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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 186 211
Rank change year-on-year -98 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 481 511 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.55% 1.16%
As % of the Applications category 16.20% 18.28% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 266 207
10th Percentile £213 £250 £216
25th Percentile £308 £313 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £600
90th Percentile £629 £646 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £375 £420
% change year-on-year +7.47% -10.71% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 55 113
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.60 £21.25 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +30.93% -21.14%
75th Percentile £29.88 £32.53 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £59.72 £27.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -7.16% +16.14% -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 2,970 2,796 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.47% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 1,565 1,443
10th Percentile £206 £200 £170
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 348 281
10th Percentile £13.31 £13.78 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.52 £16.02 £15.34
Median hourly rate £18.50 £24.31 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +38.91% -22.22%
75th Percentile £33.99 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.86 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year -20.64% +38.63% -24.51%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -77 429 £450 - 373
UK excluding London -78 264 £403 +7.47% 252
London -78 193 £488 +0.17% 174
Work from Home -103 135 £450 +9.09% 112
South East -11 87 £483 +42.96% 75
North of England -83 54 £400 -6.98% 63
Midlands -39 36 £475 +51.76% 41
Scotland -23 34 £400 +23.08% 11
South West -36 32 £310 -43.73% 37
West Midlands -41 29 £475 +51.76% 28
North West -45 29 £415 -7.78% 31
Yorkshire -49 23 £394 -1.56% 25
East of England -50 17 £509 +30.10% 18
East Midlands -10 7 £490 - 13
Wales -18 3 £450 +46.34% 5
Northern Ireland -19 2 £369 -22.37% 8
North East -46 2 - - 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
1 103 (21.41%) SharePoint
2 39 (8.11%) Confluence
3 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Moodle
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 416 (86.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (43.04%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (15.59%) MS Visio
4 74 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (2.08%) Photoshop
6 8 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.66%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.83%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.83%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.21%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Magento
2 7 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.25%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.04%) Primavera
5 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.83%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.62%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.42%) Workfront
8 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.21%) Maximo
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 43 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (7.48%) Azure
4 19 (3.95%) AWS
5 18 (3.74%) SaaS
6 14 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.49%) Figma
8 11 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (2.08%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.66%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.66%) Lucidchart
10 8 (1.66%) Smartsheet
11 7 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.25%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.04%) GitHub
13 5 (1.04%) Google Docs
13 5 (1.04%) Google Sheets
13 5 (1.04%) Miro
14 4 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.08%) LAN
1 10 (2.08%) WAN
2 7 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.83%) BGP
3 4 (0.83%) FTP
3 4 (0.83%) MPLS
3 4 (0.83%) RSVP
3 4 (0.83%) SNMP
3 4 (0.83%) TACACS
4 3 (0.62%) DHCP
4 3 (0.62%) DNS
4 3 (0.62%) Firewall
4 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.62%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.62%) VPN
5 2 (0.42%) Intranet
5 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.14%) Power BI
2 12 (2.49%) Power Query
3 8 (1.66%) Tableau
4 4 (0.83%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) DataStage
7 1 (0.21%) DTS
7 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Metadata
7 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 74 (15.38%) JIRA
2 13 (2.70%) Git
3 8 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.66%) Subversion
4 4 (0.83%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) MLflow
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.42%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.42%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.42%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.42%) MSI
6 2 (0.42%) Postman
6 2 (0.42%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.42%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.42%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.42%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
General
1 272 (56.55%) Social Skills
2 196 (40.75%) Finance
3 152 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (25.57%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (10.81%) Banking
6 37 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (6.86%) Marketing
8 27 (5.61%) Legal
9 23 (4.78%) Retail
10 22 (4.57%) Public Sector
11 17 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (3.12%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.70%) Military
15 11 (2.29%) Advertising
16 10 (2.08%) Front Office
16 10 (2.08%) Investment Banking
16 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.46%) French Language
Job Titles
1 104 (21.62%) Analyst
2 48 (9.98%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.90%) Senior
4 30 (6.24%) Administrator
4 30 (6.24%) Business Analyst
5 26 (5.41%) Consultant
5 26 (5.41%) Coordinator
6 24 (4.99%) PMO Analyst
7 23 (4.78%) Project Officer
8 22 (4.57%) Support Officer
9 20 (4.16%) Project Support Officer
10 18 (3.74%) Lead
11 16 (3.33%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.12%) Architect
12 15 (3.12%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (3.12%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.12%) Support Specialist
13 13 (2.70%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.70%) PMO Planner
14 12 (2.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.66%) VML
2 6 (1.25%) Web Services
2 6 (1.25%) XML
3 5 (1.04%) .NET
4 4 (0.83%) ADO
4 4 (0.83%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.83%) JDO
4 4 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.83%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.83%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.83%) Terraform
4 4 (0.83%) XSLT
4 4 (0.83%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) Flutter
5 3 (0.62%) HTML
5 3 (0.62%) NumPy
5 3 (0.62%) Pandas
5 3 (0.62%) React Native
5 3 (0.62%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.62%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.90%) Onboarding
2 33 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 31 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.29%) Life Science
7 8 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.66%) Graphic Design
7 8 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.25%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.25%) Video Editing
9 4 (0.83%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.83%) CMDB
9 4 (0.83%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.83%) FMCG
9 4 (0.83%) PMI
9 4 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.95%) Windows
2 7 (1.46%) Linux
3 4 (0.83%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (37.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 130 (27.03%) Project Management
3 128 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (23.49%) Agile
5 110 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 99 (20.58%) Project Delivery
7 87 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 69 (14.35%) Decision-Making
9 60 (12.47%) Waterfall
10 54 (11.23%) Data Analysis
11 51 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
12 50 (10.40%) AI
13 48 (9.98%) PRINCE2
14 44 (9.15%) Analytics
14 44 (9.15%) Risk Management
15 43 (8.94%) Change Management
16 38 (7.90%) Business Case
16 38 (7.90%) Workshop Facilitation
17 36 (7.48%) Portfolio Management
17 36 (7.48%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.41%) SQL
2 18 (3.74%) Python
3 7 (1.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.46%) VBA
4 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.83%) Bicep
5 4 (0.83%) Korn
6 2 (0.42%) C++
6 2 (0.42%) Java
6 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.21%) C#
7 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 124 (25.78%) Degree
2 101 (21.00%) Security Cleared
3 62 (12.89%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.74%) PMP
7 12 (2.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.04%) CIPD
10 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) CCIE
11 4 (0.83%) IIBA
11 4 (0.83%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.62%) CAPM
12 3 (0.62%) CISM
12 3 (0.62%) CISSP
12 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.78%) PMO
2 23 (4.78%) QA
3 17 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.08%) GRC
5 9 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.87%) P3O
6 6 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.04%) NIST
8 4 (0.83%) MiFID
9 3 (0.62%) GMP
9 3 (0.62%) SLA
10 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.42%) GDPR
10 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.66%) Ansible
2 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.62%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 313 (65.07%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 27 (5.61%) SAP
4 23 (4.78%) Google
5 18 (3.74%) Oracle
6 14 (2.91%) Adobe
6 14 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.87%) Workday
8 8 (1.66%) Planview
9 7 (1.46%) Cisco
9 7 (1.46%) F5
10 4 (0.83%) Apple
10 4 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.83%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.83%) Juniper
10 4 (0.83%) Qualys
10 4 (0.83%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.83%) Splunk
10 4 (0.83%) TOWER Software
10 4 (0.83%) Wrike