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

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 185 191
Rank change year-on-year -109 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 425 480 562
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Applications category 15.24% 18.06% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 246 228
10th Percentile £210 £215 £195
25th Percentile £305 £296 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £433
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.51% -13.50%
75th Percentile £555 £547 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £373 £365
% change year-on-year +2.01% +2.05% -14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 166
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £24.06 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.21% +8.20% -32.63%
75th Percentile £30.00 £28.16 £22.65
90th Percentile £33.39 £34.85 £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.11 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +42.39% +8.20% -30.23%

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 2,789 2,658 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.40% 8.43% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 1,523 1,625
10th Percentile £213 £195 £164
25th Percentile £325 £285 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £552 £545 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £400 £369
% change year-on-year +3.50% +8.53% -6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 318 634
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.70
25th Percentile £15.86 £15.84 £14.06
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.62 £16.97
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +45.14% -34.01%
75th Percentile £34.46 £40.96 £36.70
90th Percentile £68.38 £60.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.63 £16.06
% change year-on-year -2.78% +40.91% -28.72%

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 4 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 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 15 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 4 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 -89 380 £434 +5.15% 245
UK excluding London -102 219 £380 +2.01% 161
London -54 186 £488 +14.71% 115
Work from Home -75 117 £400 -3.03% 99
South East -31 56 £462 +67.82% 52
North of England -87 52 £388 -3.00% 35
Midlands -42 35 £475 +64.36% 23
South West -18 29 £310 -37.32% 14
West Midlands -51 29 £475 +64.36% 16
Yorkshire -62 27 £397 -3.67% 13
Scotland -21 26 £375 +15.38% 10
North West -44 25 £380 +3.40% 16
East of England -67 16 £555 +87.33% 18
East Midlands -14 6 £450 - 7
Northern Ireland -17 5 £369 -13.24% 7

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 74 (17.41%) SharePoint
2 51 (12.00%) Confluence
3 6 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.18%) CMS
4 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 364 (85.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (46.12%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (17.65%) MS Visio
4 58 (13.65%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (1.41%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.94%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.47%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.12%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.65%) Primavera
3 6 (1.41%) Magento
3 6 (1.41%) SAP MM
3 6 (1.41%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.94%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.71%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.71%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.47%) Shopify
6 2 (0.47%) Workfront
7 1 (0.24%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.24%) Maximo
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 59 (13.88%) Power Platform
2 29 (6.82%) Azure
2 29 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (5.88%) AWS
4 17 (4.00%) SaaS
5 14 (3.29%) GitHub
6 12 (2.82%) Figma
7 9 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.12%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.12%) OneDrive
7 9 (2.12%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.65%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (1.41%) Dagster
9 6 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.41%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.94%) Canva
11 4 (0.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.35%) Internet
1 10 (2.35%) WAN
2 8 (1.88%) LAN
3 7 (1.65%) BGP
3 7 (1.65%) Firewall
3 7 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.41%) VPN
4 6 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.94%) MPLS
5 4 (0.94%) Network Security
5 4 (0.94%) RSVP
5 4 (0.94%) SNMP
5 4 (0.94%) TACACS
6 3 (0.71%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.71%) DNS
6 3 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.71%) OSPF
6 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.71%) Power BI
2 10 (2.35%) Tableau
3 5 (1.18%) Power Query
4 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.71%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.24%) Data Mining
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
6 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (18.59%) JIRA
2 15 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.29%) Git
4 8 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.41%) MLflow
5 6 (1.41%) Subversion
6 3 (0.71%) Toad
7 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.47%) MSI
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
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%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 225 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 171 (40.24%) Finance
3 107 (25.18%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (16.94%) Organisational Skills
5 57 (13.41%) Banking
6 42 (9.88%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (8.24%) Legal
8 34 (8.00%) Marketing
9 20 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 19 (4.47%) Retail
11 16 (3.76%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.06%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.06%) Military
13 12 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.88%) Advertising
15 8 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.65%) Front Office
16 7 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (24.71%) Analyst
2 47 (11.06%) Business Analyst
3 42 (9.88%) Project Manager
4 34 (8.00%) Senior
5 21 (4.94%) Consultant
6 19 (4.47%) Coordinator
6 19 (4.47%) Lead
7 18 (4.24%) PMO Analyst
7 18 (4.24%) Project Officer
8 17 (4.00%) IT Analyst
9 16 (3.76%) Administrator
9 16 (3.76%) Architect
10 15 (3.53%) Support Officer
11 14 (3.29%) Project Support Officer
12 12 (2.82%) Transformation Analyst
13 11 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.59%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.35%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.35%) Project Coordinator
15 9 (2.12%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.65%) VML
2 6 (1.41%) NumPy
2 6 (1.41%) Pandas
2 6 (1.41%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.41%) Seaborn
3 4 (0.94%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.94%) JDO
3 4 (0.94%) NETCONF
3 4 (0.94%) OpenConfig
3 4 (0.94%) REST
3 4 (0.94%) RESTCONF
3 4 (0.94%) XML
3 4 (0.94%) YANG
4 3 (0.71%) .NET
4 3 (0.71%) Flutter
4 3 (0.71%) React Native
4 3 (0.71%) Web Services
4 3 (0.71%) XSLT
5 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.47%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.88%) Life Science
8 8 (1.88%) Social Media
9 6 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.41%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.41%) PMI
10 5 (1.18%) Tandem
11 4 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.94%) CMDB
11 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.94%) Windows
2 5 (1.18%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.94%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.94%) Linux
3 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (28.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 117 (27.53%) Project Management
3 107 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (24.24%) Agile
5 96 (22.59%) Project Delivery
6 69 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 68 (16.00%) Decision-Making
8 60 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (13.65%) Waterfall
10 45 (10.59%) Analytics
11 44 (10.35%) Data Analysis
12 43 (10.12%) Migration
13 42 (9.88%) AI
14 39 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (9.18%) DevOps
15 38 (8.94%) Business Analysis
16 35 (8.24%) Business Case
16 35 (8.24%) Risk Management
17 34 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
17 34 (8.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.00%) SQL
2 25 (5.88%) Python
3 7 (1.65%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.65%) VB
4 6 (1.41%) VBA
5 4 (0.94%) Bicep
6 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.47%) C#
7 2 (0.47%) C++
7 2 (0.47%) Java
7 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.24%) Korn
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (31.06%) Degree
2 67 (15.76%) Security Cleared
3 54 (12.71%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.06%) PMP
7 12 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.41%) CBAP
10 6 (1.41%) CCIE
10 6 (1.41%) CISM
10 6 (1.41%) CISSP
10 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.41%) IIBA
10 6 (1.41%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.94%) CRISC
13 3 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.76%) PMO
2 21 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.24%) QA
4 8 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.65%) P3O
6 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.18%) SLA
7 4 (0.94%) GRC
7 4 (0.94%) MiFID
7 4 (0.94%) NIST
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) GAAP
10 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.24%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (4.47%) Ansible
2 7 (1.65%) Terraform
3 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.94%) SCCM
5 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.24%) Nmap
5 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 233 (54.82%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.29%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.41%) SAP
4 20 (4.71%) Google
5 19 (4.47%) Adobe
6 14 (3.29%) Oracle
6 14 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.59%) Cisco
8 10 (2.35%) F5
8 10 (2.35%) Splunk
9 8 (1.88%) Sonatype
9 8 (1.88%) Workday
10 7 (1.65%) Juniper
11 5 (1.18%) Apple
11 5 (1.18%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.18%) Remedy
11 5 (1.18%) TOWER Software
12 4 (0.94%) FactSet
12 4 (0.94%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.94%) Wrike
275 Microsoft PowerPoint jobs Nationwide