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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 168 183
Rank change year-on-year -75 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 483 485 564
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.65% 1.30%
As % of the Applications category 16.71% 19.93% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 263 235
10th Percentile £238 £226 £193
25th Percentile £313 £314 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.76% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £557
90th Percentile £625 £650 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £397 £393 £369
% change year-on-year +1.05% +6.69% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 139
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +8.20% -63.05%
75th Percentile £29.50 £21.46 £26.15
90th Percentile £41.10 £28.94 £34.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.18 £16.23 £14.84
% change year-on-year +12.01% +9.37% -66.31%

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 2,890 2,434 3,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.15% 8.29% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,460 1,732
10th Percentile £237 £188 £161
25th Percentile £340 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £562 £541 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 253 634
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.55
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £23.59 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +32.83% -52.32%
75th Percentile £33.12 £43.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £22.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.48% +41.66% -50.43%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -70 435 £450 - 232
UK excluding London -93 250 £397 +1.05% 189
London -39 212 £500 +14.29% 89
Work from Home -28 123 £368 -10.79% 143
South East -26 71 £453 +0.56% 66
North of England -71 66 £399 -3.33% 33
Midlands -50 38 £455 -13.33% 35
Yorkshire -56 33 £350 -12.50% 13
North West -32 31 £450 - 16
South West -18 30 £310 -33.41% 23
Scotland -30 23 £400 +23.08% 8
West Midlands -55 22 £350 -33.43% 28
East Midlands -24 17 £455 - 7
East of England -68 17 £555 +38.80% 21
Northern Ireland 0 7 £388 -8.82% 4
Wales -10 3 £213 - 5
North East -22 2 £390 -48.00% 4

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 97 (20.08%) SharePoint
2 65 (13.46%) Confluence
3 6 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 409 (84.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 208 (43.06%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (16.15%) MS Visio
4 59 (12.22%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.41%) 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 (2.48%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.45%) Workday HCM
3 6 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.04%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.83%) Primavera
6 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.41%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 51 (10.56%) Power Platform
2 39 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (7.66%) Azure
4 24 (4.97%) AWS
5 16 (3.31%) GitHub
6 13 (2.69%) Figma
7 12 (2.48%) SaaS
8 11 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.07%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.45%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (1.24%) Dagster
11 6 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.24%) Google Analytics
12 5 (1.04%) Canva
12 5 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.52%) Firewall
2 15 (3.11%) Wireless
3 9 (1.86%) VPN
4 8 (1.66%) BGP
4 8 (1.66%) Internet
4 8 (1.66%) WAN
5 5 (1.04%) LAN
6 4 (0.83%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.83%) MPLS
6 4 (0.83%) Network Security
6 4 (0.83%) OSPF
6 4 (0.83%) RSVP
6 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.83%) SNMP
6 4 (0.83%) TACACS
6 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.62%) FTP
8 2 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.94%) Power BI
2 21 (4.35%) Tableau
3 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.83%) Metadata
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.83%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.83%) SQLPlus
5 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.62%) Power Query
5 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.41%) 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
1 109 (22.57%) JIRA
2 13 (2.69%) Burp Suite
2 13 (2.69%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (1.86%) Git
6 7 (1.45%) Toad
7 6 (1.24%) MLflow
8 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 250 (51.76%) Social Skills
2 182 (37.68%) Finance
3 102 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (16.15%) Banking
5 69 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 51 (10.56%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (7.87%) Public Sector
8 37 (7.66%) Legal
8 37 (7.66%) Marketing
9 19 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.31%) Retail
11 15 (3.11%) Investment Banking
11 15 (3.11%) Military
12 12 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.07%) Financial Institution
14 10 (2.07%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.66%) Front Office
17 7 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 135 (27.95%) Analyst
2 63 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 30 (6.21%) Project Manager
4 29 (6.00%) Senior
5 25 (5.18%) PMO Analyst
6 24 (4.97%) Architect
7 23 (4.76%) Consultant
8 20 (4.14%) Administrator
9 19 (3.93%) Lead
10 18 (3.73%) Coordinator
10 18 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.11%) PMO Manager
11 15 (3.11%) Support Officer
11 15 (3.11%) Tester
12 14 (2.90%) Project Officer
13 13 (2.69%) Migration Analyst
13 13 (2.69%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.69%) Project Support Officer
13 13 (2.69%) 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%) JDO
4 4 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.83%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.83%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.83%) XML
4 4 (0.83%) YANG
5 3 (0.62%) REST
5 3 (0.62%) Web Services
5 3 (0.62%) XSLT
6 2 (0.41%) Flutter
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) Playwright
6 2 (0.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.97%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.28%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.07%) PMI
8 8 (1.66%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.66%) Life Science
9 7 (1.45%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.45%) Social Media
9 7 (1.45%) Tandem
10 6 (1.24%) Graphic Design
10 6 (1.24%) NHS
11 5 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.18%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 115 (23.81%) Agile
3 114 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (23.60%) Project Management
4 105 (21.74%) Project Delivery
5 77 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 65 (13.46%) Decision-Making
8 58 (12.01%) Waterfall
9 55 (11.39%) Migration
10 53 (10.97%) Business Analysis
11 52 (10.77%) DevOps
12 43 (8.90%) Time Management
13 42 (8.70%) Data Analysis
13 42 (8.70%) Risk Management
14 39 (8.07%) Workshop Facilitation
15 37 (7.66%) PRINCE2
16 36 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (7.25%) AI
17 35 (7.25%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.87%) SQL
2 20 (4.14%) Python
3 7 (1.45%) VB
4 5 (1.04%) VBA
5 4 (0.83%) C#
5 4 (0.83%) Perl
5 4 (0.83%) PHP
5 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.41%) Java
7 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (29.61%) Degree
2 82 (16.98%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.87%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.73%) PMP
6 16 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.69%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (2.69%) 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
8 11 (2.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (2.07%) CBAP
9 10 (2.07%) IIBA
10 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.45%) CCIE
11 7 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.45%) JNCIE
12 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (20.70%) PMO
2 32 (6.63%) QA
3 25 (5.18%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.31%) GDPR
5 14 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.69%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.24%) P3O
9 5 (1.04%) MiFID
9 5 (1.04%) SLA
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.21%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) GAAP
12 1 (0.21%) HL7
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.73%) Ansible
2 13 (2.69%) Nmap
3 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.83%) SCCM
4 4 (0.83%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 236 (48.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.21%) Oracle
3 26 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.76%) Adobe
5 19 (3.93%) SAP
6 16 (3.31%) Google
7 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.28%) Cisco
9 10 (2.07%) Sonatype
10 9 (1.86%) Remedy
11 8 (1.66%) F5
11 8 (1.66%) Juniper
11 8 (1.66%) Planview
12 7 (1.45%) Workday
13 6 (1.24%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.24%) Splunk
14 5 (1.04%) Ariba
15 4 (0.83%) Charles River
15 4 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 4 (0.83%) Zscaler