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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 205 186
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 492 445 637
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.23% 1.38%
As % of the Applications category 16.75% 18.16% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 238 405
10th Percentile £258 £213 £206
25th Percentile £311 £321 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £588
90th Percentile £611 £758 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £423 £425
% change year-on-year -11.30% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 74 33
10th Percentile £15.72 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.04 £15.62 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.92 £16.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.38% -26.23% +12.45%
75th Percentile £32.30 £18.65 £28.25
90th Percentile £35.50 £29.51 £30.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.26 £16.23 £20.58
% change year-on-year +30.99% -21.14% +6.91%

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 2,938 2,451 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.23% 6.76% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,430 2,286
10th Percentile £194 £163 £165
25th Percentile £300 £250 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 £364
% change year-on-year +10.11% +2.99% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 224 280
10th Percentile £13.01 £15.00 £14.12
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £16.96
Median hourly rate £22.57 £22.53 £25.65
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -12.15% +5.58%
75th Percentile £32.75 £40.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £50.00 £63.15 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.80 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.10% -14.16% +10.20%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -24 395 £450 -3.23% 446
UK excluding London -38 236 £375 -11.30% 280
London +23 211 £494 +1.86% 213
Work from Home +23 149 £433 -3.89% 213
North of England -12 68 £325 -0.31% 47
Midlands -16 36 £375 -25.00% 34
North West -6 35 £458 +35.96% 20
Scotland +2 33 £355 -17.68% 10
South East -12 33 £400 -13.98% 121
Yorkshire -26 32 £316 +42.70% 14
West Midlands -11 30 £313 -37.87% 22
Northern Ireland +12 23 £475 +137.50% 12
South West -3 19 £523 +63.28% 30
East of England -61 15 £375 -21.01% 30
Wales +14 12 £308 -57.29% 4
East Midlands -16 6 £453 +1.83% 12
North East -14 1 - - 13

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
1 112 (22.76%) SharePoint
2 56 (11.38%) Confluence
3 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.03%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.42%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.81%) Resin
6 3 (0.61%) Moodle
6 3 (0.61%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 427 (86.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (38.41%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (19.92%) MS Visio
4 49 (9.96%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.81%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.61%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.41%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.41%) InDesign
9 1 (0.20%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.81%) BPCS
3 4 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.61%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Epicor iScala
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.02%) Power Platform
2 53 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (6.71%) Azure
4 14 (2.85%) GitHub
5 13 (2.64%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.44%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.03%) Viva Engage
8 9 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.83%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.83%) Miro
8 9 (1.83%) Smartsheet
9 7 (1.42%) Asana
9 7 (1.42%) AWS
9 7 (1.42%) SaaS
10 6 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.02%) Collibra
11 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.81%) Figma
13 3 (0.61%) GCP
13 3 (0.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.85%) LAN
2 11 (2.24%) WAN
3 10 (2.03%) Skype
4 9 (1.83%) VPN
5 8 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.22%) Firewall
6 6 (1.22%) WebEx
7 5 (1.02%) Internet
7 5 (1.02%) Wireless
8 4 (0.81%) MPLS
8 4 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.61%) BGP
9 3 (0.61%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (0.61%) Intranet
9 3 (0.61%) Softphone
9 3 (0.61%) WLAN
10 2 (0.41%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.41%) Network Security
10 2 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.59%) Power BI
2 27 (5.49%) Tableau
3 8 (1.63%) Metadata
4 5 (1.02%) DB2
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.81%) MS Access
5 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.81%) Spotfire
6 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) EDMS
7 2 (0.41%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) Impala
Development Applications
1 88 (17.89%) JIRA
2 12 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.22%) Git
5 5 (1.02%) ClearCase
6 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.61%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.41%) GCC
8 1 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 273 (55.49%) Social Skills
