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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 200 187
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 506 460 618
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.26% 1.35%
As % of the Applications category 17.12% 18.25% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 245 398
10th Percentile £263 £219 £205
25th Percentile £313 £331 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £451
Median % change year-on-year - -0.17% -2.28%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £606 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -9.14% +2.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 32
10th Percentile £15.60 - £16.00
25th Percentile £16.89 £15.62 £19.39
Median hourly rate £23.92 £16.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.38% -26.23% +14.29%
75th Percentile £32.42 £21.46 £28.26
90th Percentile £35.50 £29.90 £31.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.26 £16.23 £21.29
% change year-on-year +30.99% -23.77% +11.61%

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 2,955 2,521 3,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.20% 6.91% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,459 2,260
10th Percentile £193 £165 £164
25th Percentile £300 £255 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £401 £403
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -0.58% -10.48%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +10.00% +3.45% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 238 279
10th Percentile £12.86 £15.18 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.49 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.63 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.13% +5.33%
75th Percentile £31.18 £41.88 £45.61
90th Percentile £50.00 £64.13 £50.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.33 £22.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year -9.79% -10.77% +5.21%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -14 412 £461 -0.81% 300
UK excluding London -37 242 £398 -9.14% 236
London +21 221 £500 +3.04% 126
Work from Home +38 155 £450 - 138
North of England -24 67 £325 -1.37% 32
Midlands -11 39 £375 -25.56% 25
South East -15 39 £475 +2.15% 117
North West -4 35 £458 +34.56% 16
Scotland -4 33 £355 -16.47% 6
West Midlands -6 31 £310 -38.87% 13
Yorkshire -20 31 £325 +47.00% 8
Northern Ireland +15 22 £475 +137.50% 8
South West -7 19 £523 +16.11% 29
East of England -60 14 £375 -31.82% 24
Wales +8 12 £308 -57.29% 3
East Midlands -7 8 £465 +4.49% 11
North East -17 1 - - 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
1 121 (23.91%) SharePoint
2 56 (11.07%) Confluence
3 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.98%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.79%) Resin
6 3 (0.59%) Moodle
6 3 (0.59%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 439 (86.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (38.54%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (19.37%) MS Visio
4 53 (10.47%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.79%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.79%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.59%) InDesign
7 3 (0.59%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.40%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 10 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.79%) BPCS
3 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.59%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Epicor iScala
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 69 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 55 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (7.31%) Azure
4 14 (2.77%) GitHub
5 13 (2.57%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.37%) OneDrive
7 10 (1.98%) AWS
7 10 (1.98%) Viva Engage
8 9 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.78%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.78%) Smartsheet
9 8 (1.58%) Miro
10 7 (1.38%) Asana
10 7 (1.38%) SaaS
11 6 (1.19%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.99%) Collibra
12 5 (0.99%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.79%) Figma
14 3 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 3 (0.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.77%) LAN
2 12 (2.37%) WAN
3 10 (1.98%) Firewall
3 10 (1.98%) Skype
4 9 (1.78%) VPN
4 9 (1.78%) Wireless
5 8 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.19%) WebEx
7 5 (0.99%) Internet
7 5 (0.99%) MPLS
8 4 (0.79%) BGP
8 4 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (0.59%) Intranet
9 3 (0.59%) Softphone
9 3 (0.59%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.26%) Power BI
2 27 (5.34%) Tableau
3 9 (1.78%) Metadata
3 9 (1.78%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.99%) DB2
6 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.79%) MS Access
6 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.79%) Spotfire
6 4 (0.79%) SQLPlus
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.40%) EDMS
8 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (17.59%) JIRA
2 12 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.19%) Git
5 5 (0.99%) ClearCase
6 4 (0.79%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.79%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.79%) Toad
7 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 3 (0.59%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 287 (56.72%) Social Skills
