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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 197 207
Rank change year-on-year -92 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 492 478 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.45% 1.17%
As % of the Applications category 16.16% 17.30% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 251 214
10th Percentile £239 £250 £208
25th Percentile £327 £304 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £598
90th Percentile £638 £619 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £373 £390
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.49% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 48 94
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.95 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.90 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £24.57 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -28.77% +51.39% -21.14%
75th Percentile £29.59 £32.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £40.00 £59.51 £29.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £21.25 £16.23
% change year-on-year -24.71% +30.93% -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 3,045 2,763 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.58% 8.39% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 1,549 1,442
10th Percentile £200 £188 £164
25th Percentile £313 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 362 248
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.14 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.31 £16.35 £15.62
Median hourly rate £17.60 £23.54 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +17.70% -21.57%
75th Percentile £30.90 £33.90 £36.19
90th Percentile £62.10 £58.10 £57.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.12 £22.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year -23.91% +30.43% -23.44%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -61 443 £475 +5.56% 792
UK excluding London -70 270 £447 +20.00% 439
London -75 201 £488 -1.02% 406
Work from Home -77 132 £478 +10.52% 271
South East 0 98 £500 +81.82% 126
North of England -66 61 £425 +30.85% 98
Midlands -36 36 £475 +58.33% 54
Scotland -24 33 £375 +15.93% 25
North West -48 30 £500 +69.49% 59
Yorkshire -31 29 £400 +7.38% 29
West Midlands -46 29 £461 +59.88% 36
East of England -28 20 £417 +11.20% 48
South West -36 19 £348 -36.82% 50
East Midlands -9 7 £490 +5.38% 18
Wales -22 3 £450 +46.34% 15
North East -39 2 - - 11
Northern Ireland -19 1 £388 -18.42% 28

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
1 118 (23.98%) SharePoint
2 38 (7.72%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Moodle
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 422 (85.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (35.37%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 69 (14.02%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.64%) Photoshop
6 12 (2.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.81%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.20%) CATIA
9 1 (0.20%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.20%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.20%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.20%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Magento
2 6 (1.22%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.81%) Primavera
4 4 (0.81%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.81%) Workfront
5 3 (0.61%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.61%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.20%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.82%) Power Platform
2 49 (9.96%) Azure
2 49 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.46%) AWS
5 16 (3.25%) Figma
5 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 15 (3.05%) Lucidchart
6 15 (3.05%) SaaS
7 14 (2.85%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.24%) Miro
8 11 (2.24%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (1.63%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.42%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.81%) GCP
12 4 (0.81%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.81%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.03%) LAN
1 10 (2.03%) WAN
2 7 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.02%) FTP
4 4 (0.81%) BGP
4 4 (0.81%) DNS
4 4 (0.81%) MPLS
4 4 (0.81%) SNMP
4 4 (0.81%) TACACS
5 3 (0.61%) DHCP
5 3 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.61%) Firewall
5 3 (0.61%) Internet
5 3 (0.61%) RSVP
5 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.79%) Power BI
2 12 (2.44%) Power Query
3 5 (1.02%) Tableau
4 4 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.61%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.41%) DTS
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) DataStage
7 1 (0.20%) GIS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (14.43%) JIRA
2 10 (2.03%) Git
3 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) Subversion
4 4 (0.81%) Selenium
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.41%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.41%) MSI
6 2 (0.41%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.41%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.41%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.41%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 294 (59.76%) Social Skills
2 192 (39.02%) Finance
3 155 (31.50%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (26.63%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (10.37%) Banking
6 39 (7.93%) Marketing
7 32 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.69%) Public Sector
9 25 (5.08%) Legal
9 25 (5.08%) Retail
10 24 (4.88%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.24%) Front Office
14 10 (2.03%) French Language
15 9 (1.83%) Aviation
15 9 (1.83%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.42%) Advertising
16 7 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (20.12%) Analyst
2 43 (8.74%) Project Manager
3 38 (7.72%) Administrator
4 33 (6.71%) Senior
5 32 (6.50%) Coordinator
6 28 (5.69%) Business Analyst
6 28 (5.69%) Consultant
7 23 (4.67%) PMO Analyst
8 22 (4.47%) Lead
9 19 (3.86%) Architect
9 19 (3.86%) Project Officer
10 18 (3.66%) Support Officer
11 16 (3.25%) Project Support Officer
12 15 (3.05%) PMO Planner
12 15 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
12 15 (3.05%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.85%) Support Specialist
14 13 (2.64%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.44%) IT Analyst
15 12 (2.44%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) VML
2 7 (1.42%) Web Services
2 7 (1.42%) XML
3 6 (1.22%) .NET
3 6 (1.22%) REST
4 5 (1.02%) Middleware
4 5 (1.02%) Terraform
4 5 (1.02%) XSLT
5 4 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.81%) Flutter
5 4 (0.81%) NETCONF
5 4 (0.81%) OpenConfig
5 4 (0.81%) React Native
5 4 (0.81%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.81%) YANG
6 3 (0.61%) ADO
7 2 (0.41%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.41%) HTML
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 35 (7.11%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.03%) Graphic Design
6 10 (2.03%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
8 8 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.63%) Video Editing
9 7 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.42%) Life Science
10 6 (1.22%) Learning Management System
11 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.66%) Windows
2 7 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.81%) macOS
3 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (40.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 146 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (23.98%) Project Management
4 112 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (20.73%) Agile
6 94 (19.11%) Project Delivery
7 92 (18.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 73 (14.84%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.59%) AI
10 56 (11.38%) Waterfall
11 55 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (10.98%) Data Analysis
13 48 (9.76%) Analytics
14 44 (8.94%) Business Case
15 43 (8.74%) PRINCE2
16 42 (8.54%) Project Governance
17 41 (8.33%) DevOps
18 40 (8.13%) Risk Management
19 39 (7.93%) Change Management
20 37 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.67%) SQL
2 16 (3.25%) Python
3 7 (1.42%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.02%) Bicep
4 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.02%) VBA
5 4 (0.81%) Korn
6 2 (0.41%) C++
6 2 (0.41%) Java
6 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.20%) C#
7 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 111 (22.56%) Degree
2 100 (20.33%) Security Cleared
3 57 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.88%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.86%) PMP
7 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.02%) CIPD
8 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.81%) CCIE
9 4 (0.81%) JNCIE
9 4 (0.81%) MBA
9 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CISM
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
10 3 (0.61%) IIBA
11 2 (0.41%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (25.61%) PMO
2 24 (4.88%) QA
3 16 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.24%) GRC
5 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.42%) P3O
7 6 (1.22%) NIST
8 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.61%) COSHH
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.61%) GMP
9 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.61%) MiFID
9 3 (0.61%) NCSC
9 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.63%) Ansible
3 3 (0.61%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 335 (68.09%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.93%) ServiceNow
3 33 (6.71%) SAP
4 20 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.86%) Google
6 17 (3.46%) Oracle
7 14 (2.85%) Adobe
8 9 (1.83%) Cisco
8 9 (1.83%) Workday
9 7 (1.42%) F5
10 6 (1.22%) Planview
11 5 (1.02%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.81%) Marketo
12 4 (0.81%) Okta
12 4 (0.81%) Qualys
12 4 (0.81%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.81%) Splunk
12 4 (0.81%) Wrike
12 4 (0.81%) Xactly