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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 168 181
Rank change year-on-year -101 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 448 467 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.62% 1.33%
As % of the Applications category 16.02% 19.05% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 238 229
10th Percentile £211 £216 £189
25th Percentile £308 £298 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £387 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -14.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £620 £644 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +4.14% +7.00% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 158
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +8.20% -44.44%
75th Percentile £29.50 £21.26 £24.17
90th Percentile £33.50 £33.25 £29.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +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 2,797 2,452 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 8.49% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 1,420 1,659
10th Percentile £238 £190 £165
25th Percentile £333 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £555 £539 £538
90th Percentile £641 £649 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £351
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.99% -10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 272 632
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.52
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.95 £16.44
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% +39.60% -45.20%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £67.09 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.35 £22.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -9.56% +40.10% -39.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -77 403 £436 +5.76% 199
UK excluding London -106 234 £390 +4.14% 150
London -45 194 £500 +21.21% 83
Work from Home -57 122 £400 +0.25% 72
South East -36 60 £475 +40.01% 60
North of England -83 59 £396 -1.00% 15
Midlands -40 41 £455 +57.44% 28
Yorkshire -67 32 £382 -4.50% 6
South West -21 30 £310 -38.86% 21
Scotland -18 27 £375 +15.38% 7
West Midlands -57 27 £420 +45.33% 23
North West -50 26 £442 +1.09% 8
East of England -70 16 £509 +57.59% 12
East Midlands -13 15 £455 - 5
Northern Ireland -9 5 £369 -29.76% 10
Wales -14 1 £213 -
North East -26 1 £390 +254.55% 1

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 81 (18.08%) SharePoint
2 55 (12.28%) Confluence
3 6 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.34%) CMS
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Moodle
5 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 380 (84.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (43.75%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (15.63%) MS Visio
4 52 (11.61%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.01%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.34%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.89%) Magento
4 4 (0.89%) Primavera
5 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.67%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.67%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.67%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.45%) Shopify
6 2 (0.45%) Workfront
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.38%) Power Platform
2 34 (7.59%) Azure
3 31 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (6.47%) AWS
5 14 (3.13%) Figma
5 14 (3.13%) GitHub
6 13 (2.90%) SaaS
7 10 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.23%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.56%) Google Analytics
9 7 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.34%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.34%) Canva
10 6 (1.34%) Dagster
10 6 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.34%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.12%) Collibra
12 4 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.89%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.13%) Firewall
2 10 (2.23%) Internet
3 9 (2.01%) Wireless
4 7 (1.56%) VPN
4 7 (1.56%) WAN
5 6 (1.34%) BGP
6 5 (1.12%) LAN
7 4 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.89%) Network Security
7 4 (0.89%) OSPF
7 4 (0.89%) RSVP
7 4 (0.89%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) FTP
8 3 (0.67%) Intranet
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.45%) SNMP
9 2 (0.45%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.27%) Power BI
2 19 (4.24%) Tableau
3 3 (0.67%) Power Query
3 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.45%) Metadata
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.22%) DB2
5 1 (0.22%) GIS
5 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (19.87%) JIRA
2 13 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.68%) Git
4 9 (2.01%) Burp Suite
4 9 (2.01%) Metasploit
5 8 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.34%) MLflow
7 4 (0.89%) Subversion
8 3 (0.67%) Toad
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.22%) MSI
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 229 (51.12%) Social Skills
2 170 (37.95%) Finance
3 97 (21.65%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (15.40%) Banking
5 66 (14.73%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (8.26%) Legal
8 35 (7.81%) Marketing
9 27 (6.03%) Public Sector
10 18 (4.02%) Retail
11 16 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.57%) Investment Banking
12 14 (3.13%) Military
13 11 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 9 (2.01%) Front Office
16 8 (1.79%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.56%) Advertising
17 7 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (26.12%) Analyst
2 54 (12.05%) Business Analyst
3 35 (7.81%) Senior
4 33 (7.37%) Project Manager
5 25 (5.58%) Consultant
6 24 (5.36%) Architect
7 23 (5.13%) PMO Analyst
8 18 (4.02%) Lead
9 17 (3.79%) Support Officer
10 16 (3.57%) Coordinator
10 16 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.35%) Administrator
11 15 (3.35%) Project Officer
12 14 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (3.13%) Project Support Officer
13 13 (2.90%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.90%) Designer
13 13 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.68%) IT Analyst
15 11 (2.46%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.56%) VML
3 6 (1.34%) NumPy
3 6 (1.34%) Pandas
3 6 (1.34%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.34%) Seaborn
4 4 (0.89%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (0.89%) JDO
4 4 (0.89%) REST
4 4 (0.89%) XML
5 3 (0.67%) Flutter
5 3 (0.67%) React Native
5 3 (0.67%) Web Services
5 3 (0.67%) XSLT
6 2 (0.45%) .NET
6 2 (0.45%) HTML
6 2 (0.45%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.45%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.45%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.46%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.23%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.79%) Life Science
7 8 (1.79%) PMI
7 8 (1.79%) Social Media
8 7 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.56%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.34%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.12%) Learning Management System
10 5 (1.12%) Tandem
11 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.89%) CMDB
11 4 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.03%) Windows
2 6 (1.34%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 112 (25.00%) Project Management
3 111 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (24.55%) Agile
5 101 (22.54%) Project Delivery
6 67 (14.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 61 (13.62%) Decision-Making
8 59 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (12.95%) Waterfall
10 51 (11.38%) DevOps
11 44 (9.82%) Business Analysis
11 44 (9.82%) Migration
12 40 (8.93%) AI
12 40 (8.93%) Analytics
12 40 (8.93%) Data Analysis
12 40 (8.93%) Risk Management
13 39 (8.71%) Time Management
14 37 (8.26%) Business Case
14 37 (8.26%) PRINCE2
15 36 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.26%) SQL
2 23 (5.13%) Python
3 7 (1.56%) VB
4 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.12%) VBA
5 4 (0.89%) Bicep
5 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.67%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.45%) C#
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.22%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (31.03%) Degree
2 82 (18.30%) Security Cleared
3 68 (15.18%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.79%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.90%) PMP
7 12 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.23%) CBAP
9 10 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.23%) IIBA
10 9 (2.01%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (1.79%) CREST Certified
11 8 (1.79%) Cyber Scheme
11 8 (1.79%) Postgraduate
12 6 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.12%) CCIE
13 5 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.12%) CISM
13 5 (1.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (21.88%) PMO
2 26 (5.80%) QA
3 24 (5.36%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.46%) GDPR
6 10 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.34%) MiFID
8 6 (1.34%) P3O
9 5 (1.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.67%) GRC
10 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.67%) NIST
11 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.22%) HL7
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (4.02%) Ansible
2 9 (2.01%) Nmap
3 8 (1.79%) Terraform
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 216 (48.21%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.92%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.03%) Oracle
4 25 (5.58%) Adobe
5 20 (4.46%) Google
6 16 (3.57%) SAP
7 13 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.23%) Cisco
8 10 (2.23%) Splunk
9 8 (1.79%) Remedy
9 8 (1.79%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.56%) F5
10 7 (1.56%) Planview
10 7 (1.56%) Workday
11 6 (1.34%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.34%) Juniper
12 5 (1.12%) Apple
12 5 (1.12%) TOWER Software
13 4 (0.89%) Ariba
13 4 (0.89%) Qualys