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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 180 185
Rank change year-on-year -109 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 438 470 562
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.55% 1.30%
As % of the Applications category 15.77% 18.35% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 239 225
10th Percentile £210 £213 £193
25th Percentile £308 £296 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £399 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.12% -10.53%
75th Percentile £554 £553 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £371 £365
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.71% -14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 55 166
10th Percentile £14.53 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £16.33 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.04% +8.20% -33.42%
75th Percentile £30.00 £25.85 £23.54
90th Percentile £33.42 £33.43 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.06 £15.87 £15.00
% change year-on-year +51.62% +5.77% -32.63%

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 2,778 2,561 3,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 8.45% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,468 1,623
10th Percentile £220 £195 £164
25th Percentile £325 £281 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +3.79% -5.88%
75th Percentile £558 £541 £534
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £400 £367
% change year-on-year +5.52% +9.05% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 304 644
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.20 £11.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.44
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +50.00% -37.92%
75th Percentile £34.46 £41.71 £36.61
90th Percentile £67.55 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £23.05 £16.06
% change year-on-year -3.47% +43.52% -35.76%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -95 392 £450 +9.54% 146
UK excluding London -111 229 £396 +6.67% 121
London -56 189 £491 +19.09% 57
Work from Home -72 119 £400 -3.03% 62
South East -30 60 £462 +67.82% 44
North of England -78 54 £397 -0.66% 22
Midlands -45 38 £471 +63.06% 23
South West -21 30 £310 -37.32% 14
West Midlands -50 29 £475 +64.36% 15
Yorkshire -48 27 £397 -3.67% 10
North West -50 27 £409 +11.22% 8
Scotland -15 26 £375 +15.38% 5
East of England -65 16 £555 +87.33% 9
East Midlands -9 9 £460 - 8
Northern Ireland -17 5 £369 -13.24% 4
Wales -17 1 £213 - 3

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 77 (17.58%) SharePoint
2 54 (12.33%) Confluence
3 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.14%) CMS
4 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 375 (85.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (45.21%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 57 (13.01%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.91%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.05%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.60%) Primavera
3 6 (1.37%) SAP MM
3 6 (1.37%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.14%) Magento
4 5 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.46%) Shopify
7 2 (0.46%) Workfront
8 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.70%) Power Platform
2 30 (6.85%) Azure
3 29 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.94%) AWS
5 17 (3.88%) SaaS
6 14 (3.20%) GitHub
7 13 (2.97%) Figma
8 10 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.05%) OneDrive
9 9 (2.05%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.60%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.37%) Canva
11 6 (1.37%) Dagster
11 6 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.37%) Lucidchart
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.91%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.28%) Internet
1 10 (2.28%) WAN
2 9 (2.05%) Firewall
3 8 (1.83%) LAN
4 7 (1.60%) BGP
4 7 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.37%) VPN
5 6 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.91%) MPLS
6 4 (0.91%) Network Security
6 4 (0.91%) RSVP
6 4 (0.91%) SNMP
6 4 (0.91%) TACACS
7 3 (0.68%) DHCP
7 3 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.68%) FTP
7 3 (0.68%) Intranet
7 3 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.56%) Power BI
2 14 (3.20%) Tableau
3 5 (1.14%) Power Query
4 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) DataStage
6 1 (0.23%) Db2
6 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (19.41%) JIRA
2 14 (3.20%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.97%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.37%) MLflow
6 5 (1.14%) Subversion
7 3 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.68%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.68%) Toad
