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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 184 209
Rank change year-on-year -116 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 428 504 492
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.81% 1.54% 1.20%
As % of the Applications category 15.24% 18.12% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 252 215
10th Percentile £206 £230 £213
25th Percentile £305 £312 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £373 £380
% change year-on-year +2.01% -1.97% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 62 130
10th Percentile £15.53 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.11 £18.85 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.60% +25.67% -30.23%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.60 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.03 £35.50 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +25.67% -27.85%

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 2,808 2,782 2,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 8.51% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,575 1,580 1,532
10th Percentile £213 £197 £163
25th Percentile £325 £295 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +3.79% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £625 £641 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 348 484
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.20 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.84 £14.47
Median hourly rate £22.68 £22.95 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +29.22% -28.96%
75th Percentile £36.70 £35.63 £41.19
90th Percentile £74.25 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +0.58% +38.63% -26.23%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -108 379 £450 +9.09% 221
UK excluding London -114 222 £380 +2.01% 158
London -83 183 £494 +10.08% 98
Work from Home -83 120 £400 -3.03% 94
South East -40 62 £462 +36.74% 48
North of England -86 43 £380 -7.88% 33
Midlands -39 36 £475 +51.76% 20
South West -30 31 £310 -43.08% 20
West Midlands -48 31 £475 +51.76% 9
Scotland -14 29 £375 +15.66% 9
Yorkshire -59 22 £399 -3.33% 9
North West -52 21 £376 -8.97% 21
East of England -51 16 £509 +71.96% 20
East Midlands -11 5 £470 - 11
Northern Ireland -16 4 £350 -17.65% 5
Wales -21 1 - - 5

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 72 (16.82%) SharePoint
2 42 (9.81%) Confluence
3 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.70%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Moodle
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 371 (86.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 199 (46.50%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (17.52%) MS Visio
4 67 (15.65%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (1.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (1.40%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.70%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.87%) Magento
2 7 (1.64%) Workday HCM
3 6 (1.40%) Loan IQ
3 6 (1.40%) Primavera
4 5 (1.17%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.47%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.47%) Shopify
7 2 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.47%) TrackWise
7 2 (0.47%) Workfront
8 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.08%) Power Platform
2 33 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (7.48%) Azure
4 24 (5.61%) AWS
5 18 (4.21%) SaaS
6 12 (2.80%) GitHub
7 11 (2.57%) Figma
8 9 (2.10%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.87%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.64%) Lucidchart
10 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (1.40%) Google Analytics
11 6 (1.40%) Smartsheet
11 6 (1.40%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.17%) Dagster
12 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.17%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.34%) WAN
2 9 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.87%) LAN
3 8 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.64%) Internet
5 6 (1.40%) BGP
5 6 (1.40%) MPLS
5 6 (1.40%) SNMP
5 6 (1.40%) TACACS
6 4 (0.93%) Firewall
6 4 (0.93%) RSVP
6 4 (0.93%) VPN
7 3 (0.70%) DHCP
7 3 (0.70%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) FTP
7 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.47%) Intranet
8 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.23%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.92%) Power BI
2 7 (1.64%) Power Query
2 7 (1.64%) Tableau
3 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.70%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.47%) 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%) 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
Development Applications
1 75 (17.52%) JIRA
2 15 (3.50%) Git
3 14 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.87%) Subversion
5 5 (1.17%) MLflow
5 5 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.47%) MSI
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.47%) 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
1 236 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 171 (39.95%) Finance
3 120 (28.04%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (18.46%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (11.68%) Banking
6 38 (8.88%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (7.48%) Marketing
8 31 (7.24%) Legal
9 22 (5.14%) Public Sector
9 22 (5.14%) Retail
10 15 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.27%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.04%) Military
13 12 (2.80%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 9 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.87%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.64%) Advertising
18 7 (1.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 101 (23.60%) Analyst
2 46 (10.75%) Project Manager
3 40 (9.35%) Business Analyst
4 34 (7.94%) Senior
5 22 (5.14%) Consultant
5 22 (5.14%) PMO Analyst
6 21 (4.91%) Coordinator
7 19 (4.44%) IT Analyst
8 18 (4.21%) Lead
8 18 (4.21%) Project Officer
9 16 (3.74%) Support Officer
10 15 (3.50%) Project Support Officer
11 13 (3.04%) Project Coordinator
12 12 (2.80%) Administrator
12 12 (2.80%) Architect
12 12 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 12 (2.80%) Service Manager
12 12 (2.80%) Support Analyst
13 11 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.57%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.10%) VML
2 6 (1.40%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.40%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.40%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.40%) YANG
3 5 (1.17%) NumPy
3 5 (1.17%) Pandas
3 5 (1.17%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.17%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.93%) JDO
4 4 (0.93%) REST
4 4 (0.93%) XML
5 3 (0.70%) .NET
5 3 (0.70%) Flutter
5 3 (0.70%) React Native
5 3 (0.70%) Web Services
5 3 (0.70%) XSLT
6 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.47%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.88%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.34%) Life Science
8 9 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.64%) Graphic Design
9 7 (1.64%) PMI
10 6 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Social Media
12 4 (0.93%) CMDB
12 4 (0.93%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.93%) Learning Management System
12 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.91%) 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
1 127 (29.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 119 (27.80%) Project Management
3 105 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (24.07%) Agile
5 94 (21.96%) Project Delivery
6 72 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (16.59%) Decision-Making
7 71 (16.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 55 (12.85%) Waterfall
9 44 (10.28%) Analytics
10 42 (9.81%) AI
10 42 (9.81%) Data Analysis
11 41 (9.58%) PRINCE2
12 36 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (8.41%) Risk Management
13 34 (7.94%) Business Case
14 33 (7.71%) Business Analysis
14 33 (7.71%) DevOps
15 32 (7.48%) Change Management
15 32 (7.48%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.48%) SQL
2 25 (5.84%) Python
3 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.64%) VB
4 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.17%) VBA
5 4 (0.93%) Bicep
6 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.47%) C#
7 2 (0.47%) C++
7 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) Java
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (31.07%) Degree
2 76 (17.76%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.84%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.67%) PMP
6 15 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.40%) CCIE
9 6 (1.40%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.70%) CISM
11 3 (0.70%) CISSP
11 3 (0.70%) MBA
12 2 (0.47%) CAPM
12 2 (0.47%) GCIH
12 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (21.50%) PMO
2 18 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.97%) QA
4 8 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.64%) P3O
6 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.93%) MiFID
7 4 (0.93%) NIST
7 4 (0.93%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
9 2 (0.47%) GMP
9 2 (0.47%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) 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 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.50%) Ansible
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.93%) SCCM
2 4 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.23%) Nmap
3 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 253 (59.11%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.64%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.37%) SAP
4 19 (4.44%) Adobe
4 19 (4.44%) Google
5 14 (3.27%) Oracle
5 14 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.34%) Cisco
7 9 (2.10%) F5
7 9 (2.10%) Splunk
7 9 (2.10%) Workday
8 6 (1.40%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.40%) Juniper
8 6 (1.40%) Planview
9 5 (1.17%) Apple
9 5 (1.17%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.17%) TOWER Software
10 4 (0.93%) Okta
10 4 (0.93%) Wrike
10 4 (0.93%) Xactly