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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 196 207
Rank change year-on-year -94 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 498 481 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.45% 1.17%
As % of the Applications category 16.10% 17.28% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 252 214
10th Percentile £242 £250 £208
25th Percentile £338 £305 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% -2.08% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £598
90th Percentile £638 £619 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £373 £390
% change year-on-year +20.13% -4.49% -8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 90
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.19 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.84 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +40.73% -21.14%
75th Percentile £29.59 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £59.44 £30.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £20.05 £16.23
% change year-on-year -20.20% +23.54% -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 3,094 2,783 2,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 8.39% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,561 1,431
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £313 £297 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 366 244
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.19 £14.84
25th Percentile £14.31 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.69 £23.28 £20.12
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +15.70% -21.75%
75th Percentile £30.90 £33.90 £36.75
90th Percentile £61.57 £57.50 £57.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.12 £22.50 £17.75
% change year-on-year -23.91% +26.76% -21.98%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -66 448 £475 +5.56% 299
UK excluding London -77 270 £448 +20.13% 146
London -78 207 £488 -1.02% 170
Work from Home -80 132 £478 +10.52% 110
South East +5 99 £500 +81.82% 54
North of England -72 61 £425 +30.85% 26
Midlands -51 36 £475 +54.98% 12
Scotland -25 34 £375 +15.93% 7
North West -53 30 £500 +69.49% 17
Yorkshire -34 29 £400 +7.38% 7
West Midlands -48 29 £461 +59.88% 7
East of England -34 19 £417 +11.20% 15
South West -40 18 £360 -34.55% 19
East Midlands -15 7 £490 +8.14% 5
Wales -20 3 £450 +46.34% 5
North East -41 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland -17 1 £388 -18.42% 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
1 122 (24.50%) SharePoint
2 37 (7.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Moodle
5 2 (0.40%) 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
1 425 (85.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (34.74%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 69 (13.86%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.61%) Photoshop
6 12 (2.41%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.80%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.80%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (0.80%) 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 (1.61%) Magento
2 6 (1.20%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.80%) Eloqua
4 4 (0.80%) Primavera
4 4 (0.80%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.80%) Workfront
5 3 (0.60%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.40%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.20%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.06%) Power Platform
2 52 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (10.24%) Azure
4 23 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.61%) AWS
5 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
6 16 (3.21%) Entra ID
6 16 (3.21%) SaaS
7 15 (3.01%) Figma
7 15 (3.01%) Lucidchart
8 11 (2.21%) Miro
8 11 (2.21%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.81%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.41%) Smartsheet
12 5 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.00%) GCP
12 5 (1.00%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.80%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.80%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.01%) LAN
1 10 (2.01%) WAN
2 7 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.00%) DNS
3 5 (1.00%) FTP
4 4 (0.80%) BGP
4 4 (0.80%) Internet
4 4 (0.80%) MPLS
4 4 (0.80%) SNMP
4 4 (0.80%) TACACS
5 3 (0.60%) DHCP
5 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.60%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) RSVP
5 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.60%) VPN
6 2 (0.40%) Network Security
6 2 (0.40%) VoIP
6 2 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.65%) Power BI
2 12 (2.41%) Power Query
3 5 (1.00%) Tableau
4 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.60%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.40%) DTS
6 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.40%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.40%) 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%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 70 (14.06%) JIRA
2 10 (2.01%) Git
3 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.61%) Subversion
4 4 (0.80%) Selenium
5 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.40%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.40%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.40%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.40%) MSI
6 2 (0.40%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.40%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.40%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.40%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 299 (60.04%) Social Skills
2 195 (39.16%) Finance
3 157 (31.53%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (26.51%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (10.24%) Banking
6 40 (8.03%) Marketing
7 33 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.62%) Public Sector
9 27 (5.42%) Legal
10 25 (5.02%) Retail
11 24 (4.82%) Manufacturing
12 18 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.21%) French Language
14 11 (2.21%) Front Office
15 9 (1.81%) Aviation
15 9 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.41%) Advertising
16 7 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (20.08%) Analyst
2 44 (8.84%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.63%) Administrator
4 35 (7.03%) Senior
5 32 (6.43%) Coordinator
6 29 (5.82%) Consultant
7 28 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 24 (4.82%) Lead
8 24 (4.82%) PMO Analyst
9 21 (4.22%) Architect
10 19 (3.82%) Project Officer
11 18 (3.61%) Support Officer
12 16 (3.21%) Project Support Officer
13 15 (3.01%) PMO Planner
13 15 (3.01%) Project Coordinator
13 15 (3.01%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.61%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.61%) PMO Manager
14 13 (2.61%) Support Specialist
15 12 (2.41%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.61%) VML
2 7 (1.41%) .NET
2 7 (1.41%) REST
2 7 (1.41%) Terraform
2 7 (1.41%) Web Services
2 7 (1.41%) XML
3 5 (1.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (1.00%) Middleware
3 5 (1.00%) XSLT
4 4 (0.80%) Flutter
4 4 (0.80%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.80%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.80%) React Native
4 4 (0.80%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.80%) YANG
5 3 (0.60%) ADO
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.40%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.43%) Onboarding
2 38 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.01%) Graphic Design
6 10 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.01%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
7 8 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.61%) Video Editing
8 7 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.41%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.41%) Life Science
9 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.20%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.00%) CMDB
10 5 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.82%) Windows
2 8 (1.61%) Linux
3 5 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.80%) macOS
5 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (40.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 147 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (24.10%) Project Management
4 114 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 103 (20.68%) Agile
6 95 (19.08%) Project Delivery
7 93 (18.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 74 (14.86%) Decision-Making
9 59 (11.85%) AI
10 58 (11.65%) Waterfall
11 56 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (10.64%) Data Analysis
13 48 (9.64%) Analytics
14 44 (8.84%) Business Case
14 44 (8.84%) Project Governance
15 43 (8.63%) DevOps
15 43 (8.63%) PRINCE2
16 41 (8.23%) Risk Management
17 39 (7.83%) Change Management
18 37 (7.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.62%) SQL
2 18 (3.61%) Python
3 8 (1.61%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.41%) Bicep
5 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.00%) VBA
6 4 (0.80%) Korn
7 2 (0.40%) C++
7 2 (0.40%) Java
7 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.20%) C#
8 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 110 (22.09%) Degree
2 100 (20.08%) Security Cleared
3 57 (11.45%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.82%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.82%) PMP
7 8 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.00%) CIPD
8 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.80%) CCIE
9 4 (0.80%) CISM
9 4 (0.80%) CISSP
9 4 (0.80%) JNCIE
9 4 (0.80%) MBA
10 3 (0.60%) IIBA
10 3 (0.60%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (25.90%) PMO
2 25 (5.02%) QA
3 17 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.21%) GRC
5 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.41%) NIST
7 7 (1.41%) P3O
8 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.60%) COSHH
9 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.60%) GMP
9 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.60%) MiFID
9 3 (0.60%) NCSC
9 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.81%) Ansible
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 340 (68.27%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 35 (7.03%) SAP
4 21 (4.22%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.82%) Google
6 18 (3.61%) Oracle
7 14 (2.81%) Adobe
8 9 (1.81%) Cisco
8 9 (1.81%) Workday
9 7 (1.41%) F5
10 6 (1.20%) Planview
11 5 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.00%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.00%) Marketo
11 5 (1.00%) Okta
11 5 (1.00%) Qualys
11 5 (1.00%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.00%) Splunk
11 5 (1.00%) Tenable
12 4 (0.80%) Xactly