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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 193 209
Rank change year-on-year -88 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 490 493 450
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.50% 1.20%
As % of the Applications category 16.24% 17.73% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 262 212
10th Percentile £238 £250 £208
25th Percentile £313 £309 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £436 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -3.06% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £593
90th Percentile £638 £637 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 105
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -39.16% +62.05% -21.14%
75th Percentile £27.38 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.50 £59.37 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £21.26 £16.23
% change year-on-year -24.74% +30.99% -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 3,017 2,781 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 8.47% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,565 1,421
10th Percentile £200 £195 £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 £541 £525
90th Percentile £638 £641 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 350 252
10th Percentile £13.31 £13.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.03 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.71 £25.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.18% +47.06% -32.00%
75th Percentile £31.50 £33.91 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £57.66 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £22.63 £16.23
% change year-on-year -22.67% +39.43% -27.06%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -70 438 £455 +1.11% 742
UK excluding London -65 274 £425 +13.33% 406
London -74 194 £488 -1.02% 378
Work from Home -92 134 £470 +17.50% 253
South East 0 93 £483 +42.96% 109
North of England -83 61 £421 +20.36% 83
Midlands -33 38 £475 +58.33% 60
Scotland -24 35 £488 +50.00% 24
West Midlands -45 30 £475 +58.33% 44
North West -53 30 £488 +45.52% 46
Yorkshire -43 29 £400 +10.34% 25
South West -36 26 £310 -43.73% 50
East of England -36 17 £509 +30.10% 46
East Midlands -12 8 £490 - 16
Wales -18 3 £450 +46.34% 11
Northern Ireland -20 2 £369 -22.37% 26
North East -39 2 - - 12

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
1 112 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 34 (6.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Moodle
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 421 (85.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (38.98%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (14.90%) MS Visio
4 70 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (2.24%) Photoshop
6 10 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (1.84%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.20%) Civil 3D
11 1 (0.20%) InDesign
11 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.20%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.20%) Trello
11 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Magento
2 7 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) Primavera
4 4 (0.82%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.82%) Workfront
5 3 (0.61%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.41%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
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 Financials
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.08%) Power Platform
2 49 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (8.16%) Azure
4 17 (3.47%) AWS
5 15 (3.06%) SaaS
6 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.65%) Figma
7 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 10 (2.04%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.84%) Lucidchart
11 8 (1.63%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.43%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.43%) Smartsheet
13 6 (1.22%) Miro
14 5 (1.02%) Google Analytics
14 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.82%) Google Docs
15 4 (0.82%) Google Sheets
15 4 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.04%) LAN
1 10 (2.04%) WAN
2 7 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.22%) 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%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.65%) Power BI
2 12 (2.45%) Power Query
3 5 (1.02%) 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 (13.67%) JIRA
2 10 (2.04%) Git
3 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) 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
1 290 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 195 (39.80%) Finance
3 153 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (26.73%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (9.59%) Banking
6 39 (7.96%) Marketing
7 33 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (5.92%) Public Sector
9 28 (5.71%) Legal
9 28 (5.71%) Retail
10 20 (4.08%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.45%) Military
13 10 (2.04%) Front Office
14 9 (1.84%) French Language
15 8 (1.63%) Advertising
15 8 (1.63%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 97 (19.80%) Analyst
2 44 (8.98%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.76%) Administrator
4 36 (7.35%) Senior
5 30 (6.12%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.71%) Consultant
7 26 (5.31%) Project Officer
8 25 (5.10%) Support Officer
9 24 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 24 (4.90%) PMO Analyst
10 23 (4.69%) Project Support Officer
11 20 (4.08%) Lead
12 17 (3.47%) Architect
13 15 (3.06%) Project Coordinator
13 15 (3.06%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.86%) Support Specialist
15 13 (2.65%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.65%) Designer
15 13 (2.65%) PMO Planner
16 12 (2.45%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) VML
1 8 (1.63%) Web Services
1 8 (1.63%) XML
2 6 (1.22%) XSLT
3 5 (1.02%) .NET
4 4 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.82%) Flutter
4 4 (0.82%) Middleware
4 4 (0.82%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.82%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.82%) React Native
4 4 (0.82%) REST
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
6 2 (0.41%) JDO
6 2 (0.41%) Playwright
6 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.96%) Onboarding
2 35 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.63%) Graphic Design
8 7 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.43%) Life Science
8 7 (1.43%) Video Editing
8 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.22%) Learning Management System
9 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.82%) CMDB
10 4 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.67%) 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
1 187 (38.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 122 (24.90%) Project Management
4 108 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (21.22%) Agile
6 94 (19.18%) Project Delivery
7 90 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 72 (14.69%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.63%) Waterfall
10 55 (11.22%) Data Analysis
11 53 (10.82%) AI
12 51 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (9.59%) Analytics
13 47 (9.59%) PRINCE2
14 43 (8.78%) Risk Management
15 40 (8.16%) Business Case
15 40 (8.16%) Change Management
15 40 (8.16%) Project Governance
16 35 (7.14%) Portfolio Management
17 33 (6.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.69%) SQL
2 15 (3.06%) Python
3 7 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.02%) VBA
5 4 (0.82%) Bicep
5 4 (0.82%) 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
1 117 (23.88%) Degree
2 100 (20.41%) Security Cleared
3 60 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.67%) PMP
7 12 (2.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
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 (0.82%) CCIE
10 4 (0.82%) IIBA
10 4 (0.82%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.82%) MBA
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CAPM
11 3 (0.61%) CISM
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (25.51%) PMO
2 24 (4.90%) QA
3 15 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.04%) GRC
6 8 (1.63%) P3O
7 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.02%) NIST
9 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.82%) MiFID
10 3 (0.61%) GMP
11 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.41%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.41%) GDPR
11 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.41%) NCSC
11 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.63%) Ansible
1 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 324 (66.12%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.37%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.33%) SAP
4 22 (4.49%) Google
5 17 (3.47%) Adobe
5 17 (3.47%) Oracle
5 17 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.04%) Workday
7 7 (1.43%) Cisco
7 7 (1.43%) F5
8 6 (1.22%) Planview
9 4 (0.82%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.82%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.82%) Juniper
9 4 (0.82%) Okta
9 4 (0.82%) Qualys
9 4 (0.82%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.82%) Splunk
9 4 (0.82%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.82%) Wrike