2 221 (43.68%) Finance
3 147 (29.05%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (14.62%) Organisational Skills
5 64 (12.65%) Banking
6 60 (11.86%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (8.30%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 24 (4.74%) Legal
9 24 (4.74%) Marketing
10 14 (2.77%) Retail
11 13 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.98%) Billing
13 10 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.78%) Front Office
15 7 (1.38%) Electronics
15 7 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.38%) Law
16 5 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 186 (36.76%) Analyst
2 60 (11.86%) Business Analyst
3 53 (10.47%) Project Manager
4 28 (5.53%) Data Analyst
5 26 (5.14%) Senior
6 24 (4.74%) Lead
7 23 (4.55%) Administrator
7 23 (4.55%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 22 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
9 19 (3.75%) Architect
10 18 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.56%) Technical Business Analyst
11 17 (3.36%) Consultant
12 16 (3.16%) IT Manager
13 15 (2.96%) Junior
14 14 (2.77%) Coordinator
15 13 (2.57%) PMO Manager
16 12 (2.37%) Project Analyst
16 12 (2.37%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.19%) HTML
2 5 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.79%) ADO
3 4 (0.79%) EDI
4 3 (0.59%) CSS
4 3 (0.59%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.59%) Node.js
4 3 (0.59%) Playwright
4 3 (0.59%) React
4 3 (0.59%) RESTful
4 3 (0.59%) VML
5 2 (0.40%) ISPF
5 2 (0.40%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.40%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.40%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.40%) YANG
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 28 (5.53%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.38%) PMI
10 6 (1.19%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.99%) Learning Management System
11 5 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.79%) 3D Printing
12 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.79%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.94%) Windows
2 5 (0.99%) Linux
2 5 (0.99%) Mac OS
2 5 (0.99%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.79%) Unix
4 3 (0.59%) Android
4 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) OS/2
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (27.08%) Project Management
3 126 (24.90%) Agile
4 97 (19.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (15.22%) Project Delivery
6 67 (13.24%) Data Analysis
6 67 (13.24%) Decision-Making
7 66 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 66 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 63 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (11.26%) Process Improvement
10 45 (8.89%) Time Management
11 42 (8.30%) Change Management
12 41 (8.10%) Analytics
12 41 (8.10%) Migration
12 41 (8.10%) PRINCE2
13 40 (7.91%) DevOps
14 39 (7.71%) Risk Management
15 38 (7.51%) ITIL
16 37 (7.31%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.47%) SQL
2 30 (5.93%) Python
3 11 (2.17%) Java
3 11 (2.17%) R
4 7 (1.38%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.38%) Shell Script
5 5 (0.99%) C
5 5 (0.99%) C#
5 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
5 5 (0.99%) VB
6 4 (0.79%) Perl
6 4 (0.79%) PHP
7 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.59%) VBA
8 2 (0.40%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.40%) CLIST
8 2 (0.40%) COBOL
8 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 123 (24.31%) Degree
2 46 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.75%) PMP
6 9 (1.78%) HNC
7 8 (1.58%) HND
7 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.99%) CCNP
10 5 (0.99%) CISA
11 4 (0.79%) CCIE
11 4 (0.79%) CHECK Team Member
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (18.58%) PMO
2 30 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.75%) QA
4 13 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.78%) GDPR
6 8 (1.58%) P3O
7 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.79%) COBIT
9 4 (0.79%) NIST
10 3 (0.59%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.59%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.59%) SLA
10 3 (0.59%) WCAG
11 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.40%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.59%) Docker
3 2 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 2 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.77%) SCCM
3 12 (2.37%) Ansible
4 4 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.79%) Nmap
5 3 (0.59%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.40%) Terraform
6 2 (0.40%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 262 (51.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.73%) SAP
3 26 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.74%) Oracle
5 14 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.57%) Cisco
7 10 (1.98%) Planview
8 9 (1.78%) Adobe
9 8 (1.58%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.38%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.38%) Databricks
10 7 (1.38%) Remedy
11 5 (0.99%) Apple
11 5 (0.99%) Ariba
11 5 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.99%) IFS
11 5 (0.99%) NetApp
11 5 (0.99%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (0.79%) Google
12 4 (0.79%) Workday
333 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide