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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 182 177
Rank change year-on-year -92 -5 +21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 443 468 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.56% 1.31%
As % of the Applications category 15.94% 18.45% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 242 227
10th Percentile £219 £208 £190
25th Percentile £308 £296 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £440
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.77% -7.37%
75th Percentile £555 £547 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £371 £360
% change year-on-year +7.74% +3.13% -15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 57 166
10th Percentile £14.47 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £17.14 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.04% +8.20% -36.88%
75th Percentile £30.00 £23.75 £23.54
90th Percentile £33.46 £33.20 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +54.04% +8.20% -33.42%

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 2,780 2,537 3,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.47% 8.47% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 1,463 1,630
10th Percentile £223 £192 £164
25th Percentile £331 £271 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £538
90th Percentile £637 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £388 £367
% change year-on-year +9.68% +5.65% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 302 653
10th Percentile £13.19 £14.20 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.20 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.66 £24.83 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +52.99% -38.75%
75th Percentile £34.11 £43.75 £36.57
90th Percentile £63.75 £62.15 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.57 £24.11 £16.06
% change year-on-year -6.41% +50.12% -35.76%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -82 398 £450 +11.24% 153
UK excluding London -102 234 £400 +7.74% 111
London -60 190 £495 +20.00% 65
Work from Home -54 116 £400 -3.03% 60
South East -28 61 £462 +67.82% 40
North of England -81 56 £400 - 18
Midlands -32 41 £465 +60.90% 22
South West -17 31 £310 -35.45% 14
North West -38 30 £447 +21.63% 8
West Midlands -46 28 £475 +64.36% 13
Scotland -25 26 £375 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -61 26 £399 -3.33% 7
East of England -68 16 £555 +87.33% 9
East Midlands -9 13 £460 - 9
Northern Ireland -16 5 £369 -13.24% 4
Wales -16 1 £213 - 2

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 (17.16%) SharePoint
2 59 (13.32%) Confluence
3 6 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.13%) CMS
4 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 380 (85.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (44.24%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (15.58%) MS Visio
4 57 (12.87%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.45%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.58%) Primavera
3 6 (1.35%) SAP MM
3 6 (1.35%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.90%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.90%) Magento
6 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.45%) Shopify
7 2 (0.45%) Workfront
8 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.54%) Power Platform
2 30 (6.77%) Azure
3 28 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.09%) AWS
5 17 (3.84%) SaaS
6 14 (3.16%) Figma
6 14 (3.16%) GitHub
7 10 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.03%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.03%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.58%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.35%) Canva
10 6 (1.35%) Dagster
10 6 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.35%) Lucidchart
10 6 (1.35%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.48%) Firewall
2 10 (2.26%) Internet
3 9 (2.03%) WAN
4 7 (1.58%) LAN
5 6 (1.35%) BGP
5 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.35%) VPN
6 5 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.13%) Wireless
7 4 (0.90%) Network Security
7 4 (0.90%) RSVP
8 3 (0.68%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.68%) DNS
8 3 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.68%) MPLS
8 3 (0.68%) OSPF
8 3 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.68%) TACACS
8 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.42%) Power BI
2 19 (4.29%) Tableau
3 5 (1.13%) Power Query
4 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.23%) DataStage
6 1 (0.23%) Db2
6 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
6 1 (0.23%) Metadata
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 90 (20.32%) JIRA
2 13 (2.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.71%) Git
4 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.35%) MLflow
6 5 (1.13%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.13%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.90%) Subversion
8 3 (0.68%) Toad
