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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 196 182
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 486 444 659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.21% 1.41%
As % of the Applications category 16.63% 18.04% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 236 414
10th Percentile £256 £213 £208
25th Percentile £308 £320 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year - -3.74% -1.58%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £763 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £417 £425
% change year-on-year -10.07% -1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 77 35
10th Percentile £15.68 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.62 £18.28
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.04% -26.23% +12.82%
75th Percentile £32.31 £16.85 £27.88
90th Percentile £35.50 £29.03 £30.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.27 £16.23 £21.29
% change year-on-year +31.05% -23.77% +10.60%

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 2,922 2,461 3,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.23% 6.72% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,438 2,321
10th Percentile £190 £164 £165
25th Percentile £300 £250 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £402
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -0.50% -10.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £375 £371
% change year-on-year +9.33% +1.19% -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 226 285
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -10.82% +4.17%
75th Percentile £32.90 £39.69 £45.21
90th Percentile £51.50 £61.63 £52.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.25 £21.46 £23.24
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.66% +3.29%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -24 388 £450 -3.23% 437
UK excluding London -37 238 £375 -10.07% 289
London +14 203 £495 +1.54% 202
Work from Home +30 149 £445 -1.11% 201
North of England -12 69 £325 -0.31% 44
North West -1 36 £458 +35.96% 17
Scotland +3 34 £360 -14.49% 10
Midlands -12 34 £307 -37.13% 37
Yorkshire -16 32 £306 +38.18% 15
South East -14 31 £475 +2.15% 116
West Midlands -12 29 £289 -42.30% 20
Northern Ireland +18 24 £475 +137.50% 16
South West -3 22 £550 +71.88% 34
East of England -63 16 £375 -21.01% 30
Wales +12 11 £308 -57.29% 10
East Midlands -10 5 £453 +1.83% 17
North East -18 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
1 110 (22.63%) SharePoint
2 53 (10.91%) Confluence
3 10 (2.06%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.82%) Resin
7 3 (0.62%) Moodle
7 3 (0.62%) SAS
8 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle UPK
Applications
1 421 (86.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 187 (38.48%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (19.96%) MS Visio
4 48 (9.88%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.82%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.62%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.41%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.41%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.82%) BPCS
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.62%) Workfront
5 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Epicor iScala
6 1 (0.21%) Primavera
6 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.40%) Power Platform
2 53 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (6.17%) Azure
4 14 (2.88%) GitHub
5 13 (2.67%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.47%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.06%) Viva Engage
8 8 (1.65%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.65%) Miro
8 8 (1.65%) Smartsheet
9 7 (1.44%) AWS
9 7 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.44%) SaaS
10 6 (1.23%) Asana
10 6 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.03%) Collibra
11 5 (1.03%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.82%) Figma
13 3 (0.62%) GCP
14 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.67%) LAN
2 11 (2.26%) WAN
3 10 (2.06%) Skype
4 8 (1.65%) VPN
4 8 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.23%) Firewall
5 6 (1.23%) WebEx
6 5 (1.03%) Internet
7 4 (0.82%) MPLS
7 4 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.82%) Wireless
8 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 3 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (0.62%) Intranet
8 3 (0.62%) Softphone
8 3 (0.62%) WLAN
9 2 (0.41%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.41%) Network Security
9 2 (0.41%) OSPF
9 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.93%) Power BI
2 27 (5.56%) Tableau
3 8 (1.65%) Metadata
4 5 (1.03%) DB2
4 5 (1.03%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.82%) MS Access
5 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.82%) Spotfire
6 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) EDMS
7 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.21%) Essbase
8 1 (0.21%) Impala
Development Applications
1 82 (16.87%) JIRA
2 12 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.03%) ClearCase
4 5 (1.03%) Git
5 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.62%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.41%) GCC
6 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 268 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 225 (46.30%) Finance
