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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 193 197
Rank change year-on-year -84 +4 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 490 487 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.48% 1.19%
As % of the Applications category 16.24% 17.41% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 256 214
10th Percentile £238 £250 £208
25th Percentile £323 £308 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £551 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £374 £400
% change year-on-year +15.05% -6.56% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 52 101
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.45 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £24.57 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% +51.39% -21.14%
75th Percentile £27.91 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £56.92 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £20.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year -20.20% +23.54% -21.14%

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 3,018 2,797 2,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 8.47% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 1,566 1,433
10th Percentile £200 £196 £164
25th Percentile £313 £300 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £539 £525
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 358 254
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.43 £14.19
25th Percentile £14.39 £16.28 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.60 £25.00 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.60% +34.23% -25.50%
75th Percentile £30.28 £33.91 £36.56
90th Percentile £59.50 £57.79 £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.16 £22.57 £16.65
% change year-on-year -23.95% +35.53% -26.00%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -80 439 £474 +5.33% 851
UK excluding London -62 271 £430 +15.05% 477
London -81 197 £488 -1.02% 434
Work from Home -94 132 £475 +7.95% 318
South East -1 94 £483 +20.63% 139
North of England -71 61 £425 +30.77% 93
Midlands -37 38 £475 +58.33% 67
Scotland -15 34 £425 +31.39% 32
West Midlands -47 30 £475 +58.33% 46
North West -48 30 £488 +30.87% 48
Yorkshire -34 29 £400 +23.08% 32
South West -38 22 £310 -43.73% 57
East of England -33 19 £417 +6.58% 47
East Midlands -6 8 £490 - 21
Wales -19 3 £450 +46.34% 21
North East -38 2 - - 13
Northern Ireland -20 1 £388 -18.42% 24

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
1 112 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 36 (7.35%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Moodle
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 422 (86.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (37.14%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (15.71%) MS Visio
4 66 (13.47%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (2.45%) Photoshop
6 10 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 10 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
7 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.20%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Magento
2 7 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) Primavera
3 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.82%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.82%) Workfront
5 3 (0.61%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.61%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.67%) Power Platform
2 49 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (8.57%) Azure
4 17 (3.47%) AWS
4 17 (3.47%) SaaS
5 16 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (3.06%) Figma
7 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (2.45%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.45%) Lucidchart
9 11 (2.24%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.63%) Miro
11 7 (1.43%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.43%) Smartsheet
12 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.02%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.82%) GCP
14 4 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.04%) LAN
1 10 (2.04%) WAN
2 7 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.22%) FTP
4 4 (0.82%) BGP
4 4 (0.82%) MPLS
4 4 (0.82%) RSVP
4 4 (0.82%) SNMP
4 4 (0.82%) TACACS
5 3 (0.61%) DHCP
5 3 (0.61%) DNS
5 3 (0.61%) Firewall
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
5 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (12.04%) Power BI
2 12 (2.45%) Power Query
3 5 (1.02%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.61%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) DataStage
7 1 (0.20%) GIS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (14.08%) JIRA
2 10 (2.04%) Git
3 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) Subversion
4 4 (0.82%) Selenium
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.41%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.41%) MSI
6 2 (0.41%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.41%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.41%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.41%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 292 (59.59%) Social Skills
2 192 (39.18%) Finance
3 153 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (26.94%) Organisational Skills
5 49 (10.00%) Banking
6 41 (8.37%) Marketing
7 32 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.71%) Retail
9 27 (5.51%) Legal
9 27 (5.51%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.49%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (2.45%) Front Office
14 10 (2.04%) French Language
15 9 (1.84%) Military
15 9 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.63%) Advertising
16 8 (1.63%) Aviation
16 8 (1.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (19.59%) Analyst
2 43 (8.78%) Project Manager
3 40 (8.16%) Administrator
4 34 (6.94%) Senior
5 30 (6.12%) Coordinator
6 29 (5.92%) Consultant
7 26 (5.31%) Business Analyst
8 23 (4.69%) PMO Analyst
8 23 (4.69%) Project Officer
9 22 (4.49%) Lead
9 22 (4.49%) Support Officer
10 20 (4.08%) Project Support Officer
11 17 (3.47%) Architect
12 15 (3.06%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.86%) Project Coordinator
13 14 (2.86%) Support Specialist
14 13 (2.65%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.65%) PMO Planner
15 12 (2.45%) Designer
15 12 (2.45%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) VML
1 8 (1.63%) Web Services
1 8 (1.63%) XML
2 6 (1.22%) XSLT
3 5 (1.02%) .NET
4 4 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.82%) Flutter
4 4 (0.82%) Middleware
4 4 (0.82%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.82%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.82%) React Native
4 4 (0.82%) REST
4 4 (0.82%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
4 4 (0.82%) YANG
5 3 (0.61%) ADO
5 3 (0.61%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.41%) JDO
6 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 35 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.84%) Graphic Design
7 9 (1.84%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.43%) Life Science
8 7 (1.43%) Video Editing
8 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.22%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.67%) Windows
2 7 (1.43%) Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (39.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 136 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (23.88%) Project Management
4 109 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (20.82%) Agile
6 91 (18.57%) Project Delivery
7 89 (18.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 72 (14.69%) Decision-Making
9 55 (11.22%) AI
9 55 (11.22%) Waterfall
10 53 (10.82%) Data Analysis
11 52 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (10.00%) Analytics
13 44 (8.98%) PRINCE2
14 42 (8.57%) Business Case
14 42 (8.57%) Risk Management
15 41 (8.37%) Project Governance
16 39 (7.96%) Change Management
17 36 (7.35%) Workshop Facilitation
18 35 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.49%) SQL
2 15 (3.06%) Python
3 7 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.02%) VBA
5 4 (0.82%) Bicep
5 4 (0.82%) Korn
6 2 (0.41%) C++
6 2 (0.41%) Java
6 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.20%) C#
7 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (23.06%) Degree
2 97 (19.80%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.47%) PMP
7 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (1.02%) CIPD
8 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.82%) CCIE
9 4 (0.82%) IIBA
9 4 (0.82%) JNCIE
9 4 (0.82%) MBA
9 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CISM
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (24.90%) PMO
2 23 (4.69%) QA
3 16 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.24%) GRC
5 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.43%) P3O
6 6 (1.22%) NIST
7 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.82%) MiFID
8 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.61%) GMP
8 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.61%) NCSC
8 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
9 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.63%) Ansible
1 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (67.14%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.16%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.33%) SAP
4 21 (4.29%) Google
5 19 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.47%) Oracle
7 16 (3.27%) Adobe
8 10 (2.04%) Workday
9 7 (1.43%) Cisco
9 7 (1.43%) F5
10 5 (1.02%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.02%) Planview
11 4 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.82%) Marketo
11 4 (0.82%) Okta
11 4 (0.82%) Qualys
11 4 (0.82%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.82%) Splunk
11 4 (0.82%) Wrike
11 4 (0.82%) Xactly