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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 207 176
Rank change year-on-year +12 -31 +45
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 480 448 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.20% 1.51%
As % of the Applications category 17.12% 17.64% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 223 449
10th Percentile £250 £208 £211
25th Percentile £305 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £619 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £373 £395 £450
% change year-on-year -5.70% -12.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 86 42
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £16.78
Median hourly rate £22.84 £16.23 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year +40.73% -21.14% +3.52%
75th Percentile £32.75 £16.85 £25.66
90th Percentile £40.40 £29.38 £29.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.05 £16.23 £20.58
% change year-on-year +23.54% -21.14% +3.52%

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 2,804 2,540 3,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.37% 6.82% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,580 1,449 2,362
10th Percentile £188 £164 £170
25th Percentile £295 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £535 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 237 289
10th Percentile £13.16 £14.94 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £16.63
Median hourly rate £22.74 £21.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% -14.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £33.75 £36.75 £43.86
90th Percentile £57.80 £58.52 £52.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £18.88 £22.53
% change year-on-year +18.23% -16.22% +4.11%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -9 377 £450 - 535
UK excluding London -20 242 £373 -5.70% 399
London +26 190 £490 +1.66% 252
Work from Home +46 150 £445 +6.27% 317
North of England 0 65 £316 +38.68% 45
Midlands -8 36 £307 +29.52% 51
Scotland +9 35 £323 -23.17% 15
Yorkshire -5 33 £325 +47.00% 13
North West +7 32 £295 -9.23% 25
West Midlands -3 31 £289 +66.50% 29
South East -12 28 £475 +5.56% 217
Northern Ireland +16 26 £475 +137.50% 6
South West +7 23 £550 +71.88% 24
East of England -50 23 £375 -31.82% 44
Wales +15 11 £308 -57.29% 8
East Midlands -11 5 £453 +1.83% 22
North East -11 2 - - 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
1 102 (21.25%) SharePoint
2 46 (9.58%) Confluence
3 11 (2.29%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.46%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.83%) Resin
7 3 (0.63%) Moodle
7 3 (0.63%) SAS
8 2 (0.42%) CICS
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle UPK
Applications
1 414 (86.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (36.67%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (19.79%) MS Visio
4 44 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.83%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.63%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.63%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.42%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 11 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.83%) BPCS
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.63%) Workfront
5 2 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.42%) Shopify
5 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Epicor iScala
6 1 (0.21%) Primavera
6 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (15.83%) Power Platform
2 47 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (5.42%) Azure
4 13 (2.71%) GitHub
4 13 (2.71%) OneDrive
4 13 (2.71%) PowerApps
5 10 (2.08%) Viva Engage
6 9 (1.88%) Snowflake
7 8 (1.67%) AWS
8 7 (1.46%) Miro
9 6 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.25%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.04%) Asana
10 5 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.04%) Collibra
10 5 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.04%) Figma
10 5 (1.04%) SaaS
11 4 (0.83%) GCP
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.50%) LAN
2 11 (2.29%) Skype
2 11 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.88%) WAN
4 7 (1.46%) WebEx
5 6 (1.25%) Firewall
6 5 (1.04%) Internet
7 4 (0.83%) VPN
8 3 (0.63%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (0.63%) Intranet
8 3 (0.63%) MPLS
8 3 (0.63%) Wireless
8 3 (0.63%) WLAN
9 2 (0.42%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.42%) Network Security
9 2 (0.42%) OSPF
9 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (13.13%) Power BI
2 23 (4.79%) Tableau
3 7 (1.46%) Metadata
4 5 (1.04%) DB2
4 5 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.83%) MS Access
5 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.83%) Spotfire
6 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.42%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.42%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.21%) Cognos Impromptu
8 1 (0.21%) Essbase
8 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 75 (15.63%) JIRA
2 11 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.04%) ClearCase
4 5 (1.04%) Git
5 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.63%) Selenium
