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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 190 187
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +45
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 500 468 597
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.37% 1.36%
As % of the Applications category 17.16% 19.07% 17.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 253 384
10th Percentile £275 £219 £200
25th Percentile £319 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £595
90th Percentile £600 £748 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 28
10th Percentile £14.25 - £15.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £20.58
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £25.19
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -35.57% +33.85%
75th Percentile £30.50 £21.46 £30.00
90th Percentile £35.50 £31.17 £43.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.01% -35.08% +40.77%

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 2,914 2,454 3,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.90% 7.20% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,672 1,443 2,133
10th Percentile £199 £169 £163
25th Percentile £304 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £401 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +0.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £638 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £368 £350
% change year-on-year +13.20% +5.00% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 219 268
10th Percentile £12.82 - £14.15
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £17.14
Median hourly rate £20.35 £25.00 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -10.39% +11.60%
75th Percentile £30.00 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £58.95 £66.00 £51.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £24.19 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.69% -12.04% +10.46%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -30 422 £464 -0.70% 156
UK excluding London -45 234 £400 -5.88% 132
London +22 228 £500 +2.25% 63
Work from Home +12 153 £450 -1.32% 51
North of England -29 67 £325 -3.42% 24
South East -28 44 £475 +5.56% 64
Midlands -20 37 £360 -31.48% 16
Yorkshire -36 34 £313 +37.58% 5
Scotland +2 32 £363 -3.33% 3
North West -13 31 £468 +10.00% 17
West Midlands -20 27 £313 -40.38% 11
South West -11 19 £495 +10.00% 17
Northern Ireland +3 14 £475 +137.50% 3
East of England -66 14 £375 -11.71% 9
Wales +14 12 £308 -57.29% 2
East Midlands -11 11 £453 +1.83% 5
North East -15 2 £390 -48.00% 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
1 118 (23.60%) SharePoint
2 53 (10.60%) Confluence
3 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.80%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.40%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.80%) Resin
7 3 (0.60%) SAS
8 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 2 (0.40%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 436 (87.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (38.00%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (21.40%) MS Visio
4 56 (11.20%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.00%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.80%) InDesign
7 4 (0.80%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.60%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.60%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.60%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.60%) Workfront
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.20%) BPCS
6 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
1 57 (11.40%) Power Platform
2 42 (8.40%) Azure
3 14 (2.80%) GitHub
4 13 (2.60%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.40%) AWS
6 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.60%) Smartsheet
7 8 (1.60%) Viva Engage
8 7 (1.40%) Asana
8 7 (1.40%) SaaS
9 6 (1.20%) Miro
9 6 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Collibra
10 5 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.00%) LAN
2 14 (2.80%) Firewall
3 13 (2.60%) WAN
3 13 (2.60%) Wireless
4 10 (2.00%) VPN
5 9 (1.80%) Skype
6 7 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.00%) BGP
7 5 (1.00%) MPLS
8 4 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.60%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 3 (0.60%) OSPF
9 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.60%) Softphone
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.60%) Power BI
2 22 (4.40%) Tableau
3 9 (1.80%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.60%) Metadata
5 5 (1.00%) DB2
6 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.80%) MS Access
6 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.80%) Spotfire
6 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.80%) SQLPlus
7 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.40%) EDMS
8 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
8 2 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (17.80%) JIRA
2 12 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.60%) Burp Suite
3 8 (1.60%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.20%) Git
5 5 (1.00%) ClearCase
6 4 (0.80%) Toad
7 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 294 (58.80%) Social Skills
2 206 (41.20%) Finance
3 130 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (14.40%) Organisational Skills
5 59 (11.80%) Banking
6 55 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
7 44 (8.80%) Public Sector
8 27 (5.40%) Legal
8 27 (5.40%) Marketing
9 25 (5.00%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.60%) Retail
12 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.00%) Front Office
14 9 (1.80%) Billing
15 7 (1.40%) Electronics
16 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.20%) Law
17 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 176 (35.20%) Analyst
2 59 (11.80%) Business Analyst
3 54 (10.80%) Project Manager
4 27 (5.40%) PMO Analyst
4 27 (5.40%) Senior
5 23 (4.60%) Administrator
6 22 (4.40%) Support Analyst
6 22 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
7 20 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 18 (3.60%) Architect
8 18 (3.60%) Consultant
8 18 (3.60%) Lead
8 18 (3.60%) Technical Business Analyst
9 17 (3.40%) IT Manager
10 16 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.80%) Junior
12 13 (2.60%) Report Analyst
13 12 (2.40%) IT Project Manager
13 12 (2.40%) Project Analyst
14 11 (2.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.00%) ADO
2 5 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.00%) VML
3 3 (0.60%) CSS
3 3 (0.60%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.60%) HTML
3 3 (0.60%) Node.js
3 3 (0.60%) Playwright
3 3 (0.60%) React
3 3 (0.60%) RESTful
4 2 (0.40%) ISPF
4 2 (0.40%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.40%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.40%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.40%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) EDI
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.40%) Onboarding
2 30 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.80%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.60%) PMI
7 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.40%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.40%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.20%) NHS
9 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (0.80%) 3D Printing
10 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.20%) Windows
2 5 (1.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.00%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) OS/2
4 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (26.20%) Project Management
2 127 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (23.60%) Agile
4 104 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (15.80%) Project Delivery
6 71 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (12.80%) Decision-Making
8 63 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 60 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (10.80%) Time Management
11 53 (10.60%) Process Improvement
12 50 (10.00%) Data Analysis
13 46 (9.20%) PRINCE2
14 42 (8.40%) Risk Management
14 42 (8.40%) Waterfall
15 41 (8.20%) DevOps
16 40 (8.00%) Analytics
17 39 (7.80%) Migration
18 38 (7.60%) Change Management
18 38 (7.60%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 51 (10.20%) SQL
2 28 (5.60%) Python
3 10 (2.00%) Java
3 10 (2.00%) R
4 7 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
5 5 (1.00%) C
5 5 (1.00%) C#
6 4 (0.80%) Perl
6 4 (0.80%) PHP
6 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.80%) VBA
7 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.60%) VB
8 2 (0.40%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.40%) CLIST
8 2 (0.40%) COBOL
8 2 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 123 (24.60%) Degree
2 57 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.40%) PMP
6 9 (1.80%) HNC
7 8 (1.60%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.60%) HND
8 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.20%) CCNP
9 6 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.20%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.20%) Cyber Scheme
9 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.20%) Postgraduate
10 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.00%) CCIE
10 5 (1.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (19.60%) PMO
2 27 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.80%) QA
4 16 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.80%) GDPR
6 9 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.60%) P3O
8 4 (0.80%) COBIT
8 4 (0.80%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.60%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.60%) MiFID
10 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.40%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.60%) Docker
3 2 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 2 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.80%) SCCM
3 13 (2.60%) Ansible
4 8 (1.60%) Nmap
5 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.60%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.60%) Terraform
7 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
7 2 (0.40%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 245 (49.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.60%) Oracle
3 26 (5.20%) SAP
4 24 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.80%) Cisco
6 14 (2.80%) Planview
7 9 (1.80%) Adobe
8 8 (1.60%) Remedy
8 8 (1.60%) Sonatype
9 7 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.20%) Google
11 5 (1.00%) Databricks
11 5 (1.00%) F5
11 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.00%) IFS
11 5 (1.00%) Juniper
11 5 (1.00%) NetApp
12 4 (0.80%) Apple
12 4 (0.80%) TIBCO