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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 184 187
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 508 456 586
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.41% 1.36%
As % of the Applications category 17.76% 19.36% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 247 372
10th Percentile £275 £219 £198
25th Percentile £325 £323 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% - -
75th Percentile £544 £560 £588
90th Percentile £613 £733 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £424 £425
% change year-on-year -2.47% -0.18% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 60 30
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% -28.66% +28.24%
75th Percentile £30.00 £21.46 £29.58
90th Percentile £35.50 £30.52 £35.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.99 £16.23 £21.55
% change year-on-year +10.83% -24.69% +21.48%

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 2,861 2,355 3,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.77% 7.27% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,387 2,082
10th Percentile £200 £169 £163
25th Percentile £307 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £647 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £363 £350
% change year-on-year +17.24% +3.57% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 204 284
10th Percentile £12.82 - £13.29
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £16.28
Median hourly rate £20.26 £25.34 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.07% -2.54% +0.30%
75th Percentile £29.61 £44.16 £46.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £53.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.40% +1.29% -

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -21 437 £465 - 215
UK excluding London -42 248 £414 -2.47% 139
London +17 232 £500 +2.25% 108
Work from Home +17 147 £425 -6.80% 68
North of England -25 70 £390 +15.90% 26
South East -16 50 £475 +5.56% 67
Midlands -18 44 £455 -11.86% 20
North West -8 34 £455 +7.06% 22
Yorkshire -31 34 £313 +37.58% 4
Scotland -4 33 £350 -6.67% 6
West Midlands -32 27 £313 -40.38% 15
South West -13 21 £550 +22.22% 12
East Midlands -8 18 £465 +4.49% 5
Northern Ireland +2 14 £475 - 3
East of England -51 14 £375 -11.71% 7
Wales +6 10 £260 -63.89% 1
North East -16 2 £390 -48.00%

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
1 119 (23.43%) SharePoint
2 60 (11.81%) Confluence
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.77%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.39%) Resin
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 447 (87.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (37.80%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (20.47%) MS Visio
4 57 (11.22%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.98%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.79%) InDesign
8 3 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.39%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.39%) SystmOne
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
Cloud Services
1 58 (11.42%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (10.24%) Power Platform
3 45 (8.86%) Azure
4 15 (2.95%) AWS
5 14 (2.76%) GitHub
6 13 (2.56%) OneDrive
7 11 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.77%) Viva Engage
10 8 (1.57%) Smartsheet
11 7 (1.38%) SaaS
12 5 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (0.98%) Collibra
12 5 (0.98%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.79%) Miro
13 4 (0.79%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.79%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 4 (0.79%) Slack
13 4 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.54%) Firewall
2 17 (3.35%) Wireless
3 15 (2.95%) LAN
4 13 (2.56%) WAN
5 10 (1.97%) VPN
6 9 (1.77%) Skype
7 7 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.98%) BGP
8 5 (0.98%) MPLS
9 4 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.59%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Wireless
10 3 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.59%) Network Security
10 3 (0.59%) OSPF
10 3 (0.59%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.59%) Softphone
10 3 (0.59%) WLAN
11 2 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.65%) Power BI
2 30 (5.91%) Tableau
3 9 (1.77%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.57%) Metadata
5 4 (0.79%) MS Access
5 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.79%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.59%) DB2
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.59%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.39%) EDMS
7 2 (0.39%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 101 (19.88%) JIRA
2 12 (2.36%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.36%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.98%) ClearCase
6 4 (0.79%) Git
6 4 (0.79%) Toad
7 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 3 (0.59%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 299 (58.86%) Social Skills
2 209 (41.14%) Finance
3 122 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (13.98%) Banking
5 69 (13.58%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (9.65%) Public Sector
8 27 (5.31%) Legal
8 27 (5.31%) Marketing
9 22 (4.33%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.17%) Retail
14 10 (1.97%) Front Office
15 9 (1.77%) Billing
16 7 (1.38%) Electronics
16 7 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 6 (1.18%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 175 (34.45%) Analyst
2 62 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 50 (9.84%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.10%) Senior
5 28 (5.51%) PMO Analyst
6 26 (5.12%) Architect
7 24 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.53%) Administrator
9 22 (4.33%) Technical Analyst
10 21 (4.13%) Consultant
11 19 (3.74%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.74%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.54%) Technical Business Analyst
13 17 (3.35%) IT Manager
14 16 (3.15%) Lead
15 15 (2.95%) Report Analyst
15 15 (2.95%) Tester
16 13 (2.56%) PMO Manager
16 13 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (2.36%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.79%) ADO
2 4 (0.79%) VML
3 3 (0.59%) CSS
3 3 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.59%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.59%) HTML
3 3 (0.59%) Node.js
3 3 (0.59%) Playwright
3 3 (0.59%) React
3 3 (0.59%) RESTful
4 2 (0.39%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.39%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.39%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.39%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.68%) Onboarding
3 29 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.57%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.57%) PMI
8 7 (1.38%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.38%) NHS
8 7 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.98%) Graphic Design
10 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.91%) Windows
2 5 (0.98%) Linux
2 5 (0.98%) Mac OS
2 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (26.57%) Project Management
2 128 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (23.23%) Agile
4 117 (23.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 94 (18.50%) Project Delivery
6 74 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 62 (12.20%) Decision-Making
9 58 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (10.83%) Time Management
11 53 (10.43%) DevOps
12 52 (10.24%) Process Improvement
13 48 (9.45%) PRINCE2
14 45 (8.86%) Data Analysis
15 43 (8.46%) Migration
15 43 (8.46%) Risk Management
15 43 (8.46%) Waterfall
16 40 (7.87%) Change Management
17 39 (7.68%) Customer Service
18 38 (7.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.84%) SQL
2 22 (4.33%) Python
3 9 (1.77%) R
4 8 (1.57%) Java
5 7 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.38%) Shell Script
6 5 (0.98%) C
6 5 (0.98%) C#
7 4 (0.79%) Perl
7 4 (0.79%) PHP
7 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.59%) VB
8 3 (0.59%) VBA
9 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 131 (25.79%) Degree
2 65 (12.80%) Security Cleared
3 50 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.33%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.74%) PMP
6 12 (2.36%) CHECK Team Member
7 10 (1.97%) CREST Certified
7 10 (1.97%) Cyber Scheme
7 10 (1.97%) Postgraduate
8 9 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.57%) HNC
10 7 (1.38%) HND
10 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.18%) CCNP
11 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.98%) CBAP
12 5 (0.98%) IIBA
12 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (21.26%) PMO
2 27 (5.31%) QA
3 25 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (3.54%) GDPR
6 13 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.57%) P3O
8 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.79%) COBIT
9 4 (0.79%) NIST
10 3 (0.59%) MiFID
11 2 (0.39%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.39%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.39%) SLA
12 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (4.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.76%) SCCM
3 13 (2.56%) Ansible
4 12 (2.36%) Nmap
5 4 (0.79%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.59%) Terraform
7 2 (0.39%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 248 (48.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.50%) Oracle
3 26 (5.12%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.72%) SAP
5 14 (2.76%) Cisco
5 14 (2.76%) Planview
5 14 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.17%) Adobe
7 10 (1.97%) Remedy
8 8 (1.57%) Sonatype
9 7 (1.38%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.18%) Google
11 5 (0.98%) F5
11 5 (0.98%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.98%) Juniper
11 5 (0.98%) NetApp
12 4 (0.79%) Apple
12 4 (0.79%) Citrix
12 4 (0.79%) Databricks
12 4 (0.79%) Workday