9 2 (0.45%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.45%) MSI
9 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 227 (51.24%) Social Skills
2 175 (39.50%) Finance
3 103 (23.25%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (16.03%) Organisational Skills
5 68 (15.35%) Banking
6 42 (9.48%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (7.90%) Legal
8 33 (7.45%) Marketing
9 25 (5.64%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.84%) Retail
11 16 (3.61%) Investment Banking
12 14 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.93%) Military
14 12 (2.71%) Manufacturing
15 10 (2.26%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.58%) Advertising
16 7 (1.58%) Front Office
16 7 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (24.15%) Analyst
2 52 (11.74%) Business Analyst
3 38 (8.58%) Project Manager
4 34 (7.67%) Senior
5 24 (5.42%) Architect
6 23 (5.19%) Consultant
7 20 (4.51%) Coordinator
7 20 (4.51%) Lead
7 20 (4.51%) Project Officer
8 18 (4.06%) PMO Analyst
9 17 (3.84%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.61%) Administrator
10 16 (3.61%) Project Support Officer
11 14 (3.16%) IT Analyst
11 14 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.71%) Transformation Analyst
14 11 (2.48%) Designer
14 11 (2.48%) Payments Architect
14 11 (2.48%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.35%) NumPy
1 6 (1.35%) Pandas
1 6 (1.35%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.35%) Seaborn
2 5 (1.13%) VML
3 4 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.90%) JDO
3 4 (0.90%) REST
3 4 (0.90%) XML
4 3 (0.68%) .NET
4 3 (0.68%) Flutter
4 3 (0.68%) NETCONF
4 3 (0.68%) OpenConfig
4 3 (0.68%) React Native
4 3 (0.68%) RESTCONF
4 3 (0.68%) Web Services
4 3 (0.68%) XSLT
4 3 (0.68%) YANG
5 2 (0.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.35%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.87%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.81%) Graphic Design
8 8 (1.81%) Life Science
8 8 (1.81%) Social Media
9 7 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.35%) PMI
11 5 (1.13%) Tandem
12 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.90%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.90%) CMDB
12 4 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.19%) Windows
2 5 (1.13%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.90%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 118 (26.64%) Project Management
3 108 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (23.70%) Agile
4 105 (23.70%) Project Delivery
5 68 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 65 (14.67%) Decision-Making
7 58 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (12.64%) Waterfall
9 51 (11.51%) DevOps
10 46 (10.38%) Analytics
11 45 (10.16%) Migration
12 43 (9.71%) Data Analysis
13 42 (9.48%) Business Analysis
14 41 (9.26%) AI
15 40 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (8.80%) Collaborative Working
17 35 (7.90%) Risk Management
18 33 (7.45%) Business Case
19 32 (7.22%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.13%) SQL
2 24 (5.42%) Python
3 7 (1.58%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.58%) VB
4 6 (1.35%) VBA
5 4 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.45%) C#
7 2 (0.45%) C++
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (31.38%) Degree
2 77 (17.38%) Security Cleared
3 63 (14.22%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.84%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.93%) PMP
7 12 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.26%) CBAP
9 10 (2.26%) IIBA
10 6 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.35%) CISM
10 6 (1.35%) CISSP
10 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.35%) Postgraduate
11 5 (1.13%) CCIE
11 5 (1.13%) CHECK Team Member
11 5 (1.13%) Cyber Scheme
11 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (20.32%) PMO
2 21 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.51%) QA
4 10 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) GDPR
6 6 (1.35%) P3O
7 5 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.13%) SLA
8 4 (0.90%) GRC
8 4 (0.90%) MiFID
8 4 (0.90%) NIST
9 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.23%) NCSC
11 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (1.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.06%) Ansible
2 7 (1.58%) Terraform
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.13%) Nmap
4 4 (0.90%) SCCM
5 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 235 (53.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.45%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.19%) Adobe
3 23 (5.19%) SAP
4 18 (4.06%) Google
5 16 (3.61%) Oracle
6 13 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.26%) Cisco
7 10 (2.26%) Splunk
8 9 (2.03%) F5
9 8 (1.81%) Sonatype
9 8 (1.81%) Workday
10 7 (1.58%) Remedy
11 6 (1.35%) Juniper
12 5 (1.13%) Apple
12 5 (1.13%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.13%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.90%) Ariba
13 4 (0.90%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.90%) Wrike