14 42 (8.45%) Data Analysis
14 42 (8.45%) Risk Management
15 40 (8.05%) Change Management
15 40 (8.05%) PRINCE2
16 37 (7.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.06%) SQL
2 23 (4.63%) Python
3 9 (1.81%) R
4 8 (1.61%) Java
5 7 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.01%) C
6 5 (1.01%) C#
7 4 (0.80%) Perl
7 4 (0.80%) PHP
7 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.80%) VBA
8 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.60%) VB
9 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 128 (25.75%) Degree
2 64 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.22%) PMP
6 12 (2.41%) CHECK Team Member
7 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.01%) CREST Certified
8 10 (2.01%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (2.01%) Postgraduate
9 9 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.81%) CBAP
9 9 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.81%) IIBA
10 7 (1.41%) CCNP
10 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.21%) CCIE
11 6 (1.21%) CISSP
11 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (21.33%) PMO
2 25 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.03%) QA
3 17 (3.42%) GDPR
3 17 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.21%) P3O
6 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.60%) GRC
7 3 (0.60%) MiFID
7 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) COBIT
8 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GAMP
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.62%) Ansible
3 14 (2.82%) SCCM
4 12 (2.41%) Nmap
5 5 (1.01%) Terraform
6 3 (0.60%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 231 (46.48%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.84%) Oracle
3 25 (5.03%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.23%) SAP
5 16 (3.22%) Cisco
6 12 (2.41%) Remedy
7 11 (2.21%) Planview
7 11 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.21%) Sonatype
8 10 (2.01%) Adobe
9 7 (1.41%) F5
9 7 (1.41%) Google
9 7 (1.41%) Juniper
10 6 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.01%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.01%) NetApp
11 5 (1.01%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.80%) Apple
12 4 (0.80%) Citrix