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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 172 184
Rank change year-on-year -83 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 472 470 586
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.58% 1.32%
As % of the Applications category 16.05% 19.93% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 263 271
10th Percentile £267 £226 £166
25th Percentile £327 £313 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £550 £524 £600
90th Percentile £611 £625 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £380
% change year-on-year +13.33% -1.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 41 114
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.70 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £17.08
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -4.98% -52.83%
75th Percentile £26.06 £21.46 £26.50
90th Percentile £34.23 £28.38 £36.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year +10.91% +4.71% -41.51%

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 2,941 2,358 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.80% 7.93% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,713 1,437 1,913
10th Percentile £206 £181 £158
25th Percentile £325 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £359 £350
% change year-on-year +18.38% +2.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 216 627
10th Percentile £13.09 £14.84 £11.50
25th Percentile £15.67 £16.65 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.42 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +35.47% -48.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.31 £76.25 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.07 £27.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year -29.70% +52.39% -52.53%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -59 427 £450 +5.88% 230
UK excluding London -76 243 £425 +13.33% 170
London -37 208 £500 +11.11% 89
Work from Home -36 118 £388 -8.99% 101
North of England -46 76 £397 +11.00% 42
South East -24 63 £475 +5.56% 51
Midlands -36 44 £455 -13.33% 27
Yorkshire -44 39 £340 +46.55% 13
North West -21 35 £450 +25.00% 23
West Midlands -57 26 £318 -39.52% 17
East Midlands -15 19 £455 +2.25% 10
Scotland -23 17 £303 -10.19% 6
South West -31 17 £469 +14.39% 23
East of England -66 15 £363 -9.26% 19
Northern Ireland -2 9 £475 +11.76% 1
Wales -6 7 £213 - 6
North East -16 2 £390 -48.00% 7

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 98 (20.76%) SharePoint
2 76 (16.10%) Confluence
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.85%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 397 (84.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (37.92%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (18.86%) MS Visio
4 52 (11.02%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.42%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.48%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.48%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) Primavera
4 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.64%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (8.69%) Azure
3 34 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 23 (4.87%) AWS
5 21 (4.45%) GitHub
6 14 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.06%) Canva
9 5 (1.06%) Collibra
9 5 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.06%) SaaS
10 4 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (0.85%) Dagster
10 4 (0.85%) Figma
10 4 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.81%) Firewall
2 16 (3.39%) Wireless
3 15 (3.18%) WAN
4 13 (2.75%) LAN
5 10 (2.12%) VPN
6 9 (1.91%) Internet
7 8 (1.69%) BGP
8 5 (1.06%) MPLS
8 5 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.85%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (0.85%) Network Security
9 4 (0.85%) OSPF
9 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.85%) SNMP
9 4 (0.85%) TACACS
9 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.64%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.57%) Power BI
2 26 (5.51%) Tableau
3 7 (1.48%) Metadata
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.85%) MS Access
5 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.85%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.42%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) EDMS
8 1 (0.21%) Essbase
8 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (24.79%) JIRA
2 17 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (2.75%) Burp Suite
4 13 (2.75%) Metasploit
5 9 (1.91%) Git
6 7 (1.48%) Toad
7 4 (0.85%) MLflow
7 4 (0.85%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) ClearCase
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
1 266 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 188 (39.83%) Finance
3 97 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (18.64%) Banking
5 58 (12.29%) Organisational Skills
5 58 (12.29%) Presentation Skills
6 38 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 34 (7.20%) Legal
8 27 (5.72%) Marketing
9 19 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.54%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.54%) Retail
12 11 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.27%) Electronics
14 6 (1.27%) Front Office
14 6 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 149 (31.57%) Analyst
2 70 (14.83%) Business Analyst
3 33 (6.99%) Project Manager
4 28 (5.93%) Architect
4 28 (5.93%) Senior
5 26 (5.51%) PMO Analyst
6 24 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.66%) Administrator
7 22 (4.66%) Lead
8 21 (4.45%) Consultant
8 21 (4.45%) Technical Analyst
9 19 (4.03%) Technical Business Analyst
10 18 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.18%) Coordinator
11 15 (3.18%) PMO Manager
11 15 (3.18%) Tester
12 13 (2.75%) Migration Analyst
12 13 (2.75%) Penetration Tester
13 12 (2.54%) Payments Architect
13 12 (2.54%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.06%) VML
3 4 (0.85%) NETCONF
3 4 (0.85%) NumPy
3 4 (0.85%) OpenConfig
3 4 (0.85%) Pandas
3 4 (0.85%) Playwright
3 4 (0.85%) RESTCONF
3 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
3 4 (0.85%) Seaborn
3 4 (0.85%) YANG
4 3 (0.64%) ADO
4 3 (0.64%) XML
5 2 (0.42%) Web Services
5 2 (0.42%) XSLT
6 1 (0.21%) COM
6 1 (0.21%) CSS
6 1 (0.21%) Node.js
6 1 (0.21%) REST
6 1 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.69%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.57%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.93%) Management Information System
4 24 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.33%) PMI
6 11 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.91%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.91%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.48%) Tandem
10 6 (1.27%) Equities
10 6 (1.27%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.27%) NHS
10 6 (1.27%) Social Media
11 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.51%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (23.94%) Project Management
3 110 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 104 (22.03%) Agile
5 103 (21.82%) Project Delivery
6 66 (13.98%) DevOps
7 65 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 60 (12.71%) Decision-Making
10 57 (12.08%) Migration
11 55 (11.65%) Time Management
12 51 (10.81%) Business Analysis
12 51 (10.81%) Waterfall
13 46 (9.75%) Process Improvement
14 37 (7.84%) Analytics
15 36 (7.63%) PRINCE2
16 35 (7.42%) Change Management
16 35 (7.42%) Regulatory Compliance
16 35 (7.42%) Risk Management
17 34 (7.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.53%) SQL
2 24 (5.08%) Python
3 7 (1.48%) C#
3 7 (1.48%) VB
4 5 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.85%) Perl
5 4 (0.85%) PHP
5 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.85%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.85%) VBA
6 3 (0.64%) Java
6 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.21%) C
8 1 (0.21%) C++
8 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 128 (27.12%) Degree
2 70 (14.83%) Security Cleared
3 56 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.45%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.60%) PMP
6 14 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.75%) CHECK Team Member
8 11 (2.33%) CREST Certified
8 11 (2.33%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.33%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.12%) CBAP
9 10 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.91%) IIBA
11 8 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.48%) CCIE
12 7 (1.48%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.06%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (21.19%) PMO
2 25 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.30%) QA
3 19 (4.03%) GDPR
4 13 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.75%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.48%) P3O
6 5 (1.06%) SLA
7 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) MiFID
8 3 (0.64%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) FATCA
10 1 (0.21%) GAAP
10 1 (0.21%) GAMP
System Software
1 13 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.06%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (5.08%) Ansible
2 13 (2.75%) Nmap
3 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.85%) SCCM
4 4 (0.85%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 220 (46.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.08%) Oracle
3 20 (4.24%) SAP
4 19 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.39%) Cisco
5 16 (3.39%) Sonatype
6 14 (2.97%) Adobe
7 12 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.91%) Remedy
9 8 (1.69%) F5
9 8 (1.69%) Google
9 8 (1.69%) Juniper
10 7 (1.48%) Workday
11 6 (1.27%) Charles River
11 6 (1.27%) Splunk
12 5 (1.06%) Ariba
12 5 (1.06%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.06%) Databricks
12 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.06%) Planview