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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 189 214
Rank change year-on-year -98 +25 -39
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 492 488 442
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.47% 1.17%
As % of the Applications category 16.16% 17.50% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 255 213
10th Percentile £238 £249 £208
25th Percentile £325 £304 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £600
90th Percentile £638 £619 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £373 £383
% change year-on-year +17.72% -2.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 51 95
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.27 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +31.05% -21.14%
75th Percentile £29.59 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £59.30 £29.50
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 3,045 2,789 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 8.42% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 1,562 1,444
10th Percentile £200 £190 £164
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.13% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 364 254
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.25 £14.52
25th Percentile £14.31 £16.20 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.54 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.66% +17.70% -20.00%
75th Percentile £30.28 £33.91 £36.56
90th Percentile £61.10 £57.80 £59.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +32.35% -24.44%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -79 443 £475 +5.56% 858
UK excluding London -61 271 £439 +17.72% 450
London -73 200 £488 - 458
Work from Home -80 132 £478 +12.47% 283
South East -1 98 £500 +81.82% 129
North of England -78 61 £425 +14.16% 95
Midlands -41 36 £475 +64.64% 58
Scotland -22 33 £375 +15.93% 26
North West -55 30 £500 +34.23% 57
Yorkshire -30 29 £400 +7.38% 28
West Midlands -47 29 £461 +59.88% 40
South West -32 20 £335 -39.09% 56
East of England -42 20 £417 +11.20% 49
East Midlands -10 7 £490 - 18
Wales -17 3 £450 +46.34% 14
North East -42 2 - - 11
Northern Ireland -18 1 £388 -18.42% 28

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
1 119 (24.19%) SharePoint
2 38 (7.72%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Moodle
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 422 (85.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 175 (35.57%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 69 (14.02%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.64%) Photoshop
6 12 (2.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.81%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.20%) CATIA
9 1 (0.20%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Magento
2 6 (1.22%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.81%) Primavera
4 4 (0.81%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.81%) Workfront
5 3 (0.61%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.61%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.20%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.02%) Power Platform
2 50 (10.16%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (9.96%) Azure
4 22 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.46%) AWS
6 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (3.05%) Figma
7 15 (3.05%) Lucidchart
7 15 (3.05%) SaaS
8 14 (2.85%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.24%) Miro
9 11 (2.24%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.63%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.42%) Smartsheet
12 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.81%) GCP
13 4 (0.81%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.81%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.03%) LAN
1 10 (2.03%) WAN
2 7 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.02%) FTP
4 4 (0.81%) BGP
4 4 (0.81%) DNS
4 4 (0.81%) MPLS
4 4 (0.81%) SNMP
4 4 (0.81%) TACACS
5 3 (0.61%) DHCP
5 3 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.61%) Firewall
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
5 3 (0.61%) RSVP
5 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.99%) Power BI
2 12 (2.44%) Power Query
3 5 (1.02%) Tableau
4 4 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.61%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) DataStage
7 1 (0.20%) GIS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (14.43%) JIRA
2 10 (2.03%) Git
3 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) Subversion
4 4 (0.81%) Selenium
5 3 (0.61%) 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 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 295 (59.96%) Social Skills
2 193 (39.23%) Finance
3 155 (31.50%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (26.83%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (10.37%) Banking
6 39 (7.93%) Marketing
7 32 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.69%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.08%) Legal
9 25 (5.08%) Retail
10 24 (4.88%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.24%) Front Office
14 10 (2.03%) French Language
15 9 (1.83%) Aviation
15 9 (1.83%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.42%) Advertising
16 7 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (20.12%) Analyst
2 43 (8.74%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.72%) Administrator
4 33 (6.71%) Senior
5 32 (6.50%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.69%) Business Analyst
6 28 (5.69%) Consultant
7 23 (4.67%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.47%) Lead
9 20 (4.07%) Project Officer
10 19 (3.86%) Architect
10 19 (3.86%) Support Officer
11 17 (3.46%) Project Support Officer
12 15 (3.05%) PMO Planner
12 15 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (3.05%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.85%) Support Specialist
14 13 (2.64%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.44%) IT Analyst
15 12 (2.44%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) VML
2 7 (1.42%) Web Services
2 7 (1.42%) XML
3 6 (1.22%) .NET
3 6 (1.22%) REST
4 5 (1.02%) Middleware
4 5 (1.02%) Terraform
4 5 (1.02%) XSLT
5 4 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.81%) Flutter
5 4 (0.81%) NETCONF
5 4 (0.81%) OpenConfig
5 4 (0.81%) React Native
5 4 (0.81%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.81%) YANG
6 3 (0.61%) ADO
7 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.41%) HTML
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 35 (7.11%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.03%) Graphic Design
6 10 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
8 8 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.63%) Video Editing
9 7 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.42%) Life Science
10 6 (1.22%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.66%) Windows
2 7 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (40.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 145 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (24.19%) Project Management
4 112 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (20.73%) Agile
6 94 (19.11%) Project Delivery
7 93 (18.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 73 (14.84%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.59%) Waterfall
10 56 (11.38%) AI
11 55 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (10.98%) Data Analysis
13 48 (9.76%) Analytics
14 44 (8.94%) Business Case
14 44 (8.94%) PRINCE2
15 42 (8.54%) Project Governance
16 41 (8.33%) DevOps
17 40 (8.13%) Risk Management
18 39 (7.93%) Change Management
19 37 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.67%) SQL
2 16 (3.25%) Python
3 7 (1.42%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.02%) Bicep
4 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.02%) VBA
5 4 (0.81%) Korn
6 2 (0.41%) C++
6 2 (0.41%) Java
6 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.20%) C#
7 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (22.76%) Degree
2 101 (20.53%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.88%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.86%) PMP
7 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.02%) CIPD
9 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.81%) CCIE
10 4 (0.81%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.81%) MBA
10 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CISM
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) IIBA
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (25.61%) PMO
2 24 (4.88%) QA
3 16 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.24%) GRC
5 9 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.42%) P3O
7 6 (1.22%) NIST
8 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.61%) COSHH
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.61%) GMP
9 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.61%) MiFID
9 3 (0.61%) NCSC
9 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.63%) Ansible
3 3 (0.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 335 (68.09%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.13%) ServiceNow
3 33 (6.71%) SAP
4 20 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.86%) Google
6 17 (3.46%) Oracle
7 13 (2.64%) Adobe
8 9 (1.83%) Cisco
8 9 (1.83%) Workday
9 7 (1.42%) F5
10 6 (1.22%) Planview
11 5 (1.02%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.81%) Marketo
12 4 (0.81%) Okta
12 4 (0.81%) Qualys
12 4 (0.81%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.81%) Splunk
12 4 (0.81%) Wrike
12 4 (0.81%) Xactly