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

 6 months to
15 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 183 183
Rank change year-on-year -96 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 436 462 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.56% 1.30%
As % of the Applications category 15.97% 18.30% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 238 232
10th Percentile £213 £210 £190
25th Percentile £308 £297 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £433
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.51% -8.95%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £639 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £389 £375 £355
% change year-on-year +3.67% +5.63% -16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 57 164
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.04% +8.20% -41.75%
75th Percentile £30.00 £21.52 £23.65
90th Percentile £33.50 £33.20 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +46.33% +8.20% -33.42%

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 2,730 2,525 3,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.53% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 1,463 1,664
10th Percentile £227 £190 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £388 £373
% change year-on-year +9.68% +4.03% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 292 644
10th Percentile £13.14 £14.32 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.03 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.83 £16.44
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +51.03% -40.22%
75th Percentile £34.47 £43.75 £36.94
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.62 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.68% +53.32% -35.76%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -82 392 £449 +8.73% 234
UK excluding London -107 232 £389 +3.67% 158
London -56 186 £491 +19.09% 107
Work from Home -56 115 £378 -8.48% 76
South East -28 61 £430 +56.36% 52
North of England -77 59 £399 -3.33% 23
Midlands -38 39 £460 +59.17% 28
South West -14 30 £310 -38.86% 27
North West -38 29 £447 -0.67% 12
Yorkshire -58 29 £396 -4.00% 10
West Midlands -51 27 £475 +64.36% 21
Scotland -27 26 £375 +15.38% 12
East of England -71 16 £509 +71.96% 12
East Midlands -14 13 £455 - 7
Northern Ireland -16 5 £369 -22.37% 7
Wales -17 1 £213 - 1
North East -35 1 £390 +254.55% 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 76 (17.43%) SharePoint
2 55 (12.61%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.15%) CMS
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 375 (86.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (44.95%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (15.60%) MS Visio
4 52 (11.93%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.38%) Primavera
2 6 (1.38%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.15%) SAP MM
3 5 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.92%) Magento
5 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.69%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.46%) Shopify
6 2 (0.46%) Workfront
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.61%) Power Platform
2 29 (6.65%) Azure
3 27 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.96%) AWS
5 14 (3.21%) Figma
5 14 (3.21%) GitHub
5 14 (3.21%) SaaS
6 10 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.61%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (1.38%) Canva
9 6 (1.38%) Dagster
9 6 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.38%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.92%) Collibra
10 4 (0.92%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.29%) Internet
2 9 (2.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.38%) VPN
3 6 (1.38%) WAN
4 5 (1.15%) BGP
4 5 (1.15%) Wireless
5 4 (0.92%) LAN
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 4 (0.92%) RSVP
5 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.69%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.69%) FTP
6 3 (0.69%) Intranet
6 3 (0.69%) OSPF
6 3 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.46%) MPLS
7 2 (0.46%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.47%) Power BI
2 19 (4.36%) Tableau
3 4 (0.92%) Power Query
4 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
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%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (19.72%) JIRA
2 13 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.75%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.38%) MLflow
6 5 (1.15%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.15%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.92%) Subversion
8 3 (0.69%) Toad
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.23%) MSI
9 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 225 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 174 (39.91%) Finance
3 101 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.60%) Banking
5 67 (15.37%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (9.63%) Presentation Skills
7 36 (8.26%) Legal
8 33 (7.57%) Marketing
9 24 (5.50%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.67%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.67%) Retail
11 13 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.75%) Military
13 10 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.83%) Front Office
16 7 (1.61%) Advertising
16 7 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (25.00%) Analyst
2 53 (12.16%) Business Analyst
3 37 (8.49%) Project Manager
4 33 (7.57%) Senior
5 24 (5.50%) Consultant
6 23 (5.28%) Architect
7 20 (4.59%) PMO Analyst
8 18 (4.13%) Coordinator
8 18 (4.13%) Lead
9 17 (3.90%) Project Officer
10 16 (3.67%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.44%) Administrator
11 15 (3.44%) Project Support Officer
12 14 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.75%) Transformation Analyst
15 11 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (2.52%) Payments Architect
15 11 (2.52%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) NumPy
1 6 (1.38%) Pandas
1 6 (1.38%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.38%) Seaborn
2 5 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.15%) VML
3 4 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.92%) JDO
3 4 (0.92%) REST
3 4 (0.92%) XML
4 3 (0.69%) Flutter
4 3 (0.69%) React Native
4 3 (0.69%) Web Services
4 3 (0.69%) XSLT
5 2 (0.46%) .NET
5 2 (0.46%) HTML
5 2 (0.46%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.46%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.46%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.46%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.83%) Life Science
7 8 (1.83%) Social Media
8 7 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.38%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.38%) PMI
10 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.15%) Tandem
11 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.92%) CMDB
11 4 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.82%) Windows
2 5 (1.15%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (30.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (26.83%) Project Management
3 107 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (24.08%) Agile
5 104 (23.85%) Project Delivery
6 67 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 65 (14.91%) Decision-Making
8 59 (13.53%) Waterfall
9 56 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (11.47%) DevOps
11 44 (10.09%) Migration
12 43 (9.86%) Analytics
13 42 (9.63%) Business Analysis
14 40 (9.17%) Data Analysis
15 39 (8.94%) AI
16 37 (8.49%) Business Case
17 36 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
17 36 (8.26%) PRINCE2
18 35 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.49%) SQL
2 22 (5.05%) Python
3 7 (1.61%) VB
4 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.15%) VBA
5 4 (0.92%) Bicep
6 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.69%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.46%) C#
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (30.73%) Degree
2 77 (17.66%) Security Cleared
3 64 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.98%) PMP
7 12 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.29%) CBAP
9 10 (2.29%) IIBA
10 6 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.15%) CHECK Team Member
11 5 (1.15%) CISM
11 5 (1.15%) CISSP
11 5 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 5 (1.15%) Cyber Scheme
11 5 (1.15%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.92%) CCIE
12 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (21.56%) PMO
2 24 (5.50%) QA
3 23 (5.28%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.38%) GDPR
6 6 (1.38%) P3O
7 5 (1.15%) MiFID
7 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.15%) SLA
8 4 (0.92%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.69%) NIST
10 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.23%) NCSC
11 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.23%) PSD2
11 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (3.90%) Ansible
2 7 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Nmap
4 4 (0.92%) SCCM
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 221 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.28%) Adobe
4 21 (4.82%) SAP
5 18 (4.13%) Google
5 18 (4.13%) Oracle
6 13 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.29%) Splunk
8 9 (2.06%) Cisco
9 8 (1.83%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.61%) Planview
10 7 (1.61%) Remedy
10 7 (1.61%) Workday
11 6 (1.38%) F5
12 5 (1.15%) Apple
12 5 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.15%) Juniper
12 5 (1.15%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.92%) Ariba
13 4 (0.92%) Qualys
267 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide