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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 175 173
Rank change year-on-year -73 -2 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 463 485 577
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.65% 1.35%
As % of the Applications category 16.62% 19.65% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 253 233
10th Percentile £216 £221 £181
25th Percentile £313 £313 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £404 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% -10.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £561
90th Percentile £623 £650 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £375 £369
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.55% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 54 154
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.87 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +5.77% -53.01%
75th Percentile £29.75 £19.79 £26.15
90th Percentile £48.65 £32.05 £30.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £15.87 £14.92
% change year-on-year +13.46% +6.33% -45.75%

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 2,786 2,468 3,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.81% 8.40% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 1,446 1,678
10th Percentile £250 £188 £165
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 £568 £539 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.13% +7.14% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 258 628
10th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.52 £22.50 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -8.79% +31.50% -47.03%
75th Percentile £34.89 £44.31 £38.51
90th Percentile £74.25 £71.13 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.33 £22.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -7.61% +36.99% -41.60%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -67 418 £449 +5.53% 257
UK excluding London -97 242 £390 +4.00% 193
London -39 200 £500 +15.94% 92
Work from Home -39 118 £390 -5.45% 90
South East -32 66 £475 +17.72% 66
North of England -77 61 £390 -4.00% 42
Midlands -37 43 £455 -17.27% 25
Yorkshire -57 34 £359 -10.25% 16
South West -8 30 £310 -41.93% 34
West Midlands -42 27 £390 -29.14% 20
North West -40 26 £442 -1.72% 21
Scotland -21 24 £375 +15.38% 9
East Midlands -15 17 £455 - 5
East of England -73 16 £509 +35.82% 14
Northern Ireland -11 5 £369 -13.24% 3
Wales -12 2 £213 - 4
North East -24 1 £390 +254.55% 5

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 95 (20.52%) SharePoint
2 57 (12.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.30%) CMS
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 395 (85.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (44.71%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (15.33%) MS Visio
4 56 (12.10%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.43%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.30%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.86%) Primavera
4 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.65%) Magento
4 3 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.65%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.43%) Shopify
5 2 (0.43%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.43%) Workfront
6 1 (0.22%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 55 (11.88%) Power Platform
2 34 (7.34%) Azure
2 34 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (5.83%) AWS
4 14 (3.02%) GitHub
5 13 (2.81%) Figma
6 12 (2.59%) SaaS
7 9 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.94%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.51%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (1.30%) Dagster
9 6 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.30%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.30%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.08%) Canva
10 5 (1.08%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.08%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.86%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.67%) Firewall
2 14 (3.02%) Wireless
3 8 (1.73%) Internet
3 8 (1.73%) VPN
4 7 (1.51%) BGP
4 7 (1.51%) WAN
5 5 (1.08%) LAN
6 4 (0.86%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.86%) Network Security
6 4 (0.86%) OSPF
6 4 (0.86%) RSVP
6 4 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.65%) FTP
7 3 (0.65%) Intranet
7 3 (0.65%) SNMP
7 3 (0.65%) TACACS
7 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.80%) Power BI
2 18 (3.89%) Tableau
3 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.86%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.86%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.65%) Metadata
5 3 (0.65%) Power Query
5 3 (0.65%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.22%) DB2
7 1 (0.22%) GIS
7 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (20.95%) JIRA
2 13 (2.81%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.81%) Metasploit
3 12 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.38%) Git
5 8 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.51%) Toad
7 6 (1.30%) MLflow
8 3 (0.65%) Subversion
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.22%) MSI
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 242 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 170 (36.72%) Finance
3 101 (21.81%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (15.33%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (14.47%) Banking
6 47 (10.15%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (7.56%) Marketing
8 33 (7.13%) Legal
9 30 (6.48%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.32%) Retail
11 19 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.24%) Military
13 14 (3.02%) Investment Banking
14 11 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.73%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.51%) Advertising
17 7 (1.51%) Front Office
17 7 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 126 (27.21%) Analyst
2 55 (11.88%) Business Analyst
3 30 (6.48%) Senior
4 28 (6.05%) Project Manager
5 25 (5.40%) PMO Analyst
6 23 (4.97%) Consultant
7 20 (4.32%) Architect
7 20 (4.32%) Lead
8 18 (3.89%) Coordinator
9 17 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (3.46%) Administrator
10 16 (3.46%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.24%) PMO Manager
11 15 (3.24%) Project Officer
12 14 (3.02%) Project Support Officer
12 14 (3.02%) Tester
12 14 (3.02%) Transformation Analyst
13 13 (2.81%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.81%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.51%) VML
3 6 (1.30%) NumPy
3 6 (1.30%) Pandas
3 6 (1.30%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.30%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.86%) JDO
4 4 (0.86%) REST
4 4 (0.86%) XML
5 3 (0.65%) ADO
5 3 (0.65%) Flutter
5 3 (0.65%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.65%) OpenConfig
5 3 (0.65%) React Native
5 3 (0.65%) RESTCONF
5 3 (0.65%) Web Services
5 3 (0.65%) XSLT
5 3 (0.65%) YANG
6 2 (0.43%) .NET
6 2 (0.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.48%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.18%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.73%) Life Science
8 8 (1.73%) PMI
9 7 (1.51%) Social Media
9 7 (1.51%) Tandem
10 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.30%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.30%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.30%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.08%) NHS
12 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.83%) Windows
2 6 (1.30%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.86%) Unix
3 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (25.27%) Project Management
2 116 (25.05%) Agile
3 115 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (21.60%) Project Delivery
6 67 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 63 (13.61%) Decision-Making
8 61 (13.17%) Waterfall
9 52 (11.23%) Migration
10 49 (10.58%) Business Analysis
11 45 (9.72%) DevOps
12 42 (9.07%) Risk Management
12 42 (9.07%) Time Management
13 39 (8.42%) Data Analysis
14 38 (8.21%) PRINCE2
14 38 (8.21%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (7.99%) Analytics
15 37 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (7.78%) AI
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.21%) SQL
2 18 (3.89%) Python
3 7 (1.51%) VB
4 5 (1.08%) VBA
5 4 (0.86%) Perl
5 4 (0.86%) PHP
5 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.65%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.43%) C#
7 2 (0.43%) Java
7 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.22%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (30.02%) Degree
2 88 (19.01%) Security Cleared
3 75 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.67%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.02%) PMP
7 13 (2.81%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.38%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.38%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.38%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.16%) CBAP
10 10 (2.16%) IIBA
11 6 (1.30%) CCIE
11 6 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.30%) JNCIE
12 3 (0.65%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (22.25%) PMO
2 30 (6.48%) QA
3 25 (5.40%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.46%) GDPR
5 14 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.08%) P3O
8 5 (1.08%) SLA
9 4 (0.86%) MiFID
10 3 (0.65%) GRC
10 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.22%) GAAP
12 1 (0.22%) NCSC
12 1 (0.22%) NIST
12 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.22%) PSD2
12 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.24%) Ansible
2 13 (2.81%) Nmap
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.08%) SCCM
4 4 (0.86%) Terraform
5 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 222 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.13%) Oracle
3 26 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 25 (5.40%) Adobe
5 17 (3.67%) SAP
6 16 (3.46%) Google
7 15 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.38%) Cisco
9 8 (1.73%) Planview
9 8 (1.73%) Remedy
9 8 (1.73%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.51%) F5
10 7 (1.51%) Juniper
10 7 (1.51%) Workday
11 6 (1.30%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.30%) Splunk
12 5 (1.08%) Apple
12 5 (1.08%) Ariba
13 4 (0.86%) FactSet
13 4 (0.86%) Zscaler