2 225 (45.73%) Finance
3 146 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (14.23%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (13.21%) Banking
6 59 (11.99%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.28%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.67%) Marketing
10 22 (4.47%) Legal
11 13 (2.64%) Retail
11 13 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.03%) Billing
12 10 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.83%) Front Office
14 7 (1.42%) Electronics
14 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.42%) Law
15 6 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 184 (37.40%) Analyst
2 62 (12.60%) Business Analyst
3 54 (10.98%) Project Manager
4 29 (5.89%) Data Analyst
5 27 (5.49%) Senior
6 23 (4.67%) Lead
7 22 (4.47%) Administrator
7 22 (4.47%) PMO Analyst
7 22 (4.47%) Support Analyst
7 22 (4.47%) Technical Analyst
8 20 (4.07%) Architect
9 19 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.66%) Technical Business Analyst
11 17 (3.46%) Consultant
12 16 (3.25%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.05%) Junior
14 12 (2.44%) Coordinator
14 12 (2.44%) Project Analyst
14 12 (2.44%) Report Analyst
15 11 (2.24%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.22%) HTML
2 5 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.81%) ADO
3 4 (0.81%) EDI
4 3 (0.61%) CSS
4 3 (0.61%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.61%) Node.js
4 3 (0.61%) Playwright
4 3 (0.61%) React
4 3 (0.61%) RESTful
5 2 (0.41%) ISPF
5 2 (0.41%) VML
6 1 (0.20%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.20%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.20%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.20%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 29 (5.89%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.42%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.42%) PMI
10 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.22%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.02%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.02%) Equities
11 5 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.81%) CMDB
12 4 (0.81%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.27%) Windows
2 5 (1.02%) Linux
2 5 (1.02%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.61%) Android
3 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.41%) OS/2
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (26.83%) Project Management
3 123 (25.00%) Agile
4 98 (19.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (14.63%) Data Analysis
6 71 (14.43%) Project Delivery
7 67 (13.62%) Decision-Making
8 65 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 61 (12.40%) Process Improvement
11 60 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (8.94%) Change Management
13 41 (8.33%) Analytics
13 41 (8.33%) Time Management
14 40 (8.13%) DevOps
15 39 (7.93%) ITIL
15 39 (7.93%) PRINCE2
16 37 (7.52%) Visualisation
17 36 (7.32%) Risk Management
18 34 (6.91%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.16%) SQL
2 30 (6.10%) Python
3 11 (2.24%) Java
3 11 (2.24%) R
4 7 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.42%) VB
5 5 (1.02%) C
5 5 (1.02%) C#
5 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.61%) VBA
7 2 (0.41%) Assembly Language
7 2 (0.41%) CLIST
7 2 (0.41%) COBOL
7 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.41%) JCL
7 2 (0.41%) PL/1
7 2 (0.41%) REXX
8 1 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (24.59%) Degree
2 39 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.67%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.66%) PMP
6 9 (1.83%) HNC
6 9 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.42%) HND
7 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.02%) CCNP
9 5 (1.02%) CISA
9 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.81%) CISSP
10 4 (0.81%) MCSE
11 3 (0.61%) CCIE
11 3 (0.61%) MCP
11 3 (0.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (17.68%) PMO
2 30 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.46%) QA
4 9 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.63%) P3O
6 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.02%) GDPR
8 4 (0.81%) COBIT
8 4 (0.81%) NIST
9 3 (0.61%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.61%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.61%) WCAG
10 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.41%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 22 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.61%) Docker
3 2 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 2 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.85%) SCCM
3 11 (2.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.61%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.41%) Terraform
6 2 (0.41%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 256 (52.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.49%) SAP
3 26 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.66%) Oracle
5 12 (2.44%) Cisco
5 12 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.83%) Planview
7 8 (1.63%) Adobe
7 8 (1.63%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.42%) Databricks
8 7 (1.42%) Remedy
9 5 (1.02%) Apple
9 5 (1.02%) IFS
9 5 (1.02%) NetApp
9 5 (1.02%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (0.81%) Ariba
10 4 (0.81%) Citrix
10 4 (0.81%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.81%) Workday