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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 179 179
Rank change year-on-year -98 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 436 458 573
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.55% 1.31%
As % of the Applications category 15.99% 18.24% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 237 235
10th Percentile £213 £210 £187
25th Percentile £308 £300 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £639 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £389 £375 £355
% change year-on-year +3.67% +5.63% -16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 56 163
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.75 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.33% +8.20% -43.40%
75th Percentile £29.88 £21.52 £23.77
90th Percentile £33.46 £33.32 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +38.63% +8.20% -33.42%

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 2,726 2,511 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 8.51% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,459 1,672
10th Percentile £227 £191 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £541 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £389 £375
% change year-on-year +9.32% +3.67% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 288 639
10th Percentile £13.17 £14.27 £11.64
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +48.11% -40.17%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £37.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £64.63 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.71 £24.40 £16.06
% change year-on-year -15.12% +51.95% -39.35%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -86 392 £447 +8.36% 194
UK excluding London -96 233 £389 +3.67% 145
London -50 185 £495 +18.21% 78
Work from Home -73 114 £375 -9.09% 78
South East -29 61 £430 +56.36% 46
North of England -61 60 £399 -3.33% 26
Midlands -40 39 £460 +59.17% 24
South West -7 30 £310 -38.86% 26
Yorkshire -58 30 £396 -4.00% 9
North West -33 29 £447 -0.67% 15
West Midlands -43 27 £475 +64.36% 18
Scotland -23 26 £375 +15.38% 11
East of England -69 16 £509 +71.96% 10
East Midlands -11 13 £455 - 6
Northern Ireland -15 5 £369 -22.37% 5
Wales -15 1 £213 - 1
North East -36 1 £390 +254.55% 3

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 77 (17.66%) SharePoint
2 55 (12.61%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.15%) CMS
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 375 (86.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (45.18%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (15.60%) MS Visio
4 52 (11.93%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.38%) Primavera
2 6 (1.38%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.15%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.92%) Magento
5 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.69%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.46%) Shopify
6 2 (0.46%) Workfront
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.61%) Power Platform
2 29 (6.65%) Azure
3 28 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.96%) AWS
5 14 (3.21%) Figma
5 14 (3.21%) GitHub
5 14 (3.21%) SaaS
6 10 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.61%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (1.38%) Canva
9 6 (1.38%) Dagster
9 6 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.38%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.92%) Collibra
10 4 (0.92%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.29%) Internet
2 9 (2.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.38%) VPN
3 6 (1.38%) WAN
4 5 (1.15%) BGP
4 5 (1.15%) Wireless
5 4 (0.92%) LAN
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 4 (0.92%) RSVP
5 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.69%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.69%) FTP
6 3 (0.69%) Intranet
6 3 (0.69%) OSPF
6 3 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.46%) MPLS
7 2 (0.46%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.47%) Power BI
2 19 (4.36%) Tableau
3 4 (0.92%) Power Query
4 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) DataStage
6 1 (0.23%) Db2
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (19.72%) JIRA
2 13 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.75%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.38%) MLflow
6 5 (1.15%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.15%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.92%) Subversion
8 3 (0.69%) Toad
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.23%) MSI
9 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 225 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 173 (39.68%) Finance
3 100 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.60%) Banking
5 67 (15.37%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.40%) Presentation Skills
7 36 (8.26%) Legal
8 33 (7.57%) Marketing
9 24 (5.50%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.67%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.67%) Retail
11 13 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.75%) Military
13 10 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.83%) Front Office
16 7 (1.61%) Advertising
16 7 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (25.00%) Analyst
2 53 (12.16%) Business Analyst
3 37 (8.49%) Project Manager
4 33 (7.57%) Senior
5 24 (5.50%) Consultant
6 23 (5.28%) Architect
7 20 (4.59%) PMO Analyst
8 18 (4.13%) Coordinator
8 18 (4.13%) Lead
9 17 (3.90%) Project Officer
10 16 (3.67%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.44%) Administrator
11 15 (3.44%) Project Support Officer
12 14 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.75%) Transformation Analyst
15 11 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (2.52%) Payments Architect
15 11 (2.52%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) NumPy
1 6 (1.38%) Pandas
1 6 (1.38%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.38%) Seaborn
2 5 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.15%) VML
3 4 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.92%) JDO
3 4 (0.92%) REST
3 4 (0.92%) XML
4 3 (0.69%) Flutter
4 3 (0.69%) React Native
4 3 (0.69%) Web Services
4 3 (0.69%) XSLT
5 2 (0.46%) .NET
5 2 (0.46%) HTML
5 2 (0.46%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.46%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.46%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.46%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.83%) Life Science
7 8 (1.83%) Social Media
8 7 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.38%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.38%) PMI
10 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.15%) Tandem
11 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.92%) CMDB
11 4 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.69%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.82%) Windows
2 5 (1.15%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (30.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (26.83%) Project Management
3 107 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (24.08%) Agile
5 103 (23.62%) Project Delivery
6 67 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 64 (14.68%) Decision-Making
8 59 (13.53%) Waterfall
9 56 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (11.47%) DevOps
11 44 (10.09%) Migration
12 42 (9.63%) Analytics
12 42 (9.63%) Business Analysis
13 40 (9.17%) Data Analysis
14 39 (8.94%) AI
15 36 (8.26%) Business Case
15 36 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
15 36 (8.26%) PRINCE2
16 35 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.49%) SQL
2 22 (5.05%) Python
3 7 (1.61%) VB
4 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.15%) VBA
5 4 (0.92%) Bicep
6 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.69%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.46%) C#
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (30.50%) Degree
2 77 (17.66%) Security Cleared
3 64 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.98%) PMP
7 12 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.29%) CBAP
9 10 (2.29%) IIBA
10 6 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.15%) CHECK Team Member
11 5 (1.15%) CISM
11 5 (1.15%) CISSP
11 5 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 5 (1.15%) Cyber Scheme
11 5 (1.15%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.92%) CCIE
12 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (21.33%) PMO
2 24 (5.50%) QA
3 23 (5.28%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.38%) GDPR
6 6 (1.38%) P3O
7 5 (1.15%) MiFID
7 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.15%) SLA
8 4 (0.92%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.69%) NIST
10 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.23%) FATCA
11 1 (0.23%) HL7
11 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (3.90%) Ansible
2 7 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Nmap
4 4 (0.92%) SCCM
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 222 (50.92%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.28%) Adobe
4 21 (4.82%) SAP
5 18 (4.13%) Google
5 18 (4.13%) Oracle
6 13 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.29%) Splunk
8 9 (2.06%) Cisco
9 8 (1.83%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.61%) Planview
10 7 (1.61%) Remedy
10 7 (1.61%) Workday
11 6 (1.38%) F5
12 5 (1.15%) Apple
12 5 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.15%) Juniper
12 5 (1.15%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.92%) Ariba
13 4 (0.92%) Qualys