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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 172 213
Rank change year-on-year -123 +41 -20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 448 531 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.62% 1.15%
As % of the Applications category 15.70% 18.73% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 269 194
10th Percentile £203 £248 £219
25th Percentile £305 £313 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £553 £575
90th Percentile £638 £628 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £386
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.91% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 61 122
10th Percentile £14.65 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.85 £15.69
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +20.18% -23.79%
75th Percentile £30.00 £31.00 £16.85
90th Percentile £68.20 £35.50 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.60 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -6.62% +25.67% -27.11%

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 2,854 2,835 2,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 8.65% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,587 1,404
10th Percentile £213 £200 £166
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £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 373 377 369
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.60 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £14.84
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.90 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +30.86% -22.33%
75th Percentile £36.70 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.29 £21.70 £16.23
% change year-on-year -6.49% +33.67% -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 21 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 21 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 16 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 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 -103 399 £450 - 327
UK excluding London -101 239 £400 +6.67% 273
London -88 186 £492 +8.37% 114
Work from Home -97 125 £416 +2.40% 118
South East -29 71 £500 +48.15% 83
North of England -98 51 £394 -1.56% 75
Midlands -44 33 £475 +54.98% 40
South West -36 32 £310 -43.08% 32
Scotland -33 29 £425 +30.77% 16
West Midlands -45 29 £475 +54.98% 32
Yorkshire -55 27 £400 - 34
North West -50 24 £380 -15.56% 37
East of England -41 17 £509 +35.73% 17
East Midlands -19 4 £490 - 8
Northern Ireland -20 4 £369 -22.37% 4
Wales -22 3 £450 +46.34% 11

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 84 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 38 (8.48%) Confluence
3 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Moodle
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 394 (87.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (44.20%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (16.07%) MS Visio
4 69 (15.40%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.34%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.22%) InDesign
9 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.22%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.22%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Magento
2 6 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.12%) Primavera
3 5 (1.12%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.89%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.89%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.67%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.45%) Shopify
6 2 (0.45%) Workfront
7 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.22%) Maximo
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 68 (15.18%) Power Platform
2 38 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (7.59%) Azure
4 20 (4.46%) AWS
5 18 (4.02%) SaaS
6 12 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.46%) OneDrive
8 10 (2.23%) Figma
9 9 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.34%) GitHub
10 6 (1.34%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.34%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.34%) Lucidchart
10 6 (1.34%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.89%) GCP
12 4 (0.89%) OCI
12 4 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.68%) WAN
2 10 (2.23%) LAN
3 9 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.34%) BGP
5 6 (1.34%) MPLS
5 6 (1.34%) SNMP
5 6 (1.34%) TACACS
6 5 (1.12%) Internet
7 4 (0.89%) RSVP
7 4 (0.89%) VPN
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
8 3 (0.67%) DNS
8 3 (0.67%) Firewall
8 3 (0.67%) FTP
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.45%) Intranet
9 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.22%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.06%) Power BI
2 10 (2.23%) Power Query
3 8 (1.79%) Tableau
4 4 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.45%) 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 (16.07%) JIRA
2 14 (3.13%) Git
3 9 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.79%) Subversion
5 4 (0.89%) Selenium
6 3 (0.67%) MLflow
6 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) eggPlant
7 2 (0.45%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.45%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.45%) MSI
7 2 (0.45%) Postman
7 2 (0.45%) Rational Functional Tester
7 2 (0.45%) SilkTest
7 2 (0.45%) SOAtest
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.45%) Tricentis qTest
7 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 252 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 185 (41.29%) Finance
3 145 (32.37%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (22.77%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (12.95%) Banking
6 41 (9.15%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (7.14%) Marketing
8 28 (6.25%) Legal
9 21 (4.69%) Retail
10 20 (4.46%) Public Sector
11 17 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 13 (2.90%) Military
14 10 (2.23%) Advertising
14 10 (2.23%) Front Office
14 10 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.56%) French Language
Job Titles
1 105 (23.44%) Analyst
2 46 (10.27%) Project Manager
3 38 (8.48%) Senior
4 33 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 24 (5.36%) Consultant
6 23 (5.13%) Administrator
6 23 (5.13%) PMO Analyst
7 21 (4.69%) Coordinator
8 20 (4.46%) Project Officer
9 19 (4.24%) Support Officer
10 18 (4.02%) Lead
11 17 (3.79%) Project Support Officer
12 16 (3.57%) IT Analyst
13 15 (3.35%) Senior Manager
14 14 (3.13%) Architect
14 14 (3.13%) PMO Manager
14 14 (3.13%) Project Coordinator
15 12 (2.68%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.68%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.01%) VML
2 6 (1.34%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.34%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.34%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.34%) YANG
3 5 (1.12%) .NET
3 5 (1.12%) Web Services
3 5 (1.12%) XML
4 4 (0.89%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.89%) JDO
4 4 (0.89%) Terraform
5 3 (0.67%) Flutter
5 3 (0.67%) NumPy
5 3 (0.67%) Pandas
5 3 (0.67%) Playwright
5 3 (0.67%) React Native
5 3 (0.67%) REST
5 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.67%) Seaborn
5 3 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 28 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.23%) Life Science
6 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.12%) Graphic Design
9 4 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.89%) CMDB
9 4 (0.89%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.89%) Video Editing
9 4 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.24%) Windows
2 7 (1.56%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (35.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 122 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (27.01%) Project Management
4 108 (24.11%) Agile
5 98 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (21.21%) Project Delivery
7 76 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (14.73%) Decision-Making
9 58 (12.95%) Waterfall
10 53 (11.83%) Data Analysis
11 48 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (9.82%) AI
12 44 (9.82%) PRINCE2
13 43 (9.60%) Analytics
14 41 (9.15%) Business Case
14 41 (9.15%) Change Management
15 40 (8.93%) Risk Management
16 38 (8.48%) Portfolio Management
17 33 (7.37%) Validation
17 33 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.92%) SQL
2 21 (4.69%) Python
3 7 (1.56%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.56%) VBA
4 5 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.89%) Bicep
6 3 (0.67%) Korn
7 2 (0.45%) C#
7 2 (0.45%) C++
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.45%) VB
7 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (27.90%) Degree
2 88 (19.64%) Security Cleared
3 56 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.36%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.46%) PMP
6 12 (2.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 10 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.34%) CCIE
10 6 (1.34%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CIPD
13 3 (0.67%) CISM
13 3 (0.67%) CISSP
13 3 (0.67%) IIBA
13 3 (0.67%) MBA
14 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.88%) PMO
2 21 (4.69%) QA
3 19 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.01%) P3O
5 8 (1.79%) GRC
6 7 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.12%) NIST
9 4 (0.89%) MiFID
9 4 (0.89%) SLA
10 3 (0.67%) GMP
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.45%) GDPR
11 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.45%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.46%) Ansible
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.89%) SCCM
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 283 (63.17%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.15%) ServiceNow
3 28 (6.25%) SAP
4 21 (4.69%) Google
5 18 (4.02%) Oracle
6 15 (3.35%) Adobe
7 14 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.23%) Cisco
9 9 (2.01%) F5
10 8 (1.79%) Planview
10 8 (1.79%) Workday
11 6 (1.34%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.34%) Juniper
12 5 (1.12%) Apple
12 5 (1.12%) Splunk
13 4 (0.89%) Databricks
13 4 (0.89%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.89%) Qualys
13 4 (0.89%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.89%) Wrike
376 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide