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

 6 months to
12 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 198 180
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +42
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 483 436 665
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.20% 1.43%
As % of the Applications category 16.63% 17.88% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 229 419
10th Percentile £256 £213 £211
25th Percentile £308 £320 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +0.26%
75th Percentile £543 £590 £588
90th Percentile £613 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £417 £439
% change year-on-year -10.07% -4.96% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 78 35
10th Percentile £15.68 - £16.10
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.62 £19.42
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.04% -26.23% +10.66%
75th Percentile £32.31 £16.85 £28.28
90th Percentile £35.50 £30.12 £30.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.26 £16.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year +30.99% -26.23% +14.29%

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 2,905 2,439 3,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.26% 6.73% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 1,417 2,316
10th Percentile £190 £163 £165
25th Percentile £295 £250 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £371
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.19% -4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 229 283
10th Percentile £12.96 £15.00 £14.03
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.09 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -11.64% +4.17%
75th Percentile £33.05 £37.50 £45.11
90th Percentile £50.00 £60.15 £52.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.27 £21.46 £23.06
% change year-on-year -0.89% -6.92% +4.80%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -23 384 £450 -0.77% 414
UK excluding London -32 237 £375 -10.07% 260
London +24 199 £490 +1.66% 194
Work from Home +27 150 £450 - 203
North of England -13 70 £325 -0.15% 36
North West -2 36 £458 +35.96% 16
Scotland +12 35 £360 -14.49% 9
Midlands -11 33 £307 -37.13% 34
Yorkshire -15 33 £306 +38.18% 11
West Midlands -13 29 £289 -42.30% 20
South East -15 28 £475 +3.83% 108
Northern Ireland +15 23 £475 +137.50% 11
South West -1 22 £550 +71.88% 31
East of England -58 18 £375 -25.00% 27
Wales +8 11 £308 -57.29% 10
East Midlands -9 4 £453 +1.83% 14
North East -15 1 - - 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
1 107 (22.15%) SharePoint
2 52 (10.77%) Confluence
3 10 (2.07%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.83%) Resin
7 3 (0.62%) Moodle
7 3 (0.62%) SAS
8 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle UPK
Applications
1 418 (86.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 186 (38.51%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (20.08%) MS Visio
4 48 (9.94%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.83%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.62%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.41%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.41%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.83%) BPCS
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.62%) Workfront
5 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Epicor iScala
6 1 (0.21%) Primavera
6 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (14.49%) Power Platform
2 52 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (6.42%) Azure
4 15 (3.11%) GitHub
5 13 (2.69%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.48%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.07%) Viva Engage
8 8 (1.66%) AWS
8 8 (1.66%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.66%) Miro
8 8 (1.66%) Smartsheet
9 7 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.45%) SaaS
10 6 (1.24%) Asana
10 6 (1.24%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.24%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.04%) Collibra
12 4 (0.83%) Figma
12 4 (0.83%) GCP
13 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.69%) LAN
2 10 (2.07%) Skype
2 10 (2.07%) WAN
3 8 (1.66%) VPN
3 8 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.24%) Firewall
4 6 (1.24%) WebEx
5 5 (1.04%) Internet
6 4 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.83%) Wireless
7 3 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (0.62%) Intranet
7 3 (0.62%) MPLS
7 3 (0.62%) Softphone
7 3 (0.62%) WLAN
8 2 (0.41%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.41%) Network Security
8 2 (0.41%) OSPF
8 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (12.01%) Power BI
2 27 (5.59%) Tableau
3 7 (1.45%) Metadata
4 5 (1.04%) DB2
4 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.83%) MS Access
5 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.83%) Spotfire
6 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) EDMS
7 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.21%) Big Data
8 1 (0.21%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 82 (16.98%) JIRA
2 13 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.04%) ClearCase
4 5 (1.04%) Git
5 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.62%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.41%) GCC
6 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 264 (54.66%) Social Skills
2 223 (46.17%) Finance
