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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 179 198
Rank change year-on-year -127 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 423 511 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.56% 1.22%
As % of the Applications category 15.14% 18.22% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 257 216
10th Percentile £205 £234 £213
25th Percentile £305 £304 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £550
90th Percentile £628 £630 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £373 £371
% change year-on-year +4.03% +0.34% -12.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 63 129
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £16.52 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.64 £18.85 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% +25.67% -30.23%
75th Percentile £30.78 £29.19 £16.85
90th Percentile £86.83 £35.50 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +25.67% -27.85%

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 2,794 2,804 2,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.29% 8.56% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,591 1,499
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £295 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £525
90th Percentile £630 £641 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 358 458
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.84 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.68 £22.63 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +27.13% -28.80%
75th Percentile £36.70 £35.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.32 £16.23
% change year-on-year +1.41% +37.49% -26.23%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -111 376 £450 +9.09% 226
UK excluding London -105 220 £388 +4.03% 172
London -80 180 £496 +10.22% 91
Work from Home -89 120 £400 - 89
South East -43 64 £462 +36.74% 59
North of England -103 40 £388 -4.49% 39
Midlands -41 36 £475 +64.64% 21
South West -24 31 £310 -43.08% 21
West Midlands -42 31 £475 +64.64% 12
Scotland -21 27 £375 +15.66% 7
North West -53 22 £376 -16.56% 23
Yorkshire -64 18 £399 -1.69% 13
East of England -52 17 £509 +71.96% 16
East Midlands -12 5 £470 - 9
Northern Ireland -18 4 £350 -17.65% 4
Wales -20 1 - - 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 73 (17.26%) SharePoint
2 37 (8.75%) Confluence
3 5 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Moodle
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 368 (87.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (46.34%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (17.49%) MS Visio
4 68 (16.08%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (1.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (1.42%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.71%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.24%) Trello
9 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Magento
2 6 (1.42%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.42%) Primavera
2 6 (1.42%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.18%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.71%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.47%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.47%) Shopify
6 2 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.47%) Workfront
7 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.24%) Power Platform
2 33 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (7.57%) Azure
4 24 (5.67%) AWS
5 18 (4.26%) SaaS
6 11 (2.60%) Figma
7 9 (2.13%) GitHub
7 9 (2.13%) OneDrive
8 8 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.65%) Lucidchart
9 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.42%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.42%) Smartsheet
10 6 (1.42%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (1.18%) Dagster
11 5 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.36%) WAN
2 9 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.89%) LAN
3 8 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.65%) Internet
5 6 (1.42%) BGP
5 6 (1.42%) MPLS
5 6 (1.42%) SNMP
5 6 (1.42%) TACACS
6 4 (0.95%) Firewall
6 4 (0.95%) RSVP
6 4 (0.95%) VPN
7 3 (0.71%) DHCP
7 3 (0.71%) DNS
7 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.47%) FTP
8 2 (0.47%) Intranet
8 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.24%) SAN
9 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.06%) Power BI
2 7 (1.65%) Power Query
2 7 (1.65%) Tableau
3 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.71%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.24%) DataStage
6 1 (0.24%) Db2
6 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.24%) GIS
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 72 (17.02%) JIRA
2 15 (3.55%) Git
3 11 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.89%) Subversion
5 5 (1.18%) MLflow
6 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.47%) MSI
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.47%) Toad
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 229 (54.14%) Social Skills
2 166 (39.24%) Finance
3 123 (29.08%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (19.39%) Organisational Skills
5 46 (10.87%) Banking
6 38 (8.98%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.80%) Marketing
8 30 (7.09%) Legal
9 22 (5.20%) Retail
10 21 (4.96%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.31%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.07%) Military
13 12 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.65%) Advertising
16 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 95 (22.46%) Analyst
2 45 (10.64%) Project Manager
3 35 (8.27%) Senior
4 34 (8.04%) Business Analyst
5 22 (5.20%) PMO Analyst
6 21 (4.96%) Coordinator
7 20 (4.73%) Consultant
8 19 (4.49%) IT Analyst
9 18 (4.26%) Lead
9 18 (4.26%) Project Officer
10 16 (3.78%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.55%) Project Support Officer
12 13 (3.07%) Administrator
12 13 (3.07%) Project Coordinator
12 13 (3.07%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.84%) Architect
13 12 (2.84%) Service Manager
13 12 (2.84%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.60%) Designer
15 10 (2.36%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.13%) VML
2 6 (1.42%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.42%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.42%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.42%) YANG
3 5 (1.18%) NumPy
3 5 (1.18%) Pandas
3 5 (1.18%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.18%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.95%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.95%) JDO
4 4 (0.95%) REST
5 3 (0.71%) .NET
5 3 (0.71%) Flutter
5 3 (0.71%) React Native
5 3 (0.71%) XML
6 2 (0.47%) ADO
6 2 (0.47%) HTML
6 2 (0.47%) Web Services
6 2 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.98%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.60%) Life Science
7 10 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.65%) Graphic Design
9 7 (1.65%) PMI
10 6 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Social Media
11 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.95%) Learning Management System
12 4 (0.95%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.73%) Windows
2 4 (0.95%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (0.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
2 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.24%) Android
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (30.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 118 (27.90%) Project Management
3 103 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (24.11%) Agile
5 93 (21.99%) Project Delivery
6 76 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 68 (16.08%) Decision-Making
9 54 (12.77%) Waterfall
10 44 (10.40%) Analytics
11 43 (10.17%) Data Analysis
12 42 (9.93%) AI
12 42 (9.93%) PRINCE2
13 36 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (8.51%) Risk Management
14 34 (8.04%) Business Case
15 33 (7.80%) Change Management
16 32 (7.57%) Portfolio Management
17 31 (7.33%) Business Analysis
17 31 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.57%) SQL
2 25 (5.91%) Python
3 7 (1.65%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.65%) VB
4 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.18%) VBA
5 4 (0.95%) Bicep
6 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.47%) C#
7 2 (0.47%) C++
7 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.24%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) Korn
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (30.73%) Degree
2 78 (18.44%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.29%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 21 (4.96%) PMP
6 18 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.42%) CCIE
10 6 (1.42%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.71%) CISM
12 3 (0.71%) CISSP
12 3 (0.71%) MBA
13 2 (0.47%) CAPM
13 2 (0.47%) CIPD
13 2 (0.47%) GIAC
13 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (22.70%) PMO
2 18 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.02%) QA
4 8 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.89%) P3O
5 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.95%) MiFID
6 4 (0.95%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) GMP
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (2.84%) Ansible
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.95%) SCCM
2 4 (0.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.24%) Nmap
3 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 255 (60.28%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.75%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.67%) SAP
4 19 (4.49%) Adobe
4 19 (4.49%) Google
5 15 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.31%) Oracle
7 10 (2.36%) Cisco
8 9 (2.13%) F5
8 9 (2.13%) Workday
9 7 (1.65%) Planview
10 6 (1.42%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.42%) Juniper
10 6 (1.42%) Splunk
11 5 (1.18%) Apple
12 4 (0.95%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.95%) Qualys
12 4 (0.95%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.95%) TOWER Software
12 4 (0.95%) Wrike