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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 193 208
Rank change year-on-year -100 +15 -30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 487 484 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Applications category 16.04% 17.40% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 257 216
10th Percentile £238 £249 £208
25th Percentile £325 £305 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £373 £395
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.70% -8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 98
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.75 £22.84 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -26.66% +40.73% -21.14%
75th Percentile £27.91 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £59.44 £29.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -15.12% +16.14% -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 3,036 2,782 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.57% 8.42% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 1,565 1,444
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.06% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 357 253
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.25 £14.51
25th Percentile £14.31 £16.35 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +31.58% -24.00%
75th Percentile £30.28 £33.91 £36.00
90th Percentile £59.25 £58.67 £59.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +32.35% -24.44%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -62 438 £475 +5.56% 861
UK excluding London -69 269 £447 +20.00% 459
London -76 197 £488 -1.27% 449
Work from Home -91 130 £484 +10.06% 292
South East -2 95 £500 +25.00% 133
North of England -60 61 £425 +30.77% 93
Midlands -46 37 £475 +64.64% 58
Scotland -19 33 £425 +31.39% 26
West Midlands -44 30 £475 +64.64% 37
North West -47 30 £488 +30.87% 55
Yorkshire -34 29 £400 +23.08% 27
South West -41 21 £330 -40.00% 60
East of England -42 19 £417 +11.20% 49
East Midlands -9 7 £490 - 21
Wales -13 3 £450 +46.34% 17
North East -39 2 - - 11
Northern Ireland -16 1 £388 -18.42% 26

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
1 113 (23.20%) SharePoint
2 37 (7.60%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Moodle
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 418 (85.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (36.34%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (16.02%) MS Visio
4 67 (13.76%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (2.26%) Photoshop
6 10 (2.05%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.21%) CATIA
10 1 (0.21%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.21%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.21%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Magento
2 7 (1.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.03%) Primavera
3 5 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.82%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.82%) Workfront
5 3 (0.62%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.62%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
7 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.21%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.21%) Maximo
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.96%) Power Platform
2 50 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (9.45%) Azure
4 20 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.49%) AWS
6 15 (3.08%) Figma
6 15 (3.08%) SaaS
7 14 (2.87%) Lucidchart
7 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.26%) OneDrive
10 10 (2.05%) Miro
11 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.44%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.44%) Smartsheet
12 5 (1.03%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.82%) GCP
13 4 (0.82%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.82%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.05%) LAN
1 10 (2.05%) WAN
2 7 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.23%) FTP
4 4 (0.82%) BGP
4 4 (0.82%) MPLS
4 4 (0.82%) SNMP
4 4 (0.82%) TACACS
5 3 (0.62%) DHCP
5 3 (0.62%) DNS
5 3 (0.62%) Firewall
5 3 (0.62%) Internet
5 3 (0.62%) RSVP
5 3 (0.62%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.62%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (12.32%) Power BI
2 12 (2.46%) Power Query
3 5 (1.03%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) DataStage
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (14.58%) JIRA
2 10 (2.05%) Git
3 8 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.64%) Subversion
4 4 (0.82%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 294 (60.37%) Social Skills
2 191 (39.22%) Finance
3 151 (31.01%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (26.49%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (9.86%) Banking
6 39 (8.01%) Marketing
7 32 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.75%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.34%) Legal
9 26 (5.34%) Retail
10 23 (4.72%) Manufacturing
11 16 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.26%) Front Office
14 10 (2.05%) French Language
15 9 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.64%) Aviation
16 8 (1.64%) Military
17 7 (1.44%) Advertising
17 7 (1.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (20.33%) Analyst
2 42 (8.62%) Project Manager
3 39 (8.01%) Administrator
4 34 (6.98%) Senior
5 29 (5.95%) Consultant
5 29 (5.95%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 23 (4.72%) Lead
7 23 (4.72%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.52%) Project Officer
9 21 (4.31%) Support Officer
10 19 (3.90%) Project Support Officer
11 17 (3.49%) Architect
12 15 (3.08%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.67%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.67%) PMO Planner
13 13 (2.67%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (2.67%) Support Specialist
14 12 (2.46%) IT Analyst
14 12 (2.46%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.64%) VML
1 8 (1.64%) Web Services
1 8 (1.64%) XML
2 6 (1.23%) XSLT
3 5 (1.03%) .NET
3 5 (1.03%) REST
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%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
4 4 (0.82%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) ADO
6 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.42%) Onboarding
2 35 (7.19%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.85%) Graphic Design
7 9 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
8 8 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.44%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.44%) Life Science
9 7 (1.44%) Video Editing
10 6 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.23%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.70%) Windows
2 7 (1.44%) 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 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (40.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 140 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (23.82%) Project Management
4 110 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (20.94%) Agile
6 93 (19.10%) Project Delivery
7 91 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 73 (14.99%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.70%) AI
10 55 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
11 54 (11.09%) Waterfall
12 53 (10.88%) Data Analysis
13 49 (10.06%) Analytics
14 45 (9.24%) Business Case
14 45 (9.24%) PRINCE2
15 42 (8.62%) Risk Management
16 41 (8.42%) Project Governance
17 40 (8.21%) Change Management
18 39 (8.01%) DevOps
19 38 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.52%) SQL
2 15 (3.08%) Python
3 7 (1.44%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.03%) 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 (0.21%) C#
7 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (23.00%) Degree
2 99 (20.33%) Security Cleared
3 59 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.72%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.70%) PMP
7 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.03%) CIPD
9 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.82%) CCIE
10 4 (0.82%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.82%) MBA
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CISM
11 3 (0.62%) CISSP
11 3 (0.62%) IIBA
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (25.05%) PMO
2 23 (4.72%) QA
3 16 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.26%) GRC
5 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.44%) P3O
7 6 (1.23%) NIST
8 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.62%) GMP
9 3 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.62%) MiFID
9 3 (0.62%) NCSC
9 3 (0.62%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) COSHH
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.64%) Ansible
1 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.62%) SCCM
3 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (67.56%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.42%) ServiceNow
3 32 (6.57%) SAP
4 20 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.90%) Google
6 16 (3.29%) Oracle
7 14 (2.87%) Adobe
8 10 (2.05%) Workday
9 7 (1.44%) Cisco
9 7 (1.44%) F5
10 5 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.03%) Planview
11 4 (0.82%) Marketo
11 4 (0.82%) Okta
11 4 (0.82%) Qualys
11 4 (0.82%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.82%) Splunk
11 4 (0.82%) Tenable
11 4 (0.82%) Wrike
11 4 (0.82%) Xactly