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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 165 180
Rank change year-on-year -80 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 481 480 565
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.65% 1.30%
As % of the Applications category 16.64% 19.78% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 259 235
10th Percentile £238 £224 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £557
90th Percentile £625 £651 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £399 £393 £369
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.69% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 139
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +8.20% -63.05%
75th Percentile £29.50 £21.46 £26.15
90th Percentile £41.10 £28.94 £34.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £14.84
% change year-on-year +12.01% +9.37% -66.31%

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 2,891 2,427 3,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 8.32% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,452 1,732
10th Percentile £238 £188 £161
25th Percentile £343 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £559 £541 £538
90th Percentile £651 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 253 634
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.55
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £23.59 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +32.83% -52.32%
75th Percentile £32.84 £43.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £68.53 £70.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £22.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.48% +41.66% -50.43%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -58 436 £450 - 196
UK excluding London -82 251 £399 +1.56% 167
London -53 210 £500 +14.29% 61
Work from Home -35 123 £373 -9.58% 80
South East -19 74 £475 +5.56% 52
North of England -68 66 £399 -3.33% 33
Midlands -46 38 £455 -13.33% 34
Yorkshire -54 34 £359 -10.25% 15
South West -13 30 £310 -35.45% 20
North West -31 30 £450 - 12
Scotland -27 22 £375 +15.38% 7
West Midlands -52 22 £350 -33.43% 26
East Midlands -26 17 £455 - 8
East of England -73 17 £555 +38.80% 19
Northern Ireland -3 6 £388 -8.82% 4
Wales -11 3 £213 - 4
North East -18 2 £390 -48.00% 6

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 (21.00%) SharePoint
2 64 (13.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 408 (84.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 208 (43.24%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (16.01%) MS Visio
4 60 (12.47%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.42%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.49%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.46%) Workday HCM
3 6 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.04%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.83%) Primavera
6 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.42%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (10.60%) Power Platform
2 39 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (7.69%) Azure
4 24 (4.99%) AWS
5 16 (3.33%) GitHub
6 13 (2.70%) Figma
7 12 (2.49%) SaaS
8 11 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.08%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.46%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.25%) Dagster
11 6 (1.25%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.25%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.04%) Canva
12 5 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.53%) Firewall
2 15 (3.12%) Wireless
3 9 (1.87%) VPN
4 8 (1.66%) BGP
4 8 (1.66%) Internet
4 8 (1.66%) WAN
5 5 (1.04%) LAN
6 4 (0.83%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.83%) MPLS
6 4 (0.83%) Network Security
6 4 (0.83%) OSPF
6 4 (0.83%) RSVP
6 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.83%) SNMP
6 4 (0.83%) TACACS
6 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.62%) FTP
8 2 (0.42%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.98%) Power BI
2 20 (4.16%) Tableau
3 6 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.83%) Metadata
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.83%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.83%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.62%) Power Query
5 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.21%) DB2
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 108 (22.45%) JIRA
2 13 (2.70%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.70%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (1.87%) Git
6 7 (1.46%) Toad
7 6 (1.25%) MLflow
8 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 250 (51.98%) Social Skills
2 179 (37.21%) Finance
3 101 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (15.38%) Banking
5 69 (14.35%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (10.40%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (7.69%) Legal
7 37 (7.69%) Marketing
7 37 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.33%) Retail
10 15 (3.12%) Investment Banking
10 15 (3.12%) Military
11 12 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.66%) Front Office
16 7 (1.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 132 (27.44%) Analyst
2 61 (12.68%) Business Analyst
3 30 (6.24%) Project Manager
3 30 (6.24%) Senior
4 25 (5.20%) PMO Analyst
5 23 (4.78%) Consultant
6 22 (4.57%) Architect
7 20 (4.16%) Administrator
7 20 (4.16%) Lead
8 19 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (3.74%) Coordinator
10 16 (3.33%) PMO Manager
10 16 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.33%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.12%) Project Officer
11 15 (3.12%) Tester
12 14 (2.91%) Project Support Officer
13 13 (2.70%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.70%) Transformation Analyst
14 12 (2.49%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.25%) NumPy
2 6 (1.25%) Pandas
2 6 (1.25%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.25%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.04%) VML
4 4 (0.83%) ADO
4 4 (0.83%) JDO
4 4 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.83%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.83%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.83%) XML
4 4 (0.83%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) REST
5 3 (0.62%) Web Services
5 3 (0.62%) XSLT
6 2 (0.42%) Flutter
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) Playwright
6 2 (0.42%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.32%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.24%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.08%) PMI
8 8 (1.66%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.66%) Life Science
9 7 (1.46%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.46%) Social Media
9 7 (1.46%) Tandem
10 6 (1.25%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.25%) NHS
11 5 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (0.83%) Equities
12 4 (0.83%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.20%) Windows
2 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (24.12%) Project Management
3 114 (23.70%) Agile
4 113 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (22.25%) Project Delivery
6 80 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 61 (12.68%) Decision-Making
9 57 (11.85%) Waterfall
10 53 (11.02%) Migration
11 52 (10.81%) Business Analysis
12 51 (10.60%) DevOps
13 43 (8.94%) Time Management
14 42 (8.73%) Risk Management
15 41 (8.52%) Data Analysis
16 38 (7.90%) Workshop Facilitation
17 37 (7.69%) PRINCE2
18 36 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
19 35 (7.28%) AI
19 35 (7.28%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.90%) SQL
2 20 (4.16%) Python
3 7 (1.46%) VB
4 5 (1.04%) VBA
5 4 (0.83%) C#
5 4 (0.83%) Perl
5 4 (0.83%) PHP
5 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 145 (30.15%) Degree
2 85 (17.67%) Security Cleared
3 70 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.57%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.74%) PMP
6 16 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.70%) CHECK Team Member
9 11 (2.29%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.29%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.29%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.08%) CBAP
10 10 (2.08%) IIBA
11 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.46%) CCIE
12 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.46%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (21.21%) PMO
2 32 (6.65%) QA
3 25 (5.20%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.33%) GDPR
5 14 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.70%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.46%) P3O
9 5 (1.04%) MiFID
9 5 (1.04%) SLA
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.21%) GAAP
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.74%) Ansible
2 13 (2.70%) Nmap
3 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.83%) SCCM
4 4 (0.83%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 235 (48.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.24%) Oracle
3 26 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.78%) Adobe
5 19 (3.95%) SAP
6 16 (3.33%) Google
7 14 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.29%) Cisco
9 10 (2.08%) Sonatype
10 9 (1.87%) Remedy
11 8 (1.66%) F5
11 8 (1.66%) Juniper
11 8 (1.66%) Planview
12 7 (1.46%) Workday
13 6 (1.25%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.25%) Splunk
14 5 (1.04%) Ariba
15 4 (0.83%) Charles River
15 4 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 4 (0.83%) Zscaler