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

 6 months to
12 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 180 182
Rank change year-on-year -102 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 436 454 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.54% 1.31%
As % of the Applications category 16.04% 18.19% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 232 233
10th Percentile £213 £210 £190
25th Percentile £308 £296 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £449
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -11.00% -5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £642 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £389 £373 £355
% change year-on-year +4.36% +4.93% -16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 56 163
10th Percentile £14.19 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £20.25 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% +8.20% -43.40%
75th Percentile £29.63 £21.52 £23.77
90th Percentile £38.68 £33.32 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +8.20% -38.81%

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 2,719 2,496 3,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.48% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,448 1,675
10th Percentile £229 £195 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £636 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £387 £373
% change year-on-year +9.96% +3.76% -3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 287 640
10th Percentile £13.14 £14.26 £11.66
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +51.94% -40.98%
75th Percentile £34.47 £43.75 £36.57
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.04 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.52 £24.22 £16.06
% change year-on-year -15.27% +50.81% -37.33%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -80 392 £447 +8.36% 179
UK excluding London -86 231 £389 +4.36% 140
London -48 187 £495 +20.00% 67
Work from Home -59 116 £378 -5.63% 65
South East -41 60 £446 +62.09% 45
North of England -72 59 £397 -0.66% 21
Midlands -46 39 £460 +59.17% 24
Yorkshire -54 31 £382 -4.50% 8
South West -9 30 £310 -35.45% 26
North West -30 27 £447 -0.67% 11
West Midlands -48 27 £475 +64.36% 19
Scotland -18 26 £375 +15.38% 8
East of England -66 16 £509 +71.96% 10
East Midlands -14 13 £455 - 5
Northern Ireland -16 5 £369 -22.37% 7
Wales -17 1 £213 - 1
North East -36 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 77 (17.66%) SharePoint
2 54 (12.39%) 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
2 195 (44.72%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (15.37%) MS Visio
4 48 (11.01%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.61%) 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%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.92%) Magento
4 4 (0.92%) Primavera
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%) SAP MM
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%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.16%) Power Platform
2 30 (6.88%) Azure
3 29 (6.65%) 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 8 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.61%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.38%) Canva
10 6 (1.38%) Dagster
10 6 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.38%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.38%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.92%) Collibra
11 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%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.01%) Power BI
2 19 (4.36%) Tableau
3 3 (0.69%) Power Query
3 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.23%) Db2
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (19.50%) 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%) 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
1 228 (52.29%) Social Skills
2 172 (39.45%) Finance
3 99 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (15.83%) Banking
5 66 (15.14%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.40%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (8.49%) Legal
8 33 (7.57%) Marketing
9 25 (5.73%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.90%) Investment Banking
11 16 (3.67%) Retail
12 14 (3.21%) Military
13 13 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 9 (2.06%) Front Office
16 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.83%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.61%) Advertising
18 7 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (25.23%) Analyst
2 54 (12.39%) Business Analyst
3 37 (8.49%) Project Manager
4 33 (7.57%) Senior
5 25 (5.73%) Consultant
6 23 (5.28%) Architect
7 20 (4.59%) PMO Analyst
8 18 (4.13%) Lead
9 16 (3.67%) Coordinator
10 15 (3.44%) Administrator
10 15 (3.44%) Project Officer
10 15 (3.44%) Support Officer
11 14 (3.21%) Project Support Officer
11 14 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.98%) IT Analyst
12 13 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.75%) Transformation Analyst
14 11 (2.52%) Designer
14 11 (2.52%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.38%) NumPy
2 6 (1.38%) Pandas
2 6 (1.38%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.38%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.15%) VML
4 4 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.92%) JDO
4 4 (0.92%) REST
4 4 (0.92%) XML
5 3 (0.69%) Flutter
5 3 (0.69%) React Native
5 3 (0.69%) Web Services
5 3 (0.69%) XSLT
6 2 (0.46%) .NET
6 2 (0.46%) HTML
6 2 (0.46%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.46%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.46%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.46%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.83%) Life Science
6 8 (1.83%) Social Media
7 7 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.38%) Graphic Design
8 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.38%) PMI
9 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.15%) Tandem
10 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.92%) CMDB
10 4 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.05%) Windows
2 6 (1.38%) 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
1 130 (29.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (26.15%) Project Management
3 108 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (23.85%) Agile
5 103 (23.62%) Project Delivery
6 66 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 64 (14.68%) Decision-Making
8 58 (13.30%) Waterfall
9 56 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (11.47%) DevOps
11 43 (9.86%) Business Analysis
11 43 (9.86%) Migration
12 41 (9.40%) Analytics
12 41 (9.40%) Data Analysis
13 39 (8.94%) AI
14 36 (8.26%) Business Case
14 36 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
14 36 (8.26%) PRINCE2
14 36 (8.26%) Risk Management
15 35 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.26%) SQL
2 22 (5.05%) Python
3 7 (1.61%) VB
4 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.92%) Bicep
5 4 (0.92%) VBA
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
1 132 (30.28%) Degree
2 77 (17.66%) Security Cleared
3 64 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.98%) PMP
7 12 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.29%) CBAP
9 10 (2.29%) DV Cleared
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%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (21.10%) PMO
2 23 (5.28%) QA
3 22 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.38%) GDPR
6 6 (1.38%) MiFID
6 6 (1.38%) P3O
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%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.23%) FATCA
11 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (3.90%) Ansible
2 7 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Nmap
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.92%) SCCM
5 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 221 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.28%) Adobe
4 20 (4.59%) Oracle
5 19 (4.36%) SAP
6 18 (4.13%) Google
7 13 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.29%) Splunk
9 9 (2.06%) Cisco
10 8 (1.83%) Sonatype
11 7 (1.61%) Planview
11 7 (1.61%) Remedy
11 7 (1.61%) Workday
12 6 (1.38%) F5
13 5 (1.15%) Apple
13 5 (1.15%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.15%) Juniper
13 5 (1.15%) TOWER Software
14 4 (0.92%) Ariba
14 4 (0.92%) Qualys
205 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide