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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 182 207
Rank change year-on-year -99 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 485 494 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.52% 1.19%
As % of the Applications category 16.33% 18.01% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 264 210
10th Percentile £235 £250 £212
25th Percentile £312 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £551 £600
90th Percentile £633 £638 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £375 £423
% change year-on-year +10.67% -11.24% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 49 112
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.84 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +40.73% -21.14%
75th Percentile £28.44 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £41.00 £59.44 £19.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -15.12% +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 2,743 2,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.45% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,510 1,542 1,434
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £543 £525
90th Percentile £638 £649 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 337 265
10th Percentile £13.31 £13.40 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.02 £15.17
Median hourly rate £17.86 £23.10 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.71% +35.88% -24.55%
75th Percentile £33.99 £33.91 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £58.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £22.32 £16.23
% change year-on-year -21.58% +37.49% -26.23%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -92 432 £450 - 794
UK excluding London -76 268 £415 +10.67% 424
London -77 195 £488 +0.17% 426
Work from Home -86 133 £456 +9.61% 262
South East -9 89 £483 +42.96% 119
North of England -75 58 £406 +1.56% 87
Scotland -28 36 £425 +30.77% 24
Midlands -41 36 £478 +55.95% 58
North West -53 32 £446 +8.18% 49
South West -30 29 £310 -43.73% 59
West Midlands -43 28 £475 +54.98% 38
Yorkshire -50 24 £394 -1.56% 29
East of England -45 16 £509 +30.10% 45
East Midlands -10 8 £490 - 20
Wales -13 3 £450 +46.34% 12
Northern Ireland -20 2 £369 -22.37% 23
North East -35 2 - - 9

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
1 107 (22.06%) SharePoint
2 37 (7.63%) Confluence
3 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Moodle
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 419 (86.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (14.85%) Microsoft Project
3 72 (14.85%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.27%) Photoshop
5 9 (1.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (1.86%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.21%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.21%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.21%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.65%) Magento
2 7 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.24%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.03%) Primavera
5 4 (0.82%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.62%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.41%) Workfront
8 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
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%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.23%) Power Platform
2 46 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (8.04%) Azure
4 16 (3.30%) AWS
5 15 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.09%) SaaS
6 14 (2.89%) Figma
7 12 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (2.06%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.65%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.65%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.65%) Smartsheet
10 7 (1.44%) Lucidchart
11 6 (1.24%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.24%) Miro
12 5 (1.03%) Google Docs
12 5 (1.03%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.06%) LAN
1 10 (2.06%) WAN
2 7 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.03%) FTP
4 4 (0.82%) BGP
4 4 (0.82%) Internet
4 4 (0.82%) MPLS
4 4 (0.82%) RSVP
4 4 (0.82%) SNMP
4 4 (0.82%) TACACS
5 3 (0.62%) DHCP
5 3 (0.62%) DNS
5 3 (0.62%) Firewall
5 3 (0.62%) Intranet
5 3 (0.62%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.62%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.78%) Power BI
2 12 (2.47%) Power Query
3 7 (1.44%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) 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%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 72 (14.85%) JIRA
2 10 (2.06%) Git
3 8 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.65%) Subversion
4 4 (0.82%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.41%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.41%) MSI
6 2 (0.41%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.41%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.41%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.41%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 279 (57.53%) Social Skills
2 200 (41.24%) Finance
3 150 (30.93%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (26.80%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (10.52%) Banking
6 35 (7.22%) Marketing
7 34 (7.01%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.77%) Legal
9 24 (4.95%) Retail
10 23 (4.74%) Public Sector
11 18 (3.71%) Manufacturing
12 17 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (2.47%) Military
15 11 (2.27%) Front Office
16 10 (2.06%) Investment Banking
16 10 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.65%) Advertising
17 8 (1.65%) French Language
18 7 (1.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 102 (21.03%) Analyst
2 45 (9.28%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.84%) Senior
4 34 (7.01%) Administrator
5 29 (5.98%) Business Analyst
5 29 (5.98%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.77%) Consultant
7 26 (5.36%) Project Officer
8 25 (5.15%) Support Officer
9 23 (4.74%) PMO Analyst
9 23 (4.74%) Project Support Officer
10 18 (3.71%) Lead
11 16 (3.30%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.09%) Architect
12 15 (3.09%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (3.09%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.09%) Support Specialist
13 13 (2.68%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.68%) PMO Planner
14 12 (2.47%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.65%) VML
2 7 (1.44%) Web Services
2 7 (1.44%) XML
3 5 (1.03%) .NET
3 5 (1.03%) XSLT
4 4 (0.82%) ADO
4 4 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.82%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.82%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.82%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
4 4 (0.82%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) HTML
5 3 (0.62%) JDO
5 3 (0.62%) Middleware
6 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.41%) React Native
6 2 (0.41%) REST
6 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 33 (6.80%) Management Information System
3 26 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.65%) Graphic Design
6 8 (1.65%) Life Science
6 8 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.44%) Video Editing
8 6 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.24%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.82%) CMDB
10 4 (0.82%) PMI
10 4 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.92%) Windows
2 7 (1.44%) Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (38.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
3 126 (25.98%) Project Management
4 108 (22.27%) Agile
5 107 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 97 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 86 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 70 (14.43%) Decision-Making
9 59 (12.16%) Waterfall
10 54 (11.13%) Data Analysis
11 50 (10.31%) AI
11 50 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (9.69%) PRINCE2
13 46 (9.48%) Analytics
14 43 (8.87%) Risk Management
15 41 (8.45%) Change Management
16 39 (8.04%) Business Case
17 38 (7.84%) Project Governance
18 35 (7.22%) Workshop Facilitation
19 34 (7.01%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.74%) SQL
2 15 (3.09%) Python
3 7 (1.44%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.24%) VBA
5 5 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.82%) Bicep
6 4 (0.82%) Korn
7 2 (0.41%) C++
7 2 (0.41%) Java
7 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.21%) C#
Qualifications
1 117 (24.12%) Degree
2 97 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.54%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.51%) PMP
7 12 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 9 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.03%) CIPD
9 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.82%) CCIE
10 4 (0.82%) IIBA
10 4 (0.82%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CAPM
11 3 (0.62%) CISM
11 3 (0.62%) CISSP
11 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.57%) PMO
2 22 (4.54%) QA
3 16 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.06%) GRC
5 8 (1.65%) P3O
6 6 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.03%) NIST
8 4 (0.82%) MiFID
9 3 (0.62%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.41%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.65%) Ansible
1 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.62%) SCCM
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 320 (65.98%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.87%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.19%) SAP
4 23 (4.74%) Google
5 15 (3.09%) Oracle
6 14 (2.89%) Adobe
6 14 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.86%) Workday
8 7 (1.44%) Cisco
8 7 (1.44%) F5
9 6 (1.24%) Planview
10 4 (0.82%) Apple
10 4 (0.82%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.82%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.82%) Juniper
10 4 (0.82%) Qualys
10 4 (0.82%) Rapid7
10 4 (0.82%) Splunk
10 4 (0.82%) TOWER Software
10 4 (0.82%) Wrike