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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 174 179
Rank change year-on-year -43 +5 +44
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 490 465 612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.23% 1.50% 1.38%
As % of the Applications category 17.03% 19.39% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 260 332
10th Percentile £272 £210 £186
25th Percentile £340 £313 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £426 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -10.36% +5.56%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £666 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £389 £451
% change year-on-year +13.18% -13.75% +12.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 47 88
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.44 £13.48
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.62 £14.48
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £21.10
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -23.08% -6.55%
75th Percentile £26.25 £22.73 £26.69
90th Percentile £36.65 £30.85 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.90 £16.23 £19.00
% change year-on-year +4.11% -14.58% -9.61%

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 2,877 2,398 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.22% 7.74% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 1,413 2,035
10th Percentile £203 £171 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £356 £351
% change year-on-year +19.38% +1.42% -12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 198 509
10th Percentile £12.94 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.81 £14.13
Median hourly rate £19.34 £27.13 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.71% +37.34% -39.23%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £72.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.90 £27.13 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.32% +39.10% -40.49%

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 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -37 441 £457 +1.44% 206
UK excluding London -47 246 £440 +13.18% 161
London -17 223 £500 +3.73% 69
Work from Home -19 126 £431 -3.63% 98
North of England -35 78 £403 +40.00% 36
South East -7 59 £475 +5.56% 66
Midlands -30 43 £455 -13.33% 28
North West -9 39 £450 +29.31% 18
Yorkshire -43 37 £340 +51.11% 16
West Midlands -44 24 £313 -40.38% 23
Scotland -12 21 £316 -8.15% 11
East Midlands -5 20 £455 +2.25% 5
South West -24 17 £548 +17.81% 11
East of England -62 15 £375 -16.67% 12
Northern Ireland +2 10 £481 +13.24%
Wales - 8 £260 - 2
North East -19 2 £390 -48.00% 2

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 (23.06%) SharePoint
2 75 (15.31%) Confluence
3 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.84%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.82%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 420 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (37.76%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (20.61%) MS Visio
4 55 (11.22%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.02%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.82%) InDesign
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.22%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.22%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.61%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.41%) Primavera
5 2 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.41%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.20%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (10.41%) Azure
3 41 (8.37%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.08%) AWS
5 18 (3.67%) GitHub
6 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.45%) OneDrive
8 11 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.84%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.22%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (1.02%) Canva
11 5 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.82%) Collibra
12 4 (0.82%) Figma
12 4 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.82%) SaaS
12 4 (0.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.88%) Firewall
2 17 (3.47%) Wireless
3 15 (3.06%) LAN
4 14 (2.86%) WAN
5 10 (2.04%) VPN
6 9 (1.84%) Skype
7 7 (1.43%) Internet
7 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.22%) BGP
9 4 (0.82%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (0.82%) MPLS
9 4 (0.82%) Network Security
9 4 (0.82%) OSPF
9 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.61%) Softphone
11 2 (0.41%) TACACS
11 2 (0.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.96%) Power BI
2 30 (6.12%) Tableau
3 6 (1.22%) Metadata
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.82%) MS Access
5 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.82%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.61%) DB2
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) EDMS
7 2 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.41%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 115 (23.47%) JIRA
2 18 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (2.65%) Burp Suite
4 13 (2.65%) Metasploit
5 7 (1.43%) Toad
6 5 (1.02%) Git
7 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 281 (57.35%) Social Skills
2 208 (42.45%) Finance
3 109 (22.24%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (17.76%) Banking
5 60 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (10.41%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (8.16%) Public Sector
8 29 (5.92%) Legal
8 29 (5.92%) Marketing
9 18 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.47%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.04%) Retail
13 8 (1.63%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.22%) Billing
15 6 (1.22%) Electronics
15 6 (1.22%) Front Office
15 6 (1.22%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 163 (33.27%) Analyst
2 73 (14.90%) Business Analyst
3 35 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 30 (6.12%) Architect
5 27 (5.51%) Senior
6 26 (5.31%) PMO Analyst
6 26 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.49%) Consultant
8 21 (4.29%) Administrator
8 21 (4.29%) Lead
8 21 (4.29%) Technical Analyst
9 18 (3.67%) Technical Business Analyst
10 17 (3.47%) PMO Manager
11 14 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (2.86%) Tester
12 13 (2.65%) Penetration Tester
12 13 (2.65%) Support Analyst
13 12 (2.45%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.45%) Report Analyst
14 11 (2.24%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.82%) ADO
2 4 (0.82%) VML
3 3 (0.61%) CSS
3 3 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.61%) Gherkin
3 3 (0.61%) HTML
3 3 (0.61%) Node.js
3 3 (0.61%) Playwright
3 3 (0.61%) React
3 3 (0.61%) RESTful
4 2 (0.41%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.41%) OpenConfig
4 2 (0.41%) RESTCONF
4 2 (0.41%) Web Services
4 2 (0.41%) XML
4 2 (0.41%) XSLT
4 2 (0.41%) YANG
5 1 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.20%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.98%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.24%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.63%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.63%) Graphic Design
7 8 (1.63%) Learning Management System
7 8 (1.63%) PMI
7 8 (1.63%) Social Media
8 7 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.43%) NHS
9 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.02%) Derivative
10 5 (1.02%) Equities
10 5 (1.02%) Tandem
10 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.51%) Windows
2 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 4 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
2 121 (24.69%) Project Management
3 120 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (23.06%) Agile
5 102 (20.82%) Project Delivery
6 69 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (13.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (13.47%) DevOps
9 61 (12.45%) Migration
10 59 (12.04%) Decision-Making
11 56 (11.43%) Time Management
12 51 (10.41%) Waterfall
13 48 (9.80%) Process Improvement
14 47 (9.59%) Business Analysis
15 44 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (8.37%) Risk Management
17 38 (7.76%) Analytics
17 38 (7.76%) Data Analysis
17 38 (7.76%) PRINCE2
17 38 (7.76%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.18%) SQL
2 23 (4.69%) Python
3 7 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.22%) C#
4 6 (1.22%) R
4 6 (1.22%) VB
5 5 (1.02%) Java
6 4 (0.82%) Perl
6 4 (0.82%) PHP
6 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.82%) VBA
7 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.20%) C
8 1 (0.20%) C++
8 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 132 (26.94%) Degree
2 65 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.67%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.06%) PMP
6 13 (2.65%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.24%) CREST Certified
8 11 (2.24%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.24%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.04%) CBAP
9 10 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.04%) IIBA
10 7 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.22%) CISSP
11 6 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.02%) CCIE
12 5 (1.02%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (22.04%) PMO
2 27 (5.51%) QA
3 22 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.67%) GDPR
5 16 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.65%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.22%) P3O
8 5 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.61%) GRC
9 3 (0.61%) MiFID
9 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) COBIT
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.20%) FATCA
11 1 (0.20%) GAAP
11 1 (0.20%) GAMP
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 23 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (4.29%) Ansible
2 18 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.65%) Nmap
3 13 (2.65%) SCCM
4 4 (0.82%) Terraform
5 3 (0.61%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 233 (47.55%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.92%) Oracle
3 23 (4.69%) SAP
4 21 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.06%) Adobe
5 15 (3.06%) Sonatype
6 14 (2.86%) Cisco
7 11 (2.24%) Planview
8 10 (2.04%) Remedy
8 10 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.43%) Google
10 6 (1.22%) F5
10 6 (1.22%) Juniper
10 6 (1.22%) Workday
11 5 (1.02%) Charles River
11 5 (1.02%) Splunk
12 4 (0.82%) Arista
12 4 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.82%) Fortinet