8 2 (0.46%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.46%) MSI
8 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 230 (52.51%) Social Skills
2 173 (39.50%) Finance
3 106 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (14.16%) Banking
6 42 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (7.99%) Legal
7 35 (7.99%) Marketing
8 23 (5.25%) Public Sector
9 18 (4.11%) Retail
10 16 (3.65%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.97%) Military
12 11 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.83%) Advertising
15 7 (1.60%) Front Office
15 7 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (24.66%) Analyst
2 50 (11.42%) Business Analyst
3 39 (8.90%) Project Manager
4 35 (7.99%) Senior
5 24 (5.48%) Consultant
6 20 (4.57%) Architect
6 20 (4.57%) Lead
7 19 (4.34%) Coordinator
7 19 (4.34%) PMO Analyst
7 19 (4.34%) Project Officer
8 16 (3.65%) Administrator
8 16 (3.65%) IT Analyst
8 16 (3.65%) Support Officer
9 15 (3.42%) Project Support Officer
10 14 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.74%) Transformation Analyst
12 10 (2.28%) Data Analyst
12 10 (2.28%) Designer
12 10 (2.28%) PMO Manager
12 10 (2.28%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.37%) NumPy
1 6 (1.37%) Pandas
1 6 (1.37%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.37%) Seaborn
1 6 (1.37%) VML
2 4 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (0.91%) JDO
2 4 (0.91%) NETCONF
2 4 (0.91%) OpenConfig
2 4 (0.91%) REST
2 4 (0.91%) RESTCONF
2 4 (0.91%) XML
2 4 (0.91%) YANG
3 3 (0.68%) .NET
3 3 (0.68%) Flutter
3 3 (0.68%) React Native
3 3 (0.68%) Web Services
3 3 (0.68%) XSLT
4 2 (0.46%) ADO
4 2 (0.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (6.39%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.83%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.83%) Life Science
8 8 (1.83%) Social Media
9 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.37%) PMI
10 5 (1.14%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.14%) Tandem
11 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.91%) CMDB
11 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.02%) Windows
2 5 (1.14%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (29.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 119 (27.17%) Project Management
3 107 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (24.20%) Agile
5 102 (23.29%) Project Delivery
6 70 (15.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 67 (15.30%) Decision-Making
8 59 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (13.47%) Waterfall
9 46 (10.50%) Analytics
10 45 (10.27%) DevOps
10 45 (10.27%) Migration
11 44 (10.05%) Data Analysis
12 41 (9.36%) AI
13 40 (9.13%) Business Analysis
13 40 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (8.68%) Collaborative Working
15 35 (7.99%) Risk Management
16 34 (7.76%) Business Case
17 33 (7.53%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.99%) SQL
2 25 (5.71%) Python
3 7 (1.60%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.60%) VB
4 6 (1.37%) VBA
5 4 (0.91%) Bicep
6 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.46%) C#
7 2 (0.46%) C++
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 135 (30.82%) Degree
2 73 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 60 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.97%) PMP
7 12 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (1.83%) CBAP
9 8 (1.83%) IIBA
10 7 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.37%) CCIE
11 6 (1.37%) CISM
11 6 (1.37%) CISSP
11 6 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.37%) JNCIE
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.91%) CRISC
13 4 (0.91%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (19.86%) PMO
2 21 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.34%) QA
4 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.60%) P3O
6 5 (1.14%) SLA
7 4 (0.91%) GDPR
7 4 (0.91%) GRC
7 4 (0.91%) MiFID
7 4 (0.91%) NIST
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (1.60%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (4.34%) Ansible
2 7 (1.60%) Terraform
3 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.91%) SCCM
5 3 (0.68%) Nmap
6 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 238 (54.34%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.53%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.48%) SAP
4 22 (5.02%) Adobe
5 19 (4.34%) Google
6 15 (3.42%) Oracle
7 14 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.51%) Cisco
9 10 (2.28%) F5
9 10 (2.28%) Splunk
10 8 (1.83%) Sonatype
10 8 (1.83%) Workday
11 7 (1.60%) Juniper
12 6 (1.37%) Remedy
13 5 (1.14%) Apple
13 5 (1.14%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.14%) TOWER Software
14 4 (0.91%) Ariba
14 4 (0.91%) FactSet
14 4 (0.91%) Wrike