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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 202 185
Rank change year-on-year +2 -17 +38
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 497 461 638
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.25% 1.37%
As % of the Applications category 16.87% 18.48% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 247 405
10th Percentile £262 £213 £206
25th Percentile £313 £326 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £588
90th Percentile £607 £750 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £424 £425
% change year-on-year -11.61% -0.18% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 76 33
10th Percentile £15.60 - £16.00
25th Percentile £16.89 £15.62 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.92 £16.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.38% -26.23% +14.29%
75th Percentile £32.42 £20.37 £28.25
90th Percentile £35.50 £29.75 £30.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.26 £16.23 £20.58
% change year-on-year +30.99% -21.14% +7.89%

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 2,946 2,495 3,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.20% 6.79% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 1,452 2,292
10th Percentile £190 £164 £164
25th Percentile £300 £254 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £401 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +0.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £641 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £373 £361
% change year-on-year +10.66% +3.18% -9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 234 282
10th Percentile £12.98 £15.00 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.53 £25.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% -12.99% +5.01%
75th Percentile £32.75 £37.31 £45.21
90th Percentile £50.00 £62.54 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.80 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.10% -14.16% +4.17%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -20 403 £455 -2.15% 441
UK excluding London -49 236 £375 -11.61% 269
London +28 218 £500 +3.15% 215
Work from Home +23 151 £445 -1.11% 211
North of England -12 68 £325 -1.37% 47
Midlands -19 36 £375 -25.56% 30
North West -8 35 £458 +34.56% 23
South East -17 34 £400 -13.98% 119
Scotland 0 33 £355 -16.47% 8
Yorkshire -24 32 £316 +42.70% 13
West Midlands -12 30 £313 -38.33% 18
Northern Ireland +15 22 £475 +137.50% 12
South West -8 20 £495 +54.69% 31
East of England -58 14 £375 -21.01% 26
Wales +9 12 £308 -57.29% 5
East Midlands -9 6 £453 +1.83% 12
North East -11 1 - - 11

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 (23.94%) SharePoint
2 56 (11.27%) Confluence
3 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.01%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.80%) Resin
6 3 (0.60%) Moodle
6 3 (0.60%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 433 (87.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (38.43%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (19.52%) MS Visio
4 51 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.80%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.80%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.60%) InDesign
7 3 (0.60%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.40%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 10 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.80%) BPCS
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 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Epicor iScala
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.68%) Power Platform
2 55 (11.07%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (6.84%) Azure
4 14 (2.82%) GitHub
5 13 (2.62%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.41%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.01%) Viva Engage
8 9 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.81%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.81%) Miro
8 9 (1.81%) Smartsheet
9 7 (1.41%) Asana
9 7 (1.41%) AWS
9 7 (1.41%) SaaS
10 6 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.01%) Collibra
11 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.80%) Figma
13 3 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 3 (0.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.82%) LAN
2 11 (2.21%) WAN
3 10 (2.01%) Skype
4 9 (1.81%) VPN
5 8 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.21%) Firewall
6 6 (1.21%) WebEx
7 5 (1.01%) Internet
7 5 (1.01%) Wireless
8 4 (0.80%) MPLS
8 4 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.60%) BGP
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (0.60%) Intranet
9 3 (0.60%) Softphone
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.40%) Network Security
10 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.27%) Power BI
2 27 (5.43%) Tableau
3 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.61%) Metadata
5 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.01%) DB2
7 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.80%) MS Access
7 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.80%) Spotfire
7 4 (0.80%) SQLPlus
8 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.40%) EDMS
9 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (17.91%) JIRA
2 12 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.21%) Git
5 5 (1.01%) 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
1 279 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 222 (44.67%) Finance
3 144 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (14.69%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (13.08%) Banking
6 59 (11.87%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (8.25%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.23%) Manufacturing
9 24 (4.83%) Legal
10 23 (4.63%) Marketing
11 13 (2.62%) Retail
11 13 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.01%) Billing
12 10 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.81%) Front Office
14 7 (1.41%) Electronics
14 7 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.41%) Law
15 5 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (37.42%) Analyst
2 60 (12.07%) Business Analyst
3 52 (10.46%) Project Manager
4 28 (5.63%) Data Analyst
5 26 (5.23%) Senior
6 24 (4.83%) Lead
7 23 (4.63%) Administrator
7 23 (4.63%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.43%) Support Analyst
8 22 (4.43%) Technical Analyst
9 19 (3.82%) Architect
10 18 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.62%) Technical Business Analyst
11 17 (3.42%) Consultant
12 16 (3.22%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.02%) Junior
14 13 (2.62%) Coordinator
15 12 (2.41%) Project Analyst
15 12 (2.41%) Report Analyst
16 11 (2.21%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.21%) HTML
2 5 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.80%) ADO
3 4 (0.80%) EDI
4 3 (0.60%) CSS
4 3 (0.60%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.60%) Node.js
4 3 (0.60%) Playwright
4 3 (0.60%) React
4 3 (0.60%) RESTful
5 2 (0.40%) ISPF
5 2 (0.40%) VML
6 1 (0.20%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.20%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.20%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.20%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.84%) Onboarding
2 28 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.41%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.41%) PMI
10 6 (1.21%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.01%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.80%) CMDB
12 4 (0.80%) iPhone
12 4 (0.80%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.23%) Windows
2 5 (1.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.01%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.01%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.80%) Unix
4 3 (0.60%) Android
4 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) OS/2
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (27.36%) Project Management
3 126 (25.35%) Agile
4 97 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (15.29%) Project Delivery
6 70 (14.08%) Data Analysis
7 67 (13.48%) Decision-Making
8 65 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 61 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (11.67%) Process Improvement
12 44 (8.85%) Time Management
13 41 (8.25%) Analytics
13 41 (8.25%) Change Management
13 41 (8.25%) Migration
13 41 (8.25%) PRINCE2
14 40 (8.05%) DevOps
15 38 (7.65%) ITIL
15 38 (7.65%) Risk Management
15 38 (7.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.66%) SQL
2 29 (5.84%) Python
3 11 (2.21%) Java
3 11 (2.21%) R
4 7 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
5 6 (1.21%) VB
6 5 (1.01%) C
6 5 (1.01%) C#
6 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.80%) Perl
7 4 (0.80%) PHP
8 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.60%) VBA
9 2 (0.40%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.40%) CLIST
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
Qualifications
1 121 (24.35%) Degree
2 40 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.82%) PMP
6 9 (1.81%) HNC
7 8 (1.61%) HND
7 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.01%) CCNP
10 5 (1.01%) CISA
11 4 (0.80%) CISSP
11 4 (0.80%) MCSE
12 3 (0.60%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.60%) EMC Certification
12 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (17.71%) PMO
2 31 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.42%) QA
4 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.61%) P3O
6 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.01%) GDPR
8 4 (0.80%) COBIT
8 4 (0.80%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.60%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 3 (0.60%) WCAG
10 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.40%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (4.43%) 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 16 (3.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.82%) SCCM
3 11 (2.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.60%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.40%) Terraform
6 2 (0.40%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 261 (52.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.63%) SAP
3 26 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.83%) Oracle
5 13 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.41%) Cisco
7 10 (2.01%) Planview
8 9 (1.81%) Adobe
9 8 (1.61%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.41%) Databricks
10 7 (1.41%) Remedy
11 5 (1.01%) Apple
11 5 (1.01%) Ariba
11 5 (1.01%) IFS
11 5 (1.01%) NetApp
11 5 (1.01%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (0.80%) Arista
12 4 (0.80%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.80%) Workday