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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 170 176
Rank change year-on-year -93 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 441 468 569
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.61% 1.32%
As % of the Applications category 15.91% 18.91% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 240 225
10th Percentile £211 £216 £187
25th Percentile £308 £299 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £449
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.46% -5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £622 £643 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £373 £350
% change year-on-year +3.02% +6.43% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 160
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +8.20% -44.44%
75th Percentile £29.50 £21.26 £24.12
90th Percentile £33.50 £33.25 £29.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +8.20% -33.42%

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 2,772 2,475 3,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 8.49% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,434 1,653
10th Percentile £235 £192 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £555 £540 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £351
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.99% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 276 633
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.54
25th Percentile £16.15 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £23.63 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +45.56% -44.19%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.85 £65.45 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.35 £22.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -9.56% +40.10% -38.80%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -90 396 £435 +5.45% 292
UK excluding London -93 230 £384 +3.02% 202
London -50 191 £500 +21.21% 134
Work from Home -48 119 £380 -1.81% 117
North of England -80 59 £396 -1.00% 23
South East -36 57 £475 +40.01% 68
Midlands -34 40 £455 +57.44% 32
Yorkshire -62 32 £382 -4.50% 9
South West -13 30 £310 -38.86% 36
Scotland -17 27 £375 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -44 27 £420 +45.33% 26
North West -48 26 £442 +1.09% 13
East of England -71 16 £509 +57.59% 17
East Midlands -18 14 £455 - 5
Northern Ireland -11 5 £369 -13.24% 14
Wales -13 1 £213 - 2
North East -28 1 £390 +254.55% 1

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 80 (18.14%) SharePoint
2 55 (12.47%) Confluence
3 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.36%) CMS
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
5 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 376 (85.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (43.99%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (15.65%) MS Visio
4 51 (11.56%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.23%) InDesign
10 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.04%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.36%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.91%) Magento
4 4 (0.91%) Primavera
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.68%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.45%) Shopify
6 2 (0.45%) Workfront
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 50 (11.34%) Power Platform
2 32 (7.26%) Azure
3 30 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (6.35%) AWS
5 14 (3.17%) Figma
5 14 (3.17%) GitHub
6 13 (2.95%) SaaS
7 10 (2.27%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.81%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.59%) Google Analytics
10 7 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.36%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.36%) Canva
11 6 (1.36%) Dagster
11 6 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.36%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.13%) Collibra
13 4 (0.91%) Google Docs
13 4 (0.91%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.72%) Firewall
2 10 (2.27%) Internet
3 7 (1.59%) VPN
3 7 (1.59%) WAN
3 7 (1.59%) Wireless
4 6 (1.36%) BGP
5 5 (1.13%) LAN
6 4 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.91%) Network Security
6 4 (0.91%) OSPF
6 4 (0.91%) RSVP
6 4 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.68%) FTP
7 3 (0.68%) Intranet
7 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.45%) SNMP
8 2 (0.45%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.20%) Power BI
2 19 (4.31%) Tableau
3 3 (0.68%) Power Query
3 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.45%) Metadata
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) DB2
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (20.18%) JIRA
2 13 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.72%) Git
4 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.59%) Burp Suite
5 7 (1.59%) Metasploit
6 6 (1.36%) MLflow
7 4 (0.91%) Subversion
8 3 (0.68%) Toad
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.23%) MSI
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 224 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 169 (38.32%) Finance
3 96 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (15.65%) Banking
5 66 (14.97%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (8.39%) Legal
8 34 (7.71%) Marketing
9 27 (6.12%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.85%) Retail
11 16 (3.63%) Investment Banking
12 15 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (3.17%) Military
14 11 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (2.27%) Financial Institution
16 9 (2.04%) Front Office
17 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.59%) Advertising
18 7 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (25.17%) Analyst
2 52 (11.79%) Business Analyst
3 33 (7.48%) Project Manager
3 33 (7.48%) Senior
4 25 (5.67%) Consultant
5 24 (5.44%) Architect
6 21 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
7 19 (4.31%) Lead
8 17 (3.85%) Support Officer
9 16 (3.63%) Coordinator
10 15 (3.40%) Administrator
10 15 (3.40%) Project Officer
11 14 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (3.17%) Project Support Officer
11 14 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.95%) Designer
12 13 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.72%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.72%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.49%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.36%) NumPy
2 6 (1.36%) Pandas
2 6 (1.36%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.36%) Seaborn
2 6 (1.36%) VML
3 4 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.91%) JDO
3 4 (0.91%) REST
3 4 (0.91%) XML
4 3 (0.68%) Flutter
4 3 (0.68%) React Native
4 3 (0.68%) Web Services
4 3 (0.68%) XSLT
5 2 (0.45%) .NET
5 2 (0.45%) HTML
5 2 (0.45%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.45%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.45%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.54%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.81%) Life Science
7 8 (1.81%) PMI
7 8 (1.81%) Social Media
8 7 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.59%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.13%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.13%) Tandem
11 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.91%) CMDB
11 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.67%) Windows
2 6 (1.36%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 113 (25.62%) Project Management
3 110 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (24.72%) Agile
5 101 (22.90%) Project Delivery
6 66 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 61 (13.83%) Decision-Making
8 59 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (13.15%) Waterfall
10 50 (11.34%) DevOps
11 44 (9.98%) Migration
12 42 (9.52%) Business Analysis
13 40 (9.07%) AI
13 40 (9.07%) Analytics
13 40 (9.07%) Data Analysis
13 40 (9.07%) Risk Management
14 37 (8.39%) Business Case
14 37 (8.39%) PRINCE2
14 37 (8.39%) Time Management
15 36 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.16%) SQL
2 23 (5.22%) Python
3 7 (1.59%) VB
4 5 (1.13%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.13%) VBA
5 4 (0.91%) Bicep
5 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.45%) C#
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (31.07%) Degree
2 80 (18.14%) Security Cleared
3 66 (14.97%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.95%) PMP
7 12 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.27%) CBAP
9 10 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.27%) IIBA
10 7 (1.59%) CHECK Team Member
10 7 (1.59%) CREST Certified
10 7 (1.59%) Cyber Scheme
10 7 (1.59%) Postgraduate
11 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.13%) CCIE
12 5 (1.13%) CISM
12 5 (1.13%) CISSP
12 5 (1.13%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (21.77%) PMO
2 25 (5.67%) QA
3 23 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.04%) GDPR
6 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.36%) MiFID
7 6 (1.36%) P3O
8 5 (1.13%) SLA
9 3 (0.68%) GRC
9 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.68%) NIST
10 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.23%) FATCA
11 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.08%) Ansible
2 8 (1.81%) Terraform
3 7 (1.59%) Nmap
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.91%) SCCM
5 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 215 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.03%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.12%) Oracle
4 25 (5.67%) Adobe
5 19 (4.31%) Google
6 16 (3.63%) SAP
7 11 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.27%) Cisco
8 10 (2.27%) Splunk
9 8 (1.81%) Remedy
9 8 (1.81%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.59%) F5
10 7 (1.59%) Planview
10 7 (1.59%) Workday
11 6 (1.36%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.36%) Juniper
12 5 (1.13%) Apple
12 5 (1.13%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.91%) FactSet
13 4 (0.91%) Qualys