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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 182 212
Rank change year-on-year -111 +30 -29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 475 505 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.54% 1.14%
As % of the Applications category 16.22% 18.11% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 262 201
10th Percentile £207 £250 £219
25th Percentile £308 £313 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -0.28% -5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £559 £600
90th Percentile £631 £642 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £423
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.24% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 55 110
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.85 £21.25 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +30.93% -21.14%
75th Percentile £30.00 £32.53 £16.85
90th Percentile £44.70 £59.72 £20.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -7.16% +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 2,928 2,789 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.38% 8.52% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,560 1,418
10th Percentile £209 £200 £170
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £404
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +5.20% -4.94%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 346 274
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.89 £16.01 £15.12
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.31 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +38.91% -22.22%
75th Percentile £34.47 £35.00 £35.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £56.12 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year -17.78% +38.63% -24.51%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -83 424 £449 -0.28% 661
UK excluding London -94 259 £400 +6.67% 374
London -88 191 £488 +0.17% 373
Work from Home -100 135 £440 +6.67% 229
South East -20 86 £500 +48.15% 111
North of England -81 52 £400 -6.98% 81
Midlands -41 36 £475 +51.76% 52
Scotland -35 32 £400 +23.37% 26
South West -36 32 £310 -43.73% 50
West Midlands -39 30 £475 +51.76% 36
North West -55 28 £415 -7.78% 43
Yorkshire -45 23 £394 -1.56% 28
East of England -41 17 £509 +30.10% 28
East Midlands -13 6 £490 - 16
Wales -22 3 £450 +46.34% 8
Northern Ireland -18 2 £369 -22.37% 22
North East -47 1 - - 10

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
1 101 (21.26%) SharePoint
2 37 (7.79%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Moodle
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 411 (86.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (43.58%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (16.00%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (15.79%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.11%) Photoshop
6 8 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.84%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.21%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.21%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Magento
2 7 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.26%) Primavera
3 6 (1.26%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.05%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.63%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.42%) Shopify
7 2 (0.42%) Workfront
8 1 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 75 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 43 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (7.58%) Azure
4 19 (4.00%) AWS
5 18 (3.79%) SaaS
6 14 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.53%) Figma
8 11 (2.32%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (2.32%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.68%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.68%) Lucidchart
9 8 (1.68%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.26%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.26%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.05%) GitHub
11 5 (1.05%) Google Docs
11 5 (1.05%) Google Sheets
11 5 (1.05%) Miro
12 4 (0.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.11%) LAN
1 10 (2.11%) WAN
2 8 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.84%) BGP
4 4 (0.84%) FTP
4 4 (0.84%) MPLS
4 4 (0.84%) RSVP
4 4 (0.84%) SNMP
4 4 (0.84%) TACACS
4 4 (0.84%) VPN
5 3 (0.63%) DHCP
5 3 (0.63%) DNS
5 3 (0.63%) Firewall
5 3 (0.63%) Internet
5 3 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.42%) Intranet
6 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.32%) Power BI
2 12 (2.53%) Power Query
3 8 (1.68%) Tableau
4 4 (0.84%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.63%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.42%) 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%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Metadata
7 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 72 (15.16%) JIRA
2 13 (2.74%) Git
3 8 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.68%) Subversion
4 4 (0.84%) Selenium
5 3 (0.63%) MLflow
5 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.42%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.42%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.42%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.42%) MSI
6 2 (0.42%) Postman
6 2 (0.42%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.42%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.42%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.42%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 266 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 194 (40.84%) Finance
3 153 (32.21%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (25.05%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (10.95%) Banking
6 37 (7.79%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (7.16%) Marketing
8 26 (5.47%) Legal
9 23 (4.84%) Retail
10 22 (4.63%) Public Sector
11 17 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (2.95%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.74%) Military
15 11 (2.32%) Advertising
16 10 (2.11%) Front Office
16 10 (2.11%) Investment Banking
16 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.47%) French Language
Job Titles
1 104 (21.89%) Analyst
2 46 (9.68%) Project Manager
3 37 (7.79%) Senior
4 30 (6.32%) Business Analyst
5 28 (5.89%) Administrator
6 26 (5.47%) Consultant
6 26 (5.47%) Coordinator
7 24 (5.05%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.63%) Project Officer
9 21 (4.42%) Support Officer
10 19 (4.00%) Project Support Officer
11 18 (3.79%) Lead
12 16 (3.37%) IT Analyst
12 16 (3.37%) Project Coordinator
13 15 (3.16%) Architect
13 15 (3.16%) Senior Manager
13 15 (3.16%) Support Specialist
14 13 (2.74%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.74%) PMO Planner
15 12 (2.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.89%) VML
2 6 (1.26%) Web Services
2 6 (1.26%) XML
3 5 (1.05%) .NET
4 4 (0.84%) ADO
4 4 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.84%) JDO
4 4 (0.84%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.84%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.84%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.84%) Terraform
4 4 (0.84%) XSLT
4 4 (0.84%) YANG
5 3 (0.63%) Flutter
5 3 (0.63%) NumPy
5 3 (0.63%) Pandas
5 3 (0.63%) React Native
5 3 (0.63%) REST
5 3 (0.63%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.63%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 34 (7.16%) Management Information System
3 31 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.32%) Life Science
7 8 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.68%) Graphic Design
7 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.26%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.26%) Video Editing
9 4 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.84%) CMDB
9 4 (0.84%) FMCG
9 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.21%) Windows
2 7 (1.47%) Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.84%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (37.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 128 (26.95%) Project Management
3 126 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (23.58%) Agile
5 106 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 98 (20.63%) Project Delivery
7 85 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 65 (13.68%) Decision-Making
9 59 (12.42%) Waterfall
10 52 (10.95%) Data Analysis
11 51 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (10.11%) PRINCE2
13 47 (9.89%) AI
14 45 (9.47%) Risk Management
15 44 (9.26%) Analytics
16 41 (8.63%) Change Management
17 39 (8.21%) Business Case
18 37 (7.79%) Portfolio Management
18 37 (7.79%) Workshop Facilitation
19 36 (7.58%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.47%) SQL
2 18 (3.79%) Python
3 7 (1.47%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.47%) VBA
4 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.84%) Bicep
6 3 (0.63%) Korn
7 2 (0.42%) C++
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.21%) C#
8 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 125 (26.32%) Degree
2 101 (21.26%) Security Cleared
3 62 (13.05%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 23 (4.84%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.79%) PMP
7 12 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.05%) CIPD
10 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.84%) CCIE
11 4 (0.84%) IIBA
11 4 (0.84%) JNCIE
12 3 (0.63%) CAPM
12 3 (0.63%) CISM
12 3 (0.63%) CISSP
12 3 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (25.68%) PMO
2 23 (4.84%) QA
3 17 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.11%) GRC
5 9 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.89%) P3O
6 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.05%) NIST
8 4 (0.84%) MiFID
8 4 (0.84%) SLA
9 3 (0.63%) GMP
10 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.42%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.42%) GDPR
10 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.68%) Ansible
2 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.84%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 311 (65.47%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.26%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.32%) SAP
4 23 (4.84%) Google
5 18 (3.79%) Oracle
6 15 (3.16%) Adobe
6 15 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.89%) Workday
8 8 (1.68%) Cisco
8 8 (1.68%) Planview
9 7 (1.47%) F5
10 5 (1.05%) Apple
11 4 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.84%) Juniper
11 4 (0.84%) Qualys
11 4 (0.84%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.84%) Splunk
11 4 (0.84%) TOWER Software
11 4 (0.84%) Wrike