5 3 (0.63%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.42%) GCC
6 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 247 (51.46%) Social Skills
2 224 (46.67%) Finance
3 147 (30.63%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (13.13%) Organisational Skills
5 57 (11.88%) Banking
6 55 (11.46%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.58%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.13%) Legal
9 15 (3.13%) Marketing
10 12 (2.50%) Retail
11 10 (2.08%) Billing
11 10 (2.08%) Front Office
11 10 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.46%) Law
15 6 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 182 (37.92%) Analyst
2 55 (11.46%) Business Analyst
3 47 (9.79%) Project Manager
4 33 (6.88%) Data Analyst
5 30 (6.25%) Senior
6 24 (5.00%) Lead
7 23 (4.79%) PMO Analyst
8 20 (4.17%) Support Analyst
9 19 (3.96%) Architect
9 19 (3.96%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.33%) Administrator
11 16 (3.33%) Consultant
11 16 (3.33%) Service Analyst
12 14 (2.92%) IT Manager
12 14 (2.92%) Technical Business Analyst
13 13 (2.71%) Junior
14 11 (2.29%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.29%) PMO Manager
15 10 (2.08%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.25%) HTML
2 5 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.83%) EDI
4 3 (0.63%) CSS
4 3 (0.63%) Gherkin
4 3 (0.63%) Node.js
4 3 (0.63%) React
4 3 (0.63%) RESTful
5 2 (0.42%) ADO
5 2 (0.42%) ISPF
5 2 (0.42%) Playwright
5 2 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.42%) VML
6 1 (0.21%) JSON
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 23 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.88%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.46%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.25%) CMDB
9 6 (1.25%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.04%) PMI
11 4 (0.83%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.75%) Windows
2 5 (1.04%) Linux
2 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.63%) Android
4 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.42%) OS/2
5 2 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (26.04%) Project Management
3 122 (25.42%) Agile
4 90 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (14.79%) Data Analysis
6 68 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
7 61 (12.71%) Decision-Making
8 58 (12.08%) Project Delivery
9 55 (11.46%) Process Improvement
10 52 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 47 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (9.38%) ITIL
13 42 (8.75%) Change Management
14 41 (8.54%) Risk Management
15 40 (8.33%) Customer Service
16 38 (7.92%) Analytics
17 35 (7.29%) Visualisation
18 34 (7.08%) Budgeting
18 34 (7.08%) PRINCE2
18 34 (7.08%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.00%) SQL
2 29 (6.04%) Python
3 11 (2.29%) Java
3 11 (2.29%) R
4 8 (1.67%) VB
5 6 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.04%) C
6 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.83%) VBA
8 3 (0.63%) C#
8 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.42%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.42%) CLIST
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PL/1
9 2 (0.42%) REXX
9 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (22.92%) Degree
2 38 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.92%) PMP
6 12 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.88%) HNC
8 7 (1.46%) HND
8 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.25%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.25%) MCSA
10 5 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.04%) CCNP
10 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) CISA
11 4 (0.83%) ISEB
12 3 (0.63%) ACTC
12 3 (0.63%) CCNA
12 3 (0.63%) CISSP
12 3 (0.63%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (17.92%) PMO
2 32 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.92%) QA
4 10 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.46%) P3O
6 5 (1.04%) GDPR
7 4 (0.83%) NIST
7 4 (0.83%) SLA
8 3 (0.63%) COBIT
8 3 (0.63%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.63%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.63%) WCAG
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) COSHH
10 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.63%) Docker
3 2 (0.42%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.42%) RACF
3 2 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (2.50%) SCCM
2 9 (1.88%) Ansible
3 5 (1.04%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.63%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.63%) Terraform
5 2 (0.42%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (0.42%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) SCOM
6 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 248 (51.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 29 (6.04%) SAP
4 18 (3.75%) Oracle
5 13 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.29%) Cisco
7 10 (2.08%) Adobe
8 9 (1.88%) Planview
9 8 (1.67%) Citrix
10 6 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.25%) Databricks
10 6 (1.25%) Remedy
10 6 (1.25%) Sonatype
11 5 (1.04%) Apple
11 5 (1.04%) IBM
11 5 (1.04%) IFS
11 5 (1.04%) NetApp
11 5 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (0.83%) Ariba
12 4 (0.83%) TIBCO