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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 192 208
Rank change year-on-year -96 +16 -27
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 488 499 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.51% 1.19%
As % of the Applications category 16.29% 17.89% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 269 211
10th Percentile £238 £250 £209
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £595
90th Percentile £638 £638 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £375 £417
% change year-on-year +12.33% -10.07% -6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 49 109
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 £21.75
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 2,995 2,789 2,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 8.45% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 1,570 1,452
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +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 499 347 263
10th Percentile £13.30 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.04 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.75 £24.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% +41.18% -25.27%
75th Percentile £33.75 £34.46 £35.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £57.85 £58.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year -22.22% +38.63% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -81 434 £450 - 790
UK excluding London -79 266 £421 +12.33% 416
London -92 199 £488 +0.35% 436
Work from Home -83 134 £463 +15.81% 257
South East -16 88 £483 +42.96% 116
North of England -67 57 £418 +4.38% 85
Midlands -36 37 £475 +51.76% 61
Scotland -33 36 £425 +31.39% 24
North West -59 30 £488 +18.18% 50
West Midlands -34 29 £475 +51.76% 44
South West -32 28 £310 -43.73% 52
Yorkshire -42 25 £400 - 26
East of England -46 16 £509 +30.10% 44
East Midlands -7 8 £490 - 17
Wales -17 3 £450 +46.34% 11
Northern Ireland -20 2 £369 -22.37% 26
North East -43 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
1 111 (22.75%) SharePoint
2 35 (7.17%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.82%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 419 (85.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (39.55%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (14.55%) MS Visio
4 70 (14.34%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (2.25%) Photoshop
6 9 (1.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (1.84%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.20%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.20%) InDesign
10 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.20%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Magento
2 7 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.23%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.02%) Primavera
5 4 (0.82%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.61%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.41%) Workfront
8 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.20%) Maximo
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (14.55%) Power Platform
2 47 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (7.79%) Azure
4 16 (3.28%) AWS
5 15 (3.07%) SaaS
6 14 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.66%) Figma
8 12 (2.46%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (2.05%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.64%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.64%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.43%) Lucidchart
11 7 (1.43%) Smartsheet
12 6 (1.23%) Miro
13 5 (1.02%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.02%) Google Docs
13 5 (1.02%) Google Sheets
13 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.05%) LAN
1 10 (2.05%) WAN
2 7 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.02%) FTP
4 4 (0.82%) BGP
4 4 (0.82%) MPLS
4 4 (0.82%) RSVP
4 4 (0.82%) SNMP
4 4 (0.82%) TACACS
5 3 (0.61%) DHCP
5 3 (0.61%) DNS
5 3 (0.61%) Firewall
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
5 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.11%) Power BI
2 12 (2.46%) Power Query
3 6 (1.23%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.61%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
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%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (13.73%) JIRA
2 10 (2.05%) Git
3 8 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.64%) Subversion
4 4 (0.82%) 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
1 287 (58.81%) Social Skills
2 199 (40.78%) Finance
3 151 (30.94%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (26.23%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (9.84%) Banking
6 36 (7.38%) Marketing
7 35 (7.17%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (5.94%) Legal
8 29 (5.94%) Public Sector
9 27 (5.53%) Retail
10 19 (3.89%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.66%) Military
14 11 (2.25%) Front Office
15 9 (1.84%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.64%) Advertising
16 8 (1.64%) French Language
17 6 (1.23%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 101 (20.70%) Analyst
2 45 (9.22%) Project Manager
3 37 (7.58%) Senior
4 34 (6.97%) Administrator
5 29 (5.94%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.74%) Consultant
7 26 (5.33%) Business Analyst
7 26 (5.33%) Project Officer
8 25 (5.12%) Support Officer
9 24 (4.92%) PMO Analyst
10 23 (4.71%) Project Support Officer
11 19 (3.89%) Lead
12 15 (3.07%) Architect
12 15 (3.07%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.07%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (3.07%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.87%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.87%) Support Specialist
14 12 (2.46%) PMO Manager
14 12 (2.46%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.64%) VML
2 7 (1.43%) Web Services
2 7 (1.43%) XML
3 5 (1.02%) .NET
3 5 (1.02%) XSLT
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 (0.61%) ADO
5 3 (0.61%) HTML
5 3 (0.61%) JDO
5 3 (0.61%) 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%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.99%) Onboarding
2 34 (6.97%) Management Information System
3 27 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.64%) Graphic Design
6 8 (1.64%) Life Science
6 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.43%) Video Editing
7 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.23%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
9 4 (0.82%) CMDB
9 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.82%) PMI
9 4 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.69%) Windows
2 7 (1.43%) 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 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (38.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (25.41%) Project Management
4 108 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 103 (21.11%) Agile
6 95 (19.47%) Project Delivery
7 88 (18.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 74 (15.16%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.68%) Waterfall
10 56 (11.48%) Data Analysis
11 52 (10.66%) AI
11 52 (10.66%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (9.63%) PRINCE2
13 44 (9.02%) Analytics
14 43 (8.81%) Risk Management
15 39 (7.99%) Business Case
15 39 (7.99%) Change Management
16 38 (7.79%) Project Governance
17 35 (7.17%) Portfolio Management
18 33 (6.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.92%) SQL
2 15 (3.07%) Python
3 7 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.23%) VBA
5 5 (1.02%) 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 (0.20%) C#
8 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 118 (24.18%) Degree
2 99 (20.29%) Security Cleared
3 60 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.71%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.69%) PMP
7 12 (2.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.02%) CIPD
9 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.82%) CCIE
10 4 (0.82%) IIBA
10 4 (0.82%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CAPM
11 3 (0.61%) CISM
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (25.20%) PMO
2 22 (4.51%) QA
3 17 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.05%) GRC
5 8 (1.64%) P3O
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.02%) NIST
8 4 (0.82%) MiFID
9 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.61%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.41%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.41%) GDPR
10 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.64%) Ansible
1 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 318 (65.16%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.61%) ServiceNow
3 29 (5.94%) SAP
4 23 (4.71%) Google
5 15 (3.07%) Oracle
6 14 (2.87%) Adobe
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.84%) Workday
8 7 (1.43%) Cisco
8 7 (1.43%) F5
9 6 (1.23%) Planview
10 4 (0.82%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.82%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.82%) Juniper
10 4 (0.82%) Okta
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