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

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 179 184
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +43
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 495 450 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.42% 1.37%
As % of the Applications category 17.56% 19.46% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 244 368
10th Percentile £275 £219 £198
25th Percentile £322 £320 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £451
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -0.17% +2.74%
75th Percentile £546 £560 £588
90th Percentile £614 £735 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £439
% change year-on-year - -3.13% +15.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 37
10th Percentile £14.25 - £11.76
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.42
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £21.10
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -23.08% +20.64%
75th Percentile £27.83 £21.46 £28.30
90th Percentile £35.15 £30.85 £36.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.65 £16.23 £20.58
% change year-on-year +8.73% -21.14% +16.14%

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 2,819 2,312 3,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.75% 7.27% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 1,365 2,071
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £311 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% +1.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £549 £538 £550
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £361 £350
% change year-on-year +17.65% +3.21% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 197 305
10th Percentile £12.82 - £12.84
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.46
Median hourly rate £20.00 £25.79 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +2.14% -2.88%
75th Percentile £29.61 £44.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £61.10 £77.90 £53.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.10 £26.81 £25.13
% change year-on-year -28.76% +6.72% -13.73%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -26 426 £465 - 381
UK excluding London -39 246 £425 - 350
London +21 223 £500 +2.25% 77
Work from Home 0 140 £445 -4.30% 79
North of England -17 69 £340 +1.04% 69
South East -2 52 £475 +5.56% 113
Midlands -18 41 £455 -11.86% 57
Yorkshire -32 34 £313 +37.58% 31
Scotland -3 33 £350 -6.67% 12
North West -13 33 £455 +7.06% 32
West Midlands -22 24 £310 -40.90% 24
South West -22 20 £550 +22.22% 45
East Midlands -7 18 £465 +4.49% 31
East of England -55 15 £375 -11.71% 46
Northern Ireland +6 13 £475 - 8
Wales +10 10 £260 -63.89% 11
North East -13 2 £390 -48.00% 6

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
1 118 (23.84%) SharePoint
2 61 (12.32%) Confluence
3 11 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.82%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Resin
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 435 (87.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 184 (37.17%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (20.61%) MS Visio
4 55 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.01%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.81%) InDesign
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.20%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.61%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.40%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 59 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (9.90%) Power Platform
3 46 (9.29%) Azure
4 15 (3.03%) AWS
5 14 (2.83%) GitHub
6 13 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 11 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.82%) Viva Engage
9 7 (1.41%) SaaS
9 7 (1.41%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 5 (1.01%) Collibra
10 5 (1.01%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.81%) Asana
11 4 (0.81%) Miro
11 4 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Slack
11 4 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.84%) Firewall
2 17 (3.43%) Wireless
3 16 (3.23%) LAN
4 14 (2.83%) WAN
5 11 (2.22%) VPN
6 9 (1.82%) Skype
7 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.21%) BGP
9 5 (1.01%) MPLS
10 4 (0.81%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.81%) Network Security
10 4 (0.81%) OSPF
10 4 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (0.61%) Internet
11 3 (0.61%) Softphone
11 3 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.29%) Power BI
2 28 (5.66%) Tableau
3 9 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.62%) Metadata
5 4 (0.81%) MS Access
5 4 (0.81%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.81%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.61%) DB2
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.61%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.40%) EDMS
7 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Essbase
8 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 99 (20.00%) JIRA
2 12 (2.42%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.42%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.01%) ClearCase
6 4 (0.81%) Git
6 4 (0.81%) Toad
7 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 288 (58.18%) Social Skills
2 202 (40.81%) Finance
3 118 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (14.34%) Banking
5 66 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (10.10%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (9.29%) Public Sector
8 27 (5.45%) Legal
9 26 (5.25%) Marketing
10 20 (4.04%) Manufacturing
11 16 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.22%) Retail
14 9 (1.82%) Billing
14 9 (1.82%) Front Office
15 6 (1.21%) Electronics
15 6 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.01%) International Banking
16 5 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 166 (33.54%) Analyst
2 60 (12.12%) Business Analyst
3 48 (9.70%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.26%) Senior
5 27 (5.45%) Architect
5 27 (5.45%) PMO Analyst
6 24 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.65%) Administrator
8 22 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
9 20 (4.04%) Consultant
10 19 (3.84%) Data Analyst
11 18 (3.64%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.64%) Technical Business Analyst
12 17 (3.43%) Lead
13 16 (3.23%) IT Manager
14 15 (3.03%) Report Analyst
15 13 (2.63%) PMO Manager
15 13 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (2.63%) Tester
16 12 (2.42%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.81%) ADO
2 4 (0.81%) VML
3 3 (0.61%) CSS
3 3 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.61%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.61%) HTML
3 3 (0.61%) Node.js
3 3 (0.61%) Playwright
3 3 (0.61%) React
3 3 (0.61%) RESTful
4 2 (0.40%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.40%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.40%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.40%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.08%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.47%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.84%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.62%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.62%) PMI
8 7 (1.41%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.41%) NHS
8 7 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.21%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.01%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.01%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.81%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.46%) Windows
2 6 (1.21%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.01%) Linux
3 5 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (26.46%) Project Management
2 127 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (23.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (22.83%) Agile
5 92 (18.59%) Project Delivery
6 72 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (12.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 58 (11.72%) Decision-Making
9 55 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (10.91%) Time Management
11 53 (10.71%) DevOps
12 50 (10.10%) Process Improvement
13 45 (9.09%) Migration
14 44 (8.89%) PRINCE2
15 43 (8.69%) Data Analysis
15 43 (8.69%) Waterfall
16 42 (8.48%) Risk Management
17 40 (8.08%) Change Management
18 39 (7.88%) Analytics
19 36 (7.27%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.70%) SQL
2 23 (4.65%) Python
3 9 (1.82%) R
4 8 (1.62%) Java
5 7 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.01%) C
6 5 (1.01%) C#
7 4 (0.81%) Perl
7 4 (0.81%) PHP
7 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.61%) VB
8 3 (0.61%) VBA
9 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 127 (25.66%) Degree
2 62 (12.53%) Security Cleared
3 48 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.64%) PMP
6 12 (2.42%) CHECK Team Member
7 10 (2.02%) CREST Certified
7 10 (2.02%) Cyber Scheme
7 10 (2.02%) Postgraduate
8 9 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.41%) CCNP
9 7 (1.41%) HNC
9 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.21%) CCIE
10 6 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.21%) HND
10 6 (1.21%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (21.21%) PMO
2 25 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.05%) QA
3 19 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.64%) GDPR
5 13 (2.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.41%) P3O
7 5 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.61%) MiFID
9 2 (0.40%) COBIT
9 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.40%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) COSHH
10 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.20%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 23 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.83%) Ansible
2 14 (2.83%) SCCM
3 12 (2.42%) Nmap
4 4 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.81%) Terraform
5 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 240 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.67%) Oracle
3 26 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.65%) SAP
5 15 (3.03%) Cisco
6 13 (2.63%) Planview
6 13 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.22%) Adobe
7 11 (2.22%) Remedy
8 8 (1.62%) Sonatype
9 7 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.21%) F5
10 6 (1.21%) Google
10 6 (1.21%) Juniper
11 5 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.01%) NetApp
12 4 (0.81%) Arista
12 4 (0.81%) Databricks
12 4 (0.81%) Workday
12 4 (0.81%) Zscaler
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