3 145 (29.84%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (13.37%) Organisational Skills
5 64 (13.17%) Banking
6 57 (11.73%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (8.85%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.94%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.53%) Legal
10 20 (4.12%) Marketing
11 12 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.26%) Retail
13 10 (2.06%) Billing
14 9 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.85%) Front Office
14 9 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.44%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.23%) Electronics
16 6 (1.23%) Law
16 6 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 178 (36.63%) Analyst
2 60 (12.35%) Business Analyst
3 53 (10.91%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.38%) Data Analyst
5 25 (5.14%) Senior
6 24 (4.94%) Lead
7 22 (4.53%) Administrator
7 22 (4.53%) PMO Analyst
8 21 (4.32%) Support Analyst
8 21 (4.32%) Technical Analyst
9 20 (4.12%) Architect
10 19 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.50%) Consultant
11 17 (3.50%) Technical Business Analyst
12 16 (3.29%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.09%) Junior
14 12 (2.47%) PMO Manager
14 12 (2.47%) Project Analyst
15 11 (2.26%) Coordinator
15 11 (2.26%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.23%) HTML
2 5 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.82%) EDI
4 3 (0.62%) CSS
4 3 (0.62%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.62%) Node.js
4 3 (0.62%) React
4 3 (0.62%) RESTful
5 2 (0.41%) ADO
5 2 (0.41%) ISPF
5 2 (0.41%) Playwright
6 1 (0.21%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.21%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.21%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.21%) VML
6 1 (0.21%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 29 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.06%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.44%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.44%) PMI
9 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.03%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.82%) CMDB
11 4 (0.82%) Equities
11 4 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.12%) Windows
2 5 (1.03%) Linux
2 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.03%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.62%) Android
3 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.41%) OS/2
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (29.42%) Problem-Solving
2 129 (26.54%) Project Management
3 121 (24.90%) Agile
4 97 (19.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (15.02%) Data Analysis
5 73 (15.02%) Project Delivery
6 67 (13.79%) Decision-Making
7 65 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
8 62 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 59 (12.14%) Process Improvement
10 56 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (9.26%) Change Management
12 41 (8.44%) Analytics
13 40 (8.23%) PRINCE2
13 40 (8.23%) Time Management
14 39 (8.02%) ITIL
15 37 (7.61%) DevOps
15 37 (7.61%) Visualisation
16 35 (7.20%) Risk Management
17 33 (6.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.88%) SQL
2 29 (5.97%) Python
3 11 (2.26%) Java
3 11 (2.26%) R
4 8 (1.65%) VB
5 6 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.03%) C
6 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.82%) C#
8 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.62%) VBA
9 2 (0.41%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.41%) CLIST
9 2 (0.41%) COBOL
9 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.41%) JCL
9 2 (0.41%) PL/1
9 2 (0.41%) REXX
9 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (24.69%) Degree
2 39 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.50%) PMP
6 9 (1.85%) HNC
6 9 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.44%) HND
7 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.03%) CCNP
9 5 (1.03%) CISA
9 5 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.82%) CISSP
10 4 (0.82%) MCSE
11 3 (0.62%) CCIE
11 3 (0.62%) MCP
11 3 (0.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (18.11%) PMO
2 31 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.29%) QA
4 9 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.85%) P3O
5 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.03%) GDPR
7 4 (0.82%) COBIT
7 4 (0.82%) NIST
8 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.62%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
8 3 (0.62%) WCAG
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 2 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.67%) SCCM
3 11 (2.26%) Ansible
4 4 (0.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.62%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.41%) Terraform
6 2 (0.41%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 254 (52.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 26 (5.35%) SAP
4 19 (3.91%) Oracle
5 12 (2.47%) Cisco
5 12 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.85%) Planview
7 8 (1.65%) Adobe
7 8 (1.65%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.44%) Remedy
9 6 (1.23%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.23%) Databricks
10 5 (1.03%) Apple
10 5 (1.03%) IFS
10 5 (1.03%) NetApp
10 5 (1.03%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.82%) Ariba
11 4 (0.82%) Citrix
11 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.82%) Workday