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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 168 184
Rank change year-on-year -74 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 475 482 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.64% 1.34%
As % of the Applications category 16.46% 19.88% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 258 240
10th Percentile £238 £224 £197
25th Percentile £320 £313 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -10.72% -
75th Percentile £555 £538 £563
90th Percentile £625 £652 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £373
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.67% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 145
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.56 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% +8.20% -68.09%
75th Percentile £29.50 £21.46 £26.15
90th Percentile £42.10 £28.83 £32.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £14.84
% change year-on-year +12.01% +9.37% -69.42%

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 2,885 2,424 3,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.10% 8.26% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 1,439 1,733
10th Percentile £240 £190 £163
25th Percentile £344 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £545 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.67% +7.14% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 255 638
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.20 £11.63
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +33.13% -50.78%
75th Percentile £32.94 £43.75 £38.90
90th Percentile £68.15 £72.25 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.71 £22.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.42% +40.10% -50.28%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -62 430 £450 +0.56% 263
UK excluding London -92 244 £400 +6.67% 185
London -52 211 £500 +14.29% 106
Work from Home -42 122 £380 -6.86% 114
South East -17 72 £475 +5.56% 57
North of England -61 60 £399 -3.33% 40
Midlands -47 38 £455 -17.27% 41
Yorkshire -45 31 £396 -1.00% 15
South West -12 30 £310 -35.45% 21
North West -38 28 £447 -0.67% 17
Scotland -29 22 £375 +15.38% 10
West Midlands -50 22 £350 -36.45% 31
East of England -71 18 £509 +27.41% 19
East Midlands -23 17 £455 - 10
Northern Ireland -2 6 £388 -8.82%
Wales -6 3 £213 - 3
North East -23 1 £390 -48.00% 9

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
1 100 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 59 (12.42%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 401 (84.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 208 (43.79%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (15.79%) MS Visio
4 58 (12.21%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.42%) 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 (2.53%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.05%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.84%) Primavera
5 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.42%) Shopify
6 2 (0.42%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.95%) Power Platform
2 38 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (7.79%) Azure
4 24 (5.05%) AWS
5 14 (2.95%) GitHub
6 13 (2.74%) Figma
6 13 (2.74%) SaaS
7 11 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.11%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.47%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.26%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (1.26%) Dagster
10 6 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.26%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.05%) Canva
11 5 (1.05%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.05%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.58%) Firewall
2 14 (2.95%) Wireless
3 8 (1.68%) BGP
3 8 (1.68%) Internet
3 8 (1.68%) VPN
3 8 (1.68%) WAN
4 5 (1.05%) LAN
5 4 (0.84%) BIG-IP
5 4 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.84%) MPLS
5 4 (0.84%) Network Security
5 4 (0.84%) OSPF
5 4 (0.84%) RSVP
5 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.84%) SNMP
5 4 (0.84%) TACACS
5 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.63%) FTP
6 3 (0.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.32%) Power BI
2 17 (3.58%) Tableau
3 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.84%) Metadata
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.84%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.63%) Power Query
5 3 (0.63%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.42%) 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
1 102 (21.47%) JIRA
2 13 (2.74%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.74%) Metasploit
3 10 (2.11%) Git
3 10 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.47%) Toad
6 6 (1.26%) MLflow
7 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
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%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 248 (52.21%) Social Skills
2 175 (36.84%) Finance
3 102 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (14.74%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (14.11%) Banking
6 51 (10.74%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (8.00%) Marketing
8 37 (7.79%) Legal
9 36 (7.58%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (3.79%) Retail
12 15 (3.16%) Military
13 14 (2.95%) Investment Banking
14 11 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (2.32%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.68%) Front Office
17 7 (1.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 128 (26.95%) Analyst
2 59 (12.42%) Business Analyst
3 31 (6.53%) Senior
4 30 (6.32%) Project Manager
5 24 (5.05%) PMO Analyst
6 23 (4.84%) Consultant
7 20 (4.21%) Lead
8 19 (4.00%) Administrator
8 19 (4.00%) Architect
8 19 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (3.79%) Coordinator
10 16 (3.37%) PMO Manager
10 16 (3.37%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.16%) Project Officer
11 15 (3.16%) Tester
12 14 (2.95%) Project Support Officer
13 13 (2.74%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.74%) Transformation Analyst
14 12 (2.53%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.26%) NumPy
2 6 (1.26%) Pandas
2 6 (1.26%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.26%) Seaborn
2 6 (1.26%) VML
3 4 (0.84%) ADO
3 4 (0.84%) JDO
3 4 (0.84%) NETCONF
3 4 (0.84%) OpenConfig
3 4 (0.84%) RESTCONF
3 4 (0.84%) XML
3 4 (0.84%) YANG
4 3 (0.63%) REST
4 3 (0.63%) Web Services
4 3 (0.63%) XSLT
5 2 (0.42%) Flutter
5 2 (0.42%) HTML
5 2 (0.42%) Playwright
5 2 (0.42%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.32%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.11%) PMI
8 8 (1.68%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.68%) Life Science
9 7 (1.47%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.47%) Social Media
9 7 (1.47%) Tandem
10 6 (1.26%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.26%) NHS
11 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.26%) Windows
2 4 (0.84%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.84%) Unix
3 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (24.63%) Project Management
2 116 (24.42%) Agile
2 116 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (21.89%) Project Delivery
5 78 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 62 (13.05%) Decision-Making
8 58 (12.21%) Waterfall
9 52 (10.95%) Business Analysis
9 52 (10.95%) Migration
10 46 (9.68%) DevOps
11 44 (9.26%) Time Management
12 42 (8.84%) Risk Management
13 39 (8.21%) Data Analysis
14 38 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (7.79%) PRINCE2
16 36 (7.58%) Analytics
16 36 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (7.37%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.00%) SQL
2 20 (4.21%) Python
3 7 (1.47%) VB
4 5 (1.05%) VBA
5 4 (0.84%) C#
5 4 (0.84%) Perl
5 4 (0.84%) PHP
5 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (30.11%) Degree
2 84 (17.68%) Security Cleared
3 70 (14.74%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.42%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.58%) PMP
6 15 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.74%) CHECK Team Member
9 11 (2.32%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.32%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.32%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.32%) Postgraduate
9 11 (2.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (2.11%) CBAP
10 10 (2.11%) IIBA
11 8 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.47%) CCIE
12 7 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.47%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.84%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (21.47%) PMO
2 31 (6.53%) QA
3 25 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.37%) GDPR
5 14 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.26%) P3O
9 5 (1.05%) MiFID
9 5 (1.05%) SLA
10 3 (0.63%) GRC
10 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.21%) GAAP
12 1 (0.21%) HL7
12 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.37%) Ansible
2 13 (2.74%) Nmap
3 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.84%) SCCM
4 4 (0.84%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 233 (49.05%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.53%) Oracle
3 26 (5.47%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.05%) Adobe
5 19 (4.00%) SAP
6 16 (3.37%) Google
7 15 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.32%) Cisco
9 9 (1.89%) Remedy
10 8 (1.68%) F5
10 8 (1.68%) Juniper
10 8 (1.68%) Planview
10 8 (1.68%) Sonatype
11 6 (1.26%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.26%) Splunk
11 6 (1.26%) Workday
12 5 (1.05%) Ariba
13 4 (0.84%) Charles River
13 4 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.84%) Zscaler