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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 170 210
Rank change year-on-year -130 +40 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 426 530 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.61% 1.16%
As % of the Applications category 15.02% 18.80% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 269 199
10th Percentile £206 £232 £219
25th Percentile £305 £304 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £408 £449
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -9.22% -5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £558
90th Percentile £628 £625 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £373 £413
% change year-on-year +4.03% -9.80% +2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 65 120
10th Percentile £14.27 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.85 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +25.67% -27.11%
75th Percentile £33.22 £31.00 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.08 £35.50 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.51% +25.67% -27.11%

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 2,837 2,819 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 8.55% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,593 1,421
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £300 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 370 390
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.60 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 £17.90
Median % change year-on-year - +26.42% -22.98%
75th Percentile £36.70 £34.92 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -2.27% +35.55% -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 12 August 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 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 16 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 12 August 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 -112 376 £450 +5.88% 631
UK excluding London -112 226 £388 +4.03% 399
London -89 178 £492 +9.33% 331
Work from Home -90 121 £400 - 274
South East -36 69 £500 +48.15% 116
North of England -102 41 £380 -5.00% 86
Midlands -47 32 £478 +55.95% 54
South West -30 31 £310 -43.08% 53
Scotland -22 29 £375 +15.66% 29
West Midlands -41 28 £475 +54.98% 42
North West -53 22 £380 -15.56% 50
Yorkshire -65 19 £369 -7.81% 30
East of England -47 17 £509 +59.81% 27
Northern Ireland -15 5 £369 -13.24% 28
East Midlands -8 4 £490 - 12
Wales -16 3 £450 - 13

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 76 (17.84%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.28%) Confluence
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Moodle
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 375 (88.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (46.95%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (16.43%) Microsoft Project
4 68 (15.96%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.41%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.70%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.88%) Magento
2 5 (1.17%) Loan IQ
2 5 (1.17%) Primavera
2 5 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.94%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.94%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) TrackWise
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Workfront
6 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.38%) Power Platform
2 33 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (7.04%) Azure
4 21 (4.93%) AWS
5 17 (3.99%) SaaS
6 11 (2.58%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.35%) Figma
8 8 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.88%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.88%) GitHub
8 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.64%) Lucidchart
10 6 (1.41%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.41%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.41%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (1.17%) Dagster
11 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.82%) WAN
2 10 (2.35%) LAN
3 9 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.41%) BGP
5 6 (1.41%) MPLS
5 6 (1.41%) SNMP
5 6 (1.41%) TACACS
6 5 (1.17%) Internet
7 4 (0.94%) RSVP
7 4 (0.94%) VPN
8 3 (0.70%) DHCP
8 3 (0.70%) DNS
8 3 (0.70%) Firewall
8 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.47%) FTP
9 2 (0.47%) Intranet
9 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.23%) Network Security
10 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.21%) Power BI
2 7 (1.64%) Power Query
2 7 (1.64%) Tableau
3 3 (0.70%) PowerPivot
3 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.23%) DataStage
5 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (14.55%) JIRA
2 14 (3.29%) Git
3 9 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.88%) Subversion
5 5 (1.17%) MLflow
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.47%) MSI
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 236 (55.40%) Social Skills
2 167 (39.20%) Finance
3 128 (30.05%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (21.83%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (11.27%) Banking
6 35 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.75%) Marketing
8 30 (7.04%) Legal
9 25 (5.87%) Retail
10 20 (4.69%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (3.52%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.05%) Military
13 12 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.35%) Front Office
14 10 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.64%) Advertising
16 7 (1.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 94 (22.07%) Analyst
2 45 (10.56%) Project Manager
3 39 (9.15%) Senior
4 29 (6.81%) Business Analyst
5 24 (5.63%) PMO Analyst
6 22 (5.16%) Administrator
7 21 (4.93%) Consultant
7 21 (4.93%) Coordinator
8 19 (4.46%) Project Officer
9 18 (4.23%) IT Analyst
9 18 (4.23%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.76%) Project Support Officer
11 15 (3.52%) Lead
12 14 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.82%) Architect
14 12 (2.82%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.82%) Service Manager
14 12 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.11%) VML
2 6 (1.41%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.41%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.41%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.41%) YANG
3 5 (1.17%) NumPy
3 5 (1.17%) Pandas
3 5 (1.17%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.17%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.94%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.94%) JDO
4 4 (0.94%) REST
5 3 (0.70%) Flutter
5 3 (0.70%) React Native
5 3 (0.70%) XML
6 2 (0.47%) .NET
6 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.47%) ADO
6 2 (0.47%) Web Services
6 2 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.87%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.35%) Life Science
6 9 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.64%) PMI
9 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.17%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (0.94%) CMDB
11 4 (0.94%) Learning Management System
11 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.23%) Windows
2 4 (0.94%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (0.94%) Linux
2 4 (0.94%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
2 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.23%) Android
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (31.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (27.23%) Project Management
3 112 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (21.83%) Project Delivery
5 92 (21.60%) Agile
6 82 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (15.49%) Decision-Making
9 51 (11.97%) Waterfall
10 45 (10.56%) PRINCE2
11 43 (10.09%) Analytics
12 41 (9.62%) Data Analysis
13 40 (9.39%) AI
14 37 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (8.69%) Risk Management
15 35 (8.22%) Change Management
16 34 (7.98%) Business Case
17 33 (7.75%) Portfolio Management
18 29 (6.81%) Business Analysis
18 29 (6.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.34%) SQL
2 23 (5.40%) Python
3 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.94%) Bicep
5 4 (0.94%) VB
5 4 (0.94%) VBA
6 2 (0.47%) C++
6 2 (0.47%) Korn
6 2 (0.47%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.23%) C#
7 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (28.64%) Degree
2 81 (19.01%) Security Cleared
3 51 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.81%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.63%) PMP
6 22 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.41%) CCIE
10 6 (1.41%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.70%) CIPD
12 3 (0.70%) CISM
12 3 (0.70%) CISSP
12 3 (0.70%) MBA
13 2 (0.47%) GCIH
13 2 (0.47%) GIAC
13 2 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (23.47%) PMO
2 18 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.76%) QA
4 9 (2.11%) P3O
5 7 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.17%) MiFID
7 4 (0.94%) GRC
7 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.94%) NIST
7 4 (0.94%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) GMP
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.58%) Ansible
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.94%) SCCM
2 4 (0.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 269 (63.15%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.39%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.87%) SAP
4 20 (4.69%) Google
5 15 (3.52%) Adobe
5 15 (3.52%) Oracle
6 14 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.35%) Cisco
8 9 (2.11%) F5
9 8 (1.88%) Planview
10 7 (1.64%) Workday
11 6 (1.41%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.41%) Juniper
12 5 (1.17%) Apple
12 5 (1.17%) Splunk
13 4 (0.94%) Databricks
13 4 (0.94%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.94%) Okta
13 4 (0.94%) Wrike
13 4 (0.94%) Xactly