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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 175 206
Rank change year-on-year -128 +31 -21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 428 531 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.61% 1.17%
As % of the Applications category 14.97% 18.84% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 269 197
10th Percentile £204 £232 £219
25th Percentile £305 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £449
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.89% -5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £634 £625 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £371 £409
% change year-on-year +4.38% -9.21% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 126
10th Percentile £14.21 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.85 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +25.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £33.41 £31.00 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.11 £35.50 £25.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.51% +25.67% -27.11%

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 2,860 2,819 2,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.34% 8.57% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,596 1,412
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £296 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £523
90th Percentile £637 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 364 402
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.00 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.81 £15.84 £14.84
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year - +27.13% -28.80%
75th Percentile £36.70 £34.51 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £59.79 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year - +35.55% -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -115 378 £450 +5.88% 371
UK excluding London -109 227 £388 +4.38% 259
London -93 179 £494 +9.78% 165
Work from Home -102 120 £400 - 134
South East -31 69 £500 +48.15% 97
North of England -107 42 £380 -5.00% 58
Midlands -44 33 £478 +55.95% 28
South West -34 30 £310 -43.08% 36
Scotland -23 29 £375 +15.93% 9
West Midlands -46 29 £475 +54.98% 23
North West -52 22 £380 -15.56% 30
Yorkshire -61 20 £388 -3.13% 24
East of England -47 17 £509 +71.96% 20
Northern Ireland -14 5 £369 -13.24% 11
East Midlands -11 4 £490 - 5
Wales -18 3 £450 - 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 76 (17.76%) SharePoint
2 34 (7.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Moodle
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 377 (88.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (46.73%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (16.59%) MS Visio
4 70 (16.36%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.40%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
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 5 (1.17%) Loan IQ
2 5 (1.17%) Primavera
2 5 (1.17%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.93%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) TrackWise
5 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Workfront
6 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.08%) Power Platform
2 32 (7.48%) Azure
2 32 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (5.37%) AWS
4 17 (3.97%) SaaS
5 11 (2.57%) OneDrive
6 10 (2.34%) Figma
7 8 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.87%) GitHub
8 7 (1.64%) Lucidchart
8 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (1.40%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.40%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.40%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (1.17%) Dagster
10 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.57%) WAN
2 9 (2.10%) LAN
2 9 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.40%) BGP
4 6 (1.40%) MPLS
4 6 (1.40%) SNMP
4 6 (1.40%) TACACS
5 5 (1.17%) Internet
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%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.47%) FTP
8 2 (0.47%) Intranet
8 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.23%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.92%) Power BI
2 7 (1.64%) Power Query
2 7 (1.64%) Tableau
3 3 (0.70%) PowerPivot
3 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.23%) DataStage
5 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 67 (15.65%) JIRA
2 14 (3.27%) Git
3 9 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.87%) Subversion
5 5 (1.17%) MLflow
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)
8 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.23%) Toad
General
1 238 (55.61%) Social Skills
2 168 (39.25%) Finance
3 130 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (21.50%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (10.98%) Banking
6 35 (8.18%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (7.48%) Marketing
8 30 (7.01%) Legal
9 24 (5.61%) Retail
10 20 (4.67%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.50%) Investment Banking
13 13 (3.04%) Military
14 11 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (2.34%) Front Office
15 10 (2.34%) Manufacturing
15 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 9 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.64%) Advertising
17 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 95 (22.20%) Analyst
2 45 (10.51%) Project Manager
3 38 (8.88%) Senior
4 32 (7.48%) Business Analyst
5 23 (5.37%) PMO Analyst
6 21 (4.91%) Administrator
6 21 (4.91%) Consultant
6 21 (4.91%) Coordinator
7 19 (4.44%) Project Officer
8 18 (4.21%) IT Analyst
9 17 (3.97%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.74%) Lead
10 16 (3.74%) Project Support Officer
11 14 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.04%) Project Coordinator
13 12 (2.80%) Architect
13 12 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.80%) Service Manager
13 12 (2.80%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.57%) Data 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
5 3 (0.70%) Flutter
5 3 (0.70%) React Native
5 3 (0.70%) XML
6 2 (0.47%) .NET
6 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.47%) ADO
6 2 (0.47%) Web Services
6 2 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.41%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (6.07%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.34%) Life Science
5 10 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.64%) PMI
8 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.17%) Graphic Design
9 5 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.93%) CMDB
10 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.44%) 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
1 133 (31.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 116 (27.10%) Project Management
3 110 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (22.43%) Agile
5 92 (21.50%) Project Delivery
6 81 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (15.42%) Decision-Making
9 52 (12.15%) Waterfall
10 44 (10.28%) Analytics
10 44 (10.28%) PRINCE2
11 43 (10.05%) Data Analysis
12 41 (9.58%) AI
13 36 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (8.41%) Risk Management
14 35 (8.18%) Change Management
15 34 (7.94%) Business Case
16 33 (7.71%) Portfolio Management
17 30 (7.01%) Collaborative Working
18 29 (6.78%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.78%) SQL
2 24 (5.61%) Python
3 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.17%) VB
5 4 (0.93%) Bicep
5 4 (0.93%) VBA
6 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.47%) C++
7 2 (0.47%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (29.67%) Degree
2 81 (18.93%) Security Cleared
3 51 (11.92%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.54%) PMI Certification
5 23 (5.37%) PMP
6 22 (5.14%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.40%) CCIE
10 6 (1.40%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.70%) CISM
12 3 (0.70%) CISSP
12 3 (0.70%) MBA
13 2 (0.47%) CISA
13 2 (0.47%) GCIH
13 2 (0.47%) ISSAP
13 2 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (23.83%) PMO
2 17 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.97%) QA
3 8 (1.87%) P3O
4 7 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.17%) MiFID
6 4 (0.93%) NIST
6 4 (0.93%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) GDPR
7 3 (0.70%) GMP
7 3 (0.70%) GRC
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.57%) Ansible
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.93%) SCCM
2 4 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) Nmap
3 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 266 (62.15%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.35%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.61%) SAP
4 20 (4.67%) Google
5 16 (3.74%) Adobe
6 15 (3.50%) Oracle
7 14 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.34%) Cisco
9 9 (2.10%) F5
10 8 (1.87%) Workday
11 7 (1.64%) Planview
12 6 (1.40%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.40%) Juniper
13 5 (1.17%) Apple
13 5 (1.17%) Splunk
14 4 (0.93%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.93%) Qualys
14 4 (0.93%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.93%) TOWER Software
14 4 (0.93%) Wrike
425 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide