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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 174 189
Rank change year-on-year -120 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 431 505 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.55% 1.27%
As % of the Applications category 15.39% 18.35% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 256 224
10th Percentile £207 £215 £213
25th Percentile £305 £296 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £449
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.89% -5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £622 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £392 £370 £394
% change year-on-year +5.88% -6.03% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 58 153
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £11.73
25th Percentile £16.75 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.54 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.53% +16.93% -32.63%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.60 £19.25
90th Percentile £85.95 £35.50 £27.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.06 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +48.21% +8.20% -31.82%

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 2,801 2,752 2,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 8.47% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 1,566 1,599
10th Percentile £216 £195 £163
25th Percentile £325 £288 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +4.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £525
90th Percentile £625 £645 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +3.31% +6.67% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 340 599
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.20 £11.71
25th Percentile £16.03 £15.84 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.68 £23.82 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +34.40% -31.08%
75th Percentile £34.87 £36.00 £37.96
90th Percentile £72.68 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 £16.23
% change year-on-year - +39.43% -27.96%

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 16 July 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 16 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 16 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 16 July 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 -97 385 £450 +9.09% 206
UK excluding London -113 223 £392 +5.88% 160
London -67 187 £492 +15.71% 85
Work from Home -98 117 £400 - 103
South East -33 62 £468 +38.74% 59
North of England -103 46 £396 -2.52% 30
Midlands -48 37 £475 +64.36% 23
West Midlands -44 32 £475 +64.36% 11
South West -16 30 £310 -42.42% 10
Scotland -22 26 £375 +15.38% 9
North West -58 23 £375 +2.04% 16
Yorkshire -65 23 £400 -3.03% 11
East of England -61 16 £509 +71.96% 19
East Midlands -11 5 £470 - 12
Northern Ireland -19 5 £369 -13.24% 5
Wales -13 1 - - 8

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 73 (16.94%) SharePoint
2 43 (9.98%) Confluence
3 6 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
5 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.46%) Moodle
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 371 (86.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (46.87%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (17.40%) MS Visio
4 67 (15.55%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.93%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.23%) InDesign
10 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.23%) Trello
10 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Loan IQ
1 8 (1.86%) Magento
2 7 (1.62%) Primavera
3 6 (1.39%) SAP MM
3 6 (1.39%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.46%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.46%) Shopify
6 2 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.46%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.46%) Workfront
7 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.23%) Maximo
7 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.92%) Power Platform
2 32 (7.42%) Azure
3 30 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.03%) AWS
5 17 (3.94%) SaaS
6 14 (3.25%) GitHub
7 12 (2.78%) Figma
8 9 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.09%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.86%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.39%) Dagster
11 6 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.39%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.39%) Lucidchart
12 5 (1.16%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.16%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.16%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.78%) WAN
2 10 (2.32%) LAN
3 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.86%) BGP
4 8 (1.86%) Internet
4 8 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.39%) Firewall
5 6 (1.39%) MPLS
5 6 (1.39%) SNMP
5 6 (1.39%) TACACS
6 5 (1.16%) VPN
7 4 (0.93%) RSVP
8 3 (0.70%) DHCP
8 3 (0.70%) DNS
8 3 (0.70%) FTP
8 3 (0.70%) Network Security
8 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.46%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.76%) Power BI
2 7 (1.62%) Power Query
2 7 (1.62%) Tableau
3 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.70%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) DataStage
6 1 (0.23%) Db2
6 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (17.63%) JIRA
2 16 (3.71%) Git
3 15 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.86%) Subversion
5 6 (1.39%) MLflow
5 6 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.46%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.46%) MSI
7 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.46%) Toad
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 233 (54.06%) Social Skills
2 171 (39.68%) Finance
3 116 (26.91%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (18.10%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (11.83%) Banking
6 39 (9.05%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.66%) Marketing
8 32 (7.42%) Legal
9 23 (5.34%) Public Sector
10 22 (5.10%) Retail
11 15 (3.48%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.02%) Military
13 11 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.86%) Advertising
15 8 (1.86%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 106 (24.59%) Analyst
2 46 (10.67%) Business Analyst
3 43 (9.98%) Project Manager
4 34 (7.89%) Senior
5 21 (4.87%) Consultant
6 19 (4.41%) Coordinator
6 19 (4.41%) Lead
6 19 (4.41%) PMO Analyst
6 19 (4.41%) Project Officer
7 17 (3.94%) IT Analyst
8 16 (3.71%) Support Officer
9 15 (3.48%) Project Support Officer
10 14 (3.25%) Architect
11 13 (3.02%) Administrator
12 11 (2.55%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.55%) Designer
12 11 (2.55%) Project Coordinator
12 11 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.55%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.55%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.09%) VML
2 6 (1.39%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.39%) NumPy
2 6 (1.39%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.39%) Pandas
2 6 (1.39%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.39%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.39%) Seaborn
2 6 (1.39%) YANG
3 4 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.93%) JDO
3 4 (0.93%) REST
3 4 (0.93%) XML
4 3 (0.70%) .NET
4 3 (0.70%) Flutter
4 3 (0.70%) React Native
4 3 (0.70%) Web Services
4 3 (0.70%) XSLT
5 2 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.46%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.58%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (6.26%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.32%) Life Science
5 10 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.86%) PMI
8 7 (1.62%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.39%) Social Media
10 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.93%) CMDB
10 4 (0.93%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.64%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
2 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.23%) Android
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (28.77%) Project Management
2 123 (28.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (25.29%) Agile
4 104 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (22.27%) Project Delivery
6 74 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 70 (16.24%) Decision-Making
8 69 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (13.92%) Waterfall
10 44 (10.21%) AI
10 44 (10.21%) Analytics
11 41 (9.51%) Data Analysis
12 40 (9.28%) DevOps
13 39 (9.05%) Business Analysis
13 39 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (9.05%) Migration
14 37 (8.58%) PRINCE2
15 36 (8.35%) Risk Management
16 35 (8.12%) Business Case
17 32 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 34 (7.89%) SQL
2 26 (6.03%) Python
3 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.62%) VB
4 5 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.16%) VBA
5 4 (0.93%) Bicep
6 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.46%) C#
7 2 (0.46%) C++
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 138 (32.02%) Degree
2 76 (17.63%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.34%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.94%) PMP
6 16 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.62%) CCIE
10 7 (1.62%) JNCIE
11 6 (1.39%) CBAP
11 6 (1.39%) IIBA
12 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.93%) CISM
13 4 (0.93%) CISSP
13 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.70%) MBA
15 2 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (20.42%) PMO
2 20 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.94%) QA
4 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.62%) P3O
6 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.93%) MiFID
7 4 (0.93%) NIST
8 3 (0.70%) GRC
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) GDPR
9 2 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (1.62%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.18%) Ansible
2 6 (1.39%) Terraform
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.93%) SCCM
4 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.23%) Nmap
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 250 (58.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.35%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.80%) SAP
4 21 (4.87%) Adobe
5 19 (4.41%) Google
6 14 (3.25%) Oracle
6 14 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.78%) Cisco
8 11 (2.55%) F5
9 10 (2.32%) Splunk
10 8 (1.86%) Juniper
10 8 (1.86%) Workday
11 6 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.39%) Sonatype
12 5 (1.16%) Apple
12 5 (1.16%) Planview
12 5 (1.16%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.93%) Qualys
13 4 (0.93%) Remedy