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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 165 177
Rank change year-on-year -87 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 472 489 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.67% 1.34%
As % of the Applications category 16.46% 20.01% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 259 239
10th Percentile £238 £216 £196
25th Percentile £321 £313 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £555 £538 £565
90th Percentile £625 £651 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £399 £375 £373
% change year-on-year +6.33% +0.67% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 56 147
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.37 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% +8.20% -63.05%
75th Percentile £29.63 £21.46 £26.15
90th Percentile £43.11 £30.78 £31.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £14.84
% change year-on-year +11.46% +9.37% -63.44%

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 2,868 2,444 3,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.01% 8.34% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,683 1,448 1,720
10th Percentile £250 £188 £161
25th Percentile £348 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £565 £540 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +16.27% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 254 636
10th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £11.59
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £22.95 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +29.51% -45.89%
75th Percentile £33.93 £43.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £68.68 £70.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £22.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -11.51% +40.10% -48.42%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -72 427 £450 +5.88% 273
UK excluding London -104 240 £399 +6.33% 200
London -38 212 £500 +17.65% 107
Work from Home -32 124 £400 -0.44% 101
South East -12 69 £475 +11.31% 65
North of England -59 60 £396 -4.00% 43
Midlands -54 38 £455 -17.27% 45
Yorkshire -50 32 £382 -4.50% 17
South West -12 30 £310 -35.45% 23
North West -37 27 £442 -1.72% 19
Scotland -30 23 £375 +15.38% 8
West Midlands -51 22 £350 -36.45% 34
East Midlands -19 17 £455 - 11
East of England -75 17 £509 +27.41% 16
Northern Ireland -6 6 £388 -8.82% 2
Wales -15 2 £213 - 4
North East -22 1 £390 -48.00% 8

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 99 (20.97%) SharePoint
2 60 (12.71%) Confluence
3 6 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 398 (84.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (43.43%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (16.10%) MS Visio
4 57 (12.08%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.64%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.42%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.27%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.06%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.85%) Primavera
5 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.64%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.42%) Magento
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.42%) Shopify
6 2 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.42%) Workfront
7 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.02%) Power Platform
2 37 (7.84%) Azure
3 36 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.51%) AWS
5 14 (2.97%) GitHub
6 13 (2.75%) Figma
7 12 (2.54%) SaaS
8 11 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.12%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.27%) Dagster
11 6 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.27%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.06%) Canva
12 5 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.60%) Firewall
2 14 (2.97%) Wireless
3 8 (1.69%) BGP
3 8 (1.69%) Internet
3 8 (1.69%) WAN
4 7 (1.48%) VPN
5 5 (1.06%) LAN
6 4 (0.85%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.85%) MPLS
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 4 (0.85%) OSPF
6 4 (0.85%) RSVP
6 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.85%) SNMP
6 4 (0.85%) TACACS
6 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.64%) FTP
7 3 (0.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.38%) Power BI
2 17 (3.60%) Tableau
3 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.85%) Metadata
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.85%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.64%) Power Query
5 3 (0.64%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.21%) DB2
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (21.61%) JIRA
2 13 (2.75%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.75%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.33%) Git
3 11 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.48%) Toad
6 6 (1.27%) MLflow
7 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.42%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 247 (52.33%) Social Skills
2 174 (36.86%) Finance
3 103 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (15.47%) Organisational Skills
5 68 (14.41%) Banking
6 50 (10.59%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (8.05%) Marketing
8 36 (7.63%) Legal
9 34 (7.20%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (4.24%) Retail
11 15 (3.18%) Military
12 14 (2.97%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.48%) Advertising
15 7 (1.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 128 (27.12%) Analyst
2 58 (12.29%) Business Analyst
3 31 (6.57%) Project Manager
3 31 (6.57%) Senior
4 25 (5.30%) PMO Analyst
5 23 (4.87%) Consultant
6 20 (4.24%) Architect
6 20 (4.24%) Lead
7 19 (4.03%) Coordinator
7 19 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (3.81%) Administrator
9 16 (3.39%) PMO Manager
9 16 (3.39%) Support Officer
10 15 (3.18%) Project Officer
10 15 (3.18%) Tester
11 14 (2.97%) Project Support Officer
12 13 (2.75%) IT Analyst
12 13 (2.75%) Penetration Tester
12 13 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.75%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.48%) VML
3 6 (1.27%) NumPy
3 6 (1.27%) Pandas
3 6 (1.27%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.27%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.85%) ADO
4 4 (0.85%) JDO
4 4 (0.85%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.85%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.85%) REST
4 4 (0.85%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.85%) XML
4 4 (0.85%) YANG
5 3 (0.64%) Flutter
5 3 (0.64%) React Native
5 3 (0.64%) Web Services
5 3 (0.64%) XSLT
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.87%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.12%) PMI
8 8 (1.69%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.69%) Life Science
9 7 (1.48%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.48%) Social Media
9 7 (1.48%) Tandem
10 6 (1.27%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.27%) NHS
11 5 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.08%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (25.21%) Agile
1 119 (25.21%) Project Management
2 116 (24.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (22.03%) Project Delivery
5 75 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 64 (13.56%) Decision-Making
8 60 (12.71%) Waterfall
9 52 (11.02%) Business Analysis
9 52 (11.02%) Migration
10 47 (9.96%) DevOps
11 43 (9.11%) Time Management
12 42 (8.90%) Risk Management
13 38 (8.05%) Data Analysis
13 38 (8.05%) Workshop Facilitation
14 37 (7.84%) AI
14 37 (7.84%) Analytics
14 37 (7.84%) PRINCE2
15 36 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.05%) SQL
2 20 (4.24%) Python
3 7 (1.48%) VB
4 5 (1.06%) VBA
5 4 (0.85%) C#
5 4 (0.85%) Perl
5 4 (0.85%) PHP
5 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (30.30%) Degree
2 83 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 70 (14.83%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.45%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.60%) PMP
6 15 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.75%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.33%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.33%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.33%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.12%) CBAP
10 10 (2.12%) IIBA
11 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.48%) CCIE
12 7 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.48%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.85%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (22.25%) PMO
2 32 (6.78%) QA
3 25 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.39%) GDPR
5 14 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.06%) MiFID
8 5 (1.06%) P3O
8 5 (1.06%) SLA
9 3 (0.64%) GRC
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) FATCA
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (3.39%) Ansible
2 13 (2.75%) Nmap
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.85%) Terraform
5 3 (0.64%) SCCM
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 230 (48.73%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.78%) Oracle
3 26 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 25 (5.30%) Adobe
5 19 (4.03%) SAP
6 16 (3.39%) Google
6 16 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.12%) Cisco
8 9 (1.91%) Remedy
9 8 (1.69%) F5
9 8 (1.69%) Juniper
9 8 (1.69%) Planview
9 8 (1.69%) Sonatype
10 6 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.27%) Splunk
10 6 (1.27%) Workday
11 5 (1.06%) Ariba
12 4 (0.85%) Charles River
12 4 (0.85%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.85%) Zscaler