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

 6 months to
10 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 173 177
Rank change year-on-year -77 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 469 488 580
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.66% 1.35%
As % of the Applications category 16.49% 19.95% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 258 236
10th Percentile £238 £224 £183
25th Percentile £317 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% -8.33% -0.50%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £563
90th Percentile £625 £650 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £397 £381 £359
% change year-on-year +4.23% +6.11% -10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 53 150
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +3.33% -63.05%
75th Percentile £30.00 £19.92 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.64 £31.54 £30.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £14.84
% change year-on-year +16.13% +4.45% -63.44%

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 2,845 2,446 3,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.95% 8.32% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,670 1,446 1,704
10th Percentile £250 £188 £163
25th Percentile £345 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £565 £541 £538
90th Percentile £656 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +15.73% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 250 627
10th Percentile £13.40 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £22.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +29.71% -46.97%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £39.44
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year -9.09% +36.99% -48.19%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -82 423 £450 +0.28% 244
UK excluding London -99 241 £397 +4.23% 178
London -37 207 £500 +12.99% 98
Work from Home -42 121 £390 -5.45% 87
South East -32 69 £475 +11.31% 56
North of England -62 59 £396 -4.00% 41
Midlands -44 39 £455 -17.27% 34
Yorkshire -55 32 £382 -4.50% 19
South West -18 30 £310 -38.86% 20
North West -39 26 £442 -1.72% 17
Scotland -22 24 £375 +15.38% 7
West Midlands -49 22 £350 -36.45% 24
East Midlands -21 18 £455 - 10
East of England -72 17 £509 +27.41% 15
Northern Ireland -8 6 £388 -8.82% 3
Wales -11 2 £213 - 5
North East -23 1 £390 -9.30% 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 97 (20.68%) SharePoint
2 60 (12.79%) Confluence
3 6 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.28%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 396 (84.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 205 (43.71%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (15.99%) MS Visio
4 56 (11.94%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.64%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.43%) 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 (2.56%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.28%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.07%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.85%) Primavera
5 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.64%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.43%) Magento
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.43%) Shopify
6 2 (0.43%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.43%) Workfront
7 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 53 (11.30%) Power Platform
2 35 (7.46%) Azure
3 33 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.54%) AWS
5 14 (2.99%) GitHub
6 13 (2.77%) Figma
7 11 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.35%) SaaS
8 10 (2.13%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.28%) Dagster
10 6 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.28%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.07%) Canva
11 5 (1.07%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.85%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.62%) Firewall
2 14 (2.99%) Wireless
3 8 (1.71%) BGP
3 8 (1.71%) Internet
3 8 (1.71%) WAN
4 6 (1.28%) VPN
5 5 (1.07%) LAN
6 4 (0.85%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.85%) MPLS
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 4 (0.85%) OSPF
6 4 (0.85%) RSVP
6 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.85%) SNMP
6 4 (0.85%) TACACS
6 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.64%) FTP
7 3 (0.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.66%) Power BI
2 17 (3.62%) Tableau
3 6 (1.28%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.85%) Metadata
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.85%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.64%) Power Query
5 3 (0.64%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.43%) 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
1 101 (21.54%) JIRA
2 13 (2.77%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.77%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.35%) Git
3 11 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.49%) Toad
6 6 (1.28%) MLflow
7 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.43%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 245 (52.24%) Social Skills
2 176 (37.53%) Finance
3 102 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (15.99%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (14.29%) Banking
6 50 (10.66%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (7.89%) Marketing
8 35 (7.46%) Legal
9 33 (7.04%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (4.26%) Retail
11 15 (3.20%) Military
12 14 (2.99%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.71%) Front Office
16 7 (1.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 127 (27.08%) Analyst
2 57 (12.15%) Business Analyst
3 32 (6.82%) Project Manager
4 31 (6.61%) Senior
5 25 (5.33%) PMO Analyst
6 23 (4.90%) Consultant
7 20 (4.26%) Architect
7 20 (4.26%) Lead
8 19 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (3.84%) Coordinator
10 17 (3.62%) Administrator
10 17 (3.62%) Support Officer
11 16 (3.41%) PMO Manager
11 16 (3.41%) Project Officer
12 15 (3.20%) Project Support Officer
12 15 (3.20%) Tester
13 13 (2.77%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.77%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.77%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.49%) VML
3 6 (1.28%) NumPy
3 6 (1.28%) Pandas
3 6 (1.28%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.28%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.85%) ADO
4 4 (0.85%) JDO
4 4 (0.85%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.85%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.85%) REST
4 4 (0.85%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.85%) XML
4 4 (0.85%) YANG
5 3 (0.64%) Flutter
5 3 (0.64%) React Native
5 3 (0.64%) Web Services
5 3 (0.64%) XSLT
6 2 (0.43%) HTML
6 2 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.13%) PMI
7 8 (1.71%) Life Science
8 7 (1.49%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.49%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.49%) Social Media
8 7 (1.49%) Tandem
9 6 (1.28%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.28%) NHS
10 5 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.12%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (25.37%) Agile
1 119 (25.37%) Project Management
2 116 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 112 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (22.39%) Project Delivery
5 73 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 65 (13.86%) Decision-Making
8 60 (12.79%) Waterfall
9 53 (11.30%) Migration
10 52 (11.09%) Business Analysis
11 47 (10.02%) DevOps
12 42 (8.96%) Time Management
13 41 (8.74%) Risk Management
14 38 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (8.10%) Data Analysis
14 38 (8.10%) PRINCE2
14 38 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (7.89%) AI
15 37 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.10%) SQL
2 19 (4.05%) Python
3 7 (1.49%) VB
4 5 (1.07%) VBA
5 4 (0.85%) Perl
5 4 (0.85%) PHP
5 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.64%) C#
6 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.43%) Java
7 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 142 (30.28%) Degree
2 84 (17.91%) Security Cleared
3 71 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.26%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.41%) PMP
6 15 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.77%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.35%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.35%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.35%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.13%) CBAP
10 10 (2.13%) IIBA
11 9 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.49%) CCIE
12 7 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.49%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.85%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (22.60%) PMO
2 32 (6.82%) QA
3 25 (5.33%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.41%) GDPR
5 14 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.07%) MiFID
8 5 (1.07%) P3O
8 5 (1.07%) SLA
9 3 (0.64%) GRC
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.49%) Docker
2 6 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (3.41%) Ansible
2 13 (2.77%) Nmap
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.85%) Terraform
4 3 (0.64%) SCCM
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 226 (48.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.82%) Oracle
3 26 (5.54%) ServiceNow
4 25 (5.33%) Adobe
5 19 (4.05%) SAP
6 16 (3.41%) Google
6 16 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.13%) Cisco
8 8 (1.71%) F5
8 8 (1.71%) Juniper
8 8 (1.71%) Planview
8 8 (1.71%) Remedy
8 8 (1.71%) Sonatype
9 6 (1.28%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.28%) Splunk
9 6 (1.28%) Workday
10 5 (1.07%) Ariba
11 4 (0.85%) Charles River
11 4 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.85%) Zscaler
276 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide