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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 170 186
Rank change year-on-year -76 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 482 488 563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.67% 1.28%
As % of the Applications category 16.54% 20.36% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 273 246
10th Percentile £263 £233 £171
25th Percentile £328 £315 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £614 £650 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £399 £380
% change year-on-year +0.25% +5.00% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 47 125
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +5.25% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.25 £21.46 £26.50
90th Percentile £36.55 £28.12 £34.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.09 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +8.20% -55.28%

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 2,914 2,397 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.43% 8.20% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 1,474 1,818
10th Percentile £213 £190 £158
25th Percentile £332 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +2.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £649 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 236 619
10th Percentile £13.09 £14.35 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.66 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +37.00% -45.04%
75th Percentile £31.88 £44.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £68.15 £74.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £24.66 £16.23
% change year-on-year -19.26% +51.94% -47.87%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -73 435 £450 +2.86% 243
UK excluding London -88 239 £400 +0.25% 181
London -35 219 £500 +11.73% 91
Work from Home -40 124 £390 -8.24% 114
North of England -72 69 £397 -3.67% 46
South East -17 65 £475 +5.56% 52
Midlands -48 38 £455 -13.33% 25
Yorkshire -50 37 £340 -15.00% 15
North West -45 30 £450 +5.88% 27
South West -16 21 £363 -19.44% 22
West Midlands -52 21 £321 -38.86% 17
Scotland -26 19 £363 +7.41% 10
East Midlands -18 18 £455 - 8
East of England -68 18 £509 +27.41% 25
Northern Ireland -6 9 £388 -8.82% 3
Wales -10 5 £213 - 7
North East -16 2 £390 -48.00% 6

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 99 (20.54%) SharePoint
2 72 (14.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 404 (83.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (41.08%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (18.05%) MS Visio
4 59 (12.24%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.41%) InDesign
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.49%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.45%) Workday HCM
3 6 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.62%) Primavera
5 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.41%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (8.92%) Power Platform
3 42 (8.71%) Azure
4 24 (4.98%) AWS
5 20 (4.15%) GitHub
6 15 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.49%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.87%) SaaS
9 8 (1.66%) Figma
10 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.24%) Collibra
11 6 (1.24%) Dagster
11 6 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.04%) Canva
12 5 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.04%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.53%) Firewall
2 15 (3.11%) Wireless
3 10 (2.07%) VPN
3 10 (2.07%) WAN
4 9 (1.87%) Internet
5 8 (1.66%) BGP
6 7 (1.45%) LAN
7 4 (0.83%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.83%) MPLS
7 4 (0.83%) Network Security
7 4 (0.83%) OSPF
7 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.83%) SNMP
7 4 (0.83%) TACACS
7 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.62%) Softphone
8 3 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.30%) Power BI
2 24 (4.98%) Tableau
3 7 (1.45%) Metadata
4 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.83%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) DB2
8 1 (0.21%) EDMS
8 1 (0.21%) MS Access
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (24.07%) JIRA
2 14 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.70%) Burp Suite
3 13 (2.70%) Metasploit
3 13 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (2.28%) Git
5 7 (1.45%) Toad
6 6 (1.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.83%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 257 (53.32%) Social Skills
2 187 (38.80%) Finance
3 100 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (18.26%) Banking
5 61 (12.66%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
7 39 (8.09%) Public Sector
8 36 (7.47%) Legal
9 30 (6.22%) Marketing
10 21 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (3.11%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.70%) Retail
13 11 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.66%) Front Office
15 8 (1.66%) Military
15 8 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 144 (29.88%) Analyst
2 67 (13.90%) Business Analyst
3 32 (6.64%) Project Manager
4 29 (6.02%) PMO Analyst
5 28 (5.81%) Senior
6 27 (5.60%) Architect
7 24 (4.98%) Consultant
8 21 (4.36%) Lead
8 21 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.94%) Administrator
9 19 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
10 17 (3.53%) Coordinator
11 15 (3.11%) PMO Manager
11 15 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (3.11%) Tester
12 14 (2.90%) Technical Business Analyst
13 13 (2.70%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.70%) Migration Analyst
13 13 (2.70%) Penetration Tester
14 12 (2.49%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.24%) NumPy
2 6 (1.24%) Pandas
2 6 (1.24%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.24%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.04%) VML
4 4 (0.83%) ADO
4 4 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.83%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.83%) Playwright
4 4 (0.83%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.83%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) REST
5 3 (0.62%) XML
6 2 (0.41%) Flutter
6 2 (0.41%) JDO
6 2 (0.41%) React Native
6 2 (0.41%) Web Services
6 2 (0.41%) XSLT
7 1 (0.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 27 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.28%) PMI
5 11 (2.28%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.87%) Learning Management System
7 8 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.66%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.45%) Tandem
9 6 (1.24%) Equities
9 6 (1.24%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.24%) NHS
9 6 (1.24%) Social Media
10 5 (1.04%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.04%) Life Science
11 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.60%) Windows
2 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
1 118 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 112 (23.24%) Agile
3 111 (23.03%) Project Management
4 105 (21.78%) Project Delivery
5 75 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (13.07%) Decision-Making
6 63 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 61 (12.66%) DevOps
8 58 (12.03%) Migration
9 55 (11.41%) Waterfall
10 52 (10.79%) Business Analysis
11 48 (9.96%) Time Management
12 44 (9.13%) Process Improvement
13 39 (8.09%) Data Analysis
14 38 (7.88%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (7.68%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (7.47%) Change Management
17 35 (7.26%) PRINCE2
17 35 (7.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.51%) SQL
2 23 (4.77%) Python
3 7 (1.45%) VB
4 6 (1.24%) C#
5 5 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.04%) VBA
6 4 (0.83%) Perl
6 4 (0.83%) PHP
6 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.83%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.62%) Java
7 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.21%) C
8 1 (0.21%) C++
8 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 133 (27.59%) Degree
2 75 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 61 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.56%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.73%) PMP
6 16 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.70%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.28%) CREST Certified
8 11 (2.28%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.28%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.07%) CBAP
10 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.87%) IIBA
11 7 (1.45%) CCIE
11 7 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.45%) JNCIE
11 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (21.58%) PMO
2 25 (5.19%) QA
3 24 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.53%) GDPR
5 13 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.66%) P3O
7 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.04%) SLA
8 4 (0.83%) MiFID
9 3 (0.62%) GRC
9 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) COBIT
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.36%) Ansible
2 13 (2.70%) Nmap
3 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.83%) SCCM
4 4 (0.83%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 229 (47.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.22%) Oracle
3 20 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.94%) SAP
5 18 (3.73%) Adobe
6 14 (2.90%) Google
6 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.70%) Cisco
7 13 (2.70%) Sonatype
8 9 (1.87%) Remedy
9 8 (1.66%) F5
9 8 (1.66%) Juniper
9 8 (1.66%) Planview
10 7 (1.45%) Workday
11 6 (1.24%) Charles River
11 6 (1.24%) Splunk
12 5 (1.04%) Ariba
12 5 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.04%) Databricks
13 4 (0.83%) Fortinet