3 144 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (13.46%) Banking
5 64 (13.25%) Organisational Skills
6 57 (11.80%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (8.49%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 20 (4.14%) Legal
10 19 (3.93%) Marketing
11 11 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.28%) Retail
11 11 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.07%) Billing
13 9 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.66%) Front Office
15 7 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.24%) Law
16 6 (1.24%) Local Government
17 5 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (37.06%) Analyst
2 60 (12.42%) Business Analyst
3 52 (10.77%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.42%) Data Analyst
5 25 (5.18%) Lead
6 24 (4.97%) Senior
7 23 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
8 21 (4.35%) Architect
8 21 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 21 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
9 20 (4.14%) Administrator
9 20 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.52%) Consultant
10 17 (3.52%) Technical Business Analyst
11 15 (3.11%) IT Manager
12 14 (2.90%) Junior
13 12 (2.48%) Project Analyst
14 11 (2.28%) PMO Manager
15 10 (2.07%) Coordinator
15 10 (2.07%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.24%) HTML
2 5 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.83%) EDI
4 3 (0.62%) CSS
4 3 (0.62%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.62%) Node.js
4 3 (0.62%) React
4 3 (0.62%) RESTful
5 2 (0.41%) ADO
5 2 (0.41%) ISPF
5 2 (0.41%) Playwright
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.21%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.21%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.07%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (1.86%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.45%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.45%) PMI
9 6 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.04%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.04%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.83%) CMDB
11 4 (0.83%) Equities
11 4 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.14%) Windows
2 5 (1.04%) Linux
2 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.04%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.62%) Android
3 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.41%) OS/2
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (26.92%) Project Management
3 124 (25.67%) Agile
4 98 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (15.11%) Data Analysis
6 71 (14.70%) Project Delivery
7 67 (13.87%) Decision-Making
8 65 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 59 (12.22%) Process Improvement
11 53 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (9.32%) Change Management
13 40 (8.28%) PRINCE2
14 39 (8.07%) Analytics
14 39 (8.07%) ITIL
14 39 (8.07%) Time Management
15 37 (7.66%) DevOps
16 36 (7.45%) Risk Management
16 36 (7.45%) Visualisation
17 35 (7.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.94%) SQL
2 28 (5.80%) Python
3 11 (2.28%) Java
3 11 (2.28%) R
4 8 (1.66%) VB
5 6 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.04%) C
6 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.83%) C#
8 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.62%) VBA
9 2 (0.41%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.41%) CLIST
9 2 (0.41%) COBOL
9 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.41%) JCL
9 2 (0.41%) PL/1
9 2 (0.41%) REXX
9 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 118 (24.43%) Degree
2 39 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.31%) PMP
6 9 (1.86%) HNC
6 9 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.45%) HND
7 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.04%) CCNP
9 5 (1.04%) CISA
9 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.83%) CISSP
10 4 (0.83%) MCSE
11 3 (0.62%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.62%) ACSP
11 3 (0.62%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (17.81%) PMO
2 31 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.31%) QA
4 9 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.86%) P3O
5 7 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.04%) GDPR
7 4 (0.83%) COBIT
7 4 (0.83%) NIST
8 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.62%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
8 3 (0.62%) WCAG
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 2 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.69%) SCCM
3 11 (2.28%) Ansible
4 4 (0.83%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.62%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.41%) Terraform
6 2 (0.41%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (0.21%) SCOM
7 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 253 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.18%) SAP
4 19 (3.93%) Oracle
5 12 (2.48%) Cisco
5 12 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.86%) Planview
7 8 (1.66%) Adobe
7 8 (1.66%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.45%) Remedy
9 6 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.24%) Databricks
10 5 (1.04%) Apple
10 5 (1.04%) Citrix
10 5 (1.04%) IFS
10 5 (1.04%) NetApp
10 5 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (0.83%) Ariba
11 4 (0.83%) IBM
11 4 (0.83%) TIBCO
475 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide